Indigo Exploration (IXI) finishes the auger drilling program over the Djelinfing and Forela artisanal workings/gold targets on the Djimbala Permit in southern Mali.
Results are not yet available.
The Djimbala Permit is situated in the Yanfolila Gold Belt and is surrounded by many gold deposits, mines and prospecting permits.
The 602 vertical auger holes were completed with an average depth of 7.8 meters and spaced 25 metres apart along ten transect lines.
This will provide a 2.0-kilometre strike length by 2.5-kilometre wide test of the Djelinfing and Forela gold targets to prioritize subsequent air-core fence drilling this year.
Also, Indigo reports that its VP Exploration, Tom Henricksen, made a recent site visit to the Djimbala permit and Djelinfing and Forela artisanal workings during the auger drilling program.
Tom observed an active systematic surface mining operation on the Djelinfing trend by artisanal workers extracting a 2-metre bench of laterite over a 250 metre by 50-metre area, to-date, that is being processed by gravity method and extracting particulate gold.
The Djelinfing target covers an area 2.5 kilometres by 2 kilometres of artisanal working that appear to express at least three north-south to northeast oriented trends of mineralization.
Some 300m north of the permit, historic drilling intercepted 2.59 g/t Au over 6m, which appears to strike towards the Djelinfing area.
The 1.5 kilometres long north-trending Forela target area aligns with historic drilling 300m north of the Djimbala Permit, where they returned drill intercepts of 4.75 g/t Au over 6m, 3.13 g/t Au over 6m and 2.45 g/t Au over 8m.
Indigo Exploration (IXI) is in the grey and is trading at C$0.075 at 3:41 pm EST on Feb 4.