Allana Potash Corp announced on Tuesday that it has intersected three zones of strong potash mineralization in hole DK-11-28, found in the northwestern region of the company’s potash concession in Ethiopia.

Allana is encouraged by the consistently strong potash mineralization seen in the results from the northwestern part of its concession according to Farhad Abasov President and CEO.

The Allana management expects to upgrade mineral resources to the 'Measured' and 'Indicated' categories from 'Inferred' due to the continued high yield and high quality potash in the area said Abasov.

Hole 28 targeted to gauge potash mineralization returned a strong Sylvinite Zone at a depth of 198.8 metres, which yielded 40.27% KCI (the composite grade of all four potash-bearing beds including sylvinite, upper and lower carnallite and kainitite) over 2.56 metres.

The Kainitite Zone was also intersected deeper in the hole at a depth of 266.43 metres, and returned 21.98% KCI over 8.39 metres.

The relatively shallow and high grade nature of the Sylvinite Zone make this area perfect for solution mining with recovery via solar evaporation  according to Abasov.

Exploration drilling has continued in the western part of the concession. The exploration drilling is part of the drilling program designed to discover more resources and increase confidence. The program aims to achieve this by reducing the space between holes and enabling more material to qualify for measured and indicated mineral resource categories.

Source: Proactiveinvestors.com