Battle Mountain Canada (BMC-T) has recovered encouraging gold intersections from the Opon prospect, part of the 230-sq.-km Dunkwa property of Birim Goldfields (BGI-T) in the Ashanti gold belt of Ghana, West Africa.
Operator Battle Mountain recently completed a 69-hole, reverse-circulation drill program over 4,800 metres aimed at testing gold-in-soil anomalies south of the Anamiote prospect.
Most holes were drilled to a depth of 76 metres and were inclined 60 to the southeast, perpendicular to the trend. Several scissor (crosscutting) holes were also drilled.
Twenty-eight holes were drilled, on 25-to-50-metre centres along four lines spaced 100 metres apart, on the southernmost Opon anomaly.
The best results from Opon include: 30 metres (from 16 to 46 metres) grading 0.47 gram gold per tonne in hole 2; 24 metres (from surface) of 1.11 grams gold in hole 5; 18 metres (18 to 36 metres) of 2.06 grams gold in hole 12; 36 metres (from surface) of 1.25 grams gold in hole 13; 20 metres (from surface) of 0.85 gram gold in hole 14; 38 metres (from surface) of 1.36 grams gold in hole 25; 30 metres (from surface) of 1.34 grams gold in hole 16; and 16 metres (from 8 to 24 metres) of 0.44 gram gold in hole 22.
Drilling at Opon has outlined a north-south-trending mineralized zone 200 metres wide and 300 metres long. The zone’s dip varies from 75 to the west in the northern portion to 35 to the west in the south. Gold mineralization recovered from the drill holes correlates with the gold anomalies defined by soil sampling and trenching.
Battle Mountain is planning a follow-up diamond drilling program. The company can earn a 65% interest in Dunkwa from Birim by spending $7 million over four years.
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