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Highlights from current drilling include 5.4 meters grading 15.1 percent zinc, 1.5 percent copper, 6 percent lead, 1 g/t gold and 70 g/t silver starting at a depth of 351 meters.
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Heron Resources (TSX:HER)
Price: $0.08
Market cap:Â $33 million
Working capital: $23 million
Project:Â Woodlawn
Country:Â Australia
Ownership: 60Â percent
Resources: 1.6 MT @ 10.7% Zn, 1.5% Cu, 4.0% Pb, 0.46 g/t Au and 78 g/t Ag
Project status:Â Definition drilling
- Heron Resources announced additional results from the definition drilling program on the Company’s 100% owned Woodlawn Volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) project in New South Wales, Australia. The past producing open pit is currently used as a waste disposal site
- Highlights from the current drilling include 5.4 metres grading 15.1% Zn, 1.5% Cu, 6.0% Pb, 1.0 g/t Au, 70 g/t Ag starting at a depth of 351 metres. The 19,000 metre drill program is designed to update the current indicated and inferred resource to measured and indicated resources to be included in a feasibility study expected to be completed in H2 2016.
- The April 2015 PEA outlines a low cost project with an initial capital cost of AUS $ 140 million (US$100 million) and C1 cash costs of $0.00 per pound Zn after by-product credits. The project is estimated to generate an after tax NPV (8.3% real) of AUS $291 million and an IRR of 46% over an 11 year mine life.
- The polymetallic portion of the underground resource totals 1.6 million tonnes of indicated material at a grade of 10.7% Zn, 1.5% Cu, 4.0% Pb, 0.46 g/t Au and 78 g/t Ag with an additional inferred resource of 3.0 million tonnes at 8.1% Zn, 1.6% Cu, 3.2% Pb, 0.88 g/t Au and 70 g/t Ag.
Development history: Jododex discovered Woodlawn in 1970 and operated the open pit from 1978 to 1986. Mine was operated as an underground operation from 1986 to 1998. Historical production totals 13.8 million tonnes @ 9.1% Zn, 3.6% Pb, 1.6% Cu, 0.5 g/t Au, 74 g/t Ag.
Current drilling: 5.4 metres @ 15.1% Zn, 1.5% Cu, 6.0% Pb, 1.0 g/t Au, 70 g/t Ag
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