Adikann drill-tests gold property in Ghana

Junior Adikann Goldfields (ADK-V) reports encouraging results from drilling carried out on two portions of its Westbank concession in southwestern Ghana.

* On the Treposo portion, six holes were drilled to test a coincident soil geochemical anomaly, as well as an inverse-polarization anomaly and several small past-producing pits.

The 490-metre program intersected metasediments in contact with a granitic unit associated with small crosscutting quartz veins. Results include: 2 metres grading 0.36 gram gold per tonne from hole 1; 6 metres of 0.57 gram from hole 2; 1.5 metres of 0.48 gram from hole 4; 9 metres of 0.14 gram from hole 5; and 1.5 metres of 0.29 gram in hole 6.

Hole 3 was not sampled, and Adikann plans no further work in the Treposo area.

* On the Askasu-Besease portion, an area of old workings and soil geochemical anomalies, four holes were drilled in a 280.5-metre program.

Three of the four holes intersected an intensely silicified and sericitized intrusive and quartz vein system, with hole 2 returning several small flecks of visible gold.

The first hole returned 21 metres of 0.25 gram gold; the second, 33 metres of 0.25 gram; the third, 25.5 metres of 0.36 gram; and the fourth, 3.5 metres of 0.52 gram.

Drilling indicates that the altered intrusive and quartz veining increases to the east.

The Vancouver-based company has discovered a third area of interest, which contains an extensive system of underground shafts and adits. The system, which is the most extensive area of old workings discovered to date on the concession, will soon be subjected to drilling.