Helium One Global plc has restarted drilling Tai-3 well after a rig component failure halted operations earlier this month on the Rukwa licence in southeast Tanzania. ITUMBULA-C The company sourced and installed a replacement part and yesterday began drilling ahead through the primary reservoir targets in the Lake Bed formation, Karoo Group and Basement. The […]
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Alba Mineral dewaters Clogau to level 3
Alba Mineral Resources plc has dewatered the lower Llechfraith workings at Clogau-St David’s gold mine to level 3 and completed field work at the historic Caerwych mine site. LOWER LLECHFRAITH The programme began following Natural Resources Wales’ refusal to allow a higher pump rate after heavy rainfall reflooded the lower Llechfraith workings. The company said […]
UKOG expects to resume testing Pinarova-1
Pinarova-1 exploration well is expected to resume tests in four weeks with 7-inch perforating guns at the site north of the Basur- oil discovery onshore Turkey. SECTION UK Oil & Gas plc (50%) said that the larger more powerful guns than previously used were capable of fully penetrating the well’s 9⅝-inch casing, focusing on the […]
Block starts production at WR-34Z
Production at 150 boepd began last quarter from Block Energy plc’s third well of project I in the West Rustavi-Krtsanisi field, onshore Georgia. OPPORTUNITIES The company’s quarterly report showed an average production during the third quarter dip to 630 boepd (Q2: 664 boepd). Gross production totalled 58 Mboe (Q2: 60.4 Mboe) comprising 44.3 Mbbls of oil and 13.6 Mboe […]
Cornish Lithium finishes 13,000m drilling for revised MRE
Cornish Lithium plc completed more than 13,000 metres of resource evaluation drilling at the end of September at its Trelavour hard rock project. DEMONSTRATION PLANT The company is in the final stages of appointing consultants to produce a revised mineral resource estimate which will feed a feasibility study expected in early 2024. A tender process […]
South Crofty drill samples tests exceed expectations
Cornish Metals Inc reported better than expected results from metallurgical testwork on drill samples from the South Crofty tin project in Pool, Redruth. UPGRADING POTENTIAL TOMRA Sorting GmbH completed X-Ray transmission (XRT) ore sorting and Wardell Armstrong International conducted the heavy liquid separation (HLS) preconcentration testwork. XRT resulted in 55% mass rejection and <3% metal […]