Located at the northern end of a 13 kilometre long by 3km wide underexplored mineralised corridor in the company’s southwestern BD licence, the BDT2 target area hosts free-milling gold in a thick north-south trending sandstone unit flanked by volcano-sedimentary rocks.
True widths for the relatively shallow intercepts are estimated at 65-80% of downhole lengths and gold mineralisation remains open along strike and at depth across all deposits within the BDT2 suite of deposits.
Mineralisation is associated with fine disseminated pyrite and an alteration-related mineral assemblage including hematite, silica, chlorite, tourmaline, thin quartz veining, albite and carbonate.
The current BDT2 resource comprises a single indicated resource envelope within a considerably bigger contiguous inferred resource block. Two smaller inferred resource zones are located ~500m north of the main BDT2 deposit area.
The combined total for all of the resource zones at BDT2 is already a healthy 21.4 million tonnes at an average grade of 0.7g/t gold for about 482,000 ounces of gold.
Notably, the new hits sit outside the company’s current resource envelope, providing a positive outlook for a resource upgrade to the overall BDT2 resource anticipated as part of an upcoming major update across the company’s projects – possibly by early Q1 CY2026.
The update will embrace much of the extensive drilling undertaken throughout the year, targeting growth across Aurum’s current combined Boundiali and Napié resource base of 3.28 million ounces.
Aurum has recently bolstered its drilling capacity by adding two more rigs, expanding its company-owned fleet to 12 machines to better support its accelerated program which exceeds 130,000m for 2025 across its Boundiali project and nearby separate Napié project, about 100km southeast of Boundiali.
The resource update will inform a pre-feasibility study (PFS) for Boundiali, also due in early Q1 CY2026, which will evaluate proposed open-pit economics and operational feasibility.
Aurum’s next steps will include about 100,000m of diamond drilling at Boundiali, focused on boosting resource size and confidence at its BD, BM, and BST deposits.
Other work will target new prospects through soil anomalies and geological mapping while also scouting for new targets for next year’s discovery pipeline.
A 30,000m drilling program will also continue at Napié to expand its 0.87Moz resource, with a mineral resource update also planned for early Q1 CY2026.
The company holds ~$45M in cash (inclusive of Montage shares, unaudited) which it says will fully-fund its currently planned exploration and development.
With mineralisation open, a seemingly irrepressible pipeline of solid gold hits, an expanded rig fleet and plenty of funding, Aurum looks poised for further substantial resource growth and new project milestones in the near future.
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