Modern Mining November 2016

MINING News

The bulk sampling plant at Montepuez has been fully commissioned (photo: Mustang).

very important distinguishing factor of the Alpha deposit.” Mustang also holds interests in the Save

the Mustang concession boundaries. “The September quarter was a highly productive period for Mustang at both a corporate and operational level, high- lighted by the commencement of our bulk sampling at the Montepuez ruby project in Mozambique,” comments Mustang’s MD, Christiaan Jordaan.“As reported post quar- ter end, the company was very pleased to recover 460,43 carats of high quality rubies from our bulk sampling start-up phase, with recoveries anticipated to increase in the comingmonths as production is scaled up to circa 350 m 3 per day. “During a site visit in July 2016, Mr Vincent Pardieu, an independent gemolo- gist with the GIA (Gemological Institute of America), confirmed Mustang’s rubies are high-quality and equivalent to other sec- ondary deposits mined in the region – a

River diamond and Balama graphite proj- ects, also in Mozambique, but Montepuez ranks at its flagship. 

Birimian concludes agreement with Morila ASX-listed Birimian Limited says it has entered into an agreement with Société des Mines de Morila (Morila) that could lead to the commercialisation of several of its gold deposits within its Massigui gold project in Southern Mali.

to acquire an ‘Area of Interest’ within the project. The Massigui gold project surrounds the Morila mine lease on three sides and covers strike extensions of the highly prospective geological sequence that hosts the 7 Moz Morila gold deposit. Birimian has made significant gold dis- coveries at three prospects, namely Ntiola, Viper and Koting. These prospects are situated in close proximity to the under- utilised 4 Mt/a Morila treatment plant. Over 35 000 m of drilling has been completed on the project to date. 

According to Birimian, this agreement provides a potential low risk, low cost pro- cessing solution for these deposits, whilst the company retains the significant upside potential for further gold discoveries in the broader project area. Under the terms of the agreement, Morila has been granted a six-month option

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