Lion One Metals Limited has announced that it started mining efforts on the URW1 lode at the Tuvatu Alkaline Gold Project in Fiji.
According to the company, strike diving has reached the lode and the first underground images of the site have already been received, with the initial intersection of the lode revealing one primary vein and numerous stockwork-style veins.
It added that visible gold was observed in different locations on the face of the lode and within four different fracture orientations.
Three of the fracture orientations can be seen as sub-parallel to the grade control drill axis and would therefore be difficult to identify, given their orientation relative to the grade control drilling.
A sample line was completed perpendicular to the main vein, and a grab sample was collected from the foot of the face.
According to Lion One Chairman and CEO Walter Berukoff, following the company’s initial sampling of the face and due to the presence of visible gold in multiple fracture orientations, we are optimistic that the overall grade of the URW1 lode could end up being even higher than what the grade control drilling has suggested.
“We continue to learn more about the Tuvatu system as we open the system up underground, and we are beginning to see how well-endowed the Tuvatu system truly is. Just like the discovery of the URA1 lode on our initial drive underground, the system continues to provide surprises to the upside as our underground developments progress,” Berukoff added.
“We are excited to have started mining our second lode at the Tuvatu gold mine, especially so soon after we started mining our first lode. Without the diligence and hard work performed by our geology and engineering teams in Fiji we could not have located the lode as successfully and as accurately as we did,” he said.
