Canada’s Fortuna Silver Mines is developing its Sunbird exploration programme at the Séguéla gold project in Côte d’Ivoire, with first gold pour expected in mid-2023, the company said in a statement.
"Exploration drilling at the Séguéla gold Project continues to advance the Sunbird Prospect with a recently completed 7-hole, 1,887-meter program testing the continuity of mineralization at depth and along strike to the south," the statement said. "Drilling was primarily focused on providing better resolution of the extent of the central high-grade core identified in earlier drilling … ahead of the anticipated preparation of a maiden mineral inferred resource estimate, with assays highlighting the continuity of the mineralization."
Paul Weedon, the company’s senior vice president of exploration, commented that the latest "results at Séguéla continue to support the high-grade trend we have seen from the recent drilling at the Sunbird Prospect, and with all results now to hand, the Company is looking forward to seeing a maiden inferred resource estimate for Sunbird."