West Africa Gold fka WAGI

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West Africa Gold Inc. Plans Exploration for Platinum.

Platinum Group Metals Exploration Planned for the Touban Project in Mali

West Africa Gold Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: WAGI) announced today that it is the Company's intention to commence a drilling programme at the Touban Project in Mali.

The Company is now proposing to drill below the historic 80 meter level where drilling was previously terminated. Recently discovered fire assay results showed very encouraging values of Platinum and Palladium and the Company now believes that it would be both prudent and logical to follow up on these exciting results. To this end, the Company is now preparing the budget and relevant planning to commence this drilling program at Touban.

ABOUT TOUBAN

The Kadiolo-Touban area is in southeastern Mali, bordering the Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso (former Upper Volta). The regional centre, Kadiolo, is some 300 kilometers due south of the Mali capital Bamako (some 400 kilometers by road) and some 75 kilometers by road south of Sikasso on the main Bamako -- Burkina Faso road.

The concession area measures some 104 square kilometers and lies some 3 kilometers from Kadiolo. It includes the village of Touban and the copper-nickel and platinum anomaly lies on a small hill immediately to the east and southeast of the village. The principal anomaly is contained on this hill with elongated north-northwest -- south-southeast axis and measuring some 2000 by 600 metres.

Geology of TOUBAN

The geology of the area has been reported from various sources, following the geological reports on the geochemical sampling, drilling and analysis undertaken by the Mali BRGM BRGM Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (France) (Bureau of Geological and Mining Research) under the Direction National de la Geologie et Mines undertaken from the 1970's. This followed from an extensive petrographic pe·trog·ra·phy
n.
The description and classification of rocks.


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pe·trogra·pher n. study of the samples obtained and detailed Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry spectrophotometry

Branch of spectroscopy dealing with measurement of radiant energy transmitted or reflected by a body as a function of wavelength. The measurement is usually compared to that transmitted or reflected by a system that serves as a standard. geochemical analysis of prepared sections from the boreholes and samples.

The Touban hill is an intrusive basic-ultra basic elongated plug-like body that contains two petrographically distinct facies, an ultra basic peridotitic-type partly serpentinised facies and a gabbroic facies with little mineral alteration. The petrographic and geochemistry studies indicate that the Touban intrusive is differentiated from komatiite Komatiites are ultramafic mantle-derived volcanic rocks. They have low SiO2, low K2O, low Al2O3, and high to extremely high MgO.

Komatiites were named for their type locality along the Komati River in South Africa. magma with similar mineralogy and geochemical characteristics of other known stratified stratified /strat·i·fied/ (strat´i-fid) formed or arranged in layers.
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strat·i·fied
adj.
Arranged in the form of layers or strata. basic-ultra basic bodies with massive sulphide mineral association. This factor is significant from the point of view of the mineral economic potential of the body.

There is a correlation between the disseminated sulphide minerals and both nickel and platinoid plat·i·noid
adj.
Resembling platinum.

n.
1. An alloy of copper, nickel, tungsten, and zinc, formerly used in electric coils.

2. A metal chemically resembling platinum, especially osmium, iridium, or palladium. values, indicating a strong magmatic differentiation within the Touban intrusive. It is concluded that the sulphide association and the modest nickel-copper and platinoid values obtained are similar to other intrusive bodies, including the famous Kambalda, Western Australia Kambalda (, postcode 6442) is a mining town in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, about 60 km south of Kalgoorlie. Minerals extracted in the area include gold and nickel ores. .

Richard Axtell, the president of West Africa Gold said "We find the Touban project incredibly interesting and unique to the region, below the 80m drilling level could prove to be a real Aladdin's cave, we look forward with great anticipation to unlocking the potential wealth of Touban"

About West Africa Gold Inc.:

West Africa Gold (http://www.westafricagold.com/) is an aggressive gold exploration company that has acquired certain rights to mine for minerals, primarily gold, in various regions of the Republic of Mali, which is located in West Africa. The company also recently announced and executed a 10-for-1 forward stock split to improve trading liquidity and to attract smaller investors.

West Africa Gold currently has five projects underway. They are Toubikoto (Gold), Manianguinti (Gold), In Darset (Gold, Base Metals), Anefis (Gold, Base Metals), and Touban (Nickel, Copper, pge's). The five projects are diversely located throughout Mali, and aggregately cover an impressive 1000 square kilometers.

Statements contained in this press release, which are not historical facts, are forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based largely on the Company's expectations and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties beyond the Company's control, including but not limited to economic, competitive and other factors affecting the Company's operations, management team effectiveness, expansion strategies, available financing, market prices and recovery costs, government regulations involving the Company, facts and events not known at the time of this release, and other factors discussed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

These statements are not guarantees of future performance and readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release. The Company undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements.

This release was issued through Major Newswire (http://www.majornewswire.com/)

CONTACT: Casey Hawkins of Equity Alliance International, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.
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