Canyon receives high-grade results from Birsok drilling

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Canyon Resources (ASX: CAY) has received results from samples from the company’s Birsok bauxite project in Cameroon, which had been assayed for confirmation of available alumina (AvAl) and reactive silica (RxSiO2).

The company said the assaying returned encouraging results, which have confirmed previous high-grade total aluminium oxide assays and low level of silica impurities from its first round of XRF assays.

Canyon also received results from rock chip samples taken prior to the commencement of the wet season from new plateaux on the project area that had not been previously explored.

 

Location of recent rock chips, Djombi prospect. Source: Company announcement

 

These results returned high grades of aluminium oxide (greater than 55 per cent) and low silica (less than 2 per cent), with the highest grade results being 59.2 per cent aluminium oxide with 0.92 per cent silicon dioxide.

Best drillhole intersections returned:

BRRC130 – Djombi prospect
6m at 48.8 per cent AvAl and 1.8 per cent Rx.SiO2;

BRRC284 – Baoua prospect
6m at 47.1 per cent AvAl and 3.8 per cent Rx.SiO2; and

BRRC018 – Djombi prospect
8m at 35.6 per cent AvAl and 1.7 per cent Rx.SiO2.

The company considers these results to be consistent with results it has achieved from other high-grade plateaux on the project area and indicate new areas of high-grade bauxite for further drilling.

“We are very pleased with the results of this batch of available alumina and reactive silica assaying, which confirms the high-grade alumina, low silica impurity content of the highest priority targets defined from the first round of drilling,” Canyon Resources managing director Phillip Gallagher said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“The results confirm the strong potential for the Birsok project to define a high-grade resource.

“Several plateaux in the Djombi and the Baoua prospects have returned particularly strong results which we will infill drill ahead of resource definition.

“These prospects will form the basis of the company’s future resource and advance the objective of developing a two to three million tonne per annum DSO mining operation utilising the existing rail and port infrastructure.

“We continue to plan the second round of extensional and infill drilling for after the wet season and we will prepare access and resume defining new targets from mapping and field work, thereby advancing a pipeline of targets from several prospects at all stages of exploration across the project area.

“The recent rock chip results from several newly-defined plateaux to the west of DJ08 are particularly encouraging for the addition of further high-grade bauxite material to the project, and will be tested in the next phase of drilling.

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