MetalsGrove Mining has taken a significant step forward at its Central West gold project in Côte d’Ivoire, identifying two parallel gold anomalies, each extending more than 2.5 kilometres. These newly discovered corridors are located within the company’s flagship Fifty-Five prospect, which forms part of its highly prospective Zuénoula permit. The anomalies have now been formally designated as potential drill targets.
The breakthrough follows soil sampling that returned a peak value of 583 parts per billion (ppb) gold. This impressive result lies within a broader 3.3-kilometre gold-bearing corridor, elevating Fifty-Five to the top of the company’s exploration priorities. To build on this success, field crews have been mobilised to conduct a tighter, high-density infill grid. The existing broad-spaced 200-metre by 200-metre sampling layout will be reduced to a 200-metre by 50-metre framework to sharpen definition ahead of an extensive auger drilling campaign.
The north-east orientation of these newly defined gold trends runs parallel to dominant regional structures. These major faults control several multi-million-ounce West African gold systems within the prospective Birimian greenstone belt, significantly boosting the company’s confidence in its targets. To ensure no detail is overlooked, MetalsGrove has also completed a comprehensive sampling of local termite mounds and loose quartz-vein material across the high-grade zones, with assays now pending. Termite mounds effectively bring deep subsurface materials to the surface from depths of up to 15 metres, providing a cost-effective window into what lies beneath.
The company’s exploration precision has been enhanced by detailed topographical mapping, now completed across the area. This includes high-resolution drone-borne LiDAR and orthophoto surveying technology to map precise elevation profiles, surface water flows, and geochemical dispersion pathways. This dataset is being integrated with soil geochemistry to plot optimal paths for the upcoming auger drilling program, which is expected to remain fully operational throughout the June-to-September wet season.
MetalsGrove has now processed fire-assay results for 1000 soil samples from the first phase of the sampling program, while a further 617 collected soil samples are currently at the laboratory with assays pending. Lijun Yang, MetalsGrove Mining managing director and chief executive officer, stated: “Defining our first gold potential drill target at the Fifty-Five Prospect is an important milestone for MetalsGrove and further validates the prospectivity of our Central West Gold Project in Côte d’Ivoire.”
Beyond Fifty-Five, MetalsGrove holds a commanding district-scale landholding in Côte d’Ivoire. Its broader Central West gold project spans a combined footprint of 1315 square kilometres across four strategically positioned permits along the prolific Abujar-Napié gold trend. This includes the Central prospect, just one kilometre south of Fifty-Five, which recently returned a strong 148 ppb gold response. Additionally, four newly defined regional zones—Eastern, Rouge, Konezra, and South-West—have shown encouraging soil anomalies exceeding 30 ppb gold.
MetalsGrove says the next phases of work will include completing wide scout grids across regional prospects and high-density infill sampling at Fifty-Five. Geologists will then plot the incoming assay data from the pending 617 samples to plan wet-season auger traverses. With a rapidly growing portfolio of targets and cutting-edge data on hand, MetalsGrove is positioning itself strongly in a world-class gold neighbourhood. Investors will likely watch closely for further assay results and the start of auger drilling as this West African story continues to develop.
