Sylla Gold Intersects 15 m of 4.92 gpt Gold at Niaouleni
Sylla Gold Intersects 15 m of 4.92 gpt Gold at
Niaouleni
Bedford, Nova Scotia--(Newsfile Corp. - April 12, 2023) -
Sylla Gold Corp. (TSXV:SYG)
(OTCQB:SYGCF) ("Sylla Gold" or the "Company")
is pleased to announce positive gold assay
results from a drilling program of 19 reverse circulation (RC) drill holes totalling 2330 m completed within
the Company's Niaouleni Gold Project ("Niaouleni") (
Figure 1
) in Southern Mali. Drilling was
predominantly carried out at the Niaouleni South target located in the Niaouleni-Kobada Sanankoro
Corridor (
Figure 2
).
Extends the strike length of mineralization to 700 m at Niaouleni South.
7 high priority drilling target areas defined on the property.
Drilling Highlights:
4.92 g/t Au over 15 m
from drill hole NSRC23-068
including
14.9 g/t Au over 4 m
and 2.56 g/t Au over 7m
4.28 g/t Au over 6 m
from drill hole NSRC23-060
including
17.7 g/t Au
over 1 m
2.26 g/t Au over 8 m
from drill hole NSRC23-059
including
10.6 g/t Au
over 1 m
1.09 g/t Au over 10 m
from drill hole NSRC23-073
1.13 g/t Au over 9 m
from drill hole NSRC23-063
4.47 g/t Au over 2m
from drill hole NSRC23-076
A summary of significant gold assay intercepts of these holes is shown in
Table 1
and collar locations
and depths for RC drill holes NSRC23-058 to NSRC23-076 are shown in
Table 2
.
Niaouleni South Drilling
This drilling was successful in extending the high-grade zone of mineralization at the
Niaouleni South
prospect for over 700 metres open at depth and to both the north and south. The Niaouleni South
mineralized zone appears to occur along a substructure of the Kobada Shear which hosts the adjacent
Toubani Resources' Kobada deposit which is located approximately 6 km north of Niaouleni South.
South Extension of Kobada Shear drilling
In addition to the drilling at Niaouleni South, hole NSRC23-076 was drilled near the northern boundary of
the Niaouleni licence on the interpreted extension of the Kobada Shear and intersected 4.47 g/t Au over
2 metres. This hole was drilled as a follow up to mineralization outlined through previous AC drilling.
Further drilling in this area is being planned.
Figure 1
: Prospect location map of the Niaouleni Gold Project in southern Mali
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Regan Isenor, President and CEO of Sylla Gold, commented, "
Our work at Niaouleni continues to build
on our original hypothesis that this property has the potential to host multiple near surface gold
deposits at the Niaouleni project on known shears and their subsidiary structures. This RC program
has again been successful in identifying gold grades over significant widths in 18 of the 19 holes
drilled, since beginning exploration on the property in April of last year the company has drilled a total
of 76 RC holes encountering anomalous gold in 66 of those holes, suggesting the potential of the
land package to host significant gold mineralization. The Niaouleni Gold project is located in a
structurally complex gold mineralized corridor as shown in Figure 1. We are especially pleased with
the results from hole NSRC-23-68 which extend the gold mineralized footprint due south of the main
area of drilling at Niaouleni South In addition, the technical team has identified several target areas
that require follow up drilling."
Figure 2:
Niaouleni South Prospect Area
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Technical Overview of RC Drilling Program
The purpose of the Niaouleni Project AC and RC drilling program is to:
Continue to confirm previously defined wide zones of high-grade gold mineralization intersected in
historical drilling programs completed by previous operators.
Define the structural characteristics of the mineralized shear zones
on the property.
Test extensive termite mound and soil anomalies that lie both on strike from the adjacent Kobada
deposit owned by Toubani Resources and in other areas of the property.
Test the many other soil and termite anomalies on the land package.
Test all target areas identified.
All gold-bearing intersections are hosted in metasedimentary saprolite with quartz veins. Geological
interpretation for these drill holes is still preliminary and ongoing. A potential dilational flexure rendering
the Niaouleni South trend close to N-S, compared to the NNE regional structural trend is interpreted.
Inside this flexure, the highest grades appear to be hosted in E-W vein / veinlet clusters. 3D geological
modelling has been started in an attempt to define N-S and E-W mineralization domains within the N-S
trending mineralized corridor.
It is apparent that this gold mineralized corridor that hosts the Niaouleni and other gold deposits is
structurally complex extending into Guinea and appears to have received several episodes of gold
emplacement.
Drilling Targets
The Company has recently completed a target delineation program identifying 8 target areas at the
Niaouleni Project (
Figure 3
) for drilling follow up. The targets areas are defined as:
1
.
Niaouleni South and Lebre plateau
The focus of the Company's RC drilling has produced numerous high-grade intercepts.
Open
to the north and south the Niaouleni South and Lebre plateau target area represents a strike
length of 1.5 km. See map Fig 2.
2
.
Kankou Moussa Prospect
Sylla drilled 5.34 g/t over 3m (see Sylla press release dated September 13, 2022) at Kankou
Moussa. The prospect is located within the Kobada Shear roughly 2km on strike of the
Niaouleni South & Lebre Plateau target.
3
.
Niaouleni West
On the Company's recently acquired licence, the Niaouleni West target sits on the extension
of the Kobada Shear with extensive artisanal workings.
Past explorers on the property have
produced exceptionally high anomalous gold values in soil samples. This is a high priority
target.
4
.
Niaouleni Northwest Prospect
Historic work includes strong soil and termite mound geochemistry, the target area contains
artisanal gold workings.
5
.
Samaya South
Located 3.5 km west of the Kobada deposit the Samaya South target area is host to
extensive historical soil and termite mound sampling. The target area contains surface
artisanal workings.
6
.
Goingoindougou East and Sananfara prospect.
Located within the inferred extension of the Kobada East Shear the Goingoindougou East
and Sananfara prospect contains regional arsenic anomalies and artisanal gold surface
workings.
7
.
Niaouleni East and Goingoindougou
High grade gold RC intercepts including 7m of 3.89 g/t (see Sylla press release dated
September 13, 2022). Previous operators have encountered anomalous gold over wide
widths at the target.
Located on the inferred extension of the Gosso Shear the Niaouleni East
and Goingoindougou prospect area is defined by a larger gold in soil and termite anomaly.
The Company's technical team is currently designing drilling programs to test each of the target areas.
Figure 3: Drilling target map
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Table 1
: Significant RC drilling assay intercepts for Niaouleni Project (NSRC23-058 to NSRC23-076)
Hole ID
FROM (m)
TO (m)
INTERVAL (m)
AU (g/t)
NSRC23-058
74
75
1
0.98
NSRC23-059
6
14
8
2.26
including
6
7
1
10.6
NSRC23-059
29
30
1
0.72
NSRC23-059
101
103
2
1.84
NSRC23-060
48
54
6
4.28
including
52
53
1
17.7
NSRC23-061
29
32
3
1.27
NSRC23-062
112
113
1
1.2
NSRC23-063
78
87
9
1.13
NSRC23-064
9
10
1
0.88
NSRC23-064
16
22
6
1.04
NSRC23-065
29
30
1
0.58
NSRC23-065
70
71
1
0.53
NSRC23-065
89
90
1
0.82
NSRC23-065
95
96
1
1.15
NSRC23-065
100
101
1
1.02
NSRC23-065
104
105
1
0.53
NSRC23-066
6
7
1
0.78
NSRC23-067
no significant results
NSRC23-068
86
101
15
4.92
including
89
93
4
14.9
NSRC23-068
104
111
7
2.56
including
105
106
1
10.8
NSRC23-068
115
116
1
0.82
NSRC23-069
20
21
1
0.93
NSRC23-069
24
30
6
0.62
NSRC23-070
75
76
1
0.84
NSRC23-071
17
20
3
1.02
NSRC23-071
30
31
1
0.58
NSRC23-071
36
51
15
0.78
NSRC23-071
75
78
3
0.76
NSRC23-072
110
113
3
0.49
NSRC23-073
35
36
1
3.71
NSRC23-073
98
100
2
0.67
NSRC23-073
105
110
5
1.13
NSRC23-073
115
125
10
1.09
NSRC23-074
80
82
2
0.9
NSRC23-075
44
45
1
1.01
NSRC23-076
38
39
1
1.05
NSRC23-076
47
48
1
0.63
NSRC23-076
51
52
1
0.69
NSRC23-076
81
82
1
0.63
Hole ID
FROM (m)
TO (m)
INTERVAL (m)
AU (g/t)
NSRC23-076
90
92
2
4.47
including
91
92
1
7.88
SIGNIFICANT RESULTS AC (all other AC holes NSV)
NSAC23-219
76
78
2
2.02
NSAC23-224
6
8
2
0.64
Notes: A cut-off 0.5 g/t Au was applied with maximum 2 m of internal dilution; no high-cap cut-off was applied. True width of the sampled intervals
has not yet been determined.
Figure 4:
E-W quartz vein cluster in the N-S corridor at Niaouleni
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Table 2:
RC drill hole collar table for Niaouleni South (NSRC22-019 to NSRC22-057
Hole ID
Easting
(m)
Northing
(m)
Elevation
(m)
Azimuth
(°)
Dip
(°)
Hole Depth
(m)
NSRC23-058
543765
1281460
379
270
-55
120
NSRC23-059
543715
1281460
373
270
-55
120
NSRC23-060
543665
1281460
381
270
-55
120
NSRC23-061
543615
1281460
377
270
-55
120
NSRC23-062
543775
1281180
372
270
-55
120
NSRC23-063
543725
1281180
378
270
-55
120
NSRC23-064
543675
1281180
375
270
-55
120
NSRC23-065
543625
1281180
380
270
-55
120
NSRC23-066
543575
1281180
383
270
-55
120
NSRC23-067
543775
1281140
376
270
-55
120
NSRC23-068
543725
1281140
377
270
-55
120
NSRC23-069
543675
1281140
374
270
-55
120
NSRC23-070
543625
1281140
381
270
-55
120
NSRC23-071
543575
1281140
380
270
-55
120
NSRC23-072
543655
1281540
366
160
-55
150
NSRC23-073
543658
1281605
383
160
-55
126
NSRC23-074
543650
1281640
370
160
-55
150
NSRC23-075
543720
1283695
383
270
-50
100
NSRC23-076
543390
1283600
382
270
-50
100
NSAC23-213
543775
1281040
362
270
-50
80
NSAC23-214
543735
1281040
370
270
-50
80
NSAC23-215
543695
1281040
374
270
-50
80
NSAC23-216
543655
1281040
369
270
-50
80
NSAC23-217
543615
1281040
368
270
-50
80
NSAC23-218
543575
1281040
375
270
-50
80
NSAC23-219
543535
1281040
372
270
-50
80
NSAC23-220
543775
1280940
360
270
-50
80
NSAC23-221
543735
1280940
358
270
-50
80
NSAC23-222
543695
1280940
359
270
-50
80
NSAC23-223
543655
1280940
362
270
-50
80
NSAC23-224
543615
1280940
362
270
-50
80
NSAC23-225
543575
1280940
366
270
-50
80
NSAC23-226
543535
1280940
367
270
-50
80
NSAC23-227
543700
1281650
365
270
-50
80
NSAC23-228
543660
1281650
372
270
-50
80
NSAC23-229
543620
1281650
374
270
-50
80
NSAC23-230
543580
1281650
374
270
-50
80
NSAC23-231
543540
1281650
383
270
-50
80
NSAC23-232
543500
1281650
384
270
-50
80
Notes: Collar coordinates are in UTM WGS84 Zone 29 and determined using a handheld GPS unit. True width of the intervals has not yet been
determined.
Drilling, QAQC, and Sampling and Assay Procedures
RC drilling was completed by Forage FTE Drilling of Bamako, Mali using an Atlas Copco T3W Reverse
Circulation drilling rig. RC samples weighing approximately 2 kg were bagged at the drilling rig and
transported to the camp by Company personnel. Blanks, certified standards, and field duplicates were
inserted into the sample stream every 15 samples. Samples were then transported by truck by Bureau
Veritas to their laboratory in Bamako, Mali where they were logged, dried (105°C), and crushed (75%
passing 2mm). 1 kg of crushed material was split and pulverized (85% passing 75µ). Fire assay using
atomic absorption finish was performed on a 50 g sample. All assay results greater than 10 g/t Au were
re-assayed with gravimetric finish.
Bureau Veritas is registered to international quality standards through the ISO/IEC 17025:2017
standards and is independent of Sylla Gold. The Company and its geological consultants confirm all
assay results reported herein have passed QAQC protocols.
About the Niaouleni Project
The Niaouleni Project consists of 4 permits totalling 17,200 hectares in size and accessible by paved
highway and includes extensive artisanal mining activity within the gold bearing structures and their
potential extensions. Past exploration at Niaouleni includes termite mound and soil geochemistry
surveys, and reverse circulation (RC) and diamond drilling that have identified several structural gold-
bearing zones that appear to extend from the adjacent Kobada gold deposit. The Kobada gold deposit
is situated approximately 3km north of the northern limit of the Niaouleni exploration licence. Historical
exploration and drilling results were compiled by Sylla into a digital database and interpreted for the
purposes of designing an RC and AC drilling program to further test these interpreted structural gold-
bearing zones and possibly extend them further into the project area.
Further information on the Niaouleni Gold Project is available in the Company's NI 43-101 technical
report on the Niaouleni Project with an effective date of September 28, 2021, and available on the
Company's SEDAR profile at
www.sedar.com
.
Data Verification and Qualified Person Statement