Thor Mining: is EnviroCopper closing in on more than half a million tonnes of copper at Moonta? (THR)
EnviroCopper is a privately run mining company, which is seeking to develop the Kapunda and Moonta copper projects using an extraction method call “in situ- recovery” (“ISR”). Thor Mining Plc (LSE:THR) has the right to purchase a 30pc stake in EnviroCopper, which is pioneering the application of ISR in copper mining operations in Australia. ISR is a highly cost effective and environmentally more friendly extraction method compared to traditional mining.
EnviroCopper is earning into 75pc of two ISR projects in Australia, at Kapunda and Moonta. Across these two projects EnviroCopper now has a managed resourced inventory of 233,000 tonnes of copper; 119,000 tonnes at Kapunda and now, following August’s maiden resource estimate, 114,000 tonnes at Moonta.
In this special report, originally published on our sister site MiningMaven.com here, we provide analysis of the maiden copper resource estimate at Moonta and provide some more contextual background about other global ISR copper projects that could provide indicators as to how EnviroCopper might develop.
The latest Moonta report can be downloaded here.
This MiningMaven Wire also provides an update to the main EnviroCopper report published in June 2019, following release of the initial mineral resource estimate at Moonta in August 2019. The full report can be read HERE.
