Intersects Mineralisation 1.2km South-West Of Area D
Chesser Resources Limited (ASX:CHZ) has received promising results and commenced a new resource definition drill programme at the Diamba Sud Gold Project in Senegal, West Africa.
CEO, Andrew Grove, said the company now has drill assay results from 20 reverse circulation (RC) drill holes, totalling 2,652m, in a programme which targeted geochemical anomalies and interpreted structures.
“We are delighted to report the final drill results from the recently completed 20,000m drill programme,” Mr Grove said.
“These results highlight the prospectivity of the greater Diamba Sud tenement with ore grade intercepts at Area H, a previously undrilled geochemical anomaly on the interpreted Northern Arc structure.
“Drilling on the Northern Arc structure has defined anomalous mineralisation for over 4km on the tenement.
A detailed Induced Polarisation survey covering the entire tenement is underway which should help target future drilling of the numerous geochemical anomalies on the tenement.
Resource definition drilling has commenced over Area D and Area A the results of which will feed into our maiden resource estimate later in the year.”
Three RC drill traverses were undertaken over geochemical anomalies and interpreted structures south of Area A and Area D.
The drill traverse at Area H was designed to test a previously undrilled geochemical anomaly coincident with the interpreted trend of the Northern Arc structure, 1.2km south-west of Area D. Line 1428300mN was also located approximately 100m north of a large artisanal pit measuring approximately 100x100m in size.
Steep dipping mineralisation intersected by drill holes DSR264: 9m at 1.9 g/t gold and DSR263: 3m at 1.7 g/t gold, 2m @ 2.5 g/t gold, 5m at 3.4g/t gold and 5m at 4.2g/t gold is structurally controlled and hosted within sedimentary breccia and granite and associated with strong quartz- carbonate-albite-pyrite alteration.
Other mineralised intervals on the drill traverse are associated with strong albite-hematite alteration within the granite and sediments including, DSR262: 11m at 2.1 g/t gold and DSR263: 4m at 9.6 g/t gold
Western Splay Area drill line 1426400mN
The drill traverse at the Western Splay Area extended existing drill coverage to the east and was aimed to intersect the interpreted Western Splay Structure defined by co-incident gold geochemical anomalism and an IP feature.
Mineralisation is associated with juxtaposed highly altered granite and brecciated carbonate including DSR272: 1m at 3.8 g/t gold and DSR274: 6m at 1.2 g/t gold and 3m at 2.8 g/t gold.
Mr Grove said it appears that the drilling did not intersect the targeted Western Splay Structure. The detailed IP survey currently being undertaken may assist future targeting of these structures.
The southern Arc drill traverse targeted the northerly extension of a gold auger geochemical anomaly and interpreted structures on which previous RC drilling to the south returned significant results including: 17m at 1.33 g/t gold, 4m at 3.77 g/t and 14m at 2.85g/t. Drilling on this traverse did not return any significant results. There is no existing IP geophysics covering this area and the new survey may assist with better targeting of future drilling.
The geology of line 1426500mN consists mainly of granite intruded by a range of late-stage diorite dykes. Sulphide minerals were observed, but not with any typical gold bearing alteration.
Current drill programme
The Area A and Area D resource definition drilling programme has commenced. The drill program, approximately 11,000m, is designed to infill and extend the identified mineralisation, demonstrate the scale of the mineralised systems, and to better understand the controls on mineralisation. The drilling is aimed to be completed within this current field season, ending late June early July. It is anticipated that after this next phase of drilling the drill data coverage will
