Golden Rim Resources Ltd (ASX:GMR) has discovered intense stockwork bedrock mineralisation at Bereko Prospect within the Kada Gold Project in Guinea with rock chip sampling returning results up to 171.5 g/t gold in artisanal workings within an extensive auger gold anomaly.
This surface sampling was part of a greater exploration effort across the project tenure which also included a second round of auger drilling, the assays from which have now been received.
The drilling program constituted 1,095 holes for 13,852 metres of auger drilling, some of which was targeted at infill exploration along the 15-kilometre Kada Gold Corridor.
Results returned up to 2,720 parts per billion (ppb) gold (2.7 g/t) and confirmed five priority targets with highly anomalous bedrock gold along the corridor.
Highlighting Kada’s prospectivity
“Golden Rim’s follow-up auger program, mapping and rock chip sampling at Kada has further highlighted the prospectivity of the Kada Gold Corridor and surrounds," managing director Craig Mackay said
“Infill drilling between highly anomalous gold values from our first auger program has increased our confidence in the continuity of the areas of strong bedrock gold anomalism.
“We have identified at least six priority target areas for exploration drilling that lie outside the area where we are preparing our maiden MRE.
“We are particularly excited about the Bereko prospect area in the northern portion of the Kada Gold Corridor.
“At Bereko, we have discovered very high-grade gold mineralisation (up to 171.5 g/t gold in rock chip samples) associated with intense stockwork vein mineralisation exposed in artisanal workings.
“This stockwork mineralisation looks very similar to the mineralisation in the Kada MRE area.
“Bereko will be one of the first areas we test when exploration RC (reverse circulation) drilling re-commences at Kada in March/April 2022.”
GMR says the results of its geological mapping and rock chip sampling (48 samples) further highlight the prospectivity of the priority target areas along the Kada Gold Corridor.
Additional potential gold corridor
Golden Rim also identified an additional priority target 1.2 kilometres east of the Kada Gold Corridor at the Sinin Prospect.
New auger drilling in this previously untested eastern region of the Kada permit has revealed more anomalous gold results (up to 300ppb gold), indicating a potential parallel gold corridor extending over 6 kilometres.
The company is confident its plan to systematically explore along the Kada corridor outside the approximately kilometre-wide area where a maiden mineral resource estimate (MRE) area is being prepared will locate significant additional gold mineralisation.
Golden Rim plans to begin a second round of exploration RC drilling to test the target areas along the Kada Gold Corridor in March and/or April 2022.
About Golden Rim
Golden Rim Resources is an exploration company with a portfolio of advanced mineral exploration projects in Burkina Faso and Guinea in West Africa along with Chile in South America.
The company has discovered the Kouri Gold Project covering 325 square kilometres of prospective Birimian greenstones in northeast Burkina Faso and has outlined an indicated and inferred mineral resource of 50 million tonnes at 1.3 g/t gold for 2 million ounces.
Golden Rim has also secured a second highly promising gold project, Kada, in eastern Guinea and is undertaking an aggressive exploration program.