REUNION Gold Corporation has concluded its planned drilling programme of bedrock mineralisation at the Matthews Ridge manganese project and is now sampling both the mineralised tailings of the previous mining operations and the loose material (detrital) already drilled.

Reporting this continued expansion of their exploration activities yesterday, officials said the company has completed a total of 47,570 metres of diamond drilling in 735 holes and 17,361 metres of reverse circulation drilling in 283 holes.
They said that Reunion has, to date, received complete assay results from 685 drill holes. New results, from 54 diamond drill holes and 60 reverse circulation drill holes done in 2012, were also reported.
Reunion expects to receive the balance of the assay results by the end of October 2012.
Meanwhile, the officials disclosed that an independent consultant is currently executing the geological modeling of manganese mineralisation for the western half of the project, covering hills five to nine, while the database of the eastern half (hills one to four) is being readied, with the objective of completing an initial resource estimate and a technical report compliant with Canadian National Instrument 43-101 in the second half of 2012.
They said comprehensive programmes to sample both the mineralised tailings of the previous operation and the detrital cover of bedrock mineralisation already drilled are ongoing.
The tailings sampling is being done using a specialised manual ‘Banka’ drill, suitable for the wet conditions of the valley where the tailings are deposited.
The detrital material is being sampled by mechanised and manual pits. One hundred such have already been dug on the western half of the project, from hills five to nine and the average thickness of this material is approximately 1.5 metres, they said.
“Drilling results continue to indicate an excellent correlation with trench intersections, confirming that mineralisation persists regularly throughout the saprolite zone and continues as proto-ore in the fresh rock. Drilling has been done to the saprolite-fresh rock interface. The company intends to define resources in the saprolitic, detrital and tailings materials, which are amenable to simple earth-moving extraction,” the Reunion spokesman said.
Reunion Gold Corporation is a mineral exploration company focused on the acquisition, exploration and development of manganese properties in the North West District, through its 100 percent indirectly owned subsidiary Reunion Manganese Inc.