Pangolin Diamonds Corp. has reported that it has received positive drill results at Kweneng in Botswana with 52.5% of chromites recovered from soils at Kweneng indicative of a diamond stability field.

Announcing this, the company said that drilling had intersected a shallow (< 1 m overburden) phlogopite and clinopyroxene rich ultramafic hypabyssal dyke of approximately 6m in true width. Subsequently, 25 kg drill chips were processed through Pangolin’s in-house 1 TPH DMS plant and they produced chromite, clinopyroxenes, and what is interpreted as fragments of a chromite-garnet peridotite.

Once operations in the region restart, a soil sampling programme will be taken up to determine the horizontal extent of the dyke, locating any diatreme structures associated with the dyke as well as locating additional dykes within the KW04 area.

Pangolin also announced that 68 aeromagnetic targets had been identified at Motloutse and Malatswae Project area and 30 targets in the Malatswae Project area were identified for follow-up with groundmagnetic surveys and soil sampling after operations commence once again. Once the targets have been followed up on the ground, the top twelve selected targets, based on magnetic and soil sample results, will be drilled.

Similarly, work at the AK10 Kimberlite Pipe has been suspended until such time that the Botswana Government lifts all social distancing requirements related to the COVID-19 virus due to the close working distances required there.