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Goldman 17m at 7.5g/t Gold Highlights Adzope Project Potential
Desert Metals Limited (ASX:DM1) has announced highly encouraging results from the maiden drilling program at the King Kong prospect within the Adzope gold project in Côte d’Ivoire. The diamond drilling program confirmed the potential for a significant high-grade gold system across a 3.0km anomalous corridor.
Key drill results include:
- 17m at 7.5g/t gold from 262m, including 5m at 23.1g/t gold
- 13m at 1.64g/t gold over a strike length of 1.4km on the same structure
All nine holes intersected gold mineralisation using a 0.5g/t gold cut-off. The interpreted high-grade gold corridor trends northeast-southwest, and further drilling is planned for Q1 2025.
Desert Metals Managing Director Stephen Ross said:
I am thrilled that the first-ever drilling campaign at King Kong has returned significant and high-grade gold intercepts. The drilling results support our strong belief that the Adzope gold project hosts substantial gold mineralisation. Single reconnaissance holes were drilled next to artisanal pits mined for gold or on a coincidental geophysical and gold-in-soil anomaly, so for these holes to return thick and high-grade intercepts is extremely encouraging. We believe these results indicate the presence of significant high-grade gold mineralisation in the immediate area.
The King Kong gold prospect contains a +3.0km interpreted gold corridor plus 2.1km of untested, crosscutting artisanal gold workings at an area known as the Beach. This first-pass drilling has confirmed King Kong’s potential and provided us with strong signatures of where to drill next and where not to drill, so we look forward to the upcoming exploration programs in 2025.
