Near surface and wide gold intersections have been identified over an extensive strike length by West African Resources (ASX: WAF), at its wholly owned Burkina Faso Projects, named the Meguet, Fatmatenga and Barnstoneworth prospects.
High grade intersections include; 12m at 4.57g/t gold, with broad intersections from surface including; 52m at 0.60g/t gold, from the current drilling program.
Drilling across all prospects consisted of reverse circulation fences with holes between 40m and 50m in depth, and on 20m to 25m centres, for a total of 65 holes for 3,234m.
Richard Hyde, managing director, said "Detailed auger drilling using our own rigs is on-going across the 30km strike of anomalies encompassing the Meguet and Moktedu areas."
The company will continue auger and rotary air blast drilling will continue through to July 2011, with more than 100,000m of drilling planned and budgeted.