Vancouver – Great Quest Metals (GQ-V) is turning up lots of gold from deep pits on its Kenieba concession in Mali, West Africa. The Kenieba concession, in which Great Quest is earning a 95% interest, comprises 32-square-km adjacent to the southern border of Nevsun’s (NSU-T) Tabakoto-Segala property, where gold production is scheduled to begin next year. Great Quest is also earning an interest in the 8-square-km Baroya concession north of Nevsun’s property.
The Kenieba concession covers the 7-km long Djambaye 2 area of orpaillage (pits dug by local miners to recover gold). The density of these pits made it difficult to space out any new pits evenly.
As part of Great Quest’s program, the soft saprolitic material was dug by local miners to depths of about 10 to 12 metres below surface. A sample is collected from the base of the pits — half of which is sent for analysis and half is panned down for gold.
The area is underlain by a 20-metre-wide rhyodacite dyke within a north-south silicified shear zone. East-west striking quartz veins up to 4 metres wide cross-cut the dyke within a 200-metre zone. The veins appear to be discontinuous along strike.
The north-south zone was tested over a 392 metre distance by digging 24 new pits. Results ranged from 0.49 grams gold (from diorite) to 180 grams gold per tonne from a northeast trending quartz vein. The northeast and east-west trending quartz veins returned the highest grades. Rejects from around some of the mined out pits contained high gold grades also.
More mapping and sampling is planned for the month of June which will be followed by drilling.Meanwhile, construction is underway at Nevsun’s Tabakoto mine to the north.
Last month, Metallurgical Design and Management (MDM) of South Africa was awarded the construction contract for the mill and associated infrastructure.
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