Roxgold Inc. (TSXV:ROG) announced results from the most recent drilling at the QV1 and QV Prime structures, located south of the 55 zone at the Bagassi South exploration target.
Highlights include:

Drilling

• 52.3 grams per tonne (“gpt”) gold over 6.1 metres (“m”) including 137.0 gpt gold over 0.8 m and 199.0 gpt gold over 1.0 m in diamond drill hole (“DDH”) YRM-15-RD-BGS-099
• 21.0 gpt gold over 6.7 m including 46.3 gpt gold over 0.7 m and 183.0 gpt gold over 0.6 m in DDH YRM-15-RD-BGS-104A

Metallurgical test work observations include:

• High rates of total gold extraction between 96% and 99% (overall recovery)
• High rates of gravity recovery between 70% and 90%
• Excellent whole ore (no gravity) leach kinetics, with majority of gold leached in 12 hours
• Moderate hardness of ore
• Low reagent consumption (cyanide and lime)

John Dorward, president and CEO of Roxgold, commented:

We are pleased with the results from this extension drilling program at QV1. We recommenced drilling this week with the goal of delivering a maiden resource on the QV1 structure in the second quarter. 

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