Bohaun Gold Project

Eight exploration licences have been granted to Alba, by the Irish Government covering an area in Counties Galway and Mayo in Ireland. The licences cover 176.99 km2 of ground and were granted on 30 June 2004. A north-south trending silicified and brecciated zone within Silurian grits of dimensions, 160 m wide by 1,600 metres long, has associated with it anomalous gold concentrations (peak gold value of 451 ppm gold from vein material) and has been only superficially explored. Three shallow drillholes, totalling 170 metres, were drilled by Ovoca Resources plc in the early 1990s. Drilling showed that gold mineralization and quartz-calcite brecciation were present to a depth of 45m. No assays have been discovered as a result of data searches in the Open File System of the Geological Survey of Ireland relating to the Ovoca drilling programme. Numerous other gold occurrences, (gold-bearing outcrop and anomalous float rock), have been identified in the wider project area. Other geochemical anomalies have been identified in stream sediments and soils, associated with structures in local Silurian and Dalradian lithologies which appear not to have been followed up by more detailed exploration. Alba will commence the following exploration programme in the near future:

• Assemble a spatial electronic database of relevant historical exploration data to support target generation
• test potential extensions to the known high-grade gold mineralization at Bohaun
• conduct detailed soil sampling, deep overburden over the mineralized zone which, subject to encouraging results, will be followed up by diamond drilling programmes
• regional prospecting and sampling will cover four other areas of known gold mineralization.

Epithermal breccia at Bohaun showing evidence of multiple brecciation events		Visible gold Bohaun is present at outcrops and from drillcore

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