Endeavour Mining plc announced that a major discovery has been made at its 100%-owned Tanda-Iguela greenfield exploration property in Côte d'Ivoire. The Tanda-Iguela property has the potential to be another asset for Endeavour, given the size of the maiden resource and its significant exploration potential as 10 additional nearby targets have been identified. Significant exploration potential exists at the Assafou deposit since it is open along strike in both directions and at depth.

The delineated Indicated resource encompasses only 20% of the identified mineralised system which covers an area three kilometres long by 350 metres wide. As such, an aggressive exploration drilling campaign is scheduled to begin in 2023, with an additional 50,000 metres expected to be conducted on the Assafou deposit, compared to the 58,000 metres of drilling, which formed the basis of the maiden resource calculation. In addition, a drilling programme of 20,000 metres is planned to test the additional nearby targets identified to date.

These efforts are expected to yield an updated resource estimate in 2023 and increase the overall geological understanding of the area.