RE: Good to see some active discussion12 Mar 2024 16:47
Hi JC - Yes K Hill very much the factor income wise and will benefit from the increased Heap Leach Pads, although I suspect we will direct crusher revenue also . Vim Rutha clearly involves Capex and there are many targets surrounding it- These are from a 2022 RNS (13 Dec) - Caracal Gold plc, the expanding East African gold producer with over 1,300,000oz JORC-compliant gold resources, is pleased to announce sample assay results from its Diamond Drilling ('DD') programme on the Vim Rutha prospect, a shear zone of about 4.9km parallel to the known orebody at the Kilimapesa Hill deposit ('Kilimapesa Hill') at the Kilimapesa Gold and Mining Operations in Kenya (the 'Project'). The drilling intercepted, on several occasions and over a distance of more than 2km from west to east, one or more mineralised structures of significant thickness located a few hundred metres south of Kilimapesa Hill.
Highlights
· Assay results confirm the Vim Rutha prospect corridor is intensely gold-bearing, with mineralised intercepts returned from historical diamond drilling as well as the vertical and lateral extension of one or more parallel mineralised structures, over several kilometres of distance just south of Kilimapesa Hill.
· To date, 107 holes totalling 10,424m of the planned 12,000m Reverse Circulation ('RC') drilling programme and 21 holes totalling 3,637.7m of the planned 3,000m DD programme, which commenced in December 2021, have been completed.
· Results continue to demonstrate the high gold potential of the various exploration prospects located in direct proximity to the Kilimapesa Hill deposit or in the same geological environment.
· Results of 722 samples from Batch 5 have been received and results from the DD holes include:
o Hole VMRDD_001 : 13.16 m @ 1.59 g/t gold ('Au) from 45.27 m incl. 1.19 m @ 3.9 g/t Au from 49.79 m
o Hole VMRDD_002: 3 m @ 1.58 g/t Au from 72 m
o Hole NMRDD_003 : 11.44 m @ 3.15 g/t Au from 20.09 m incl. 2.75 m @ 4.12 g/t Au from 25.86 m
o Hole VMRDD_004: 7 m @ 2.63 g/t Au from 16 m incl. 2 m @ 5.80 g/t Au from 19 m
o Hole VMRDD_005: 1 m @ 84.15 g/t Au from 77 m
o Hole VMRDD_006: 1 m @ 1.29 g/t Au from 121 m
o Hole VMRDD_007: 5 m @ 3.17 g/t Au from 57 incl. 12.05 g/t Au from 57 m
o Hole VMRDD_008: 1 m @ 4.04 g/t Au from 12 m
o Hole VMRDD_009 : 18.11 m @ 3.13 g/t Au from 13.7 m
o Hole VMRDD_010 : 7.97 m @ 2.37 g/t Au from 18.05 m incl. 2.4 m @ 5.22 g/t Au from 20.97 m
· In parallel to the DD programme, which took place on the Vim Rutha prospect, 21 RC holes and 2 trenches were completed along the same mineralised corridor.
o Initial geological observations are encouraging and 1,578 samples have been sent to SGS's laboratory in Tanzania (Mwanza) for gold analysis.
· The sixth batch of RC and trench samples have been delivered to the laboratory. These include samples from 21 RC holes and 2 trenches from the Vim Rutha prospect.