- 0138m at 2.1g/t gold in Asara’s maiden Sogosogoba drilling.
- 02Includes 5m at 6.1g/t; mineralisation is oxide-hosted.
- 03Only five holes reported; drilling continues.
Asara Resources (ASX: AS1) has intersected 38 metres at 2.1 grams per tonne gold in maiden drilling at its Sogosogoba exploration target in Guinea.
The reverse circulation drilling has identified oxide-hosted bedrock mineralisation about eight kilometres northeast of the Massan deposit within the broader Kada gold project area.
Both holes drilled into the principal surface anomaly exceeding 100 parts per billion gold returned significant mineralisation, with only five holes reported so far.
The early results extend Asara’s exploration focus beyond Massan, where the company is pursuing a wider pipeline of six drill-ready targets around its existing Kada resources.
Higher-Grade Zones
The standout 38m intersection began 48m downhole and contained higher-grade zones, including 5m at 6.1g/t gold and another 5m at 4.3g/t gold.
The same hole also returned 15m at 1.4g/t gold from 9m, including a 2m interval grading 6.3g/t.
A second hole within the strongest surface anomaly intersected 3m at 5.0g/t gold from 19m, including a 1m interval at 14.1g/t, as well as 7m at 0.8g/t.
Another hole outside the primary anomaly encountered two narrower gold-bearing intervals, while the remaining two holes returned no significant intersections.
All significant mineralisation in the two principal holes lies within the oxide profile, which is deeply weathered to depths exceeding 100m at Sogosogoba.
Exploration Beyond Massan
Sogosogoba sits within an extensive surface geochemical footprint that includes zones above 50ppb and 100ppb gold, together with widespread artisanal workings.
Geological and structural mapping, grab sampling and drone surveys preceded drilling to help Asara identify prospective structures and refine the first targets.
The initial results are consistent with historical drilling by Newmont in 2010, although Asara considers that older dataset incomplete and is using it for targeting rather than geological modelling.
The wider Kada project has an Indicated and Inferred mineral resource estimate of 92.9 million tonnes at 0.7g/t gold for 2.08 million ounces, including 2.04Moz at Massan.
Those existing resources are separate from the early-stage Sogosogoba results, where additional drilling is required to establish the extent and continuity of mineralisation.
Sogosogoba Work Ongoing
Asara plans to continue testing Sogosogoba through a strategy that is intended to follow promising mineralisation while progressively establishing the orientation and geological controls of the bedrock gold system.
“Our approach is deliberately iterative, with each batch of drilling and assay results informing the next drill holes so that we can iteratively adjust our drilling strategy to target the strongest mineralisation,” managing director Matthew Sharples said.
“These early drilling results reinforce our view that there is substantial demonstrated discovery potential beyond Massan and highlights the opportunity to establish additional deposits across the broader Kada project.”
In parallel, drilling at Massan will continue to support resource conversion and technical work for the ongoing definitive feasibility study and, once the current Sogosogoba program is complete, Asara intends to move through other priority targets around the Massan and Bereko resources.
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