Kalahari to drill Quebec anomaly

Deep-wedged drilling will resume in January on the St. Marcel property in the Eastern Townships area of Quebec.

Earlier this year, a vertical hole was drilled to test a one-mile-wide-by-5-mile-long magnetic anomaly located by a government airborne survey in the early 1950s. The hole had just entered a weakly magnetic, flat-lying peridotite sill when it had to be abandoned at slightly more than 5,100 ft.

The hole will be deepened to test the base of the sill for concentrations of nickel, chrome, titanium, cobalt and platinum group elements, which are often found in association with layered, ultramafic rocks. Property owner Kalahari Resources (VSE) plans to wedge a new hole off the old hole at a depth of 5,000 ft.

Drilling is also planned for the company’s Perestroika gold project and Elephant Head Lake copper-gold-silver prospect, in Quebec and Ontario respectively.