EMH Commences Cinovec Drilling Programme

RNS Number : 6414V

Cadence Minerals PLC

10 August 2020

 

Cadence Minerals Plc

("Cadence Minerals", "Cadence")

European Metals (AIM: EMH) Commences Measured Drilling Programme.

Cadence Minerals (AIM/NEX: KDNC; OTC: KDNCY) is pleased to note the update today from European Metals Holdings Limited ("European Metals" "EMH" or "the Company") that a Measured Resource drilling has commenced at the Cinovec Lithium-Tin Project ("the project" or "Cinovec").

Highlights:

· A total of nineteen resource drill holes will be completed during this campaign for a total of 5,550 m, with the first hole well advanced.

· A further two hydro-geological drill holes and four geotechnical drill holes are planned once resource drilling has been completed.

· The programme will provide approximately 10t of drill core for further metallurgical testing and to generate samples..

EMH confirms that drilling has commenced and that the first hole, CIS-18, is on schedule for completion at 275 metres. The programme commenced following the Company receiving permission from the statutory authorities in the Czech Republic for this year's planned diamond drilling campaign.

Drilling is aimed at converting a sufficient portion of the existing Indicated Mineral Resource to the Measured Resource category and subsequently to a Mineral Reserve, to cover the first two years of the scheduled mining plan and obtaining a sufficient amount of ore samples for the next phase of metallurgical testing. The majority of the material will be utilised in the pilot scale testing for the Front End Engineering Design ("FEED") Study.

A total of nineteen diamond drill holes will be completed for 5,550 metres.  A further four geotechnical holes along the planned underground decline route will be drilled and logged subsequent to the completion of the resource drilling. This data will allow final development ready designs to be completed for the declines.

Cadence Minerals Holding in EMH

Cadence holds approximately 15% percent of the equity in European Metals, which, through its wholly owned Subsidiary, Geomet s.r.o. ("Geomet"), controls the mineral exploration licenses awarded by the Czech State over Cinovec.

The full release can be found at: https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/EMH/measured-resource-drilling-commenced/14646754

EMH Executive Chairman Keith Coughlan commented: "It is very pleasing to be able to get back to drilling on the Project. There are no Covid 19 related movement restrictions or limitations and the drilling is progressing well. The aim of the campaign is to convert the initial years mining into Proven Reserves category. Following consultations with potential lenders, we expect that this will assist greatly in the securing of more attractive debt finance for the Project once we enter that stage of operations."

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For further information:

Cadence Minerals plc	[phone]
Andrew Suckling
Kiran Morzaria
WH Ireland Limited (NOMAD & Broker)	[phone]
James Joyce
James Sinclair-Ford
Novum Securities Limited (Joint Broker)	[phone]
Jon Belliss

Qualified Person

Kiran Morzaria B.Eng. (ACSM), MBA, has reviewed and approved the information contained in this announcement. Kiran holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Industrial Geology) from the Camborne School of Mines and an MBA (Finance) from CASS Business School.

Forward-Looking Statements:

Certain statements in this announcement are or may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are identified by their use of terms and phrases such as ''believe'' ''could'' "should" ''envisage'' ''estimate'' ''intend'' ''may'' ''plan'' ''will'' or the negative of those variations or comparable expressions including references to assumptions. These forward-looking statements are not based on historical facts but rather on the Directors' current expectations and assumptions regarding the Company's future growth results of operations performance future capital and other expenditures (including the amount. nature and sources of funding thereof) competitive advantages business prospects and opportunities. Such forward-looking statements reflect the Directors' current beliefs and assumptions and are based on information currently available to the Directors.  Many factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements including risks associated with vulnerability to general economic and business conditions competition environmental and other regulatory changes actions by governmental authorities the availability of capital markets reliance on key personnel uninsured and underinsured losses and other factors many of which are beyond the control of the Company. Although any forward-looking statements contained in this announcement are based upon what the Directors believe to be reasonable assumptions. The Company cannot assure investors that actual results will be consistent with such forward-looking statements.

 

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