Sable Mining Africa Limited announced initial assay results from the company's recently completed expansion exploration programme at the Nimba Iron Ore Project in south-east Guinea. Assay results received to date from the first 9 of 18 diamond drill holes on Plateau 3 demonstrate high grade canga in the expansion area, including: P3.13-050: best grade over 23.0m at 61.5% iron ('Fe') representing thickest mineralised intercept in this batch of results (that includes 3.5m of cavities); P3.13-049: excellent grade of 61.2% Fe over a drilled vertical width of 11.8m (that includes 2.0m of cavities); drilling programme targeting an extension to the area of mineralisation immediately adjacent to the recently updated and published JORC Code compliant Mineral Resource of 135.5Mt at an in-situ grade of 59.4%; canga mineralised extension area 200m wide and up to 3.9km and has a previously announced exploration target potential of between 45Mt and 80Mt of canga on Plateau 2 and Plateau 3; inclusion of extension area exploration target brings total Nimba exploration target to over 200Mt which the Company is targeting to delineate before the end of fourth quarter 2013; 53 drill holes completed in extension drilling programme; and 18 on Plateau 3 and 35 on Plateau 2 - remaining batches delivered to Ultratrace laboratory in Perth.