The initial exploration program at Morogoro was begun in early October 06, with our former partner, Canaco Resources putting their entire exploration team onsite. The program began with mapping, sampling and the preparing for the 2,500 metre, Phase I diamond drilling program. Work included the preparation of trails, drill pads and negotiations with local artisanal miners for access to some areas of the property.

Initial results from the geological mapping of the artisanal workings located on the property describe previously undocumented workings that extend the known, northwesterly trend of gold mineralization from 2.2 kilometres to 4.2 kilometers in length. Early on, mapping and sampling identified three new areas of bedrock gold mineralization that host active artisanal mining operations. Workings 1.1 kilometres northeast and 2.4 kilometres southwest of the known mineralized trend share the same northwesterly orientation and appear to be parallel trends, while the mapping of a third area, northwest of the principle trend, documented a northeasterly trending zone of gold mineralization and indications of supergene enrichment. To date geological mapping documented numerous areas of artisanal bedrock mining operations hosted within shallow dipping garnetiferrous, quartzo-feldspathic and biotitic gneisses, scattered over a surface area of 14 square kilometres in the east-central portion of the Morogoro property.

Aerial view of Morogoro showing artisanal workers’ camps

Aerial view of one of the main Morogoro artisanal mine workings

Directly above Morogoro’s main artisanal working

Gold mineralization identified to date occurs in the form of multiple narrow (10 cm to 50 cm) foliation parallel quartz veinlets and /or silicified zones containing fine visible gold. Samples from individual mineralized intervals from the active workings returned values ranging from 0.50 to 177.50 grams gold per tonne, and samples of selected ore delivered by local miners for processing contained an average of 25.20 grams gold per tonne. A sample of the tailings produced by the artisanal mining process assayed 3.39 grams per tonne.

Morogoro Drill Program achieves initials results of up to 9.56 g/t Au over 3.0 metres
To date a total of 16 drill holes totaling 1,700 metres have been completed on four different target areas. A total of 800 metres remain to be completed. The Phase One Program has been designed to establish a geological context for the unusual setting of gold mineralization in high-grade metamorphic rocks described from the Morogoro property. Six target areas have been designated for investigation with the 24 square kilometre area outlined by artisanal mining activity to date; the Central (CZ), East (EZ), West (WZ) and North (NZ) target areas. Drill core is being sampled at the Morogoro camp and shipped to SGS Laboratories in Mwanza for preparation and analysis.

Main artisanal working showing deep shafts

First drill cores showed visible gold in some of the cores

Visible gold showings in drill core

Chip sampling of bedrock trench walls created through the artisanal workings is ongoing and is being completed with the objective of indicating the distribution of gold throughout near-surface section, and the presence of gold in different lithologies.

A total of 54 samples have been assayed from this work from 16 different trench chip samples. The chip samples were collected by hand on vertical walls beginning at surface and sampling the entire vertical section of the exposed bedrock. Wherever possible samples were collected from discrete lithological units using maximum sample widths of one metre. The cumulative length of the geology sampled at any one location ranged from 1.1 to 5.1 metres in vertical section.

Pit wall in one of the artisanal workings

One of the team descends into a deep artisanal working

Team inspects wall in artisanal workings

Six of the 54 samples consisted of vein material from narrow structures which varied in width from 2 cm to 40 cm and returned values ranging from trace to 213.2 grams gold per tonne. This latter high-grade value having been returned from workings described for the first time from the newly acquired Morogoro North property. All of the remaining samples were comprised of variations of the bulk host lithology of garnetiferrous, biotitic gneiss. Seven out of these 48 samples returned gold values greater than 0.5 grams gold per tonne and ranged from 0.62 to 20.71 grams gold per tonne. These elevated values are associated with shearing, alteration and the presence of quartz. Of the 16 chip samples taken at surface, four have returned average values greater than 1 gram gold per tonne over the entire sampled width with values ranging from 1.30 gAu/t over 1.2 meters to 9.56 gAu/t over 3.0 meters.

Initial Morogoro chip sample results include: