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Mining Projects Update
Mining Projects Update.
About this update from Alba Mineral Resources Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 9676Z Alba Mineral Resources PLC 16 January 2020 \n\n[Click on or paste the following link into your website browser to view the associated PDF document (including maps and images): \nhttp://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/9676Z_1-2020-1-16.pdf\n \nAlba Mineral Resources plc\n(\"Alba\" or the \"Company\")\n \nMining Projects Update\n2020 Work Plans\n \nAlba Mineral Resources plc (AIM: ALBA), the diversified mineral exploration and development company, is pleased to provide an update on the work plans of the Company for 2020. As previously announced, Alba's key mining assets are the high-grade Amitsoq former graphite mine, the high-grade Thule Black Sands heavy mineral sands deposit and the Clogau gold mine. \n \nHighlights\n· Exploration at Clogau Gold Project will continue in 2020 in order to assess and refine the plan to reopen the historic Clogau-St David's Gold Mine for commercial production\n· Clogau Gold Project diamond drilling campaign results expected towards the end of January 2020\n· Trenching programme planned across a selection of the 10 new gold targets identified from the Clogau Gold Project soil sampling programme\n· 2020 field season also being planned at the high-grade Amitsoq Graphite Project in southern Greenland \n· Aim of the 1,100 metres of planned diamond drilling at the Amitsoq Graphite Project is to enable a maiden mineral resource to be declared \n· 2020 plans at the Company's other mining projects will be formulated once the priority work programmes at Clogau and Amitsoq have been further developed.\n \n \nAlba's Executive Chairman, George Frangeskides, commented: \n\"Alba's focus this year, so far as our mining projects are concerned, will be to advance exploration and development at Clogau in Wales and at Amitsoq in southern Greenland. At Clogau, we will continue our work to discover unexploited gold-bearing structures within the mine. Regionally, we will continue to advance our knowledge and understanding of the 10 new gold targets we have identified, primarily through means of a trenching and sampling campaign. The results of all of these activities will feed i...