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Grimeli Project Drilling Results

21 Aug 2015 07:00

RNS Number : 6808W
Kodal Minerals PLC
21 August 2015
 



21 August 2015

Kodal Minerals plc

("Kodal Minerals" or the "Company")

Grimeli Project Drilling Results

 

Kodal Minerals, the mineral development and exploration company owning extraction and exploration licences in Norway, is pleased to announce the final results of the current drilling programme at the Grimeli Project. The Grimeli Project is a copper ("Cu") and zinc ("Zn") project located in western Norway approximately 150km north of Bergen.

 

 

Complete Programme Drilling Results (including previously announced)

 

On 14 May 2015, the Company announced its first set of results from its 2,000 metre diamond drilling programme at the Grimeli Project. The programme has now been completed and the full results back from the laboratory, the highlights of which are set out below.

 

 

Highlights

· High grade copper and zinc occurrences confirmed at Grimeli

· Best copper grade 8.39%

· Best zinc grade 6.98%

· Sample assay results returning greater than 1% Cu or greater than 1% Zn :

o 0.97m @ 6.39%Cu and 0.82%Zn (including 0.53m @ 8.39% Cu), BH04

o 0.50m @ 4.29%Cu and 6.98%Zn, BH03

o 0.51m @ 4.92%Cu and 0.82%Zn, BH05

o 0.48m @ 2.77%Cu and 1.1%Zn, BH08

o 1.0m @ 0.26%Cu and 2.44%Zn, BH01

· Drilling results prove the presence of previously unmined mineralised bodies

· The identified mineralised lens is not constrained down dip or along strike

 

Drill Hole Details including significant assay results*:

Collar Coordinates

Hole depth

Azimuth

Dip

From

To

Interval

Cu

Zn

BHID

X

Y

Z

metres

degrees

degrees

metres

metres

metres

%

%

BH08

290802.9

6818557.3

34.4

80

149.8

-52.8

73.55

74.03

0.48

2.77

1.1

 

 

Drill Hole Details - BH01-BH06 as previously announced:

Collar Coordinates

Hole depth

Azimuth

Dip

From

To

Interval

Cu

Zn

BHID

X

Y

Z

metres

degrees

degrees

metres

metres

metres

%

%

BH01

290706.8

6818464.3

37.5

63

140.4

-55.5

40

41

1

0.26

2.44

BH02

290727.9

6818486

36.538

65

155.4

-55

45.34

46

0.66

0.17

0.61

BH03

290727.9

6818486

36.538

67.9

155.4

-80

44.25

44.75

0.5

4.29

6.98

BH04

290859.8

6818544.4

44.27

151.6**

190

-54

67.31

68.28

0.97

6.39

0.82

BH05

290859.4

6818544.7

44.38

82.7

224.6

-78

70.38

70.89

0.51

4.92

0.82

BH06

290861.9

6818546.7

44.53

92.5

89.5

-70

70.45

71.53

1.08

0.21

0.15

 

\* True widths of the mineralised body are unknown at this time

** Depth of BH04 was previously incorrectly reported as 63 metres

 

The Company has received assay results from twenty one holes (2,000 metres) drilled from two groups of positions. The first group (BH01 - BH08) are adjacent to the access road to the site. The second group (BH09 - BH21) are on a plateau approximately 200 vertical metres above the first location.

 

The holes in the first group were targeting a geophysical anomaly identified by ground geophysics completed by the Geologic Survey of Norway ("NGU") in a period around 1978. The NGU classified this as a weak anomaly. Of the 8 holes, five intersected massive sulphides.

 

The holes in the second group were targeting a number of geophysical anomalies identified by ground geophysics completed by the NGU and classified as strong or very strong. In all cases the holes encountered gradational increases in disseminated iron sulphides (pyrhhotite) over varying distances up to a maximum of approximately 15m, the mineralisation displaying banding to varying degrees. The iron mineralisation explains the response obtained by the NGU geophysics.

 

Luke Bryan, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, commented:

 

"Overall the drill programme was successful in locating the first new high grade mineral occurrence, which has been defined over a strike length of 150 metres and remains open down dip and to the west. The drilling was quite challenging due to both the topography and the weather conditions in western Norway over winter.

 

The programme was designed to test a number of horizons defined by historic geophysics and in the process to provide the Company with information to guide future exploration efforts. The first holes delivered the most exciting results while the drilling higher up the mountain returned wide intersections of iron sulphides with negligible copper or zinc. The drilling seems to confirm that the mineralisation occurs in lenses separated by barren material with, apparently, quite abrupt transitions.

 

While the current geophysics can guide the drilling onto the mineralised trend we need better information to target the potential zones of economic mineralisation. With the current information it is difficult to distinguish high grade massive sulphide zones from non-economic disseminated pyrhhotite zones. A combination of ground based electromagnetic ("EM") and high resolution magnetic may offer potential. Now that we have located both a massive sulphide copper zinc lens and a number of disseminated pyrhhotite horizons we have locations to conduct orientation surveys. The Company is assessing this approach.

 

With only a very small portion of many kilometres of potential target zone tested the Grimeli project remains a very interesting early stage exploration project.

 

In recent months the Company has received a number of approaches to participate in new exploration projects. These are being assessed on merit and the Company continues to discuss various options both in Norway and elsewhere."

 

 

 

 

Further information

 

Assays were completed by SGS Laboratory Services in Ankara, Turkey using a four acid digest and atomic absorption spectroscopy with a quoted detection limit of 10ppm for Cu and Zn up to 50% and 5% respectively.

 

The drilling results contained in the announcement have been reviewed by Mr. Galen White - Principal Geologist, CSA Global (UK) Ltd. Mr White is a Fellow in good standing of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (FAusIMM) and a Fellow of the Geological Society of London (FGS) with sufficient experience to act as Competent Person under the JORC Code (2012). Mr White has reviewed the information contained herein, alongside drill logs, sampling information, core photography and SGS laboratory analysis data. Mr White consents to the disclosure of drilling results in the form and context in which they appear.

 

 

Contact details:

 

Kodal Minerals plcLuke Bryan, Chief Executive Officer Tel: 020 3470 0470

 

Allenby Capital Limited, Nominated Adviser Tel: 020 3328 5656

Jeremy Porter/Nick Harriss

 

SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP, Financial Adviser & Broker Tel: 020 3470 0470

John Mackay

This information is provided by RNS
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