Power Metal holds a 35% ownership interest in Haneti with 65% held by
I am grateful to the operating team who worked hard over the traditional Christmas season to implement this programme successfully, particularly given the challenging weather conditions towards the latter half of the programme.'
HIGHLIGHTS
Maiden drill programme now complete with 1,965 metres of Rotary Air Blast ('RAB') drilling completed over 50 holes at Mihanza Hill and
776 three metre composite samples prepared from the RAB drill programme with a Quality Assurance/Quality Control sample inserted every 10 samples.
All RAB samples have now been sent to SGS Tanzania ('SGS'), an accredited assay laboratory, all samples will be analysed by their multi-element Aqua Regia Digestion/ICP-OES method with 13 select samples to also be tested using Fire Assay for gold, platinum and palladium.
In addition, 4 rock samples collected from mapping have been sent to SGS for assay.
Images from Haneti may be viewed on a Gallery section of the Company's website through the following link: https://www.powermetalresources.com/p/230/haneti-project-gallery
HANETI PROJECT - NICKEL SULPHIDE AND PGM TARGETS - FURTHER INFORMATION
PROJECT OVERVIEW
One of the key exploration objectives for the JV partners at Haneti is to delineate the potential for economic nickel mineralisation on the linear dyke-like,
RAB DRILL PROGRAMME
The RAB drilling programme focussed on the Mihanza Hill and
The 1,965m RAB drilling programme consisted of 50 holes drilled on linear fences across the targets. The programme is seeking to verify the existence of near surface nickel sulphide mineralisation at each target whilst increasing the geological understanding such that the orientation and the meterage of a planned follow-up diamond drill programme can be optimised to confirm the scale of any nickel sulphide mineralisation.
The drilling was conducted by an experienced Tanzanian company in line with international best practice and in accordance with health and safety and COVID-19 precautions.
HISTORIC NICKEL EXPLORATION
The Haneti area was first explored in 1931 by a private prospector who collected a nickel rich magnetite sample at Mihanza Hill. Later trenching uncovered a few discontinuous green stained veins rich in nickel silicates and containing several percent nickel.
In the early 1960s the
Further geological mapping and sampling was undertaken in 2006, 2007 and in 2013.
Additionally, an AEM geophysics survey was completed over the Mihanza and
A study commissioned with a consultant expert in ultramafic rock geochemistry in 2015 identified the nickel, copper, platinum, palladium anomaly at Mihanza Hill as a drill ready target. This report suggested that the Itiso Haneti Ultramafic body may fit the Chonolith-Type Nickel exploration model which would imply that the main ultramafic belt may have small discrete sulphide bodies associated with it.
In 2019 a number of soil samples collected during the 2013 exploration programme were sent for analysis and the results confirmed the existing knowledge base and also identified a new ultramafic sub-crop (as announced by Katoro on 30 January 2019.)
Reference: ICP-OES: inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry
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