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Oriole begins inaugural drilling at Mbe

Oriole Resources plc has started an inaugural diamond drilling campaign to confirm the orientation of mineralised zones at its Mbe orogenic gold project in the Adamawa region of Cameroon. MILESTONE Mbe is one of five licences within Oriole’s wider package of contiguous exploration licences, named the Eastern CLP, which covers 2,266 km2, prospective for gold […]

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Oriole awards 166.7m share options

Oriole Resources plc has granted in aggregate 166,700,000 share options to directors and certain members of staff for securing the BCM International Ltd earn-ins and as incentives. DIRECTORS’ DEALINGS The options have an exercise price of 0.33 pence per ordinary share, representing a 14% premium.   Equivalent to 4.28% of Oriole’s current issued share capital, […]

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Oriole identifies gold mineralisation at Gamboukou

Oriole Resources plc has identified gold mineralisation from stream sediment sampling at Gamboukou within the district-scale Central Licence Package in the Adamawa region, central Cameroon. ENCOURAGED Of a total 407 samples, nine samples graded 10 parts per billion gold or more, and a highest value of 39ppb gold. The company said that the results were comparable […]

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Oriole identifies potential ‘satellite’ targets at Mbe

Oriole Resources plc said it had identified new targets, adding to those in June, from a second soil sampling programme at the Mbe licence in the Adamawa region of Cameroon. DRILLING The “three further zones of gold anomalism” of MB02, MB03 and MB04 prospects lie to the east of MB01, with results of up to […]

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Oriole identifies new mineralised zone at Bibemi

Oriole Resources plc said it had identified a new mineralised zone at the Lawa West prospect within its 82.2%-owned Bibemi orogenic gold project in Cameroon. EXPANSION Earn-in partner BCM International Ltd is currently funding up to US$4 million exploration in return for up to a 50% interest in the project. Oriole added that recent mapping within the […]

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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 […]