Castle Minerals hit gold at Akoko

Western Australian gold exploration company Castle Minerals Ltd, has intersected shallow gold mineralisation at its Akoko North site in Ghana.

Conducted over a 200m spread, drilling intercepts included 18m at 2.17 grams per tonne gold from 3m, 17m at 2.29gpt gold from 50m, and 2m at 2.66gpt gold from 15m.

Castle Managing Director Mike Ivey said the results show that a promising gold system may exist.

"These results are very promising; consecutive intercepts at 200m line spacing suggests a large gold system may exist.

"The near surface results have obvious economic potential while the deeper intercept in hole ANCR 08 (11m at 6.65 g/t) is from a sulphide zone that provides promise of high grade primary gold mineralisation," he said.