Nexus Gold Contracts Falcon Drilling for Upcoming Work Program at Bouboulou Gold Concession, Burkina Faso

Vancouver, Canada / TheNewswire / October 6, 2016 – Nexus Gold (TSXV:NXS; OTC:NXXGF) is pleased to announce that the Company has contracted Falcon Drilling Burkina Faso S.A.R.L. (“Falcon”) for the upcoming drill program at the Bouboulou Gold Concession, Burkina Faso, West Africa.
Falcon has been previously contracted for its drilling services by other resources companies operating in Burkina Faso such as Roxgold Inc and True Gold Mining. The company therefore has extensive experience drilling in the country and vast knowledge of the area.
Nexus Gold Director, Warren Robb, P.Geo, will plan and oversee a 2000 meter phase one drill program at Bouboulou. Mr. Robb was Chief Geologist for Roxgold in 2012 where he conducted previous drill programs at the property (then called Bissa West).
Bouboulou Gold Concession
The Bouboulou Gold concession is a near-surface, advanced stage gold exploration target located in a known gold belt, within a prolific and highly active area. The property has previously been drilled by Roxgold Inc, Riverstone Resources and Boliden. To date four zones of gold mineralization have been identified on the property.
Bouboulou was held by Boliden in 1997 as part of a much larger land package. Boliden completed regional Rapid Air Blast (“RAB”) drilling, comprising 25,400 meters. Included in this total was infill drilling which defined a northeast trending gold anomaly measuring 13 km by 2 to 6 km wide. The mineralization was described as disseminated sulphides in tuffs and dacites.
New Zone at Bouboulou
As reported in the September 8, 2016 Nexus Gold news release, a new area of interest has been observed on the property due to an increase in artisanal mining activity. Upon the initial property visit the company geologist noted a large orpaillage (area worked by artisanal miners). The zone being exploited by the orpilleurs is a shear hosted in meta-volcanics and meta-sediments with cross cutting quartz veins and stringers. The orpaillage extends for some 250 meters along strike with the Bouda orpaillage which is adjacent to the property and located along the Sabce shear zone. This same shear zone also hosts Norgold’s Bissa Hills mine.
Eight grab samples were taken from artisanal workings of the four known gold zones on the property in early September, 2016. As reported in the Company news release of September 27, 2016, six of the eight samples returned gold values, including 2.8 g/t Au and 5.5 g/t Au, respectively, at Bouboulou 2.
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