Harvest Minerals completes mapping and survey at Arapua
Harvest Minerals was full of confidence on Monday, announcing the completion of its geological mapping programme and ground geophysical survey at the Maximus Prospect, part of the Arapua Fertiliser Project in the Brazil.
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The AIM-traded company said the work programme was devised to define the extent of a large area of highly mineralised phosphate and potassium-rich rocks identified during an earlier auger drilling programme, and assist in planning the upcoming drilling campaign.
Harvest Minerals conducted systematic surface geological mapping over an area of 10.2 square kilometres (3.9 square miles). Kamafugite rock, potassium oxide-rich rock, had been mapped over an area of around 1,691 square kilometres.
The ground magnetic anomaly indicated a well-defined magnetic domain coincident to the kamafugite rocks trend, and ground gamma-spectrometric results pointed to high values of total count uranium and thorium channels associated with the kamafugite.
"Since receiving the proceeds of our recent funding in January, the team has been very busy ground mapping the extent of the potential DANF product," Harvest Minerals executive chairman Brian McMaster said.
"These excellent results indicate that once we have defined a commercial product, we would have sufficient source material to support a substantial long-life project," he added.
The company was now due to start an initial air core drilling programme to validate auger results this month. It said initial metallurgical test work suggested grades could be improved by simple screening.