Aurum fleshes out potential giant West African open-pit gold deposit
The intercept includes 21.73m assaying 1.01g/t gold from 39m and 29m going 1.46g/t gold from 69m. The intercept includes 4.16m at nil grade after the core could not be retrieved due to bad ground.
A second 325m deep diamond drill hole put into BDT1 cored out 71.72m assaying 0.72 g/t gold from 187m, including 6.50m running 1.72g/t gold.
A third 337m deep hole, also in the BDT1 deposit, revealed a more complex gold distribution with three separate runs, including 3m at 1.78g/t gold from 95m, with 1m at 5.11g/t gold; a further 32m assaying 0.76g/t gold from 107m, including 3m at 3.73g/t gold; and a third run of 24m going 0.78 g/t gold from 143m, including 4m at 3.02g/t gold.
The latest assays relate to 23 diamond drill holes for 6112.43m of drilling, divided between eight holes for 2665.95m at Aurum's BDT1 deposit and 15 holes for 3446.48m at the company's BDT3 prospect. Both targets lie within the Boundiali project's BD tenement.
'These results are from drilling designed to upgrade inferred resources to indicated, test the limits of known gold mineralisation, and incorporate previously unclassified mineralisation into the next MRE update.'
Aurum Resources managing director Dr Caigen Wang
The best grade picked up in the latest results comes from a diamond drill hole in BDT1, which gave up 4.59m assaying 3.26g/t gold from 34m, including 0.59m at 21.38 g/t gold.
The best primary grade reported from the BDT3 prospect's current batch of results is 5m going 1.24g/t gold from 264m, including 4.1m going 1.4g/t gold.
The longest primary intercept from the BDT3 prospect is 9m assaying 0.95g/t gold from 138m, including 4m at 1.84g/t gold.
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