Regional Exploration
While Ariana continues to progress its Red Rabbit project toward production, the team have been steadily building an extensive geoscientific database covering western Turkey. Despite the surge in interest in Turkish gold deposits over the last 10 years, Turkey still remains highly prospective with the potential for undiscovered multi-million ounce gold deposits. The majority of deposits in development today were discovered in the 1980s. Since then most exploration has focused around these deposits and in easily accessed areas.
The Ariana team are aware of the high exploration potential of western Turkey and as a result have developed a twofold exploration strategy with the following aims:
- To discover satellite resources with the potential to feed the Red Rabbit processing plant.
- To expand the regional search in the pursuit of the next multi-million ounce deposit.
Multi-million ounce discovery
With our advanced exploration techniques the Company is in an unrivalled position to discover, acquire and develop new prospects in the region.
Ariana are utilising their inhouse database built from geochemical datasets (e.g. BLEG sampling), regional lithology, satellite mapping, hydrothermal alteration, structure, gravity and aeromagnetic data.
Ariana is working with the New Zealand based spatial modelling company, Kenex Ltd, to produce prospectivity maps of western Turkey utilising statistical analyses of various geoscientific datasets. These analyses are designed to help constrain exploration into specific areas showing higher probabilities of gold mineralsing systems. The exploration team is currently working through a list of targets discovered during a phased BLEG sampling programme which will result in regional licence aquisitions by the Company.
