Drilling commences at Kunche

A 5,000m reverse circulation and diamond drilling program has commenced....

  A 5,000m reverse circulation and diamond drilling program has commenced at Azumah Resources’100%-owned Wa-Lawra Gold Project in northwest Ghana, West Africa.This is Azumah’s third drilling program this year and, according to the company, is designed to test for strike and depth extensions to the existing 500,000-ounce Kunche gold resource and to delineate mineralisation at the recently discovered Kunche East area.Previously, five wide-spaced reverse circulation drill holes testing a 200m surface anomaly at Kunche East all returned near-surface gold mineralisation, including an intersection of 3m @ 10.9g/t Au from 21m. Rock chip and auger sampling was also undertaken over a one kilometre-long and 500m wide area to investigate the extent of the Kunche East mineralisation, resulting in the interpretation of a number of multiple parallel zones of gold mineralisation.Previously reported bottom-of-hole auger sampling over this area has returned localised spot high results, including 4.21g/t, 1.28g/t and 1.06g/t gold and rock chip values of 5.77g/t, 3.23g/t, 4.07g/t, 2.91g/t and 2.12g/t gold from a zone extending over 400m. The new program, which was delayed due to a record wet season and widespread flooding in northern Ghana, is expected to take four weeks to complete with first results due in early January.