Sranan Gold (CSE: SRAN / FSE/Tradegate: P84) presents new sample results from the Poeketi target zone of the 29,000-hectare Tapanahony Project in Suriname. The latest samples taken from underground small-scale mining operations returned peak grades of 26.7 g/t and 25.8 g/t gold. This continues the series of high-grade discoveries that are expanding Poeketi along the Poeketi-Randy’s Pit trend. According to the company, the Poeketi target can now be traced over approximately 1,000 meters of strike length!
Sranan Gold: New High-Grade Samples and a Growing Trend
Sranan Gold is focused on a gold trend more than 4.5 kilometers long, defined by a chain of pits and shafts from local small-scale miners and open in both directions. Airborne magnetic and LiDAR surveys support the structural interpretation of the trend. The six samples now reported come from newly developed underground work areas northwest of previous sampling locations. In addition to the peak values between 25.8 and 26.7 g/t, four other samples ranged from approximately 1.9 to 3.0 g/t gold.
In the spring, the company had already reported even higher individual values of up to 108 g/t and 84 g/t from other underground sections located approximately 250 meters southeast of the new sampling points. From a geological perspective, the sequence indicates a continuous mineralized corridor that is currently defined within Poeketi over approximately one kilometer and remains part of the larger Poeketi-Randy’s Pit system.
Next Steps: Trenching and Drilling
With the spatial expansion to the northwest, Poeketi continues to take shape. The samples come from directly accessible small mining cavities, which allows exploration geologists to target mineralized areas and test hypotheses about continuity along the strike. According to the company, the next step will be trenching and drilling to verify the continuity of the veins as well as their thickness and average grades.
Parallel to Poeketi, Sranan Gold is also working in the Randy’s Pit target area, which is defined within the trend over approximately 500 meters. Mechanical problems with the diamond core drill rig had recently occurred here, but according to the company, these have now been resolved. Drilling is currently underway again north of Randy’s Pit.
As a reference for the status of the work, Sranan Gold refers to a recently reported section from drill hole 25RADD-001, which returned 11.5 meters averaging 3.64 g/t gold in weathered saprolite. In addition, trench samples from late summer further delineate the target area. Taken together, this paints a picture of two adjacent target zones – Poeketi and Randy’s Pit – that may represent elements of a larger, structurally controlled gold system. The ongoing drilling and sampling program will clarify which parts of this system persist at depth and which continuities could be economically relevant.
Sranan Gold now faces the task of systematically verifying the mineralization. Planned channel sampling, trenching, and core drilling are crucial to quantify continuity, true thicknesses, and average grades. Only this work will allow for robust geological modeling of the Poeketi-Randy’s Pit trend within the Tapanahony project.
In our view, the latest announcements make the project in Suriname even more exciting: the combination of accessible small-scale mining operations, a structural trend spanning several kilometers, and recent drill and trench sample results provides a clear work program for the coming months. The results of the ongoing drilling north of Randy’s Pit and the planned trench sampling campaigns in the Poeketi area represent the next milestones.
The bottom line is that the latest samples from Poeketi – with peak values of up to 26.7 g/t Au – provide new clues for prioritizing further work in the field. The key question that Sranan Gold is addressing with its current program is how large the mineralized corridor actually is and which parts of it continue at depth.
