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Rukwa update
Rukwa update.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n RNS Number : 4556S Edenville Energy PLC 10 September 2010 \n \n\n10th September 2010\nEDENVILLE ENERGY PLC (\"Edenville\" or the \"Company\")\n \nCoal Exploration Programme, Tanzania\n \nEdenville Energy plc (AIM:EDL), the African coal exploration and development company, today announces an update on exploration activities in Southern Tanzania. The objective of the work programme being implemented will be to evaluate the potential for a large tonnage, open pittable resource with the intention of establishing a maiden resource estimate for the Namwele project in 2011.\n \nHighlights \n· Field work underway at Namwele coal deposit in Southern Tanzania\n· Geological mapping and drill target delineation around previously mined areas in process\n· Mapping of known coal hosting sediment blocks at around 9km in length\n· Initial delineation drilling expected to be undertaken Q4 2010\n· Surveying and prospecting continues at the Matiri licences\n \nEdenville has commenced field work on the Namwele, Mkomolo and Muze deposits of the Rukwa Coalfield. Coal seems are visible to surface at all the deposits with limited open cast mining previously being undertaken at Namwele. It is reported that at Namwele, Upendo Group Ltd produced 30,000 tonnes of coal over a 3 year period for the Mbeya Cement Company. The geology of the Namwele-Mkomolo deposits comprises a series of coal hosting Karroo aged sedimentary blocks, which are shallow dipping with a strike length totalling some 9km (trending in a NW direction) and an average 1.5km in width. The average thickness of the seams exposed on surface ranges from 30 to 50cms in width.\n \nThe Edenville field programme is gathering data to ascertain priority targets for drilling near the various visible occurrences of coal. The Company expects to return results from the programme during the quarter in order to determine both the quality characteristics of coal samples and commence scout drilling to delineate the extent of mineralisation at Namwele by the end of the year.\n \nAt the Company's existing coal assets in southern Tanzania geological ...