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ASX-listed resources firm DY6 Metals through its local subsidiary Green Exploration has donated assorted learning materials worthy K3.75 -million to Nambazo Primary School in Phalombe District.

The donation comprises notebooks, chalk, text books, dusters, staple machines, staples, note books, ball pens, pencils,  teaching scheme pads and reams of A4 printing paper.  

The Company, which is prospecting for rare earth elements at Tundulu Hill in the District, has made the donation as part of its corporate social responsibility for the area which involves supporting the community in different sectors including education.

DY6 Country Director Troth Saindi explained that the Company made the donation after receiving reports from the school that it is in need of various learning materials.

“Located in the outskirts of Phalombe, the school is short of various learning materials. We, therefore, thought it wise to donate these learning materials which will assist learners in their studies,” Saindi said.

He said DY6 decided to aid the school understanding that as a corporate citizen of the area, it has a role to assist the school since government only cannot meet all the requirements of the institution as it has plentry of commitments to fulfill.

In his remarks, Nambazo Primary School headteacher Tenson Chilungamo Masamba thanked DY6 for making the donation though it is only doing exploration and has a long way to go before considering to invest in mining.

“We are grateful to DY6 for this donation which will assist the teachers to perform their duties without difficulties and also reduce problems for the learners in their day to day studies,” he said.

Masamba, however, called on well-wishers to consider building teachers’ houses and school blocks at the school.

He said: “We have over 3,000 learners at this school against only 30 teachers. Again, there are no enough classrooms at this facility.”

“We plead to DY6 and other well-wishers to consider assisting in order to create a good learning environment for the learners so that they succeed in their studies.”

DY6 exploration work at Tundulu DY6 has just reported exciting results for its exploration work for rare earths and phosphate at Tundulu where a total of 63 metallurgical samples were collected from 37 sample locations along high-grade historic trench (TUTR10). DY6 Chairman Daniel Smith says in a Press Statement that sampling results returned up to a high of 3.35% Total Rare Earth Ore (TREO) and 27.5% Phosphorus pentoxide (P2O5) over the sampled 83m length of trench TUTR10.

He says: “An exciting component of the sampling results is the average HREO, being 13% of the TREO basket.”

“Undetectable to very low levels of deleterious elements including mercury, lead and cadmium in the phosphorus (P) rich rocks confirms the exceptional grade quality of the phosphate at Tundulu; and the sampling is representative of the mineralised Bastnaesite and Apatite carbonatite rock types exposed within the trench.”

Smith reports that selected samples are being collected to form a 150kg composite to be sent for metallurgical analysis while five bioavailability composite samples were also taken across various historical trenches at Tundulu, targeting phosphate-rich rocks, to determine the solubility of phosphate in the samples and understand its potential for direct fertilization.

Tundulu is formed of several hills in a ring around a central vent called Nathace Hill where majority of the historic surface sampling and drilling was undertaken. The predominant geology at Nathace Hill is REE apatite hosting carbonatites and feldspathic breccia and comprises a large inner agglomerate vent. Mineral rich carbonatite also occurs at Tundulu Hill east of Nathace and Makhanga Hill west of Nathace and is previously unexplored and prospective for REEs and niobium mineralisation.

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