And yet the share price goes down. If there's one thing I truly understand about this market it's that "I will never truly understand it"
Cheers Ralph
Twin Hills - Texas Silver Project
MACMIN LIMITED 2002-09-06 ASX-SIGNAL-G
HOMEX - Brisbane
+++++++++++++++++++++++++ * Twin Hills silver system (Texas Silver Project), based on anomalous surface silver geochemistry, more than doubled in size to 2.6kms in length, and is still open to the south and southeast.
* Phase 2 drilling completed at proposed Twin Hills silver mine with the discovery of additional silver/gold mineralisation.
Surface exploration has substantially increased the potential silver mineralised system at Twin Hills. This is a very encouraging development and doubles the size of the previously known area which will be explored for silver at Twin Hills. Extensive additional drilling will be required in the future to determine if economic grades of silver occur in this extended zone.
Soil sampling which located the extended zone was undertaken as part of the ongoing exploration program to locate further silver mineralisation in the Texas area. Approximately 300 samples of 'B' horizon soil were collected and analysed by ALS-Chemex Laboratory in Brisbane for silver, gold, copper, lead, zinc, bismuth, molybdenum, antimony and arsenic.
A coherent silver, gold, antimony anomaly was defined, extending in excess of 1.5km south from the Twin Hills Mine lease and up to 400m in width. Maximum silver in soil value was 19.8g/t. The anomaly, named "Twin Hills South", is still open to the south and east. The silver values in soil at Twin Hills South are of slightly lower values than in the high outcrop area of Twin Hills but this is as expected as Twin Hills South is largely soil covered with very limited outcrop. The enclosed Plan shows the geochemical anomaly and its relationship to the original silver anomaly at Twin Hills and to the historical Silver Spur Mine. The position of the proposed Phase 1 pit is included for scale.
Phase 2 drilling to extend and upgrade drill Indicated Resources and Reserves has been successful. The drilling located a new zone of silver mineralisation on the eastern side of the pit (Technical Report, 30th June 2002 to ASX), beneath the eastern pit wall. This zone extends 100m north-south centered on section 4175N. Drill intersections of the higher grade mineralisation (cut off 60g/t silver), beneath the floor of the Phase 1 pit such as 22m at 109g/t silver between 100 and 122m downhole in hole THR 17 (co-ords 4167N, 2584E) and 14m at 115g/t silver between 74 and 88m downhole in hole THR (co-ords 4151N, 2551E) show that silver mineralisation also continues at depth.
Section 4175N is enclosed to visually illustrate this extended zone of silver mineralisation in relation to the original Phase 1 pit outline, and to a possible new conceptual pit outline. The new conceptual pit will allow access to both deeper mineralisation, referred to above, and to the, eastern mineralisation. A re-calculation of Indicated Resources within Phase 1 and Phase 2 zones should be completed by early October and new Reserves later in October. Reserves will require pit optimisation by our engineering consultants before being finalised.
Drilling is planned to continue throughout the last quarter and will continue to target the Phase 3 zone at Twin Hills followed by, Twin Hills South, Mt Gunyan and other possible silver epithermal systems at Fenceline, Back Creek North and Branch Creek Prospects.
Colour copies of the Twin Hills plan and section 4175N are available on our web site at www.macmin.com.au.
R D McNeil MANAGING DIRECTOR
This report is based on & accurately reflects information compiled by a competent person as defined in Appendix 5A of the ASX Listing Rules
A copy of the full announcement including the maps is available in PDF format on www.asx.com.au. Alternatively it is available for purchase from ASX Customer Service on 1 300 300 279.
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