Majete Uranium Project, Malawi

The Majete Uranium Project comprises a single Exclusive Prospecting Licence, EPL0175/05 granted to African Energy. It covers an area of 1,075 sq km in southern Malawi, approximately 50km to the south of the major city Blantyre, and is readily accessible by road and track (Figure 13). The project straddles the faulted contact between older basement rocks and younger sediments of the Upper Karoo. A small uranium occurrence in the basement rocks is noted on regional geological maps and airborne radiometric surveys. This indicates that the basement is locally enriched and may provide a good source of uranium which can be remobilised into the nearby Upper Karoo sediments.

Approximately 60% of the project is covered by National Parks (the Lentswe National Park and the Majete Game Reserve). The Company has been informed by the Ministry of Mines that prior permission from the Department of Parks and Wildlife (DPW) will be required prior to any fieldwork. Any subsequent discovery will require an Environmental Impact Assessment which will require approval by the Department of Environmental Affairs after consultation with the DPW.

African Energy has planned a program of field evaluation to investigate this project. This will include a detailed assessment of the basement-hosted uranium occurrence to ascertain its nature and potential, and a series of traverses across the Karoo sediments to map the rock types and measure their surface prospectivity for uranium using a hand-held spectrometer. Results from this fieldwork will be used to determine the most appropriate follow-up exploration program.

Rumphi Uranium Project, Malawi

The Rumphi Uranium Project comprises a single Exclusive Prospecting Licence, EPL0176/05 held by African Energy. It covers an area of 1,061 sq km in northern Malawi and has good road access from the capital city, Lilongwe. The project is located in a narrow, fault-bound basin filled with Karoo sediments in a very similar setting to the basin which hosts the Kayelekera deposit, some 125km to the north (Figure 13).

Regional airborne radiometric data coverage over the project is only partial, with the central portion of the project lacking data. Where data is present, there are a number of discrete uranium anomalies in the basin, and broad areas of elevated uranium response in the basement. The Company plans to evaluate these areas through geological fieldwork to establish the cause of causing the uranium anomalism. A series of spectrometer traverses to measure radioactivity across the basin will also be undertaken to generate preliminary targets where regional radiometric data are absent, and to assess if a regional airborne radiometric survey is warranted.

Figure 13 Location map of the Majete and Rumphi Projects in Malawi Click on map to enlarge

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