Latest News10 Dec 2008 09:53
Thursday, December 04, 2008
Persian Gold, the Irish based Iranian explorer, has raised around £450,000 before expenses in a share placing as part of efforts to reinforce its working capital requirements.
Persian is currently midway through a trenching programme at the North Hill of the Dalli copper-gold project located 200km southwest of Tehran.
Dalli is a gold/copper porphyry with extensive surface mineralisation and two distinct centres of pervasive alteration located 1.7km apart. It is a joint venture between Persian Gold (70%) and Dorsa (30%), a local Iranian company.
The company said recent results were positive and outlined a zone of surface gold mineralisation which is present in the North Hill litho cap. It said trenching had confirmed that the gold mineralisation correlates with strongly silicified quartz diorite intrusive rocks.
John Teeling, chairman of Persian Gold, commented: “Economic circumstances will change as will politics, but geology will not. Iran remains one of the best underexplored gold exploration targets available. The money will be spent on our existing projects and in progressing a number of new opportunities.”