UK based Treliver Minerals Ltd. has announced a JORC compliant, indicated and inferred mineral resource of 22.1 Mt of ore at 0.46% Sn, or 101,500 tonnes of contained tin, for its Tellerhäuser project in Saxony, Germany.
The resource estimation, undertaken by Australian based H&S consultants, used a 0.2% cut off for the three deposits that comprise the Tellerhäuser project, Hammerlein, Zweibach and Dreiberg. Inferred resource estimates were also calculated for the indium and zinc by-products, which are important for the project’s economics. These total 15.9 Mt at 127 ppm In for 2,023 tonnes of contained indium and 18 Mt at 1.12% Zn for 200,400 tonnes of contained zinc.
Treliver’s chairman, Mark Thompson, commented: “This resource now sits as one of the largest undeveloped tin deposits in the world and also boasts one of the highest tin equivalent grades. Our goal now is to convert the by-product credits into higher JORC categories, with a final target of +10 million tonnes at a 1.2% – 1.4% tin equivalent grade.”
Tellerhäuser project is one of a number of tin prospects gained by Treliver following its acquisition of Saxony Mines Ltd. in 2013. It has since become the company’s flagship asset.
