Golden Rim Resources Ltd. announced gold assay results for 15 reverse circulation (RC) holes (totalling 1,518m) from exploration drilling at its Kada Gold Project (Kada) in Guinea. Golden Rim commenced a 10,000m RC drilling program at Kada in mid-December 2022. The program is comprised of exploration drilling at the Bereko Prospect, exploration drilling in the Massan prospect north of the MRE, and some resource extension and infill drilling around the margins of the MRE.

Bereko lies within the Kada Gold Corridor, 9km north of Massan. Golden Rim designed further exploration drill holes after maiden drilling in 2022 returned very positive results including 10m at 5.5g/t gold and 11m at 6.3g/t gold. Golden Rim has completed a further 46 holes at Bereko in this campaign, with assays for the first seven holes (BKRC004, BKRC006 ­ BKRC009, BKRC014, BKRC018) reported recently.

Golden Rim has received assays for 14 additional holes at Bereko (BKRC001 ­ BKRC003, BKRC005, BKRC010 ­ BKRC013, BKRC015 ­ BKRC017, BKRC019 ­ BKRC021) for 1,398m. BKRC002 and BKRC003 were both drilled on the 1,234,350m Northing and show that mineralization in the area has consistent widths in the oxide component. The highest grades in BKRC003, 5m at 1.9g/t gold, are associated with a zone of pervasively altered greywacke between a siltstone unit.

BKRC010 to BKRC013 were drilled on the southern margin of some artisanal workings and are the southernmost drill holes at the Bereko Artisanal Mining Area to date. Mineralisation is generally associated with strongly hematite+/-limonite altered sediments with abundant quartz (>10%). Mineralisation is moderately east-dipping and is continuous from the oxide zone in BKRC011 (14m at 1.8g/t gold) down-dip to the fresh rock in BKRC010 (25m at 1.3g/t gold).

Mineralised widths are consistent across the 300m drilling footprint and remains open to the north and south. Diamond drilling will be conducted shortly to confirm widths and improve structural knowledge in the area. Golden Rim awaits assays from three holes drilled at 55° towards the NW, and one drilled at 55° towards the SE to investigate the abundance of ENE-trending veining observed in artisanal workings and more broadly in the greater Siguiri region.

Golden Rim followed up initial drilling at Massan with eight holes (1,090m) drilled in a north-westerly orientation designed to investigate the interplay between the main N-S and ENE vein orientations. Samples have been received for the first hole, MSRC023 (120m), with significant mineralization intercepted throughout the hole, with 57m at 1.0g/t gold from surface, including 12m at 2.3g/t gold from 7m. The trenching program commenced at Massan in January is now complete, with six trenches excavated for a total of 675m.

Mapping and sampling of the first three trenches is now complete, with assays pending. Trenching has revealed numerous mineralised structures in multiple orientations, and the Company has planned some drilling in a third orientation to investigate the size and influence of some west-dipping veins encountered in trench MSTR04. RC drilling at Bereko and Massan is now paused until further assays are received, and the Company will then commence a 5,000m air-core (AC) drilling exploration program.

This AC drilling will test newly identified targets on both the Kada and the Bamfele licence areas. Golden Rim expects to commence a 3,500m diamond drilling campaign at Kada in mid-February 2023. At Bereko, diamond drilling will focus on confirming the width, grade and extensions of the gold mineralisation discovered in the initial RC drilling program and providing structural information needed for resource estimation.

Diamond drilling at Massan will test open-ended mineralization at depth (including below 29m at 8.5 g/t gold in KRC025), as well as providing further certainty to progress the mineral resource towards a higher confidence classification.