Cote D’Ivoire
Over the past 12 months the Company has expanded its West African focus into Cote D’Ivoire with six prospecting authorisations granted and eight applications submitted, covering a total area of 9,913km2 (Figure 9). The tenure covers prospective Birimian greenstones and granite complexes along a major terrane boundary that cuts through the central eastern part of the country. Targets include shear-sedimentary hosted mineralisation analogues typical of Birimian deposits which in the past 100 years have hosted more than 180 million ounces of gold in the West African region. Thirty six percent (by area) of the interpreted Birimian greenstones occurs in Cote D’Ivoire.
First pass 1km x 1km multi-element soil sampling in tandem with geological mapping across the granted tenure is almost complete. Assay results from this new and exciting part of the exploration portfolio are currently awaited.
