VANCOUVER, BC - Awale Resources Limited (' A wale ' or the ' Company ') (TSXV: ARIC) is pleased to announce results from ground geophysical surveys (' Induced Polarization ' or ' IP ') and multielement soil geochemistry undertaken at the Lando Iron Oxide Copper Gold ('IOCG') Target on the Odienne Project in Cote d'Ivoire (Figure 1). The IP survey has delineated a significant 4km long chargeable resistive anomaly that conforms with a high order Cu-Au footprint from soil geochemistry. The anomalism is supported by rock chip* samples of up to 4.8 grams per tonne ('g/t') gold ('Au') collected from artisanal workings at the prospect, the anomaly also remains open to the north and south (figure 2 and 3). These highly anomalous IP results in tandem with high order Cu-Au geochemistry elevates Lando as a third significant IOCG Target to follow Sceptre and Charger, which will be drill tested this quarter.
Gold in soil analysis returned from Intertek in tandem with the IP surveys show a 3.5 km long >86ppb (95 th Percentile) gold in soil anomaly, with a peak value of 921ppb within a 1km long core (Figures 2 and 3). The results are consistent with and mirror the previously reported 4 km long pXRF Cu (+ As and Mo) anomaly at the Lando Target (>99ppm (80 th percentile) Cu anomaly with a 1km >387ppm Cu core (98 th percentile (see Copany news release dated 23 rd August 2022 ). The mineralization is also open to the north and south.
Further to this rock chip sampling* during mapping has returned gold values in Brecciated Quartz veins of 4.8g/t Au and 3g/t Au in brecciated quartz veins and altered wallrock with chalcopyrite and molybdenite stringer veining (figure 2). The samples were collected around artisanal workings and the wallrock grades are viewed as evidence of disseminated mineralization. Additional to these artisanal mine samples, a 0.4 g/t Au sample has been collected from outcrop samples some 800m from the workings.
The current work program is being funded by Newmont as part of an earn-in JV agreement through which Newmont retains the option to earn-in to a minimum 65% interest, from Awale, in the Odienne project in return for the sole funding of USD 15M in exploration (see Awale's Company News Release dated May 31, 2022 ). Awale is the project manager for the initial 3-year phase.
Glen Parsons , Chief Executive Officer, commented today:
'The Odienne project continues to deliver multiple mineralized zones with similar alteration and geology throughout the project area. This continues to point toward the potential large camp scale mineralized system in the district, especially considering we have only commenced exploring the first 400km2 of the granted Odienne permit.
Lando is the result of our continued and successful systematic approach and is a new and exciting target developing with encouraging copper and gold grades of up to 0.2% and 921ppm, additional to this we have chargeable-resistive IP anomalies that trace the geochemistry trends and it is progressing to be a high order drill target for 2023. We see the Lando geochemical footprint as consistent with the ICOG setting of the Odienne Project and it is 18km to the North of Charger and Sceptre .'
Notes:
Rock chip sampling is selective and not necessarily representative of the overall grade of mineralization for this prospect.
A Handheld InnovX Vanta X-Ray Fluorescence Analyzer or pXRF was used for the analysis reported in this release. pXRF analysis is considered indicative of metal grades. All samples reported air dried and sieved to -80 mesh before analysis.
The Lando Prospect
Lando prospect is a significant size and tenor copper gold geochemical footprint, with similarities to Charger and Sceptre . The mineralization sits close to a high strain intrusive contact to the west with the highest grades coincident with a left stepping flexure of this high strain zone. Active traditional artisanal gold workings have been located close to the core of the mineralization where they are exploiting quartz breccias with iron oxide fill (rock chip samples up to 4.8 g/t Au) with wallrock alteration (chlorite, silica, epidote) and sulphide stringer veining up to 3g/t Au. The breccias are hosted in a series of high strain and altered basaltic rocks and schists.
Based on the regional geological setting of Odienne, the soil/termitaria data from the Sceptre , and now Lando prospects along with the initial drill results and newly found gossan from the adjacent Charger prospect, the Company interprets the geological setting of the Odienne district to be comparable to that of other significant IOCG provinces globally. IOCG deposits are significant contributors to global copper and gold inventories, and the Company considers the Odienne project to contain significant potential for the discovery of the first major IOCG style known in west Africa .
Next Steps
Systematic exploration will continue here with trenching and extension of the IP survey including additional as well as deeper sensing pole-dipole sections in early 2023 which will be closely followed by drilling. Further to this detailed aerial magnetic, radiometric and gravity gradiometry surveys will be flown in Q1 2023.
The Odienne JV
The Odienne project JV is subject to an earn-in agreement with Newmont Ventures Limited ('Newmont'; see Company News Release dated May 31, 2022 ) through which Newmont retains the option to earn-in to a minimum of 65% interest, from Awale, in the project in return for USD 15M of exploration expenditures. Newmont is sole funding the exploration program at Odienne and Awale is managing the project in the initial 3 year phase.
About Awale Resources
Awale is an exploration company focused on the discovery of large high-grade gold and copper-gold deposits. The Company currently undertakes exploration activities in the underexplored parts of Cote d'Ivoire. Awale's success to date at the Odienne Project in the Northwest of Cote d'Ivoire has culminated in a fully funded earn-in Joint Venture with Newmont (the 'Newmont JV') covering the Odienne Project where two primary targets for world-class discoveries have been made: i) the gold-rich Empire corridor and ii) the recently defined Charger, Sceptre and now Lando Iron Oxide Copper Gold ('IOCG') targets. Parts of the remaining 200km2 of granted tenure and 400km2 under application remains underexplored and offers significant IOCG potential. The Newmont JV forms the solid foundation for Awale to continue looking at new opportunities in new jurisdictions which offer significant potential for district scale discoveries. Awale is currently in the process of completing the acquisition of Colossal Gold Resources, a private company with a highly prospective gold exploration portfolio in Suriname, which provides an excellent strategic fit and future growth potential for Awale.
Forward-Looking Information
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