AVZ (ASX) Ann: EmiAfrica commences Environmental and Social Impact Studies

Originally posted by JB1975 ↑

"No further geotechnical drilling is required at Manono with the work completed by AVZ's technical team considered to be of such a high standard that logging and check work by AVZ's independent consultant will suffice".

Okay but what does that mean exactly? Considered by who? Suffice to who ? - an independent consultant who will be JORC competent and attest to that? Or just considered by Nigel ?

I though once the water was out of the pit drilling on the pit floor was to happen to define the resource near surface and to perhaps improve inferred and indicated in that area to indicated and measured.

One reason I'm a bit wary of this statement is I've been following progress on route 617 into Manono on the ACGT facebook site and there doesn't seem to have been an update since september 25 when they were blasting sections of the road north of Mitwaba wider so that transport could pass on opposing lanes. Since then no further reports but other reports on the same site talk of the the end of dry season being at the gates of Lubumbashi. My impression is that there is still a lot of road work to be done to get to Manono by the end of the construction season for phase 1 (the unsealed stage) of the road refurburbishment. The end of the dry season means the end of construction generally and the route 617 is the route that has been used to bring in drilling rigs previously.

So I'm questioning if the lack of an access route in the wet season for getting drilling rigs in is actually behind the quoted statement?

Are others reading that statement as there being, now, no plans to drill down to define the area immediately below the pit floor when it is drained?

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That's a very interesting interpretation.

I read it simply as they have enough evidence/information from all previous drilling/logging assays/ etc etc that they can move resource quantities of the ore body under the pit to the measured and inferred geological confidence without drilling. Positive result.

Regardless of the reason be-it road condition/be it drill contractors on strike/too lazy - If we don't need to spend money on drilling to shift those resources to measured and inferred then IMO this is positive.

Additionally of course it would be done by JORC competent person. Otherwise the ASX would just throw the resource estimate in the bin. Be a little silly to say - we don't need to drill. Then have the independent person compiling this JORC compliant resource say yes you do.

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