Toronto-listed Royal Road Minerals (CVE:RYR), formerly Tigris Resources, is planning three diamond drill holes at the Gömeç gold project in Turkey to test for deeper, higher grade targets.
Reverse circulation holes have now been completed at the site and latest results included 52 metres at 1 g/t gold and 10.8 g/t silver in one hole, it revealed.
In another, 10metres was hit at 1 g/t (grams per tonne) of the yellow metal.
Gömeç has five contiguous licences and is an early-stage gold project immediately adjacent to Koza Gold’s Kubaşlar gold project and 5km north of Bilfer’s Ayazmant copper-iron skarn deposit.
The firm says a notable characteristic of Gömeç appears to be long low grade intersections which host greater than 1 gram per tonne gold and, which may indicate underlying higher grades in crystalline basement rocks located structurally beneath the volcanic pile.
Tim Coughlin, Royal Road's president and chief executive, told investors: "We are awaiting the results of step-out drilling into basement-hosted alteration zones and along the ridge to the southeast at Gömeç, but reverse circulation drilling has now ceased and has been replaced with diamond drilling, at no additional cost, to drill a further three drill holes testing deep targets at the project."
Last month, the company said the first three holes of its programme project in Turkey had hit encouraging results.
They included 118 metres at 1 grams per tonne (g/t) gold, including 22 metres at 3.9 grams per tonne gold and 21 g/t silver, and highlight bulk tonnage potential.