Viking Ashanti (ASX: VKA) has identified previously unknown drill targets on its West Star gold project in southern Ghana.
The latest results from a soil sampling program have defined numerous sub-parallel anomalous zones of greater than 200 parts per billion gold along the 14 kilometre strike length of the Salman shear zone.
A defining factor of the project’s potential is that the regionally extensive north-south trending Salman shear zone is the major controlling structure hosting significant gold deposits at the nearby 2 million ounce Nzema gold project.
The results come as the company prepares to begin a 3,000 metre reverse circulation drilling program at West Star and the neighbouring Blue River property later this month on known gold targets.
The soil sampling programs, at 400 metre by 50 metre spacing, were designed to infill and extend soil geochemistry coverage across the West Star licences.
Individual anomalies vary from 400 metres to 1.2 kilometres long, and up to 150 metres wide.
The anomalies appear to be closely related to individual fault structures identified from mapping and geophysics, within and on the margins of the Salman shear zone.
Historical broad spaced reverse circulation drilling at West Star has only tested three of the anomalies representing less than 3 kilometres of the Salman shear zone.
Significant historical intersections include 20 metres at 1.59 grams per tonne (g/t) gold and 4 metres at 3.04g/t.