West African Resources encounters encouraging gold hits at Tanlouka

THE DRILL SERGEANT: West African Resources (ASX: WAF) reported high-grade intersections from shallow oxide RC drilling carried out on the M3 prospect, at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Tanlouka gold project in Burkina Faso.

Recent shallow RC drilling at M3 returned results including:

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5 metres at 2.61g/t gold from 9m;

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13m at 1.77g/t gold from 22m;

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20m at 2.8g/t gold from 24m, including 8m at 3.98g/t gold;

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12m at 1.67g/t gold from 4m;

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12m at 1.14g/t gold from 16m, ending in mineralisation;

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12m at 0.98g/t gold from 8m; and

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4m at 2.24g/t gold from surface.

“A new zone of mineralisation has been discovered at M3…with three consecutive holes intercepting gold mineralisation over a width of 20 metres,” West African Resources managing director Richard Hyde said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“Gold mineralisation at M3 is located less than two kilometres from the proposed starter pit at M5.

“Follow-up drilling is in progress and will continue into 2016.”

None of the recently discovered gold mineralisation at the M3 prospect is currently included the project resource inventory.

West African said the M3 mineralisation will be modelled and incorporated in a resource update later this year.

The company anticipates that any additional higher grade oxide tonnes to have a positive impact on the project economics.

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