RC drilling At Sanu Gold’s Bantabaye To Start In Q1 2023
Sanu Gold is preparing for a Phase I 10,000 m RC drill program at its Bantabaye Gold Exploration Permit in Guinea, West Africa.
Bantabaye covers a 100 km2 area on the western margin of Guinea’s Siguiri Basin, approximately 50 km southwest of Nordgold Group’s Lefa Gold Mine, one of the largest gold producers in Guinea, and 90 km north of Predictive Discovery’s Bankan Gold Project, a recent multi-million-ounce gold discovery.
Martin Pawlitschek, President, and CEO of Sanu Gold, commented:
“We are excited to be preparing for the initial drill test of our flagship Bantabaye Project, located on the western margin of the Siguiri Basin in Guinea, where we are targeting large, near-surface, structurally hosted gold deposits.
“The high gold concentrations returned from exploration in 2022, with grades of up to 18.3 g/t gold from bedrock samples, and the lateral extent of gold-in-bedrock anomalies, attest to the quality of our drill targets. The regional setting of the permit, on the western margin of the Siguiri Basin is particularly intriguing. We look forward to updating the market when drilling is underway.”
The objective of the Program is to conduct an initial drill test of ten high-priority target areas encompassing a 7 km strike extent of bedrock gold anomalies in the Bantabaye North and Bantabaye South Zones, which are characterized by high-grade gold mineralization in artisanal workings.
Exploration by the company in 2022 included a property-wide termite mound geochemical sampling program, collection, and analysis of rock chip samples from gold mineralization exposed in artisanal workings and an extensive first-pass auger drilling program which sampled the top of the oxidized bedrock located below lateritic cover.
This work outlined the ten high-priority target areas planned for RC drill testing in the Program. Geological mapping has outlined a series of steeply dipping northeast and northwest trending faults intersected by a shallowly south dipping thrust fault, a similar structural setting to gold mineralization at the nearby Bankan Gold Project.
Laterally extensive artisanal workings, characterized by high-grade, oxide-hosted gold mineralization and extensive alteration, occurs at the intersection of these structures, and are included in the previously mentioned high-priority targets for RC drill testing (Figure 2).
RC drilling is expected to start in Q1 2023, following the preparation of drill sites and the mobilization of equipment.
SOURCE:miningreview
