Ampella scores positive drill results at Konkera

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Ampella Mining has announced the hit of multiple wide high-grade zones of gold mineralisation during infill drilling at the Konkera 2.2 million ounce gold JORC Code Compliant Resource on its 100% owned Batie West Project in Burkina Faso, West Africa.

Konkera has an Indicated Resource of 22.5 Mt at 1.6 grams per tonne gold for 1,182,600 ounces gold and an Inferred Resource of 19.9 Mt at 1.6 g/t gold for 1,041,500 ounces gold.

The latest gold assays stem primarily from extensions to drill-holes targeting projected continuations to gold mineralisation associated with the Konkera Resource at Konkera Main, Konkera East and Konkera North.

From Konkera Main, Ampella received gold assays for an additional 16 drill-holes for a total of 3,384m of drilling. 

Multiple zones of higher grade gold mineralisation were intersected in a number of holes and included:
20m at 4.5 g/t gold and 9m at 3.0 g/t gold from 144m
41m at 3.0 g/t gold and 19m at 2.2 g/t gold from 114m
15m at 3.9 g/t gold and 12m at 3.1 g/t gold from 128m
11m at 2.9 g/t gold and 7m at 3.5 g/t gold from 116m

Ampella is close to completing a further 10 drill-holes at Konkera Main with the aim to extend the Resource to depth.

At Konkera East, assay results were returned for 5 additional infill drill-holes for a total of 884m of drilling. Again, multiple zones of gold mineralisation were intersected in a number of holes and included:
4m at 6.0 g/t gold and 6m at 4.8 g/t gold from 189m (KERD029)
6m at 2.6 g/t gold and 4m at 2.6 g/t gold from 15m (KMRD029)
10m at 2.9 g/t gold from 173m (KNRD073)

At Konkera North, gold assays were received for 5 additional re-entry drill-holes for a total of 282m of drilling.  The best drill-hole extension consisted of:
33m at 1.6 g/t gold from 112m (KNRD118)

Ampella remains confident the deep drilling program currently underway at Konkera North has the potential to add additional resource ounces to the Konkera Gold Resource.

To date, a total of 14 holes have been completed out of 17 planned holes.