Borehole Number: |
Prospecting Company: De Beers Holdings Botswana |
Prospecting License No.: PL57/98 |
Coordinates Type: WGS 84 |
Coordinates Format: Decimal Degrees (DD) |
Coordinates: -21.495603 , 24.471394 |
Location: Kedia |
Start Drill: 2004-09-08 |
End Drill: 2004-09-09 |
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: 940 Metres |
Borehole Water Strike: N/A |
End of Hole (Depth): 134 Metres |
Hole Diameter: 165 Millimetres |
Log Formation: |
No. | From (m) | To (m) | Log Formation |
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1. | 0 | 2 | Orange-yellow calcareous Sand. |
2. | 2 | 6 | Orange - yellowish calcareous Sand. |
3. | 6 | 17 | Orange-yellow calcrete. |
4. | 17 | 21 | Calcrete with minor Silcrete and large rounded quartz pebbles (5-10mm). |
5. | 21 | 27 | Grey-brownish Silcrete & calcareous Sand. |
6. | 27 | 31 | Cream calcareous medium to coarse grained Sandstone becoming greyish to orange at the base. |
7. | 31 | 39 | Cream-puplish-pinkish clay and Sandy-clay). |
8. | 39 | 58 | Pinkish layer, red-brown medium grained Sandstone. |
9. | 58 | 63 | Very coarse grained Sandstone with sub angular, cream-brown with large clasts of quartz (rounded & sub-angular). |
10. | 63 | 79 | Grey fine grained Sandstone with basal gravels at 78 -79m. |
11. | 79 | 88 | Grey fine grained Sandstone with basal gravels (88m). |
12. | 88 | 94 | Red-brown siltstone. |
13. | 94 | 96 | Green-dark- weathered and magnetic igneous rock with large green crystals and pyrite. |
14. | 96 | 134 | Dark-grey igneous pyritic- highly magnetic rock (Basalt?). |
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