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Amur Minerals builds ice road early to ready for 2017 drilling

Published: 07:39 13 Mar 2017 GMT

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Ice road has been built earlier than normal

Amur Minerals Corporation (LON:AMC) has completed the 350km ice road to its Kun-Manie site in Far East Russia and started to re-stock for the summer drilling season.

Robin Young, chief executive, said it had built the ice road earlier than normal this year due to the large amount of supplies to be delivered to Kun –Manie.

''We are on schedule and anticipate the successful completion of the full resupply of the site. This is of course weather dependent and the current -4 to -7 C temperatures work in our favour. 

“The current supply inventory level on site already allows for us to complete about 8,000 metres of diamond core drilling. 

“With the delivery of the water well drill rig to site, the current inventory of supplies will cover our planned hydrological drill programme."

Amur Minerals has already defined more than one million tonnes of nickel at its Kun-Manie project in Far East Russia, which is enough to produce 40,000 to 60,000 nickel tonnes a year.

This summer, it will drill  to boost existing inferred resources to the more certain indicated category and find more metal. Exploration will focus on the Ikenskoe/Sobolevsky (IKEN) and Kubuk (KUB) targets.

Three of eight planned convoys have arrived ahead of the 15,000 metres drill programme.

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