Kasbah Resources has completed its exploration drilling programme based on the Meknes Trend of its Achmmach project in Morocco, giving it greater confidence in the scale and grade of ore that it expects to begin mining in 2015. The best results from closer spaced drilling in the central section of the mineralisation, known as the Gap Zone, showed tin grades above 1% and vein widths of over 20 metres. Further assay results are pending.
In a statement the company said: “If successful, this drilling may increase the Measured and Indicated component of the next mineral resource estimate. Once all outstanding assays have been received a new resource estimate will commence. This estimate will incorporate all drilling completed across the shallow and deeper targets within the Meknes Trend at Achmmach and Kasbah expects an updated mineral resource estimate in Quarter 3, 2013. The updated estimate will be used in the Definitive Feasibility Study due Quarter 4, 2013……This area of the Gap Zone represents the prime target for initial ore extraction and as such the 20m spaced infill program aims to provide higher resolution and increased confidence in determining the location of the high-grade tourmaline-tin zones”.
The current resource estimate from March of this year is 15.3 million tonnes of ore at an average grade of 0.85% tin, containing 130,900 tonnes of tin, mainly in the Indicated category of confidence. There is also further exploration potential at a second area of mineralization – Sidi Addi – at Achmmach and at the nearby Bou El Jaj project.
