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Commencement of drilling at Rukwa
Commencement of drilling at Rukwa.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 9462K Edenville Energy PLC 25 July 2011 \n\n25th July 2011\n \nEDENVILLE ENERGY PLC (\"Edenville\" or the \"Company\")\n \nCommencement of Drilling, Rukwa Coal Project, Tanzania\n \nEdenville Energy plc (AIM:EDL), the coal focused African energy exploration and development company, today announces the commencement of exploration drilling at its Rukwa coal project in South Western Tanzania.\n \nLayne Drilling Tanzania has been contracted to initiate a PQ/HQ size diamond drill core campaign across the Namwele and Mkomolo Deposits of the Rukwa coalfield. Drilling commenced on the 21st July at the Mkomolo Deposit of the Coalfield where geological mapping, supported by pitting and trenching undertaken by Edenville, has defined a strike length of over 7km of the potential coal measures strata. Coal measures are those strata known to host coal seam mineralisation. Drilling will be completed on a grid pattern with north-south line spacing at 500m intervals. All holes are being drilled vertically to intersect the coal measures at successively deeper depths up to a maximum of 200m. Once the Mkomolo area drilling is completed the drill rig will move south on to the Namwele Deposit.\n \nThe first diamond drillhole, MK11-01, was completed to a final depth of 43m. The coal measures were intersected from 32 to 38m and included 1.80m of coal which is currently being logged and sampled. The second hole (MK11-02) is now in progress and is at a depth of 21.60m within mudstones that lie directly above the coal zone.\n \nAll sample analysis will be completed on whole core samples and shipped out and analysed at the coal specialist laboratory (Inspectorate Labs.) in Middleburg, South Africa. Assayed results are expected to be announced during the second half of 2011. Dr. R. Lowman, of the Wardell-Armstong Coal Division is currently on site initiating/supervising the start up and QA/QC procedures for this first phase diamond drilling programme.\n \nThe Rukwa Coalfield comprises the Namwele, Mkomolo and Muze Deposits where coal is visible on surface. Limited small-scale open cast mining has previously been undertaken at Namwele with production reported at 30,000 tonnes of coal over a 3 year period. This material was trucked to the Mbeya Cement Company, some 250km to the southeast of the R...