Predictive Discovery (ASX: PDI) has intersected 68 metres at 3.2 grams per tonne gold from 99 metres at its Bongou prospect in Burkina Faso.
The interval's true width was 52 metres and included 8 metres at 10.2 grams per tonne over 6 metres true width.
This follows recently announced results from the first five holes of:
- 47 metres at 3.2g/t gold from 215 metres including 24.5 metres at 4.9g/t gold;
- 41 metres at 2.8g/t gold from 144 metres including 6 metres at 7.8g/t and 8 metres at 4.5g/t gold;
- 58 metres at 2g/t gold from 14 metres including 5 metres at 7.3g/t gold; and
- 11 metres at 3.1g/t gold from 166 metres including 3.8 metres at 5.7g/t gold.
The wide zones of gold mineralisation provide evidence the strike could increase at depth, increasing tonnage potential, and confirms a substantial high grade component in the hanging wall position.
Bongou is located in the south-western portion of the Bonsiega Project tenements in eastern Burkina Faso.
It underlies artisanal workings which form an irregular open pit about 150 metres long and 50 metres wide.
Prior exploration by the company had included rock chip sampling, trenching, ground geophysical surveys and reverse circulation drilling that had returned up to 39.6 metres at 4.3g/t gold and 35.5 metres at 5g/t gold.
Gold mineralisation at Bongou is contained within an intensely silicified and quartz veined, pyrite-bearing granite intrusion.
Whichever way it is sliced, the results are very encouraging, having already discovered two gold geochemical anomalies, which suggest more granite-hosted gold mineralisation, within a few hundred metres of the Bongou drilling.
Predictive's tenements are within the Samira Hill greenstone belt in Eastern Burkina Faso, which hosts the 2.5 million ounce Samira Hill gold mine across the border in Niger.
Predictive owns permits which cover both Bongou and any possible extensions along the Bongou structure over a strike length of 42 kilometres within Predictive's tenements.