Three prominent gold geochemical trends have been identified at Vancouver-based gold exploration and development company Nexus Gold’s 100%-owned Dakouli 2 exploration permit located in central Burkina Faso, West Africa, following a 150 line kilometre soil geochemistry survey.

The primary gold trend parallels the Sabce fault zone, extends for about 10 km in a north-east to south-west direction, and bisects the property from the north-east corner of the property to its western boundary.

Two secondary gold trends which extend for about 6.5 km each are orientated in a north-west to south-east direction and bisect the primary trend. All three gold geochemical trends are coincidental to geophysical trends identified from the national regional airborne geophysics.

The recent grid work has produced excellent results, says Nexus Gold president and CEO Alex Klenman.

“We have now established over 20 km of gold trend and several areas [are] already producing visible, nuggety gold from artisanal workings. We are anxious to drill Dakouli and this work has given us a much better understanding of the areas we need to target. We feel Dakouli presents a higher-grade opportunity for us and we intend to ramp up our exploration efforts there in the months to come,” adds Klenman.

The geochemical soil survey included line spacing of 200 m with samples collected at stations established along the lines at intervals of 50 m. A total of 3 358 samples were submitted to contract analytical services provider Actlabs for analysis at its laboratories in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

The soil samples were analysed using the Au Cyanidation Atomic Absorption method. In addition to the laboratory’s internal quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) procedures, the company maintained its own QA/QC protocol of inserting standards, blanks and duplicates into the sampling stream.

During the survey, a new area of artisanal workings was discovered and rock samples collected from 40 m deep at this new orpaillage returned gold values of 11.3 g/t gold, 1.08 g/t gold, and 1.03 g/t gold respectively. This orpaillage extends for some 200 m and is located at the southern edge of the survey area.

The company is planning a detailed prospecting programme to investigate these anomalous trends and new workings to identify and prioritise suitable drill targets.

The Dakouli 2 exploration permit is about 100 km due north of the capital city of Ouagadougou. The 98 km2 permit lies immediately south of Nexus Gold’s Niangouela property which has been explored over the past two years. Drilling at Niangouela has returned significant intercepts, including 26.69 g/t gold over 4.85 m (including 1 m of 132 g/t gold) and 4 g/t gold over 6 m (including 20.5 g/t gold over 1 m).

In late 2018, the company conducted an initial mapping/sampling programme at Dakouli 2, collecting 25 samples. Eleven samples returned values greater than 1 g/t gold and five samples exhibited various concentrations of coarse, nuggety, visible gold, returning assay values greater than 11 g/t gold. All 25 samples taken to date at Dakouli 2 have tested positive, with several returning significant gold values, including 27.5 g/t gold, 29.5 g/t gold and 17.6 g/t gold.

The Dakouli 2 property is on the Goren greenstone belt and is bordered to the north by granitic rocks. It is also bisected by the Sabce Shear, a major structural fault zone proximal to multiple gold deposits, which trends south-west to north-east and bisects the entire long axis of the property.

Nexus Gold has a portfolio of active projects in West Africa and Canada. The company is concentrating its efforts on establishing a compliant resource at one or more of its four West African projects which include the Bouboulou gold concession, which total over 560 km2 of land on active gold belts and proven mineralised trends. It is also conductingvdevelopmental phases on its three 100%-owned Canadian projects: the McKenzie gold project, in Red Lake, Ontario; gold/copper exploration property the New Pilot project, in British Columbia’s historic Bridge River Mining Camp; and the Gummy Bear gold/copper project, in Newfoundland.