RE: Our mine plan17 Jun 2020 20:30
Few more details on our plan
The Mine Plan envisages a 27-year mine life where both perlite and natural pozzolan are mined from the Main Zone in Phases 1-3 (years 1-15) with pozzolan continuing to be mined in the Tuff Zone in a new Phase 4 (years 16-27). During this 27-year period the Company proposes to mine approximately 1,656,000 tons of perlite (years 1-15 only), 14,523,000 tons of pozzolan, and 2,617,000 tons of waste rock. Both ore and waste will be extracted from the open pits using open pit mining methods of dozer excavating, loading, and hauling. Given the semi-consolidated or fractured nature of the material, it is not anticipated that drilling and blasting will be required. The Company will use front-end loaders to load the ore and waste into the haul trucks. The haul trucks will transport the waste rock to the storage areas near the open pits and transport the perlite and pozzolan to the crushing and screening areas to be processed at the respective on-site processing facilities.