Azumah managing director Stephen Stone said: "We are closing in on possible mineralisation at both Piiri and Julie Far East with several other new targets also looking very encouraging as we continue our quest to lift Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves to support development of the Wa Gold Project."

The continuing success of Azumah’s mapping and auger sampling programmes highlights the strong prospectivity throughout its 2,800km2 Wa Gold Project and the opportunity to delineate additional Mineral Resources to support the development of the Project.

Well targeted auger sampling is extremely effective in covered terrain with Azumah drilling 3,586 auger holes for a total of 14,080m in 2014-2015.

It has also undertaken reconnaissance mapping of broad prospect areas plus detailed mapping of specific targets within the Wa-Lawra belt, host to the Kunche-Bepkong deposits, and in the Wa East region, host to the Julie and Collette deposits.