West African Resources (ASX: WAF) has discovered a large gold anomaly from first pass regional auger drilling at the Sartenga Prospect within its 100%-owned Boulsa Gold Project in Burkina Faso, West Africa.
The anomaly is a whopping 6.2 kilometres in strike length by up to 1.4 kilometres width, at a 10 parts per billion gold contour, in the northwest region of the prospect. There was a peak result of 3 metres at 0.61 grams per tonne (g/t) gold within the central portion of the anomaly.
Richard Hyde, West African's managing director, said “this is another exciting discovery by the company’s exploration team, and reinforces our long held strategy of holding large areas over Burkina’s under-explored greenstone terrains, and exploring as rapidly as possible using company owned rigs.”
The Boulsa Gold Project covers 6165 square kilometres and 185 kilometres of strike length of early Proterozoic Birimian greenstone belts which are highly prospective for gold mineralisation.
Significant results have already been returned from the project, which is located immediately along strike from Orezone Gold Corporation's (TSX: ORE) emergent 3.5Moz gold Bomboré Deposit.
Mineralisation at Sartenga has been discovered by West African through mapping, geochemistry, geophysics and drilling as mineralisation does not outcrop.
In addition there is no historic artisanal mining on the site therefore making this West African’s second gold discovery from the application of modern exploration methods in the past 12 months.
The company is planning to commence infill auger and rotary air blast drilling in October following the wet season.
West African is fully funded for three years of intensive exploration including up to 200,000 metres of drilling per annum.