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Thor Explorations has commenced a 2000 metre RC drilling program on its Douta Gold Project in southeast Senegal. It has been designed to target two parallel mineralised zones with the objective of defining continuity of gold mineralisation.
The 2017 program of 24 holes has a particular focus on targeting the high-grade gold zones, which are hosted within shear zones containing boudinaged quartz veins with fine grained pyrite and arsenopyrite. The program is also designed to test previously identified second order structures.
Thor previously carried out significant exploration programs on the project, which included soil geochemistry, trenching, ground geophysics, RAB and diamond drilling campaigns that culminated in the announcement of the Makosa greenfield discovery in February 2013.
Bedrock mineralisation was confirmed in each hole over a 2.6km strike length within a high-grade shear vein system.
Mineralisation remains open at depth and to the northeast and southwest along strike. Numerous additional areas along the shear zone have been identified as follow-up targets.
Thor's president and CEO Segun Lawson said, "Whilst the Segilola Gold Project in Nigeria continues to be our main focus, the Douta project remains a highly prospective project that can deliver significant value to Thor's shareholders through its advancement.
"Following up on our previous exploration success at Douta demonstrates our commitment to advancing this project, which is located in a significantly gold-endowed Birimian Greenstone belt terrain that is host to the nearby Sabodala Complex (5.4moz) and Massawa (4.4moz) gold deposits."
Douta covers an area of 103sqkm and is within the Kéniéba inlier of eastern Senegal. Makosa is a discovery located on one of a number of soil anomalies within a 13km-long zone of mineralisation parallel to the Main Transcurrent Shear Zone. Makosa was prioritised by Thor as an analogue to Randgold's Massawa project, located approximately 5km to the west.