Angkor Resources announces advancement of the Wild Boar Prospect in Andong Meas

Angkor Resources announces advancement of the Wild Boar Prospect in Andong Meas

The Canadian mineral, oil and gas exploration company, Angkor Resources Corp., which has in total five mineral licences that cover 7,300 square kilometres in Cambodia, announced the advancement of the Wild Boar project on its Andong Meas licence in the northwest where it has been prospecting for gold over the past season.

The search for gold by the company has been carrying out IP surveys — an imaging technique used in the search for gold — over this area in Ratanakiri province designed to detect veins of minerals up to 500 meters deep that could contain gold, with the eventual aim of drilling deeper than 1000 metres in search of the precious ore.

The data of all the exploration data carried out has identified several drilling targets over the main area of interest of the Wild Boar in addition to several other areas which were indicated as requiring a further examination for possible drilling.

A drilling program is now planned with initial drilling of approximately 10 holes to a depth of 1,200 meters which would search for gold in veins of mineral across a section of 800 meters.

In what has been hailed as a unique and exemplary collaboration between a mining company and indigenous people, the local Jarai Indigenous communities helped carry out all the exploration work that led to the findings that involved the examination of 998 different soil samples, 111 rock samples, and over 15 km of 2D and 3D array IP surveying of the Wild Boar site.

The Vice-President Exploration at the company and member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta, Dennis Ouellette, said that the results of the IP survey over the area of the Wild Boar prospect suggest that “the system is an intact epithermal gold system with the flat-lying veins,” adding that “the point of boiling in an epithermal system frequently produces ‘bonanza’ grades of gold mineralisation.”

This is hopefully good news for the local indigenous Jarai population who, under their agreement according to Angkor Resources’ own website, contribute the vast majority of components, supply all the labour, and all local supplies like wood, etc. while the company’s contributions on this project tend to range from roofing materials, cement, and furnishings for an office and to the building of a community/admin centre.

The centre, the website reads, was identified by the community as a priority to have an administrative venue as part of its goal to acquire its land titles from the government of Cambodia and to administer its own internal micro-finance model to community members. Khmer Times