RE: Peel Hunt30 Dec 2025 17:22
Current CPR references 80m depth and historic estimates reference 139m depth. Significant upside especially if proven deeper. Current EPL limits extraction of finished product at 35,000 tonnes per 12 month reporting period.
“A sand and sandstone resource has been identified with volumes expected to be greater than 100,000,000 tonnes. The sand and sandstone is commercially unique due to its colour, extent and consistency. Testing undertaken in 2004, to a depth of 15 metres without reaching sandstone, estimated
50,000,000 tonnes of commercially unique materials suitable to be used in the manufacture of terrazzo type products. It has been estimated that these materials extend to a depth of 139 metres. At the proposed extraction rate the mine could have a productive life estimated to be up to 200 years but 25 years is a more realistic estimate for the purpose of this proposal.
The sand is friable and can be extracted by a loader or excavator. The sandstone is relatively soft and can also be extracted by an excavator after ripping with a bulldozer. Blasting is unlikely to be required.
The sand would be screened and loaded into containers for transport from the mine by B-double trucks.
Initially, production would increase to 200,000 tonnes per year for the first several years and thereafter be increased in stages to a maximum of 500,000 tonnes per year as demand warrants.”