The 143 square kilometre Tordo permit lies about 150km east of Ouagadougou.  The previously unexplored Tordo permit covers a portion of the Fada N’gourma greenstone belt which consists of meta-tuff, meta-sediment and mafic metavolcanic.  A dilational fault splay is focused near the contact of the greenstone belt and enclosing granites.  Quartz float debris fields and a number of artisanal workings are associated with these structures.  Quartz veins are most numerous in the metasedimentary rocks in the centre of the permit displaying variable orientations including 070^o, 110^o, and 130^o as exposed by trenching.  Mineralization consists of relatively narrow quartz veining and associated silicification.

A regional and locally detailed soil geochemistry program has defined a 1300x 300m soil gold anomaly in saprolite with peak values to 3000 ppb gold (Au).

Trenching of the anomaly suggests these stockworks may host significant gold mineralization but more work is required to determine controls and extent.  The trenching returned 8 metres of 1.17 gpt Au within a larger section of 101 metres of 0.41 gpt Au; 70 metres of 0.51 gpt Au; 27 metres of 0.32 gpt Au; and 38 metres of 0.24 gpt Au.

The Company plans further trenching at Tordo in advance of a preliminary drilling program.

Tordo Soil Geochemistry

Tordo Trenching