Botswana Minerals’ AI programme shifts to identify drill sites
Dual-listed Botswana Minerals says that while its AI-assisted exploration programme across its north-west (Ngamiland) Botswana licences continues to identify significant opportunities, it is moving to refine the identified targets into drill sites.
The programme is now moving from large-scale data analysis into increasingly focused field testing.
Botswana Minerals’ current copper and polymetallic programme began with an AI review of its extensive Botswana database, covering about 95 000 km². This work led to the award in January of eight prospecting licences covering about 7 000 km² in north-west Botswana.
AI has been used to bring together decades of exploration information and identify where the strongest evidence for mineralisation occurs.
Fieldwork will now test those areas on the ground and progressively and rapidly narrow them towards drill targets.
Field sampling on the company’s northern licences is about to begin, to define specific drill sites.
The company’s AI-driven analysis on its southern licences has defined a further nine copper target areas. One priority southern target is directly adjacent to historic copper workings.
“We are progressing our AI targets to drilling sites. We started with a very large Botswana database, used it to secure prospective ground and have progressively narrowed the search.
“In the north, we are moving to sample the best target areas, to define drill sites. In the south, analysis has identified further copper-prone corridors, with one target close to known historical copper mineralisation,” chairperson John Teeling explains.
The next steps, which will be funded from existing cash resources, entail starting targeted field sampling on the northern licences; testing and refining the newly defined southern corridors; examining and relogging relevant historical drill core; and integrating new field data with geophysics and AI interpretation to rank targets for drilling.
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