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JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Aim-listed Botswana Diamonds and its joint venture (JV) partner, Russian diamond major, Alrosa, have completed the initial planned fieldworks for their 2.9 km2 PL117 licence area in Orapa, Botswana.
Analysis of the rapid and intensive work programme, which included magnetic, electromagnetic and geochemical surveys, would provide the JV clear drill targets.
“We have done the initial ground work with our Russian partners; the samples are on their way to Russia and applying Alrosa’s in-house analytical capabilities we shall hopefully locate the new drill targets, which we shall drill in short order,” Botswana Diamonds chairperson John Teeling said in a statement in Wednesday.
The geochemical samples were being shipped to the Alrosa laboratory in St Petersburg, Russia, for mineralogical analysis.
Simultaneously, Botswana Diamonds was undertaking the interpretation and modelling of the geophysical fieldwork.
Further, the Aim-listed company was awaiting the formal awarding of the new prospecting licences from the Department of Mines in Botswana.
“These areas, which have been identified as top-priority targets by the JV, will also be worked under a continued, joint work programme,” Teeling concluded.