| Borehole Number: |
| Prospecting Company: De Beers Holdings Botswana |
| Prospecting License No.: PL57/98 |
| Coordinates Type: WGS 84 |
| Coordinates Format: Decimal Degrees (DD) |
| Coordinates: -21.179803 , 24.37309 |
| Location: Orapa |
| Start Drill: 2004-09-12 |
| End Drill: 2004-09-14 |
| Borehole Type: Exploration |
| Drilling Method: Percussion & Core |
| Sample Type: Core & Chips |
| Depth of Surface Casing: N/A |
| Azimuth: Degrees |
| Hole Inclination: -90 Degrees |
| Collar Elevation: 920 Metres |
| Borehole Water Strike: 86 Metres |
| End of Hole (Depth): 168 Metres |
| Hole Diameter: 203 Millimetres |
| Log Formation: |
| No. | From (m) | To (m) | Log Formation |
|---|
| 1. | 0 | 19 | Cream-white calcrete. |
| 2. | 19 | 29 | Light-grey, Silcrete & cacrete input (minor lithology). |
| 3. | 29 | 63 | Light-brown-pale-green pan sediments (Silcrete & cacretised Sandstones). |
| 4. | 63 | 75 | Light-grey-reddish-brown weathered silty Clays. |
| 5. | 75 | 110 | Light-brown, fine to medium grained moderately sorted, slightly micaceous Sandstone. Grey-dark grey coarse grained, moderately-poorly sorted Sandstone. Grey-dark grey, slightly carbonaceous mudstone. |
| 6. | 110 | 119 | Light-brown, medium grained moderately sorted Sandstone, becoming quartzitic towards (113m). Reddish-brown, grey, amygdaloidal basalt. |
| 7. | 119 | 130 | Grey, carbonaceous siltstones. Grey, light-grey intercalation of carbonaceous siltstone & micaceous Sandstone (medium grained). Light-grey, medium grained, moderately sorted Sandstone. |
| 8. | 130 | 137 | Grey-black, carbonaceous, micaceous siltstones. |
| 9. | 137 | 149 | Black Coal, light-grey, medium grained,micaceous Sandstone & Coally. |
| 10. | 149 | 156 | Light-grey mudstones,medium grained Sandstone, intercalation of Coally mudstone & light-grey medium grained Sandstone. |
| 11. | 156 | 164 | Coally mudstones (dark-grey)-black. |
| 12. | 164 | 168 | Light-grey, medium grained, micaceous Sandstone. E.O.H. |
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