Wia Gold’s latest drilling results at Kokoseb have sharpened the project’s underground development potential, with a series of standout high-grade intercepts reinforcing continuity below the open-pit resource and confirming that the orebody remains open at depth.
The assays — returned from 8,118 metres of diamond drilling aimed at extending the 2.93Moz Kokoseb resource and 8 RC holes targeting shallow infill — revealed multiple plunging high-grade shoots in the Central Zone, increasing the company’s confidence in Kokoseb as a future underground mine.
A highlight intercept of 22.0m at 14.87 g/t Au in hole KDD115, supported by deep hits such as 23.7m at 6.59 g/t Au from 519.6m in KDD109, strengthens the geological case for long-life, high-grade ounces beyond the existing pit shell.
Wia reported that eleven diamond drillholes returned significant mineralisation beneath the modelled scoping-study pit shell, while RC drilling continued to infill shallow areas to add additional open-pit ounces.
The company now has five diamond rigs dedicated to delineating underground shoots and one RC rig expanding shallow oxide gold, positioning Kokoseb for both open-pit scale and underground growth.
Executive Chairman Josef El-Raghy said the results validated the high-grade zones identified in early work.
“These latest drilling results at Kokoseb further validate the continuity and scale of the high-grade zones we have previously reported.
“The intercepts not only confirm the robustness of the Central Zone plunging shoots but also demonstrate that the mineralised system remains open at depth, providing significant upside for future underground development,” he said, adding that the ongoing program was designed to advance Kokoseb toward a Definitive Feasibility Study planned for H2 2026.
Results from the Central Zone included 6.8m at 5.12 g/t Au from 344.3m (KDD111), 9.9m at 5.51 g/t Au from 298.1m (KDD107), and 23.7m at 1.91 g/t Au from 287.0m, including 5.0m at 5.96 g/t Au (KDD105).
The standout hole — KDD115 — returned 81.1m at 5.00 g/t Au unconstrained, including the 22.0m at 14.87 g/t interval, indicating high-grade continuity across plunge-linked shoots.
Deep drilling confirmed that mineralisation persists at depth, with KDD109 returning 23.7m at 6.59 g/t from 519.6m and KDD106 intersecting 11.0m at 4.46 g/t from 604.0m — significantly below the current MRE envelope. This suggests the deposit remains open vertically, providing further scope for underground resource expansion.
Shallow RC infill results also exceeded expectations in the Gap Zone, including 40m at 1.13 g/t Au from 104m and 6.0m at 4.19 g/t Au from 174m, supporting additional open-pit ounces for future mine planning.
With drilling continuing across both underground and open-pit targets, Kokoseb is tracking toward a dual-development pathway that could combine large-scale surface mining with high-grade underground extraction.
