Desert Gold Ventures Inc. (TSXV: DAU) has obtained further positive results from 13 RC holes and 78 AC holes drilled to test the depth, strike extent and continuity of the Gourbassi West North Zone at the Company’s SMSZ Project in Western Mali.
All RC holes intersected significant amounts of gold mineralisation with a highlight intercept of 1.91 g/t gold over 32m.
The Gourbassi West Zone has been traced for 1,600m along strike and to 175m depth. Up to five lenses of gold mineralisation have been modelled with the GWN-A Lens the most continuous and best developed. Highlight drill results from this part of the programme include the following:
- RC-049 – 1.91 g/t gold over 32.0 m – A Lens
- AC-172 – 1.02 g/t gold over 49 m – A Lens
- RC-050 – 1.02 g/t gold over 44 m – A Lens
- RC-052 – 0.79 g/t gold over 47 m – A Lens
- RC-048 – 0.68 g/t gold over 51 m- A Lens
- RC-049 – 0.60 g/t gold over 48 m – C Lens
- AC-171 – 0.97 g/t gold over 29 m – Lens B
“Our recent drilling continues to return numerous, wide intercepts of gold mineralisation along a 1.6 km long zone with up to 5 lenses of gold mineralization encountered along a 130-metre-wide corridor,” President and CEO, Jared Scharf, said.
“This recently defined gold system, which is not part of our current resource, shows the tremendous gold endowment of the region and the potential for resource expansion and additional discoveries at the SMSZ Project.”
Technical Details
The Gourbassi West North (GWN) Zone, which was discovered in July 2021, lies near the west side of the SMSZ property package.
Drilling has identified up to five lenses of gold mineralisation with one lens GWN-A, having the best continuity along a 1,600 m strike. Lenses D and E are not well defined and more drilling is required to determine their extent.
In 2022, a total of 94 holes totalling 4,372.5 metres of drilling have been completed over the GWN Zone including three core holes totalling 605.5 m, 14 RC holes totalling 1,854 m and 78 AC holes totalling 2,066 m. These holes were designed to test the extent of the GWN Zone for 1,800 metres along strike to a depth of 175 m.
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