High grade extensions at Sabodala

program of infill drilling on the flat zone and northwest structure at its Sabodala....

  Mineral Deposits Ltd has announced significant new results from the ongoing program of infill drilling on the flat zone and northwest structure at its Sabodala gold project in Senegal.The two latest vertical diamond drill holes identified potential for significant depth expansion of the ore zone.Directly beneath the current preliminary open pit design, hole SBRC692D intersected 59m grading 3.13 grams per tonne (g/t). Some 40m north in hole SBRC673D, and below the current design pit bottom, 16m grading 8.26g/t was identified. Assays are pending on other holes in the same environment which have visually intersected mineralisation.Continued success with this drilling program is likely to support an open pit extension and increased mineable ore reserves when ore reserve modelling takes place in September 2007.The Sabodala Gold Project is located in the far west of Senegal, about 650km southeast of the capital Dakar. The geology of this area is known as the Birimian belt of West Africa. In many of the surrounding countries, this geological belt hosts large and globally significant gold deposits including a number of substantial deposits nearby across the border in Mali.