22 Hole Campaign In Burkina Faso
Nexus Gold Corp. (TSXV:NXS) has completed its phase one Reverse Circulation (RC) maiden drill programme at its 100%-owned Dakouli 2 gold exploration permit located in central Burkina Faso, West Africa.
The RC programme at the 9,800-hectare concession consisted of 22 drill holes for a total of 2914m of drilling. The programme was designed to test four areas that have returned either high gold values from rock samples or coincidental soil geochemical and geophysical anomalies proximal to artisanal workings termed orpaillages.
Holes DK-RC-001 through DK-RC-003 were drilled to test a quartz vein hosted in granitic rock occurring proximal to the western boundary of the property. Holes DK-RC-004 and DK-RC- 005 were drilled to test a coincidental soil geochemical and geophysical anomaly proximal to a small orpaillage hosted in volcanic and sedimentary rocks in the west central portion of the permit.
Drill holes DK-RC-006 through DK-RC-017 were drilled to test the depth extensions of higher-grade gold values obtained in rock samples from a large orpaillage located in the northeast corner of the permit.
This zone consists of interbedded volcanic and sedimentary rocks with quartz veins occurring at or proximal to the lithologic contacts.
Finally holes DK-RC-018 through DK-RC-022 were drilled to test a coincidental soil geochemical and geophysical anomaly proximal to an orpaillage located near the village of Tema in the east central area of the permit.
In the course of sampling and logging the RC chips, company geologists’ hand panned portions of the retrieved material to aid in identifying and describing the sulphide content of the material being tested. In the course of this panning, sulphides consisting of pyrite, chalcopyrite, arsenopyrite, galena and visible gold were noted.
The RC drill cuttings were bagged in the field and then taken to a secure compound where the intervals were split using a riffle splitter with one split being placed in a tagged 3-mil poly plastic bag. The samples will be tested by fire assay for gold by the ALS Global ISO certified laboratory.
The maiden Dakouli drill programne was designed to test depth extensions of geochemical gold anomalies identified through termite mound sampling, soil gold geochemistry which identified three trends intersecting the property and finally rock geochemistry which has returned higher grade gold results from selective grab samples extracted from Artisanal mining areas.
