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The latest results were reported in September with three holes
NE BANKAN returning hits of 26m @ 7 g/t from 407m, 16m @ 5.9 g/t from 393m
and 38m @ 3.6 g/t from 380m. All three were step-out diamond
Owner: Predictive Discovery Ltd
Location: Siguiri Basin, Guinea holes designed to test the extent of the central high-grade zone.
Reserves: N/A Speaking at Africa Down Under in September, Predictive
Resources: N/A managing director Paul Roberts said the company was excited by
Project status: Resource definition the underground potential.
“What we’ve been finding as we’ve been going to depth is that the
widths are sustaining but the grades are getting better,” he said.
maiden resource estimate is expected any day now by
Even more encouragingly, he doesn’t see the growth story coming
A Predictive Discovery Ltd for its NE Bankan gold project in
to an end with the first resource statement.
Guinea.
“The fact that we’re coming up to a maiden resource estimate
The resource will cap a remarkable 18 months for the junior
cannot be seen as some kind of endpoint, it’s actually the beginning
explorer following the drilling of the discovery hole at NE Bankan
of the story,” he said.
in early 2020 which returned a hit of 46m @ 6.58 g/t including 10m
@ 26.52 g/t gold. On announcing the September drilling results, the company said
it had developed a more predictive geological model for the NE
That result sent Predictive shares rocketing and the company has
Bankan deposit.
maintained momentum throughout 2021.
“A strong shear [fault] zone has now been recognised close to the
Recent drilling has focused on depth extensions, with a series of
top of the gold mineralisation in most diamond drill holes in the
high-grade intercepts below 200m, including 44m @ 8 g/t gold
central gold mineralised zone,” the company reported. “The shear
from 265m (including 17m @ 18.1 g/t from 27m) and 49.7m @ 11.7
zone is especially strong near or on the contact between mafic
g/t from 301m (including 17m @ 31.9 g/t from 313m, including 7m
volcanics above and the felsic [tonalitic] intrusive rocks below.
@ 30.3 g/t).
Predictive shares went on another run off the back of those July
intercepts, hitting an eight-year high on July 19.

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