Maiden drill program at Kabulwanyele Nickel Project in Tanzania has commenced. Resource Mining Corporation Ltd confirmed the report and said they are focused on delivering 18 holes with a high-grade nickel-cobalt target with a strike length of about 2 kilometres.
The 1,000-metre reverse circulation (RC) program will be implemented on the project. The company said the nickel target was identified with 254 soil samples and 19 rock chip samples, which returned strong results up to 0.85% nickel in soil samples and 1.27% nickel in rock samples.
All samples returned grades equal to or more than 500 parts per million nickel and 200 parts per million cobalt, confirming the potential for lateritic (weathered rock fragments formed in ultramafic rock) nickel zones.
Significant nickel mineralisation
“We are very excited to commence the drilling program at this project. After spending some time on the ground over the past few months, we are convinced that Kabulwanyele has all the right geological ingredients for significant nickel mineralisation. We’re very much looking forward to receiving the interpretation of the form of nickel mineralisation that is present, during and post the program being completed,” Resource Mining Corporation executive chair Asimwe Kabunga said.
Resource Mining Corporation expects the drilling program to take about three weeks, and the drilling results to arrive during the third quarter of this year. The project is in the Mpanda District of Tanzania, about 35 kilometres from the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, with the area forming part of the western limb of the East African Rift systems.