RE: Dewatering Permit News31 Oct 2022 12:14
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Today's announcement brings Alba one step closer to production at Clogau. In addition to the aforementioned main Clogau Gold mine, the company has identified a large number of gold targets and former gold workings across the project's 106.94km2 license area. This includes the Waste Tip where Alba's exploratory campaign revealed average assay grades of 3.5 g/t, with gold concentrates produced at the on-site pilot plant at an average grade of 502 g/t. Alba said this indicated real potential for the Waste Tip to be separately mined for gold.
Alba also announced in August the acquisition of the remaining 10% interest in the Clogau-St David's Gold Project, including 75% of a net smelter return royalty from the vendor. The company now owns 100% of its Welsh gold projects, which represent significant future value inflection points for investors. Today's news alone drove Alba shares up 4% in early trading.
Separately, Alba's 54%-owned GreenRoc Mining recently announced significant new discoveries at its Amitsoq graphite project in Greenland, which is one of the highest-grade graphite deposits in the world. The new areas of interest, mostly located in the project's recently granted MEL 22-03 exploration license, showed high-grade deposits well in excess of 20% C(g).
News will continue to come out of Amitsoq as GreenRoc awaits assay results from its Phase 2 drilling program, followed by an expected higher resource for the project. The latter should arrive in c. 2 months. The March 2022 maiden JORC Resource for Amitsoq showed 8.3m tonnes at an average grade of 19.75% C(g). Based on last month's Phase 2 results, and recent sampling results, a significant upgrade to that resource tonnage is expected.