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Ghanzi Copper Project
Located in northwestern Botswana, the Ghanzi Copper-Silver Project consists of five license blocks covering approximately 4,370 square kilometers (437,000 hectares). The licenses are located over widespread sediment-hosted copper mineralization and at least six exploration targets have been identified to date.Mineralization The six exploration targets have excellent potential for copper-silver mineralization, which occurs in the region over four main parallel trends that extend for approximately 80 kilometers each. The most southerly of these mineralized belts lies entirely within the project area as do portions of two additional belts. Collectively, the mineralized trends on the Ghanzi Copper-Silver Project area comprise a prospective strike length of 140 kilometers. The project area lies within the Late Proterozoic Damaran rift sequence of the Pan African Mobile Belt. These same rocks host the world-class deposits of the Zambian Copper Belt, which contains roughly 30% of the world's copper reserves. Grades and mineralization are similar to Kupferschiefer in Germany and Poland. Ghanzi has attractive potential for copper, as well as minor yet significant silver and molybdenum deposits suitable for open pit mining.  View drilling on the Ghanzi Copper-Silver Project in 3DProject Infrastructure The project extends from Ghanzi (in the south) to Maun (100 km to the northeast). With a population of 50,000, Maun (the regional tourist hub) provides electricity (20MW on 132kV line) as well as paved access to Francistown (Botswana's second-largest city). The paved trans-Kalahari highway to Namibia and South Africa runs 10 km to the north, and a new rail link to the Namibian coast is scheduled to pass within 10km of the project area, with construction to commence in late 2007. Project History The property has been explored intermittently since 1962 by a number of large companies, including Gencor (now BHP Billiton), Anglo-American, Anglovaal, Newmont, DeBeers, US Steel Corporation and Delta Gold. Work was conducted at a time when copper prices were low and infrastructure was not as advanced as it is today. With more advanced infrastructure now available and copper trading at much higher prices, the preliminary results obtained by this group of companies suggest that Ghanzi is potentially a large, target-rich area with existing economically significant mineralization. Exploration history
Moving Forward Hana mining is in the preliminary stages of a 10,000 meter drill program at the Ghanzi Copper-Silver Project. The program will be designed to confirm and expand mineralization at the 'HI' zone of the property, to test strike and dip continuity at the B35 and F75 zones and to follow up and test other targets. We will also generate new targets with continued soil geochemical surveys, and seek to bring HI to the pre-feasibility stage. Current Drilling
3D property Map  Click to enlarge
Ghanzi License Block
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