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 Borehole Number: 105/17/X548/H01

 
 Prospecting Company: De Beers Holdings Botswana
 Prospecting License No.: PL57/98
 Coordinates Type: WGS 84
 Coordinates Format: Decimal Degrees (DD)
 Coordinates: -21.218804 , 24.386978
 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: 915 Metres
 Borehole Water Strike: N/A
 End of Hole (Depth): 155 Metres
 Hole Diameter: 165 Millimetres

 
 Log Formation:
No.From (m)To (m) Log Formation
1.0 16Cream-white, calcrete.
2.16 48Cream-white, light-grey- pale-cream, silcretised, calcretised pan sediments, with occasional shells.
3.48 56Clay rich/ muddy horizon with chips of a weathered basalt???
4.56 62Reddish-brown-light-grey, siltstone / very fine grained Sandstone.
5.62 91Reddish-brown, weathered, silty mudstone = (Basalt ???).
6.91 95Light-grey, medium grained, micaceous Sandstone. Reddish-brown, clay rich, weathered rock.
7.95 109Light-grey, predominantly medium grained Sandstone, with occasional coarser (thin horizons) & the Sandstone is also loosely consolidated.
8.109 112Light-grey-grey, medium grained Sandstone.
9.112 125Light-grey, medium grained, loosely consolidated Sandstone.
10.125 155Dark-grey, fine-medium grained, igneous rock. This rock has occassional coarse crystalline horizons, Gabbro/ Basalt (?)

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