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MINING News
0861BOOYCO (0861 266926) +27 (0)11 823 6842 info@booyco-electronics.co.za www.booyco-electronics.co.za Visit Booyco Electronics in Hall 5 Stand B25 and learn more about how our Pedestrian Detection System covers up to 7 different machines and 20 people all at the same time .ASX-listed Lucapa Diamond Company and
its partners have announced the start of
a drilling programme to test high-priority
kimberlite targets at the Lulo diamond
project in Angola. The Lulo concession
cover 3 000 km
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in Lunda Norte province
and is located within 150 km of Catoca, the
world’s fourth biggest diamond mine.
The aim of the drilling programme
is to help identify the primary kimber-
lite source, or sources, of the large, high
Lucapa testing kimberlite targets at Lulo
value alluvial diamonds being recovered
from Lulo, which include Angola’s biggest
recorded diamond – a 404-carat Type IIa
D-colour gem which sold for US$22,5 mil-
lion in February 2016.
The first kimberlite target being drilled
is L259 – beneath which several large
premium-value diamonds, including the
404-carat stone, have been recovered.
Previous gravity and ground electro-
magnetic (EM) surveys have a identified
Drilling of the L259 kimberlite target at Lulo (photo: Lucapa).
Maiden drill programme
underway by Orion Gold
Orion Gold, listed on the ASX, has confirmed
that the maiden drill programme at its
Marydale gold project and historical Prieska
copper mine zinc-copper project, both in
South Africa’s Northern Cape Province, is
now underway.
Drilling has begun at the Marydale gold
project, a virgin discovery of possible epi-
thermal origin, located 60 km from the
historical Prieska copper mine. Drilling will
test the geological model for the miner-
alisation by in-filling historical drilling at the
project with oriented core drilling.
Drilling is also underway at the Prieska
mine zinc-copper project, focusing on near
surface mineralisation at the company’s
+105 Level exploration target.
a 78-108 hectare body at L259 consistent
with a weathered near-surface expression
of a kimberlite.
The kimberlite drilling is being con-
ducted using the Landcruiser-mounted
Sedi drill rig purchased by the Lulo part-
ners. The diamond rig can drill 61 mm
diameter holes to extract core from a
depth of up to 70 m. The Sedi drill rig also
has auger drilling capacity.
The drilling programme is scheduled to
continue throughout 2016. Options being
considered to expedite the programme are
the addition of a second drilling rig with a
deeper and wider capability.