Borehole Number: |
Prospecting Company: De Beers Holdings Botswana |
Prospecting License No.: PL51/88 |
Coordinates Type: WGS 84 |
Coordinates Format: Decimal Degrees (DD) |
Coordinates: -20.679233 , 24.411796 |
Location: Dikwalo |
Start Drill: N/A |
End Drill: N/A |
Borehole Type: Exploration |
Drilling Method: Core |
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): N/A |
Hole Diameter: N/A |
Log Formation: |
No. | From (m) | To (m) | Log Formation |
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1. | 0 | 1 | Residual Topsoil. |
2. | 1 | 10 | Paleo - Makgadikgadi lacustrine sediments. Typically Sandy calcrete with mudstone, gasteropoda . |
3. | 10 | 19 | Sandy calcrete, mudstone quartz arenite/Sandy Silcrete with intercalated pan Clays and silts and cryptocrystalline playa Silcrete quartz arenite ,mudstone. |
4. | 19 | 39 | Quartz arenite, Silcrete, mudstone. |
5. | 39 | 51 | Additional quartz arenite. Lithic wacke, Silcrete. |
6. | 51 | 62 | Much green mudstone, Silcrete, wache. |
7. | 62 | 102 | Quartz arenite wache, cryptocrystalline Silcrete intercalated with green - brown mudstone. |
8. | 102 | 124 | Larger proportion of green siltstone. Lithic wacke with siltstone clasts. Black mudstone , Silcrete. |
9. | 124 | 140 | Quartz arenite, authigenic pyrite, green silts, black mudstone, orange quartz arenite. |
10. | 140 | 150 | Quartz arenite much black mudstone altered, fragments and silicified extrusive. |
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