Turaco Gold has received assays from a recently completed 5,149 m drilling program at the Odienne South permit in northwest Cote d’Ivoire.
The program was reconnaissance style, with broadly spaced drilling testing three priority discrete surface geochemical anomalies defined along the 30 km of prospective Sassandra shear zone which strikes northwest to southeast through the Odienne South permit.
Strongest results came from the southeast of the permit where three 400 m spaced drill traverses demonstrated continuous 8-16 m zone of mineralisation at 1.0-1.3 g/t gold across a strike of 1,200 m. This zone of mineralisation remains open in all directions.
MD, Justin Tremain commented:
“This is the first ever drilling within the Odienne South permit which tested three targets defined by earlier soil sampling and auger drilling by Turaco.
“It is pleasing to return a zone of continuous gold mineralisation across a significant strike length of +1 kms. The drilling has demonstrated the 30 kms of the Sassandra shear that runs through the Odienne South permit is mineralised. The Sassandra shear is a highly favourable geological setting in West Africa.”
Highlights
- Turaco completes initial reconnaissance style +5,000 m drilling program at the Odienne South permit in northwest Cote d’Ivoire
- Drilling tested three gold-in-soil anomalies with very broad 400 m-1,200 m spaced drill traverses
- Best results define a continuous zone of gold mineralisation of >1g/t over 1,200 m of strike with assays including:
- 12 m @ 1.18 g/t gold from 4 m (ODAC0100)
- 12m @ 1.06g/t gold from 16m (ODAC0088)
- 8m @ 1.30g/t gold from 28m (ODAC0125)
- Results are shallow, with drilling testing just the oxide profile
- Anomalies are positioned along an interpreted high strain corridor associated with the Archean domain margin and is comparable in stratigraphy to Guinea’s Siguiri basin