Pangolin Commences Core Drilling on a 10 Hectare Kimberlite Pipe Shaped Target That Returned Positive Kimberlite Indicators a...
September 19 2018 - 9:00AM
Pangolin Diamonds Corp.
(TSX-V: PAN) (the "Company" or
"Pangolin") is pleased to provide an update from the latest drill
programme at the Company's wholly-owned Malatswae Diamond Project
(“Malatswae”), located 75 km southeast of the Orapa Kimberlite
Field in Botswana.
Highlights include:
- A completed percussion drill
programme returned positive kimberlite indicator minerals at depths
between 74 and 98 metres.
- The magnetically positive pipe
shaped anomaly is approximately 10 hectares in size.
- A 200+ metre core drilling
programme has been initiated to confirm kimberlite as the source of
the magnetic anomaly and kimberlite indicators.
- A diamond has been recovered at
surface proximal to the drill target.
- Drill results will be announced
once all the data has been received and interpreted.
A percussion drill programme was undertaken on
target MAL 278. The target was initially identified from regional
aeromagnetic data. It was subsequently followed up with a detailed
groundmagnetic survey and a soil sampling programme.
The groundmagnetic survey resulted in a positive
magnetic anomaly of approximately 10 hectares which had disrupted
the continuation of Karoo age dolerite dykes. The groundmagnetic
data were submitted to Xcalibur Airborne Geophysics (Pty) Limited,
Pretoria, South Africa, for interpretation who concluded that both
2.5 D simple body profile modelling and 3D magnetic inversion
modelling results show quite convincing kimberlite-like shapes for
the main MAL 278 target. The MAL 278 target’s magnetic
manifestation indicates a complex body made up of different facies
and possible different lobes of magma pulses, particularly in the
more detailed 3D UBC magnetic inversion performed as part of the
Xcalibur interpretation. The depth of the magnetic bodies was
modelled to be between 97 m and 222 m (+/- 10 m) with a precaution
that non-kimberlitic crater fill could be thick in the centre.
Soil sampling produced kimberlite indicators
over the southern part of the MAL 278 target and a single diamond
450 m to the east of the main target.
Four percussion holes were drilled into the MAL
278 target and one percussion hole was drilled as a geological
control hole 125 m to the east of the MAL 278 target. The
geological control hole intersected, as expected, 19 m of Kalahari
Formation sediments, 17 m of Karoo basalt and then intersected the
underlying Karoo-aged Ntane sandstone.
No Karoo basalt was intersected in the boreholes
drilled into the MAL 278 target. All four holes intersected
sediments within what is interpreted as a crater environment. No
intrusive material was intersected. Kimberlitic indicators, both
garnet and ilmenite, were recovered from borehole BH02 between the
depths of 74 m and 98 m. All indicator minerals were submitted for
microprobe to CFM Laboratories, Kelowna, Canada, for analysis and
confirmed as kimberlitic.
Drill chips from BH02 (104 m) and from the
geological control hole BH04 (37 m) were submitted to Activation
Laboratories, Ancaster Canada, for total digestion ICP/MS analysis
analysing for 58 different elements. The analytical results confirm
that the material intersected in BH02 is not geochemically related
to the basalt intersected in BH04. Furthermore, there is an
enrichment in Rare Earth Elements (REE’s), K, Ni, Cr, Rb, Th and Sr
in the lower 30 metres of BH02. This is the same zone from which
kimberlitic indicators were recovered. Fragments of what is
interpreted as crater facies sediments were recovered from BH06
between a vertical depth of 94 m to 112 m.
The REE and other recorded element enrichments,
together with the presence of kimberlitic indicators in the lower
thirty metres of BH02, are consistent with the presence of
kimberlite crater facies sediments.
A core drilling programme to confirm the
magnetic source as defined by Xcalibur has been initiated.
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has been reviewed and approved by Miracle Muusha (MSC) and a
Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.
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