Dalaroo Metals (ASX:DAL) expects to begin a five-hole, 1,750m diamond drilling program within seven days, following new gold intercepts at its Bondoukou Gold Ridge Project in northeastern Côte d’Ivoire.
The northernmost Wilfred section, about 1.25km from the original discovery, returned 13m @ 2.67 grams per tonne gold (Au) from 87m in hole BDRC010C, including 6m @ 4.19g/t Au.
A separate 1m interval from 187m in the same hole returned @ 16.2g/t Au from 187m.
Drilled from the opposite direction to constrain the zone’s orientation, scissor hole BDRC011B returned 60m @ 0.85g/t Au from 148m. This includes 11m @ 1.62g/t Au and 10m @ 1.27g/t Au, plus 16m @ 1g/t Au from 88m.
The results follow the maiden discovery of 18m @ 7.31g/t Au from 63m in BDRC002, reported on 7 October. Eight of the 12 holes drilled returned significant intercepts.
Dalaroo says continuity between the two sections has not been demonstrated. Central and southern holes returned “narrower, lower-grade intersections”, and three returned no significant results.
Intervals are downhole lengths, with true widths not yet established.
Testing scale and continuity
The diamond drilling program has been expanded from the previously announced 1,250m.
The first hole will test beneath the BDRC002 intercept. Meanwhile, two further holes will be drilled on each of two sections, about 80m to the northwest and southeast. All holes will target a depth of about 350m.
Drilling is also planned at Mag — the northern priority target — where soil sampling has defined a 1.5km gold anomaly. The anomaly peaks @ 23.26g/t Au within a broader 7km corridor.
A 35.1 line-kilometre induced polarisation survey over Mag, Wilfred, and Ali is due to begin within two weeks, with four priority lines crossing the Wilfred drilling area. Assays for BDRC012 to BDRC018 remain pending.
Dalaroo says the intercepts, share comparable alteration and geological characteristics, despite being widely separated. The results provide the basis for the next phase of exploration.
CEO John Morgan says Dalaroo designed drilling to test whether the initial grades extend along strike and at depth.
“These results strengthen our confidence in the potential for a substantial gold system at Bondoukou, with considerable exploration upside remaining across the broader 7km gold-anomalous corridor,” Morgan says.
Dalaroo has the right to earn up to an 80% interest in the 245.77km² Goldridge permit through a joint venture with Goldridge SARL. No mineral resource estimate has been declared.
Dalaroo Metals is an Australian explorer advancing a portfolio of gold and critical mineral projects across Côte d’Ivoire, Greenland, and Western Australia.
Write to JC Villarba at Mining.com.au
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