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Altona MD Alistair Cowden comments, “T is study demonstrates that mine life at Little Eva will easily exceed 11 years and that the mining and treatment of the copper oxide mineralisation through the proposed Little Eva plant, even at low recoveries, could add signifi cant value to the project.” Metallurgical testing has now been completed on sulphide mineralisation. Altona believes the project will likely develop into a joint venture with Sichuan Railway Investment Group. Finally, Unity Mining’s Henty Gold


Mine in Tasmania has results in from a new area.


Unity MD Andrew McIlwain says, “T ese new and additional results provide us with signifi cant encouragement as we see the mineralisation in this hanging wall position starting to build. T is new intersection is 30m north of the mineralisation previously reported and the lens is open to the north and down-plunge to the south. “Follow up drilling will be conducted shortly, in addition to targeting extensions to the Read Zone, the Tear-Away Zone, and the largely untested Collar Zone under the US$5 million earn- in agreement with the PYBAR Group.” ●


Samples are loaded into core trays for processing; unlike some processes in mining, this one has not yet fully embraced the trend for autonomous systems, with much work still being done by human operators


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