Musoma Bunda Gold Project
The Kinyambwiga-Suguti-Murangi Gold Project (NI 43-101) Technical Report.. (PDF)-75.05MB
The Musoma Bunda Gold Project comprise of 3 Prospecting licences (Table 1) that are located on the eastern side of Lake Victoria (Figure 1). All three licences lie within the Musoma-Mara Greenstone belt.
Table 1 . Details of the 3 prospecting licences that occur within the Musoma Bunda Project.
| Project name | License ID | Area (km2) |
| Murangi | PL- 4511/2007 | 51.9 |
| Suguti | PL-3966/2006 | 72.95 |
| Kinyambwiga | PL 4653/2007 | 30.89 |
| Total | 155.74 |
Figure 1.Location map of the Bunda Musoma Prospecting Licences showing their
position in relation to the Kiabakari and Buhemba Gold Mines.
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1. Location and Access
The 3 prospecting licences (Table 1) lie to the west of the main Mwanza-Musoma tar road in the Musoma District. The licences are located some 30km to 60km south of Musoma, the major town in the district. Access to the individual licences is via all weather dirt roads that connect to the various villages within the licence areas. The three licences are commonly referred to by the following Project names:
- Musoma Bunda (PL 4653/2007)
- Murangi (PL 4511/2007)
- Suguti (PL3966/2006)
2. Physiography, Climate, Vegetation and Water
The area is typically flat lying and is covered by grass and scattered woodland. Black cotton soils (mbuga) cover the entire area. The Mohoji and the Serengeti Plains lie to the south and south-east of the area respectively. Perennial steams bisect the mbuga landscape and drain into Lake Victoria. The climate is tropically humid with an alternative wet (March to April and from October to December) and dry season.
3. History of the property
Regional exploration has been carried out in the Musoma District from the 1920s. Geosurvey International undertook an aeromagnetic survey across the region during 1976-77. A geological map of the Lake Victoria Goldfields on a 1:1,000,000 scale was compiled by Barth in 1990.
Exploration and exploitation of gold in the Musoma – Mara greenstone belt commenced in the 1920's. Mining occurred during the colonial times at Buhemba and Kiabakari, located east of the Musoma Bunda licence area (Figure 1).
Various international companies have worked on parts of the licences since the mid-1990s and have largely concentrated around artisanal sites. Known artisanal workings occur on both the Kinyambwiga and Suguti projects.
All artisanal sites are licenced as Private Mining Licences (PML) to Tanzanian Nationals. All PMLs (24) on the Kinyanbwiga licence have been purchased outright (100%) by Geocan Resources.
4. Regional Geology
The area is largely underlain by the Archaean Nyanzian Supergroup suite of granitic rocks (the Musoma Series). These have been uncomformably overlain by metavolcanic rocks of the Kavirondian System. Most of the documented gold occurrences in the Musoma – Mara region lies within the Nyanzian formation. The greenstone belt extends for over 180km from the shores of lake Victoria in the west to the Serengeti National Park in the east.
Shear-hosted, gold bearing quartz veins, often striking NNE-SSW are typically present within the greenstone rocks. A cross-cutting NW-SE structural fabric is present.
5. Exploration Strategy
Please see detail… Musoma-Bunda Exploration Strategy (PDF File- 0.98MB)