RE: Re: Redmoor22 May 2019 23:43
Yes I did it was interesting, there was nothing confidential disclosed which is what you'd expect, as that would be a breach of rules. The key points of interest were: -
1. The potential for increase in the ore body size, at the conservative end we are looking at an additional 4-6 MT in the immediate area. What needs to be understood is that at present we are only exploring about 5% of our mineral rights area. On the speculative front, drilling in the 80's showed good shallow zinc grades on the strike of the SVS over 1km to the west. Zinc is a good indicator for the deeper tin and tungsten mineralisation. There is the possibility that we could find that is a continuation of the SVS - that is no more than an idea at the moment, but if it did turn out to be the case, I think we would be looking at a 50MT deposit, which would simply be astonishing. There is also a strong possibility of further undiscovered mineralised zones, that we may find in the future - this would probably be after mining has commenced - in other words there is a high likelihood of this turning into a "permanent mine"
2. Mineral processing, the lessons have been learnt from Hemerdon, local experts who understand treating Cornish ores are engaged and leading the testing, we currently have 3 possible flow sheets, it is the intention to test these at pilot plant scale - this will come later as a relatively large amount of ore will be required.