NYAKAGWE VILLAGE TARGET
TEMBO GOLD PROJECT
An extensive area of east-west trending artisanal mining activity, including some hard rock mining through deep shafts and adjacent exploitation of colluvial material
OVERVIEW
The Nyakagwe Village target is located at the western end of the broad, semi-arcuate belt of active artisanal workings (up to 1000m wide) stretching eastwards through the Mgusu target to the Nyakagwe East target area (a distance of some 1,500 m). The main artisanal workings at Nyakagwe Village comprise a pit with dimensions of some 100 m x 100 m and 35 m deep within an area containing numerous vertical shafts over a rectangular area some 200 m by 100 m. Artisanal shafts located on the southern edge of the pit extend to depths in excess of 40 m below surface. Underground workings reportedly extend over a strike length of 40m, exploiting a quartz vein up to 3m thick, striking west-northwest and dipping at approximately 40° to the south.
Prior to 2011 this mineralization was unknown despite being within metres of the local village, a result of the ubiquitous transported cover draped over the Tembo project area to depths in excess of 4-10m.
This fact strongly supports the conclusion that there are potentially high-grade targets yet to be discovered beneath this cover along the numerous magnetic lineaments that locally coincide with artisanal workings but extend well beyond these and have sub-parallel counterparts with no workings.
Higher-grade samples from the Nyakagwe Village workings exhibit very fine grained visible gold associated with vein quartz. The high grades intersected in drill holes are associated with quartz veining and sulphides (predominantly pyrite) within meta-basalts.
The drilling to date has demonstrated that east-west and northeast trending structures are developed at the target and that these both are mineralised and where they intersect widths of mineralization exceed 5m.
ARTISANAL SAMPLING
The main artisanal mining area consists of an extensive open pit immediately to the east of Nyakagwe Village. Mining was primarily from a series of shafts to the south of the pit, exploiting a series of quartz veins at depth but has ceased due to depth, water ingress and rock hardness making it impossible to continue. Sampling of material mined in the vicinity of the pit has returned an average grade of 16.42g/t.
EXTENSIVE ARTISANAL MINING ACTIVITY
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NYAKAGWE VILLAGE DRILLING HIGHLIGHTS
PROMINENT STRUCTURAL CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN MAGNETIC LINEAMENTS AND MINERALISATION
| BH ID | Grade Au g/t | Length m | Depth From m |
|---|---|---|---|
| TDD0071 | 9.64 | 3.95 | 88.7 |
| including | 24.72 | 1.45 | |
| TDD0101 | 78.10 | 1.00 | 294.00 |
| TDD0102 | 2.90 | 0.92 | 48.08 |
| and | 2.31 | 0.97 | 263.03 |
| TDD0103 | 15.10 | 1.00 | 54.00 |
| TDD0107 | 16.58 | 3.55 | 43.88 |
| and | 27.88 | 3.00 | 65.90 |
| TDD0109 | 2.05 | 1.65 | 54.35 |
| and | 2.00 | 1.13 | 115.55 |
| and | 2.39 | 3.48 | 121.82 |
| TDD0111 | 35.14 | 2.45 | 53.35 |
| including | 167.00 | 0.50 | |
| TDD0112 | 3.35 | 5.98 | 64.12 |
| and | 2.94 | 2.00 | 72.00 |
| TDD0115 | 2.41 | 1.70 | 33.00 |
| and | 2.74 | 8.50 | 53.00 |
| and | 2.04 | 9.00 | 69.00 |
| TDD0128 | 4.00 | 0.73 | 147.12 |
| TDD0137 | 2.63 | 1.50 | 38.00 |
| TRC0552 | 8.42 | 3.00 | 86.00 |
| TRC0554 | 2.53 | 1.00 | 47.00 |
| TRC0562 | 2.03 | 1.00 | 19.00 |
| and | 4.61 | 5.00 | 82.00 |
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
DRILL PROGRAM
Nyakagwe Village consists of up to eight subparallel south-dipping mineralized structures along a 600m strike trending east-southeast across a zone width of 150 to 200m, and open at depth and along strike in both directions. 19 diamond drill holes totaling 4,257m and 11 RC drill holes of 1,315m have been drilled to date.