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- Soil samples collected across six grids on Tengrela South permit, new target defined 1.8km north of Tiogo with a gold-in-soil anomaly
- Main Tiogo gold corridor now extended semi-continuously.
- Tiogo gold system extends significantly beyond area tested by drilling to date.
Desert Metals (ASX:DM1) has identified a significant new target through systematic a soil sampling program across six untested areas at its Tengrela South gold project in northern Côte d’Ivoire. The 2026 soil program was designed to systematically test the grid areas across the Tengrela South permit, including areas to the north and south of the drill-defined Tiogo gold corridor.
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The new target, Tiogo North, is a coherent in-soil anomaly extending semi-continuously for 3km north of the northernmost aircore drilling line at Tiogo.
Previous aircore drilling of a soil anomaly at Tiogo confirmed gold mineralisation semi-continuously over a 1.5km strike length and demonstrated that the system remains open along strike to both the north and south.
Desert’s MD, Stephen Ross, said soil sampling has now confirmed the total Tiogo gold corridor extends for more than 5.5km in strike length, with the addition of the 3km Tiogo North anomaly, with only 1.5km drill tested.
“The Tiogo North soil sampling results provides us with confidence the Tiogo gold corridor continues for a significant 5.5km strike length,” Mr Ross said.
He told Desert shareholders that the 617 parts per billion (ppb) gold-in-soil peak, sitting within a coherent 800m by 400m anomalous footprint, is often the surface expression of a buried, structurally controlled gold system – the same signature that defined Tiogo itself before the first drill holes.
“To find this scale of anomalism positioned more than 1.8km north of our 2025 drilling lines is an outstanding outcome and confirms that the Tiogo corridor extends well beyond the area tested to date,” he said today.
“We now have a clearly defined, high- priority drill target at Tiogo North that we are moving to test as quickly as possible.”
The CY26 soil sampling program comprised 1,774 samples collected across six grids at Tengrela South. Five grids were oriented east-west, and one grid was oriented WNW–ESE, reflecting the interpretation of the local structure.
Sample spacing was 50m on all grids, with line spacing varying between 300m, 400m and 600m depending on target priority and terrain.
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