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Completion of Drilling at Hemerdon

1st Dec 2014 07:00

RNS Number : 3087Y
Wolf Minerals Limited
01 December 2014
 



 

1 December 2014

 

Wolf Minerals Limited

 

Wolf Minerals Completes Geotechnical Drilling at Hemerdon Tungsten-Tin Project

 

· Initial results suggest potential for steeper pit walls, increased reserves and longer mine life.

· Potential to increase ore reserves by 15 - 23% within existing planning permission.

 

Specialty metals development company, Wolf Minerals Limited (ASX: WLF, AIM: WLFE) ("Wolf" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that it has completed a six hole diamond drilling campaign at the Company's world class Hemerdon tungsten and tin project ("the Project") in Devon, in southwest England.

The drilling programme completed a total of 1,140 metres around the perimeter of the Hemerdon open pit, and was designed to provide additional geotechnical information to optimize the slope angles for the open pit.

The drilling results indicate that an additional 4 to 6 million tonnes of ore may be available to be mined from the project and that there is the potential to increase ore reserves by 15 to 23%, as a result of steepening the open pit walls and broadening the open pit perimeter within the existing planning permission.

Subject to a change in the planning permission's open pit boundary, to allow access to the Southern Extension, there may also be the potential to increase the ore reserves further.

The majority of previous drilling undertaken at the site concentrated on the ore body, rather than the surrounding waste rock. As a result, pit slope angles were conservatively designed at between 35° and 44°, with flatter slopes near the surface reflecting weathered rock conditions.

SLR Consultants supervised the drilling programme and assessed the geotechnical qualities of the rock in the perimeter of the open pit. Preliminary interpretation of the drilling results is positive and points to increased pit slope angles and ore reserves.

Following the completion of the drilling and geotechnical analysis, pit optimisation and design will now be undertaken using the revised slope parameters, which will lead on to the ore reserves being revised. This work is expected to be completed in January 2015.

Commenting on the drilling programme and analysis, Wolf Managing Director, Russell Clark, said:

"This programme was made possible through the funding received from the equity raise earlier this year and has been designed to add value through increasing reserves, mine life and therefore revenue. Initial analysis suggests this could be the case, and we will now undertake detailed design work and reserve re-estimation. We expect this work to be completed in January 2015. In the meantime we continue to focus on the construction of the processing plant and remain on budget and on schedule to be producing in the third quarter of 2015. We are also examining the potential for mining the "Southern Extension" of the ore body, which currently lies outside the planning permission boundary, and see great potential to extend the mine life even further as a result."

ENDS

For further details, please contact:

Wolf Minerals Limited

Russell Clark

+61 8 6364 3776

[email protected]

Numis Securities

John Prior/James Black/Paul Gillam

+44(0)20 7260 1000

 

Newgate Threadneedle

Adam Lloyd/Tim Thompson/Ed Treadwell

+44 (0) 20 7653 9842

 

 

Promotion and Marketing

The Company's web site has time lapse photography showing both the processing plant site and mine site which can be seen at:

http://www.wolfminerals.com.au/hemerdon-tungsten-and-tin-project/live-stream 

 

 

This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
 
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