Botswana Minerals plc (AIM/BSE: BMIN) has launched an artificial intelligence-led initial phase work programme on its highly prospective copper licences in Botswana.
It said in a release on March 30 that the work it is conducting using its Planetary AI Xplore platform will seek to refine and rank the most promising targets across the licence package and define the geophysical priorities, which will lead to the identification of drill targets.
The platform will help BMIN to integrate historical company data, regional geological information, datasets from contiguous areas of neighbouring Namibia, satellite-derived alteration data and available government geophysical data.
This, the firm observed, will sharpen prospectivity mapping, rank targets, eliminate lower-priority ground, and define the survey types and grids required for focused follow-up field work.
BMIN said it will use the $1.5mn it raised on March 20 to advance the copper-focused exploration programme on the licences in North West Botswana, turning high-priority anomalies into drill targets.
'Our objective is to identify significant copper deposits in Botswana, where we have 25 years of operational experience,” said BMIN chairman, John Teeling.
“Our AI work has allowed BMIN to target and obtain highly prospective copper ground. The next phase is to integrate more data into the model to refine potential drill targets. Further data processing and tighter definition of targets is expected to lead to a higher chance of success in future drilling programmes.'
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