43463-HQ-LEL
Application Validated and Pending MLC DecisionExploration licence application in Mkushi District on metasediments, meta-volcanics and meta-quartzite, with faults close by and a gold occurrence about 2 km away: the best mapped gold setting in this batch.
- License
- 43463-HQ-LEL
- Holder
- Seam Mining Corporation Limited (100%)
- Type
- Large Scale Exploration Licence
- Location
- Central · Mkushi · Zambia
- Portal area (ha)
- 2,471.65
- Calculated area (km²)
- 24.67
- Applied
- 2026-02-20
- Longitude
- 29.52418
- Latitude
- -14.40401
CopperGoldIron OreMalachiteManganeseSilver
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0.82Very HighComposite score / 1
Geology64.4 / 100
Development complexity65.8 / 100
Infrastructure / logistics96.6 / 100
Legal stability70 / 100
Key findings
- The 1:1,000,000 map shows metasediments of unit 15 (about 48%), gneiss (about 20%), meta-volcanics (about 18%) and meta-quartzite (about 14%).
- A north-north-west-trending fault lies about 1–2 km east; a 1968-map gold occurrence lies about 2 km east and, given its ±5–10 km accuracy, could lie within the licence.
- Roads reach the licence; power is about 44 km and rail about 77 km away.
Recommended next work
- Locate and sample the 1968 gold occurrence to establish the style of mineralisation.
- Map the contacts between the meta-volcanics, metasediments and meta-quartzite and the nearby faults.
- Run soil geochemistry over the contacts, then trench the strongest anomalies.
Scores use 0–1 for composite and 0–100 for supporting factors. Screening scores are not resource estimates or probabilities of discovery.