A first phase of exploration on the Agusha-Gumu gold property in western Ethiopia has returned encouraging results for owner Emerging Africa Gold (EAGI-C).
The program consisted of geological mapping, geochemical surveying, trenching and pitting in a 3-sq.-km area known as Gumu-Dunga and formerly worked by artisanal miners.
The best results came from trenches GD-2 and GD-5. The former averaged 1.01 grams gold per tonne over 31.5 metres, while the latter yielded 0.9 gram gold over 24.5 metres. Grab samples taken in the trenches ran as high as 12 grams gold.
Both trenches were dug across silicified, kaolinized and sericitized quartz-feldspathic gneiss veined by quartz mineralized with pyrite, chalcopyrite and galena. Individual veins were traced over strike lengths of 60 metres and across widths of 1.5 metres.
Soils anomalous in gold blanket the mineralized zones, extending for a length of 1.2 km and a width of 500 metres. Reported values from soils are between 0.02 and 0.06 gram gold.
Emerging Africa Gold is currently exploring the remainder of the 450-sq.-km property.
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