West African hits 6m at 5.78g/t gold at Moktedu
THE DRILL SERGEANT: West African Resources has received high-grade results from a recently-completed first-pass diamond drilling at the Moktedu prospect situated on the company’s 100 per cent-owned Boulsa gold project in Burkina Faso.
West African completed six core holes in December 2011 and January 2012 for a total of 720 metres (including pre-collars) over a strike length of approximately 500 metres in the central portion of the Moktedu prospect.
Moktedu prospect drill plan. Source: Company announcement
The company said two of the latest holes had confirmed high-grade mineralisation dips to the northwest, in contrast to its previous interpretation based on earlier shallow drilling.
The diamond drilling program has returned two significant results:
– 21 metres at 1.13 grams per tonne gold from 121 metres, including 1 metre at 10.96 grams per tonne gold; and
– 6m at 5.78g/t gold from 74m, including 1m at 28.40g/t gold.
The company said some shallow drilling has been carried out between these two results that it has not optimised to properly intersect the moderate northwest dip of mineralisation.
The area is to be tested with diamond drilling oriented towards the southeast once the company has completed a diamond drilling program it currently has underway at the Meguet prospect.
West Africa has also received further near surface high-grade results from reverse circulation (RC) drilling including:
– 4m at 2.67g/t gold from 4m;
– 8m at 1.71g/t gold from surface;
– 4m at 8.39g/t gold from 4m; and
– 20m at 0.64g/t gold from surface, including 8m at 1.24g/t gold.
The company highlighted the point that the 6m at 5.78 g/t gold intercept occurs 50m down dip of the RC drilling intercept of 20m at 0.64g/t gold and another of 5m at 0.92g/t gold.
It said these intercepts combine to indicate potential to intercept further mineralisation in deeper drilling beneath numerous near surface broad plus-0.5g/t gold intercepts from aircore and RAB drilling along strike to the northeast and southwest.
“A result like six metres at 5.78 grams per tonne gold, 50 metres down dip of a modest result of five metres at 0.92 grams per tonne opens up the potential right along the eight kilometre Moktedu strike length,” West African Resources managing director Richard Hyde said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.
“We are continuing to map the Moktedu structure with shallow aircore and RAB drilling.
“Numerous anomalous results have been returned, which will be followed-up by deeper diamond core and RC drilling during the field season.”