West African Resources (ASX: WAF) has announced positive drilling results following further significant gold-copper mineralisation at its fully owned Sartenga copper-gold discovery, part of the Boulsa Project in Burkina Faso.
The company's aggressive drilling campaign is fast tracking its maiden Burkina Faso resource for December 2012. West African Resources has $4 million in cash and is the largest ASX-listed landholder in Burkina Faso, West Africa.
The company's recent drilling results have returned the highest gold grades to date at the Sartenga gold-copper discovery, with grades of up to 6.9 grams per tonne (g/t) gold and 1.0% copper.
Drilling results from Section 11, to the northeast, have also confirmed shallow gold-copper mineralisation in oxide at Sartenga now extends more than 2 kilometres and over 250 metres in width. These are broadly supported by the following drilling results:
- 20 metres at 2.0g/t gold and 0.2% copper from 4 metres, including 4 metres at 6.9g/t gold and 0.3% copper;
- 60 metres at 0.5g/t gold and 0.2% copper from 4 metres; and
- 42 metres at 0.9g/t gold and 0.1% copper from 8 metres, which ended in mineralisation.
West African Resources’ deep drilling program will continue in September, targeting a high-grade primary zone along the 2 kilometre strike. This will be followed by aircore drilling in October to fully test the 3 kilometre plus high tenor portion of the auger gold-in-saprolite anomaly which remains open to the west.
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