RNS16 Aug 2018 08:05
"July 2018 Drill Programme Milestones
Infill Drilling Successfully Completed
Amur Minerals Corporation ("Amur" or the "Company"), a nickel-copper sulphide mineral exploration and resource development company focused on the Far East of Russia, is pleased to provide its third in a series of drill updates for its 2018 drill programme at its wholly owned Kun-Manie nickel copper sulphide project ("Kun-Manie"). Covering the period ending 31 July 2018, the 20,300 metre drill programme announced on 27 February 2018, is well advanced, including infill drilling in accordance with Russian regulatory requirements for use in the acquisition of mining permits, the conversion of a high grade Inferred resource to that of Indicated for future inclusion in the Pre-feasibility Study ("PFS"), Mining Ore Reserve ("MOR") and the acquisition of a metallurgical sample along the mineralised trend between, and including, the deposits of Ikenskoe / Sobolevsky ("IKEN") and Kubuk ("KUB").
Highlights
-- In July, a total of 48 diamond core drill holes (7,457.4 metres) were completed bringing the total drilling through to 31 July 2018, to 114 drill holes containing a total of 16,558.3 metres (82% of the 20,300 planned metres) for the State Committee on Reserves ("GKZ") certification of reserves and for use in the mine permitting process, the IKEN Inferred resource upgrade for future consideration in the Kun-Manie nickel copper sulphide project economics and metallurgical sample collection. An additional 1,708.0 metres have been completed in the area of Gorny (geological investigative work) as well as additional drilling at KUB to define up and down dip limits of previously identified mineralisation. The combined total of 18,266.3 metres of drilling has now been completed using Company owned Boart Longyear LF 70 and LF 90 diamond core drill rigs providing a combined daily average of nearly 210 metres.
-- On 14 July, the GKZ requirement for infill drilling was completed at all the deposits of Maly Kurumkon / Flangovy ("MKF"), Vodorazdelny ("VOD"), IKEN and KUB from which mining is anticipated. This will allow for final Russian Federation approval of the reserve(s), and is also required, to obtain approval of mine designs.
-- Drilling has now been completed within the March 2018 Inferred resource delimited area at IKEN (now drilled on a 100 by 100 metre grid) and the continuity of the grade and thickness of this block has been established. The portion of the resource which is projected to potentially yield a higher operating profit per ore tonne was identified for infill drilling to convert it to the JORC (Dec 2018) Indicated resource category. If successfully converted to Indicated this would allow for this block of mineralisation to be included in future updates to the Pre-Feasibility Study ("PFS") where it can be inserted into the earlier years of production by supplanting a portion of the currently defined MOR potentially increasing the estimated Net Present