Continued drilling by Southwestern Resources (SWG-T) at the Boka gold project in Yunnan province, China, has returned gold values at both the Boka 1 and Boka 7 targets.
Hole B03-08, drilled between the Boka 1 North and South targets, intersected a 63.7-metre zone of mineralization grading 6.1 grams gold per tonne, including an 18.6-metre length running 18.5 grams per tonne. The mineralized interval started at a down-hole depth of 170.8 metres, with the higher-grade material near the top of the interval.
The mineralization was in sulphide replacement zones and in quartz-carbonate veins in carbonaceous slate.
About 3 km to the south, hole B03-10, drilled on the Boka 7 target, intersected a 72.8-metre zone grading 2.7 grams gold per tonne. The material was oxidized but lithologically similar to the material encountered in hole B03-08.
Two other holes, B03-12 and B03-14, are nearly finished; Southwestern has three drills in operation and a fourth that is being repaired. Three other drills are scheduled to arrive by the end of September.
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