Zambia fqm projet trident
Environmental applications have been completed and submitted to the Environmental Council of Zambia and preliminary investigations for the infrastructure requirements at Trident were started.
Although a NI-43-101 compliant resource for the Sentinel deposit is not expected until mid-2011, based on drilling and other work to date, the Company's internal study has been updated since first reported in October 2010. The internal study now assumes a resource of at least 700 million tonnes, head grade in the range of 0.65% to 0.80% copper and annual throughput rate of 40 million tonnes of ore for annual production of approximately 250,000 tonnes of copper. Both mining and processing conditions continue to appear to be relatively straightforward supporting the assumption that the unit cash cost of production is likely to be in the range of the Kansanshi mine. Results from the ongoing drill program may lead to an expansion of the resource base and allow the possibility of further production expansion.
Subject to results of the on-going resource and mine studies, securing all relevant permits and approval by the Company's Board of Directors, the Company expects that the initial design and construction phases could commence during 2011with commercial production in early 2014. See "Exploration" for further discussion on the Company's exploration program at the Trident project.
It should be noted that the potential quantities and grades and other technical parameters presented in this document in relation to the Sentinel deposit are conceptual in nature only. There has been insufficient exploration to define a NI-43-101 compliant resource and it is uncertain whether further exploration will result in the Sentinel deposit being delineated as a mineral resource and whether the Sentinel deposit will be developed into a mine.
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