RE: We17 Dec 2020 22:24
Succesful times to come
from RNS Aug 2017;
Taking a more technical view of the resource, the material at Pituffik sits in the same class as hard rock ilmenite. However, as a result of glacial (mechanical) erosion and favourable deposition centres along the coastal plain, the entire front-end capital expenditure associated with mining, crushing, grinding and concentrating has been done naturally, with the resource largely visible at surface along a coastal plain of >30km. This gives us a competitive advantage; firstly, it means we don't need to repeatedly drill and define the resource to identify and prove up the mineral potential in the way you would with other hard rock mining assets. Accordingly, we will be able to define a significant resource in a relatively short time frame, as evidenced through our aforementioned maiden JORC resource. Secondly, as the resource has been naturally "processed", it is already incredibly concentrated; up to 20 times the in-situ grades of other soon to be similar sized projects. This greatly simplifies the requirements on us in terms of how we mine and produce a saleable ilmenite product and will have a significant impact on the unit cost of our product.