Increased Resource Statement

RNS Number : 1627O
BlueRock Diamonds PLC
05 February 2021
 

BlueRock Diamonds PLC / AIM: BRD / Sector: Natural Resources

5 February 2021

BlueRock Diamonds PLC ('BlueRock' or the 'Company')

Increased Resource Statement

 

BlueRock Diamonds PLC, the AIM listed diamond producer, is pleased to announce an updated Resource Statement at its Kareevlei Diamond Mine ('Kareevlei') in the Kimberley region of South Africa, the provisional figures for which were released in December 2020.

 

Overview

· 49% increase in net tonnes to 10,368,300

· 53% increase in net carats to 516,200

· 19% of resource upgraded to Indicated Resources

 

BlueRock Executive Chairman, Mike Houston, said, "The Resource Statement confirms the provisional figures released in December 2020 and based on our planned production of 1 million tonnes per annum, provides a minimum 10-year life of mine.  The Board is confident that the Resource will increase further once more work is completed on KV3, our largest pipe, where at present only 40% of this pipe's volume is included in resource.

 

"I am pleased to note that the Competent Person, as a result of the mining to date, felt it appropriate to upgrade a significant tonnage of our resource from Inferred to Indicated. This recategorization further strengthens our confidence in Kareevlei's future."

 

DETAILS

 

Overall Increase in the Resource

 

Nov '18(1)

Jan '21(2)

 Increase

Tonnes

7,700,000

 

 

Total mined tonnes to date

-735,000

 

 

Net Tonnes

6,965,000

10,368,300

49%

Carats

367,000

 

 

Mined carats since November 2018

29.982

 

 

Net Carats

337,018

516,200

53%

CPHT

4.83

5.0

4%

(1) November 2018 resource statement

(2) January 2021 resource statement

 

Detailed Results of the Updated Resource Statement

 

Tonnes

Carats

Grade (cpht)

 

Nov '18

Jan '21

Nov '18

Jan '21

Nov '18

Jan '21

Indicated Resources

 

 

 

 

 

 

KV1

0

1,131,500

0

69,500

0

6.1

KV2

0

867,200

0

39,100

0

4.5

Total Indicated

 

1,998,700

0

108,600

0

5.4

Inferred Resource

 

 

 

 

 

 

KV1

1,561,400

2,555,700

97,000

155,500

6.2

6.1

KV2

1,909,700

1,478,500

86,600

65,800

4.5

4.5

KV3

3,629,200

3,629,200

152,000

152,000

4.2

4.2

KV5

644,300

706,200

31,400

34,300

4.9

4.9

Total Inferred

7,744,600

8,369,600

367,000

407,600

4.7

4.9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grand Total

7,744,600

10,368,300

367,000

516,200

4.7

5.0

 

The full report will be available on the Company's website at www.bluerockdiamonds.co.uk.

 

Qualified Person Review

The information in this announcement has been reviewed by Dr. John Andrew Grills of Z Star Mineral Resource Consultants (Pty) Ltd, a recognised Competent Person for diamonds (B. Sc. Ph. D., Pri. Sci. Nat. 400426/04). Dr. John Andrew Grills consents to the inclusion of the Mineral Resource information in the form and context in which it appears.

 

The information in this announcement has also been reviewed by Dr. Jock Robey who is a Fellow of the Geological Society of South Africa and has a Ph. D. from the University of Cape Town and a M. Sc. in Geology from Rhodes University with over 40 years working experience in Various Kimberlites.  Dr. Robey worked for De Beers as a kimberlite petrologist specialising in kimberlite mapping logging and petrology and has been a Consultant to Kareevlei for several years. Dr. Robey consents to the inclusion of the Mineral Resource information in the form and context in which it appears.

 

Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) Disclosure - Certain information contained in this announcement would have been deemed inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 until the release of this announcement.

 

ENDS

 

BlueRock Diamonds PLC

Mike Houston

David Facey, FD

mhouston@bluerockdiamonds.co.uk

dfacey@bluerockdiamonds.co.uk

SP Angel (NOMAD and Broker)

Stuart Gledhill / Caroline Rowe

 

contact@spangel.co.uk

St Brides Partners Ltd (Financial PR)

Isabel de Salis / Cosima Akerman

 

info@stbridespartners.co.uk

 

Notes to editors:

BlueRock Diamonds is an AIM-listed diamond producer which operates the Kareevlei Diamond Mine near Kimberley in South Africa which produces diamonds of exceptional quality and ranks in the top ten in the world in terms of average value per carat. The Kareevlei licence area covers 3,000 hectares and hosts five known diamondiferous kimberlite pipes.

 

Glossary:

Cpht

A measure of diamond grade in carats per hundred tonnes.

Grade

in economic geology, the term is used to express the relative quantity of an ore in a rock or unconsolidated sediment mass; in diamond exploration it is commonly expressed as carats per hundred tonnes (cpht) or carats per cubic metre (c/m3)

Inferred Mineral Resource

that part of a mineral resource for which tonnage, grade and mineral content can be estimated with a low level of confidence. It is inferred from geological evidence and assumed but not verified geological and/or grade continuity. It is based on information gathered through appropriate techniques from locations such as outcrops, trenches, pits, workings and drill holes which may be of limited or uncertain quality and reliability

Indicated Mineral Resource

  that part of a Mineral Resource for which quantity, grade (or quality), densities, shape and physical characteristics are estimated with sufficient confidence to allow the application of Modifying Factors in sufficient detail to support mine planning and evaluation of the economic viability of the deposit.

Kimberlite

A type of potassic volcanic rock typically found as pipe structures that may contain
diamonds.

SAMREC

The South African Code for the Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Mineral
Reserves.

 

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