Pacifico phase 2 drilling leads to updated PFS
Published 27-MAY-2019 12:28 P.M.
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Pacifico Minerals Ltd (ASX:PMY) has commenced its 6000 metre phase II infill and expansion drilling program at its Sorby Hills Lead-Silver-Zinc Joint Venture project in Western Australia.
Pacifico owns a 75% interest in the Joint Venture with the remaining 25% interest held by Henan Yuguang Gold and Lead, the largest lead smelting company and silver producer in China.
The current drilling program follows the highly successful phase I drilling campaign, and aims to increase indicated resources, while also gathering geotechnical information for pit designs and samples for further metallurgical test work.
Discussing the company’s achievements to date and the upcoming drilling campaign, Pacifico’s managing director, Simon Noon said, “Following the exceptional results of the Phase I drilling program, we are excited to undertake follow-up drilling.
“This drilling program represents another significant investment by Pacifico and Henan Yuguang and aims to move a portion of the resource to an Ore Reserve to enable planning for a future mining operation - 2019 is the most important and exciting year in the company’s history.”
Phase I drilling underpinned an updated MRE and PFS with highly positive results including high grade lead equivalent intercepts of more than 10 metres at multiple drill holes.
Pacifico consistently struck high grade silver, indicating that the group should benefit from silver credits, potentially driving down production costs of a lead-focused operation.
Following Phase II, a further Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) update will be carried out to support an optimised Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) by the December quarter of 2019 ahead of completion of a Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS) in 2020.
Transition from multiple orebodies to single deposit
Phase I drilling results confirmed that C, DE, and F deposits as outlined below are linked and can now be referred to as a single deposit with a strike length of 1.7 kilometres.
In addition, the Phase I drilling results underpinned updates to the MRE and PFS.
The updated MRE completed in March 2019 resulted in a 123% increase in the tonnage of Indicated Resources to 10.8 million tonnes of 5.0% lead equivalent.
As indicated below, the updated PFS confirmed that Sorby Hills is a high-quality, high-margin base metals project and is strongly positioned for development.
Multiple near-term share price catalysts
As well as the consistent return of assays from drilling results between June and July, Pacifico is also undertaking metallurgical test work, ore sorting and optimisation studies, the results of which could point to improved commercial viability regarding the Sorby Hills Project.
The results of these initiatives may well provide share price momentum during that period.
In the December half of 2019, the updated Mineral Resource Estimate could have a significant impact on the company’s share price, and given that the optimised prefeasibility study may indicate improved financial outcomes, it is also an event to monitor.
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