Africa-focused uranium resource company Globe Metals & Mining has started a prefeasibility study on its wholly owned multi-commodity Kanyika project, in Malawi.
The prefeasibility study followed the positive results of the scoping study, which indicated that the Kanyika project had the potential to become a profitable operation with at least a 20 year life-of-mine.
The Kanyika project has showed mineral resources including uranium, tantalum, zircon, and niobium.
“The start of prefeasibility work marks the next stage in our rapid development of the Kanyika project. It is a very large deposit, the scoping study confirmed that it has the potential to be very profitable, so we are moving immediately on to the next step,” said MD Mark Sumich.
The prefeasibility study would initially focus on two aspects, including an upgrade of the higher-grade, near surface component and overall increase in resource tonnage, and the completion of the testing of the proposed metallurgy processing routes.
Australia-listed Globe Metals & Mining was also in discussions with potential off-take partners, and noted that other aspects of the project, including the actual mining, legal, operating, social and environmental procedures were set to follow soon.
Sumich added that the resource upgrade drilling and metallurgy were under way, and that the announcement formalised the company’s start of the prefeasibility study.
Wednesday, 3 September 2008
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