SP angel4 Dec 2020 12:06
KAV & POW
LSE:KAV & LSE:POW
Power Metal Resources* (POW LN) 2.15p, Mkt cap £20m – Field exploration commenced on the Kalahari Copper Belt
Kavango Resources (KAV LN) 2.85p, Mkt cap £5.5m
Power Metal has commenced exploration fieldwork on the South Ghanzi Project, on the Kalahari Copper Belt (KCB) in northwest Botswana. The two prospecting licenses at South Ghanzi are held in a 50% owned strategic joint venture with Kavango Resources, as announced September 2020.
The JV's highly prospective South Ghanzi licences are strategically placed in the centre of the KCB, a strata-bound copper-silver trend extending over 1,000km along the northern boundary of the Kalahari carton in Botswana and Namibia. The JV's highly prospective South Ghanzi licences are strategically placed in the centre of this trend and in close proiximity to other exploration targets and resource projects.
Field based exploration activities targeting the discovery of sedimentary copper deposits have recently commenced under the operational management of Kavango, with both soil sampling and ground magnetic geophysics surveys which seek to delineate regional targets for future AEM surveying.
335 soil samples have been taken across six lines, totalling 33.5km.The samples were sieved to 50 microns and are now being analysed using a portable XRF Analyser.
Selected samples will then be sent to a laboratory for further testing.
Ground magnetic surveys were also conducted over 68.8km, with the survey covering a number of sub-outcropping redox boundaries- typically associated with copper mineralisation. Line spacing was set at 200m, with 10m-station spacing. The survey data is now being processed and plotted.
Results from the laboratory testing of the soil samples and the reprocessing of the ground magnetic data are expected later this month.
The JV expects to conduct AEM surveys over prospective sections of the South Ghanzi project in the New Year, and will work towards test drilling of shallow targets once a 3 dimensional exploration model has been developed following the completion of the aforementioned exploration activities.
In recent years, the KCB has attracted substantial exploration interest, including Cupric Canyon Capital's Zone 5 deposit, which hosts a Total Mineral Resource of 91.7mt @ 2.1% Cu & 14g/t of silver. In July, Cupric raised US$650m for the construction of the Khoemacau Starter Project with previously announced plans to begin mining Zone 5 in mid-2021.
Michael Foster, CEO of Kavango Resources, commented: The region has become one of the world's foremost frontiers for copper exploration, hosting a number of world-class discoveries. We are targeting similar geological formations that have been shown to host economic deposits elsewhere on the KCB.
Paul Johnson CEO of Power Metal Resources has previous experience exploring in the area, commenting: Personally, I am delighted to return to the Kalahari Copper Belt and follow a similar pa