| Borehole Number: |
| Prospecting Company: De Beers Holdings Botswana |
| Prospecting License No.: PL51/88 |
| Coordinates Type: WGS 84 |
| Coordinates Format: Decimal Degrees (DD) |
| Coordinates: -20.55253 , 24.28101 |
| Location: Kweedom |
| Start Drill: 1900-01-02 |
| End Drill: 1900-01-02 |
| 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): 180 Metres |
| Hole Diameter: N/A |
| Log Formation: |
| No. | From (m) | To (m) | Log Formation |
|---|
| 1. | 0 | 2 | Residual Topsoil. |
| 2. | 2 | 8 | Lake sediments -calcretised Sandy lake sediments, hosting tabular trace fossils (planelites). |
| 3. | 8 | 24 | Silcritised Sandy lake sediments (with planelites) glauconitic in part. |
| 4. | 24 | 29 | Green mudstone,glauconitic. |
| 5. | 29 | 37 | Green mudstone. |
| 6. | 37 | 39 | Evaporite deposits (gypsum clusters). |
| 7. | 39 | 60 | Evaporite deposits(gypsum/dolomite clusters). |
| 8. | 60 | 65 | Green mudstone. |
| 9. | 65 | 147 | Evaporite deposits (gypsum and dolomite)intercalated with dark grey carbonaceous Shale.the Shale becomes pyritic with depth. |
| 10. | 147 | 159 | Evaporite deposits(as above) but becoming increasingly Sandy with depth. |
| 11. | 159 | 180 | Karoo bslt - melanocratic, fine grained massive. |
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