Mount Burgess Mining (ASX: MTB) continues to identify the potential of the Kihabe-Nxuu metals project in Botswana, with the discovery of a new anomaly.
Highlighting the prospectivity of the area, detailed soil geochemical sampling 4 kilometres along strike from the Kihabe zinc lead silver deposit in Western Ngamiland, has delineated a significant zinc lead copper anomaly.
The newly discovered anomaly, named Lebala, covers an extensive area of up to ten hectares, and is discretely defined with soil geochemical sample grades of up to 260 parts per million (ppm) zinc, 260ppm lead and 58ppm copper.
These grades are well above the normal background values in the area of 10ppm to 20ppm.
Exploration continues at speed at the project, highlighted by the 6500 soil geochemical samples in the last four months, taken from six prospective target areas within the neo-Proterozoic belt which spans the border between Namibia and Botswana.
Importantly, all six targets have generated significant soil geochemical anomalies.
Mount Burgess said while drilling is required to delineate resources from these anomalies, the company believes they show good potential to add to the 25 million tonne 3% zinc lead resource base of the project area.
The wholly owned project is located on the border of Botswana and Namibia about 700 kilometres north-west of the capital, Gaborone, in Ngamiland, and 350 kilometres by road from Maun and 50 kilometres from Tsumkwe, Namibia.