Vancouver – Great Quest Metals (GQ-V) is encouraged by several high-grade gold intercepts in the first four holes drilled on its Kenieba concession in western Mali.
The property, in which Great Quest is earning a 95% interest, comprises 32 sq. km adjacent to the southern border of Nevsun Resources‘ (NSU-T) Tabakoto-Segala property, where gold production is scheduled to begin this year. Great Quest is also earning an interest in the 8-sq.-km Baroya concession, north of Nevsun’s property.
The Kenieba concession lies in a 7-km long area of pits dug by local gold miners.
Great Quest’s diamond drilling focused on the Djambaye 2 gold zone which shares similarities with the Tabakoto gold deposit 8 km to the northeast.
The area is underlain by a 20-metre-wide rhyodacite dyke in a north-south silicified shear zone. East-west-striking quartz veins up to 4 metres wide crosscut the dyke in a 200-metre zone. The veins appear to be discontinuous along strike.
The north-south-trending zone was tested over a 392-metre distance by digging 24 pits. Results ranged from 0.49 gram gold per tonne (from diorite) to 180 grams per tonne, from a northeast-trending quartz vein. The northeast- and east-west-trending quartz veins returned the highest grades.
Hole 3 tested the dip of the rhyodacite and diorite dykes along which the gold mineralization occurs. The hole, spotted east of the main Djambaye 2 gold zone, intersected 2.6 metres of 2.53 grams gold starting from a depth of 22.3 metres.
The company believes that the zone widens with depth locally. For instance, hole 5, collared 25 metres east of hole 3 and drilled westward under it, intersected 10.55 metres of 1.9 grams gold from a depth of 43.5 metres.
Hole 4, also from the same set-up as hole 3, returned 3.3 grams gold over 10 metres from a downhole depth of 35.1 metres. Surface samples collected near hole 4 had run 1.38 grams and 3.5 grams gold per tonne.
Hole 6, collared 145 metres north of the first three holes and drilled to the northwest, targeted the gold zone cut in hole 4. Starting from a downhole depth of 45.25 metres, the hole cut 9.82 grams gold over 4.45 metres which contained two narrower high-grade intervals.
The Kenieba concession is east of the Kabaya 1 area, where sampling last year turned up gold values. The Kabaya 1 covers a 400-by-100 metre area of locally dug pits in a 1,600-metre-long zone of anomalous gold-in-soils. Nearby is the Kabaya 2 area, which consists of a 400-by-3-to-6-metre dyke with gold-bearing quartz veins and a 1,200-metre-long gold-in-soil anomaly.
The company mapped two diorite dykes coinciding with anomalous gold-in-soils at Kabaya 1.
Diorite is found in association with the gold mineralization at the neighbouring Tabakoto and Segala deposits as well as the Sadiola and Yatela mines.
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