Ariana Resources PLC (LON:AAU) has revealed what it describes as “excellent” exploration results from the Salinbas gold project in Turkey.
At Salinbas, located within the ‘Hot Gold Corridor’, sampling activities have returned gold grades up to 5.02 grams per tonne.
The operations included composite channel-sampling, carried out along the newly built access road, and, conventional soil sampling along the project’s target boundary.
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It comes ahead of planned drilling activities slated for the second quarter of 2019, which will include around 2,000 metres of reverse circulation drilling.
"These results continue to reinforce our understanding of the distribution and continuity of gold mineralisation in the vicinity of the Ardala Porphyry, Ardala North and Salinbas North areas,” said Dr Kerim Sener, Ariana managing director.
“We are confident that the testing of some of these targets with drilling will lead to the identification and definition of further resources within the project area.
“We have scheduled the drilling programme for Q2 2019 and we envisage undertaking approximately 2,000m of RC drilling on targets that are accessible from existing permit areas and freehold land."