Kavango Resources plc has started drilling to delineate a mineral resource for the basis of an open pit mine at Prospect 3 within the Hillside gold project in Matabeleland, southern Zimbabwe. DEPOSITS The programme will also obtain samples for metallurgical test work. Prospect 3 is the second of two priority targets at Hillside, with Prospect […]
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Arkle JV begins Carrickittle West drilling
Arkle Resources plc joint venture partner has started a drilling campaign on the Carrickittle West area in the southern part of the Stonepark block in Limerick, Ireland. EXTENSIONS The company believes that the seven-licence block contains more than 45 million tonnes of inferred zinc/lead ore. Operator Group Eleven Resources Corp will drill four to six […]
EGT completes drilling at Olserum REE
European Green Transition plc expects to confirm a “district scale rare earth element system” after it completed diamond core drilling at Olserum in Sweden. ENCOURAGING The company drilled 13 holes for 1,500 metres with visual inspection of drill core indicating “broad alteration zones” and intervals with intersections of “visible phosphate mineralisation”. Core logging is complete […]
Cornish Metals drill proves ‘large scale’ tin target
Cornish Metals Inc said its 9,000m drilling programme of 14 holes had successfully validated “a new, large-scale, tin-bearing exploration target” of Wide Formation, in Carn Brea South. EXPLORATION The campaign began in September 2023 and today’s reported results are from the final eight holes. Mineralisation was traced over a 2,500m extent up to 800m down […]
Peak Nickel begins 1,000m drill at Rodburn
Peak Nickel Ltd has started a 1,000 metre drill campaign, with a possible extension, at the Rodburn project in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. COMPELLING The programme, on the “highest grade battery metals project in the UK”, follows last year’s 2,600m drill for 18 holes, testing areas around historically identified, non-compliant mineral resources. The Sheffield-based company’s new estimate […]
Kavango confirms mineralisation at Karakubis
Kavango Resources plc said it had confirmed copper-silver mineralisation in the first high priority target at the Karakubis copper project in Botswana’s Kalahari copper belt. MODELLING Analysis of core also showed “further indicators of structural trap sites” and “validated” the company’s modelling of the KCB. Results also confirmed the project’s prospectivity for “large-scale copper/silver deposits”, […]