Attractiveness of Cote d'lvoire's Birimian greenstone belt leading to the Abujar gold discovery

摘要

Tietto Minerals Ltd ("Tietto") on April 9, 2019 announced JORC 2012 mineral resources of 37.6mt @ 1.4 g/t gold for 1.73 Moz with a higher-grade zone of gold mineralisation at 2.1g/t containing more than 1.06 Moz gold from surface, over 1.4km of the northern half of the Abujar gold project in central-west Cote d'lvoire. Tietto's rapid drilling campaign with exceptionally high-grade intercepts such as 82m @ 3.14 g/t gold from 26m, 20m @ 14.80 g/t gold from 42m and 21m @ 13.02 g/t gold from 215m, as recently reported in the company's September 2019 quarterly report, is expected to deliver a second JORC-compliant resource update for 2019 in Q4. This update is expected to deliver upwards movements in both resource quantity and confidence. The rapid resource growth demonstrates the attractiveness of the underexplored gold-rich country of Cote d'lvoire, which sits in the centre of the gold-bearing Birimian greenstone belt of West Africa, counting for 34% of the Birimian craton. As part of the first arrival of genuine gold explorers at the end qf the Cote d'lvoire's political unrest in 2011, Tietto has had the privilege of access to a large number of lucrative gold-rich exploration tenements which has underpinned Tietto's gold discoveries and quick definition of gold resources as well as provide a pipeline of targets to drive its long-term growth in the West Africa region.This paper depicts the following aspects of the Abujar gold project: discovery story, project geology and exploration progress.