Montreal – TheNewswire - August 11, 2021 – Stellar AfricaGold Inc., (TSXV:SPX) ("Stellar" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has completed a detailed reconnaissance program on the 51 Km2 Namarana Prospection Authorisation Licence located 130 km NW of Bamako, Mali.
The purpose of reconnaissance program was to evaluate the gold potential of the Namarana Authorisation area prior to filing an application for a full Exploration Permit over the same area. The entire 51 km2 was visited by Stellar’s senior consultant geologists and 11 artisan mine sites were visited, mapped and sampled within the Permit area. (See mine sites location figure below)
Namarana artisan mines sites locations map
A total of 172 grab samples were taken and sent to SGS Bamako laboratory for fire assay analysis. Twenty-five (25) samples returned gold grades greater than 0.30 g/t and 13 returned grades ranging between 1.0 g/t and 5.7 g/t Au primarily in some quartz veins running roughly north south. The samples were taken from either surface exposures or from below ground inside some of the artisan mine pits to as deep as 6 metres in quartz vein systems exposed by the artisan mining activity.
Mine sites 3,4,5 and 2 were considered priority as they all show primary mineralisation in quartz veins, some quartz veins still outcropping while others were observed at depth in artisanal pits. Although all surface showings and underground quartz veins had been extensively mined by orpailleurs, all 13 samples grading between 1.23 and 5.70 g/t Au were taken at those 4 sites.
In 2012, Newmont Mining, in association with Stellar, conducted a field reconnaissance and an airborne magnetic survey over the original 132-square-kilometre Namarana permit then owned by Stellar Pacific Mali SARL, a 100% subsidiary of Stellar. The motives and the objectives of this geophysical survey was to assist in the interpretation of the local geology. All the historical data were retained by Stellar and are very useful in evaluating the potential of this project.
According to Newmont’s 2012 geological interpretation of its airborne magnetic survey, mine sites 3 and 4 as well as sites 2 and 5 are all located along a regional NW-SE structures and secondaries NE-SW structures.
Maurice Giroux, Vice-President Exploration and COO commented: “The encouraging results obtained from Stellar’s 2021 reconnaissance program are consistent with past observations and with Newmont’s interpretation of its airborne mag survey, and warrant Stellar’s filing of an application for a full Exploration Permit. I consider sites 3 and 4 to be close to drill ready, and a drilling program could be initiated immediately following a short program of surface trenching to confirm the geological and structural features at those specific locations.”
About Stellar AfricaGold Inc.
Stellar AfricaGold Inc. is a Canadian gold company with offices in Vancouver, BC and in Montreal, QC. Stellar President François Lalonde can be contacted at 514-992-0929 or by email at lalonde@stellarafricagold.com.
The technical content of this press release has been reviewed and approved by M. Yassine Belkabir MScDIC, CEng, MIMMM, a Stellar director and a Qualified Person as defined in NI 43-101.
On Behalf of the Board
J. François Lalonde, President & CEO
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