• Figure 1 - Bantou location.
• Figure 2 - Bantou artisanal gold workings.
• Figure 3 - Bantou drill status plot.
• Figure 4 - Bantou cross section.
• Figure 5 - Dynikongolo magnetic image.

Bantou Prospect

Location:	Burkina Faso - 320km south-west of Ouagadougou
Ownership:	100% Orbis Gold (via 3 year option agreement)
Primary Target:	Gold
Highlights:	High grade gold deposit / 600m strike length
	Multiple sub-parallel structures
	Defined over 600m strike length
	Open along strike / open at depth below 80m
	RC drill intersections include: - 8m @ 80.32g/t Au (from 36m) - 16m @ 10.20g/t Au (from 17m) - 9m @ 16.79g/t Au (from 91m)
	Pre-resource stage project

 

The Bantou Gold Prospect is located 320km south-west of Ouagadougou and lies within the Dynikongolo exploration permit (figure 1).

Bantou is defined at surface by an approximate 1km long zone of shallow artisanal gold workings that have exploited several mineralised horizons within northerly-trending structures (figure 2).

Orbis has completed reconnaissance-stage RC drilling of the southern end of the Bantou workings on approximate 80m-spaced cross sections to a maximum 80m vertical depth (figure 3).

The Orbis drilling intersected significant and high grade gold mineralisation in steeply west-dipping structures including:

• 8m @ 80.32g/t Au (from 36m) in DYRC003
• 16m @ 10.20g/t (from 17m) in DYRC029
• 9m @ 16.79g/t (from 91m) in DYRC026

The drilling by Orbis also identified an additional separate structure 30m in the hangingwall of the main Bantou lode with intersections of:

• 6m @ 7.35g/t Au (from 44m) in DYRC014
• 6m @ 5.27g/t Au (from 8m) in DYRC017
• 11m @ 2.63g/t Au (from 48m) in DYRC034

A schematic cross section through the centre of the prospect is included at figure 4. The cross section illustrates drill intersections on both the main Bantou lode and the Bantou hangingwall structure.

The depth of weathering is significant in the Bantou area (to an approximate 80m depth) and therefore the geological setting of the deposit is, as of yet, not well understood.

Gold mineralisation on the Bantou structures is open at depth and along strike both to the north and south. Further drilling is proposed to test such areas.

Orbis has recently completed a high resolution geophysical survey over the entire Dynikongolo permit including the Bantou deposit. This survey indicates that Bantou is located within a package of magnetically responsive rocks (magnetic highs) that can be traced for a greater than 20km strike length through the long axis of the permit. These lithologies present a number of additional structural gold targets that are yet to be tested by Orbis (figure 5).

In additional to geophysical gold targets a significant new gold target has also been defined by Orbis at the southern end of the Dynikongolo Permit. This target (named “Farakoro”) is based on the projected extension of a significant gold-in-soil geochemical anomaly defined by a third-party company on the permit to the immediate east of the Dynikongolo permit (figure 5).   

Orbis has recently completed a detailed soil sample survey of the entire Dynikongolo Permit in order to provide a first pass assessment of these lithological, structural, and geochemical targets. Assays are awaited for this program.