Confidence Boosting Infill Drilling at Nyanzaga Project

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Perth, Dec. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CONFIDENCE BOOSTING INFILL DRILLING AT NYANZAGA PROJECT

Perth, Western Australia/December 5, 2024/ Perseus Mining Limited (ASX/TSX: PRU) is pleased to provide an update on ongoing resource definition drilling being conducted at its recently acquired Nyanzaga Gold Project in Tanzania (Nyanzaga or the Project).

Designed to increase Perseus’s understanding of Nyanzaga’s Mineral Resource, a programme of drilling commenced in August 2024. This work aimed to supplement and where needed, fill in gaps in the work done by previous owners. The programme was also intended to provide additional information required to inform a change in mine design from the prior owner’s plan of a small open pit plus underground operation to the large-scale open pit operation contemplated by Perseus.

By mid-November 2024, eight drill rigs were operating on the site and a total of 20,278 m of combined reverse circulation (RC) and diamond (DD) drilling of the Stage 1 Tusker Hill Infill Resource Development Program was complete, representing 77% of the budgeted 26,250 m Tusker program.

The objective of this drilling program was to infill existing drilling completed predominantly at a spacing of 40 m × 40 m, to a nominal drill pattern of 20 m × 40 m to provide additional confidence in the defined mineralisation. While the program is ongoing, results achieved to date are positive, with the more significant results including:

  • NYZDD1340: 56m @ 3.44 g/t gold from 273m and 111m @ 5.02 g/t gold from 438m including 11m @ 22.02 g/t gold from 456m and 11m @ 17.09 g/t gold from 490m;

  • NYZRCDD1336: 114m @ 3.72 g/t gold from 284m including 4m @ 20.84 g/t gold from 348m and 20m @ 5.18 g/t gold from 361m;

  • NYZRCDD1353: 42m @ 4.74 g/t gold from 158m (pre collar only, additional results pending);

  • NYZDD1329: 41.6m @ 3.99 g/t gold from 35m including 16m @ 7.13 g/t gold from 49m;

  • NYZDD1330: 76m @ 2.07 g/t gold from 88m including 14m @ 3.87 g/t gold from 89m;

  • NYZRCDD1328: 83m @ 2.29 g/t gold from 233m including 4m @ 28.13 g/t gold from 307m;

  • NYZRCDD1331: 77m @ 2.92 g/t gold from 304m including 7m @ 11.50 g/t gold from 374m;

  • NYZRCDD1338: 33.2m @ 3.02 g/t gold from 517m;

  • NYZRCDD1341: 53m @ 2.27 g/t gold from 287m including 16m @ 4.06 g/t gold from 296m

Further geotechnical, metallurgical and sterilisation drilling programs are ongoing on site to further inform final pit designs ahead of a Final Investment Decision (FID) which is expected to be made by Perseus in late January 2025.

THE NYANZAGA GOLD PROJECT, TANZANIA

Nyanzaga is located in north-western Tanzania, within the Sengerema District of the Mwanza Region, south of Lake Victoria approximately 60 kilometres southwest of Mwanza (Tanzania’s second largest city). The Project is located on the north-eastern flank of the Sukumaland Archaean Greenstone Belt of the Lake Victoria Goldfield, approximately 60 km east of Anglogold Ashanti’s Geita Gold Mine and 35 km northeast of Barrick’s Bulyanhulu Gold Mine. The Project area covers Nyanzian greenstone volcanic rocks and sediments typical of the greenstone belts of the central craton.