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DESERT LION CONTINUES EXPLORATION
Location: Namibia
Phase:
Development
Resource: Lithium
Namibian-focused lithium developer Desert Lion Energy’s 2019
exploration and development programme will focus on increasing
and optimising existing mineral resources estimates (MRE), and
advancement of the mine, concentrator, and lithium conversion
plant in Walvis Bay.
The company announced the completion of a financing deal in
December 2018.
At Helikon pits 1 to 5:
• Completion of surface infill drilling to improve confidence in
the MRE to indicated and measured categories.
• Completion of a geotechnical evaluation to optimise existing
PEA pit outlines and to optimise the mine plan.
• Additional mineralogical work to support the geological
model, MRE, and mine plan.
Desert Lion Energy will continue exploration work at its lithium
project close to Karabib in Namibia during 2019.
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Following completion of the infill drilling programmes,
the company will be updating the mineral resource
estimate, with results anticipated in quarter three of 2019.
Concurrent with the development and exploration programme,
Desert Lion announced that the company has engaged Karl
Neumayer Civil Contractors to assist the company with updating
aspects of the preliminary economic assessment (PEA), which
will include:
• Optimising the PEA pit shell design and current mine
plan, guided by work completed during the exploration and
geotechnical programmes;
• Trade-off analysis for various throughput and production
scenarios;
• Site selection analysis for a lithium conversion plant in
Walvis Bay. b
At Rubicon pit:
• Completion of an underground survey and drilling to
incorporate foot wall lepidolite mineralisation excluded from
the current MRE.
• Completion of surface infill drilling to improve confidence in
the MRE to indicated and measured categories.
• Sampling and relogging of hanging wall pegmatite to improve
confidence in the geological model and to potentially increase
mineral resources
• Completion of a geotechnical evaluation to optimise existing
preliminary economic assessment (PEA) pit outlines and to
optimise the mine plan.
• Additional mineralogical work to support the geological
model, MRE, and mine plan.
According to a statement released by Desert Lion, the following
activities are planned for the first half of 2019.
Work at Desert Lion’s project last year when African Mining visited the site.
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