Kaboko Mining confirms Zambian mineralisation extensions
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Kaboko Mining (ASX: KAB) has completed a program of exploration drilling at the company’s Mansa, Northern Zambian manganese project.
The company said initial results have identified the best exploration results it has achieved at Mansa to date with visible intersections wider than previous results.
The drilling was carried out in two phases consisting of a total of 32 holes for 2,760 metres with a total of 748 samples collected and dispatched for laboratory analyses.
The initial drill target (Phase 1) was based on detail mapping of excavated trenches.
Kaboko said this mapping had identified three reefs: the Main, the Middle and the Northern Reef extending in an east-south-easterly direction.
During the drilling of Phase 1, Kaboko tested this model and although the Northern Reef and Middle reef continued further south-east as predicted by the mapping, drilling continued in the northern part of the pit as the company considers the reef is more lucrative there with wider intersections.
Phase 2 drilling was designed to test the reef alongside the northern boundary of the Open Pit.
Source: Company announcement
During this drilling of Phase 2, Kaboko focused on the intersection of the reef at depth and along the northern border of the pit as the reef was much thicker in this area.
The company claimed the completed drilling program intersected manganese at depth and has proven the downward extension of the mineralization.
Kaboko will now use these drilling results in conjunction with a recently-completed scoping study to prepare a JORC-compliant resource statement at the Mansa project, which it expects to complete this quarter.
“These drilling results are an exciting conclusion to the drilling program, which adds significant support to existing mining operations and the preparation of the maiden JORC-compliant resource statement,” Kaboko Mining CEO Tokkas Van Heerden said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.
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