Apollo Minerals (ASX:AON) reports drilling at regional target TP13 at the Kroussou Zinc-Lead Project in Gabon has identified semi-massive and disseminated style zinc and lead sulphides.
Apollo reports the semi-massive and disseminated style zinc and lead sulphides have been visually identified from near surface intercepts in multiple drillholes completed at Target Prospect 13 (TP13).
The new mineralisation identified at TP13 remains open to the north and the south.
TP13 is one of 18 target prospects at the province scale Kroussou Project and is located 7km north of the Dikaki Prospect (TP11) where drilling to date has been focused.
The company notes mineralised intercepts over more than 200m of strike have been visually identified in 5 holes drilled with downhole thickness between 2m and 18m commencing from 3m below surface.
Discovery of a new style of semi-massive sulphide mineralisation at Kroussou indicates a potentially shear hosted system and possible primary high-grade feeder structures.
Commenting Apollo Minerals Managing Director Neil Inwood said: “The new style of mineralisation observed at Target Prospect 13 is a game-changing discovery.
“The new style of mineralisation observed at Target Prospect 13 is a game-changing discovery”
We interpret these new mineralised zones to represent primary feeder-structures for high grade zinc and lead. We expect that the assays, when received, will indicate a step change in the target grade-profile at Kroussou.
The discovery complements the recent airborne electromagnetic survey and enables our technical team to generate comprehensive exploration targets across the province scale Kroussou Project.”
Drilling at the Niambokamba Prospect (TP13) has recently completed with a total of 24 diamond drillholes for 1,091m.
Three discrete areas (or lobes) within TP13 were targeted, with drill traverses across the channels to test the stratigraphy for base metal mineralisation.
Assays have been received for 12 of the 24 holes drilled at TP13.
Semi-massive and disseminated sulphides have been identified in multiple holes in the NK NW area of TP13, with a close association with nearby barite veining and shearing, representing a new mineralisation style for Kroussou. Assay results are expected in the coming quarter for the 9 holes drilled in the NK-NW area.
Apollo Minerals is focused on the discovery and development of large scale, near surface, zinc-lead resources at the Company’s 100% owned Kroussou Project in Gabon which consist of the Prospecting License G4-569 which covers 986.5km-square in the Ngounié Province of Western Gabon.
Kroussou is a large, ‘province scale’ zinc project Previous exploration work has validated the potential at Kroussou with the identification of 150 zinc-lead mineral occurrences over more than 80km of strike length of prospective geology to date.
Gabon is an attractive, mining-friendly, yet underexplored jurisdiction with an establishing mining industry (being a major exporter of manganese and oil) and of late has seen a growing influx of large Australian-listed companies in the region.
The country benefits from well-established infrastructure and direct access to global shipping routes (Kroussou is located 230km from port, connected by rail and sealed roads).
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