Aurum Resources has announced further high-grade gold results from its Boundiali gold project in Côte d’Ivoire, with drilling confirming that the BST1 deposit remains open along strike and at depth. The assays come from 25 diamond drillholes totaling 7,121.75 metres, part of a larger 150,000-metre drilling campaign underway at the project.
The standout intercept was a 0.65-metre section grading 41.38 grams per tonne (g/t) gold within a broader 9.55-metre zone averaging 5.18 g/t from 75.45 metres downhole. Additional high-grade results included 1 metre at 43.93 g/t from 268 metres, 1.26 metres at 23.10 g/t from a shallow 25 metres, and 5 metres at 5.26 g/t from 283 metres. Two other holes returned 13 metres at 2.08 g/t and 20 metres at 1.25 g/t, the latter including 6 metres at 2.29 g/t.
The new intercepts lie outside the existing 570,000-ounce, 100-per-cent-owned BST1 gold resource, which sits within the Boundiali South tenement at the southern edge of Aurum’s flagship 3.22-million-ounce Boundiali project. The company says the results will feed into an updated resource estimate, which had a drill collar cut-off date of 30 September and is due for release by the end of October.
Aurum Resources managing director Dr Caigen Wang said: “Boundiali continues to grow in scale, and today’s results are expected to add to that.” The updated resource numbers will inform a definitive feasibility study (DFS) for Boundiali, which the company expects to deliver in late 2026.