West African Resources (ASX: WAF) has penned in a maiden Inferred Resource of 70 million tonnes at 0.2% copper, 0.3 grams per tonne gold, 166g/t molybdenum and 1.1g/t silver at its wholly-owned Sartenga deposit in Burkina Faso.
The contained resource of 174,000 tonnes of copper, 651,000 ounces of gold, 11,000 tonnes of molybdenum and 2.5 million ounces of silver comes just 12 months after discovery of the deposit.
This Resource also include 57Mt of transitional and primary material at 0.6% copper equivalent for some 316,000 tonnes of copper equivalent metal.
Drilling is ongoing at Sartenga, which is within the Boulsa Project, with two company-owned diamond rigs targeting a major resource upgrade in both tonnes and JORC category by year end.
This is focused on the higher grade mineralisation in the core of the deposit as well as targeting extensions at depth.
Sartenga has an initial Exploration Target of 170Mt to 250Mt at 0.5% to 0.9% copper equivalent.
West African had previously demonstrated that Sartenga ore is amenable to low-energy coarse grinding and conventional flotation recovery methods.
The Boulsa Project covers 6,370 square kilometres and 200 kilometres of strike length of early Proterozoic Birimian greenstone belts which are prospective for gold mineralisation.
The project is located immediately along strike from Orezone Gold Corp’s (TSE: ORE) 5.2 million gold ounce Bomboré Deposit.
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