Drills 20m @ 4.83 g/t Au In Burkina Faso,
Nexus Gold Corp. (TSXV:NXS) has received promising initial results, including a new discovery, from its recently completed 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 (98-sq kms) concession consisted of 2,914m of exploratory drilling. The programme was designed to test several areas that have returned either high gold values from rock samples or coincidental soil geochemical and geophysical anomalies proximal to artisanal workings termed orpaillages.
Significant results were encountered in hole DKL-20-RC-007, which returned 4.83 g/t gold over 20m, including 14.51 g/t Au over 6.0m (also including 39.6 g/t over 2.0m).
Other significant results were realised in hole DKL-20-RC-009, which returned 1.61 g/t Au over 10m, including 4.11 g/t Au over 2.0 meters, and DKL-20-RC-010, which returned 1.89 g/t Au over 8.0m, including 6.54 g/t Au over 2.0 meters.
In addition, several holes returned lengthy intercepts of sub-one gram gold, including DKL-20-RC-006 which returned .33 g/t Au over 36m, including .59 g/t Au over 18m, and DKL-20-RC-002 which returned .64 g/t Au over 16m.
Assays are pending for the remaining six holes and the Company will report those results once received, reviewed, and verified.
“This new discovery is very exciting. The intercepts we have encountered from the northeast corner of the property are indicating a broad zone of gold mineralization,” said VP Exploration, Warren Robb.
“The extent of the mineralisation is encouraging and certainly requires follow up with diamond drilling. This will allow us to generate better data concerning the nature of the mineralization and the lithologic and structural aspects of the host rocks.
“The location of the drilling corresponds well with our interpretation of the location of the Sabce shear zone and our ground geochemistry and termite sampling suggest that this mineralisation may extend for at least a km to the south west.
President and CEO, Alex Klenman, said the drill programmr has confirmed widespread mineralization in the northeast zone of the property.
“Positive results, particularly like those received in hole 7, in this, a relatively small maiden drill program, is both significant and encouraging.
“And beyond the target areas we tested in this first phase, Dakouli presents a potential district-scale opportunity with numerous targets yet to drill, and a lot of ground still in need of detailed reconnaissance. We like what we’re seeing so far and look forward to the next phase of drilling,” he said.
The maiden Dakouli drill programme was designed to initially 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. The Dakouli 2 permit is located on the Goren greenstone belt, proximal to Nordgold’s Bissa Mine, and is bisected by the gold bearing Sabce shear zone.
