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Dokwe Project: Results of detectORE™ Trial
Dokwe Project: Results of detectORE™ Trial.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n24 June 2024\nAIM: AAU\nDOKWE PROJECT: RESULTS OF detectORE™ TRIAL\nAriana Resources plc (\"Ariana\" or \"the Company\"), the AIM-listed mineral exploration and development company with gold project interests in Africa and Europe, is pleased to announce the completion of field trials of a ground-breaking new analytical technique at the Dokwe Project site in Zimbabwe.\nHighlights:\n· Reliable gold analytical results obtained from drill core in as little as 15 hours (with dry sample), using detectORE™.\n· Over 1,000 samples were successfully tested and cross-checked by an ISO-accredited laboratory.\n· Gold correlations from detectORE™ versus laboratory results ranged from good to excellent (0.72 to 0.99 R2).\n· A fully operational low-cost and relatively mobile detectORE™ laboratory has now been setup in Zimbabwe, with a second coming online in Türkiye in the coming weeks.\n· Ariana is implementing this new time-efficient and cost-saving technology across all its exploration programmes; further experimental work is already underway in Türkiye.\n \nTo read a pdf version of the announcement, please click here: Insert PDF link here\n\nDr. Kerim Sener, Managing Director, commented:\n\"We are incredibly impressed with the results of this trial of the detectORE™ system developed by Portable PPB in Perth, Australia. The system has demonstrated itself to be considerably cheaper and faster than conventional analytical methods, which involve shipping to commercial laboratories, more extensive sample preparation and more complex steps in analysis. Crucially, the results of the detectORE™ analyses correlated extremely well with conventional fire-assay results.\n\"We are now looking forward to implementing the same system based out of our Ankara office so that we can utilise this methodology for all of our routine gold exploration analysis requirements in our South-East European area of operations. Our geoscientific team were present on site in Zimbabwe during the initial set-up and trial of the system and is now in the process of implementing a parallel system in Türkiye.\n\"Ariana is the first company in Zimbabwe and Türkiye to have implemented this game-changing technology. We have again shown that the Company rema...