Traka has secured the right to earn up to a 75% interest in the Didi Gold Project, located in the heart of Guinea's prolific Siguiri Basin. The project covers 73.45 sqkm, and is situated just 12 km west of the 8.5 Moz Siguiri Gold Mine, operated by AngloGold Ashanti.

The Siguiri Basin, Guinea

The Siguiri Basin of northeastern Guinea is recognised as one of West Africa's most prolific and underexplored provinces. Located within the broader Birimian Greenstone Belt, the basin hosts numerous muli-million ounce gold deposits and active mining operations, including the world-class Siguiri Gold Mine.

The basin is geologically defined by a complex sequence of folded and faulted metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks, intruded by later granitoids and cut by major structural corridors that control gold mineralisation. These structures are host to extensive zones of artisanal gold mining activity and widespread gold-in-soil anomalies, highlighting the regional prospectivity.

The Didi Gold Project

The Didi Project comprises a single exploration licence in the Siguiri Basin, northeastern Guinea, currently owned by our farm-in partner Alamako Corporation. The Project lies in an historical artisanal mining region, with no prior commercial production, but just 12 km west of Guinea's largest gold mine, the Siguiri Gold mine. 

The earliest modern exploration was from 2007 to 2009, with geochemical soil and termite mound surveys completed over most of the Didi tenure. Three target areas (Didi-1, Didi-2 and Didi-3) were identified from this work, though only the first two target areas were partly assessed with infill geochemical sampling and geological mapping, before work on the project was suspended.

In September 2017 first pass diamond and RAB drilling was completed across the three target areas within the Didi Gold Project. The most significant results were returned from the Didi-1 North prospect, where drilling and trenching intersected high-grade gold mineralisation hosted in NW-trending sinistral brittle-ductile fracture systems. Notable intercepts included trench TBTR0001 with 24 metres @ 3.7g/t Au , including a higher-grade interval of 4 metres @ 10.1g/t Au, and a separate interval of 19 metres @ 2.7g/t Au in diamond hole TBDD0007.

Follow-up gossan sampling by Alamako at Didi-1 North in 2018, conducted after the initial drilling, has extended the mineralised envelope by over 300 meters to the northwest. Numerous assay results better that 5 g/t Au and up to 21.4 g/t Au  were returned from this new and as yet undrilled area. This extension confirms the potential for further mineralisation along strike and has outlined several high-priority drill targets.