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Berkut says maiden Norway drilling programme on schedule

22nd November 2017

By: Creamer Media Reporter

     

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JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – ASX-listed Berkut Minerals is advancing its maiden diamond drill programme at its Skuterud cobalt project in Norway, with the final hole of a six-hole programme currently under way at the historic Middagshville prospect in the southern licence.

This will be followed by a single hole at the Dovikollen prospect in the northern licence, which will complete the maiden programme.

The first phase of the drill programme has targeted depth and strike extensions of known historical cobalt workings and prospective, previously untested, geological units that had been identified through recent field mapping and ground magnetic surveys, focusing on the Middagshville prospect.

Drilling at the Middagshville mine has encountered localised disseminated sulphide mineralisation in several holes hosted in quartzite and quartz-mica schist, Berkut reported on Wednesday, although it stressed that the field observations of potential mineralisation should be considered as empirical in nature, pending final assay result.

The company has sent samples to MS Analytical laboratories and is expecting results by mid-December.

“We are encouraged by the field observation of cobalt sulphides and the presence of disseminated sulphide mineralisation,” MD Neil Inwood commented, adding that the results of the assaying would feed into the geological understanding of the potential cobalt and base metal endowment of the project.

Edited by Mariaan Webb
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor Online

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