RE: Havieron related artcile out today but specifically about Scandanavium22 Jun 2020 09:53
ScandiVanadium's newly acquired projects have an exciting exploration pedigree
Proactive's mining analyst, Ryan Long, appraises ScandiVanadium's recent acquisitions in two areas that will see substantial exploration dollars being invested.
ScandiVanadium Ltd (ASX:SVD) recently entered an agreement to acquire 100% of two prospective projects located in Western Australia: the Pascalle Gold Project, located in the Paterson Province; and the Gnama Nickel Project, located in the Fraser Range.
This strategic development gives the company exposure to some exciting exploration provinces in Western Australia, around other high-profile discoveries.
I caught up with chief executive officer David Minchin, a geologist with 15 years’ experience in exploration and mining, to discuss these latest acquisitions and the company’s plans to advance them.
The Pascalle Gold Project covers an area of 75km2 within Paterson Province (Figure 1), an area that has seen some exciting recent discoveries and major farm-ins. ScandiVanadium’s Pascalle licence is situated less than 15k kilometres (km) south-east of Newcrest Mining Ltd's (ASX:NCM) 32mln-once Telfer Mine, but due to a relatively thin 20-50 metre layer of Permian cover, it has remained largely unexplored.
Greatland Gold PLC's (LON:GGP) 2018 Havieron discovery, located 20km to the north-east of Pascalle, demonstrated the success that can be achieved through the use of geophysics to look through Permian cover, opening up a new phase of exploration within the Paterson Province.
Havieron captured the attention of Newcrest Mining in 2019, leading to a US$65m farm-in. Since the farm-in was announced impressive drill results have continued to be returned, including 82.1 metres (m) at a grade of 2.4 grams per tonne (g/t) gold (Au) and 0.08% copper (Cu) from 557.6m (HAD066), 109m at 6.3 g/t Au and 0.71% Cu from 668m (HAD059), and 275m at a grade of 4.8 g/t Au & 0.61% Cu from 459m (HAD005).
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