Yesterday's RNS25 Nov 2010 08:10
African Mining & Exploration, (AME), the AIM listed company (insert ticker details) with exploration licences in Mali, West Africa, is pleased to announce the commencement of exploration fieldwork on its Karan exploration licence located close to the capital, Bamako.
Highlights
· Geologists and field crews have established themselves at Karan and exploration is underway;
· Commencement of a detailed close-spaced ground geophysical survey over 3 priority target areas containing 5 prospects, all of which are subject to intense artisanal mining;
· Initiation of regional sampling to define the Karan structural corridor;
· Signing of an agreement with West African Drilling Services to commence drilling in Q1, 2011 over targets defined by on-going geophysics and regional sampling;
· An agreement reached to allow Newmont Mining Corporation to complete stream sediment sampling across the Company's Karan Exploration licence as part of a larger regional programme.