| Borehole Number: |
| Prospecting Company: De Beers Holdings Botswana |
| Prospecting License No.: PL57/98 |
| Coordinates Type: WGS 84 |
| Coordinates Format: Decimal Degrees (DD) |
| Coordinates: -21.42964 , 24.508761 |
| Location: Kedia |
| Start Drill: 0000-00-00 |
| End Drill: 0000-00-00 |
| 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: 926 Metres |
| Borehole Water Strike: N/A |
| End of Hole (Depth): 125 Metres |
| Hole Diameter: 165 Millimetres |
| Log Formation: |
| No. | From (m) | To (m) | Log Formation |
|---|
| 1. | 0 | 4 | Cream-white & grey Topsoil (humic) and calcrete. |
| 2. | 4 | 8 | Cream-white calcrete & dark-grey Silcrete (Chert nodules) up to 3cm rounded and pale-orange silica. |
| 3. | 8 | 14 | Off-white Sandy calcrete, grey orange massive Silcrete & dark-grey Silcrete. |
| 4. | 14 | 16 | Grey rounded Silcrete pebbles. |
| 5. | 16 | 22 | Grey & pinkish fine to medium grained silcretised Sandstone. |
| 6. | 22 | 26 | Cream-white fin grained Sandstone. |
| 7. | 26 | 30 | Pink brown fine grained Sandstone, colour intensity increases downward. |
| 8. | 30 | 38 | Pink-brown fine Sandstone (colour intensity increases downward) also Sandstone coarsens downward to 36-37m. |
| 9. | 38 | 42 | Dark-grey- very fine grained and bedded (not laminated) Sandstone. Drinkable water strike at 41m. |
| 10. | 42 | 48 | Lower Kalahari, massive Silcrete large fragments in this layer. Large Chert pebbles, silica- quartz, sub-rounded gravels. Kalonda equivalent. |
| 11. | 48 | 80 | Grey yellowish brownish weathered ingeous rock becoming dark green downwards. Texture: Very fine Groundmass: green Phenocrysts: dark green Concntrate: No indicators seen Magnetic |
| 12. | 80 | 112 | Red-brown pinkish, non-magnetic siltstone. |
| 13. | 112 | 125 | Brown-greyish siltstone becomes grey downward. |
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