Most interesting point for me with todays results is that we officially (according to company releases) have our fifth project now. The Mokapane Feeder Exploration Prohect gets its own section now (it's not just a sub-section of the Platreef Project) and it reminds me of the time when WF started appearing as the fourth project in company updates and releases
100% owned and full of potential. Think about what you know about RF and release of area names.......names like Mokopane, Kakula, Western Forelands, Kiala, Makoko - these names don't just appear and disappear in company releases - they ALL become something!!!
5. The Mokopane Feeder Exploration Project
100%-owned by Ivanhoe Mines
South Africa
Three new 100%-owned exploration rights were granted on the Northern Limb of the Bushveld complex in South Africa during Q4 2022. The three new exploration rights (Blinkwater 244KR, Moordrift 289KR and Lisbon 288KR) cover 80 square kilometres, forming a continuous block situated on the southwest border of the existing Platreef Project’s mining rights.
The three new exploration rights, together with Ivanhoe’s existing properties, cover a large geophysical gravity anomaly that was previously identified from a widely spaced regional ground gravity survey. Academic studies based on historical data hypothesize that the anomaly represents a primary feeder zone to the Rustenburg Layered Suite of the Northern Limb of the Bushveld Complex. Significant thickening of the Rustenburg Layered Suite, particularly of the more-dense Lower Zone units, is necessary to explain the large gravity anomaly. The proximity of the proposed feeder to the regional-scale crustal faults (the Ysterberg-Planknek and the Zebediela faults), as well as the anomalously thick zones of platinum-group metals mineralization at the Platreef Deposit, lead Ivanhoe to believe there is significant potential for mineralization to be associated with this gravity feature.
To better understand the conceptual target, a detailed high-resolution airborne-magnetic and gradiometer-gravity geophysical survey commenced over the project area in Q1 2023, with the view to conducting diamond drilling later in the year.
Figure 4. Image of the Platreef and Mokopane Feeder licences overlaid on the gravity geophysics anomaly.
