Significant Gold Corridor Extended at Sebba, Burkina Faso
Golden Rim Resources Ltd (ASX: GMR, Golden Rim) today announced it has received new high grade gold rock chip sample assays and highly anomalous soil sample assays from its Gandi Permit at the Sebba Project in Burkina Faso, West Africa.
A total of 928 soil samples and 75 rock chip samples were obtained from the Tyena prospect within the Gandi Permit. The soil sampling at Tyena was conducted on a 200m by 50m grid and covers an area of 5.5km x 1.4km.
Several large gold-in-soil anomalies were outlined at the Tyena prospect. The most extensive of these soil anomalies lies in the northern portion of the prospect area, trends northeast-southwest, is at least 3.3km long and up to 0.9km wide, and has a peak sample result of 0.9 g/t gold (Figure 2). Coincident with this soil anomaly are active artisanal workings and highly significant rock chip results with gold assays up to 25.5 g/t and 27.7 g/t gold.
The Gandi Permit lies directly east of the Yipley Permit where the Company recently announced highly significant gold results at the Diogora (previously Jogada) and Sefa Eddi prospects which lie in a major shear zone, with selected high grade rock chip results including 78.53 g/t, 74.54 g/t, 62.88 g/t and 56.12 g/t gold, along with extensive gold-in-soil anomalies up to 1km wide.
The new significant gold results at the Tyena prospect are interpreted to lie along the same major shear zone that hosts the Diogora and Sefa Eddi prospects within the Yipley permit and suggest the potential strike of the gold mineralised corridor at Sebba may extend for at least 22km.
Golden Rim’s Managing Director, Mr Craig Mackay, said “the initial highly anomalous gold results from the Gandi permit are particularly exciting. They confirm a potential doubling of the strike length of the broad gold mineralised corridor at Sebba.”
“The extensive shear-hosted gold mineralisation at Sebba is the Company’s highest priority exploration target at present and we have devoted considerable resources to the project to rapidly advance our exploration effort” said Mr Mackay.
Currently the Company has three drilling rigs (auger, rotary air blast and reverse circulation rigs) operating at Sebba. The auger and rotary air blast drilling rigs are extending the near-surface geochemical sample coverage along strike from the Diogora and Seffa Eddi prospects. The reverse circulation is testing priority target areas within the
Diogora and Seffa Eddi prospects. Over 7,1000 holes (for 33,000m) are currently planned at Sebba and this drilling program is progressing well. In conjunction with the drilling, a major geological mapping, rock chip sampling and soil sampling campaign is continuing. The Company has over 40 staff and contractors currently working from its Sebba camp.
This article was originally posted on Africa Oil & Mining Network
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