# Desert Gold Completes Exploration Core Drilling at Mogoyafara South and Frikidi Gold Zones; SMSZ Project, Western Mali

Canonical Atlas analysis: https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/desert-gold-completes-exploration-core-drilling-at-mogoyafara-south-and-frikidi--1885189b-5e3f-491a-adb3-48d7107684e7

Original source: https://money.tmx.com/en/quote/DAU/news/8728360906228692/desert-gold-completes-exploration-core-drilling-at-mogoyafara-south-and-frikidi-

Publisher: tmx

Original announcement: 2024-04-04T09:30:00.000Z

Analysis by Minestarters Atlas

Atlas analysis published: Unknown date

Atlas analysis updated: Unknown date

- Company: Desert Gold Ventures Inc.

- Ticker: DAU

- Exchange: TSX

- Region: Western Mali

- Primary commodity: Gold

- Secondary commodities: None reported

- Document categories: Drill results, Other

- Extracted: 2026-08-23 06:57:28 UTC

Narrative sentiment: 0.30 · Bullish

## Minestarters Atlas summary

Desert Gold has completed four exploration core holes at the Mogoyafara South and Frikidi gold zones within the SMSZ Project in Mali. While visual core observations and surface sampling at Frikidi are positive, formal assay results for the new drilling are currently pending.

Reasoning: The company completed four exploration holes; while visual core and surface sampling are encouraging, the primary drill assay results are not yet released.

- Positive factor: High-grade surface samples at Frikidi

- Positive factor: Exploration drilling targeting known mineralized structures

- Negative factor: Assays for new drill holes are still pending

Facts used in scoring: 2

## Classification and evidence

**QA/QC Disclosed**

Polarity: positive

Definition: Release includes QA/QC disclosure — certified lab, QP sign-off, or stated methods \(blanks, standards, duplicates\).

Why it applies: Don Dudek, P.Geo. is named as a Qualified Person who has reviewed and approved the technical information.

Evidence · text

> Don Dudek, P.Geo. a director of Desert Gold and a Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed and approved the scientific and technical information

**Infill Drilling**

Polarity: neutral

Definition: Confirmatory drilling to raise resource confidence, not new discovery.

Why it applies: The holes were designed to test specific targets and validate historic intercepts in known zones.

Evidence · text

> These holes were designed to answer specific geological questions.

## Extracted facts

Stored fact records: 2. Some facts used in scoring do not have a stored record.

## Drill Results (2)

### FAW-24-DD-001

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/desert-gold-completes-exploration-core-drilling-at-mogoyafara-south-and-frikidi--1885189b-5e3f-491a-adb3-48d7107684e7#fact-drill-facts-0)

SMSZ Project · gold

Needs review: ungrounded

#### Identity

- Hole ID: FAW-24-DD-001
- Project: SMSZ Project
- Commodity: gold
- Region: mali
- Reported Region: Western Mali
- Ticker: DAU

#### Geometry

- Intercept: 15.1 m
- From: 23.9 m
- To: 39 m
- Hole Depth: 50 m

#### Classification

- Sample Type: drill
- Group ID: FAW-24-DD-001:23.9-39.0

#### Review

- Needs Review: Yes
- Review Reason: ungrounded
- Interp. Status: scored
- Historical: No

#### Dates

- Event date: 2024-04-04T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Visual observation of quartz-veined portions in core; formal assays are pending.

- Positive factor: Visual quartz-veined mineralization

- Negative factor: Assays pending

Evidence · text

> The quartz-veined portions of the core shown below, intersected from 23.9 meters to 39.0 meters

### FAW-24-DD-001

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/desert-gold-completes-exploration-core-drilling-at-mogoyafara-south-and-frikidi--1885189b-5e3f-491a-adb3-48d7107684e7#fact-drill-facts-1)

SMSZ Project · gold

#### Identity

- Hole ID: FAW-24-DD-001
- Project: SMSZ Project
- Commodity: gold
- Region: mali
- Reported Region: Western Mali
- Ticker: DAU

#### Classification

- Sample Type: surface

#### Review

- Needs Review: No
- Interp. Status: scored
- Historical: No

#### Dates

- Event date: 2024-04-04T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Surface rock grab samples returned high grades, including several over 100 g/t Au.

- Positive factor: High grade surface samples

Evidence · text

> returned 61 rock samples containing more than 5 g/t Au, five of which returned 100 g/t Au or greater

## How Atlas produces this analysis

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