Giyani Commences its 2020 Field Drill Program and Studies

Drilling is intended to upgrade K.Hill Project Resources to the Indicated Category

OAKVILLE, Ontario, Sept. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Giyani Metals Corp. (TSXV:EMM, GR:A2DUU8) ("Giyani" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the commencement of its Feasibility Study ("FS") field program ("2020 Field Program") for its K.Hill manganese project in Botswana, with the appointment of a drilling contractor, project management and geological services contractor and their imminent mobilisation. The 2020 Field Program follows Giyani's recent successful capital raising, which closed on September 18, 2020.

2020 Field Program Highlights:

• Infill drilling program intended to upgrade existing resources to the Indicated category
  
  
• Geotechnical study to determine geotechnical parameters for the open-pit mine design
  
  
• Geophysical study to assist with greater definition of the resource estimation
  

Infill Drilling

The objective of the infill drilling program is to upgrade the current inferred mineral resources at K.Hill, into the indicated mineral resource category, from which a CIM Code compliant reserve could then be estimated. The program will consist of 90 holes and 2,700m of reverse circulation ("RC") drilling, as well as 9 holes and 250m of diamond core ("DC") drilling.

The contract was awarded to Stewardship Drilling ("Stewardship"), a well-established drilling contractor in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a vast portfolio of experience having worked with Rio Tinto, De Beers, and the Paladin Group. Stewardship is expected to have fully mobilised to site by mid October, subject to the current COVID-19 regulations being maintained in Botswana. The drilling contractor will be supported by the Company’s project management and geological services consulting company, Lambda Tau.

The map provided below in Figure 1 (below) shows the planned locations of the twin verification holes in blue triangles, the 50x50m RC grid in green triangles, the DC drilling confirmation twin holes as red triangles and the location for the trenches and channel chip sampling along 50m trenches as the red lines. Samples from the RC drilling will be collected at 50cm downhole intervals. Appropriate sample sizes will be split and submitted for XRF analysis by Borate Fusion at SGS Laboratories in Johannesburg, South Africa. In addition, samples from the RC drilling as well as the core recovered from the DC drilling will be provided to Tetra Tech for hydrometallurgical and comminution lab testing.