Bepkong gold discovery confirmed

Assaying of individual one-metre drill samples from Azumah Resources’ recently...

  Assaying of individual one-metre drill samples from Azumah Resources’ recently announced Bepkong gold discovery at its 100%-owned Wa-Lawra Gold Project in Ghana has returned an excellent intercept of 16m grading 4.9g/t gold from 50m, including 10m grading 7.1g/t gold from 54m.These results, from discovery hole KRC 144, confirm the credibility of the discovery at Bepkong, announced in Azumah’s December 2007 Quarterly Report.The Bepkong prospect is located 2km north of the 516,000 ounce Kunche resource and was discovered by power-auger soil sampling that had previously returned anomalous values peaking at 1.3g/t gold.The Bepkong soil anomaly is open to the north and south from where it extends semi-continuously 2km south back to Kunche. Azumah’s recently appointed Executive Chairman, Stephen Stone said: “These results authenticate the Bepkong discovery and reinforce our belief that there is a lot more gold to be discovered within Azumah’s 2,800sqkm Wa-Lawra licence area.”“They also confirm the reliability of the soil anomalies we are generating along the 100km strike of prospective Birimian greenstones at Wa-Lawra, where we are using a truck-mounted power-auger to take samples to several metres below surface to reduce the risk of surface contamination,” he said.Mr Stone said that in light of these very positive results, Azumah’s plan is to go back to Bepkong in the next week to commence a 35 reverse circulation drill-hole, 2,800m campaign to test the remainder of the anomaly.