Predictive Discovery accelerates Bankan Gold Project drilling as it targets maiden JORC resource mid-2021

Predictive Discovery Ltd (ASX:PDI) is accelerating drilling at its Bankan Gold Project in Guinea, with the 25,000-metres Bankan-2 drilling program operating at full capacity as it targets a maiden JORC resource in mid-2021.

Three reverse circulation (RC) diamond drill rigs are active, with a second diamond drill (DD) now in operation at the NE Bankan Gold discovery.

All three rigs are operating on double shifts.*Assay results*

The company is awaiting assay results from SGS Bamako (Mali) with 740 DD, 1,406 RC and 1,101 power auger samples now submitted for testing.

Assay results are expected by early February and will continue for some months during the extensive 25,000 metre Bankan-2 drill program.*Drilling progress*

A total of 9,356 metres of power auger, 1,573 metres of RC and 989 metres of DD drilling has been undertaken under the Bankan-2 drill program.

At present, 10 RC-holes have been drilled at NE Bankan and 3 DD-holes have been completed at Bankan Creek.

The RC holes at NE Bankan have been drilled to a maximum down-hole depth of 200 metres, with DD "tails" now in progress, designed to complete the full planned length of each of these holes and completing coverage of the target zones.

The diamond tails are designed to extend the length of each hole by 110 metres on average.

At Bankan Creek, DD has tested below and along strike to the north of the outstanding KKODD020 gold intercept of 91.6 metres at 1.9 g/t gold.