Africo Resources has restarted the drilling program at its Kalukundi property in the Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The focus of the company’s preliminary borehole drilling program will be on the property’s principal and anticline fragments, where Africo had got high-grades of cobalt and copper during the previous exploration activities performed in 2008 and 2009. The company has planned for an initial 4,000 m infill drilling to confirm the grade and continuity of the presently outlined mineralization and geology and to explore the known mineralization expansions.
Additionally, the company has scheduled a program to drill shallow holes at the Kalukundi and Kii fragments the moment a small portable drilling rig is available. The focus of this shallow hole drilling will be on describing the near surface mineralization grades at these two fragments in order to commission a plan for primary mining at the northeast expansions of these two fragments.
The location of the Kalukundi project is 60 km to the east of Kolwezi’s mining centre in the Copperbelt, DRC. Moreover, the project is situated only 23 km to major Tenke-Fungurume complex’s west that is presently producing for the Freeport McMoRan copper gold.