West African Resources hits extension of Mankarga 5

THE DRILL SERGEANT: West African Resources (ASX: WAF) has reported further high-grade gold results from oxide resource definition drilling at the company’s Mankarga 5 deposit in Burkina Faso.

WAF said the step-out oxide drilling has intercepted the Mankarga 5 structure 500 metres northeast of the existing resource on sections NE1400 and NE1500 and remains open to the northeast.

The company anticipates these drill results will expand the resource in the next update, which is planned for completion in the December quarter.

Results from the ongoing program include:

TAC0398
8 metres at 1.77 grams per tonne gold from 16m on NE1500;

TAC0413
17m at 1.07g/t gold from 8m on NE1400 ending in mineralisation; and

TAC0415
13m at 2.39g/t gold from 4m, including 4m at 6.21g/t gold on NE1400, also ending in mineralisation.

“Further drilling has been completed in the central portion of the deposit, tightening up geology around mineralised zones,” West African Resources said in its ASX announcement.

“These drill results will improve grade and category in the resource update planned for the December quarter.”

 

Mankarga Cross-Section NE0300. Source: Company announcement

 

Other results from the ongoing program include:

TAC0439
21m at 1.22g/t gold from 4m on NE0700;

TAC0443
21m at 1.39g/t gold from 7m on NE0500;

TAC0448
29m at 1.06g/t gold from surface on NE0300;

TAC0449
24m at 1.42 g/t gold from 7m on NE0200;

TAC0453
33m at 1.7g/t gold from 1m, including 6m at 3.24g/t gold on SW0050;

TAC0455
15m at 3.33g/t gold from 22m, including 4m at 9.97g/t gold on NE0050; and

TAC0456
9m at 4.26g/t gold from 13m, including 3m at 10.98g/t gold on NE0300.

The company recently released a results of a Scoping Study for Mankarga 5, which demonstrated it to be a low capital cost and high margin robust heap leach starter project.

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