Omai Gold Mines Corp. (TSXV: OMG) has obtained high-grade results from the company’s first diamond drilling west of the Wenot resource and from trenching and drilling on the exploration targets west of Fennell, at its Omai gold project in Guyana.
Results for two diamond drill holes, stepping out to the west of the new Wenot resource, plus five holes testing exploration targets include the following highlights:
| Hole 22ODD-038 (West Wenot) | 5.01 g/t Au over 8.5 m |
| Hole 22ODD-039 (West Wenot) | 2.32 g/t Au over 17.1 m |
| Hole 22ODD-033 (Blueberry Hill) | 41.73 g/t Au over 0.9 m |
CEO, Elaine Ellingham, said that importantly, this drilling was successful at extending the Wenot deposit to the west and further step-out drilling has continued. The intersection in hole 22ODD-039 of 2.32 g/t Au over 17.1 m is down dip of a zone that was drilled by shallow 1990’s holes with 21 m @ 1.5 g/t, 15.0 m @ 1.7 g/t Au and 6.0 m @ 1.88 g/t Au, suggesting the continuity of this zone from surface down to at least a 140 m depth.
Ms Ellingham said these results open a significant new region for exploration and in un-mined areas in proximity to the Wenot resource area.
“We are very pleased that our drilling has established that the Wenot shear zone extends to the west and continues to host significant gold mineralisation,” she said.
“The gold mineralisation in these new holes is similar to the main zones at Wenot. We recently deployed the second drill to commence step out drilling on the eastern extension of the Wenot deposit, roughly two km to the east.
“Our objective is to work towards a revised NI 43-101 Wenot resource, assuming favourable results continue as we explore both the east and west extensions of the Wenot shear.
“Expanding the Wenot resource into these un-mined areas is significant for an ultimate mine plan as these could contribute to lower-strip-ratio starter pits for the larger Wenot deposit.”
Drilling commenced along the western extension of the Wenot gold zones at the end of March with five holes completed to date (1,423 m) and one additional hole underway.
Results are available for the first two holes, 22ODD-038 and -039 and additional results are pending.
Exploration Targets West of Fennell
Exploration continued on targets west of the Fennell pit and to the southwest of the Wenot pit, with follow up trenching and sampling, and subsequent drilling of eight holes in four target areas in February and into early April. Results are provided for the initial five diamond drill holes totalling 1,213 m.
At Blueberry Hill, high grade gold values were reported from six large trenches in the Blueberry Hill area.
An additional trench (OTR-010) completed on the eastern side of Blueberry Hill, had limited exposure of fresh rock but one channel sample ran 5.13 g/t Au over 1.0 m.
The extent that the trenching was able to expose “fresh” rock exceeded our expectations and greatly assisted in exposing prospective quartz veins and stockworks for sampling.
However, at the large Broccoli Hill target area located east of Fennell, attempts to complete similar trenches were unsuccessful even with the large excavator, due to a hardpan or silicrete layer within the saprolite that could not be penetrated.
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