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Flinders adds to Pilbara resource

21st October 2014

By: Esmarie Iannucci

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor: Australasia

  

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PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Iron-ore hopeful Flinders Mine has increased the resource at its flagship Pilbara iron-ore project, after nearly doubling the resource at the Blackjack deposit.

Based on a recent drilling campaign at Blackjack, the deposit was now estimated to host some 86.2-million tonnes of resource, grading 56.8% iron. This was a 93% increase over the previously estimated resource.

Flinders told shareholders that the majority of the mineral resource was classified as indicated, with some 84.2-million tonnes listed in this category. Some 19.5-million tonnes of the resource was classified as bedded iron deposits (BID), a further 64.6-million as detrital iron deposits, and 2.1-million tonnes as channel iron deposits.

Drilling was now planned to test further high-grade mineralisation adjoining the Blackjack resource and other BID targets within the Pilbara project.

An independent investigation into the project had revealed that capital expenditure of A$726-million would be required to support a 25-million-tonne-a-year operation at the Pilbara project.

Edited by Creamer Media Reporter

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