Pandora and Assaleyta

Drilling at the Black Mamba Zone, Asaleyta

Stratex has a 30.5% interest in privately-owned Thani Stratex Resources Limited for its projects in Egypt and Djibouti. The portfolio in Djibouti comprises 12 concessions, including Oklila (Pandora) and Assaleyta.

Thani Stratex Licences

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Pandora

The 93 sq km Oklila licence includes the main Pandora epithermal vein target which is up to 2.5 metres wide at surface and can be traced NW for approximately 1.5 kilometres. Mapping and sampling has demonstrated that this structure outcrops for a further 510 metres to the SE, giving a total vein strike length of 2,300 metres.

Rock-chip sampling by Stratex returned up to 25.9 g/t Au, whilst vein float material taken 6.5 kilometres NW of the main zone returned 80.1 g/t Au, highlighting the potential scale of this system, which may now extend beyond the current mapped area.

Located 250 metres SW of the main Pandora structure, the Pyrrha Vein has been identified over a strike length of 1,540 km. The vein is generally less than 1 m in thickness. High gold assays of up to 71.60 g/t Au at surface could indicate a potential for the presence of high gold grades at depth. Further mapping in the area has also discovered the Thyia Zone that appears to be a linkage structure between Pyrrha and Pandora.The entire system at Oklila comprises over 10 km strike of outcropping and inferred veins.

A maiden diamond drilling programme was recently completed for 2,159 m in 15 holes across the Pandora South and Pandora Central zones. The best results were yielded from paired holes OK-D-10 and OK-D-11, and OK-D-12 and OK-D-13 that were drilled 200 m apart and included 1.36 m @ 10.55 g/t Au and 6.87 m @ 4.45 g/t Au. These holes have confirmed continuity of surface mineralisation to a vertical depth of approximately 150 m below surface, with the intersections in holes OK-D- 10 and OK-D-11, and OK-D-12 and OK-D-13 correlating with surface values of 1.30 m @ 6.40 g/t Au and 1.90 m @ 20 g/t Au respectively.

Assaleyta Licence

Located c.16 km to the North of Pandora, low-sulphidation epithermal gold occurs as high-grade veins and disseminated mineralisation in rhyolite domes. Phase 1 exploration by Thani Stratex during Q2-2015 comprised 303 samples (126 grab and 177 chip samples across 13 channels) and 1:2,000 mapping across the sample areas. Channel sampling returned best values of 19 m @ 4 g/t Au and 6 m @ 10 g/t Au (600 m apart), and five selective grab samples assayed >20 g/t Au (highest grade of 41 g/t Au).

In 2016, a maiden drilling programme was completed across the three main prospects, Porcupine Hill, Red Eagle Mountain and Black Mamba. The drilling confirmed vertical continuity to a depth of at least 175 m and returned best intercepts of 17.40 m @ 2.24 g/t Au from surface (AY-DD-03), 3.16 m @ 6.79 g/t Au from 20 m (AY-DD-03) and 1.58 m @ 8.67 g/t Au.  

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