RE: News Story15 Mar 2021 07:13
Bit tricky to predict the assays dnd. Usually they come back about one month from the end of the drilling campaign but it looks like cores are being sent as they go along this time so could be different. I've been thinking about this line from the first par of that story, "The mayor of Carucedo, Alfonso Fernández, and the mayor of Toral de los Vados, Pedro Fernández, have spoken of the need that when the zinc, lead and silver deposit that the Europa Metals company is promoting is exploited, a factory is opened in the Bierzo that transforms this product in the Bierzo, and not in other places". I wonder if something has been lost in translation and "transforms" should read "smelts". Are the mayors calling for a smelter to be built on the strength of the Toral asset? This is blimmin incredible if true, I've mentioned before that one of our final hurdles is establishing smelter compatibility at which point we'll finally get complete transparency on the impurities, does this explain why we're still waiting? Sounds like the mayors could be proposing a bespoke smelter in the district, that's got green grant cash written all over it as we wouldn't be carting ore up north for smelting. Anyone know a native Spanish speaker as this lead does rather depend on "factoria" and "transforme" being reasonable substitutes for smelter and smelts, I'm getting "horno de fundición" as the proper word for smelter on Google...... just double checked I haven't made an embarrassing slip and "horno" is apparently a kiln :)