Archers Post and Matthews Range

EPL 239 (Archers Post) is located approximately 400 km north of Nairobi in the Samburu District of the Rift Valley Province of Kenya and covers an area of 490 km2. EPL238 (Matthews Range) is in the same region covers an area of 770km2.  Both of these tenements are prospective for nickel copper PGE and uranium mineralization with Anglo American in the 1970’s undertaking a soil sampling program although little of this data is available for study. The most prospective commodity of nickel has an exploration target of altered ultramafic intrusives and together with magnesium and silica is concentrated through enrichment in the overlying laterites.

The Western Gneiss Belt that covers the western half of EPL238 could be a potential host for large scale Proterozoic base metal deposits (e.g. Broken Hill style) within metasedimentary and metavolcanic sequence similar to those that host major Proterozoic base metal deposits in Australia and Southern Africa. Uranium is a separate target within Cainozoic drainage‐lake systems and also associated with lineaments within various intrusives and that have been outlined by the Kenyan Geological Survey during mapping and stream sediment sampling programmes. In addition rare earths could present a good target with plug like ring complexes having been outlined by remote sensing and these occur on both leases. All these commodities and geological settings provide targets for an early phase of exploration activity in what is an underexplored but prospective region.

Location of Archers Post and Matthews Range