Castle on mission to reveal new West African gold camp

The West Australian08-07

Castle Minerals has fired up the reverse-circulation (RC) drill rig in a bid to prove up the gold camp potential of its dormant Kpali gold prospect within the project of the same name in the African ...

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Past RC drilling intercepts confirmed shallow high-grade mineralisation for more than an 850m strike length and to a depth of 100m.The Kpali gold project has been subject to intense exploration activities by the company since 2011, when it made its initial discovery via the completion of several reconnaissance geochemical soil surveys. Follow-up rotary air blast (RAB) drilling and auger-geochemical sampling encountered mineralisation beneath a layer of transported soil cover.Since then, Castle has punched 2711 RAB holes into Kpali and the Bundi prospects. A further 20 RC holes in 2014 delineated a mineralised corridor associated with a 30m-to-50m zone of structural deformation, with additional high-grade intersections identifying the presence of hydrothermal lode-style gold.Notable results from the RC campaign returned 22m at 2.85 grams per tonne gold from 87m including 17m going 3.4g/t and a high-grade slice of 7m at 6.03g/t. Further hits of 16m at 3.23g/t gold from 9m, 10m going 2.84g/t from 92m and 14m running 2.29g/t gold from 98m indicates prospectivity that, according to management, has a potential gold camp in the offing.We are very pleased to be drilling again at the highly prospective Kpali Gold Project, which was a totally virgin discovery by Castle following its recognition as a favourable geological and structural focal point in one of the world’s most well-endowed gold regions.Castle Minerals executive chairman Stephen StoneThe Kpali project sits within a broad nine-licence, 2686-square-kilometre site that hosts several additional prospects and the company has plans to test the full suite of targets. The prospects scheduled to be hit with the drill bit include Kpali, Kpali East, Bundi, Wa South and Wa East.Previous drilling at the prospective targets confirmed structurally-controlled orogenic-style gold mineralisation within the Birimian geological terrane. The Birimian rocks are major sources of diamonds and gold that extend through Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Cote d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso – the countries that generally account for gold found in West Africa.Several world-class deposits are found within the Birimian terrane where the convergence of two major greenstone belts and three regional-scale structures have been associated with the major regional deposits. They include the 5.2 million-ounce Konkera deposit, 30km from the Batie West Shear and 60km to the north-west across Burkina Faso’s border, and the 5.1 million-ounce Namdini deposit that lies 53km from the Bole-Bolgatanga shear zone and 300km to the north-east of Kpali.Castle has the benefit of its flagship Kambale graphite project based in the same region, providing operational and logistical advantages as the area is serviced by excellent infrastructure including a major sealed international highway, hydro-dam grid power and a commercial airport at Wa that provides daily flights.With record gold prices and improving sentiment towards West African producers, now appears to be the right time for the company to dust off the Kpali prospect and send in the drill rig in to see what lies beneath the covers.Is your ASX-listed company doing something interesting? 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