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ASX ANNOUNCEMENT
15 December 2021
Further Strong Visual Mineralisation at 3KEL - Doradilla
- The second hole (3KDD014) of the new drilling program at the 3KEL Target has been completed and intercepted 30-40m of potential tin-bearing Malayaite.
- 3KDD014 is drilled to extend mineralisation over 80m down dip from 3KRCD007:
3KRCD007: | 42m @ 0.41% tin from 37m including, |
7m @ 1.31% tin & 0.22% copper from 63m |
- The 3KEL Target is a large-scale,tin-polymetallic system and remains open at depth and along strike for over 2.5km.
- Diamond drilling is continuing, targeting expansions to the large tin-polymetallic target at 3KEL.
- Preliminary trial of the TOMRA XRT ore sorting technology has shown it can successfully be applied to 3KEL mineralisation, a bulk sample will be sent to TOMRA ore sorting for further testwork.
Core in UV light with tin-bearing malayaite fluorescing green. | Core in normal visible light. |
Figure 1: 3KEL Target -Diamond drill core from second hole 3KDD014, 182.39-182.55m DH. (Assays Pending)
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The Board of Sky Metals Limited ('SKY' or 'The Company') is pleased to provide an update on exploration activities at the 3KEL Tin-Polymetallic Target at the Doradilla Tin-Polymetallic project in NSW.
DORADILLA project: TIN- polymetallic (EL 6258, SKY 100%)
only3KEL Target - Diamond Drilling
The Second drill hole in the ongoing diamond drilling program at the large tin-polymetallic 3KEL Target has intercepted strong visual UV fluorescent potential tin mineralisation over at least a 30-40m interval from approximately 151-189m in 3KDD014 (Figure 1). This visual mineralisation represents an 80m extension down dip at depth of the large 3KEL Target below 3KRCD007 - assays are pending.
Malayaite, which is the mineral that hosts the tin mineralisation at 3KEL, has a rare property of fluorescing strongly under short wavelength UV light. This allows areas of potential tin mineralisation to be identified via UV fluorescence. The UV
usefluorescence recorded in 3KDD014 is a strong indication that the tin mineralisation continues 80m down dip below hole 3KRCD007, extending the mineralisation at 3KEL significantly at depth.
Drilling has already been completed on the next hole, 3KDD015, at 3KEL which will aim to extend the mineralisation to the southwest (Figure 2 and 3).
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Figure 2: 3KEL Target - Cross section of 3KRCD007 and 3KDD014 aimed at extending mineralisation down plunge at depth.
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3KDD015 is planned to further extend the strike to the southwest and test under a previous high-grade tin intercept from historic aircore drilling which intercepted 42m @ 1.46% tin from 0m (3KAC020). This hole is over 200m from any previous drilling by SKY and aims to further increase the strike at 3KEL. A large diameter hole is planned to be drilled in the vicinity of 3KRCD007 and 3KDD014 to provide sample for further metallurgical test work over the next few months (see below).
onlyDrilling will continue in the new year to expand the strike and depth extents of the 3KEL mineralisation and planning for an infill RC program planned for the new year has commenced.
3KEL Target - TOMRA Ore Sorting
TOMRA Sorting Solutions were engaged by SKY to conduct a preliminary ore sorting trial to assess the effectiveness of X-Ray Transmission (XRT) ore sorting on the tin mineralisation at 3KEL (SKY ASX Announcement 4 November 2021).
SKY provided samples to the TOMRA Sorting facility in Sydney, NSW in September with varying grades and grain sizes. The usesamples were imaged and classified by TOMRA's XRT ore sorter (Figure 3).
Preliminary results indicate XRT ore sorting can play an important role in upgrading lower grade material (<0.5% tin) to higher grades (>1%tin) ahead of further tin concentration.
The results of the trial CXRT ore sorting by TOMRA have shown potential for the XRT ore sorting to be applied to the 3KEL
mineralisation to significantly reduce tonnages to be processed and upgrade low grade ore to become economic to mine and
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A wide diameter metallurgical hole is planned for next year to provide material for a bulk sample to be sent to TOMRA ore sorting to continue this encouraging work and for further metallurgical testwork.
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Figure 3: Classified XRT images of the sorted material (left) and the waste (right). The blue, higher density material has been
concentrated in the sorted product to increase the tin content and remove waste. Image provided by TOMRA.
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Figure 4: Schematic Long Section of the 3KEL Target. Holes 3KRC005 and 3KRC008 were drilled from the same pad and both holes were abandoned before reaching the target depth.
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ABOUT SKY (ASX: SKY)
SKY is an ASX listed public company focused on the exploration and development of high value mineral resources in Australia. SKY's project portfolio offers exposure to the tin, gold, and copper markets in the world class mining jurisdiction of NSW.
GOLD PROJECTS
onlyCULLARIN / KANGIARA projects (EL7954; EL8400 & EL8573, HRR farm-in)
Under the HRR farm-in, SKY has now earned an 80% interest in the projects via the expenditure of $2M prior to the formation of a joint venture (ASX: 9 October 2019). Highlight, 'McPhillamys-style' gold results from previous drilling at the Cullarin Project include 148.4m @ 0.97 g/t Au (WL31) including 14.6m @ 5.1 g/t Au from 16.2m, & 142.1m @ 0.89 g/t Au (WL28) including 12m @ 4.4 g/t Au from 25.9m. The Cullarin Project contains equivalent host stratigraphy to the McPhillamys deposit with a similar geochemical, geophysical & alteration signature. SKY's maiden drill program was very successful including core hole HUD002 which returned 93m @ 4.2 g/t Au from 56m.
CALEDONIAN / TIRRANA PROJECTS ( EL8920, EL9048, EL9120 100% SKY)
Highlight, 'McPhillamys-style' gold results from previous exploration include 36m @ 1.2 g/t Au from 0m to EOH in drillhole LM2 and 81m use@ 0.87g/t Au in a costean on EL8920 at the Caledonian Project. The distribution of multiple historic drill intersections indicates a potentially large gold zone with discrete high-grade zones, e.g. 6m @ 8g /t Au recorded from lode at historic Caledonian Mines (GSNSW).
A strong, robust soil gold anomaly (600 x 100m @ +0.1ppm) occurs and most drillholes (depth ~25m) terminate in the mineralised zone.
COPPER GOLD PROJECTS
GALWADGERE (EL6320, 100% SKY)
The Galwadgere project is located ~15km south-east of Wellington in central NSW. High grade copper-gold mineralisation has been
intersected by previous explorers (e.g. 47m @ 0.90% Cu & 1.58g/t Au) and the mineralisation is open along strike and at depth. personalFor
Figure 5: SKY Location Map
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