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Tsodilo Resources Limited Confirms Rare Earth Elements, Base and Precious Metals, and Radioactive Minerals
Tsodilo Resources Limited Confirms Rare Earth Elements, Base and Precious Metals, and Radioactive...
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nTsodilo Resources Limited Confirms Rare Earth Elements, Base and Precious Metals, and Radioactive Minerals\n\n\n Nov. 10, 2010 (Filing Services Canada) -- Tsodilo Resources Limited (TSD - TSX Venture), (\"Tsodilo\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to provide an update of its metals exploration activities in northwest Botswana. METALS EXPLORATIONBase and Precious, Platinum Group, and Rare Earth ElementsSeveral samples were collected from two boreholes (L9680/11 and L9670/9) drilled in the extensively mineralized 'shale belt' of the north central panhandle. This part of the project area is north of the Cu/Co mineralization recovered from borehole 1822C26 as previously reported (see press release of September 28, 2010). These holes lie in the middle-upper part of the Panhandle project and directly east of the highly magnetic zone (Xaudum Magnetic Anomaly) where so far layered magnetite bands and extensive magnetite disseminated throughout the meta-sedimentary sequence have been encountered. No samples from these magnetite-rich rocks have so far been assayed.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPetrographic Analysis:  Petrographic analyses of the first few core samples from the 'shale belt' indicate the presence of chalcopyrite, magnetite and pyrite. Mineralization is strata-bound, and is disseminated and finely laminated to discordant throughout the meta-sedimentary sequence. The rocks in most of the central part of the Panhandle project are described as pyritic meta-pelites and carbonaceous black shales, mica schists and quartzites, dolomites and meta-evaporites.  Basic igneous rocks have been intersected in several of the holes, and most of the meta-sediments and meta-volcanics so far drilled have been regionally metamorphosed in the lowermost amphibolite facies accompanied by Ca-Na metasomatism (scapolite-albite). The host rocks of the holes L9680/11 and L9670/9 are meta-pelites, meta-psammites and schists. Although the rocks in the former hole are gently dipping, the formations in the latter hole are steeply dipping highlighting the structural elements in the area. Samples from borehole L9680/11 and L9670/9 were subjected to detailed mineralogical studies at the University of Barcelona, using a scintillometer, optical microscopy on thin/polished sections using transmitted and reflected polarized light and a Scanning Electron Mic...