The data below were extracted from the June 2020 Technical Report on Imbo West ( Adumbi, Manzako, Kitingi ) with 43-101 resources of 4+ m ounces).
For the new discoveries at Imbo East , detailed data are available for all 4 dscoveries.
The 2020 Technical Report did not report full details and in some caxes averages had to be used.
Such missing data presumably are available from the much earlier reports, but for the present purposes, that available from the June 2020 Report should do.
Note that colonial workings, both open pit, and underground and artisanal workings are available for both Imbo Areas..East and West.
Artisanal Workings tend to be shallow surface less than 20 m , whereas colonial workings go deeper as they have undergrroiund galleries.
From these earlier mining activities, we know that both Imbo West and Imbo East contain economic gold deposits whose magnitudes and grades are being defined by drilling in Imbo West.
Drilling has not yet been carried out in Imbo East, but its worth noting (and the data below will indicate why ).
In the comparisons of Imbo East and Imbo West provided below, I use available predrill data to ballpark whether Imbo East is bigger, the same or smaller than Imbo West.
It should be noted that there is a close spatial relationship between catchments with high predrill Au values and the known mineralization at the Adumbi, Kitenge, Manzako and Monde Arabe prospects.
Low predrill indices do not however rule out high drilling results
Imbo East has been declared as a Priority Drilling Projext by Loncor.
The data comparisions below support such a priority
Imbo East Versus Imbo West Colonial and Artisanal Workings
From Fig 1 below, Imbo East has 30 of such workings compared to 25 for Imbo West.
CONCLUSION........................Imbo East is as large as Imbo West
Fig 1 ..Imbo Project Simplified Geology
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Imbo East Versus Imbo West Predrill Auriferous indices
Strike Comparisons
Imbo East identified strike is nearly twice that of Imbo West
CONCLUSION..Imbo East is Larger than Imbo West
SOIL Grades
Soil Grades are over Twice the grade of those in Imbo West
CONCLUSION...Imbo East is larger than Imbo West
Rock Chips
None are available for Imbo West. Those available for Imbo East are very high grade
CONCLUSION....Imbo East has very high grades of gold.
It is noteworth that grades at Manzako and Kitengi....which are shallower than 200 m, and are south of Adumbi.. are more than 2-3 times higher than those of Adumbi at the same depth range.
This suggests that, as soil sampling, rock chip and channel sampling suggest, drill grades at Imbo East will be significantly higher than those of Adumbi
Channel Sampling
Imbo East grades are more than twice those of Imbo West
CONCLUSION.....Imbo East is larger than Imbo West
SUMMARY CONCLUSION
All Predril Indices show that, when dril delineated, Indo East will be a another major gold discovery that will match and probably exceed that of Imbo West, both in ounces and grade
As Imbo West will almost certainly soon reach Tier 1 category discovery, so will Imbo East, once drill delineated
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| Imbo East | Strike ( KM ) | Max Soil PPB | Rock Chips ( Aver ) | Channel Interc | |
| | | | ( gms/ton ) | gm/t | |
| Esio Wapi | 1.9 | 2230 | 7.1 | 1.58 | |
| Paradise | 1.0 | 870 | 10.1 | 5.44 | |
| Museveni | 3.2 | 5580 | 34.5 | 4.37 | |
| Mungo | 3.1 | 1540 | 6.74 | NA | |
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| Combined | 9.2 | 2555 | 14.6 | 3.80 | |
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| Imbo West | | | | | |
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| Adumbi | 2.0 | 1000 | NA | 1.73 | |
| Manzako | 1.4 | NA | NA | 1.73 | |
| Kitengi | 2.0 | 450 | NA | 1.73 | |
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| Combined | 5.4 | 725 | NA | 1.73 | |
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