Sylla Gold Corp.(TSXV: SYG) has kicked offreverse circulation (RC) drilling operations on its Niaouleni Gold Project, located in southern Mali, West Africa.
During the past month, meetings were held in Bamako, Mali with Touba Mining Consultants and the technical team to design the RC drilling programme and determine sampling, laboratory analyses, and QAQC protocols.
In addition, a site visit to the Niaouleni project area was undertaken to confirm exact drill site locations. Drilling access roads and drilling sites have been constructed, in addition to a field crew camp, to support drilling and logging/sampling activities.
The purpose of the Niaouleni Project RC drilling programme is to:
- Confirm previously defined wide zones of high-grade gold mineralisation intersected in historical drilling programmes completed by previous operators.
- Define the structural characteristics of the interpreted Kobada Shear extension on the property; and
- Test extensive termite mound and soil anomalies that lie on strike from the adjacent Kobada deposit owned by African Gold Group and in other areas of the property.
The drilling programme is comprised of approximately 4,000 m of RC drilling followed by 11,000 m of air core (AC) drilling along several drill fences. In addition, further drilling is planned pending access during the rainy season in Mali, which commences in June and ends in October.
The RC component of the drilling program has been designed to expand upon previously identified mineralisation within the interpreted Kobada Shear Zone. AC drilling will target historical soil and termite mound geochemical anomalies, which have not been previously drilled and potentially define the structural setting of the interpreted Kobada and Gosso shear extensions within the Niaouleni Property.
“We’re in a great position to build off previous drilling at Niaouleni that identified numerous zones of high-grade mineralisation on strike of the Kobada deposit. Our team has a lot of experience in the general area, and they’ve put a great drilling plan in place that reflects their past successes in an effort to rapidly expand the Niaouleni deposit on the property,” President and CEO, Regan Isenor, said.
Niaouleni Project
The Niaouleni Project is 92 square km in size and accessible by paved highway and includes extensive artisanal mining activity within the interpreted extensions of gold bearing structures.
Past exploration at Niaouleni includes extensive termite mound and soil geochemistry surveys, and reverse circulation (RC) and diamond drilling that have identified several structural gold-bearing zones that appear to extend from the adjacent Kobada gold deposit. The Kobada gold deposit is situated approximately three km north of the northern limit of the Niaouleni exploration licence.
Historical exploration and drilling results were compiled by Sylla into a digital database and interpreted for the purposes of designing an RC and AC drilling programme to further test these interpreted structural gold-bearing zones and possibly extend them further into the project area.
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