Mali, West Africa; Desert Gold Secures its 100% Owned Farabantourou Permit for 9-Year Term
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For Immediate Release
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Mali, West Africa;
Desert Gold Secures its 100% Owned Farabantourou Permit for 9-Year Term
Delta, British Columbia, November 27 , 2018. Desert Gold Ventures Inc. (“Desert Gold” or “t he
Company”) (TSXV: DAU) is pleased to announce that it has successfully renewed its 100% owned
Farabantourou permit for an initial 3-year term. Furthermore, the license terms grant Desert Gold the option to
renew the permit for two ad ditional 3 -year terms giving the Company control of F arabantourou until
November 2027.
About Farabantourou
The permit is 122km2 and spans the Senegal -Mali Shear Zone (“SMSZ”) which is related to 30 million + oz
gold of production and resources (1). The permit contains 7 k nown gold zones w ith many material drill
intercepts including:
8.40 g/t gold over 10 metres
6.28 g/t gold over 13 metres
2.29 g/t gold over 20 metres
9.99 g/t gold over 4 metres
8.07 g/t gold over 8 metres
In addition to the numerous known gold zones, 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. 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, which occur both east and west of the SMSZ , suggest ing significant exploration potential in a
variety of geological settings , appear to show a 10 km long anomalous trend located on or adjacent to the
SMSZ (see Figure 1).
Work Commencement
Fieldwork at Farabantourou is scheduled to start in December 2018 and continue into 2019. The C ompany 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 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 number of new priority drill targets at all three properties.
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(Figure 1) Farabantourou Property Map Showing Frikidi Trend, Gold-in-Soil Anomalies and
Select Historic Drill Intercepts
Desert Gold hold s three gold projects in Mali (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
Randgold’s Loulo-Gounkoto complex gold mines (see Figure 2).
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(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 mill ion 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 reserves 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.
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 Member
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 the 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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