Mako Gold Limited announced that it has received positive assay results from the recent shallow Reverse Circulation (RC) drilling program from the Komboro Prospect, within the company's Napié Project in Côte d'Ivoire. Komboro is located on a +23km soil anomaly and coincident 30kmlong Napié Fault and associated splays. Results have also been received from the shortened maiden RC drill program on the Korhogo Project.
NEW MINERALISED ZONE DISCOVERED AT KOMBORO PROSPECT AT NAPIÉ: Results have been received from 23 shallow RC holes from a 2,824m drill program recently completed at Komboro Prospect. The location of the Komboro Prospect relative to Tchaga and Gogbala, where the company recently announced a maiden Inferred Mineral Resource of 22.5Mt at 1.20g/t Au for 868k contained ounces gold. Seven targets were drilled with 6 of the 7 targets intersecting significant mineralization. Drill results include 9m at 3.26g/t Au, including 3m at 7.29g/t Au and, separately 1m at 30.47g/t Au in NARC741, as well as 1m at 8.41g/t Au in NARC 743 from the previously undrilled K1 Target. Drilling at the K2 Target located on a separate structure 3km to the east, intersected 5m at 1.64g/t Au in NARC 753. Targets were identified from recent Air Core (AC) drilling which include 4m at 1.93g/t Au, 4m at 1.20g/t Au, and 4m at 1.10g/t Au, and from geological mapping and rock chip sampling. The majority of the holes were drilled on artisanal mining sites with large quartz veins which can be intermittently traced over 9km, as well as on other smaller artisanal sites, which were identified during recent geological mapping1. The highly encouraging results from K1 and K2, located along separate structures and which are splays off the Napié shear, points to the enormous prospectivity in the north of Napié. Testing of these areas has only just begun and further drilling is planned at Komboro following the end of the wet season. Drilling will focus along strike of targets which have delivered positive results as well at other targets along the 9kmlong intermittent artisanal mining sites. Results Received From Shortened Rc Drilling Program At Korhogo Project: Results have been received for 14 RC drill holes totaling 1,378m of a planned 2,000m maiden drill program on the Korhogo Project. No significant results were received since the greenstone/granite target was not reached. The drill program was stopped short to allow further groundwork to be completed in order to vector in to the greenstone/granite target. The cessation of the drill program also coincided with the discovery, through geological mapping, of the 9kmlong artisanal mining site at Komboro on the Napié Project; it was therefore decided that mobilising the drill rig to Napié was higherpriority in order to complete drilling at Komboro prior to the onset of the wet season. Localised areas of the Korhogo Nord permit and significant auger anomalies on Korhogo Nord and Ouangolodougou remain to be tested.