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RNS Number : 5100O  Strategic Minerals PLC  03 December 2024

 
 

3 December 2024

Strategic Minerals plc

("Strategic Minerals", "SML" or the "Company")

Cornwall Resources Limited - Redmoor Project Update

Strategic Minerals plc (AIM: SML; USOTC: SMCDY), a producing mineral company,
is pleased to update shareholders on news from its 100% owned subsidiary
Cornwall Resources Limited ("CRL").  CRL is continuing to develop the Redmoor
Project ("Redmoor" or the "Project") through a process of relogging and
sampling of its existing diamond drill core, and other exploration and project
activities.

Highlights:

·    Historical Redmoor core relogging now >50% completed with latest
results expected early in 2025, following shipment of new samples for analysis
- process remains ongoing and is expected to lead to both an updated
geological model & ultimately a revised new mineral resource.

·    Soil sampling program underway within the highly prospective Duchy of
Cornwall - Tamar Valley Licence Area, designed to generate further exploration
targets.

·    EU Strategic Projects application planned to commence during 2025 to
further spotlight  Redmoor as being a resource of EU Strategic Raw Materials:
Tungsten & Copper.

·    CRL team exhibiting at the Resourcing Tomorrow conference in London
on 3 to 5 December forming part of the Cornwall Pavillion.

Commenting, Mark Burnett, Executive Director, said:

"The publication of the new UK 2024 Criticality Assessment, and the continued
inclusion of tungsten and tin on the critical minerals list has highlighted
the value proposition presented at Redmoor .

"Following a recent site visit, I am pleased to report that relogging and
other exploration activities continue, with planning well underway for the
2025 exploration programme. SML will look to increase activity at CRL and
pursue a number of strategic project applications now open to Redmoor."

CRL Project Updates:

Resourcing Tomorrow

CRL confirms its Project Manager, Dennis Rowland, and Senior Geologist, Rowan
Thorne, will attend the Resourcing Tomorrow conference in London on 3 to 5
December.  CRL will join representatives from the other southwest-based
mining companies in the Cornwall Pavillion, supported by the Cornwall Mining
Alliance and Cornwall Trade and Investment.  This will form the largest
regional grouping at the conference, highlighting Cornwall's significant
potential to be a critical minerals cluster for the UK.  CRL looks forward to
highlighting Redmoor's potential to be a future supply of Critical Minerals.

Redmoor Project - Re-Logging and Sampling of CRL Drill core

CRL is pleased to confirm the completion of relogging and sampling of its 2018
drill core, representing boreholes CRD021-CRD032.  This week a further batch
of 167 samples were shipped to ALS Loughrea, Ireland for analysis, with
results expected in early 2025.

To-date 7,375m of diamond drill core have been relogged (CRL's 2018 drill
core), with 7,022m remaining (CRL's 2017 drill core).  A total of 340
samples, representing 485.57m of new sample length have been collected from
these holes to date.  This represents an average increase of 11% to the total
number of samples taken per hole: adding additional data and identifying
further mineralised sections.  Previously reported results confirmed that
CRL's drillholes contain additional zones of mineralisation at Redmoor from
those previously reported, as extensions or additional mineralised zones
within the Redmoor sheeted vein system ("SVS") and new intercepts outside of
the SVS.

Coupled with new sampling and reviews of other relevant datasets, this
programme is expected to lead to an updated geological model for Redmoor and
the potential for an update to Redmoor's JORC (2012) compliant Mineral
Resource Estimate.  These tasks will be reviewed and then undertaken
following completion of the re-logging and sampling campaign.  The process is
currently over 50% complete and continues to advance at pace.

Further to the batch of diamond drill core samples sent to ALS Loughrea, CRL
has collected and sent an additional 13 rock and grab samples from historical
exploration targets to the west of the Redmoor Project, with the objective of
confirming additional mineralisation within the area.

Tamar Valley Licence Area - Soil Sampling Program

CRL has commenced a soil sampling program across its historically mined and
highly prospective Tamar Valley Licence Area, with samples collected from
previously unexplored and unsampled targets within the Duchy of Cornwall
licenced mineral rights. Sampling and reconnaissance mapping will continue
within the Tamar Valley Licence Area throughout 2025, with the aim to identify
further potential targets for follow-up detailed exploration.

EU Strategic Projects Application

CRL plans to apply to the EU for Strategic Project status for the Redmoor
Project in 2025, as designated under the EU Critical Raw Materials Act.  This
will highlight and promote the Redmoor Project's significant resource as EU
designated "Strategic Raw Minerals": Tungsten and Copper.  This aligns to
CRL's efforts to promote internationally, and to UK partners, the strategic
nature of the Redmoor Project's Tungsten-Tin-Copper resource.  To undertake
this process, Redmoor's JORC (2012) compliant Mineral Resource Estimate will
be additionally classified under the UN Framework Classification for
Resources.

This process follows similar, and ongoing, efforts to promote the Project's
strategic nature to the United States.  Both the EU and USA have been heavily
reliant on supply of tungsten from uncertain supply sources, including Russia
and China, which combined control ~85% of global tungsten supply.

Governmental Engagement

CRL continues to actively engage with various elements of the UK and US
Government departments, including the Department for Business and Trade, as
the increasing importance of critical and strategic minerals is being
recognised.  A visit from an attaché at the US Embassy in the UK (US
Department of State) also took place this month as part of a wider
Cornwall-focussed fact-finding trip.  CRL continues to engage with Government
to highlight the strategic importance of Redmoor, and the need for support in
establishing domestic production of certain UK Critical Minerals.

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Notes to Editors:

 

Strategic Minerals plc is an AIM-quoted, producing minerals company, actively
developing strategic projects in the UK, United States and Australia. In
September 2011, Strategic Minerals acquired the distribution rights to the
Cobre magnetite project in New Mexico, USA, through its wholly owned
subsidiary Southern Minerals Group. Cobre has been in production since 2012
and continues to provide a sustainable revenue stream for the Company.

About Cornwall Resources
Limited
       https://www.cornwallresources.com
(https://www.cornwallresources.com)

 

Cornwall Resources Limited ("CRL") is a wholly owned subsidiary of Strategic
Minerals Limited ("SML") (AIM: SML; USOTC: SMCDY). SML bought into CRL in
2016, and in 2019 completed the purchase of the project.  CRL is focussed on
advancing the high-grade, underground Redmoor Tungsten-Tin-Copper Project,
through a current relogging and sampling campaign of CRL drillcore, and work
towards securing further funding to advance Redmoor, as well as exploring its
significant and highly prospective minerals rights licence areas in east
Cornwall, Southwest England.

CRL through mineral rights agreements, with Redmoor Minerals Limited, The
Duchy of Cornwall, and a third mineral rights owner, has exclusive access to a
mineral rights operating area of 91.67 km² in the highly prospective and
historically mined Tamar Valley Mining District.  CRL is undertaking regional
and targeted exploration activities to develop critical minerals resources.

The Redmoor Project is situated within the historically significant Tamar
Valley Mining District, yet the sheeted vein system ("SVS") which forms the
basis of CRL's inferred resource is unmined.  CRL's most recent,
JORC-compliant, Inferred Mineral Resource Estimate ("MRE") for Redmoor
utilised a comprehensive archive of historical data and combined this with
information from the completion of two exploration campaigns, in 2017 and
2018, which encompassed 32 drillholes for 14,000m of diamond core drilling.

JORC Compliant (2012) Inferred MRE published 14 February 2019, as summarised
below:

 Cut-off (SnEq%)          Tonnage (Mt)  WO(3)  Sn    Cu    Sn Eq(1)  WO(3) Eq

                                        %      %     %     %         %
 >0.45 <0.65              1.50          0.18   0.21  0.30  0.58      0.41
 >0.65                    10.20         0.62   0.16  0.53  1.26      0.88
 Total Inferred Resource  11.70         0.56   0.16  0.50  1.17      0.82

1 Equivalent metal calculation notes; Sn(Eq)% = Sn%*1 + WO3%*1.43 + Cu%*0.40.
WO(3)(EQ)% = SN%*0.7+ WO(3)+Cu%*0.28. Commodity price assumptions: WO3 US$
33,000/t, Sn US$ 22,000/t, Cu US$ 7,000/t. Recovery assumptions: total WO3
recovery 72%, total Sn recovery 68% & total Cu recovery 85% and payability
assumptions of 81%, 90% and 90% respectively

Based on this high-grade resource, an updated Scoping Study, published in 2020
shows that Redmoor has potentially economic viability as a new, underground
mine.  Subject to receipt of necessary funding, CRL has in place all
necessary permissions for drill programs for further significant exploration
of the Redmoor Tungsten-Tin-Copper resource, with the aim of advancing the
project into prefeasibility study.

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