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“The last lot of results had 42m @ 3.9 g/t
and 29m @ 5 g/t, so it’s got a central core
that’s really strongly mineralised and over
quite a thick distance from about 10m be-
low surface,” Grove said.
Area A has also shown promising num-
bers, including 1m @ 19 g/t from 135m and
10m @ 6.3 g/t from 124m.
“So, it’s quite high value ore,” Grove con-
tinued.
“It behaves itself quite well in terms of
continuity between sections and drill holes,
so we’re expecting pretty high-quality re-
sults coming out of that.
“We still have a bit of work ahead to find
those structures and we should have pretty
good news flow as the results come out.”
Diamba Sud’s rapid progress is matched
by Grove’s own position with Chesser, hav-
ing only joined as chief executive earlier
in February before his swift promotion to
managing director in April. sources Ltd and oversaw the financing of its ment and the local community.”
His trajectory is supported by a history Sanbrado gold mine in Burkina Faso. By the time Chesser releases its maiden
of working in West Africa, notably with Per- Grove’s sentiment towards working in the resource, the roster of gold operators in the
seus Mining Ltd. Grove is also joined on region is likely shared with Connelly. region may have shapeshifted once again
the board by non-executive chairman Mark “I would rank Senegal as one of the top given the history of mergers and acquisi-
Connelly, who is a veteran of working in the investment jurisdictions in West Africa,” tions.
region. Grove said. How that landscape will look then, is any-
Connelly’s fingerprints are all over the “It’s pretty close to the Ivory Coast. Sen- one’s guess. What Grove knows for certain,
Senegal-Mali gold region especially, having egal has had one of the most long-lived de- however, is he wants Chesser to be prolific
overseen deals and mergers that included mocracies of all the West African nations. amongst its peers.
neighbours B2Gold and Endeavour for a The President, Macky Sall, is a geologist so
combined worth of $US1.17 billion. He was he understands mining quite well. – Fraser Palamara
also recently chairman of West African Re- “We have good support from the Govern-

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