First Au (ASX:FAU) said diamond drilling rigs were mobilized to site for the firm's maiden 3,000-meter diamond drilling program at the Nimba gold project in Liberia, according to a Thursday Australian bourse filing.
The program is being executed under a strategic contract with Hong Kong-registered Hit N Drill, under which First Au will gain outright ownership of one of the two rigs upon program completion.
The drilling will target structural controls beneath historical gold intersections, newly mapped oxide and sulfide zones, and strike and dip extensions of artisanal gold workings.