Alba Mineral Resources plc reported “large” amounts of visible sulphide mineralisation in blasted rocks, indicating associated gold mineralisation, at its Clogau-St David’s gold mine. BULK SAMPLE The company has also noted visible gold within the blasted ore. Drilling and blasting at level 5 on the Llechfraith target continues round the clock, with a team of […]
Tag: underground blasting
Alba to process 25t of historic Clogau ore
Alba Mineral Resources plc has removed around 25 tonnes of ore from historic mining, due to be processed for gold, from the Llechfraith target at its Clogau-St David’s mine in north Wales. BLASTING The “significant” exercise cleared the in-situ ore on levels 4 and 5, which “greatly exceeded” the anticipated volume and consequently extended the […]
Scotgold to start blasting at Cononish
Scotgold Resources Ltd said it aimed to start blasting in approximately a week’s time at Cononish gold and silver mine near Tyndrum in Scotland. ORE GRADE The Australian company has finished long hole stoping on block 1 and now started on block 2 along the 115m strike length in the underground mine. Other work completed […]
Galantas restarts blasting at Omagh gold mine
Galantas Gold Corporation announced it had restarted limited underground blasting at Omagh gold mine at Cavanacaw in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The Canadian miner is developing the Kearney gold vein which is expected to produce a feed of higher gold grade for the processing plant than the current feed, which comes from low grade stock. […]