Desert Gold Provides Guidance Regarding Upcoming Work Season And Discovers New Mineralized Trend on its Farabantourou
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For Immediate Release
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Desert Gold Provides Guidance Regarding Upcoming Work Season And Discovers New
Mineralized Trend on its Farabantourou Permit, Mali, West Africa
Delta, British Columbia, October 18, 2018. Desert Gold Ventures Inc. (“Desert Gold” or “the Company”)
(TSXV: DAU) (FF: QXR2) (OTC: DAUGF) is pleased to provide guidance regarding the upcoming work
season. The Company is also pleased to announce that during ongoing geological mapping and surficial
exploration at its Farabantourou permit, the Company has discovered a new mineralized trend consisting of
several active large artisanal mining sites known as the Frikidi trend.
Frikidi Trend Observation
The newly discovered Frikidi trend and related artisanal mining areas are hosted by strong, sericite-, potassic-
and pyrite-altered felsic sills that intrude a northwest-trending package of intermediate volcanic rocks along a
2.4 km long , northwest trend. Two grab samples of the zone returned 29.7 g/t Au and 0.83 g/t Au which
strongly supports the observed artisanal mining. Proximal ‘waste’ piles up to five metres high are
predominantly comprised of strongly altered felsic intrusion and are believed to be gold- bearing. Further
geological mapping and additional rock sampling will be conducted on this target later in the year . Grab
samples are selected samples that are not necessarily representative of the mineralization hosted on the
property.
The Frikidi zone host rocks are inferred to be folded equivalents of the Mako Series rocks which host
Teranga’s Sabodala Mine, Toro Gold’s Mako Mine and Randgold’s advanced Massawa exploration project,
which lie on the western side of the Mali-Senegal Shear Zone. This occurrence area has never been drill tested
before and represents additional upside to Desert Gold’s Farabantourou Project (see Figure 1).
Gold-in-soil Follow-up
In addition to a follow-up on historic drill results, property-scale soil sampling demonstrates a significant
amount of gold -in-soil anomalies and anomalous gold -in-soil anomaly trends that have not yet been fully
evaluated. The newly discovered Frikidi Trend was one of these anomalous areas. Based on the attached
figure, there are in excess of 45 untested gold-in-soil anomalies containing greater than 200 ppb gold with
values ranging up to 7,589 ppb gold. These anomalies occur both east and west of the Mali -Senegal Shear
Zone, suggesting significant exploration potential in a variety of geological settings (see Figure 1).
Work Commencement
Fieldwork in Mali is scheduled to start in early December 2018 shortly after the end of the rainy season and
continue into 2019. The company is planning an ambitious exploration program at all three of its properties in
Mali. At Farabantourou, drilling is planned to follow -up known gold zones. At Farabantourou and Segala
West, auger drilling will be carried out over select laterite- covered zones in conjunction with geological
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mapping, prospecting and systematic evaluation and prioritization of strong gold-in-soil targets. At Djimbala,
which is contiguous to Hummingbird’s Yanfolila mine permit, pr eviously collected soil samples will be
analyzed with follow-up field evaluation and property-scale mapping. This work, in conjunction with drilling,
is expected to lead to the development of a significant amount of new priority drill t argets at all three
properties.
(Figure 1) Farabantourou Property Map Showing Frikidi Trend and Gold-in-Soil
Anomalies
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Desert Gold holds three gold projects (Farabantourou, Segala Ouest and Djimbala), of which, Farabantourou
and Segala West are located within the Kenieba Inlier of western Mali. The Farabantourou project lies 40 km
to the south of AngloGold Ashanti ’s/Iamgold’s Sadiola gold mine and 50 km to the north of Randg old’s
Loulo-Gounkoto complex gold mines (see Figure 2).
(Figure 2) Location of Desert Gold’s Farabantourou and Segala Ouest gold projects in western
Mali
(1) Randgold's Loulo-Gounkoto mine complex to the west with ore reserves of 32 Mt average at 4.6 g.t for 3.7 million oz Au in the Proven and
Probably category. Endeavour Mining's Tabakoto and Segala mines which hosts ~3 million oz Au (18.5 Mt at 3.5 g/t for 1.8 million oz Au
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measured and indicated, 9 Mt at 3.6 g/t for 1 million oz Au inferred and 6.4 Mt at 3.5 g/t for 0.7 million oz Au proven and probable. B2Gold
Fekola mine to the south with ore reserves of 48.3 million Mt average at 2.37 g/t gold for 3.34 million oz A u in the Proven and Probably
category and 65.8 million Mt average at 2.13 g/t gold for 4.5 million oz A u. To the north Sadiola/Yatela mine contains ore re serves of 38
million Mt at 1.57 g/t gold for 2 million oz Au and 87 million Mt at 1.58 g/t gold for 6 million oz Au in the measured and indicated category.
QAQC
All rock samples were geologically described following Desert Gold’s established standard operating
procedures. All individual samples represent approximately 2-kilogram which is sent for preparation and gold
assaying at the SGS laboratories in Bamako, Mali. Each sample is fire-assayed for gold by SGS laboratories in
Bamako using Au-FAA505 method which is a 50g fire assay fusion with AAS instrument finish. In addition
to SGS own QA/QC (Quality Assurance/Quality Control) program, an internal quality control and quality
assurance program is in place throughout the sampling program, using blind duplicates (1 :20), blanks (1 :20)
and recognized industry standards (1 :20).
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
“Sonny Janda”
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Sonny Janda
Director
For further information please contact Jared Scharf, President, at +1 (858) 247- 8195 or visit
www.desertgold.ca
This note was reviewed by Dr. Luc Antoine who is a director of the Company and is registered as a Memb er
of the Geological Society of South Africa (MGSSA 967397). He approves the scientific and technical
disclosure in the news release and has the necessary experience relevant to the style of mineralization and
types of deposits under consideration and to t he activity as a Qualified Person as defined in the National
Instrument 43-101.
Additional information can also be viewed at www.SEDAR.com under the company’s profile.
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