Birimian Gold discovers new gold trend containing up to 6.0g/t gold at Dankassa in Mali

Birimian Gold (ASX: BGS), formally Eagle Eye Metals (ASX: EYE), continues to make progress at the company's highly prospective West African operations, and has now defined a new gold trend from auger drilling at the Dankassa Gold Project in Mali.

Where the story gets really interesting is more than 6 kilometres of highly prospective strike has been delineated in shallow, widespaced auger drilling, with a tightly constrained high tenor gold anomaly (greater than 0.5g/t gold) over 800 metres of strike - with peak gold values up to 6.0g/t gold.

The project location is key being within a proven gold district, with Mali the third largest gold producer in Africa, with the West African region having historically produced over 250 million ounces of gold.

Another major plus is high quality infrastructure, including access by sealed highway 110 kilometres south of the capital Bamako, and a hydroelectric power station to the south, with high-voltage power passing within 5 kilometres of the project.


Large coherent gold anomaly delineated

The shallow auger program conducted by Birimian Gold was extensive, and comprised 837 holes in the north of the Dankassa Gold Project, with drilling designed to follow up an extensive 15 kilometre long zone of anomalous gold in soils - known as the Dankassa Trend.

The company believes that this program has delivered exceptional drill targets in an area that has never been subjected to bedrock drilling, with planning for follow up drilling already underway.


Forward work program - more results pending

Birimian Gold is currently designing an aircore drilling program to follow up the high priority targets at Dankassa, which is forecast to be implemented in the June quarter of 2012. The company will also investigate other extensive gold in soil anomalies which are present within the project area with auger drilling in coming months.

In addition to the regional auger drilling program, the company recently completed reverse circulation and aircore drilling programs at the more advanced Kourouba Prospect, which is also hosted within Dankassa.

Importantly the drilling confirmed the presence of a large mineralised system at the prospect, with subsequent aircore drilling targeted extensions still pending.

Birimian Gold said that the company anticipates new high priority targets will be delineated from this work and that further evaluation with follow-up aircore and/or reverse circulation will be warranted.

Adding some spice to the Kourouba prospect, it is hosted in the Kenieba Inlier – one of the premier gold mining districts in Africa with over 45 million ounces of gold, and is just 20 kilometres east of the 13 million gold ounce Sadiola mine and the 4.5 million gold ounce Yatela mine.

Results will be reported as they become available over coming weeks.


Exploration at other Birimian Gold projects

In other news for Birimian Gold, field programs are also underway at both of the company’s other projects, the Korindji Gold Project in Mali and the Basawa Gold Project in Liberia.

This ensures a solid news flow of exploration results over the coming months.

Originally published at: http://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/companies/news/23285/birimian-gold-discovers-new-gold-trend-containing-up-to-60gt-gold-at-dankassa-in-mali-23285.html