Wia Gold Limited (ASX: WIA) has identified a strong coherent gold anomaly at Mankono Ouest with results from 299 auger holes completed in Côte d’Ivoire.
The north-south 1.7km striking, 250m wide, gold anomaly has core peak values including 4.97 g/t Au, 1.77 g/t Au, 1.67 g/t Au and 1.36 g/t Au.
Chairman, Andrew Pardey, said the new gold anomaly is an outstanding target for follow up aircore drilling, that is planned to commence during this quarter.
The ongoing infill auger drilling program at the Mankono Ouest permit is progressively unlocking new drill targets such as this outstanding gold anomaly. We are proud of delivering these significant results from the application of systematic cost-effective methodical exploration,” he said.
“This new in-situ anomaly is the first significant one to be identified on the Mankono Project. It is spectacular by its grade coherence and the underlaying geological context, a north-south contact zone between a granite and mafic volcanics.
“An aircore drilling program is expected to commence later this quarter as an immediate follow up to test the new target, while the infill auger programme is progressing over the other anomalous trends that have similar scale potential to the one announced today in this release.”
A follow-up aircore drilling programme, totalling 2,000 to 2,500 metres, is expected to commence later during this quarter.
Meanwhile, the auger infill programme is continuing over the other anomalous trends previously highlighted over the Southern Gold Anomaly.
The programme totals approximately 15,000 metres, including the metres completed in December 2022 (1,982 metres).
At least two of the termite mound +30 ppb anomalies still have the same size potential as the anomaly that host the results reported in this announcement.