- News and Announcements
31 January 2025
We have completed our work programme which began on the 1st of November 2024 and has now ended on the 31st of January 2025. It resulted in the digging of 25 trenches and the completion of digging 1,041 soil sample points. All the trenches dug have Lithology and Veins records. Over 6000 samples were taken (including standards and blanks) from the trenches since we first started digging the trenches until the end of the mission. Some of the samples were submitted to the ALS Nouakchott (MMM Labs) laboratory for mechanical preparation. The samples have now arrived at ALS Laboratory in Ireland and we are awaiting the results.
On the 14th of January 2025, we honored an invitation to attend a special session of the Future Mining Forum (FMF) 2025 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This session was organised by the Saudi Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources. Here is what we achieved during our trip:
1) A pitch to investors in the presence of senior government officials in the special session of about 60 participants, out of a total officially reported number of 20,000 participants at this year’s Forum. Our Vice-President for Sustainability and Impact made the pitch and she excelled.
2) Meetings with Australian and Canadian investors.
3) Meetings with present and former Mining Ministers from Africa.24 November 2024
Soil Sampling begins.
21 November 2024
The laboratory reports in November 2024 from the internationally known and accredited MSALABS, are showing the re-assaying results for gold in 40 initial pulp samples. They are all showing significant values except 3. We have carried out detailed statistical analysis confirming harmony with the results of the previous explorer whose team intersected 1g/t to 437g/t. Ongoing artisanal mining has already proved them right even before we started our exploration!
Please note that the re-assaying was done by fire-assay and repeated for greater certainty to eliminate doubt. We have a lot more samples on the way from trenching, soil sampling, RC and DD in our overhauled work programme already underway.
1 November 2024
Sahara Gold embarks on active work program ahead of schedule: discovering visible gold and encouraging results.
Project Progress Update since 1st October 2024- Arrival and meeting of expat geologists to with Chief Geologist to review historic data and assess and develop an initial work program for the Conchita project in order to progress it to a JORC compliant resource.
- Established an initial triple-method re-assaying program of holes consisting of pulp samples to determine best assay method for the Conchita project. Samples dispatched to the internationally recognized MSA LABS branch in Nouakchott on 21st of October 2024 and results expected in about 14 days.
- Completion of planning of an initial trenching and drill program for 2024.
- Relogging and Interpretation of RC chips of previous holes from the 2012 Conchita drill program so as to better correlate mineralisation with geology to be completed before end of October 2024.
- Field Crews due to leave for Site by the end of October. Field work expected to commence at the start of November.
Project Progress from December 2023 to September 2024- Drilling expected to begin in late November/early December 2024
- Sables Sustainability Mining Company Consultancy, management contractor of Sahara Gold, set up in Abu Dhabi— August 2024
- Technical due diligence by independent competent person of international reputation completed— May 2024
- Sahara and sister company, BIG Consulting, permits granted— December 2023