Gold explorer eMetals (ASX:EMT) has started a soil sampling campaign on the Busia Gold Project in central Uganda, targeting orogenic gold within the Busia Greenstone Belt.
The Busia Project is one of four exploration license applications that are 100% held by Sifang Mineral Resources in Uganda. The company acquired 80% of Sifang in 2024.
Managing Director Mathew Walker says eMetals is excited to start the exploration program in this “highly prospective region known to host several worldclass gold projects”.
“The scheduled work program will follow up on the earlier encouraging results and sample the more than 9km of prospective banded ironstone formation,” Walker says.
The Busia Project lies within the Busia Greenstone Belt in southeastern Uganda and forms part of the Archean Nyanzian-Kavirondian System within the Tanzania Craton.
It is characterised by a series of metamorphosed volcano-sedimentary sequences of basaltic to andesitic lavas, tuffs, and banded iron formations, intruded by granitic plutons.
These rocks, dating back to approximately 2.6 billion years, have undergone greenschist to amphibolite facies metamorphism and are intensely deformed by regional faulting and shearing, creating pathways for hydrothermal fluid flow.
Gold mineralisation in the region is primarily orogenic, hosted in quartz veins and shear zones associated with sulphides such as pyrite and arsenopyrite, often linked to the interaction of fluids with iron-rich lithologies such as the 9km BIF that extends across the license.
With no known artisanal activity or systematic exploration to date, eMetals says Busia offers significant potential for a maiden gold discovery in a highly prospective region.
Write to Adam Orlando at Mining.com.au
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