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Kimberlite Confirmed at 21181A Program Update
Kimberlite Confirmed at 21181A Program Update
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[{"type":"text","content":"Kimberlite Confirmed at 21181A Program Update\n\n\n\nKimberlite Confirmed at 21181A Program Update\n\nToronto, Ontario CANADA, April 30, 2009 /FSC/ - Tsodilo Resources Limited (TSD - TSX Venture), is pleased to announce the discovery of a new kimberlite on its Newdico (Pty) Limited license blocks in Botswana. \n\n\nAnomaly 21181A\n\nGround magnetic surveys carried out over a \"bulls-eye\" airborne magnetic anomaly 21181A portray a dipolar and roughly circular body, indicative of pipe-like intrusive body measuring approximately 500 meters north-south and 400 meters east-west (20 hectares) The geophysical magnetic images can be viewed on the Company's website at http://www.tsodiloresources.com/s/Imagery.asp. Drilling commenced on April 24, 2009 and the target was drill tested with the Company's diamond core drill rig. \n\nTarget 21181A is located approximately 30 kilometers east of the Namibia - Botswana border in the Company's Newdico license block and approximately 5 kilometers south-west from the small village of Nxau Nxau. \n\n\nDrilling Results\n\nAfter drilling through 15 meters of loose aeolian sand, a consolidated hard thick section of calcrete was encountered to the base of the Upper Kalahari sequence at 37.5 meters when very weathered, highly altered reddish-brown, friable tuffistic kimberlite breccia with angular, altered country rock xenoliths, including dolomite and mudstones, and highly altered olivine macrocrysts and minor ilmenite was intersected. This can be interpreted as an erosional zone. Numerous coarse kimberlitic ilmenites of up to 5 mm in size were visually identified in this weathered kimberlite up to 89.5 meters depth. From 89.5 meters up to 170 meters the kimberlite was similar to earlier sections but the color changed to grayish green. More olivine macrocrysts were present and fewer larger country rock xenoliths in the deeper sections. The rock encountered is a magmaclastic tuffistic kimberlite breccia consisting of abundant, highly altered olivine macrocrysts and angular country rock xenoliths, including dolomites, dolerites and mudstones, and minor accessory ilmenite and garnet 2.5 mm in size. The matrix consists of altered olivine, carbonates and secondary clay minerals. Photos of the 21181A kimberlite core can be vied on the Company's website at http://ww...