West African Resources (ASX: WAF) has intersected more near surface high grade gold from first pass rotary air blast (RAB) drilling at its wholly-owned Boulsa Gold Project in Burkina Faso, West Africa.
Drilling has extended the oxide mineralised zone to three kilometres and has been from surface to an average vertical depth of only 25 metres, on broad 200 metre lines.
Highlights from drilling at the Moktedu Prospect, within Boulsa, include:
- 8 metres at 10.67 grams per tonne (g/t) gold from 12 metres, including: 4 metres at 17.79g/t gold;
- 3 metres at 3.23g/t gold from 28 metres ending in mineralisation; and
- 18 metres at 0.67g/t gold from 4 metres ending in mineralisation.
These results are located 800 metres to the northeast and along strike from high grade results reported in March which included:
- 28 metres at 9.22 grams per tonne (g/t) gold from surface; including 8 metres at 31.67g/t gold;
- 13 metres at 4.60g/t gold from 20 metres; including 5m at 11.66g/t gold; and
- 13 metres at 3.16g/t gold from 4 metres; including 4 metres at 9.91g/t gold.
The company has planned for resource definition drilling following the wet season and will have two reverse circulation drill rigs shipped to Burkina Faso in June with one rig able to drill both reverse circulation and diamond core holes.
West African is aiming to have deeper reverse circulation drilling completed at the target before the onset of the wet season.
The drilling is part of a continuous campaign of more than 100,000 metres of augur, RAB and reverse circulation drilling ongoing until July 2011.
To highlight just how big the company's footprint in West Africa is, the Boulsa Gold Project covers 5,345 square kilometres.