Suvo Strategic Minerals Ltd (ASX:SUV) has completed a maiden JORC-compliant kaolinised granite resource for its producing Pittong Operations in Victoria, returning 3.74 million indicated tonnes and 1.97 million inferred tonnes for a total of 5.69 million tonnes.
This resource is projected to yield 1.97 million tonnes of bright white kaolin with an ISO brightness of 80.51 and bleached ISO Brightness of 83.61, under 45 micrometres (45μm) in size.
Pittong mine is wholly-owned by a subsidiary of Suvo and just 2 kilometres from the Pittong processing facilities, which produce about 25,000 tonnes per annum of refined kaolin products.
“Very important milestone”
“The conversion of the Pittong mine from PERC (European standard) to JORC 2012 compliance is a very important milestone in the company’s development, which will support the company’s asset revitalisation and plans to increase mining and plant output,” Suvo Minerals executive chair Robert Martin said.
“The resource allows us to fast track our future development strategies as these results provide certainty around our life of mine.
“We are also reviewing our Trawalla deposit which holds a further 12.7 million tonnes of kaolinised granite and how this can be incorporated into these strategies.”
The Trawalla deposit has the potential to yield another 3.5 million tonnes of bright white kaolin with ISO Brightness 80.8 and bleached ISO Brightness 83.7, also under 45 micrometres in size.
About Suvo Strategic Minerals
Suvo Strategic Minerals is a dual-commodity Australian mining company focused on the development of its 100% owned White Knight Kaolin Project in the Yilgarn Craton in the central wheat belt and its 100% owned Nova Silica Project located in the Gin Gin Scarp near the township of Eneabba, both within Western Australia.
Suvo catapulted into producer status when it acquired the Pittong Kaolin operations from an Imerys subsidiary, becoming the only hydrous kaolin producer in the country.