Southern Africa-focused metals exploration company Kavango Resources has begun follow-up discovery drilling at its Prospect 2 target in the Hillside Gold Project, Zimbabwe.
"The next phase of discovery drilling at Hillside is extremely important for Kavango. We will follow up on the significant success we had with Hole BRDD001 at our Prospect 2 target,” said company chief executive Ben Turney.
“This intercepted a 7.2-metre gold mineralised zone that returned an average grade of 9.95 g/t. This zone has been exploited on the surface and was intersected at an approximate vertical depth of 35 metres, which is in line with our exploration model searching for possible open-pit gold deposits.”
He said their next two holes will test the projected 162-metre strike extent that was mapped from the surface based on known historic and artisanal mine workings.
Hole BRDD001 tested the centre of the workings, which the company believes is potentially much larger undercover.
Holes BRD002 and BRD003 will be collared 80 metres on either side of this to test the strike continuation, said Turney.
He said Kavango will also conduct more induced polarisation (IP) surveys around the Prospect 2 target area and across Hillside.
The IP maps the sulphide zone to the artisanal gold workings that have also been intersected in the drill hole.
“This is a powerful exploration tool that will enable us to map gold-associated sulphides both down-dip and along strike ahead of future drilling,” he said.
“Results from the first two IP lines we ran indicate that the anomaly we are targeting runs deep and increases the potential strike of the mineralised body in both directions.”
Mathew Nyaungwa, Editor in Chief of the African Bureau, Rough&Polished
