Company
Titanium Sands Ltd
ASX:TSL
Titanium Sands Limited, through its local partners Orion Minerals (Private) Limited, Sanur Minerals (pvt) Ltd and Kilsythe Investments (Private) Limited are developing a high grade, high value and easily mineable heavy mineral sands project at Mannar Island, Sri Lanka. The Mannar island project has been highlighted in a recent scoping study as being a significant mineral sand asset with 345Mt @ 5.02% identified with a NPV of $545m.
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Titanium Sands chalks out plan for solid activities in 2021 as it looks to boost operation after easing of COVID-19 restrictions
The company’s operation in the CY2020 was impacted heavily with COVID-19 restrictions and issues, however, it achieved some milestones and formed a solid base on which to work from in 2021 and beyond once the restrictions are lifted.
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Titanium Sands focused on moving environmentally-friendly mineral sands project to next phase to benefit Mannar Island
Whilst the year was impacted heavily with COVID-19 restrictions and issues, it achieved some milestones in its growth and formed a solid base on which to work from in 2021 and beyond once COVID-19 restrictions are lifted.
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Titanium Sands adds garnet to resource estimate for Sri Lankan heavy mineral sands project
More detailed scoping study results are expected to be released to the market once a resource upgrade is finalised.
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Titanium Sands working in Sri Lanka within guidelines of granted exploration licences
The company has provided responses to incorrect media reporting regarding its Mannar Island heavy mineral sands project.
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Titanium Sands in trading halt ahead of Mannar Island Project update
The Mannar Island Project is on a 26-kilometre long by 5-kilometre wide sand island joined to the Sri Lankan mainland by a road and rail causeway.
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Titanium Sands robust scoping study shows potential for large HMS dredging project at Mannar Island
The project is on a 26-kilometre long by 5-kilometre wide sand island joined to the Sri Lankan mainland by a road and rail causeway.
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Titanium Sands surges after tripling total heavy minerals resource at Mannar Island
The new resource of 264.93 million tonnes at 4.38% THM “makes a very long-life large-tonnage dredge mining operation a serious consideration”.
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Titanium Sands in trading halt ahead of resource update from Mannar Island Project
The update will include deeper reverse circulation aircore drilling results with some aspects of the work having been delayed by COVID-19 interruptions to laboratory operations.
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Titanium Sands set to complete Mannar Island resource update next month
The company’s drilling team and geologist in Sri Lanka are ready to begin a 500-hole RC aircore resource extension drilling program when local COVID-19 workplace restrictions are lifted.
Titanium Sands extends Mannar Island scoping study timeline due to COVID-19 restrictions
Work on the scoping study is well advanced and can be completed quickly after receiving the upgraded resource estimate.
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Titanium Sands completes purchase of Bright Angel, expands Mannar Island tenements
The company expects another mineral resource update and completion of the scoping study in the coming months.
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Titanium Sands assays confirm THM depth resource potential at Sri Lankan project, shares up
An upgraded mineral resource estimate will be finalised once the mineralogical studies underway have been completed.
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Titanium Sands' results demonstrate THM depth potential at Mannar Island
Assays from another 243 drill holes show that under at least 18 square kilometres of the shallow Domain-1 resource area, THM concentrations of 2 to 6% consistently occur down to at least 10-11 metres below surface.
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Titanium Sands assays confirm depth resource potential at Sri Lankan heavy mineral sands project
The Mannar Island project has power, road and rail infrastructure, is backed by a government supportive of foreign investment and is ideally situated for product export to Asian markets.
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Titanium Sands upgrades mineral sands resource, shares rise
Notably, 66% of the total resource is now in the higher definition indicated JORC resource category.
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Titanium Sands shareholders to vote on Bright Angel Limited acquisition in February 2020
Bright Angel holds a 38 square kilometre tenure package on Mannar Island in Sri Lanka which hosts a heavy mineral sands JORC resource.
Titanium Sands continues to progress acquisition of high-grade tenure at Mannar Island
A drilling program has been completed on time and on budget and samples have been prepared to be sent to the laboratory in South Africa.
Titanium Sands recruits CPS Capital Group as advisor as it awaits OK to call acquisition vote
If the acquisition goes through, the company will have increased its heavy mineral sands resources eight times over in a year.
Titanium Sands visual drill results show mineral extensions at depth
Results from the first stage of depth and lateral extension drilling have been very positive.
Titanium Sands concludes due diligence on acquisition of high-grade tenure at Mannar Island
Upon shareholder approval of the acquisition, Mannar Island Project will have a combined high-grade inferred resource of 85 million tonnes at 6.96% total heavy minerals.
Titanium Sands defines high-grade THM resource on acquisition tenure at Mannar Island
The resource is exposed at surface with no overburden and extends continuously for a strike of 8 kilometres with an average width of 2 kilometres.
Titanium Sands in trading halt ahead of a resource report
The company has entered into an agreement with Srinel Holdings Ltd to acquire a high-grade ilmenite-leucoxene project on Mannar Island in northwest Sri Lanka.
Titanium Sands returns high-grade THM at Mannar in Sri Lanka
The company confirmed continuity of mineralisation at the Sri Lankan project and flagged possible zones of extension.
Titanium Sands extends high-grade zone at acquisition tenure in Sri Lanka
Acquisition tenure resource report anticipated in the coming weeks.
Titanium Sands continues drilling at Sri Lankan HMS project aimed at growing resources
An initial mineral products quality review has indicated a wide range of potential markets for heavy mineral sand (HMS) products.
Titanium Sands extending heavy mineral sand tenure in Sri Lanka via acquisition
Following the acquisition, Titanium Sands’ tenure at the Mannar Island Project will expand to 204 square kilometres.
Titanium Sands in trading halt ahead of material project acquisition announcement
The company hopes to complete a scoping study for the Mannar Heavy Mineral Sands Project by the June quarter of 2020.
Titanium Sands drills mineral sands for scoping study at Sri Lankan project
The study is expected in the June half of 2020 and will be based on another resource update.
Titanium Sands drilling towards another resource update at Mannar
TSL reflects on a busy March quarter that featured a material resource upgrade at its heavy mineral sands project.
Titanium Sands preparing resource update at Sri Lankan mineral sands project
Results and details of analyses will be released in June 2019.