Kavango Resources plc has begun a new phase of drilling to explore the potential for a “large-scale underground gold mine” at its Nara project in Matabeleland, southern Zimbabwe. STRUCTURE Equity Drilling Zimbabwe will drill an initial three holes for 1,500m to test for laterally extensive gold mineralisation across “multiple” mineralised shears, or reefs. Nara contains […]
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Deeper drilling in Viura-1B ‘exceeds expectations’
Prospex Energy plc said that the Viura-1B development well had exceeded expectations with good gas shows and several potential reservoirs at the onshore field in northern Spain. INSPIRATIONAL Drilling began in June, reaching the new target total depth of 4,500 metres, approximately 4,100m true vertical depth, on 21 October. The well had encountered the main […]
Panther begins soil sampling at Dotted Lake
Panther Metals plc has started additional soil geochemistry sampling potentially to accelerate exploration at Dotted Lake on the Schreiber-Hemlo greenstone belt in Ontario, Canada. SNOWFALL Bayside Geoscience Inc’s 1,000 metre survey comprises an extension and infill sampling to the 2021 soil survey grid which yielded “significant nickel, cobalt, copper, gold and platinum group element anomalies”. […]
Kavango confirms Nara mineralisation system
Kavango Resources plc said that drill assays had confirmed a gold mineralisation system at the Nara exploration project in Matabeleland, southern Zimbabwe. MINING The results, from six initial scoping holes for 1,364.4m, highlighted “anomalous gold zones underneath and directly associated with surface artisanal gold-producing structures” at the site. Five of six holes intersected the quartz […]
Sunrise completes central-east Pioche drill
Sunrise Resources plc partner and option holder has completed phase II drilling and pitting at the Pioche sepiolite project in southeastern Nevada. CHARACTERISATION Tolsa USA Inc engaged Harris Exploration to use sonic drilling, suitable for drill sampling of soft and unconsolidated materials, focusing on the central and eastern area of the claim block. The campaign […]
Helium One encounters ‘higher’ shows in ITW-1
Helium One Global plc said it had encountered higher shows than previously after it re-entered and deepened the Itumbula-1 West well at Rukwa in Tanzania. DEPTH The company said that existing hole conditions were “very good”, enabling re-entry beneath the 9⅝” shoe. Drilling into the Basement has now reached a new total depth of 1,129m measured […]