Shannon Green

Lindian Resources has secured an option to acquire a 51% stake in the high-grade Gaoual bauxite project in the West African country of Guinea that looks like it could be a rare “conglomerate” deposit. Average alumina grades that shoot the lights out at 54%, with a corresponding low silica content under 2%, look to be the goods. Drilling will kick off at the project in December.

Further surface mapping conducted just before the launch of its maiden drilling program at the Gaoual bauxite project in northwest Guinea has given Lindian Resources the confidence it is sitting on an ore body that is significantly larger than previously anticipated. The company says it is convinced that Gaoual’s high grade, outcropping Bouba “conglomerate” bauxite target is almost double the length than originally thought.

Lindian’s Gaoual bauxite project in Guinea will soon be peppered with drill holes courtesy of an auger drill program that will target the Bouba and Mamaya prospects that are thought to be the more lucrative, conglomerate hosted deposits. Surface samples from Gaoual recently returned an impressive 53.57% alumina and a two-pronged drilling program is now being planned to assess the overall grade, thickness and scale of the deposit.

Lindian Resources looks to be onto a lucrative, high grade bauxite deposit in Africa that has now been confirmed by the company as a rare “conglomerate” style deposit. Initial unconfirmed XRF results at the Bouba Plateau at Lindian’s Gaoual Bauxite Project in Guinea, show extraordinarily high aluminium oxide numbers of around 61% with only 4.6% of the nuisance mineral silica present.

Lindian Resources' maiden auger drilling program at its Gaoual bauxite project in Guinea has confirmed that the company is sitting on a very high-grade conglomerate-hosted bauxite deposit, with drill holes encountering exceptional grades of over 60% aluminium oxide right across the Bouba Plateau. The thickness of the mineralisation varies and in some areas is over 15m according to Lindian.

Lindian Resources’ exploration program in northern Guinea continues to meet with outstanding success. Field work has identified two additional high-grade conglomerate bauxite targets adjacent to and along strike from the main prospect area at Bouba. Sampling at Bouba South has returned samples consistent with the main target area including 62.6% alumina with the strike length now blowing out by a further 3.5km.

Lindian Resources’ high-grade conglomerate-hosted bauxite deposit at its Gaoual project in Guinea continues to bulk up, with the company confirming it has extended the Bouba plateau one kilometre to the north. Lindian has also verified the presence of conglomerate bauxite at Bouba South, which is currently sized at half a kilometre by 2.5km. The northern extension of Bouba is 4m thick Bouba South has an average width of 5m, both starting from the surface.

The results are in for the initial laboratory test work from Lindian Resources’ maiden drilling program at its Gaoual bauxite project in Guinea, with the company declaring that it has a high-grade conglomerate bauxite play on its hands at the Bouba plateau. Lindian said the average grades from the primary Bouba plateau samples were 56% alumina and the “total available alumina” was in excess of 51% when measured at low temperatures.

Lindian Resources’ has thrown up some pulse quickening, ultra-high-grade alumina numbers at both the Bouba north and Bouba south extensions of the Bouba plateau at its Gaoual conglomerate bauxite project in Guinea, Africa. Three holes from Bouba North returned alumina grades between 50 and 54.4 per cent alumina with four holes at Bouba South grading even higher, between 54.9 and 58.5 per cent alumina.