GRYPHON Minerals Ltd announced the commencement of its first drill program at the Banfora Gold Project, located in Burkina Faso in West Africa. The initial RC drill program will target two sell defined, laterally extensive (two kilometres +) high order magnitude geochemical and coincident geophysical anomalies at the Nogbele Prospect. The prospect contains historical drilling with multiple gold intercepts including up to 24 metres at 4.46g/t gold from four metres depth.