- Yolanda Torrisi
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- Nina van Wyk
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Amani Gold has completed a 50m line interval, infill drilling program at the Kebigada deposit of its Giro Gold Project in the Moto Greenstone Belt, northeast Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The program commenced mid-February 2017 and a total of 48 RC drill holes for 6073.8m and 13 diamond drill holes for 3675.5m were completed.
The program was extended from the planned 3500m for each of the diamond and RC drill programs to follow up on new areas of mineralisation identified in infill drilling.
Best results are: 46m at 3.09g/t gold from 99m, including 15m at 7.36g/t from 101m; 106m at 1.24g/t from 4m,including 15m at 2.44g/t from 6m and 7m at 2.51g/t from 51m; 37m at 1.85g/t from 4m,including 2m at 14.71g/t from 28m; and 19m at 1.90g/t from 14m,including 7m at 4.26g/t from 18m and 67m at 1.27g/t from 95m, including 7m at 3.05g/t from 123m.
Results for the remaining holes with samples currently in the SGS laboratory in Tanzania are expected shortly and Amani is on track to release its maiden mineral resource estimate at Kebigada in June.
Amani will undertake a shallow RC drilling program to follow up on high-grade soil anomalies in the immediate surrounds at Kebigada. Significant new discoveries will be followed up with further drilling to delineate potential satellite resources, which could add materially to the Kebigada resource.
Planning has also commenced for further infill and metallurgical testwork drilling programs required for pre-feasibility and feasibility studies at Kebigada.
Chairman Klaus Eckhof said, “We are pleased to have successfully completed the infill drilling program at Kebigada in good time and we now eagerly await release of the mineral resource which was delayed pending additional infill drilling.
“All indications are that sufficient resources will be defined to sustain a robust mining operation at Giro. The good grades reported throughout the period of infill drilling further boost our confidence that a strong resource will be defined in the Kebigada maiden resource estimation.”