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now. If we’re successful, I’ll have a salary   company go through the roof, but for us it’s   about  the regional potential  at Gogbala
        three years from now.”               not about one drill hole, it’s about one drill   and Tchaga North.
          Other  significant  intercepts  from  previ-  hole followed up with many others that are   Mako also expects to launch into a
        ous drilling at Tchaga include 41m @ 4.51   similar,  which  is  what  we’ve  been  doing   maiden  drilling  campaign  at  its  Korhogo
        g/t gold from 17m, 32m @ 7.1 g/t from 13m   from the start,” he said.    project in the coming months after com-
        and 13m @ 20.82 g/t from 32m.          “I’m a little frustrated with our share   pleting soil sampling and geophysics over
          Despite  the  consistent  flow  of  encour-  price, I don’t hide it, but at the same time   the prospective tenement package which
        aging drill results from Napie, Ledwidge   I’ve lived through Orbis days when we had   the company started piecing together to-
        bemoaned the fact his company’s share   a rock bottom share price, even though we   wards the end of last year.
        price had effectively halved since this time   had 1 moz in the ground. I’ve seen West   Korhogo sits about 40km north-east of
        last year.                           African Resources [Ltd] at a pitiful share   Napie and only 30km south of Barrick Gold
          “These days one drill hole can make a   price when they were doing very well, Ti-  Corp’s Tongon mine. It is also contiguous
                                                               etto [Minerals Ltd]   with Endeavour Mining Corp’s Wahgnion
                                                               were  the  same  a   operation over the border in Burkina Faso.
                                                               couple of years     “As far as we know those permits have
                                                               ago.  Eventually  had no work done on them whatsoever
                                                               the  penny  drops   and they’re incredibly close to the Tongon
                                                               and the smart peo-  mill, so that’s very handy, assuming we do
                                                               ple catch on.”    find something,” Ledwidge said.
                                                                 While  Tchaga     “Our Korhogo project is about the same
                                                               has  been  the  pri-  distance from our field office as the Napie
                                                               mary focus for    project so we feel we can advance both
                                                               Mako since tak-   projects  concurrently.  Our  team  has  a
                                                               ing on the Napie   pretty good record of making discoveries
                                                               project  in  late  and advancing them while working on sev-
                                                               2017,  Ledwidge   eral other projects at any one time.”
                                                               is equally excited
                                                                                           – Michael Washbourne




                                                             Mako has completed more than 45,000m of drilling at the Tchaga
                                                             prospect ahead of a maiden resource for the Napie project later this year











































             Denis Mirovic                     Clinton Harrison
             +61 431 214 988                   +61 403 176 948
             bdm@industrial-workwear.com.au  emb@industrial-workwear.com.au
             Denis Mirovic                     Clinton Harrison
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