Golden Rim Resources Ltd (ASX:GMR) has intersected gold-anomalous bedrock during infill auger drilling at its Kouri Gold Project in Burkina Faso.
The results, obtained from 149 auger holes totalling 618 metres, demonstrate the upside potential for additional gold lodes at Kouri.
Drilling was designed to identify new areas of bedrock gold mineralisation under shallow soil cover, within the major shear zone that hosts the 1 million ounce Kouri mineral resource.
Highlighted results include: 3,604 ppb gold at Guitorga West, 1.5 kilometres southwest of the Kouri resource; and 1,144 ppb and 1,088 ppb at the northern end of the Diabouga lode, 100 metres north of the resource.
Further anomalous results, including 473 ppb and 314 ppb, have been obtained from auger drilling around previous auger holes at the southern Diabouga lodes and at Guitorga North.
Golden Rim managing director Craig Mackay said the company’s drilling at Kouri continued to expand the bedrock gold footprint to outside of the project’s mineral resource.
Mackay said: “We have now outlined very strong bedrock gold anomalies at Guitorga West, Guitorga North, Diabouga and Kom.
“[These] provide excellent targets for the discovery of additional gold mineralisation in the immediate mineral resource area.”
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The gold-anomalous results from Guitorga West correspond with extensions to the induced polarisation (IP) chargeability anomalies associated with the gold lodes that comprise the mineral resource.
Golden Rim believes the mineralisation that comprises the mineral resource may be continuous through the river channel to Guitorga West and beyond.
The river channel has sediment cover generally too deep for auger sampling and exploration over this area will be completed by aircore drilling.
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Mackay said the company’s regional exploration was also progressing positively.
He said: “We have just completed our first follow-up reverse circulation drilling on the new gold discovery at Red Hill, 4.5 kilometres southwest of the mineral resource and we eagerly await the assay results.”
Golden Rim is planning a structural study over the entire Kouri licence area, with the objective of determining the controls on gold mineralisation.
The study will look at the distribution of the mineralisation within the mineral resource, with a focus on understanding the location and extent of higher grade shoots.
The study will also be utilised to prioritise regional target areas for follow-up drilling.