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Maiden drill programme now complete with 1,965 metres of Rotary Air Blast ("RAB") drilling completed over 50 holes at Mihanza Hill and Mwaka Hill with 1,965 samples collected.
· 776 three metre composite samples prepared from the RAB drill programme with a Quality Assurance/Quality Control sample inserted every 10 samples.
· All RAB samples have now been sent to SGS Tanzania ("SGS"), an accredited assay laboratory, all samples will be analysed by their multi-element Aqua Regia Digestion/ICP-OES method with 13 select samples to also be tested using Fire Assay for gold, platinum and palladium.
· In addition, 4 rock samples collected from mapping have been sent to SGS for assay.
Louis Coetzee, Chairman of Katoro Gold plc, commented: "We are very pleased with the successful completion of the first drill programme at Haneti, marking a significant milestone in the ongoing exploration programme at the Project. We have a very clear exploration strategy for Haneti and, subject to the outcome of results from the maiden drill programme, are ready to proceed with the next phase.
"We would like to thank the exploration team who forfeited their Christmas break and worked hard over the traditional Christmas season to implement this programme successfully, particularly given the challenging weather conditions towards the latter half of the programme."
HANETI PROJECT - NICKEL SULPHIDE AND PGM TARGETS - FURTHER INFORMATION
PROJECT OVERVIEW
The Haneti Nickel Project covers an area of approximately 5,000 km2 in central Tanzania approximately 88 km north of the capital city Dodoma. It comprises tenements (prospecting licences, offers and applications) prospective for nickel, PGMs and gold.
One of the key exploration objectives for the JV partners at Haneti is to delineate the potential for economic nickel mineralisation on the linear dyke-like, Haneti-Itiso Ultramafic Complex ("HIUC") which sporadically crops out over a strike length of 80 km through the centre of the tenement holding. The HIUC mainly comprises serpentinites (metamorphosed ultrabasic rocks such as dunite and peridotite), with metabasic rocks such as metagabbro and metadolerite and is being targeted for a Chonolith-Type Nickel exploration model.
RAB DRILL PROGRAMME
The RAB drilling programme focussed on the Mihanza Hill and Mwaka Hill targets which were selected based on the recommendations of the 2012 airborne electromagnetic ("AEM") geophysics survey, the detailed field programme undertaken in 2013 and further supplementary exploration findings. Drilling was focused on Mihanzi Hill and Mwaka Hill for this campaign, as they were considered to be the priority targets at this stage.
The 1,965m RAB drilling programme consisted of 50 holes drilled on linear fences across the targets. The programme is seeking to verify the existence of near surface nickel sulphide mineralisation at each target whilst increasing the geological understanding such that the