Exploration
West Africa
Cobalt at 15m
Location: Cameroon
Resource:
Cobalt and nickel
London-listed African Battery Metals (ABM) has commenced
an exploration programme at the company’s cobalt-nickel project
in Cameroon.
Exploration work will initially target cobalt-nickel
mineralisation at certain prioritsed targets within ABM’s
licence areas. According to Paul Johnson, executive director of
ABM, the exploration activities will consist of a pit excavation
programme to a maximum depth of 15m per individual pit.
The pitting programme will include mapping and sampling of
each excavated pit to produce a database of prospect information
adding to and complementing historical work completed on site.
Johnson says that the company has opted to focus the initial
exploration spend in a highly targeted manner to establish
whether the identified target areas have a geological similarity
to the nearby Nkamouna deposit. If it has it will significantly
increase the value of the project.
Cobalt and nickel exploration is underway in Cameroon.
North Africa
Dazzling drilling results
Location: Morocco
Resource: Gold/copper/silver
AIM-listed Altus Strategies has updated its drilling results at the
Agdz copper, gold and silver project in Morocco.
The results show additional encouraging copper and silver results
from exploration at Agdz in the Eastern Anti-Atlas of Morocco.
According to Steven Poulton, CEO of Altus, the mapping
and sampling programmes confirm the presence of multiple
mineralised and altered structures which are potentially
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analogous to those reported at the adjacent Bou Skour copper-
silver mine, located about 14km northeast of Agdz, and operated
by Managem.
“The next phase of work at Agdz is planned to include a 50-line
kilometre IP geophysical survey, across the priority prospects we
have defined to date and including the recently mapped rhyolite
dome target. This survey will be designed to delineate priority
trench and drill targets,” says Poulton.
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