IAMGOLD announced drill programm at Diakha deposit

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IAMGOLD Corporation announced that 2017 drilling program at the Diakha deposit on its wholly owned Siribaya project in Western Mali. In 2017, the Company completed a combined diamond and Reverse Circulation drilling program designed to infill and increase confidence in the current resource as well as target expansions of the Diakha deposit. Assay results are reported herein for 105 drill holes totaling 19,520 meters.

Assay intersections relating to this release include the following highlights:

Infill Drill Holes:

1. SRD17-198: 26.0 meters grading 6.79 g/t Au
2. Including: 8.0 meters grading 20.52 g/t Au
3. SRD17-205: 18.0 meters grading 11.06 g/t Au
4. Including: 6.0 meters grading 32.45 g/t Au
5. SRD17-215: 13.0 meters grading 2.81 g/t Au
6. and 26.0 meters grading 2.62 g/t Au

Expansion Drill Holes:

1. SRD17-217: 16.0 meters grading 4.70 g/t Au
2. Including: 4.0 meters grading 16.11 g/t Au
3. SRD17-226: 10.0 meters grading 5.16 g/t Au
4. SRC17-687: 16.0 meters grading 7.65 g/t Au
5. Including: 4.0 meters grading 28.94 g/t Au
6. SRC17-704: 50.0 meters grading 2.01 g/t Au
7. Including: 4.0 meters grading 9.70 g/t Au

Mr Craig MacDougall, Senior Vice President, Exploration for IAMGOLD, stated that "we are very pleased with the results of our 2017 program which have not only better delineated high grade structures within the known resource, but have also confirmed extensions of the mineralization to both the north and south along strike beyond the current resource pit shell. These extensions have nearly doubled the strike length of the mineralized foot print and we continue to advance towards our objective of achieving a targeted resource threshold of 2 million ounces."

Source : Strategic Research Institute SteelGuru