Aurum Resources has once again lit up the screen with more bonanza-grade gold hits, including a stunning 3.1 metres at 70.78 g/t gold in its 100,000-metre infill and extension drilling program at the company’s 2.41 million ounce Boundiali project in West Africa.
The 3.1m at 70.78g/t gold is part of a broader 5.10m intercept at 43.13g/t gold from just 112.9m down-hole.
Significantly, the intercept sits outside Aurum’s current gold resource estimate for its 16.2 million tonne, 590,000 ounce BMT3 deposit.
Four other top hits include a hole that delivered 5.20m at 4.46g/t gold from 167.8m, including 2m at 10.71g/t, while a third hole gave up 12.35m at 1.80g/t gold from 258.65m, including 5m at 3.38g/t.
The fourth hole intercepted 5.6m at 3.90g/t gold from 373m, including 3.6m assaying 5.73g/t, while a fifth hole probed 9.32m at 2.07g/t gold from 168m, including 6m at 3.08g/t.
The latest diamond-core results from Aurum’s BMT3 deposit, in the northern third of its BM tenement area, have confirmed thick, high-grade shoots that remain wide open.
The latest intercepts conform with Aurum’s previously revealed eye-watering intercepts from BMT3 such as 4.2m at 80.6g/t gold, including 1.43m at 234g/t gold in one hole and another hole that delivered 3.8m at 73.8g/t gold, including 0.8m at an impressive 350g/t gold.
Several other previously-reported holes produced super-impressive 1m intercepts going 277.54g/t, 274.89, 152.35, 150.5 and 110.95g/t gold.
Mineralisation at the project is hosted in a diorite intrusion and remains open in every direction, giving Aurum plenty of room for discovery and further growth as it pushes aggressively towards a planned major resource update in the new year.
Aurum Resources managing director Dr. Caigen Wang said: “We have again hit shallow high-grade gold intercepts with 3.10m at 70.78g/t Au from 112.90m in MBDD291 at Boundiali. This bonanza grade gold intercept is sitting outside of the current MRE and is about 375m south of 4.20m at 80.64g/t Au from 107m including 1.43m at 234.35g/t Au in MBDD214B4.”
Two major mineral resource updates – one for Boundiali and one for Napié – are locked in for early Q1 2026 and are expected to materially grow the company’s current combined 3.28 million ounce gold inventory for both projects.
A pre-feasibility study for Boundiali is also on track within the same time-frame as the two resource updates
The company has recently added two more rigs to bring its fleet complement to twelve and has lifted its 2025 drilling metreage target to well over 130,000m across Boundiali and its Napié project which lies about 100km southeast of the Boundiali tenement block.
In a gold market that will always reward ounces in the ground, Aurum continues to hit the sorts of grades and widths that turn heads.
With about $45 million in cash keeping the drill rods turning, a wide-open gold system that delivers big intercepts and exceptional gold grades and a major resource update only months away, Aurum keeps delivering the sort of news-flow that West African gold stories are made of.
Aurum-watchers are optimistic that the best may still lie ahead are mindful that this is not Aurum Managing Director Caigen Wang’s first rodeo. He was the founder of Tietto Minerals that enjoys rarified air with the very few ASX listed companies that have made gold discoveries in Africa and gone on the build profitable mines.
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By Doug Bright
