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Findings of Testwork at the Nkoteng 1 Heavy M...
Findings of Testwork at the Nkoteng 1 Heavy M....
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\nFindings of Orientation Mineral Separation Testwork at the Nkoteng 1 Heavy Mineral Sands Project, Cameroon \n\n\n19 July 2023\nBWA Group PLC\n(“BWA”, or the “Company”) (AQSE: BWAP)\nFindings of Orientation Mineral Separation Testwork at the Nkoteng 1 Heavy Mineral Sands Project, Cameroon \nBWA Group plc [AQSE: BWAP], which has mineral exploration licences in both Cameroon and Canada and is quoted on London’s AQSE Growth Market, provides an update on its recently completed orientation separation testwork, carried out on 20 low-grade primary samples from the mechanised auger programme, from within the Nkoteng 1 Licence, Central Cameroon (“Nkoteng 1” or the “Nkoteng Project”). \nThrough its subsidiary, BWA Resources Ltd (“BWAR”), BWA currently has five heavy mineral sands (“HMS”) licences across two project areas in Cameroon, totalling 1,267 km2, all of which are at an early stage of exploration. The Nkoteng 1 Licence covers an area of 343 km2 and the contiguous Nkoteng 2 Licence covers an area of 500 km2, located 60 km to the northeast of Yaoundé with easy transport links to the port of Douala. The Nkoteng Licences cover a significant part of the HMS-prospective Sanaga river system. The Dehane 1, 2 and 3 Licences (“Dehane” or the “Dehane Project”) cover an area of 430 km2 comprising part of the prospective Nyong river system, estuary, and coastal zone, located approximately 166 km to the west of the capital, Yaoundé and 70 km from the deep seaport and industrial zone of Kribi.\nA version of this announcement including maps and photographs can be viewed on the Company’s website, http://www.bwagroupplc.com/bwa-announcements.html \nBWA is pleased to announce the findings of the preliminary orientation mineral separation testwork on selected low-grade samples taken from the closed barrel mechanised auger sampling programme on the Nkoteng 1 Project, reported in accordance with JORC (2012). The short shallow auger sampling programme completed in June 2022 drilled 107 holes for 193.30 metres and 171 primary samples (announcement dated 29 June 2022). The programme targeted the central sector of the licence where pitting and hand auger sampling (announcement dated 29 June 2022) identified an area of anomalous Ilmenite, Rutile, Zircon and Kyanite alluvial HMS.\nThe orientation analytical testwork was completed by Dipl. Ing...