Exploration News - Murchison Metals
Murchison Metals has initiated a scoping study on its 100%-owned Rocklea iron ore project located between the towns of Tom Price and Paraburdoo in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. In February 2009, Murchison estimated a maiden inferred mineral resource at Rocklea of 100 million mt grading 59%
calcined iron. Since that time, an RC drilling program has been completed focusing on the eastern part of the project, where the maiden resource was identified, and work has now begun on a 14-hole PQ3 diamond drilling program. This work has identified a continuous higher-grade zone that will be modeled separately from the total resource.
Murchison’s scoping study of the Rocklea project will consider mining, metallurgical, economic, marketing, legal, environmental, social, and governmental factors and is planned for completion by the fourth quarter of 2009. (www.mml.net.au)