Drilling Update
Oromin keeps Sabodala drills turning
2006-04-19 18:20 ET - News Release
Mr. Chet Idziszek reports
25 NEW EXPLORATION TARGETS IDENTIFIED AT SABODALA
Oromin Explorations Ltd. is providing further information on the numerous new exploration targets referred to in its Stockwatch news on April 5, 2006, that have been identified in its continuting $8-million (U.S.) exploration program on the 230-square-kilometre Sabodala property in eastern Senegal.
Since the commencement of its comprehensive exploration program, Oromin has focused its efforts on three principal areas, Golouma, Niakafiri South and Masato. The program began with a high-resolution airborne geophysical survey, followed by prospecting, geologic mapping, soil geochemical sampling, ground geophysics, hand and excavator trenching and most recently the first stage of a minimum 10,000-metre drilling program.
Encouraging results for Oromin's first five holes were announced in Stockwatch on April 5, 2006, and additional drill results are pending. Drilling at Golouma, Niakafiri South and Masato is being accelerated and is currently under way at the Golouma South target where the only drill hole, SAB-06-03, returned a 15.0-metre interval grading 4.55 grams per tonne gold.
In addition to the foregoing, Oromin initiated a property-wide, regional reconnaissance evaluation late last year. Preliminary results from this continuing program have thus far identified at least 25 new exploration targets. These targets will be the focus of follow-up exploration and drilling.
Highlights from some of these numerous new exploration targets include:
Target No. 1 -- a 250-metre-wide soil geochemical anomaly associated with favourably altered volcanics from which preliminary prospecting sampling has returned up to 1.65 g/t gold. A detailed soil geochemical grid has been initiated at this area.
Target No. 2 -- a 700-metre-wide soil geochemical anomaly located approximately 3.0 kilometres northeast of Mineral Deposits Limited's Sabodala deposit and within the same geological-geophysical trend. A detailed soil geochemical grid has been planned at this area.
Target No. 4 -- a 1.4-kilometre-wide soil geochemical anomaly that is one of the broadest soil anomalies identified to date. A detailed soil geochemical grid has now been completed at this area as well as prospecting and geological mapping, and results are pending. Hand trenching is now under way.
Target No. 9 -- a 500-metre-wide soil geochemical anomaly that is coincident with one of the strongest IP geophysical anomalies identified by Oromin on its Sabodala property. A detailed soil geochemical grid has been completed in this area and further IP geophysics which are continuing to extend this geophysical signature are continuing.
Target No. 12 -- a minimum 2.0-kilometre-long geochemical anomaly adjacent to and subparallel to the extensive Niakafiri South exploration area. A detailed soil geochemical grid has been completed in this area.
Targets No. 13-No. 17 -- all prospecting discoveries still to be followed up with a detailed soil geochemical grid. Initial rock sampling results include: 73.05 g/t gold at target No. 13, 6.34 g/t gold and 28.22 g/t gold at target No. 14, 3.36 g/t gold and 8.95 g/t gold associated with a 5.0-metre-wide quartz vein within sheared, altered volcanics at target No. 16 and 1.99 g/t gold, 5.80 g/t gold and 26.61 g/t gold at target No. 17.
Targets No. 18-No. 24 -- a series of recently identified soil geochemical anomalies identified within the northern portion of the property where limited or no previous exploration has occurred. Detailed soil geochemical grid coverage has been initiated throughout this area.
All fieldwork was carried out under the supervision of Gerald McArthur, PGeo, as a qualified person for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101.