Adamus Resources has reported further oxide intersections from the reverse circulation (RC) drilling program along the Salman Trend. The location of this trend is at the Nzema gold project in south-west Ghana.
The focus of the diamond and RC drilling in the initial half of 2011, is on the Salman trend and contiguous to the prospects.. The company has planned the drilling to outline the ore zones preceding the mining and to spot the expansions to the recognized mineral resources along the strike from the present open pits. These drilling results propose that there are prospectives for the cutbacks to numerous pits and prospectives for the recent oxide pits all along the Salman trend.
The MD of the company has stated that these new drill results show the value of the plan of outlining the mineralisation sited along the Salman trend. It validates the potential for further pits present in the oxide mineralisation, which may add mineable ounces.
The company has drilled 12 RC holes at the south of the Salman South 1C pit to examine a series of analogous mineralized zones that dips to the west. It has intersected 3.90 g/t gold over 5 m in the hole SNRC1304, 2.35 g/t gold over 4 m and 1.57 g/t gold over 9 m in the hole SNRC1299, 1.82 g/t gold over 8 m in the hole SNRC1298. The present and the former drilling results jointly highlight the prospective for approximately 200 m of Salman South 1C pit’s south expansion.
The former RC drilling is situated at the mineralized zones dipping to the west and 100 m to the eastern part of the Nugget Hill 03 pit. This recent drilling has expanded the mineralized zones to the south and encounters 2.96 g/t gold over 7 m in the hole SNRC1288. The company has drilled the mineralisation trend for more than 125 m and the trend is open to the south and north. It has planned for further drilling to define an adequate size mineral resource to assist a new oxide pit.
The in-fill RC drill program performed at the southern part of the Teberu 04 pit has validated the presence of a mineralized zone dipping to the west. Adamus has cut 1.44 g/t gold over 15 m in the hole SNRC1291 and 1.83 g/t gold over 5 m in the hole SNRC1292. The mineralization is an expansion of the oxide ore zone that is dipping towards the west in the Teberu 04 pit. Adamus has proposed for further drilling.
Adamus has intercepted 2.86 g/t gold over 12 m in the hole SNRC1294. This hole is located to Salman South 1A pit’s east validating the occurrence of an analogous mineralized zone. Any new mineral resource can be captured in a cutback, as the mineralization is close to the Salman South 1A pit.