RE: News this week?7 Feb 2020 12:05
I was re-reading some recent news and liked this bit. Feel it was pretty much ignored at the time but could be interesting.
DISCUSSION and SIGNIFICANCE
· Kavango's geological team believe that they have intersected a small part of a very extensive magma plumbing system that lay beneath multiple volcanic vents and fissures which extruded large quantities of basaltic lava onto the surface about 180 million years ago.
· This is the type of plumbing system that hosts massive sulphide orebodies at Voisey Bay in Canada, one of the world's largest Ni/Cu/Co deposits.
· Typically these complex plumbing systems are composed of stacked (horizontal) sills connected to each other via (vertical) dykes.
· If the magma contained "free" sulphur (due partly to contamination of the magma by the incorporation of coal), a continuous flow of magma along the conduit over extended periods may have allowed for the accumulation of metal suphides in certain localities within the sill.
· The application of downhole geophysical techniques should locate accumulations of metal sulphides within the gabbro. This will be undertaken as soon as the equipment becomes available.
Michael Foster, Chief Executive Officer of Kavango Resources, commented:
"It is most encouraging that the current drilling programme may have identified a magma plumbing system typical of those that host some of the world's largest metal sulphide deposits. If it can be established that the disseminated metal sulphides seen in the gabbroic sills are a primary feature, then there is an excellent possibility that economically viable metal sulphide deposits exist within the KSZ. The Company will continue to keep the market informed of all developments on the KSZ in the coming days."