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Walkabout Resources poised to start drilling at Tanzania oxide copper project

Published: 16:50 20 Jun 2013 AEST

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Walkabout Resources (ASX: WRT) has mobilised the drill rig to start its 4,000 metre reverse circulation drilling campaign at the Kigoma Oxide Copper Project in Tanzania.

This is designed to identify the enriched and transition zone lithology of the four types of high grade oxidised mineralisation present at Kigoma.

Oxide grades of up to 25% copper are being targeted in the enriched zone.

The project has been divided into a Southern Zone and a Northern Zone, which are about 12 kilometres apart and separated by the Malagarasi River.

Initial operations will commence in the southern zone of which Walkabout controls some 8 square kilometres between two local informal mining diggings producing copper oxide ore with grades in excess of 10%.

Mineralisation within the Southern Zone is known to occur in multiphase lava and basalt flows which are horizontal and form a series of enriched amygdaloidal or fine basalt tabular target ore bodies enriched with malachite and azurite.   

In the Northern Zone, where 3 informal mines have exposed ore bodies, mineralisation is known to occur with massive galena controlled along regional trending structures and also with fine basalt and breccia pillows which have concentrated the enrichment.   

The Kigoma area contains extensive artisinal activity with many Primary Mining Licences being worked with oxide copper ore trucked to Kigoma and railed to a smelter in Dar es Salaam.

It has outcrop of reduced pyrite bearing sediments capping a thick sequence of red‐beds. These are potential host horizon and source of copper, same as the Zambian –Congo Roan Belt.

 

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