London-listed Kavango Resources has identified the first high-priority targets for Phase 1 of drilling on the Karakubis copper project, which is situated in Botswana, on the Kalahari Copper Belt (KCB).
"Kavango holds more than 6 200 km2 of highly prospective ground in the KCB. This is a very large land package with the potential to host multiple, large-scale copper/silver deposits,” said company chief executive Ben Turney.
“Over the last 18 months, our team has completed the painstaking task of compiling a wide array of exploration data to maximise our chances of drill success. This work has generated more target areas than we anticipated, which is especially positive for the overall potential of the Karakubis project.”
Kavango has identified five high-priority target areas for immediate gradient array-induced polarisation (IP) surveys to refine drill targets.
The first phase of drilling, totalling about 5,000 m, has been designed to test trap site structures associated with doubly plunging fold targets and anticlines identified initially from modelling of AEM data as being relatively shallow, at about 200 m to 300 m.
“Although we still have further airborne data to process, the targets we have identified are already strong enough to be classed high priority,” said Turney.
“As such, we have decided to push ahead with drilling. Our primary objective will be to prove that our target areas cover a copper mineralising system.”
Mathew Nyaungwa, Editor in Chief of the African Bureau, Rough&Polished
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