Titanium Sands Limited announced an updated Inferred and Indicated Mineral Resource at its Mannar Island Project in Sri Lanka of 90.03Mt at 6.60% heavy minerals. The resource has been upgraded so that 66% is now in the Indicated category. Of this total resource 57.68Mt at 6.06% THM is on tenure already held by the company and 32.95Mt at 7.56% THM is on tenure to be acquired subject to shareholder approval. The resource has been defined by 3,421 auger holes drilled from surface to the water table at depths of 1 to 3m. The resource is therefore a surface exposed sheet with no overburden. The heavy mineral suite is dominated by ilmenite and leucoxene with minor but valuable rutile and zircon components. Garnet is also present as a significant component of the valuable heavy mineral assemblage but at this stage has not yet been incorporated into the resource model. Current Mineral Resources drilling have only been drilled and modelled down to the water table. The heavy mineral sequences are exposed at surface and there is essentially no overburden on the resource. This extensive surface exposed resource is underlain by at least 10m of unconsolidated sands below the water table, this presents an opportunity to continue to building a substantially larger Mannar Project resource. The 473-hole reverse circulation (RC) drilling program completed in December 2019 was focussed largely on the sequences under the surface resource. Visual logging indicates there is widespread concentration of heavy minerals up to 10m thick below the water table and the surface resources. Samples from this drilling are currently being analysed from these RC aircore holes and those that have tested deeper sediment sequences and results will become available over the next 6 weeks.