Golden Rim identifies new areas of interest at Sebba in Burkina Faso
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Recent reconnaissance mapping and sampling work undertaken by Golden Rim Resources (ASX: GMR) has identified four high-priority areas within the company’s Sebba project in Burkina Faso.
Golden Rim considers the areas, located on the Gandi, Namantougou and Komondi permits, to represent immediate drill targets and has scheduled a program of Reverse Circulation drilling for January 2013.
Location of prospect areas at the Sebba project. Source: Company announcement
Tyena prospect.
This area has been previously partly-tested with broad-spaced RAB drilling lines designed to test a 1.7km long by 400m wide gold-in-soil anomaly.
This program returned results including:
– 8 metres at 2.43 grams per tonne gold from 0m, 12m at 1.46g/t gold from 12m, and 12m at 1.34g/t gold from 0m.
These were not followed-up due to other priorities, however the recent reconnaissance mapping in the area has identified a zone around 1.2km long and around 120m wide in the same area, which has been subject to recent artisanal mining.
New rock chip samples from mineralisation exposed in the artisanal workings has returned rock chip samples up to 27.7g/t gold.
“A new evaluation of the previous drilling indicates that the main zones of mineralisation may not have been adequately tested as RAB drilling may not have been able to penetrate the massive quartz veining in the area,” Golden Rim Resources said in its ASX announcement.
Kolankoy prospect.
This is a northeast-trending coincident soil and rock chip sample anomaly extending over 1.6km, which has been identified in the far NE corner of the Namantougou permit.
Rock chip samples up to 34g/t gold have been recently collected from mineralisation exposed in artisanal workings.
Samples of quartz veins with visible gold have been found in this area.
Komondi prospect.
The Komondi prospect is associated with a 10km long gold-in-soil anomaly on the Komondi permit.
“In the northern part of the prospect area mineralisation consisting of gold-bearing quartz / sulphide veins has been mapped over a width of approximately 30 metres,” Golden Rim said.
“These veins are exposed in artisanal workings over a strike of 500 metres.”
New rock chip samples from the area returned values up to 184g/t gold.
Bambeni 6 prospect.
The Bambeni 6 prospect lies on a west-north-west-trending structure in the western part of the Komondi permit.
“The prospect is coincident with a 1.6km long gold-in soil anomaly and recent reconnaissance mapping in the area has located new and highly active artisanal workings exploiting quartz veins hosted in a foliated porphyritic intrusive,” Golden rim said.
Rock chip sampling has returned grades up to 27g/t gold and 0.8 per cent copper.
Golden Rim said it is ranking the priority of each of the prospects and drill planning is currently underway.