Bass Metals on track to expand production from Graphmada
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Australian miner Bass Metals on Monday reported that it expected to announce a maiden mineral resource at its Mahefedok deposit, at the Graphmada graphite mine, in Madagascar, during the current quarter.
The company recently completed a 2 300 m drilling programme at the deposit, with significant intercepts of soft, easily mineable saprolite mineralisation, delivering intercepts of 24.4 m at 4.4% fixed carbon, 16 m at 5.1%, 13.2 m at 5.6% and 7.8 m at 6.6%.
The miner noted that it would continue to invest capital to expand production to 6 000 t/y, through to 20 000 t/y of graphite concentrate sales by 2020.
“We will continue to materially grow our resource inventory, aggressively explore our permits and strategically assess potential acquisitions to meet growing demand in traditional and future technology markets,” it said in a company strategy update.
Bass Metals further noted that its Graphmada concentrates were the benchmark for foundries, crucible and refractory applications, owing to its “exceptional” flake size, high resistance against oxidation, not containing carbonates such as calcite and dolomite, and having a low sulphur content.
Comments
Press Office
Announcements
What's On
Subscribe to improve your user experience...
Option 1 (equivalent of R125 a month):
Receive a weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine
(print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
Receive daily email newsletters
Access to full search results
Access archive of magazine back copies
Access to Projects in Progress
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format
Option 2 (equivalent of R375 a month):
All benefits from Option 1
PLUS
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports, in PDF format, on various industrial and mining sectors
including Electricity; Water; Energy Transition; Hydrogen; Roads, Rail and Ports; Coal; Gold; Platinum; Battery Metals; etc.
Already a subscriber?
Forgotten your password?
Receive weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine (print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
➕
Recieve daily email newsletters
➕
Access to full search results
➕
Access archive of magazine back copies
➕
Access to Projects in Progress
➕
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format
RESEARCH CHANNEL AFRICA
R4500 (equivalent of R375 a month)
SUBSCRIBEAll benefits from Option 1
➕
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports on various industrial and mining sectors, in PDF format, including on:
Electricity
➕
Water
➕
Energy Transition
➕
Hydrogen
➕
Roads, Rail and Ports
➕
Coal
➕
Gold
➕
Platinum
➕
Battery Metals
➕
etc.
Receive all benefits from Option 1 or Option 2 delivered to numerous people at your company
➕
Multiple User names and Passwords for simultaneous log-ins
➕
Intranet integration access to all in your organisation