41976-HQ-LEL

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Large 206 km² exploration licence in a Karoo basin with broad, mostly drivable ground and a major river system suited to reconnaissance sampling. The key upside is testing for concealed basement windows or reworked mineralisation linked to the more prospective basin margins.

License
41976-HQ-LEL
Holder
AIMI MINERALS LIMITED (100%)
Type
Large Scale Exploration Licence
Location
Central · Mkushi · Zambia
Portal area (ha)
20,660.71
Calculated area (km²)
206.25
Applied
2025-09-23
Longitude
29.3984
Latitude
-14.81713
CobaltCopperGoldIron OreLeadManganeseNickelQuartzSilverZinc
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0.72HighComposite score / 1
Geology51.1 / 100
Development complexity66.6 / 100
Infrastructure / logistics90.9 / 100
Legal stability70 / 100

Key findings

  • A large meandering river and tributary network provide a practical framework for stream-sediment and heavy-mineral reconnaissance across the licence.
  • The Jessie gold occurrence and a cluster of gold mining rights lie about 12–14 km to the south-west, toward the more prospective southern basin margin.
  • Terrain is generally gentle and about 89% drivable; remote-sensing indices mainly reflect river, soil and vegetation patterns rather than a discrete alteration target.

Recommended next work

  • Check geophysical data or available drill records for concealed basement windows beneath the Karoo cover.
  • Run stream-sediment and heavy-mineral sampling of the main river and tributaries draining the basin margins.
  • Focus geological follow-up on the southern basin margin toward the Jessie area.

Scores use 0–1 for composite and 0–100 for supporting factors. Screening scores are not resource estimates or probabilities of discovery.