Sahelian resumes u.g. work at Poura

Following a month’s delay due to heavy rainfall, Sahelian Goldfields (SHGI-C) has resumed underground development at its Poura gold project in Burkina Faso, West Africa.

The flooded workings have been pumped and cleaned, and the company reports that few problems were caused by the 4-week delay.

Two areas of the mine — the F and H zones — are being deepened. In the former, a ramp is being driven from the 283- to the 299-metre level; in the latter, from the 332- to the 352-metre level.

Horizontal levels are already being driven along the main quartz vein in the two zones on the 283-, 317- and 332-metre levels.

Drifting along strike in two directions on the 317-metre level in the H zone has exposed a persistent, steeply dipping quartz vein along a 27-metre strike length grading an average of 28.5 grams gold over an average width of 1.5 metres. The vein remains open in both directions, and drifting continues.