Drill Programme Continues to Expand Mineralised Footprint In Burkina Faso
Roxgold Inc. (TSX: ROXG) has received promising new exploration drilling results from the company’s Boussoura Project, located on the Houndé Greenstone Belt in southern Burkina Faso.
Highlights from scout Reverse Circulation (RC) and Diamond Core drilling include:
Fofora – Fofora Main
- 10.7m at 5.6 g/t Au in drill hole BSR-20-RD-FFR-106 from 103m including 1m at 27.4 g/t Au from 103m
- 3.9m at 14.4 g/t Au in drill hole BSR-20-RD-FFR-107 from 96.4m including 1m at 52.3 g/t Au from 97.8m
- 15.0m at 1.9 g/t Au in drill hole BSR-20-RC-FFR-100 from 82m
- 18.9m at 1.3 g/t Au in drill hole BSR-20-RC-FFR-98 from 112m
Fofora – VC2
- 5m at 17.0 g/t Au in drill hole BSR-20-RC-FFR-142 from 59m including 2m at 40.9 g/t Au from 60m
- 8m at 7.4 g/t Au in drill hole BSR-20-RC-FFR-150 from 100m including 1m at 48.9 g/t Au from 105m 10m at 2.0 g/t Au in drill hole BSR-20-RC-FFR-134 from 28m, followed by separate intervals of: 14m at 3.6 g/t Au from 44m, and 3m at 15.6 g/t Aufrom 79m
- 23m at 2.0 g/t Au in drill hole BSR-20-RC-FFR-143 from 41m 19.4m at 1.1 g/t Au in drill hole BSR-20-RD-FFR-120 from 55.4m, followed by a separate interval of: 5.4m at 5.4 g/t Au from 166m
Galgouli
- 7m at 15.8 g/t Au in drill hole BSR-20-RD-GAL-037 from 199m including 4.7m at 23.7 g/t from 199m
- 3m at 21.3 g/t Au in drill hole BSR-20-RC-020 from 47m including 1m at 54.5 g/t from 47m
- 3m at 11.7 g/t Au in drill hole BSR-20-RC-019 from 105m including 1m at 30.9 g/t from 105m
- 2m at 8.4 g/t Auin drill hole BSR-20-RC-032 from 57m
President and CEO, John Dorward, said the Boussoura Project is Roxgold’s advanced stage exploration project that is rapidly defining mineralisation over multiple areas demonstrating its large-scale potential.
“In addition to positive new gold intercepts which expand the Fofora Main footprint at Boussoura, today’s announcement also includes high grade drill results from VC2, a new discovery located less than 500 metres to the west of Fofora Main,” Mr Dorward said.
“A year ago, Roxgold announced the discovery of the Boussoura Project and has since drilled over 150 holes with consistent assay returns demonstrating broad intersections of mineralization with lower grade halos surrounding higher grade quartz veins – characteristic of the style of mineralisation found within the prolific Houndé Gold Belt.
“The Boussoura Project is still in its early days, yet we are growing more confident in the scale of this project, with a large land package host to numerous veined corridors running over extensive strike lengths and with numerous targets identified between Fofora and Galgouli with similar geochemistry and geophysical anomalies.
“We will continue to keep the drills turning at Boussoura, as we look to continue to expand and define the mineralszed footprint towards the goal of a maiden resource by year end.”
Vice President Exploration, Paul Weedon, said drilling since September has included growing the footprint of Fofora Main where the compay is seeing additional parallel veins to the immediate east with multiple intervals returned from drilling.
“I am also excited to see the success in scout drilling, testing the numerous targets within the vein corridors to the west of Fofora Main which continues to highlight the potential of this large nine sq. km artisanal field, with the new VC2 prospect shaping up as the next candidate with results such as 14m at 3.6g/t Au from 44m in BSR-20-RC-FFR-134, 5m at 17.0 g/t Au from 59m in BSR-20-RC-FFR142 and 23m at 2.0g/t Au from 41m in BSR-20-RC-FFR-143.
“In addition, results from extensions at Galgouli support the high-grade potential of this prospect, and where ongoing auger soil geochemistry results continue to highlight regional anomalism.”
