Trenching results impress at Dunkwa play

Encouraging trench results are reported from the southern portion of the Dunkwa gold property in Ghana.

Ownership of Dunkwa is shared by Birim (90%) and the Ghanaian government (10%). Battle Mountain Canada (BMC-T) holds an option to earn a 65% share by spending US$4 million over four years.

Battle Mountain has dug a 152-metre-long trench in saprolite over the central portion of the Opon prospect, across the structural trend, where a 400-by-375-metre, circular gold-in-soil anomaly was previously delineated.

The average gold value over the entire length of the trench is 1.43 grams per tonne, with grades as high as 6.2 grams over an 8-metre width. The higher-grade sections of the trench appear to be related to a quartz stockwork within a phyllite unit.

The partners have begun a 4,500-metre, 60-hole program of reverse-circulation drilling to test the Opon prospect and four other targets defined by infill soil sampling. The other targets are Aniamote Extension, Aniamote South (both previously reported), Aniamote West and East Ridge. The last two lie at an angle to the main structural trend that hosts all gold mineralization discovered so far.

Initial drill results are expected by late March.