Castle intersects gold at Wa South

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: West Africa-focused gold exploration play Castle Minerals has kicked off its maiden RC drill testing program at the Wa South prospect, part of company’s 100 per cent-owned Wa Project located in Ghana.

The first-up wide-spaced RC drilling has intersected zones of oxide and bedrock gold mineralisation within Birimian meta‐sediments.

 

RC drill plan at Wa South showing results from the first phase of drilling. Source: Company announcement

 

Intercepts from 5 metre composite RC sampling include:

–    10 metres at 1.73 grams per tonne gold from 40 metres, including 5 metres at 3.03 grams per tonne gold from 40 metres; and

–    15m at 0.56g/t gold from 65m, including 5m at 1.23g/t gold from 70m.

Castle claimed the results to be the first recorded occurrence of bedrock gold mineralisation in, what has been up to now, a previously unexplored area.

The company has already been able to identify two open gold trends it considers require follow up drilling.

This first RC drilling on the prospect follows earlier exploration activity Castle has undertaken, including programs of soil sampling, auger and aircore drilling.

The company also has RAB, RC and auger drilling, and soil geochemical programs ongoing elsewhere within the Wa project, from which it has around 10,000 samples awaiting analysis.

“These results represent the first known bedrock gold mineralisation in the area and are very encouraging especially considering the wide drill spacing and gold reporting in two separate areas one kilometre apart,” Castle Minerals managing director Mike Ivey said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“It also demonstrates the wider prospectivity and potential of our large landholding in Ghana.

“We currently have an RC rig drilling at our Kandia Prospect ( approximately 100 kilometres northeast) and are arranging for the this rig to return to Wa South towards determining the exact geometry and scope of the mineralisation intersected.

“We have only drilled 12 holes at Wa South and look forward to following up these exciting results.”