Drilling Commenced To Test 12km Long Gold Anomaly At The Dankassa Gold Project in Mali
Perth, Feb 28, 2012 AEST (ABN Newswire) - Birimian Gold Limited (
ASX:BGS) is pleased to advise that it has commenced a 4,000m aircore drilling program at the Company's Dankassa Gold Project in Mali. This program will investigate the source of high tenor gold anomalies in the northern and central portions of the Dankassa Gold Trend (Figure 1 - refer to link at bottom of release).
The Dankassa Gold Trend is located in the north of the Dankassa Project area. Recent work by Birimian Gold, including extensive programs of shallow aircore and auger drilling, has delineated a highly anomalous, coherent, 12km long gold trend; the Dankassa Gold Trend. This newly defined trend hosts a number of high priority drill targets which will be investigated during the current program (Figure 2).
Dankassa Gold Trend
The Dankassa Gold Trend is a newly identified gold zone delineated from auger and aircore drilling programs undertaken by Birimian Gold. The integrated drilling results now define a very coherent bedrock gold anomaly at the Dankassa Gold Trend that extends for over 12 km in a north-south direction.
Exceptional results include assays of 6.0 g/t gold and 1.26 g/t gold from auger drilling, and thick, shallow, drill intersections in aircore drilling;
- 8m @ 1.29 g/t gold from 16m
- 46m @ 0.48 g/t gold from 8m, including 12m @ 1.00 g/t gold from 36m
- 16m @ 0.56 g/t gold from 28m
The work conducted over the past 8 months has confirmed the presence of significant bedrock gold mineralisation within the Dankassa Gold Trend and defined a number of high priority drill targets which will be evaluated as part of the current program.
It is anticipated that approximately 4,000 metres of aircore drilling will be undertaken during the current program, the Company's third drilling program at the Dankassa Gold Project in the past 8 months.
The Company believes that there is considerable potential to discover economic thicknesses and grades of primary gold mineralisation along the Dankassa Gold Trend.
Background - Birimian Gold Limited
Birimian Gold Limited (previously Eagle Eye Metals Limited) holds substantial interests in several highly prospective gold projects in West Africa; a gold rich region which has produced in excess of 250 million ounces of gold from large, low cost mines. Birimian Gold is currently exploring projects in Mali and Liberia, and continues to work to secure additional gold projects in West Africa.
Birimian Gold continues to aggressively explore its other highly prospective gold projects; the Korindji Gold Project in Mali and the Basawa Gold Project in Liberia (Figure 3). Results from this work and the current drill program at Dankassa are expected to be announced over coming months.
To view the Figures mentioned in the Birimian Gold announcement, please refer to the following link below:
http://media.abnnewswire.net/media/en/docs/ASX-BGS-579747.pdf
Contact
Kevin Joyce
Managing Director
Birimian Gold Limited
Ph: +61-8-9286-3045
Email: info@birimiangold.com
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