RE: 1,000,000 ounce mining plan at the crown jewel19 Feb 2021 12:02
Multiple zones, colossal area to expand into, decades upon decades of resource mining!
"In November, following weeks of delays at congested assay labs in St Petersburg, Eurasia were at last able to announce results for a drilling program of four target zones at Monchetundra. Zone 2 emerged as having underground mining potential, delivering grades increasing with depth from 4m at 1.7 g/t Pt+Pd at 75m depth to 3.6m grading 8.4 g/t Pt+Pd at 190m depth. In Zone 3, lower grade but potentially economic open-pittable mineralisation included 6.7m at 1.8 Pt+Pd some 90m below surface and 36m at 1.8 g/t Pt+Pd only 75m down. Overall, given the current prices of the two metals, the platinum:palladium ratio was encouraging at 0.6:1.
Volchetundra ? a 27km long and largely untested intrusion - was next on the menu, and drilling in late 2006 resulted in a new discovery. Hole VT-17, drilled to the northern side of the licence on a previously untested target, intersected thick areas of mineralisation. First came 44.6m at 1.7 g/t Pt+Pd encountered at 68m depth, though running with a high Pd:Pt ratio of between 1.5-3:1. At 145m down, a further 18.5m found 1.9 g/t, but here the palladium:platinum ratio was much more favourable at 0.3-1.1:1. Deepest of all, at 170m depth, lay a 1m section assaying 11 g/t Pt+Pd, again with a very favourable Pd:Pt ratio of 0.8:1."
https://ca.proactiveinvestors.com/companies/news/226/eurasia-mining-revisited-0188.html
"The Monchegorsk Complex
comprises two spatially separate intrusions, covering an area of ~ 550 km2
: the predominantly ultramafic Monchepluton (~ 65 km2
) and the mafic Main Ridge (~ 485
km2
), which are separated by the Monchetundra Fault trending northwest (Fig. 2 inset).
The Monchepluton is crescent-shaped and consists of six distinct mountains arranged in two branches. The north-northeast-trending branch, reaching approximately
7 km across, is ultramafic in composition and referred to as "NKT Massif", comprising Mts. Nittis, Kumuzhya and Travyanaya (Fig. 2). "
https://orca.cf.ac.uk/112128/1/Critical%20Controls%20on%20the%20Formation%20of%20Contact-Style%20PGE-.pdf
"Finally, the Company welcomes the incorporation of the Monchegorsk Development Agency, as announced by Norilsk Nickel on 16 September 2020, established by Monchegorsk's municipal administration and Norilsk Nickel to focus on Business and Investment in the Monchegorsk area, where the Monchetundra project is located."
GLA