Exploration UpdateMon Nov 14, 2005
Luhala Drill Program Winding Down
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The company recently completed 8,287metres of RAB drilling in 415 holes within the Luhala Project Area and expects to close off the RC drilling component this week.The RAB drilling focused on regional soil geochem targets and old RAB anomalies that had yet to be followed up. In addition, some of the program involved condemnation drilling on surrounding licenses where large property payments are due next year.
To date, approximately 1,827 metres of RC drilling has also been completed. The RC program is designed to test the lateral continuity of gold values intersected in three main target areas on Kisunge hill, namely Kisunge West, Kisunge Central and Kisunge East. The program's principal objective is to generate an initial resource on these three target areas.
Future plans (next year) will include additional drilling that will hopefully join these individual targets together. The gold bearing horizon identified to date is quite flat, having a slightly steeper dip (about 40 degrees) than Kisunge hill. Being oxide material, it allows for high penetration rates although overall ground conditions can be quite variable, resulting in a few lost holes. Near surface oxide material is attractive from an economic perspective because it can be bulk mined by open pit methods, with gold recovery using conventional heap leach techniques.