Burkina Faso is really starting to heat up as an exploration hot spot of choice for Australian companies, with Canyon Resources (ASX: CAY) the most recent to make some significant gold hits.
Using reverse circulation drilling, the latest highlight was 20 metres at 4.46 grams per tonne (g/t) gold from 44 metres, which includes the very high grade 4 metres at 19.01g/t gold.
Other results included 8 metres at 4.00g/t gold from 44 metres, 8 metres at 2.42g/t gold from 108 metres, and 8 metres at 2.24g/t gold from 32 metres.
The outcome from the gold hits is the continuity of mineralisation over a 2.5 kilometre strike length, which importantly remains open to both the north and south, and at depth.
Canyon will now initiate substantial follow up drilling programs, aimed at delineating delineate the geometry of the mineralisation, and to gain a better understanding of the structural controls on the gold lodes.