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Second Drilling Program at Orom-Cross Project
Second Drilling Program at Orom-Cross Project.
About this update from Blencowe Resources Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n RNS Number : 6750I\n Blencowe Resources PLC\n 16 August 2021\n \n \n \n Date: 16th August 2021 Blencowe Resources Plc\n \n \n (\"Blencowe\" or the \"Company\")\n \n \n \n Blencowe Completes Second Successful Drilling Program at Orom-Cross Project\n \n \n The Company is pleased to provide a further update to the comprehensive JORC Resource diamond drilling program that has been completed on its Orom-Cross Graphite Project in Northern Uganda.\n \n Highlights\n \n · \n Another successful drilling campaign now completed.\n \n \n · \n An additional 38 infill holes totalling 1,140m was completed in the Northern Syncline and a further 36 holes for 1,080m in the Camp Lode.\n \n \n · \n 1,150 samples currently in transit to the JORC-accredited labs in Tanzania for sample preparation prior to assaying at SGS in Canada.\n \n The company commenced a second phase of resource and in-fill drilling at its Orom-Cross project in May 2021 with the aim of upgrading resources at both the Camp Lode and Northern Syncline deposits. The company made steady progress on the program after easing of the Covid lockdown in country and successfully completed the planned JORC resource drill out of both the Northern Syncline Lode and the High-Grade Camp Lode with a combined total meterage of 2,220m drilled in both deposits. An additional 38 infill holes totalling 1,140m was completed in the Northern Syncline and a further 36 holes for 1,080m in the Camp Lode. Similarly to the first phase drilling program, these holes intersected significant bands of graphite over the length of the holes.\n The drilling was planned to cover the top third of the deposit to approximately 25 meters, being the weathered free dig material, which will be the focus for the initial mining program. There is considerably more graphite below as fresh material which can be drilled at a later stage if required. Each of these deposits are also open along strike. Geological logging of the holes and core sample delineation is also completed with 1,150 samples currently in transit to the JORC-accredited labs in Tanzania for sample preparation prior to assaying at SGS in Canada.\n Additional drillholes were completed for geotechnical samples to aid in mine design and these samples are currently in transit to the geotechnical consultants i...