Borehole Number: |
Prospecting Company: De Beers Prospecting Botswana (Pty) Ltd |
Prospecting License No.: PL 7/2000 |
Coordinates Type: WGS 84 |
Coordinates Format: Decimal Degrees (DD) |
Coordinates: -21.1798 , 24.373199 |
Location: Orapa |
Start Drill: N/A |
End Drill: N/A |
Borehole Type: Exploration |
Drilling Method: Percussion |
Sample Type: Core |
Depth of Surface Casing: N/A |
Azimuth: Degrees |
Hole Inclination: N/A |
Collar Elevation: N/A |
Borehole Water Strike: N/A |
End of Hole (Depth): 168 Metres |
Hole Diameter: 8 in Millimetres |
Log Formation: |
No. | From (m) | To (m) | Log Formation |
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1. | 0 | 19 | Cream-white calcrete. |
2. | 0 | 19 |
3. | 19 | 29 | Light-grey, Silcrete & cacrete input (minor lithology). |
4. | 19 | 29 |
5. | 29 | 63 | Light-brown-pale-green pan sediments (Silcrete & cacretised Sandstones). |
6. | 29 | 63 |
7. | 63 | 75 | Light-grey-reddish-brown weathered silty Clays. |
8. | 63 | 75 |
9. | 75 | 110 | Light-brown, fine to medium grained moderately sorted, slightly micaceous Sandstone. Grey-dark grey coarse grained, moderately-poorly sorted Sandstone. Grey-dark grey, slightly carbonaceous mudstone. |
10. | 75 | 110 |
11. | 110 | 119 | Light-brown, medium grained moderately sorted Sandstone, becoming quartzitic towards (113m). Reddish-brown, grey, amygdaloidal basalt. |
12. | 110 | 119 |
13. | 119 | 130 | Grey, carbonaceous siltstones. Grey, light-grey intercalation of carbonaceous siltstone & micaceous Sandstone (medium grained). Light-grey, medium grained, moderately sorted Sandstone. |
14. | 119 | 130 |
15. | 130 | 137 | Grey-black, carbonaceous, micaceous siltstones. |
16. | 130 | 137 |
17. | 137 | 149 | Black Coal, light-grey, medium grained,micaceous Sandstone & Coally. |
18. | 137 | 149 |
19. | 149 | 156 | Light-grey mudstones,medium grained Sandstone, intercalation of Coally mudstone & light-grey medium grained Sandstone. |
20. | 149 | 156 |
21. | 156 | 164 | Coally mudstones (dark-grey)-black. |
22. | 156 | 164 |
23. | 164 | 168 | Light-grey, medium grained, micaceous Sandstone. E.O.H. |
24. | 164 | 168 |
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