Ampella hits potential gold resource

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Burkina Faso-focused gold explorer Ampella Mining has released results to the Australian Securities Exchange of first pass drilling from the regional Foumbiri prospect located on the company’s 100 per cent-owned Batie West project.

The drilling across the Foumbiri gold anomaly is the first of five regional drill programs Ampella is to carry out away from its Konkera Resource on the Batie West permits.

Ampella has identified an interim 2.2 million ounces gold JORC Code Compliant Resource at the Konkera prospect (Indicated Resource of 22.5 million tonnes at 1.6 grams per tonne gold for 1,182,600 ounces gold and Inferred Resource of 19.9 million tonnes 1.6 grams per tonne gold for 1,041,500 ounces gold).

Ampella identified a four kilometre long gold anomaly, trending 100 parts per billion gold; at the Foumbri prospect in February 2011.

A program of 54 reverse circulation drill holes was completed over nine drill lines to test a total strike length of 2.5km.

Due to the slow turnaround of in-country laboratory assays taking several months no gold assays from the drilling have been available until now.

Ampella has received gold assays for the majority of the 54 RC drill holes.

Multiple wide gold intersections were received on the majority of first pass drill lines with the better intersections including:

– 23 metres at 2.9 grams per tonne gold, including 10 metres at 5.3 grams per tonne gold from 72 metres;

– 10m at 2.6 g/t gold, including 3m at 6.9 g/t gold from 54m; and

– 10m at 1.9 g/t gold including 6m at 3.1 g/t gold from 71m.

Ampella said in its ASX announcement that the large size of the anomaly and wide spacing of the recent drill lines carried out at the Foumbiri prospect, a major infill and step-out drill program will be the next step.

The company indicated this will most likely be carried out during the dry season in order to test the full potential of Foumbiri to host a major gold resource.