Geomaque works base metal property in Burkina Faso

Assays from geochemical and trenching programs on the Diapaga property in Burkina Faso are being welcomed by Geomaque Explorations (TSE).

The geochemical work succeeded in identifying a copper soil anomaly. Measuring 900 metres wide by 2 km long, it is flanked by a 1.2-km-long zinc soil anomaly. The copper anomaly extends off the sampling grid and has yet to be fully delineated.

An outcrop, with traces of sulphide mineralization, has been found near the anomaly, leading the company to suspect that the area could be underlain by a base metal deposit.

Elsewhere on the property, trenches failed to intersect minable vein widths, although sampling did uncover new gold anomalies for further investigation. Meanwhile, on the San Francisco gold property in northwestern Mexico, a 2,000-metre drill program is under way. Most of the work is aimed at developing reserves in the West pit, with a secondary objective being to test an area of gold mineralization found near the planned heap-leach pad.