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Drilling and Testwork Update
Drilling and Testwork Update.
About this update from Tertiary Minerals Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 6418K Tertiary Minerals PLC 20 July 2011 \n \n\n \n \nwww.tertiaryminerals.com\n(\"Tertiary\" or \"the Company\") \n20 July 2011\n \nDRILLING & TESTWORK UPDATE\n SWEDISH & NORWEGIAN FLUORSPAR PROJECTS\n \nTertiary Minerals plc, a diversified mineral explorer and developer building a significant strategic position in the fluorspar sector, is pleased to provide the following updates on its Storuman (Sweden) and Lassedalen (Norway) fluorspar projects.\n \nHighlights\n \n§ Drill programme to commence at Storuman this week with objective to test: \n \nØ immediate extensions to recently announced Mineral Resource, and \nØ more speculative distal extensions to fluorspar mineralisation.\n \nSecondary objective is to sterilise potential plant and tailings sites.\n \n§ Metallurgical testwork programme at Lassedalen awarded to Wardell Armstrong aims to produce acid grade fluorspar from drill samples and provide data for preliminary economic evaluation.\n \n \nStoruman Fluorspar Project, Sweden\n \nThe Storuman drill programme will commence this week and is planned to comprise ten holes. \n \nFive holes will be drilled along a north-west to south-east traverse some 400m south-west of the current limit of drilling where the mineralisation remains open. This drill traverse, if successful, is close enough to the defined resource for the results to be included in future JORC Mineral Resource upgrades and could deliver additional shallow mineralisation for early-year mine planning.\n \nA further five holes will be drilled at distances up to 2.7km away from the currently defined resource boundary. These five, more speculative, holes are designed to give more regional information on the distribution and depth of the fluorspar-hosting geological sequence, to find further extensions to mineralisation and also to sterilise a potential process plant and tailings site.\n \nLassedalen Fluorspar Project, Norway\n \nFollowing the receipt of positive sampling results from archive drill core reported in May this year, a programme of metallurgical testwork has now been awarded to Wardell Armstrong in Cornwall.\n \nThe objective of the testwork programme, now started, is to confirm that acid grade fluorspar can be produced from Lassedalen ...