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Kavango identifies over 90 Karakubis trap sites

Kavango Resources plc has identified more than 90 interpreted trap-site features, with 10 priority targets for phase I drilling, at the 6,200km2 Karakubis copper project in Botswana. GOAL Previous analysis of core indicated the potential for the trap sites, which the company believes are associated with “doubly plunging anticlinal fold and fault structures”. Each potential trap […]

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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”, […]

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Kavango begins drilling Karakubis

Kavango Resources plc has begun drilling the first 15 high priority targets at the Karakubis project in Botswana’s Kalahari copper belt. DATA The drill holes, identified earlier this month, will check favourable “trap sites” and assess the potential for large scale copper-silver mineralisation. The company said that the 5,000 metre programme would test relatively shallow […]

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Altona signs Botswana copper-silver option

Altona Rare Earths plc has signed a binding option for the Sesana copper-silver exploration project within PL2329/2023 in the Northwest District of Botswana. FORMATIONS The agreement with Ignate African Mining P/L follows the company’s Zambia metals-diamond acquisition in March as part of its diversification strategy. Sesana lies in the heart of the Kalahari copper belt […]

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Kavango completes KCB licences airborne survey

Kavango Resources plc has completed an airborne geophysical survey over its 7,629km2 Kalahari copper belt project in Botswana. CONFIDENCE The survey will test whether the copper-silver prospective geological and geophysical features, interpreted on the recently acquired three licences of PL203/2016, PL127/2017 and PL205/2016, extend into the company’s pre-existing adjacent licence areas. The survey covered block […]