Awalé Resources Commences Drilling Program at Empire Main and the New Charger Target, Odienné Gold Project, Côte d’Ivoire.
Awalé Resources Commences Drilling Program at Empire Main and the New Charger Target,
Odienné Gold Project, Côte d’Ivoire.
Vancouver, BC, A pril 26, 2021 – Awalé Resources Limited (“Awalé” or the “Company”) (TSXV: ARIC) is
pleased to report that an initial 3000m, 30-hole drill program has commenced over the recently reported
Empire Gap, Empire West and Charger targets at the Odienné Project (see Company News Release dated
23rd March 2021). The Odienné Project drilling will then be immediately followed by a 3000-5000m scout
drilling program over new gold targets at the Bondoukou Project.
Drilling at Odienné will focus on the following:
• Resource definition drilling at Empire Main, where the footprint of the initial 200m long discovery
zone has now been extended to 900m. Drilling to now focus on:
o The Empire Gap Target, a SE off-set extension to the Empire Main discovery with a peak
value of 1.7 grams per tonne (“g/t”) gold in auger drilling within an overall 250m long, >50
parts per billion (“ppb”) gold in auger anomaly,
o and the Empire West extensions of Empire Main, where a peak soil gold value of 731ppb
has been defined within a narrow but continuous 350m long >30ppb gold anomaly, and
• Discovery drilling at the new Charger target, where a compelling 600 meter long >90ppb ‘bullseye’
gold in auger anomaly has been defined with a peak value of 0.56 g/t Au. Charger lies
approximately 3km North of Empire main.
Company CEO Glen Parsons commented today:
“We are excited to announce that the drill is turning again at the Empire project. These multiple
brownfield and greenfield targets highlight the gold prospectivity of the Empire Corridor and the
greater Odienné Project, reinforcing Awalé Resources ability to continually unlock and develop the
potential for a significant gold camp in Cote d’Ivoire.
We look forward to announcing results from Empire and Charger as they become available”.
Quality Control and Assurance
Analytical work for auger geochemical samples is being carried out at the independent Intertek
Laboratories Australia Ltd. an ISO 17025 (2017) Certified Laboratory. Samples are stored at the Company’s
field camps and put into sealed bags until collected by Intertek from the Company’s secure Bondoukou or
Odienné office and transported by Intertek to their laboratory in Tarkwa, Ghana for preparation. Samples
are logged in the tracking system, weighed, dried and pulverized to better than 85%, passing a 75-micron
screen, this pulp sample is then shipped to Australia where 10 -gram split is analysed by ICP/MS with an
Aqua Regia digest. Blanks, duplicates and certified reference material (standards) are being used to
monitor laboratory performance during the analysis.
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ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
AWALE RESOURCES LIMITED.
“Glen Parsons”
Glen Parsons, President and CEO
For additional information you are invited to visit the Awalé Resources Limited website at
www.awaleresources.com, or contact Karen Davies, Head of Investor Relations at Tel: 604.314.6270
Qualified Person
The technical and scientific information contained in this news release has been reviewed and approved
for release by Andrew Chubb, the Company’s Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.
Mr Chubb is the Company’s Chief Operating Officer and holds an Economic Geology degree, is a Member
of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG), and is a Member of the Society of Economic Geologists
(SEG). Mr Chubb has 18 years of experience in international minerals exploration an d mining project
evaluation.
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