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Peregrine completes drilling programme at Botswana-based mine

5th August 2016

By: Samantha Herbst

Creamer Media Deputy Editor

  

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JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – TSX-listed diamond explorer Peregrine Diamonds has completed core drilling on three kimberlite and two exploration targets at its 100%-owned Sikwane project, in south-eastern Botswana’s Kgatleng’s district

The company advised on Thursday that the drilling programme had successfully intersected the Sikwane kimberlites and had resolved their morphology, further noting that kimberlite material was being collected for future microdiamond analysis.

In addition, two new kimberlite targets in the Sikwane area were drill tested. Both targets are explained by magnetic dolerite intrusions.

"Peregrine's Sikwane drill programme has efficiently resolved an irregular hypabyssal intrusive morphology for the drilled Sikwane kimberlites and outlined substantive pinch-and-swell characteristics for kimberlites in the Sikwane cluster as a whole. We are integrating these new data into our exploration models for three contiguous prospecting licences that we control in the Sikwane region in Botswana and will incorporate the outcomes into future targeting in the region," said Peregrine technical services VP Dr Herman Grütter.

Edited by Creamer Media Reporter

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