Metal Tiger plc provided an update with regard to the company’s Joint Venture project with partners MOD Resources in the Kalahari Copper Belt in Botswana. Highlights: The T3 Deposit Prefeasibility Study work has started. Drilling recommenced 7 January 2017, with two diamond core rigs and one reverse circulation drilling rig in operation for the various T3 Prefeasibility Study related work streams; In the wider T3 Project Area an additional 11 drilling targets have been identified within the 983km2 T3 Dome exploration area; Extensive soil geochemistry programme (circa 11,000 samples) is currently underway, targeting the 60km strike of the T3 Dome structure; Three-dimensional Induced Polarisation (3D IP) geophysics survey will commence on 10 January 2017 at the T3 Deposit, to characterise the mineralised host sequence and aid in the identification of additional or deeper drilling targets, along the T3 Dome; Magnetic geophysics modelling including a 3D Inversion of low altitude, close spaced magnetic data is underway; Resource extension diamond drilling to commence on 100m sections directly east and west of the planned T3 pit, with 6 holes currently planned; Diamond drilling to follow up base metal (Pb/Zn) sulphides intersected (by previous RC drilling) up to 2km west of T3 planned. T3 Prefeasibility Study (PFS): Resource Infill diamond drilling will test the extent of high grade bornite veins within the planned open pit: 5 holes to infill the high grade bornite vein zone in the western part of the T3 pit; 6 holes will be drilled to test extensions 100m east and west of the current resource which remains open. Depending on the success of this infill and extension drilling, further drilling may be carried out on adjacent sections; Geotechnical drilling (at HQ diameter) is planned to aid the open pit design; Metallurgical drilling will provide more material for testwork of the three sulphide ore domains; Hydrogeological Studies are scheduled to commence mid-February, with pump testing for existing and new drill holes planned to investigate potential sources of water for the planned mineral processing treatment plant; Baseline Environmental Studies and the preparation of an Environmental Management Plan will commence shortly. The continuing and planned exploration drilling programme consists: Reverse Circulation (RC) drilling to test five areas on the T3 Dome; including 3 separate soil anomalies which occur over 5km along the northern flank of a distinctive magnetic feature, approximately 3km northwest of T3. RC drilling will then test a 4km long zone of folding of the target sequence interpreted from magnetics approximately 6km west along strike from T3. There is no previous drilling in any of these areas. An additional three RC drilling targets have been identified based on existing untested Cu soil anomalies along the T3 Dome; Diamond core drilling will initially test down dip for disseminated base metal sulphides (galena, sphalerite, pyrite and chalcopyrite) intersected within the interpreted T3 host sequence in widely spaced RC drill holes extending up to 2km west of T3, and separately 1km southeast of T3. Most of these RC holes were drilled in late 2016. By analogy with the T3 deposit, although the base metals are unlikely to generate economic grades, they may be a pathfinder for deeper copper mineralisation; T3 IP Anomaly to be tested by further diamond drilling, the approximately 500m deep IP anomaly is located 1km down-dip of the T3 Deposit. Assay results received recently for the second diamond drill hole MO-3R-02D (previously MO-T3U-02D) to test this target were encouraging with disseminated and narrow vein hosted chalcocite and bornite mineralisation intersected: Hole MO-3R-02D; 8m at 0.74% Cu & 10g/t Ag from 491m, including: 1.0m at 1.1% Cu & 15g/t Ag from 498m. This intersection is considered encouraging given the size of this as-yet poorly defined anomaly and the occurrence of veining and bornite within the host sequence. Drilling is expected to resume when results from the 3D IP survey are available.