West African Resources has announced positive drilling results following further significant gold and copper mineralization at its fully owned Sartenga copper and gold discovery part of the Boulsa Project in Burkina Faso.

The company's aggressive drilling campaign is fast tracking its maiden Burkina Faso resource for December 2012. West African Resources has USD 4 million in cash and is the largest ASX listed landholder in Burkina Faso, West Africa.

The company's recent drilling results have returned the highest gold grades to date at the Sartenga gold and copper discovery with grades of up to 6.9 grams per tonne gold and 1.0% copper.

Drilling results from Section 11, to the northeast have also confirmed shallow gold and copper mineralization in oxide at Sartenga now extends more than 2 kilometers and over 250 meters in width. These are broadly supported by the following drilling results:1. 20 meters at 2.0 gram per tonne gold and 0.2% copper from 4 meters including 4 meters at 6.9 gram per tonne gold and 0.3% copper;

2. 60 meters at 0.5 gram per tonne gold and 0.2% copper from 4 meters and

3. 42 meters at 0.9 gram per tonne gold and 0.1% copper from 8 meters which ended in mineralization.

West African Resources’ deep drilling program will continue in September targeting a high grade primary zone along the 2 kilometer trike. This will be followed by aircore drilling in October to fully test the 3 kilometer plus high tenor portion of the auger gold in saprolite anomaly which remains open to the west.

Source - Proactive Investors.com

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