Talga gears up for trial mining in Sweden
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Site works in preparation for a July start to trial mining were under way at technology materials company Talga Resources’s Vittangi graphite/graphene project, in northern Sweden.
Following the April receipt of the trial mining permit under Talga’s exploration licence from the Environmental Review Commission, the Perth-based company secured all remaining clearances and had mobilised staff and contractors to the site.
In an update to the market, Talga said that heavy equipment was on site, with top soil clearing already revealing the ore zone adjacent to an existing historical pit at the Nunasvaara deposit.
“Talga anticipates that the graphite ore extraction programme will commence in mid-July,” Talga MD Mark Thompson commented in a statement on Friday, adding that the first sawn blocks of raw graphite ore would be transported to its Rudolstadt storage/processing facility, in Germany, during August.
The 2015 trial mining programme would be completed by September 30, followed by a review of further trial mining programme.
“Given that this is the first known application of a quarrying technique as it applies to graphite mining, the exact quantity of ore to be extracted in 2015 will be determined during the trial mining programme, with potential for the balance to be extracted under the existing permit in 2016,” he said.
The trial mining permit was valid until September 2018 and allowed for the removal of up to 2 000 m3 of graphite ore within a specified part of the Nunasvaara resource 1 area.
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