Desert Metals Limited has begun drilling on its 5 hole 1,100m RC program at Belele. The program is designed to test a modelled conductor, identified in airborne EM and confirmed by ground EM data. The conductor is semi-coincident with a bullseye magnetic anomaly and may represent sulphides associated with Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide (VMS) style mineralisation.

The 44 hole 3,000m Aircore programme designed to test PGE anomalism in recent diamond drilling and soil geochemistry at Innouendy (DM1 ASX announcement 20 December 2020) is expected to start next week. The program will also follow up on an airborne EM anomaly adjacent to Ni anomalism in historic drilling (DM1 ASX announcement 26 February 2020). The conductor lies approximately 100m from an historic WMC drill hole which returned 0.59% Ni over 14m.

These were the highest Ni values recorded in the 52-hole WMC percussion drilling program. The program was designed to test for chromite in a favorable tectonic setting and the anomalous Ni was not followed up. (WAMEX reports A7934 and A8056).