Following Up Alluvial Gold Finds In Burkina Faso
Nexus Gold Corp. (TSXV:NXS) (OTC:NXXGF) has completed its ground reconnaissance programme over its 100% owned, 190.53 sq-km (19,053-hectare), Manzour-Dayere gold exploration permit located on the Boromo Greenstone belt, 325 km southwest of the capital city of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, West Africa.
Members of the company’s geological team conducted a series of geological mapping and prospecting exercises over various areas of the concession. The property is underlain by a wedge of volcano-sedimentary rocks which hosts numerous artisanal workings.
Local artisanal miners are extracting material from quartz veins occurring in the volcano sedimentary package. The wedge is completely surrounded by felsic intrusive rocks.
A large alluvial mining camp is located near the northeast corner of the property. Nexus geologists viewed several areas in these workings where coarse free gold was being extracted. The alluvial workings are 500m downstream from the Manzour-Dayere property suggesting that the property may have contributed to gold deposition there. In total the geological team traversed over 250km of roads and trails, collecting multiple samples from several areas of interest.
Previous operators on the property identified nine structures through an airborne magnetics survey. These structures received little to no follow up work. Data accumulated by the team from this programme is currently being reviewed and once completed the scope and nature of follow up exploration plans will be determined.
Follow up programmes will look to expand the gold mineralisation that has already been identified in the north-east corner of the property and returned results of 9.60 grams-per-tonne (g/t) gold (Au), 7.07 g/t Au, 5.73 g/t Au, 3.84 g/t Au and 2.84 g/t Au.
Recent historical exploration on the property conducted between 2011 and 2014 returned reported high-grade values of 132 g/t Au, 85.40 g/t Au, 61.20 g/t Au, and 27.9 g/t Au, from select grab samples of quartz veining at the main orpaillage in the extreme northeast corner of the property, while select grab samples of the sedimentary host rock returned values of 103 g/t Au and 21.40 g/t Au, respectively. The workings on the main orpaillage are extensive and extend to depths of 60 to 80 meters below surface.
The Manzour-Dayere Concession is located along the Boromo Greenstone belt, an early Proterozoic Birimian sequence of the West African Craton, that is home to several significant gold deposits. Situated in southwestern Burkina Faso, near the border with Ghana, the area is home to several producing mines, including Yaramoko (Roxgold), Hounde (Endeavour), Poura (Newmont), Bondi (Sarama).
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