West African Resources (ASX: WAF) is preparing to increase exploration at its Boulsa Gold Project in Burkina Faso, located immediately along strike from the emergent 3.5 million ounce gold Bombore Deposit, with the aim of releasing a maiden resource in the June quarter of 2012.
Exploration is due to commence in mid October after the harvest season.
West African is targeting 200,000 metres of drilling in the 2011-12 field season. The company is fully funded for up to three years of intensive exploration of up to 200,000 metres of drilling per annum.
In addition to its existing rotary air blast drill rig and three augur rigs, West African has purchased reverse circulation and diamond drilling multi-purpose rigs to carry out its planned intensive exploration program.
The new rigs, along with compressors and exploration and drilling consumables have been delivered to Burkina Faso capital city Ouagadougou.
Exploration crews have returned to site and reconnaissance site visits have been completed to the main prospects, however it is too wet to start work.
Exploration will begin at the Meguet Prospect, which has less crop cover than the company’s other prospects.
West African’s 100%-owned Boulsa project covers 6,125 square kilometres and 185 kilometres of strike length of early Proterozoic Birmian greenstone belts, which are highly prospective for gold mineralisation.
Recent auger geochemical sampling at Boulsa delineated 25 robust targets over less than 10% of the current project area.
West African Resources also owns the Marandet Uranium Project in northern Niger, which covers 1,000 square kilometres of licence applications straddling the southern extension of the Arlit Fault, a major north trending structure known to be a dominant controlling structure for uranium mineralisation in the region.