E-Tech Resources has started a trenching program on the 100%-owned Eureka project on EPL 6762 in Namibia.
The main objective of the trenching program is to test new targets identified by the 2023 regional soil geochemical survey.
Further, trenching is planned in a way that better defines the orientation and structural setting of mineralised zones before starting a proposed drilling campaign.
E-tech initiated the program on February 22, 2024.
As of February 26, 10 trenches for approximately 400 m were dug, and all have intercepted multiple zones of monazite mineralisation.
E-Resources CEO Todd Burlingame said the initial focus is to test new targets on a regional scale identified through the 2023 exploration program and use the results to refine our targeting methodology further before finalising a proposed drill program.
“Visual inspection shows the presence of rare earth mineralisation in the form of monazite bearing calc-silicate mineralisation similar to those found in the discovery zones in trenches in targets located outside of the original Eureka Central Prospect, thus supporting the new geological concept,” Burlingame said.
The focused Phase 1 trenching program will initially include 15 trenches planned for 629 m.
The trenches cover the prospects of Eureka East, North, Northeast and new areas identified by the geological survey and the 2023 systematic regional soil sampling program.
Gecko Exploration manages the trenching program and aims to identify rare earth mineralisation in bedrock at the new regional prospects and, thus, increase the prospectivity of E-Tech’s ground.
Detailed geological and structural logging is conducted in the new trenches to identify lithological and structural elements controlling the calc-silicate hosted monazite mineralisation, which will further allow for focused prospecting of the tenements, including the new EPL 8748.
