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Phase 1 - Exploration Reconnaissance Program Completed
Jun. 16, 2011 (Filing Services Canada) -- Tsodilo Resources Limited (TSD - TSX Venture), is ple...
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nPhase 1 - Exploration Reconnaissance Program Completed\n\n Jun. 16, 2011 (Filing Services Canada) -- Tsodilo Resources Limited (TSD - TSX Venture), is pleased to announce that the Phase 1 - Exploration Reconnaissance Program (\"Phase 1\") across its Metals (Base and Precious, Platinum Group Metals, and Rare Earth Elements) Prospecting Licenses in Ngamiland in northwest Botswana has been completed. Highlights of Phase 1 are as follows:* 111 holes drilled to a cumulative depth of 20.9 kilometers (13 miles).* 16,358 line kilometers (10,165 miles) of a ground magnetic survey at 20 and 50 meter line spacing have been completed.* 9,777 line kilometers (6,075 miles) of time-domain electromagnetic data (VTEM) have been processed and analyzed.* 6,195 samples from 51 HQ and NQ diamond drill core holes have been submitted for assaying to Scientific Services and ALS Minerals. Most of the results have been received. * 174 petrographic samples from various cores have been described. The results from 60 additional samples are still outstanding. * 200 samples have been submitted to the University of Barcelona for detailed mineralogical studies. * Zircons from three core samples were dated by the U/Pb isotope method using the Laser-Ablasion ICP-MS technology at AEON in Cape Town.* Four (4) different mineralized target areas have been identified: the Xaudum Magnetic Anomaly, the Central Shale Basin, Skarn deposits and large alkaline intrusions.The Company's licenses are situated in an area where the mineral-rich provinces of the Ghanzi belt to the south, the Luffillian Arc to the north-east and the Damara Belt to the west, converge in a complex geological setting. Kalahari sedimentary cover over this region has discouraged mineral exploration in the past because there are no rocks outcropping on surface. But geophysical data, in the form of high resolution Airborne Magnetic and VTEM Electromagnetic surveys combined with Ground Magnetic data that is continuously acquired and interpreted by in-house geophysical expertise, have been used to focus the drilling program on the various conductive and magnetic zones. The drilling portion of Phase 1 was completed utilizing the Company's own diamond core drill rig. A total of 111 holes to a cumulative depth of 20.9 kilometers have now been drilled for base and precious metals across the various geologica...