Pensana announces promising soil sampling results on Coola licence
Soil sampling at Sulima West has identified a 500 m x 300 m zone with greater than 2% TREO, with high-grade core of more than 4% TREO
London-listed Pensana says results from a soil sampling programme at the Sulima West target, at its Coola licence, in Angola, clearly identify an area of about 500 m by 300 m, or 15 ha, with total rare earth oxides (TREO) grading more than 2%.
Notably, the area contains a core zone of high-grade soils reporting grades higher than 4% TREO.
Pensana last year undertook soil sampling at the Sulima West and Benge Novo targets, which are located on its Coola exploration licence north of the Longonjo rare earths project, in Angola.
Work on the Benge Novo alkaline complex has found deeply weathered clays for bauxite and ionic clay potential, with clays returning grades of up to 1 600 parts per million TREO.
Pensana exploration manager Grant Hayward comments that the Sulima West target represents the near-surface expression of deeply weathered supergene-enriched carbonatite as is the case at Longonjo.
The company started with ground geophysical surveys in August, the results of which will be used for further target generation.
Pensana also plans to undertake more trench and pit sampling of the soil anomaly and prospective geophysical targets later in the year, once the geophysical data has been interpreted.
The company has completed multiple field programmes on the Coola exploration licence since May 2020.
Article Enquiry
Email Article
Save Article
Feedback
To advertise email advertising@creamermedia.co.za or click here
Research Reports
Projects
Latest Multimedia
Latest News
Showroom
Sika South Africa is a trusted partner for the nation’s infrastructure, commercial, residential, and industrial sectors.
VISIT SHOWROOM
Your global lifecycle technology & service partner for materials & minerals processing equipment for coal, iron ore, copper, manganese & other...
VISIT SHOWROOM
Announcements
What's On
Subscribe to improve your user experience...
Option 1 (equivalent of R125 a month):
Receive a weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine
(print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
Receive daily email newsletters
Access to full search results
Access archive of magazine back copies
Access to Projects in Progress
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format
Option 2 (equivalent of R375 a month):
All benefits from Option 1
PLUS
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports, in PDF format, on various industrial and mining sectors
including Electricity; Water; Energy Transition; Hydrogen; Roads, Rail and Ports; Coal; Gold; Platinum; Battery Metals; etc.
Already a subscriber?
Forgotten your password?
Receive weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine (print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
➕
Recieve daily email newsletters
➕
Access to full search results
➕
Access archive of magazine back copies
➕
Access to Projects in Progress
➕
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format
RESEARCH CHANNEL AFRICA
R4500 (equivalent of R375 a month)
SUBSCRIBEAll benefits from Option 1
➕
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports on various industrial and mining sectors, in PDF format, including on:
Electricity
➕
Water
➕
Energy Transition
➕
Hydrogen
➕
Roads, Rail and Ports
➕
Coal
➕
Gold
➕
Platinum
➕
Battery Metals
➕
etc.
Receive all benefits from Option 1 or Option 2 delivered to numerous people at your company
➕
Multiple User names and Passwords for simultaneous log-ins
➕
Intranet integration access to all in your organisation
