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Tembo Gold - Tanzania Country Update
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - September 10, 2020) -  Tembo Gold Corp. ...
About this update from Lake Victoria Gold Ltd
[{"type":"text","content":"Tembo Gold - Tanzania Country UpdateVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - September 10, 2020) -  Tembo Gold Corp. (TSXV: TEM) (\"Tembo\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to provide this geological information on the Tembo Project.HighlightsSukumaland Greenstone BeltThe Sukumaland Greenstone Belt, an arcuate sequence comprising an inner and outer arc of metavolcanics and metasedimentary greenstone lithologies extensively intruded by gneissic granites, is host to the Lake Victoria Goldfield.The Tembo Project is located on the inner of two arcuate greenstone sequences, the outer containing an interbedded sequence of banded iron formation and metasediments forming prominent ridges within metavolcanics, the inner largely comprising peneplained greenstone lithologies with minor metasediments.Both inner and outer arcs host gold mineralisation with Geita Gold Mine to the north, and Nyanzaga to the northeast in the outer arc, and with Bulyanhulu to the southeast and Buckreef and Tuluwaka to the east in the inner arc.The inner arc consists of a number of greenstone fragments, the Tembo Project located on the Bulyanhulu fragment, a separate extension of the Ushirombo belt to the west, host to Buckreef and Tuluwaka Outcrop within the inner arc is generally poor to entirely obscured, with a veneer of transported cover comprising silty soil underlain by lateritic soil and hardpan laterite with commonly at the base a variously worked coarse alluvial horizon containing up to boulder size angular to well-rounded fragments, pebbles and boulders.Due to the lack of outcrop, geological understanding is limited to deep trenching and drilling, supplemented by the excavated material of artisanal workings and rare outcrops.Artisanal Discovery and ExploitationDue to the lack of outcrop and the concealed nature of the geology, the artisanal discovery and mining to date on the Tembo Project can only be described as fortuitous and opportunistic. It is self-evident that local residents have from time to time unearthed quartz fragments in the topsoil during tilling activities and have identified that these often contain gold, leading to more extensive and deeper excavation and searching and the subsequent exploitation of quartz vein rubble lags and eventually locating the quartz vein source structure leading to hard rock mining along these.The pro...