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Oriole encouraged by Bibemi drill progress

Oriole Resources plc earn-in partner has completed 10 of 62 drill holes in the phase IV exploration programme at its 82.2%-owned Bibemi orogenic gold project in Cameroon. STUDIES The company said that multiple shallow-dipping, less than 45˚ from horizontal, and steeply dipping quartz and quartz-tourmaline veins, up to 2.40m wide, have been intersected. BCM International […]

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Oriole to define more targets and extend Bibemi MRE

Oriole Resources plc has progressed work to define further targets and extend the mineral resource estimate (MRE) at its 90%-owned Bibemi orogenic gold project in north Cameroon. BIBEMI The 177km2 project holds an identified shear-hosted gold mineralisation at four main prospects of Bakassi Zone 1, Bakassi Zone 2, Lawa West and Lawa East. December 2022’s inaugural JORC MRE showed 305,000 […]

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Oriole’s orogenic gold MRE is ‘first’ for Cameroon

Oriole Resources plc reported an inaugural inferred JORC mineral resource estimate (MRE) of 305,000 Troy ounces grading 2.19 g/t gold for Bakassi Zone 1 at Bibemi in Cameroon. EXPLORATION Forge International Ltd compiled the revised resource and exploration target at Bakassi Zone 1, one of four prospects at Oriole’s 90%-owned project. Oriole said that the […]

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Oriole starts phase 4 drilling at Bibemi gold project

Oriole Resources plc began Phase 4 diamond drilling programme at Bakassi Zone 1 in the company’s 90%-owned Bibemi gold project in Cameroon. PROGRAMME The company has to date identified four main prospects with the majority of drilling focused on a circa 1km section at the Bakassi Zone 1 prospect. The programme, which began on 30 […]

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Oriole sampling results extend Bakassi Zone 1 at Bibemi

Oriole Resources plc said that recent results from a completed soil sampling programme showed continuity of a gold system at its 90% owned Bibemi project in Cameroon. PROGRAMME Soil sampling was completed for 1,455 samples over the southern half of Bibemi, extending and infilling historical regional sampling grids. Results have returned up to 271 ppb […]