West African re-assays Sartenga copper hits

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: West African Resources has completed re-assaying of 15 aircore holes for copper at the 100 per cent‐owned Sartenga prospect, part of the company’s Boulsa project in Burkina Faso.

The company made the decision to conduct the analyses after achieving encouraging results from holes SAC0119 and SDH001 it reported to the market in June.

All re-assayed holes returned anomalous copper intercepts at greater than 0.15 per cent.

“The Sartenga oxide copper‐gold results are interpreted to represent flat‐lying supergene mineralisation adjacent to sub‐vertical higher‐grade mineralisation intercepted in SDH001,” West African Resources managing director Richard Hyde said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“The broad, consistent nature of the supergene zone over such a large area indicates potential for significant copper‐gold mineralisation near‐surface and at depth, which is a compelling target for deep diamond drilling later in 2012.”

Results include:

–    16 metres at 0.55 per cent copper and 0.19 grams per tonne gold from 8 metres;

–    27m at 0.57 per cent copper and 0.20g/t gold from 12m;

–    20m at 0.60 per cent copper and 0.44g/t gold from 4m;

–    20m at 0.57 per cent copper and 0.48g/t gold from 8m; and

–    21m at 0.55 per cent copper and 1.34g/t gold from 40m.

The company has also purchased an XRF machine, which it is now using to work through a backlog of aircore and auger samples previously only assayed for gold.

The XRF machine allows for rapid multi‐element analysis for base metals and pathfinder elements (excluding gold).

The onset of the wet season has resulted in all regional exploration being halted, along with RAB drilling at Moktedu and Aircore drilling at Sartenga.

The company expects to stop diamond drilling at Sartenga within two weeks.

West African is now waiting on exploration results for RAB and diamond drilling at the Meguet prospect, and Auger, RAB and RC drilling the Moketdu prospect.

At this stage the company said it should be able to recommence diamond and aircore drilling at Sartenga in September 2012, with all exploration programs underway by late October, weather permitting.

West African Resources is targeting its first resource estimate in late 2012.