Senegal

摘要

Carnegie Minerals PLC has found heavy mineral (HM) intersections in their project area in Senegal. The mineral sands producer said the results were received from heavy mineral drilling analysis of 718 drill samples from three drilling lines. These lines represent 1,311 line metres of drilling, or 34 percent of the southern area of the licence, and 16 percent of the total 8,000 line metres of drilling undertaken over both the southern and northern areas. The mineralised intersections are thicker than previously encountered in the project area and about 84 percent of the drilling results are still to be processed (see /A/I April '07, p.77). Carnegie is planning to commission an environmental impact study to convert this exploration area to a mining title so that mining can start early in 2009. Australia's Mineral Deposits Ltd will spend about 180 million dollars. in Senegal developing the Grande Cote Zircon project after agreeing with the Senegal government to begin mining zircon from the country's coastal sands.