West African gold explorer Asara Resources is continuing its drilling activity to expand the scale of the Massan deposit within its flagship Kada gold project, in Guinea.

Phase 1 of the drilling programme at Massan included 40 drill holes, comprising 6 218 m of reverse circulation and diamond drilling, with the next set of assay results identifying 21 drill holes totalling 2 036 m from Phase 2 of the drilling programme.

The drilling activity aims to test and increase the extent of the Massan deposit and to grow the deposit’s inferred resource.

Results from ongoing drilling within the core of the Massan deposit continue to confirm broad, continuous gold mineralisation across multiple section lines, with recent intercepts of 40 m at 0.9 g/t, 28 m at 1.1 g/t and 15 m at 1.8 g/t.

Asara also highlights that phases 1 and 2 of the drilling results further strengthen confidence in the continuity of the deposit and are improving the geological understanding of the mineralised system.

Beyond the current resource area, Phase 1 inferred resource drilling has identified a promising new mineralised zone about 700 m south of the centre of the Massan deposit.

Initial drilling has returned encouraging gold intersections, including 6 m at 2.2 g/t gold and 21 m at 0.5 g/t gold, thereby demonstrating that mineralisation extends well beyond the current limits of the deposit.

“This latest round of results continues to reinforce the scale and continued growth of the Massan deposit the more we drill it. Consistent results from the core of the Massan deposit are improving our understanding of the mineralised system and supporting our objective of growing and upgrading the existing mineral resource.

“Equally encouraging is the identification of a new mineralised zone [about] 700 m south of the Massan deposit. While still at an early stage, these initial results demonstrate the significant exploration potential that exists outside the current resource area that is being drilled out, and further highlights how underexplored the broader north-south mineralised corridor remains,” Asara MD and CEO Matthew Sharples comments.

In late June, this project received several key geology and exploration equipment items, including two new diamond core saws, a point load testing machine and a binocular microscope.

Sharples notes that the arrival of this equipment enhances the company's on-site geological capabilities, improving core processing efficiency and supporting more detailed geological logging and geotechnical assessments.

Drilling remains ongoing, with Asara targeting completion of as many planned drillholes as possible ahead of the internal cut-off date for incorporation into the updated August 2026 mineral resource estimate for the Kada project.