Rock chips deliver the right punch for Mako Gold with discovery of new gold zones at Napié

Rock chip sampling uncovers new gold zones at the Tchaga North prospect
New east-west structures could represent a new high-grade gold system
Mako Gold planning new drill holes to test high-grade gold in these emerging areas

Special Report: Mako Gold’s rock chip sampling at the top priority Tchaga North prospect within its Napié project in Côte d’Ivoire has discovered gold-mineralised areas with top assays of up to 79.5g/t gold.

Current exploration work at Tchaga North is focused primarily on a western greenstone/granite contact where high-grade gold hits were discovered.

Mako Gold (ASX:MKG) is using this work to generate new targets for a planned drill campaign at the new east-west structural trend.

This is part of its broader ambition to build a multimillion-ounce West African gold play, a goal that is underpinned by its existing 868,000oz resource across the Napié and Korhogo project.

New gold zones

MKG’s rock chip sampling returned high-grade results including 79.5g/t, 60.66g/t and 44.73g/t gold from new areas exposed by artisanal mining along the newly identified east-west structural trend.

Notably, the company pointed out wide-spaced drilling in areas with previous limited drilling would not have tested the east-west trend, as its drilling was done parallel to these new structures.

“We are thrilled with these high-grade rock chip results at Tchaga North,” MKG managing director Peter Ledwidge said.

“The mapping and rock chip sampling program which identified the yet to be drilled east-west structures hosting gold-bearing quartz veins, indicate that we may have discovered a high-grade system at Tchaga North.

“After the completion of the mapping/rock chip sampling program, we will prioritise the areas and plan new holes to test these structures with north-south oriented drill holes.”

The road ahead

MKG will now complete mapping and rock chip sampling at Tchaga North.

Once assays are received and announced, the company will plan a drilling campaign to target high-grade gold at the new prospective areas identified by the ongoing mapping/rock chip sampling program.

This article was developed in collaboration with Mako Gold, a Stockhead advertiser at the time of publishing.

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