Havilah Resources Limited announced that exploration drilling under the Strategic Alliance funded by OZ Minerals Limited has commenced following mobilisation of the contractor drilling rig and associated equipment to site this week. This follows several months of drillhole planning and preparatory work, including heritage clearance surveys of proposed drilling sites and securing drilling approvals from the mining regulator in South Australia. The exploration drilling program will initially focus on 7 separate high priority copper prospect areas within Havilah's 100% owned exploration licence (EL) 6659 that surrounds Kalkaroo.

The objective is to locate additional copper resources close to Kalkaroo that could be additive to the existing Kalkaroo JORC Mineral Resource and so enhance its development prospects. The program comprises 12,530 metres (firm - 66 drillholes) and 7,370 metres (contingent - 39 drillholes) of RC drilling for a total budget of up to $4 million over an estimated six month period. Drilling is planned to start in the south and move progressively northwards.

The untested Johnson Dam copper anomalous sulphide gossan (ironstone) will be drilled first. It was initially recognised during 1988 by CSR Exploration who assayed several rock chip samples of gossanous ironstone containing over 1,000 ppm copper (Figure 2). The gossan outcrops over 1 km of strike and is coincident in part with a linear magnetic feature, which may represent a possible shear zone.