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Nickel and time

the perfect mix

for Adavale

davale Resources Ltd is confident it economic mineralisation after what he ad-
Ais ready to deliver on the obvious po- mitted was a false start in 2021. The com-
tential of its Kabanga Jirani nickel project pany drilled eight holes last year based on
this year after identifying more than 30 historical geochemical and geophysical
new drill-ready targets last month. datasets. That drilling returned only mod-
Adavale will start drilling this month at est sniffs of nickel and copper, with the
Kabanga Jirani, in the far west of Tan- company quickly realising it needed better
zania, after completing a gravity survey targeting techniques if it was to hit eco-
which identified 32 nickel sulphide targets nomic mineralisation.
across 1,000sq km of its licence area and “We were working with static informa- A recent gravity survey has presented
a heliborne EM survey to identify deeper tion which isn’t as reliable as it could be,” Adavale with 32 high-quality targets on its
conductors within the gravity anomalies. Riekie explained. “So, while the early soils Kabanga Jirani nickel project in Tanzania
“We will start drilling with a mix of RC confirmed the fertile nature of the ground,
and diamond holes in August and then I we didn’t do enough targeting and started
don’t think we’ll stop,” Adavale executive with diamond drilling when maybe we Adavale returned to the planning table at
director Davie Riekie told Paydirt. “The should’ve been doing RC drilling. Nickel the beginning of the year and decided to
next two quarters are going to be full of sulphide exploration can be tricky and you rerun gravity and EM surveys. The deci-
activity.” can easily have a wasteful programme if sion has seemingly paid off with the surfeit
Riekie is confident the company has you are not spending the time to define the of prospects now in front of it.
given itself the best opportunity of finding targets.” “The measure of the success of the

In Namibia the Company
has multiple, advanced,
projects located in the
world-class Otavi Mountain
Land Copper District.

Nosib Intersections to
12.1m @ 3.2% Cu, 2.54%
V O , 9.8% Pb or over
5
2
10% Cu Equivalent
Abenab high-grade
vanadium (V O ) resources
5
2
Khusib Springs
mine that previously
produced 300,000t @
10% copper, 584 g/t Ag
BATTERY METALS FOCUSED WITH
HIGH-GRADE VANADIUM RESOURCES &
COPPER-SILVER TARGETS IN NAMIBIA,
MAJOR COPPER-GOLD TARGETS IN THE
LACHLAN FOLD BELT, NSW, & COBALT
TARGETS IN CANADA

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