Elemental drills encouragement at Dougou-Yangala

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Elemental Minerals (ASX: ELM) has received results from its Phase 1B drilling program recently carried out in the Dougou-Yangala area (part of the company’s Sintoukola potash project) in the Republic of Congo (RoC).

At the Yangala sylvinite prospect drilling of hole ED_03 returned Hangingwall Seam sylvinite of:

59.48 per cent potassium chloride (37.56 per cent potassium oxide) over a thickness of 4.21 metres.

Elemental said drillhole ED_03 correlated to previously reported ED_01, 1.4 kilometres to the east of ED_03, which had returned:

4.47m at 57.66 per cent potassium chloride (36.41 per cent potassium oxide).

The company said this result had confirmed its geological model while highlighting the potential of the Yangala sylvinite prospect.

At the Dougou carnallitite deposit drillhole ED_02 intersected the Top Seam, Hangingwall Seam, Upper Seam and the Lower Seam, all of which were thicker than Elemental expected.

Results returned a combined thickness of 43m of carnallitite and individual seams grading between 17.8 per cent and 24.7 per cent potassium chloride (11.2 per cent and 15.6 per cent potassium oxide).

Elemental indicated the quality of the deposit is underpinned by The Hangingwall Seam.

In drillhole ED_02 the seam is 11.21m thick grading 24.7 per cent potassium chloride (15.6 per cent potassium oxide).

The company explained the high grade relative to typical carnallitite is attributed to the fact that it is comprised of 90 per cent of the potash mineral carnallite.

The Top Seam in drillhole ED_02 is 10.22m thick grading 17.8 per cent potassium chloride (11.2 per cent potassium oxide).

Elemental stressed this seam was not included in the maiden Dougou Inferred Mineral Resource Estimate, but will be included in an updated Mineral Resource Estimate for Dougou planned to be completed in early 2015.

 

The Sintoukola Exploration Permit and the location of the Dougou deposit
and Yangala sylvinite prospect. Source: Company announcement

 

“An outstanding set of results for Elemental; they add further support to the quality of the Dougou carnallitite deposit; seams are thick, flat, high-grade, apparently of excellent continuity, and contain almost no insoluble,” Elemental Minerals CEO John Sanders said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“These characteristics underline the deposits’ potential suitability for a relatively low capital-cost solution mine.

“As it stands the deposit is large at 1.29 billion tonnes and open laterally.

“Even more exciting is the Hangingwall Seam sylvinite intersection in ED_03 at Yangala; at almost 60 per cent potassium chloride and 4.2 metres thick, and the fact that it correlates with the same seam ED_01.

“The company’s geological team is of the opinion that the Yangala prospect has the potential to host extensive areas of this seam, and possibly equal our Kola deposit in scale.”

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