African Aura Resources Ltd. - Drilling continues to intercept high grade gold at Batouri project, eastern Cameroon
Tue Nov 11, 9:38 AM
TSX-V: AAZ
TORONTO, Nov. 11 /CNW/ - African Aura Resources Ltd. ("African Aura" or the "Company", TSX-V: AAZ), an exploration company with gold, iron ore and uranium exploration activities in sub-Saharan Africa, announces that it has received further high grade intersections from its first phase diamond drilling programme on the Company's 100% owned Batouri project in eastern Cameroon.
- Drilling intersects 65.9g/t over 2.67m, and 43.3g/t Au over 1.50m at
Kambele
- 29 holes completed at Kambele to date for a total of 3,464m
- Drilling also underway at Dimako gold prospect
- New 8km gold in soil anomaly at Djengou prospect, trenching underway
The Company's diamond coring rigs are nearing completion of an initial 50 hole programme on the 3.5km long Kambele trend, which in places is up to 500m wide as defined by a (greater than)250ppb gold-in-soil contour that coincides with extensive hard rock artisanal workings. Drilling to date has comprised five discontinuous fences to maximum depths of 157m across approximately 30% of the trend. As of 10 November 08, hole KBDD030 was being drilled at Kambele (see map at: http://www.african-aura.com/s/Batouri.asp?ReportID=155407).
Results to date from Kambele indicate good correlation between the surface geochemical anomaly, potassic alteration as defined by a geophysical survey, and the presence of high grade gold bearing quartz veins.
Intersections from recent assay data are shown in Table 1.
Table 1. Up to date assay results from drilling at Kambele and Dimako
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Apparent Gold
Prospect Hole ID From (m) To (m) width (m) (g/t Au)
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Kambele KBDD0017 86.45 88.45 2.00 5.70
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and 104.45 105.45 1.00 32.40
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KBDD0019 43.45 44.74 1.29 9.60
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and 90.00 92.67 2.67 65.90
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KBDD0019A 58.25 59.75 1.50 43.30
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and 64.11 65.68 1.57 5.70
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and 73.00 76.00 3.00 4.60
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and 86.00 87.10 1.10 1.90
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and 144.40 145.50 1.10 4.50
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KBDD0021 31.60 34.60 3.00 8.24
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KBDD0025 43.45 44.95 1.50 3.30
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and 70.00 72.00 2.00 1.45
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KBDD0026 9.00 12.00 3.00 2.99
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and 47.00 48.00 1.00 35.07
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and 63.00 64.00 1.00 1.08
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and 68.00 69.00 1.00 1.55
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and 79.00 80.00 1.00 1.84
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and 93.00 95.00 2.00 1.51
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KBDD0028 30.00 33.00 3.00 4.75
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and 54.00 55.00 1.00 14.50
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and 63.00 65.00 2.00 12.35
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and 75.00 78.00 3.00 0.83
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Intersections are based on a 0.5 g/t cut-off grade with no
top cut applied.
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Dimako Prospect
The Company's second diamond rig is presently drilling hole DMDD013 of an initial 20 hole programme to test the 3.5km long Dimako - Mongonam shear zone hosted gold prospect. Dimako is located 7km to the south west of Kambele and results from this first phase programme will be announced when received.
Djengou Prospect
Elsewhere, a regional soil sampling programme, with samples collected at 200m intervals on 200m spaced lines, has outlined an 8km long gold in soil anomaly defined by a greater than 25ppb gold contour at Djengou. The prospect coincides with a major structural lineament as observed from remote sensing data which is considered to be a potential shear zone with the same strike as the Dimako - Mongonam zone. A systematic programme of trenching is currently underway across the structure. Results from the trenching will be used to guide follow up trenching and any future drilling (see map at: http://www.african-aura.com/s/Batouri.asp?ReportID=155407).
John Gray, Chief Executive Officer, commented:
"The Company's sustained drilling programme on the extensive Kambele gold trend is starting to intercept highly encouraging grades of stockwork style gold mineralisation and we are gaining a much better understanding of the deposit's geological and structural controls. We are also very pleased by the recent discovery of the 8km long Djengou prospect which, along with the Dimako prospect, suggests that the Batouri project has significant potential to host numerous gold deposits. The Company is planning for a further 50 holes to be drilled as part of the current programme at Batouri and results from this work will be released in due course."
Oversight
The exploration results and further planned work in Cameroon have been reviewed and approved by Mark Biddulph. He holds a BSc Hons in Geology, and GIS from Rhodes University, and a GDE in Mining Engineering (Mineral Economics) from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. Mark is a Professional Natural Scientist under the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions (SACNASP) and a Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101.
Quality Control and Sample Preparation
African Aura has a rigorous Quality Control Program (QCP) inserting a minimum 5% standards, blanks and duplicates into the sample stream. The Company employs independently owned and managed OMAC Laboratories for all its assay requirements, including the preparation of pulps to 90% -100micron at their in-country preparation facilities in Cameroon and Liberia, followed by 50gram fire assay (with lower detection limit of 2ppb Au) at their main laboratory in Loughrea, Ireland. OMAC is accredited to ISO 17025 by INAB (Irish National Accreditation Board) which is a member of ILAC (International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation), and is a signatory to the ILAC Mutual Recognition Arrangement. OMAC operates an internal QA/QC check assay programme using in-house standards, reagent blanks and duplicates.
About African Aura
African Aura (TSX-V: AAZ.V) has a 'first-mover' exploration strategy, focused on the discovery of economic gold, iron and uranium deposits in sub-Saharan Africa. The Company commenced exploration in 2004 and has established a portfolio of exploration licences totalling approximately 7,800km(2), targeting areas of active artisanal gold mining within Archaean greenstone and Proterozoic volcano-sedimentary belts. The portfolio includes the Batouri gold project in eastern Cameroon, the Fula Camp gold project in western Liberia, and a pipeline of significant prospects for drill testing as well as numerous other gold, uranium and iron ore targets that require follow up exploration. For more information on African Aura we invite you to visit the Company's website at www.african-aura.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
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ContactsAfrican Aura Resources Ltd: John Gray
Chief Executive
Tel: +44 (0) 207 239 4722
John.gray@african-aura.com
Cell: +44 (0) 779 616 7811
www.african-aura.com
