Predictive drilling pays off
THE DRILL SERGEARNT: Burkina Faso-focused gold play Predictive Discovery recently completed a program of reconnaissance RC drilling at the Dave East prospect.
The company has now completed approximately 5,300 metres of reverse circulation drilling on the Dave and Dave East prospects.
The drilling identified a wide undrilled gold system approximately 1.5 kilometres along strike from artisanal workings and historical drill holes at the Dave prospect.
Power auger results received have also indicated bedrock anomalies at Dave and Dave East to be continuous and extending for 3.6km along strike with an average width of 0.3km, and open to the east and west.
Predictive will continue drilling on 200m line spacing at Dave East for up to 2 weeks more, weather and access permitting.
“PDI is very excited by these new RC and power auger drill results,” predictive Discovery managing director Paul Roberts said in the company’s ASX announcement.
“The Dave to Dave East prospect areas are shaping up as a large gold mineralised system in their own right.
“It is especially gratifying that initial RC assay results more than 1.5 kilometres away from known workings and historical drill holes, have produced multiple ore grade and width gold intercepts in a very broad gold mineralised zone.
“Given that there are a series of other highly promising bedrock geochemical anomalies on the 16 kilometre long Laterite Hill Grid, the prospect of discovering a series of large gold mineral deposits has been significantly enhanced by these results”.
The Dave and Dave East prospects are located on the Laterite Hill Grid in the Bonsiega project. Over part of their length, these geochemical anomalies are coincident with artisanal gold workings located on small areas of outcrop surrounded by alluvial cover.
Predictive said its exploration strategy is to use power auger drilling to map the extent of the gold anomalies along the trend and then follow up high priority targets with RC drilling.
A large part of the remaining target area has now been sampled and more results will be released as they come to hand.
A strike length of in excess of 12km of plus 50 parts per billion gold power auger anomalies has been defined by the program to date.