Delrand progresses DRC exploration despite challenging market conditions
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – TSX- and JSE-listed exploration company Delrand Resources has been able to maintain a focused exploration programme aimed at achieving its ultimate goal of finding a primary kimerlite source for alluvial diamonds in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), despite challenging market conditions,” Delrand president Dr Mike de Wit said on Monday.
Following positive results from a reconnaissance-sampling programme undertaken in 2008/9, the follow-up mission in 2011, and the detailed follow-up programme in 2012, exploration at Delrand’s Bomili project exploration licence area, in the DRC, started again in August this year.
“The objective of this [exploration] programme was to collect some check samples in order to position a ground geophysical survey block, which is planned for December 2013 and January 2014,” the company stated.
Over the area of interest, Delrand’s field geologists collected several check samples where most of the previous samples had identified the presence of abundant kimberlitic ilmenite, with several of the 30 ℓ samples collected during those preceding programmes containing up to 25 ilmenite grains.
Before a drilling programme could start, Delrand would first submit these grains to a microprobe to verify their chemistry to classify them in terms of their provenance and interest level.
Simultaneously, the company was also mobilising its geophysical team to conduct a ground magnetic survey over a 5 km by 5 km area located over the samples that returned the unabraded grains.
Delrand would be using its own magnetometers for this process, which it hoped to have completed by early February 2014.
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