GWMG expands drilling programme at SA rare-earth site
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – TSX-listed rare earths producer Great Western Minerals Group (GWMG) on Monday announced the start of a 9 400 m, 65-hole diamond-drilling programme at its Steenkampskraal monazite mine, in South Africa’s Western Cape.
The company had five drill rigs operating on site with the objective of investigating the extension of the main monazite zone along the known mineral resource and upgrading the inferred mineral resource to the indicated category.
GWMG said it would also embark on detailed infill drilling for mine planning purposes and selected orientated core drilling for geotechnical analyses in support of planned underground developments.
In addition, the producer had initiated exploration activities on the surrounding prospecting right – a 550.5 km2 area encompassing Steenkampskraal and hosting historic occurrences of monazite at surface.
Current work included reconnaissance and prospecting surveys over three known occurrences of mineralisation, ground surveys and geological mapping of the monazite and host rocks.
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