Encouraging drill results for West African Resources
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Perth-based gold play West African Resources has received some encouraging high grade results from first pass RAB drilling at its Moktedu prospect.
The Moktedu prospect is part of the company’s 100%-owned Boulsa gold project located in Burkina Faso, West Africa.
The results were struck 800m northeast along strike from high grade results West African reported earlier this year in March and include: 8m at 10.67 grams per tonne gold from 12m, including 4m at 17.79 g/t gold; 3m at 3.23 g/t gold from 28m, which ended in mineralisation; and 18m at 0.67 g/t Au from 4m, also ending in mineralisation.
The latest results complement the previous, which included: 28m at 9.22 g/t gold from surface, including 8m at 31.67 g/t gold; and 13m at 4.60 g/t Au from 20m, including 5m at 11.66 g/t gold.
According to the company the results demonstrate, “significant mineralisation has now been intercepted over a strike length of three kilometres from shallow RAB drilling.
“The results are from first-pass RAB drilling on broad 200m sections targeting shallow auger gold anomalies.
“All drilling is shallow, generally less than 25m. No infill drilling has been completed at this stage.
“The company is in discussions with RC drilling contractors in country and is still aiming to have deeper RC drilling completed on this target before the onset of the wet season, and will inform the market of a start date when known.”
Construction of two further RC drill rigs is currently nearing completion, which are scheduled to be shipped to Burkina Faso in June.
The Boulsa Gold Project in Burkina Faso covers 5,345 square kilometres and 170km of strike length of early Proterozoic Birimian greenstone belts, which West African considers to be prospective for gold mineralisation.
Recent auger geochemical sampling also carried out by the company tested 25km of greenstone belt strike in the southwest portion of the project, representing less than 10% of the current project area.
This work has delineated 25 robust targets, many coincident with artisanal mining activity at the Moktedu Trend and Meguet Trend target areas.
These targets total 30km strike of anomalies, which West African Resources intends to rapidly advance.