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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 […]

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Cornish Metals grants 800,000 options to CDO Fawzi Hanano

Cornish Metals Inc will issue 800,000 options over common shares to its chief development officer Fawzi Hanano. The options have an exercise price of £0.18 per share, the same as those granted earlier in 2023 and the investment price paid by Vision Blue Resources in the £40.5 million fundraise in May 2022. The granted options […]

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Cornish Metals begins wet commissioning of water treatment plant

Cornish Metals Inc yesterday began wet commissioning, originally expected in May, of its new mine water treatment plant at South Crofty.  PROCESS The plant will use high density sludge (HDS) process technology to treat raw mine water with 25,000m3/day of water pumped directly from South Crofty tin mine. The Canadian company will fill all the […]

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Cornish Metals drill tests ‘district-scale’ target

Cornish Metals Inc has begun a 14-hole exploration drill programme for 9,000 metres to test a possible district-scale tin target at Wide Formation in Carn Brea South. EXPANSION Discovered in January, the target lies along the southern boundary of the South Crofty underground mine permission area. The Canadian company infers Wide Formation to lie parallel […]

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Cornish Metals MRE shows increase of contained tin

Cornish Metals Inc’s revised mineral resource estimate (MRE) showed an increase of contained tin in the indicated and inferred categories at South Crofty. REVIEW A 31.6% increase was recorded in the indicated while the inferred saw a rise of 15.5% in contained tin. The MRE, prepared in-house and externally verified, focuses on the tin-only section […]