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	Borehole Number: 105/21/X058/H1


	Prospecting Company: De Beers Prospecting Botswana (Pty) Ltd
	Prospecting License No.: PL78/88
	Coordinates Type: WGS 84
	Coordinates Format: Decimal Degrees (DD)
	Coordinates: -22.422567 , 21.645046
	Location: Ghanzi


	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

U Kalahari - loose, poor to unconsolidated aeolian Sandstone, very few +2mm chips recovered, mostly Silcrete and quartz fragments.

Buff Silcrete.

L Kalahari - massive and competent and mottled mature playa Silcrete pervasively calcreted and buff white very fine grained moderately sorted calcareous Sandstone plus hardpan mature calcrete.

Sandy Silcrete and brown, mottled cryptocrystalline Silcrete.

Brown mottled cryptocrystalline Silcrete.

Mottled cryptocrystalline Silcrete.

Partially silicified buff nodular calcrete.

As above with fragments of pink gneiss.

Mesocratic pink porphyritic granitic gneiss.

10.

Karoo - mauve brown /purplish massive mature and competent microcrystalline Silcrete/siltstone.

11.

k-feldspar phenocrysts, accessory biotite and hornblende.

12.

Porphyritic granitic gneiss