Tsodilo Resources Limited High Court of Botswana Interdicts and Restrains the Minister of Mines and Energy with Respect to Gcwihaba Prospecting Licenses PL021-024/2018
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TORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / September 27, 2023 / Tsodilo Resources Limited ("Tsodilo" or the "Company") (TSX-V:TSD)(OTCQB:TSDRF)(FSE:TZO) announces that the High Court of Botswana has today rendered an order that interdicts and restrains Minister of Mines and Energy, through the
Department of Mines or any other Department from receiving, considering or assessing the renewal applications in relation to Prospecting Licenses PL's 021024/2018 pending the delivery of the judgement in the Applicant's review application with respect to Prospecting License PL021/2018.
James M. Bruchs, Chairman and CEO, commented "The issue is relatively straight forward, pursuant to Section 19 of the Mines and Minerals Act (Act), contiguous prospecting licences covering the same period and the same mineral or minerals, the Minister shall, for the purposes of the elimination (reduction) of part of any of the areas thereof, permit the areas covered thereby to be deemed to be one area, the subject of one such prospecting licence. The Xaudum Iron Formation (XIF) project extends for a known length of some 40 kilometers and traverses most if not all of the licenses set forth below. The effect of granting some of the PL's at one time and not all of the contiguous licenses that form the project effectively diminishes the value or potential of the project as it impacts the evaluation and exploration activities. We believe the Act makes it clear that it is the discretion of the license holder to determine which areas to retain and which areas to relinquish as it protects the license holder from instances where one would be required to relinquish the prospective area and keep the non-prospective area. Given that one of our prayers for relief in our PL020/2018 review application is to re-align the 5 licenses so that their durations remain coherent with one another, we felt it timely that any actions with respect to PL's 021-024/2018 be stayed as the date for the renewal applications was imminent".
PL No. | Grant Date | Area km2 | 1st Renewal Filing Date | 1st Renewal Grant Date | Area km2 |
| 020/2018 | 10/01/18 | 570.0 | 6/30/2021 | Pending | 447.7 |
| 021/2018 | 10/01/18 | 964.9 | 6/30/2021 | 1/01/2022 | 572.5 |
| 022/2018 | 10/01/18 | 317.1 | 6/30/2021 | 1/01/2022 | 160.4 |
| 023/2018 | 10/01/18 | 978.6 | 6/30/2021 | 1/01/2022 | 491.2 |
| 024/2018 | 10/01/18 | 807.3 | 6/30/2021 | 1/01/2022 | 781.7 |
| 025/2018 | 10/01/18 | 454.5 | DNR* | -- | |
| 026/2018 | 10/01/18 | 828.1 | DNR* | -- | |
| Total | 4,920.50 | Total | 2,453.50 | ||
| Relinquished | |||||
| *DNR - did not renew | Renewed | ||||
To be fully transparent and meet the volume of requests, the Company has established landing page(s) regularly updated to include all records related to the litigation. See, Botswana Litigation for litigation documents and Tsodilo Resources Ltd. - MMGE for related documents.
XAUDUM IRON FORMATION (XIF)
About the XIF Project
- The project is located in the North-West District of Botswana and is proximate to the Namibian border and lies twenty-two (22) miles from the town of Divundu in Namibia. The Walvis Bay-Ndola-Lubumbashi Development Corridor (previously known as the Trans-Caprivi) line linking Zambia and Namibia is planned to pass through Divundu, providing access to Walvis Bay, Namibia's deep-sea port. The project is also located within forty-three (43) miles of the proposed Mucusso line to Angola's Namibe Port.
- Preliminary work on the Xaudum Iron project has defined a CIM compliant Inferred Mineral Resource Estimate of 441 million tonnes (Mt) with an average grade of
29.4% Fe,41.0% SiO2,6.1% Al2O3 and0.3% P for the Block 1 magnetite XIF. - Block 1 is a fraction of the potential XIF magnetite resource. An extrapolated exploration target has defined the XIF to be in the order of 5 to 7 billion tonnes at 15 -
40% Fe. This exploration target was generated by inversion modelling of ground magnetic geophysical data which was compared and moderated to volumes from drilling data within Block 1 and its potential quantity and grade is conceptual in nature. To date, there has been insufficient exploration to define a mineral resource other than in Block 1 and it is uncertain if further exploration will result in the target being delineated as a mineral resource. See, Press Release of 6/02/2014 on the Company's website for further details. - Metallurgical magnetic separation results (Davis Tube Recovery) show that an average concentrate of
67.2% Fe,4.2% SiO2,0.5% Al2O3,0.07% P is obtained at P80 grind size of 80 microns, although higher grades are possible at finer P80's. See, Press Release of 12/17/2013 on the Company's website. - Further exploration will be focused on Block 2a where the Company expects an increase in the resource.
- Additional informational of the project can be found on the Company's website at https://tsodiloresources.com/s/Metals.asp.html and further technical information can be found in a report prepared by SRK Consulting (UK) Ltd. for Gcwihaba Resources (Pty) Ltd. titled "Mineral Resource Estimate for the Xaudum Iron Project (Block 1), Republic of Botswana" with an effective date of August 29, 2014, and filed on SEDAR under the Company's profile at www.sedar.com.
About Tsodilo Resources Limited
Tsodilo Resources Limited is an international resource exploration company engaged in the search for economic metal and diamond deposits at its Gcwihaba Resources (Pty) Limited ("Gcwihaba") and Bosoto (Pty) Ltd. ("Bosoto) projects in Botswana. The Company has a
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| James M. Bruchs | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | JBruchs@TsodiloResources.com | ||
| Head Office | Telephone +1 416 572 2033 | Facsimile + 1 416 987 4369 | ||
| Website | http://www.TsodiloResources.com |
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