Ampella Mining (ASX: AMX, AMXO) has reported that scout drilling over the Kouglaga Prospect at the Batie West Project has intersected a shallow wide zone of high-grade gold mineralisation. The Kouglaga Prospect is located 1.5km northwest of the JORC Compliant Konkera Resource in Burkina Faso, West Africa.
These new drill results confirm and extend gold mineralisation at the Kouglaga Prospect where limited previous drilling intersected 42m at 3.8 g/t gold (including 20m at 6.97 g/t gold) and a single trench returned 42m at 2.4 g/t gold.
Based on assays received to date for 45 drill holes out of a total of 73 in the current scout drill program, gold mineralisation at Kouglaga extends over a strike length of 220m and remains open along strike and at depth.
Best results to date include: 18m at 10.3 g/t gold from 3m; 11m at 10.5 g/t gold from 59m; 20m at 4.7 g/t gold from 7m (including 10m at 8.2 g/t gold); and 3m at 13.7 g/t gold from 33m.
Paul Kitto, managing director, said “these results are fantastic news for the company. Kouglaga is only the second auger geochemistry anomaly tested by Ampella and we are extremely encouraged by these shallow wide zones of high grade mineralisation."
"Our systematic auger geochemistry programs continue to define new large targets along strike from our existing resource with great success and we are all looking forward to testing every single one of them.”
Recent step-out scout drilling in the “Gap” between Kouglaga and Konkera has indicated that economic zones of gold mineralisation could exist within this region.
The company said follow-up drill programs are planned to test both the Kouglaga Prospect and the Gap region adjacent to the current Resource with the aim of extending mineralisation for an additional 2.5km along strike of the existing 3km long Konkera Resource.
These exploration programs form part of an aggressive $13 million exploration program for the current calendar year 2010 at the Batie West Project.
Proposed drill programs include upward of 80,000 metres of conventional drilling (reverse circulation and diamond drilling) and 35,000m of auger geochemistry drilling.
The drill rig has now moved from the Kouglaga Prospect to test extensions of Konkera East and the newly defined auger geochemical anomaly, Konkera South, situated approximately 2 km from the Konkera Resource.
A 4000 metre program at Konkera South will test approximately 1.5km of the currently defined strike of the Konkera South auger anomaly.