| Borehole Number: |
| Prospecting Company: De Beers Holdings Botswana |
| Prospecting License No.: PL57/98 |
| Coordinates Type: WGS 84 |
| Coordinates Format: Decimal Degrees (DD) |
| Coordinates: -21.4631 , 24.457121 |
| Location: Orapa |
| Start Drill: 2004-08-12 |
| End Drill: 2004-08-13 |
| 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: 941 Metres |
| Borehole Water Strike: N/A |
| End of Hole (Depth): 170 Metres |
| Hole Diameter: 165 Millimetres |
| Log Formation: |
| No. | From (m) | To (m) | Log Formation |
|---|
| 1. | 0 | 3 | Dark grey to medium fine Sand. |
| 2. | 3 | 11 | Orange fine - medium Sand slightly cemented to cream with cream calcrete increased downward. |
| 3. | 11 | 13 | Grey orange calcareous Sand. |
| 4. | 13 | 26 | Grey orange calcareous Sand. |
| 5. | 26 | 30 | Grey fine grained silcretised Sandstone (Massive). |
| 6. | 30 | 49 | Grey Sandstone becoming creamy (calcrete). |
| 7. | 49 | 60 | Orange medium grained Sandstone becoming red brown (dark red to fine) up to 76m. |
| 8. | 60 | 69 | Red brown fine Sandstone. |
| 9. | 69 | 74 | Dark red (as above) silcatly magnetic. Ferrugenised fine grained Sandstone. |
| 10. | 74 | 76 | None rounded quartz clasts up to 10mm in size. |
| 11. | 76 | 82 | Dark brown (red dark) very fine grained Sandstone with some pale grey silstone. |
| 12. | 82 | 84 | Dark brown (Flaky) siltstone. |
| 13. | 84 | 88 | Red brown silstone. |
| 14. | 88 | 93 | Slight colour change (towars grey) brown siltstone. |
| 15. | 93 | 108 | Siltstone: brown and grey greenish. |
| 16. | 108 | 117 | Dark grey (green) very fine grained slightly to moderately magnetic (mafic) rock with grey green fine grained Sandstone (siltstone). Green mafic rock details: Texture (very fine), coulor (green-dark green), identificable minerals (dark green with PX?), mi |
| 17. | 117 | 120 | Brown (dirty) silstone. |
| 18. | 120 | 126 | Grey bown siltstone. |
| 19. | 126 | 150 | Grey siltstone very hard, very fine grained Sandstone (no visible texture) |
| 20. | 150 | 155 | Very fine grained grey siltstone (Flacky). |
| 21. | 155 | 156 | Dark grey igneous texture and siltstone. |
| 22. | 156 | 170 | Dark grey mafic and magnetic rock. Texture (very fine grained); coulor (dark grey and some whitish Sandstone); matrix (dark grey); Minerals (probably Pyroxeniteene green); rock type (probably) dolerite. Black minerals 1mm in size, grey whitish feldpar. |
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