Hana Mining quadrupled the strike length of Zone 2 at its Ghantsi Copper Project from 500 metres to two kilometres.

The zone is one of six Hana has targeted on the 437,000 hectares of property that extends about 100 kilometres southwest of Maun.

The Vancouver-based company said recently that six of seven holes drilled hit copper grades ranging from 0.2 percent to 2.4 percent. Hole 8 returned 27 metres grading 1.12 percent copper and 25.4 grams silver per tonne starting 57 metres downhole.

Collared 500 metres to the northeast, Hole 10 hit 42 metres grading 0.3 percent copper and 4.4 grams silver starting 114 metres downhole while Hole 11 intercepted 63 metres grading 0.63 percent copper and 3.8 grams silver.

Another 1 km northeast of those, Hole 12 hit 33 metres grading 0.33 percent copper and 4.5 grams silver starting 57 metres downhole.

Hana discovered the new zone earlier this summer, drilling grades ranging between 0.34 percent and 2.6 percent copper in six holes.

Hole 3 hit one of the longer intercepts - 42 metres grading 0.76 percent copper and 14.6 grams silver starting 93 metres downhole.

So far the zone is still open along strike and down dip.

About 60 km to the northeast of Zone 2, Hana also recently reported a 1.2-km long mineralised area in Zone 5. Drilling returned as much as 30 metres grading 2.06 percent copper and 16.9 grams silver starting 60 metres dowhnole in Hole 25. Hana acquired the property in the summer of 2007 by taking a 70-percent stake in Stellent, holder of the Ghantsi prospecting licences. The agreement stipulates that Hana must pay Stellent US$400,000 and issue 2.5 million common shares over three years to Stellent. Hana must also put US$1.2 million towards exploration and other work over three years.

The agreement also says that if Hana completes a feasibility study for the project, it must deliver two million warrants to Stellent, each giving its holder the right to buy an additional common share within a year at a cost of $1.00 per share.

Hana has signed a letter of intent to acquire controlling interest in the Ghantsi Copper-Silver Project, a highly prospective project in northwestern Botswana. Consisting of five licence blocks covering 4,370 square kilometres, the project lands are host to widespread sediment-hosted copper-silver mineralisation, suggesting the possibility of a future copper-silver district.