33448-HQ-LEL
ActiveLarge, remote exploration licence near the Luangwa River where a carbonatite ring complex, Karoo cover and basement meet along a mapped fault. The carbonatite suits the niobium, rare earth and phosphate commodities on the licence; gold leads lie a few kilometres to the north.
- License
- 33448-HQ-LEL
- Holder
- Curprite Geoservices Limited
- Type
- Large Scale Exploration Licence
- Location
- Lusaka · Luangwa · Zambia
- Portal area (ha)
- 21,590.67
- Calculated area (km²)
- 215.37
- Applied
- 2022-12-29
- Longitude
- 30.17679
- Latitude
- -15.29964
CobaltCopperGoldManganeseNickelNiobium (Columbium)Phosphorus-PhosphatesRare Earth ElementsSilverVermiculite
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0.7HighComposite score / 1
Geology65.1 / 100
Development complexity44.2 / 100
Infrastructure / logistics79.4 / 100
Legal stability70 / 100
Key findings
- The 1:1,000,000 map shows Upper Karoo (about 52%), carbonatite (about 18%) forming a ring around a circular basin, alluvium (about 18%) and basement gneiss (about 13%).
- A mapped fault follows the Karoo–basement contact on the south-western side; two 1968-map gold occurrences lie about 7 km and 9 km to the north (positions ±5–10 km).
- Remote: no road inside (one passes the boundary), rail and power about 140–180 km away, and about 630 m of relief.
Recommended next work
- Map and sample the carbonatite ring complex for niobium, rare earths and phosphate.
- Follow the Karoo–basement fault and check the two gold occurrences north of the licence on the ground.
- Run stream-sediment sampling in the drainages leaving the carbonatite and the faulted contact.
Scores use 0–1 for composite and 0–100 for supporting factors. Screening scores are not resource estimates or probabilities of discovery.