Tanga Resources Limited (ASX: TRL) (Tanga or the Company) is pleased to announce the appointment of an experienced geologist, Pierrick Couderc as Group Exploration Manager.
Pierrick is an enthusiastic field-oriented geologist, with 20 years' experience in a range of commodities and geological settings. Most recently, Pierrick was the Cote d'Ivoire Exploration Manager for Centamin Plc., having setup and led the team who discovered the 2.45Moz gold Doropo Project and the 0.65Moz gold ABC Project. He has previously worked for Dundee Precious Metals (Armenia and Burkina Faso), Kasbah Resources Ltd (Morocco) and Crewgold Corp. (Guinea and Ghana). Pierrick is a French national and fluent in both French and English.
Pierrick's appointment provides the Company with an immediate ability to start and progress the Cote d'Ivoire exploration as well as oversee and further develop its Namibian Projects.
Tanga's Chairman, Andrew Pardey, commented: 'We are delighted with the appointment of Pierrick, whom I have personally worked with for many years. Pierrick has been an incredibly successful explorer in Cote d'Ivoire and is highly familiar with the country, its people and most importantly, the geology. I am looking forward to working with Pierrick again and to getting under way in what will be a busy field season in Cote d'Ivoire for Tanga.'
Cote d'Ivoire exploration
Field work has commenced in Cote d'Ivoire on the early stage Bocanda Project, which is held in joint venture with Predictive Discovery Limited (ASX: PDI) and a private Ivoirian exploration company. The initial program consists of stream sediment sampling using bulk leach extractable gold (BLEG) sampling over both the Bocanda and Bocanda Nord permits.
BLEG sampling is a reconnaissance geochemical sampling technique which involves the collection of a large quantity of sample (usually between 2-5 kilograms) of the fine silt to clay fractions of a stream sediment sample. This sample is then leached using cyanide and can be analysed to extremely low detection limits (usually 0.1ppb for gold).
Importantly, this is a robust, cost-effective method which has been employed very successfully for the discovery of gold deposits and it has been extensively used across West Africa as an efficient method to fast-track reconnaissance exploration over new ground. Organization of the exploration teams to progress work on both the Bouafle and Mankono Projects is also under way, with mobilisation to the field commencing in early April.
Namibia Exploration
The Damara Gold Project is located in central Namibia and covers the major NE-SW trending Otjihorongo Thrust and the north-northeast trending Welwitschia Lineament which is known to host structurally controlled copper deposits, previously drill tested by Tanga, in the north of the project area, on the Hagenhof licence.
Conceptual targets in Namibia are usually intimately associated with intrusive rocks and are often pyrrhotite bearing, hence these targets are frequently characterised by magnetic highs. As such, the Company has placed an emphasis on identifying magnetic features at significant structural intersections that may signal intrusions related to mineralisation. First pass reconnaissance exploration consists of soil geochemistry with anomalies usually followed up by mapping, rock chip geochemistry and finally ground magnetics.
The collection of these important baseline datasets will enable the Company to systematically rank and evaluate conceptual targets before conducting more expensive exploration techniques such as drilling.
Namibia exploration has been ongoing since the consolidation of the Damara Gold Project in June 2020. To date, the Company has received results for 8,700 soil samples with an additional 1,170 samples collected and awaiting assay, with a further 4,900 soil samples planned for collection over the coming months. The goal of this work is to provide systematic geochemical coverage over the majority of the Company's land holdings in Namibia, including our highest ranked conceptual targets.
To date, results have shown an area of broad gold anomalism coincident with the Otjihorongo thrust that has multi-element support; also being anomalous in antimony, bismuth, cadmium and tellurium, which are typical pathfinder elements indicative of a hydrothermal system capable of carrying gold. The Company is conducting follow-up work to refine and confirm the soil anomalies identified and the collection of the remaining regional soil samples is ongoing. The Company looks forward to updating investors when all results are available.
Contact:
Chris van Wijk
Tel: +61 8 9381 5686
WIA GOLD LIMITED 
