RE: RNS2 Feb 2021 07:04
George Frangeskides, Alba's Executive Chairman, commented:
"This surface drilling campaign is delivering on our objectives in spades. We wanted to identify the existence and extent of the vein system below the historic workings at Llechfraith, and we have now been able to show that it extends at least 66 metres below the deepest previously mined section. This provides us with a significant zone for follow-up channel and bulk sampling once we can get much closer access, which we will be able to do as soon as we have dewatered the Main Shaft at Llechfraith."
"Ultimately, assuming that sampling programme stacks up well, we would then look to sink an extension to the Main Shaft some 60 metres down from No 4 Level, with several new Levels then being driven across from the extended shaft in order to be able to access the lode structure at a number of intervals. Thanks to modern engineering techniques and equipment, putting this new development in place would not be anything like the endeavour it would have been when the last development was put in place at Clogau some decades ago."
"It is really exciting to see our work coming together in this way."