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	Borehole Number: 105/24/X010/H1


	Prospecting Company: De Beers Holdings Botswana
	Prospecting License No.: PL109/88
	Coordinates Type: WGS 84
	Coordinates Format: Decimal Degrees (DD)
	Coordinates: -22.857747 , 26.146675
	Location: Moralane


	Start Drill: 1900-01-02
	End Drill: N/A
	Borehole Type: Exploration
	Drilling Method: Percussion & Core
	Sample Type: Core & Chips
	Depth of Surface Casing: N/A
	Azimuth: Degrees
	Hole Inclination: N/A
	Collar Elevation: 1144 Metres
	Borehole Water Strike: N/A
	End of Hole (Depth): 146 Metres
	Hole Diameter: N/A


	Log Formation:

No.	From (m)	To (m)	Log Formation

Unconsolidated ferricreted surficial scree.

Buff-white submature,moderate to poorly-sorted,medium to fine-grained,massive,nodular,silcreted calcareous sand/siltstone.

Buff-grey,maroon,laminated,weathered,massive,argillaceous,calcareous mudstone.

Light-grey,massive,mature,argillaceous siltstone/shale assuming a darker-grey black organic mudstone below 17m.

Light-grey,greenish-tingled,mature,argillaceous siltstone/shale,well sorted.

Dull black mature vitraneous carbonaceous shaley coal with several thin vitreous coal stringers.

Medium to coarse grained, massive and crystalline altered/ weathered feldspathic granopyhre showing extreme weathering and alteration towards the base

Friable and extremely weathered granophyre with abundant black carbonaceous Shale contaminants from above horizons. Proble collapse material.

Medium to coarse, crystalline but friable severely weathered and altered feldspathic granophyre.

10.

146

Massive and fine grained, dark coloured and moderately weathered to fresh crystalline dolerite becoming fresher and more aphanitic below 134m into a dark grey green light pinkish tinged proble basalt at base