Erin confirms gold strike at Lingokoto
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Erin Resources (ASX: ERI) has claimed recent drilling results have the company’s Lingokoto gold project in Senegal is emerging as a substantial gold system.
The company’s claims come after the drilling demonstrated mineralisation outlined over a one kilometre strike length, open to the south‐west.
The company explained the ongoing aircore drilling program is the first systematic work to follow‐up an initial RAB traverse at Lingokoto, which revealed the existence of wide zones of strongly anomalous gold in weathered bedrock.
The aircore line 360m to the south‐west of the initial RAB traverse intersected zones of up to 18m at 1.66 grams per tonne gold end‐of‐hole, including 12m at 2.14g/t gold.
Results from adjacent holes include 12m at 0.97g/t gold, 6m at 1.52g/t goldand 6m at 1.01g/t gold.
The same line also intersected results such as 9m at 1.19g/t and 9m at 1.05g/t in other anomalous zones.
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Gold intercepts on Aircore Traverse 360m SW of Initial RAB Line. Source: Company announcement
Erin said the results have extended the known mineralisation 980m to the south‐west of the initial RAB intersections.
The company said that although mineralisation has been confirmed over a substantial length and width, the latest results also highlight the potential for additional mineralisation to be identified by infill and extensional drilling as well as in fresh rock below the weathered material drilled to date.
This fresh rock will be tested as part of a follow‐up RC drilling program.
“It is important that the continuity of the mineralised zones is starting to emerge over more than one kilometre of strike and that ore‐grade results have been obtained on consecutive wide‐spaced drill lines,” Erin Resources executive chairman Brett Mitchell said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.
“There is strong potential to extend the known mineralisation to the south‐west, where the soil anomaly extends for at least another 500 metres, and also into the underlying fresh rock.”
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