VRX Silica Ltd (ASX:VRX) has lodged an application for its second silica sand mining lease at its Muchea Silica Sand Project located 50 kilometres north of Perth in Western Australia.
The mining lease application includes 92% of the 191 million tonnes at 99.6% silica JORC resource released in November 2018.
Notably, this resources is expected to increase with deeper drilling as opposed to the hand-auger sampling previously undertaken to estimate the resource.
VRX has two silica sand projects in Western Australia and last month it lodged its first mining lease application for its other project, the Arrowsmith Silica Sand Project.
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VRX Silica’s managing director Bruce Maluish said: “This application for a mining lease at Muchea is a very extensive application of nearly 3,000 hectares and covers the prospective Resource for very long-term future mining.
“Significant environmental studies have already been undertaken and will be finalised to lodge an application for a mining permit as soon as possible this year.”
A third and final application at Arrowsmith Central is to be lodged imminently to complete the silica sand project applications.