Drilling resumes at Kouroussa

Vancouver Encouraging drill results from the first two rounds of drilling has prompted Cassidy Gold (CDY-V) to launch another program over the Kouroussa project in Guinea.

The junior aims to follow up the results from the earlier drilling, as well as targeting a new series of artisan gold workings on the property.

At the discovery area, dubbed Sanu Filanan, Cassidy will follow-up values grading up to 100 grams over 3.43 metres.

Moving to the northeast, the Koe Koe central geochemical anomaly is also on the drill list. The zone is defined by a 500-by-500 metre area averaging 1.02 grams gold per tonne. Just to the west, a subsidiary gold-in-soil anomaly is marked by a 900-by-50 metre zone running 1.45 grams gold.

Some 1.2 km east northeast of the Sanu Filanan vein trend, Cassidy is going to drill more holes into the Koe Koe River prospect where a 900-by-50 metre gold-in-soil anomaly averaged 1.25 grams gold. Only one hole has tested the zone with hole 16 failing to cut any significant values.

At Sodyanfe, 2-km to the northwest, the junior aims to test a gold-in-soil anomaly, which is defined by 213 samples collected on a 25-by-50 metre spaced grid. These samples yielded an average of 0.49 grams gold with the best value returning 8.63 grams gold. The most promising values occur in the southern portion of the anomaly where two lines averaged 1.06 grams gold over 450 metres and 0.92 gram gold over 250 metres.

On the regional front, Cassidy plans on drill testing the Bokoro gold workings site some 15 km to the northwest, as well as the Tambiko, Bandjounani and Benegba artisan sites.

Last year, the Kamloops, BC-based junior initially tested three structural targets on the Koe Koe South zone. The drilling lead to the discovery of two gold-bearing vein systems. Based on the promising results, Cassidy drilled an additional eleven holes into the property.

The mineralization is hosted in mafic metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks, apparently of Birimian age. Birimian lithologies host most of the major gold deposits of West Africa including Obuasi, Sadiola, and Siguiri.

The Kouroussa property lies 570 km east of the capital, Conakry, on a paved highway, some 27 km north of Semafo’s Kiniero mine. Previous operators collected some 2,776 soil samples over a 3.2 square km part of the property yielding three separate anomalies averaging 342 parts per billion gold.