Scout Drilling Ready To Go On Kodio Trend At Bondoukou Project
Awalé Resources Limited (TSXV: ARIC) is preparing to commence scout drilling later this week on priority gold targets on the Kodio Trend, Bondoukou Project in Côte d’Ivoire.
The programme will follow up the successful completion of an initial 3,000m of Reverse Circulation (RC) drill programme on the Empire and Charger targets at Odienné. First assays from the Empire-Charger drill programme are currently expected to be received at the end of May.
The Kodio Trend is a 15km-long, NNW-trending structural corridor in which detailed auger drilling (32,694m in 6,816 holes) has delineated 10 “blind” gold targets under shallow cover.
Surface rock chip sampling by the company has also returned assays up to 9.8 g/t Au from an artisanal pit on the Kodio Trend. Four of the ten identified targets will be drilled in the company’s pending 4,000 to 5,000m RC drill campaign.
The Kodio Trend multiple >50 ppb auger gold cores up to several kilometres long over the entire length of the anomaly. The trend lies open toward the northwest and contains a peak auger gold value of 777ppb.
CEO, Glen Parsons, said that following the drilling at Kodio the company will proceed to drill the high order Au Samanda East target to the West of Kodio.
“We are very pleased to see these results and targets developing from Kodio, as well as those previously reported at Samanda and the Awari Shear,” Mr Parsons said.
“This extensive gold anomalism further demonstrates the high order gold prospectivity of the entire Bondoukou Project and has the potential for a significant gold camp in North Eastern Côte d’Ivoire.
“The Kodio trend has presented the company with multiple drill targets to follow, and we look forward to the impending drill programme that will cover the first drill ready targets at Kodio.
“This will then be followed by scout drilling at the high order Samanda East target. These exciting drill targets at Kodio and Samanda are a result of the consistent systematic approach to exploration from the Awale team.
“With this extent of anomalous gold trend we are confident on the potential of delivering gold discoveries at the Bondoukou Project.
“We look forward to the new results flow from the Charger and Empire prospects over the ensuing weeks followed by the drilling we are about to commence at Bondoukou.”
