Apollo Minerals Ltd (ASX:AON) has added 24 new potential target prospects to the Kroussou Zinc-Lead Project in Gabon with the addition of the Keri exploration permit which has increased the project area by 140%.
Keri has 1,377 square kilometres of contiguous land that extends the Kroussou project into the prospective western basin region, directly along strike from the existing project tenure.
The company has identified several new zinc-lead prospects across the additional 55 kilometres of strike to the north – bringing the Kroussou Project’s strike length to about 135 kilometres.
Historical records have given Apollo confidence to identify at least five new target regions for zinc-lead mineralisation but also indicate the presence of gold mineralisation, as the tenure produced about 5,000 ounces in small-scale mining in the mid-1900s.
“Defining globally relevant mining project”
Apollo Minerals managing director Neil Inwood said he was delighted to secure a strategically important extension of Kroussou at an early stage of the company’s exploration program.
“The potential for further discoveries at Kroussou is immense and very exciting,” Inwood said.
“We know the mineralised trend for potentially large tonnage zinc and lead embayments extends further to the north and that the western region is prospective for high-grade structural Mississippi Valley-Type mineralisation.
“We now have 100% control over the highly prospective province-scale exploration project and intend to advance towards defining a globally relevant mining project.”
Apollo is already undertaking a reconnaissance site visit for the new tenure, moving to begin exploration planning as the company awaits assays from the Niambokamba (TP13) massive-sulphide discovery, expected shortly.
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Keri and Kroussou permits location map in Gabon.