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First Quantum Minerals Commences Initial Drill Program
First Quantum Minerals Commences Initial Drill Program Toronto, Ontario CANADA, September 12...
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[{"type":"text","content":"First Quantum Minerals Commences Initial Drill ProgramFirst Quantum Minerals Commences Initial Drill Program \nToronto, Ontario CANADA, September 12, 2013 /FSC/ - Tsodilo Resources Limited (TSD - TSX Venture), (\"Tsodilo\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce that First Quantum Minerals (\"FQM\") initial drilling program has recently commenced.  The drilling program will take place on metal licenses held by Tsodilo which form the project area of the strategic partnership between TSD and FQM announced on April 18, 2013.  \nDiamond Drilling (DD) \nOne DD rig will drill 'fences' across prospective targets such as fault intersections for the purpose of increasing the knowledge of the basin stratigraphy and structure.   Holes will be inclined thus providing oriented core; spaced 500 to 2,000 meters apart; and 300 - 700 meters in depth. Fences will traverse key geological contacts and will for the most-part be oriented in an east-west direction.\nThe initial program of nine holes will take between two and four months to complete. Figure 1 below shows the two priority areas for diamond drilling. \nhttp://www.tsodiloresources.com/i/pdf/2013-09-12_NR-Fig1.pdf \nFigure 1. Locations of initial diamond drilling 'fences', designed to test conceptual targets and increase of understanding of the regional geology.\nReverse Circulation (RC) Drilling \nRC drilling will be sampling the transported cover - the Kalahari Group - testing for metal anomalism which may originate from buried mineralization in the Neoproterozoic 'basement'. \nThe RC drilling will work an offset grid pattern with lines spaced 2km apart as per Figure 2 below and average 50 meters deep with a following diamond 'tail' when selected.  The RC drill program envisions two-hundred fifty (250) holes to be drilled in priority areas to outline deposit footprints with further areas to be covered if the technique proves successful\nSamples of Kalahari sand will be split and composited into 2 meter samples on the drill rig, and then sieved to a 180 micron fraction. This fine fraction will be depleted in quartz grains and enriched in metal-adsorbing clays and iron-oxides. Samples will be assayed for trace Cu, Ni, Au and accessory metals. The diamond drill 'tail' will collect a small (1 to 6 meters long) core sample from the Neoproterozoic bas...