Villibongo Project
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Location: |
100km south-west of Ouagadougou |
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Tenement Area: |
237km2 |
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Ownership: |
100% (via 3 year option agreement) |
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Primary Target: |
gold |
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Highlights: |
30km long greenstone belt |
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structural gold targets |
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proximal to regional gold and base metal prospects |
The Villibongo Project comprises a single 237km2 granted exploration permit located in central western Burkina Faso.
The Villibongo permit overlies a 30km long isolated “block” of greenstone rocks situated some 20 kilometres to the east of the margin of the Boromo Greenstone Belt. A number of significant third party gold deposits and base metal occurrences are known in the region although no gold mineralisation has been recorded to date within the project area (figure 1).
MET considers the project permit to be prospective for gold discoveries on the basis of structural gold targets that have been identified at either end of the Villibongo greenstone.
The gold target areas occur at the intersection of cross cutting north-east trending structures with north-south trending structures that parallel the long axis of the greenstone belt. The dominant structural trends are apparent in regional scale magnetic data (figure 2).
No artisanal gold workings are currently known within the Villibongo Project area.
MET proposes to undertake regional soil/auger sampling to provide a first pass assessment of potential gold bearing structures.