Polymetals Resources Ltd (ASX:POL) has outlined three new mineralised trends from its recent auger drilling program at the Alahiné Gold Project in Guinea, West Africa.
Notably, the company’s shallow auger drilling completed 751 holes totalling 8,619 metres at Alahiné.
Moving forward, Polymetals’ airborne magnetics surveys are scheduled to begin in the next two weeks in order to define additional targets at both Alahiné and Mansala Projects.
“Reinforce prospectivity”
Polymetals Resources Lead Geologist Nana Asante said: “The auger results from Alahiné clearly reinforce the prospectivity of the project.
“Three new mineralised trends identified during the recent drilling provide Polymetals with several follow up targets in addition to the well-defined north-north-east trend confirmed during the Phase 2 aircore drilling program.
“We are excited about the imminent airborne geophysics survey and the upcoming Alahiné Phase 3 program testing the breadth of the prominent NNE trend and we look forward to providing further market updates as we progress.”
Auger program
The Alahiné program was focused on testing mineralised saprolite beneath areas that display greater than 100 parts per billion (ppb) gold in soil anomalies.
The three new NNE trends identified justify further testing and will be prioritised alongside existing targets in the planning of the upcoming phase three drilling program.
Polymetals’ auger drilling program was carried out by Sahara Natural Resources with all assays completed by the SGS laboratory in Bamako, Mali.
Forward plan
Polymetals is accelerating exploration within the Alahiné licence with a suite of geological testing over the coming months.
An airborne magnetic survey is scheduled to begin in late March 2022 at both the Alahiné and Mansala gold projects, results of which will be used to refine existing drill targets in addition to generating new drill targets.
In addition, a Phase 3 RC drill program is scheduled to begin in May 2022 at Alahiné and is currently under development by the exploration team.
Further, the program will focus on the numerous targets generated at depth during the 7,300-metre Phase 2 drilling program and the anomalous zones identified by the recent auger program.