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 Borehole Number: 105/17/X553/H01

 
 Prospecting Company: De Beers Holdings Botswana
 Prospecting License No.: PL57/98
 Coordinates Type: WGS 84
 Coordinates Format: Decimal Degrees (DD)
 Coordinates: -21.448307 , 24.517577
 Location: Kedia

 
 Start Drill: 2004-09-17
 End Drill: 2004-09-20
 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: 927 Metres
 Borehole Water Strike: N/A
 End of Hole (Depth): 137 Metres
 Hole Diameter: 165 Millimetres

 
 Log Formation:
No.From (m)To (m) Log Formation
1.0 8Surface Feature: flat surface. Dark-grey Topsoil & calcrete clasts and cream-white calcrete.
2.8 28Grey-orange fine (massive) Silcrete & white calcrete, Sandy calcrete and calcretised Sandstone. Calcrete content decreases downward.
3.28 32Red-brown fine grained hard mottled Sandstone and nodular Sandstone 32m. With orange-yellowish siltstone, yellow siltstone.
4.32 60Grey-brown siltstone.
5.60 73Siltstone: Grey brownish siltstone.
6.73 90Grey laminated siltstone & pyritic up to 90m.
7.90 99Dark-grey (darker) than above,B Black- grey siltstone or very fine grained Sandstone.
8.99 131Dark-grey very fine grained igneous rock containing calcite (?) pyrite.
9.131 137Grey fine grained laminated Sandstone.E.O.H.

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