Alkane Resources Limited
Alkane is multi commodity mining and exploration company focused on the Central West of New South Wales, Australia. The Company has built a gold resource inventory of over 1 million ounces and plans recommence operations in 2010 through a new development at Tomingley. Alkane, in partnership with Newmont, has also made another significant gold discovery at McPhillamys near Orange.
The company has an advanced feasibility study in progress for the development of the Dubbo Zirconia Project which is based upon a very large in-ground resource of the metals zirconium, hafnium, niobium, tantalum, yttrium and rare earth elements.
Newmont to lift interest in Alkane Resources' McPhillamys Project
Newmont Australia Limited have elected to increase its interest in the Orange District Exploration Joint Venture (ODEJV) to 75% by completing a Bankable Feasibility Study (BFS) on the McPhillamys Project.
Ian Chalmers, managing director of Alkane Resources (ASX:ALK) regards the McPhillamys Gold Deposit as the largest greenfields gold discovery in Australia since Tropicana (Western Australia) in 2005.
Joint venture partner NAL will sole fund all expenditures to complete the BFS and there is no time constraints to finalise this study.
At Alkane’s election, NAL can earn a further 5% interest by securing funding for Alkane’s share of any capital costs for the development.
Clearly, with this announcement the project has taken a significant step closer to production.
NAL is a subsidiary of the US based Newmont Mining Corporation (NYSE: NEM).
The JV includes the Molong and Moorilda tenements located near the city of Orange in the Central West of New South Wales, adjacent to Newcrest Mining Ltd’s Cadia Valley Operations.
Preliminary block modelling by Newmont Australia has assigned a conceptual exploration target of 2-4 million ounces of gold with 50,000-100,000 tonnes of copper.
Further drilling and evaluation will be required to raise this conceptual exploration target to an Identified Mineral Resource.
The 2010 program for the JV will include further drill testing of the McPhillamys Gold Deposit at depth; drilling of regional targets; metallurgical testing and conceptual mine studies.
Alkane Resources is a multi commodity explorer and miner with its operations focussed in the Central West of New South Wales, centred about 400km northwest of Sydney. Over several years, including experience in developing the Peak Hill Gold Mine, Alkane has built a substantial resource base and is proceeding towards several developments.
Other Alkane Resources Limited news
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26/07/10 Alkane Resources trading at discount to valuation of A$0.91
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05/07/10 Alkane Resources defines gold resource of 3m ounces at McPhillamys in New South Wales
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17/06/10 Alkane Resources' rare earths valuation leaves plenty of upside
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29/04/10 World zircon shortage leads Alkane Resources to double output at Dubbo Project
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15/04/10 Alkane Resources raises A$9.7m from sale of BC Iron investment
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25/02/10 Alkane Resources delivers significant gold intercepts at South Caloma
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02/02/10 Alkane Resources' Dubbo Zirconia Project, strategic source of rare earths
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22/01/10 Alkane Resources rings in solid progress on its major projects
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