AMN - COTE D’IVOIRE: Drilling set to start at Bobosso

Diamond drilling is set to begin at Predictive Discovery’s Bobosso Gold Project in Botswana. The program is being funded by Canadian company Progress Minerals, which is earning an initial 30% interest in the project by funding US$1 million in exploration expenditure.

Between 1500 metres and 2500 metres of diamond drilling is planned with the aim of developing a clear geological model of gold mineralisation continuity which can support later resource estimations.

The objectives of the drill program are to test for mineralisation continuity along east-west to north-east trends identified from geological mapping and geophysical surveys and to follow-up several historical high grade gold intersections.

Drilling will be conducted in areas where historical drilling has intersected encouraging intercepts in holes that are now interpreted to have tested some of the Bobosso gold mineralised zones with incorrect orientations.

Predictive’s managing director Paul Roberts said, “We are very pleased to begin the drilling at Bobosso. This program follows up two months of preparatory field work involving members of our Burkina and Australian teams along with Progress Minerals staff. Oriented diamond drill core from this program will provide us with critical structural geological information to guide future infill drilling programs.

“The intensity of exploration activities on our ground continues to grow in Cote D’Ivoire. Elsewhere, our joiunt venture with Toro Gold has now completed the Boundiali diamond drilling and is gearing up for an RC program on the same permit, which we expect to commence in the next two to three weeks.”

The Bobosso project consists of two granted exploration perm, Bassawa and Wendene, and one permit application, Dabakala, in northern Cote D’Ivoire, which are held by an Ivorian company, XMI SARL. The ground is in the southern extension of the well mineralised Hounde Belt in Burkina Faso, which includes Semafo’s Mana mine and Roxgold’s high grade Yaramoko gold mine.

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