West African intersects consistent high-grade gold

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: West African Resources (ASX: WAF) has received further gold results from a 5,000 metres reverse circulation (RC) drilling program at the Mankarga 5 deposit located on the Tanlouka permit, which is part of the company’s Boulsa project, in Burkina Faso.

The company said the results represent the conclusion of the shallow RC program at the Mankarga 5 deposit, which it has carried out since acquiring TSX-V listed Channel Resources less than two months ago.

 

Mankarga Summary Plan. Source: Company announcement

 

The results cover more than one kilometre of strike on the central and northeast portions of the deposit, with highlights including:

TAC0045:
9 metres at 1.44 grams per tonne gold from 48 metres;
 
TAC0048:
12m at 8.82g/t gold from 38m, including 9m at 11.35g/t gold;

TAC0050:
8m at 5.69g/t gold from 35m, including 1m at 41.51g/t gold;

TAC0051:
14m at 2.42g/t gold from 9m, including 1m at 21.22g/t gold;

“We are very pleased with the final results from the shallow RC drilling program at Mankarga 5,” West African Resources managing director Richard Hyde said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“The program has been very successful with consistent high-grade mineralisation intercepted along two kilometres of strike.

“The new data will result in an increase in the grade of oxide mineralisation which will be reported in the updated resource estimate for the Mankarga 5 deposit later this month.”

West African indicated it still has a program of deep diamond drilling currently underway in the south-western portion of the deposit, with drill hole TAN14-DD03 nearing completion.

Test work has commenced in Perth on samples from the four metallurgical diamond holes, which the company anticipates will determine expected recoveries from heap leach processing.

It is expected the drilling programs, in conjunction with a reinterpretation of the Mankarga 5 deposit, will lead to a resource update towards the end of this month.

The company is confident the combination of the results of the work programs will enable it to complete a Preliminary Economic Analysis (PEA) and Scoping Study in the first half of 2014.

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