Drill testing under way at Dunkwa property

Encouraging drill results have been obtained by Battle Mountain Gold (BMG-N) on the Dunkwa property in the Ashanti gold mining region of south-central Ghana.

The company is working to earn a 65% interest in the property from Birim Goldfields (BGI-T).

Battle Mountain has completed six diamond drill holes, totalling 933 metres, on the Aboronye prospect. The best interval came from hole 7, the southernmost hole, in which 6.16 grams gold per tonne over 7.63 metres are contained in a wider zone that averages 1.74 grams over 35 metres.

The drilling was performed on a known gold-bearing structure that was previously tested by soil geochemistry, chip sampling, trenching and diamond drilling along 800 metres of strike and to a vertical depth of 120 metres.

Also, an induced-polarization survey outlined a corresponding anomaly that extends both to the south and north of the area drilled.

Birim reports that the structure corresponds to a zone of strong deformation, intensive alteration with associated pyrite, arsenopyrite and gold mineralization. These associations are said to be typical of the nearby Mampon structure and other structures hosting economic mineralization on the Ashanti trend. The core in hole 7, for example, is described as indistinguishable from well-mineralized intersections at the Mampon deposit.

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