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Impact Minerals Exploration Update



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Directors
Peter Unsworth
Chairman
Michael Jones
Managing Director
Rodney Fripp
Executive Director
Paul Ingram
Non-Executive Director
Mark Pitts
Company Secretary
www.impactminerals.com.au
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ASX ANNOUNCEMENT
ASX: IPT
Date: 19th January 2010
Number: 132/180110
EXPLORATION UPDATE
Reconnaissance Drilling Recommences at
Lekobolo, Botswana
Impact Minerals Limited (Impact) is pleased to report that
uranium reconnaissance drilling will recommence this week at its
100% owned Lekobolo Prospect in Botswana.

The Lekobolo
Prospect is 20 km along strike from the large Letlhakane Project of
A-Cap Resources Limited (Figure 1).
During December Impact completed 27 RC holes of a proposed 60
hole programme before holidays suspended work late in the
month.

A total of 1,150 metres were drilled in holes ranging from 7
to 75 m depth, on a broad spacing of 1,000 m by between 400 m
and 1,000 m between holes.

Assay results from this programme
are expected to become available in early March.
A further 37 hole programme of reconnaissance drilling will
commence this week (1,700 metres) to do some infill lines at 500m
spacing in areas already drilled, and to test new targets at a
spacing of 1,000 m by 400 metres.
At Lekobolo the drill targets collectively cover an area of about
140 square kilometres within which there are numerous clusters of
elevated uranium-in-soil values.
The drill programme is anticipated to finish within a few weeks.
A down-hole radiometric survey to measure uranium in the
completed drill holes is due to start as soon as the logger becomes
available.

Assay results from this second programme are expected
by late March.
Dr Michael G Jones
Managing Director
Impact"s Botswana Uranium Project
Impact"s Prospecting Licences in Botswana cover 350 km of the strike extensions of rocks that
host many significant uranium deposits throughout southern Africa, including Letlhakane.
The large Letlhakane Project is owned by A-Cap Resources Limited which has reported an
Indicated and Inferred Resource of 344 Mt at 152 ppm using a 100 ppm cut-off for 116 Mlb of
uranium oxide in deposits hosted by near-surface calcrete and by Karoo Group sedimentary
rocks.
Impact"s licences are prospective for three types of uranium deposits:
• deposits hosted by Karoo sedimentary rocks, which host a number of large uranium
deposits throughout southern Africa, including at Letlhakane;
• uranium hosted by calcrete in Cainozoic palaeochannels, a style of mineralisation well
known in Australia and Namibia; and
• deposits within playa (salt) lakes which, in Australia and elsewhere in Africa, are
known to host significant uranium deposits.
Impact has identified 18 such target areas with a combined strike length of more than 400 km
within its licences.

These generally comprise elongate regions within which there are
variably exposed calcrete outcrops and/or outcrops of prospective Karoo sedimentary rocks.
Many have elevated surface uranium responses in the regional airborne radiometric data
and in ground spectrometer readings (Figure 1).
The Lekobolo Prospect is one of five priority targets identified by Impact (see ASX release
dated 8th September 2009) on the basis of the widespread surface uranium anomalism in
calcretes and sandstones, backed by regional mapping, ground reconnaissance work and
sampling.

These other four priority targets are Lekobolo, Sua, Kodibeleng, Ikongwe and
Shoshong.
Impact"s targets in Botswana have the potential to host very large deposits of uranium
mineralisation in a country ranked in first place by the Fraser Institute in its 2009 survey of
Mining jurisdictions in Africa.
The review of exploration activities and results contained in this report is based on information
compiled by Dr Mike Jones, a Member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists.

He is a director of
the company and works full time for Impact Minerals Limited.

He has sufficient experience which is
relevant to the style of mineralisation and types of deposits under consideration and to the activity
which he is undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the December 2004 edition of
the Australasian Code for reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves (the
JORC Code).

Mike Jones has consented to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on his
information in the form and context in which it appears.
Figure 1




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