The company, which completed preparatory ground geophysical program in December 2013, is due to begin aboriginal heritage survey this month.

The drill testing provisionally is scheduled for March 2014 with 4 separate areas targeted while the company has recently received the Department of Mines & Petroleum of Western Australia work program approval for a drill program to test various diamond targets at the project.

Meanwhile, Sunrise Resources has signed a contract for an aboriginal heritage survey to access various drill targets in the license area.

With heritage survey due to start on or around 26 February, drilling is planned to start in March 2014.

Sunrise Resources executive chairman Patrick Cheetham said, "With the outlook improved for 2014, I am pleased to report that we are now moving forward with our exploration programmes and anticipate a much higher level of project activity in 2014, both in Australia and elsewhere, with a number of new project acquisitions in the pipeline."