Ord River Resources appoints SRK Consulting for JORC reporting...

Ord River Resources appoints SRK Consulting for JORC reporting at Lao Bauxite

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 by John Phillips

Ord River Resources (ASX: ORD) and partner have appointed the globally respected SRK Consulting to produce a JORC Mineral Resources on two tenements at Lao Bauxite.

Work will kick off almost immediately, with SRK travelling to China next week with Sino Australian Resources (Laos) (SARCO) contractor Sinomine Resource Exploration Co (Sinomine).

The consultants will then visit Sinomine?s labs in China for resource analysis work, with Sinomine already completing an extensive major field work program including 2,000 drill holes for 16,000 meters.
Highlighting that the project continues to move forward quickly, resource modelling has already commenced by Sinomine along with calculation work in compliance with China?s resource estimation standard.

SRK will develop supporting documentation that will allow SARCO to publish a Mineral Resource in accordance with JORC.
Currently SARCO has a 130 million tonne JORC Indicated Resource of high quality gibbsitic bauxite.

Based on the extensive drilling by Sinomine since March 2010, Ord River said it is confident of a substantial new Mineral Resource, which will further strengthen SARCO?s resolve to build a 600,000 tonne plus annual capacity alumina refinery.

Ord River's partner at Lao Bauxite is China Nonferrous Metal Industry?s Foreign Engineering and Construction Co (NFC).