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Lindian to drill test bauxite play in Guinea

2019-12-19

Dec. 19, 2019 - Lindian’s Gaoual bauxite project in Guinea will soon be peppered with drill holes courtesy of an auger drill program that will target the Bouba and Mamaya prospects that are thought to be the more lucrative, conglomerate hosted deposits. Surface samples from Gaoual recently returned 53.57% alumina and a two-pronged drilling program is now planned to assess the overall grade, thickness and scale of the deposit.


Lindian’s Gaoual bauxite project in northwest Guinea boasts high grade bauxite that is outcropping at surface. The first phase of Lindian’s exploration program will focus solely on Bouba, where a Landcruiser auger rig is set to drill about 34 holes. It is envisaged that phase two of the exploration program will be a 300 metre by 300-metre infill drilling program at Bouba and a 600 metre by 600-metre drill out of the Mamaya Plateau.


Located around 165 kilometres northeast of the Kamsar port, Gaoual, according to the company, is possibly shaping up as a replica of the Sangaredi ore body to the south-west, where superior “conglomerate” style bauxite was earlier mined by Compagnie des Bauxite Guinee, or “CBG” - a joint venture between mining giants, Rio Tinto and Alcoa and the Guinean Government. Whilst CBG is still a significant bauxite player, producing around 13.6 million tonnes of alumina oxide a year, the lucrative conglomerate style mineralisation at Sangaredi has long been depleted.


Lindian Managing Director Shannon Green said: “The commencement of access track and drill site preparation works at site marks a significant milestone in the Company’s progression”.

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