Kilo Goldmines Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:KGL)(FRANKFURT:02K) has announced results from the remainder of diamond drill hole sixteen and all of diamond drill hole nineteen on the Company's Adumbi Prospect of the Somituri Project in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Somituri - Adumbi Prospect Drilling
Diamond drill-hole SADD0016 was collared on a magnetic azimuth of 220 degrees at an inclination of -57 degrees and drilled to 157.70 metres on drill section 19835E to intersect the mineralized gold bearing structure intersected in drill hole SADD0004 on drill section 19850E (see July 9, 2010 press release) close to surface. Diamond drill-hole SADD0019 was collared on a magnetic azimuth of 220 degrees at an inclination of -50 degrees and drilled to 294.40 metres to further confirm vertical continuity of the mineralized gold bearing structure.
The diamond drill holes on Section 19835E intersected from northwest to southeast the hanging wall tuffaceous metasedimentary rocks, followed by the chemical metasedimentary rocks predominantly characterized by intervals of chert, chert banded with haematite (oxide zone) and magnetite (sulphide zone) iron formation ("BIF"), as well as minor intervals of chert banded with black shale and several narrow intervals of black shale; quartz veins occur throughout the chemical metasedimentary rocks. Some of these drill holes ended in the footwall tuffaceous metasedimentary rocks and greywacke, whereas others terminated within the mineralized zone due to drilling difficulties.
"The gold intersections in the drill holes on Section 19835E confirms excellent vertical continuation over at least 300 metres with impressive true widths in the order of 80 metres, and particularly encouraging are the gold grades in the 150 vertical metres of the oxide zone" stated Peter Hooper, Executive Chairman of Kilo.
2011 Exploration on the Somituri Project
Company geologists arrived back on site in mid-January and field work consisting of trenching, mapping and soil sampling is in progress. Samples of drill core for metallurgical test work and petrographic studies are being collected. Subject to financing, the Company plans to resume diamond drilling in late Q1-2011. Currently, the exploration camp supporting the Adumbi, Kitenge and Manzako Prospects is road accessible.
In addition, reconnaissance geological evaluation of another one of the eight Somituri Project Exploitation Licences ("PE") has commenced. The PE is host to numerous artisanal gold exploitation sites.
In 2010 the Company explored a 2,058 metre strike length of the Adumbi Prospect with 31 diamond drill holes on 17 section lines, 13 trenches and the sampling of 4 adits. Records from the colonial era, unverified by the Company, indicate that during the 1940s until its closure in 1958 the combined production from the Adumbi and Bagbaie mines totaled about 200,000 ounces of gold; the gold exploited from the Adumbi mine was hosted in quartz vein ore that reportedly averaged 11 g/t gold.
In addition, five diamond drill holes explored a 960 metre strike length of the past producing Kitenge gold mine, three drill holes tested a 1,360 metre strike length of the former Manzako gold mine and one drill hole targeted the Monde Arabe artisanal workings, which may be the northwest strike extension of the Kitenge gold bearing structure. According to historical records, unverified by the Company, the Kitenge and Manzako mines produced about 100,000 ounces of gold prior to about 1942.
QC and Analytical Procedures
Quality control of analytical results is monitored by the company with the insertion of commercial standards and blanks in every batch of samples submitted for analysis. For additional details the reader is referred to Kilo's previously announced (see May 4, 2010 press release) quality control and analytical procedures.