North Arrow Extends Target AE Strike Length To 1,000 Metres At Kraaipan
North Arrow Minerals has extended the potential strike length of Target AE to 1,000 metres at the Kraaipan Gold Project in southern Botswana, supported by surface sampling results from the second quarter of 2026.
Outcrop and float samples from the recent prospecting program returned gold values of up to 27.8 g/t Au at Target AF and 13.5 g/t Au at Target A. The company collected 97 surface samples across the property, extending gold-in-rock trends at four key target areas.
The surface sampling and reconnaissance drilling form part of the company's US$2.3 million 2026 exploration program at Kraaipan, an underexplored system masked by shallow Kalahari sand cover that represents the northern extension of the Archean greenstone terrane hosting Harmony Gold's Kalgold Mine, located 40 km to the south.
Alongside surface work, North Arrow completed its Rotation 3 regional reconnaissance reverse circulation drilling program. The campaign comprised 44 vertical holes totaling 1,639 metres across 10 fences and six target areas, testing prospective geology and structural trends beneath Kalahari sand cover that averages 31 metres in depth.
“New gold-in-bedrock sampling at Target AE, combined with historic drilling and geophysics, extends the interpreted strike length to approximately one km from the 260 m drilled in Rotation 2, and the target remains open along strike and down dip. Each phase of exploration work at Kraaipan in 2026 has steadily increased our knowledge, allowing us to rank targets across a 60 km long gold belt that has seen very little modern exploration.”
— Eira Thomas, Chief Executive Officer
Full assay results for the 44 completed Rotation 3 regional reverse circulation holes are expected in the third quarter of 2026. In addition, planning is underway for a Rotation 4 drilling program to test and confirm the down-dip and strike extension of Target AE.
Read the full announcement: North Arrow Extends Target AE Strike Length to 1000 m and Completes Rotation 3 Regional RC Drilling, Kraaipan Gold Project, Botswana