Arcadia Minerals Ltd (ASX:AM7) has instructed Hammerstein Mining and Drilling to execute a 526m RC drilling programme for nine drill holes at the Karibib Copper-Gold Project in Namibia.
“Our focus with this drilling program is to test the geological horizons identified from our previously announced grab sampling programme and recent comprehensive mapping, which horizons are considered most prospective for mineralisation based on previously received results,” CEO, Philip le Roux, said.
“Once drilling has been completed, we should know a lot more about the tenor of mineralisation to shallow depths, which may warrant further drilling.”
The drilling programme is expected to consist of nine drill holes drilled at a 60 degree inclination and at varied azimuths and depths dependent on the inferred geometry and geology of the targeted zone.
Dependant on whether visual mineralisation is encountered in drill holes, an additional three holes will be drilled. In September 2021 the company completed a grab sampling programme over an inferred 20 km by two km metasedimentary structural feature. This structure contains similar geology than that encountered at the nearby Navachab Mine (5.3MozAu) and by various other explorers for gold mineralisation in the area, such as Osino Resources who developed its Twin Hills prospect (located 45km also within the Karibib gold belt) to contain a Mineral Resource of 2.1MozAu.
Results attained from the grab sampling programme at Karibib were impressive, and were taken from lithology identified as either Skarn-type or Vein-type mineralisation: Skarn-type mineralisation returned average copper mineralisation of 4.32 % Cu, with a highest value of 28.40% Cu.
Average gold values of 1.49 g/t Au were returned, with a highest value of 7.65 g/t Au. Significant Silver mineralisation was also encountered (av. 50.50 g/t Ag with highest 453 g/t Ag) and up to 1% Tungsten.
Vein-type mineralisation returned average results of 1.94% Cu (highest 5.69% Cu), 2.06 g/t Au (highest 26.30 g/t Au) and 12.68 g/t Ag (highest 30.10 g/t Ag). Both vein- and skarn-type mineralisation is known to contain economic mineralisation in the area and were encountered on or near the contact margins of large diorite intrusions.
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