Turaco Gold Encounters Encouraging Gold Hits at Tongon North
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Turaco Gold (ASX: TCG) announced further results from auger and AC drilling completed within the company’s Tongon North gold project in northern Côte d’Ivoire.
Turaco Gold said the auger drilling completed within the Tongon North project has defined a high tenor mineralised trend extending for five kilometres remaining open, adjacent to a major intrusive contact, representing a major target for follow up.
The auger drilling returned several +1g/t gold in saprolite results across continuous trends along the 5kms, with high-grade results including 27.1g/t, 6.6g/t and 4.3g/t gold.
Aircore drilling of the Natoga target and adjacent P10 target encountered zones of shallow gold mineralisation with results including:
4 metres at 3.34 grams per tonne gold from 40m;
8m at 1.89g/t gold from 0m; and
12m at 1.15g/t gold from 0m.
“Systematic exploration of the large contiguous 1,540 square kilometre prospective ground position at Tongon North continues to generate large scale targets for drill testing,” Turaco Gold managing director Justin Tremain said in the company’s ASX announcement.
“The latest auger results at Tongon North show a very high-grade gold trend, with up to 27.1 grams per tonne, extending over five kilometres in strike.
“Follow up work programs are being planned for the dry season.”
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