[2007-06-29]  Equinox mine exploration results impressive
EQUINOX Minerals Limited says exploration and drilling works at its Ndola west project have continued to identify high-grade copper findings.

Equinox president and chief executive officer, Craig Williams, said in a statement released that the latest drill results from Ndola west have continued to confirm the existence of a high-grade complex structure.

Mr Williams said as the structural controls on this system become increasingly understood, more target specific drilling would evaluate the potential resources as well as provide other targets for testing on this prospective tenement.

He added that previous work by Equinox intersected some substantial widths of high-grade copper mineralisation in a drill programme in which four out of the eight holes drilled were mineralised.

The programme was followed up by Equinox completing a 15 hole drill programme undertaken to further investigate the same strike of sequence, as well as the broader stratigraphy in which mineralisation is hosted.

He stated that Ndola west prospect comprises copper mineralisation hosted within the lower roan sequence on the Copperbelt.

The prospect is considered to have equivalent geology to the Mufulira deposit, some 60km along strike to the northwest, also on the northern flank of the Kafue
Dome.

At Mufulira, the units that host the three ore bodies are all massive arkosic sandstones and are considered equivalents of the principal sulphide host at Ndola West.

“From drilling completed to date, Ndola West appears to be a more structurally complex target than Mufulira, with the identified mineralisation lying within one of the deformed limbs of a tightly folded rock syncline (rock formation),’’ he said.

He added that although there was clear similarity between the two deposits, Ndola West lacks surface exposures to target directly the strata bound mineralisation.

The completed follow-up drilling programme was used in part to extend mineralisation along strike, but also to identify the broader stratigraphy that hosts the mineralised unit and the copper oxide overprint at Ndola West.




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Source: © 2005 Zambia Daily Mail.