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Starcore Advances Exploration at Kimoukro Gold Project in Cote d'Ivoire
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - March 27, 2025) - Starcore International Mines Lt...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Starcore Advances Exploration at Kimoukro Gold Project in Cote d'IvoireVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - March 27, 2025) - Starcore International Mines Ltd. (TSX: SAM) (\"Starcore\" or \"the Company\") is pleased to provide an update on the local geology of its Kimoukro Project, located within the prolific Fetekro-Oumé greenstone belt in Côte d'Ivoire. The Kimoukro Project is a fully-permitted exploration project located at the western border of the Fetekro-Oumé greenstone belt (FOGB), in central Côte d'Ivoire, 30 Km south of the capital Yamoussoukro. Such FOGB is a highly prospective Birimian-aged terrane, stretching some 280 km NNE-SSW, and known for hosting multi-million-ounce gold deposits, including the Lafiguè mine at its northern edge, and Bonikro and Hiré mines. The latter are located 30 km S of the project and share similar geological characteristics. Yet, the perspective area of Kimoukro is underexplored.The Fetekro-Oumé greenstone belt is made-up by Paleoproterozoic basalts and andesites and volcano-sedimentary sequences, bounded by granitic-gneissic basement rocks. The belt is structurally complex and was deformed in greenschist-facies metamorphism conditions during the compressional and transpressive events of Eburnean Orogeny; late-stage deformation was accompanied by emplacement of felsic (granitoid) intrusions. At a regional scale, the prominent tectonic trends and the shape of the FOSZ are highlighted by regional geophysics and remote-sensing. The main structural features are referred to N30°E oriented western splays of the Brobo-N'Zi shear zone, and a number of higher-order, anastomosing structures. At the latitude of the Kimoukro project, the FOGB is about 20 km wide and trends N-S to NNW, shows bending and rotation of the tectonic fabric of about 35° to the W, with flexure trending as NW-SE regional lineaments; a number of intrusions of different size are present. (Figure 1).As a result, the greenstones and sedimentary cover are affected by extensive shear, folding and thrusting, providing favourable conditions for gold mineralization, which is locally enhanced by ductile-to-brittle shear and fracturing especially around late-stage intrusions. Local GeologyThe Kimoukro project lies in low-land near the Bandama river; most of the area is covered by rece...