Metals of Africa commences Resource definition drilling

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Metals of Africa (ASX: MTA) has commenced drilling at the company’s Montepuez Central graphite project in the Cabo Delgado graphite province of Mozambique in East Africa.

The program will target areas of near‐surface, high-grade mineralisation at the project area and has been designed to deliver a maiden JORC 2012 Resource Estimate.

The drill program follows on from the company’s maiden drilling campaign carried out in December last year at the Montepuez project, which intersected zones of high-grade graphite mineralisation, including:

145.59 metres at 9.6 per cent total graphitic content (TGC) and 0.12 per cent vanadium from 34m, including up to 33.8 per cent TGC and 0.26 per cent vanadium.

“Our first drill program came up with the goods including an oxide zone grading at 14.75 per cent TGC,” Metals of Africa managing director Cherie Leeden said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“During the next few months of drilling we are aiming to expand upon our database in order to define a maiden JORC Resource.

“We are focused on delivering a shallow, high-grade oxide Resource as the basis of progressing development of the project in the most cost effective and time efficient manner whilst delivering value for shareholders.”

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