On September 7, 2010, Pelangio announced its first discovery on the Manfo Property at Nfante West, where the first hole drilled hit 1.5 grams per tonne (g/t) gold over 61 metres (SFDD-079), including 3.01 g/t over 18 metres, and all four initial drill holes intercepted gold mineralization. Second phase drilling at Nfante West confirmed the mineralization encountered in SFDD-079 and extended the strike length at the target in excess of 280 metres.
Significant intersections at Nfante West include:
|
Area
|
DHID
|
From
(metre)
|
To
(metre)
|
Interval
(metres)1
|
Au
(g/t)
|
Hole Length
(metres)
|
|
Nfante West
|
SFDD-079
|
16
|
77
|
61
|
1.502
|
141 |
|
|
including
|
26
|
44
|
18
|
3.00
|
|
|
|
SFDD-080
|
63 |
103 |
40 |
0.55 |
220 |
|
|
SFDD-082
|
12
|
52
|
40
|
0.91
|
127 |
|
|
SFDD-095
|
12
|
24
|
12
|
1.20
|
143
|
|
|
including
|
15
|
16
|
1
|
9.54
|
|
|
|
SFDD-096
|
64
|
107
|
43
|
1.11
|
141
|
|
|
including
|
94
|
101
|
7
|
2.65
|
|
|
|
SFDD-098
|
11
|
114
|
103
|
0.28
|
152
|
|
|
SFDD-099
|
72
|
103
|
31
|
0.38
|
106
|
|
|
SFDD-100
|
25
|
48
|
23
|
1.05
|
149
|
|
|
including
|
31
|
39
|
8
|
2.67
|
|
|
|
and
|
45
|
103
|
58
|
0.25
|
|
1 Intervals are core length. True width will be defined with further drilling.
Click here for a complete list of mineralized intersections encountered to date at Nfante West.
The geologic setting of the area is similar to that found at Kinross’ Chirano mine, 50 kilometres to the south of the Manfo Property on the same fault network.
Holes SFDD-079 and SFDD-080 were drilled from the same set up at -50°and -70°dips, respectively. Both holes intersected wide zones of alteration and gold anomalism. The zone is consistently mineralized with gold occurring in broad zones of hydrothermal silica-sericite alteration and pyrite stockworks containing fine-grained sugary pyrite and traces of arsenopyrite within a larger brecciated and sheared zone of granitoid and altered arkose.
SFDD-096 was a 55 metre step back from -095 and both holes were 100 metre step-outs southwest along strike from SFDD-079. SFDD-095 and -096 both returned intersections confirming significant mineralization along strike from -079 and may also be related along strike to the mineralization encountered in -082. The mineralization is hosted in an altered sericite-carbonate metagranodiorite with fine fracture-bound pyrite that has been brecciated and fractured.
Holes SFDD-081 and SFDD-082 were step-out holes drilled 35 metres apart in a fence pattern 170 metres southwest of holes -079 and -080. The geology and alteration encountered in holes -081 and -082 may correlate with that of holes -079 and -080.
Hole SFDD-097 was a 75 metre step out southwest along strike from -095 and -096. The mineralization is hosted in an altered sericite-carbonate metagranodiorite with fine fracture bound pyrite, which has also been strongly fractured, producing a cataclastic texture containing quartz stockworks.
Holes SFDD-098 and -100 intersected the mineralized zone 100 metres north of SFDD-079. The mineralization is hosted in quartz-sericite-carbonate-pyrite alteration within a sheared granitoid.
SFDD-099 and -101 were 200-metre step-outs, respectively, to the north of SFDD-98 and -100. Mineralization encountered in the bottom of SFDD-099 (0.38 g/t gold over 31 metres from 72 metres down-hole) and SFDD-101 (0.29 g/t gold over 20 metres from 69 metres) may indicate that the Nfante West zone continues east of these drill holes. The geology and alteration intersected in these holes is similar to the other holes drilled at Nfante West.
SFDD-102, -103 and -104 were 400, 500 and 700 metre step-outs, respectively, to the north of drill holes SFDD-98 and 100 testing a 40 ppb geochemical anomaly, which encountered anomalous though not significant results.