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Volta Resources Inc. (VTR.TO) today announced an updated NI 43-101 compliant Mineral Resource estimate for the Kiaka Gold Project, located approximately 140km southeast of Ouagadougou in southern Burkina Faso.

Highlights:

Confirmation of the continuity of higher grade lenses within the Kiaka Main Zone (KMZ), facilitating the definition of discrete lenses (KMZ_Lenses) hosting Measured and Indicated Resources of 41.68 Mt @ 1.52 g/t Au for 2,039,000 ounces of gold and Inferred Resources of 5.51 Mt @ 1.70 g/t Au for 301,000 ounces of gold.

The total Kiaka Project, including Kiaka Central and Kiaka South, now contains Measured and Indicated Resources of 153.26 Mt @ 0.99 g/t Au for 4,862,000 ounces of gold and Inferred Resources of 33.74 Mt @ 0.93g/t for 1,006,000 ounces of gold (unchanged). This represents a 10% increase in Measured and Indicated Resources, when comparing both sets of models at a 0.4g/t cut-off.

The total Kiaka Project has higher grade Measured and Indicated Resources of 29.56 Mt @ 1.51g/t for 1,437,000 ounces of gold occurring within the top 250m of the deposits, sufficient to sustain processing ore at an in situ grade approximately 40% higher than the average grade of the deposits in a 6.0 Mt per annum facility for up to five years.

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