Castle Minerals intercepts new gold zone

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Castle Minerals (ASX: CDT) has reported a new zone of bedrock gold within Birimian sediments via drilling recently conducted on the company’s Wa project in north‐west Ghana.

The company undertook wide-spaced reconnaissance RAB drilling four kilometres south of recently announced Bundi gold mineralisation.

The drilling returned a best result of:

–    3 metres at 2.02 grams per tonne gold from 20 metres to end of hole.

Castle said the mineralisation appears similar to Bundi being hosted by altered quartz‐sericite schists.

“Our Wa South prospect has again produced a significant grass roots exploration intercept that justifies immediate follow up and confirms that this previously unexplored alluvial covered area is highly prospective,” Castle Minerals managing director Mike Ivey said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“We will shortly recommence RAB drilling to fully define the target dimensions before undertaking RC drilling.”

 

Castle’s Wa Project in north‐west Ghana. Source: Company announcement

 

The drilling campaign was conducted using Castle’s own RAB drill rig.

The company now has the rig working in  other areas within its Wa gold project with a program testing 26 of more than 60 gold targets identified within the larger Wa project area.