Ilomba Hill
At Ilomba Hill, in the far north-west of Malawi, niobium and uranium occurrences have been recorded in historical and academic work on an alkali syenite ring complex intruded into basement gneisses. Individual rock samples taken in the late 1950s returned analyses up to 7.5% Nb2O5.
The project has geological similarities to the Machinga Project and will be explored in a similar, systematic way. The area was not covered by the regional airborne geophysical program in the 1980s.