Castle Minerals Limited has announced a new and extensive power auger drilling campaign at its fully-owned Kandia Gold Prospect in Ghana’s emerging Upper West region. The campaign will involve mobilizing a drill rig to carry out 410 sample holes along a grid-pattern with lines spaced 400 meters apart and sampling intervals of 40 meters. Samples will be taken from shallow depths, between 5 to 12 meters, near the interface between soil cover and bedrock, in a bid to both extend known mineralized zones and probe for fresh targets. The campaign focuses on areas where Castle has identified both extensions of existing gold zones—specifically the Kandia 4000 and 8000 prospects—and new priority targets using proprietary high-resolution aeromagnetic survey data. This survey indicates the presence of deeply penetrating, regional-scale structures known across Western Africa to host multi-million-ounce gold deposits. The northern section of the Kandia licence is particularly promising, where the interface between Birimian metasediments and a granite intrusion parallels large-scale deposits at nearby projects owned by other operators. In addition, the company is preparing a similar auger sampling campaign for its Kpali Gold Project, where recent aeromagnetic data has been used to refine its geological interpretation. The strategic use of these technical indicators underscores the company’s focus on defining a substantial, near-surface, bulk-tonnage gold mineralisation corridor linked to a 16-kilometer trending sheared contact with a regional granodiorite intrusion. The news brings both bullish and bearish perspectives. On the bullish side, the campaign is a low-cost, high-potential exploration method with fast-tracked reverse circulation drilling planned for any positive results, which could unlock significant value given the company’s extensive landholdings in one of West Africa’s most promising gold regions. The targeted use of advanced survey data further enhances the probability of identifying new deposits in a geological setting known for prolific gold systems. On the bearish side, the primary focus remains on early-stage exploration. With no resource estimates provided and inherent uncertainties in confirming both the quality and economic viability of any mineralisation found, the risk remains that promising initial results may not translate into robust, mineable deposits. For beginner traders, the company’s exploration initiatives suggest potential upside, though investors should remain cautious given the exploratory nature of the projects and overall market volatility in the mining sector.