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Fete Kole is the largest area of artisanal mining in the License. Approximately 1,000 miners are active, some digging shafts to at least 60 metres. The artisanal workings occupy an area of approximately 30 square kilometres. The prospect represents a structural more complex area of the Belahouro Project. The structural and mineralization controls are poorly understood. RSG Global considers that a systematic approach to exploration is appropriate at Fete Kole to ensure a maximization of the exploration expenditure. Orientated diamond drilling core, selected for maximizing geological information as opposed to grade, is considered the logical first step in better understanding the Fete Kole prospect.
A series of significant intersections in holes FKRC0012, FKRC0013 and FKC0013 are to be investigated at depth.
Despite the extensive deformation observed in the Birimian volcano-sedimentary series, they seem to have been subject, during the Eburnean Orogeny, to low-grade regional metamorphism to greenschist facies. However, in the Belahouro-Souma area, kyanite bearing mica schist and pelite indicate higher grade metamorphic regime. On a regional scale, the large granite intrusion emplacement developed contact metamorphism such as at Aribinda area. The deposits occur in shear zones. The Gassel Garafo mineralized zone lies proximal to a major north to southeast trending shear zone, which has a known extent of 14 kilometres between Senakaye and Lybie. In the Gassel Garafo area, the shear traverses the contact between granitoids to the west and basaltic andesites to the east. The shear zone that controls the gold mineralization at Gassel Garafo has been tested at Dumsa and Senakaye. The shear zone is dominantly hosted in basaltic andesites and associated pyroclastics. Mineralization was confined to quartz veining within the main shear zone.
The Fete Kole mineralization is closely related to a volcanic centre along a regional north south complex shear. Stacked, flat lying structures pond hydrothermal solutions, which have significant high grade zones. Iron carbonate alteration is common throughout the project.
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