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Rare ground gets drilled Moho swans on Duketon set for summer
in Uganda Moho Resources Ltd has started ex- Duketon Mining Ltd was preparing to
ploration on tenement E27/613, 7km drill the Somerset nickel prospect, 30km
Oro Verde Ltd was on track to complet- north-west of the high-grade Silver Swan north of Laverton.
ing its first drilling programme at the Maku- nickel sulphide deposit, 50km north of An EM survey was being completed at
utu rare earths project in Uganda at the Kalgoorlie. the time of print, with aircore drilling to fol-
end of last month. Meanwhile, the company has applied low. The company planned to carry out RC
The project has already had over 100 for tenement ELA27/623 which adjoins drilling of identified EM conductors follow-
RAB holes into it and is believed to be the southern boundary of the Black ing the aircore programme.
potentially one of the largest ionic clay de- Swan nickel operation to increase its ex- Sampling of selective iron-rich mate-
posits outside of China with an exploration posure to the base metal. rial from drill spoils returned assays up to
target of 530mt @ 0.04-0.1% TREO. A drilling programme to the north and 1.78% nickel and 306 ppm copper.
The company has acquired a 20% inter- north-west boundaries of Black Swan
est in the project and may acquire up to (43 aircore holes for 3,430m) has re-
40% more. vealed anomalous silver mineralisation Cassini pumps the gold
A 750m drilling programme was about in eight holes, but no anomalous nickel
halfway completed, with 19 holes drilled to has been reported. results
mid-October. Moho has planned a review of histori- A further three RC drill holes have re-
Due to the slippery nature of the clay cal data for E27/613 to identify and pri- turned significant mineralisation at Cassini
core, there were initial delays in retrieving oritise targets to aggressively explore Resources Ltd’s Handpump gold prospect
core, but the issues have since been over- for nickel, while also reviewing a CSIRO within its 100%-owned Mt Squires project
come and core quality and core recovery report on litho-geochemical fingerprint- in WA’s Musgrave province.
were reportedly meeting expectations. ing projects to identify nickel prospective Significant intercepts included; 27m @ 1
The first batch of core samples (total- ultramafic geology. g/t gold from 31m (including 3m @ 2.59 g/t
ling 330m) have been freighted to Austral- from 38m and 19m @ 0.68 g/t from 38m
ia for chemical analysis and metallurgical (including 6m @ 1.26 g/t from 38m).
testing. IGO launches at Louisa Broad mineralisation with higher-grade
As Apollo Consolidated Ltd focuses zones has now been intersected in two
Hannans looks for nickel on drilling the Lake Rebecca gold pro- sections, with Cassini set to report more
ject near Kalgoorlie, the company has results for the remaining four holes at the
reward courted Independence Group NL (IGO) time of print.
Results to date have encouraged the
Hannans Ltd started a major nickel as farm-in/JV partner at the early-stage company to begin planning follow-up pro-
exploration campaign at its Forrestania Louisa project. grammes at Handpump and the remaining
nickel project (FNP), about 120km south Louisa, near Fitzroy Crossing in the project area. A recent airborne magnetic
of Southern Cross in Western Australia’s Kimberley, WA, is a nickel-copper sul- survey and geochemical data evaluation
Eastern Goldfields. phide project, which IGO can earn up to have been integral in the decision-making
Hannans is gearing up to make the first a 75% interest, subject to milestones be- process for the next phase of exploration.
major nickel sulphide discovery at For- ing reached.
restania in 13 years. FNP is along strike Remote sensing work is scheduled to
from two world-class operating nickel start in the December quarter, followed Calidus to deliver
mines. by field programmes during the 2020 dry strong news flow from
Hannans is aiming to undertake RC and season.
diamond drilling at the project throughout IGO has an initial cash commitment of Klondyke
November and December following geo- $350,000 over the first two years with an
logical field work and geophysical surveys. additional $3 million to be spent within Outstanding shallow drill intersections
The company hopes to report drilling re- four years to reach a 75% interest in from Klondyke were reported by Calidus
sults in January. Louisa. Resources Ltd, with multiple high-grade,
wide intercepts highlighting the strength of

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