Endeavour Mining has identified new gold-bearing oxide mineralization zones in the Salman Trend, which is located in the company’s 90% owned Nzema Gold Mine, Ghana.
The company specifically cut oxide mineralization in broadly-spaced reverse circulation (RC) drill traverses found across the old Salman village’s previous location. The drilled region is situated towards the eastern portion of the Nugget Hill 03 pit and towards the northern part of the Salman Central pit and has expanded 800 m from the Salman Central 02 pit towards Teberu 4 and the Nugget Hill 02 pits.
The company drilled 114 reconnaissance RC drill holes on six traverses, which were spaced 200 m apart, during March 2012.
The reconnaissance RC traverses were the primary systematic analysis of the old village location and nearby regions. The new intersections have recommended that the mineralized trends at Nugget Hill and Teberu may potentially expand south through this region towards Salman Central.
New RC drill program has supported this analysis carried out at Nugget Hill 02, wherein constant oxide mineralization expanding 200 m towards southern part of the previous pit was intersected. Drilling at Teberu 04 pit has expanded the sulphide mineralization to the southern part of the previous pit and has proposed examination of mineralization in the oxide zone.
The company has planned the in-fill traverses of RC drill program during May and June in order to find the mineralization’s strike continuity. Deeper drilling will be conducted at these mineralized trends after this program. Exploration will focus continuously on the Salman Trend, as the region is fully compensated and adjacent to mine infrastructure.
Source: http://www.endeavourmining.com/
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