Key points
- The vessel will remain in Cape Town for about two months to install the sampling tool and mineral recovery plant and conduct sampling and recovery tests.
- The sampling tool and recovery plant are completed and ready to be mounted on board the vessel.
- Afri-Can and IMDH will establish the sampling program schedule over the coming month and provide shareholders with a detailed program and timetable in due course.
- The program aims to delineate diamond resources on Afri-Can’s Block J marine diamond concession in Namibia in compliance with National Instrument 43-101.
Afri-Can Marine Minerals Corp. has been informed by International Mining and Dredging Holding Ltd. (IMDH) that the contracted sampling vessel MV DP the Explorer arrived in Cape Town, South Africa, on March 16, 2009.
The Explorer will remain in Cape Town for about two months in order to install the sampling tool and the mineral recovery plant and to carry out some sampling and recovery tests. The sampling tool and the recovery plant are completed and ready to be mounted on board the vessel. Afri-Can and IMDH will establish the sampling program schedule in the coming month and the company’s shareholders will be provided with a detailed program and time schedule in due course. The aim of the complete surveying and sampling program is to delineate diamond resources on Afri-Can’s Block J marine diamond concession in Namibia in compliance with National Instrument 43-101.
