Kentor Gold Limited
(ASX:KGL) has now received results from the 2010 exploration programme at Bekbulaktor gold prospect on the Bashkol Exploration Licence in the Kyrgyz Republic (some fire assay results are still awaited). A programme of bedrock channel sampling, geophysics, and soil sampling was completed to seek to understand the potential of a large zone of mineralised granite that returned encouraging gold assays from a short bedrock sampling programme in 2009.
The most encouraging results from the 2010 activities are:
- Two continuous channel sample intervals returning 36 metres at 2.71g/t gold and 24 metres at 1.7g/t gold. The two intervals are separated by a gap of 20 metres covered by scree material. This 20 m interval was not sampled because of permafrost within the scree material. The mineralisation is open to the south where there is a cover of glacial moraine material. The extensive gold values are coincident with a zone of silicified altered granite/granodiorite which is open in three directions.
- Discovery of gold mineralisation on the northern side of the valley of the Bekbulaktor stream. A preliminary reconnaissance and sampling programme on the southern side of the valley resulted in:
o An interval of 6 metres at 3.5g/t gold from continuous channel sampling
o An interval of 3 metres at 0.47% copper containing 1 metre at 7.3g/t gold
- Identification of a broad area of anomalous gold in soil on the south side of the valley of the Bekbulaktor stream.
- Two lines of IP (Induced Polarisation) geophysics which indicate that:
o Presence of gold is generally consistent with increased chargeability and resistivity, so that geophysical surveys may prove to be a useful exploration tool.
o There is a geophysical anomaly to the south of the known mineralisation, under Quaternary cover, that needs to be investigated for possible gold mineralisation.
Kentor?'s Managing Director, Simon Milroy, commented: ?The results of exploration at Bekbulaktor this year have increased our expectations for the prospect. The scale of possibilities is now such that we can confidently plan a geological and geophysical programme next year that should lead to the identification of clear drill targets.?
The Bekbulaktor gold prospect is located 80 kilometres north-east of the 500,000 oz pa Kumtor gold mine. Like Kentor?s Andash gold-copper project and the Company?s other gold prospects in the Kyrgyz Republic, Bekbulaktor is in the Tien Shan Gold Belt, one of the world?s largest gold provinces.
