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Kimberlite Confirmed at 21512A and 21641A
Kimberlite Confirmed at 21512A and 21641A
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nKimberlite Confirmed at 21512A and 21641A\n\n\n Aug. 12, 2009 (Filing Services Canada) -- Tsodilo Resources Limited (TSD - TSX Venture), (\"Tsodilo\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce the discovery of two (2) new kimberlites on its Newdico (Pty) Limited license blocks in Botswana. Anomaly 21512AGround magnetic surveys carried out over a \"bulls-eye\" airborne magnetic anomaly 21512A portray a dipolar and roughly circular body, indicative of pipe-like intrusive body with a magnetic signature measuring approximately 600 meters north-south and 700 meters east-west (42 hectares) The geophysical magnetic images can be viewed on the Company's website at http://www.tsodiloresources.com/i/pdf/21512A-total-magnetic-Field-contoured.pdf. Target 21512A is located approximately 35 kilometers east of the Namibia - Botswana border in the Company's Newdico license block and approximately 8 kilometers northeast from the small village of Nxau Nxau. Drilling ResultsAfter drilling through 47 meters of loose aeolian sand, a consolidated hard thick section of calcrete was encountered to the base of the Upper Kalahari sequence at 60 meters when very weathered hypabyssal kimberlite was intersected. The rock encountered is a highly altered, extensively carbonated, Group 1, coherent hypabyssal kimberlite. It consists of rare broken altered olivine macrocrysts up to 3mm in size, abundant extensively carbonated olivine phenocrysts and scattered altered country rock xenoliths (up to 10mm) set in a much finer groundmass. The groundmass containes relatively abundant, ragged opaque minerals up to 0.5mm in size, smaller euhedral crystals up to 0.13mm in size, altered perovskite and a very fine base now consisting mainly of calcite. Kimberlite was continuously intersected to 90 meters whereupon drilling intersected country rock outside of the main kimberlite body. Anomaly 21641AGround magnetic surveys carried out over a circular airborne magnetic anomaly 21641A portray a dipolar and roughly circular body, indicative of pipe-like intrusive body with a magnetic signature measuring approximately 300 meters north-south and 400 meters east-west (12 hectares) The geophysical magnetic images can be viewed on the Company's website at http://www.tsodiloresources.com/i/pdf/21641A-Total-Magnetic-Field-contoured.pdf. Target 21641A is located approximately 40 kilo...