West African widens Meguet

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Burkina Faso-focused gold explorer West African Resources announced further wide gold zones from surface in RAB drilling at its Meguet prospect.

Meguet is located in the southwest corner of the company’s 100%-owned Boulsa gold project, which is situated just 25 kilometres northeast of Orezone Gold Corp’s 3.5 million ounce Bombore gold deposit.

West Africa completed a program of RAB drilling Meguet in July, with six sections, A through to F, drilled on northwest-southeast and north-south sections.

Each section was designed to test multiple vein orientations in artisanal mine sites, and conflicting information regarding vein orientations that had been logged from previous RC drilling.

In total, 213 RAB drill holes were completed for a total of 4101 metres all of which intercepted a coherent northeast-trending, northwest-dipping zone.

Best results from the drilling include:

10 metres at 7.67 grams per tonne gold from surface, ended in mineralisation;

10m at 2.77 g/t gold from surface, ended in mineralisation;

24m at 1.00 g/t gold from surface, ended in mineralisation;

24m at 0.84 g/t gold from 4m, ended in mineralisation;

12m at 1.59 g/t gold from surface; and

4m at 4.40 g/t gold from 8m.

“Shallow RAB drilling at Meguet has returned wide gold zones on all sections from surface,” West African Resources managing director Richard Hyde said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“Now that we have confirmed the orientation of mineralisation, we will target these zones with deeper diamond drilling with our Company-owned drill rigs following the current wet season.”

According to the company announcement recent mapping of quartz veins from new exposures within areas of artisanal mining indicates the majority of vein-sets dip steeply to the north and northwest.

Other vein and fault sets occur in north-northwest to north-northeast orientations.

West African geologists have interpreted this to demonstrate this zone, along with bounding east-west and northeast shearzones, as a quartz vein stockwork zone.

Previous RC drilling carried out in this area returned broad 30 metre to 50 metre gold intercepts from surface grading 0.6 g/t to 0.9 g/t gold.

The company considers the recently interpreted stockwork zone to be a hanging wall zone to the higher-grade, northeast trending bounding mineralised zone, which previously returned 10m at 7.67 g/t gold and 10m at 2.77 g/t gold.