Projects

SANOUKOU GOLD PROJECT

The Company’s flagship asset is the Sanoukou Gold Project, encompassing 24 km2 located in the Kayes region to the West of Mali. This property has long been considered one of the premier targets along Mali’s Western Gold Belt. Significant high-quality exploration work has been done on the property and artisanal work completed in recent years has revealed evidence of extensive high-grade mineralization which indicates that there is potentially a substantive upside to past exploration.

OVERVIEW
The Company’s flagship asset is the Sanoukou Gold Project, encompassing 24 km² located in the Kayes region to the West of Mali. This property has long been considered one of the premier targets along Mali’s western gold belt.

Significant high-quality exploration work has been done on the property and artisanal work completed in recent years has revealed evidence of extensive high-grade mineralization which indicates that there is potentially a substantive upside to past exploration.

Great Quest has invested more than US$3m in exploration work at Sanoukou. Highlights include drill hole SN02, completed by Great Quest (3.4m of 3.2 g/t gold drilled in 2011), and RAB18 (3m at 5.0 g/t gold), RAB53 (19m of 2.6 g/t gold drilled in 2006 by SOMIFIM). Great Quest completed a review of the geology exposed by artisanal work in recent years which indicated that prior drilling may have missed the main structures. Sampling of the artisanal workings has shown some very high-grade results with 34 samples grading between 0.6 g/t and 24.9 g/t gold.

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 
The Sanoukou permit is located in the first administrative region of Mali (Kayes) on the gold prolific Kenieba window composed of Birimian rocks where numerous mines and deposits have been discovered across the regional structure; a fault with interpreted dextral sense of movement as well as on the splays (second order structures) such as the Kenieba-Medinandi structure to which Fekola, Sanoukou, Djambaye, Tabakoto and Segala appear to be related. 

CONVENTIONAL EXPLORATION WORKS
To date, the following work has been completed:
•Rock sampling program
•Diamond drilling program (13 holes totalling 2183.9 metres)
•Most recent GQ orpaillage activity evaluation including sampling of orpaillage ore and waste