Nzuri Copper Limited provided an update on its ongoing exploration program in the Western Katangan Copperbelt in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which continues to advance positively in line with the company's previously, announced plans. The exploration program will see Nzuri test up to five highly prospective targets in 2017 across multiple prospect areas with drilling to continue for most of this year. Nzuri has now completed an initial Reverse Circulation (RC) drilling programme at the Katete target, a large multi-element geochemical anomaly located in a favorable structural geological setting. The program comprised eight holes for 1,042m. The company advised that visible copper mineralisation was intersected in this first-pass drilling programme with samples dispatched to the assay laboratory for analysis. Initial results are anticipated in early September. On the back of this positive result, three diamond holes were planned at Katete. Two have been completed with a third currently underway. Elsewhere, a mapping and trenching programme at the highly prospective Kasangasi Target, located 17km from Ivanhoe Mines' world-class Kamoa-Kakula deposit, has been completed. This has improved the company's geological understanding to a level where the target can now be effectively drill tested. The fieldwork has confimed that Kamoa-style mineralisation exists at Kasangasi on the Ki1.2.1 ­ Ki1.1 stratigraphic contact, which acts as a redox boundary. A combined RC and diamond drill programme has been planned and RC drilling is now underway at Kasangasi. As previously advised, a first-pass program of 10 RC holes for 1,111m was completed in June on the Monwezi 3 and Kalongwe North anomalies, part of the Monwezi West Cluster, located 12km south of Ivanhoe Mines' Kamoa-Kakula copper deposit and immediately along strike from Nzuri's Kalongwe Copper Project, where a Feasibility Study is now in its final stages. The best intercept reported includes 6m at the rate of 0.13% cobalt in DMON_RC004. Further drilling is planned across other targets in the Monwezi West Cluster once results are received from a high-resolution aeromagnetic survey which is currently in progress. Having completed the metallurgical drilling programme at Kalongwe to provide sample material for planned leaching testwork, the diamond drill rig has been mobilised to Katete to undertake the deeper diamond drilling following the successful initial RC programme.