Extends Wenot Mineralisation 150m To Depth Below Historical Pit
Omai Gold Mines Corp. (TSXV:OMG) has announced promising first results from an ongoing programme of logging and sampling of 6000m of unassayed core from a 2012 drilling programme that had been preserved by the Guyana Geology & Mines Commission (GGMC).
CEO, Mario Stifano, said the assay results from the first two of these holes, 12WED11 and 12WED13, which were never logged or sampled, indicate that high-grade mineralisation extends below the Wenot Pit and there is expansion potential of gold mineralization to new sedimentary targets.
Highlights of the assay results:
- Hole 12WED11 intersected intervals such as six metres of 3.55 grams per tonne (g/t) gold (Au) from 460 to 480.6m, including 4.5m of 8.02 g/t Au, and 10.5m of 3.93 g/t Au from 400.5 to 411m;
- Visible gold was encountered in hole 12WED11. Highest assay values include 29.19 g/t Au over one metre from 460 to 461m;
- Hole 12WED13 intersected five metres of 2.93 g/t Au from 54 to 58.5m to the south of the Wenot Pit in sedimentary rocks, where there has been no previous exploration and may be vectoring towards a second mineralised “Wenot style system.”
- The results in hole 12WED11 extend gold mineralisation at least 150m below the bottom of the Wenot Pit and mineralisation remains robust at this depth with no indication of decreasing.
“We are very pleased that the results from these two holes confirm that high-grade gold continues beyond the limits of the Wenot shear and the Wenot Pit to the south within the sedimentary package, and that mineralidation from the Wenot Pit continues at least 150 meters below the depth of the historical pit that was mined,” Mr Stifano said.
“These results support our planned initial 5,000-meter drill program beginning in the new year.”
