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Spain:
Europa drill rigs mobilised
Lead-zinc exploration company Europa Metals has mobilised a reverse circulation
(RC) and a diamond drilling rig (the ‘combination rig’) to its Toral lead-zinc-silver
project in the Province of León, northern Spain.
T
he combination rig and
associated operating crew
have been supplied by
Sondeos y Perforaciones Industriales
de Bierzo SA and will be overseen
by Europa’s on-site exploration team.
The company has also successfully
completed the relogging of certain
priority historical drill core from
Toral stored at the National Litoteca
in Andalucía, Spain, and is currently
evaluating the results.
After the arrival of the rigs,
drilling will commence to initially
ascertain the potential continuation
of the mineralised structure outside
of the current defined JORC (2012)
resource area. With a significant
inferred resource estimate already
established for the main Toral project
area, the extension drilling to the
east will seek to identify the presence
of further mineralisation/hosting
structures.
Subsequent to completion of the
extension drilling, the company
will concentrate on drilling within
the upper zone of the identified
JORC (2012) resource area,
before moving on to a Phase Two
programme, targeting key areas
within the high-grade zone of the
inferred resource to increase resource
confidence levels.
Following an intensive process
conducted over six weeks, Europa’s
new geological team has successfully
relogged all priority intersections
f rom the historical drill core stored
at the National Litoteca, located in
Andalucía, Spain.
In summary, the key work
undertaken was as follows:
• A focus on the highest grade
and structurally important drill
holes;
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Relogging of the entirety
on-site team, drilling will commence.
of each historical drill hole
The first phase drill programme is
incorporating characteristics
highly focused on establishing the
within the limestones and
presence of the hosting structure
slates within the new database
and possible further mineralisation
(previously the information
outside of the main Toral project
only covered the mineralised
area. We then plan to initiate a
envelope), which has served
further campaign to add value to
to provide valuable data on
our ongoing scoping study work by
weathering profiles;
drilling within the known resource
• Lithology and structural
envelope,” says Campion. Laurence
controls; and
Read, executive director of Europa
• Extensive specific gravity
Metals, says the Europa Metals
measurements taken within
team has performed to a very high
the mineralised envelope and
standard. b
country rock to contrast with
those previously taken, and
utilised, within
the maiden JORC
(2012) resource
estimate.
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According to Myles
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Campion, executive/
technical director at
Europa, the team is
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currently assessing
the data sets. “Our
• Local design & manufacture of Water Chillers and
enhanced understanding
specialised cooling systems.
of the host structure is
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Locally ma nufactured : 800W to 75kW
already informing future
» Extended range
: 90kW to 280kW
workflows and targets
• Customised / special chillers on request
for the company,” says
• Preferred supplier of chillers for laboratories and
Campion. Campion adds
analytical industry
that the Toral lead-zinc-
• Temperature controllers (water to water & air to water)
silver project’s scoping
• Industrial drinking water coolers
study, which is being
conducted by Addison
• Demo, second hand & hire chillers available
Mining Services, remains
• Standard and salt water shell / tube condensers and
on schedule and to
evaporators
budget.
• Extensive spares holding to support chiller range
“The combination drill
• After sales technical support & maintenance
rig has been mobilised to
• Network of preferred / authorised agents countrywide
Toral on schedule; once
and selected African countries
all the requisite checks
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have been completed by
the operators and our
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