African Aura Resources Ltd. - Northern Projects

Ownership: 100%
Size: Tchollire (974 km²) Rey Bouba (992 km²)
Location: Northern Cameroon
Target: Birimian shear zone hosted gold
Geology: Pan African/Birimian Mobile Belt
Status: Regional reconnaissance defined targets
Current programme: Regional soil sampling at Kalardje

Introduction

The Tchollire and Rey Bouba licences are located within the northern part of Cameroon. The licences cover a combination of savanna in the south, and sahel type vegetation to the north. Access is good via the main Ngaoundere - Garoua tarmac road that runs between the two licences, and a network of laterite roads with a regional airport at Garoua.

Exploration Summary

The BRGM mapped the area in the 1990s and recorded several alluvial gold anomalies. African Aura field teams have has identified 9 prospective areas, including three primary gold occurrences at Millionaire, Gentil and Kalardje on the Rey Bouba licence and Sakdje on the Tchollire licence through mapping, drainage, soil, and rock sampling.

Landsat image with mineral occurrences superimposed

Soil sampling at Kalardje has identified a 2km long geochemical gold anomaly defined by the >25ppb Au contour that coincides with a mapped structure. The grid is being extended along strike of the structure. Surface and underground artisanal workings at Sakdje are focused on a quartz vein which is up to 5m wide. A sample taken by African Aura from the vein returned a grade of 6.7 g/t.

Kalardje geochem results

African Aura is currently engaged in reconnaissance level prospecting, stream sediment sampling, and soil sampling over an area containing a number of hard rock gold occurrences.

Geological setting

The licences cover metavolcanics, schists and gneisses of mapped Birimian/Eburnean age and synkinematic to late Pan-African granitoids. The most significant structural feature is the Tchollire shear zone with a northeast-southwest orientation that constitutes a splay off the CASZ and can be traced for at least 80km through the Rey Bouba licence. Large scale folds associated with the shear zone are observed around Bouba Njida on the Tchollire licence, where complex deformation patterns may have favoured multistage hydrothermal fluid circulation.

Geological map