ASX: SKY
ASX ANNOUNCEMENT
25 July 2022
only | Quarterly activities report to 30 JUNE 2022 | |
HIGHLIGHTS | ||
Tallebung TIN Project | ||
use | Drilling of 12 RC holes for a total of 2,213m and 1 diamond drillhole for a total of 150.2m | |
at the Tallebung Tin Target intercepted broad bulk tonnage tin mineralisation. | ||
Assays received during the quarter included: | ||
TBD002: | 60.2m @ 0.54% tin & 40.4g/t silver from 12.8m, including; | |
15m @ 1.17% tin & 150.3g/t silver from 58m | ||
TBRC021: | 25m @ 0.14% tin from 124m, including; | |
1m @ 1.57% tin from 124m |
These results have continued to significantly expand the potential of Tallebung as a bulk tonnage tin resource.
- Metallurgical testwork of a simple gravity circuit has commenced - samples sent to TOMRA ore sorting for beneficiation before being sent for gravity concentration testwork aiming to produce a saleable cassiterite concentrate.
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- Assays received for the diamond drilling program completed in the March quarter at 3KEL-Doradilla - 3 holes were completed for a total of 697.8m. Results included:
For | 3KDD018: | 81m | @ 0.48% tin from 5m, including; |
26m | @ 1.04% tin from 45m | ||
3KDD016: | 18m | @ 0.20% tin from 185m | |
3KDD017: | 5m @ 3.21% zinc from 207.7m, | ||
10.6m @ 0.09% tin from 228m |
- A large infill and extensional RC drilling program to rapidly advance the 3KEL Target has now commenced and will proceed into the September quarter.
SKY METALS LIMITED
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The Board of Sky Metals Limited ('SKY' or 'The Company') is pleased to provide a Quarterly Activities Report outlining SKY's advanced exploration program during the June 2022 quarter.
September 2022 Quarter - Proposed work Program
only | Further RC drilling at the 3KEL Target, Doradilla Tin-polymetallic Project |
Evaluation of the tin mineralisation and oxide copper potential at the 3KEL Target | |
| RC and diamond drilling at the Tallebung Tin Project targeting further shallow bulk tonnage tin resources |
| Further metallurgical work on the 3KEL Target and Tallebung Target |
Tallebung project: Tin (EL 6699, SKY 100%)
Tallebung Target - RC Drilling
useIn the March quarter, SKY completed nine of eleven planned RC holes and one redrilled hole, ten holes altogether, for a total
of 1,217m, at the historic Tallebung Tin Mine. This drilling was designed to test for further up dip, shallow bulk tonnage tin mineralisation. Assays for the first four holes in the program were received in the March quarter. The assays for the final six holes were received in the June quarter with all holes successfully intercepting strong broad tin mineralisation.
Mineralisation at Tallebung is geologically interpreted to be hosted in four broad subparallel east dipping lodes named Lode
A, B, C and D from east to west respectively. TBRC015 was planned to intercept down plunge extensions to the broad tin personalmineralisation intercepted in TBRC006 and identified as being 'Lode C' (Figure 1). Due to drilling difficulties, TBRC015 was ended
prematurely before passing entirely through Lode C, however, the hole did intercept mineralisation interpreted to be associated with the subparallel and overlying Lode B. Results included:
TBRC015:
TBRC016 was targeted to test up dip extensions to the mineralisation in Lode C and infill in an area of only very wide spaced and shallow historic drilling. This hole confirmed the continuation of broad tin mineralisation in an up-dip position on Lode C, results included:
TBRC016:
TBRC017 was over 80m south of TBRC016 and above the historic hole DDH16. This was also to test up dip extensions to the Formineralisation in Lode C and infill in a region of only very wide spaced and shallow historic drilling. This hole also confirmed
the continuation of broad tin mineralisation in an up-dip position on Lode C, results included:
TBRC017:
TBRC018 was targeted to test the continuity and up dip extensions to the broad tin mineralisation in the centre of the identified mineralisation where little to no drilling has been completed within 100m of TBRC018. Drilling difficulties resulted in the hole being abandoned before reaching the planned depth, however, the hole did confirm the continuation of broad tin mineralisation through the centre of the Tallebung Tin Target, results included:
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TBRC018:
onlyDrilling difficulties resulted in TBRC019 being abandoned at only 78m due to extreme hole deviation, over 70m short of the planned end of hole at 150m. TBRC025 was then drilled from the same pad to attempt to reach the target designed for TBRC019. TBRC025 also encountered similar extreme hole deviation which resulted in the hole also being abandoned prematurely at 90m, 60m short of the planned end of hole. Both holes were targeted to test along strike and up-dip extensions to the mineralisation by infilling in a region with no historic drilling within 100m (Figure 1).
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Figure 1: Tallebung Target - Plan view with drill hole collars and significant intercepts. Recent results are in yellow and RC holes are
yellow (TBRC030-35) - assays are pending for these holes.
TBRC019/25 confirmed the continuation and extension of broad tin mineralisation through the centre of the Tallebung Tin Target, results included:
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TBRC019:
TBRC025:
onlyIn the June quarter, initial six RC drillholes, TBRC020-21 and TBRC026-29, for a total of 1,110m were completed at Tallebung to infill the large extensions to the tin mineralisation intercepted by the RC program during the previous quarter. Assays have been received for one of the six holes drilled, TBRC021, which confirms the tin mineralisation has successfully been extended. Results include:
use | TBRC021: | 4m @ 0.35% tin & 0.04% tungsten from 42m, including; |
1m @ 1.23% tin & 0.07% tungsten from 42m. | ||
25m @ 0.14% tin from 124m including; | ||
8m @ 0.36% tin & 0.07% tungsten from 124m, including; | ||
1m @ 1.57% tin from 124m. | ||
Another six infill and extension RC drillholes, TBRC030-35, were then completed at Tallebung to continue to expand the | ||
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broad footprint of bulk tonnage mineralisation and to increase confidence in the bulk tonnage tin mineralisation intercepted in previous drilling (Figure 1).
Tallebung Target - Diamond Drilling
During the quarter a large diameter PQ diamond drillhole, TBD002, was completed at Tallebung to provide samples for further metallurgical test work. This hole was orientated perpendicular to previous drilling and subparallel to the mineralisation to intercept as much of the mineralisation as possible to provide as much sample as possible for bulk metallurgical test work (Figure 2). Assay results were received in the quarter and include:
TBD002:
ForThe shallow high-grade tin mineralisation intercepted in TBD002 demonstrates the strong potential for near surface open pit tin mineralisation at Tallebung. Two possible post mineralisation faults were observed in the hole and SKY plans to drill additional diamond drillholes with orientated core to continue to further develop the geological and structural controls on the mineralisation at Tallebung in the September quarter.
Tallebung Target - Metallurgical Testwork
In the previous quarter, a sample of the Tallebung tin mineralisation was sent to TOMRA Ore Sorting Solutions in Sydney. The sample was sorted on approximately a 25:75 product to waste ratio. Assays from this work showed an almost quadrupling of the grade with +90% recovery for both tin and tungsten (Table 1). These trial results were extremely encouraging for the
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application of ore sorting at Tallebung. Samples taken from the wide-diameter diamond hole, TBD002, have now been sorted by TOMRA during the June quarter to build on these very excellent, early trial results.
Table 1 - Tallebung Tin-Tungsten Project, Tallebung Target. Collar summary for drill holes.
only | Commodity | Sample | Weights | Feed | Sort | Sort Ratio | Recovery | Upgrade | ||||||||||||||||||
Grade | Grade | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tin | Product 1 | 2.98 | 0.19% | 0.70% | 26:74 | 96% | 3.74 | |||||||||||||||||||
Waste 1 | 8.62 | 0.19% | 0.01% | 74:26 | 4% | 0.05 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Tungsten | Product 1 | 2.98 | 0.02% | 0.06% | 26:74 | 90% | 3.50 | |||||||||||||||||||
Waste 1 | 8.62 | 0.02% | 0.002% | 74:26 | 10% | 0.14 | ||||||||||||||||||||
useThe sorted products from TOMRA will now be sent to ALS Burnie to test a conventional, simple gravity concentration circuit to produce a saleable concentrate from the tin mineralisation at Tallebung. Tin mineralisation at Tallebung is hosted as coarse cassiterite (tin-oxide) indicating favourable concentration by traditional gravity methods, most likely to be after preconcentration via ore sorting. A wide-diameter diamond hole has been planned for the June quarter to provide sample for further metallurgical testing of the Tallebung mineralisation.
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Figure 2: Tallebung Target - Cross-section of TBD002 and significant intercepts. Recent holes are in yellow.
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