RE: If I’ve understood this correctly5 Dec 2021 22:36
https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/967075/mila-resources-is-back-re-listed-in-london-and-raring-to-go-on-its-australian-gold-exploration-ground-967075.html
We’re in a world class gold mining area, and Kathleen Valley is a very rich area in the district,” says Neil Hutchison of Mila Resources PLC (LSE:MILA).
“We’ve managed to harness a relatively small tenement in the middle of all that.”
At the moment, this tenement boasts a small resource of around 21,000 ounces of gold.
But now that Mila has re-listed on the London Stock Exchange, newly capitalised after a £3.5mln raise, the plan is to get to work and upgrade the numbers in double-quick time.
The planned boost to the resource will have a double significance.
First, on its own terms, the initial exploration target that Mila is putting on its Kathleen Valley ground of between 145,000 and 250,000 ounces of gold looks attractive enough.
What may turn out to be of even greater importance, though, is it’s along strike from Bellevue flagship development project and right next to Bellevue’s Government Well project.
The discovery of high-grade gold at these projects made Bellevue into a billion dollar company, and the thinking is that Mila’s ground could have formed part of it if it hadn’t been for some limitations around nearby local aboriginal heritage sites.
But that’s where Hutchison’s appointment to the board of Mila suddenly starts to make a whole lot of sense.
. The original vendors recognised exactly what land could and should be pegged, and what should be left alone – and a close look at the Mila claims map will show a zig-zag shape on the eastern border, which allows plenty of room for the aboriginal sites to be left in peace.
Not only is Hutchison plugged into the district from way back, having worked next door at Cosmos, but he’s also extremely well connected in the local community. This has major benefits when working with the traditional owners and close to heritage areas outside of the tenement area.
At some point, Bellevue will start thinking about the size of the open pit it’s going to want to construct at Government Well, and that’s when it may become clear that Mila’s ground will be a necessary part of the surface expression.
Time will tell.
For now, Mila is going to focus on the value of its Kathleen Valley gold for itself.
The results of drilling conducted in 2019 and2020 by the vendors of the Kathleen Valley property have allowed for the modelling of the JORC exploration target.
Three phases of further drilling are now planned and budgeted for, designed to expand the mineralisation northward, deeper and along strike.
“We’re not taking the risk of stepping out too far, though,” says Hutchison.
“The main thing for us is to increase the grade as we go deeper. We can see the shear zones and the sulphides. It’s quite predictable.”
And in that regard, he also cites the Bellevue project next door, which has a glob