The company bagged three of the most coveted awards in the mining industry including 2011 Presidential Mineral Industry Environmental Award
In early 2012, earthworks activities commenced on the Runruno Gold-Molybdenum Project
Drilling and exploration
Children beneficiaries of the company's social development program
Environment protection and monitoring being promoted by the company
Runruno drill core
The company achieved the "2,000,000 manhours worked without lost-time accident" certificate issued by the Mines and Geosciences Bureau.
School children line up for the medical check-up sponsored by the company
Reforestation program

Latest News

25.07.2011 - Operational Update Quarter Ended 30 June 2011Read More
08.07.2011 - Solomon Announces Intention to Exercise Option; Agreement with Baker SteelRead More
22.06.2011 - Runruno Regional Exploration UpdateRead More
23.05.2011 - Final Results for the Year Ended 31 December 2010Read More
20.05.2011 - Extension to Auditor TermRead More
18.05.2011 - Runruno Step Out Drilling and Regional Exploration UpdateRead More
10.05.2011 - Directorate ChangeRead More
20.04.2011 - Close of Offer Made by Solomon Capital...Read More
04.04.2011 - Completion of Subscription and Shareholders' AgreementRead More
30.03.2011 - Operational Update First Quarter 2011Read More
08.03.2011 - Subscription and Shareholders AgreementRead More

Resource Statement

In March 2011, the Runruno resource was updated to 1.39Moz of gold, and 25.6Mlb of molybdenum, with 1,050,000oz gold reporting to the Measured and Indicated categories and 900,000oz gold within the Mining Proven & Probable Reserve category. This resource estimate was updated in March 2011 to include all drill holes completed and assays returned by the end of December 2010, comprising 807 drill holes for a total of 110,427m. The combined Measured and Indicated resource containing 1,050,000oz gold now comprises 75% of the total resource.

In addition to the 2P reserves the Company has included a further 2.9 Mt @ 1.73 g/t Au; 0.026% Mo of inferred mineral resource in the mine schedule after applying the same mining parameters inclusive of dilution and mine recovery used in estimating the mining reserve.

Runruno Resource Estimate – March 2011
Reserve Ore Gold Molybdenum
Category
Mt g/t M Oz
ppm
M lb
Measured  11.2 1.88
0.68
 604  14.9
Indicated 7.0
1.64
0.37
 425  6.5
Inferred 7.5 1.44
0.35
 253 4.2
           
 Total  25.7  1.69 1.39  470  25.6

Notes to accompany the resource estimate:

  1. The tenement holder is FCF Minerals Corp (“FCF”).
  2. Metals Ex currently holds 85% of FCF, with an option to purchase the remaining 15% at its sole discretion and at any time it chooses, therefore the current net attributable resource to Metals Ex is 85%.
  3. Resource estimate based on all drillholes completed and assays returned by 31 December 2010.  The resource was estimated on the basis of 807 drillholes (110,427 metres) consisting of 485 diamond drillholes (65,517 metres) and 322 RC drillholes (45,911metres).
  4. All analyses undertaken by Intertek, an internationally accredited independent laboratory.
  5. Gold analysis by classical 1kg screen fire assay analysis.
  6. Molybdenum analysis by mixed acid digest and ICP-OES.
  7. Block model block sizes selection of XYZ 20x20x5m is based on Kriging Neighbourhood Analysis as reported in November 2009.  Sub-blocking for volumes only to 5x5x1.25m. Screened for topography by sub-block.
  8. Geological resource constrained by sub-block with 86 wireframes in 13 domains based on lithology, structure, alteration, artisanal surface workings and a minimum sample grade of 0.3 g/t Au, includes minor internal dilution.  Each sub-block can only belong to one domain.
  9. Drill intercepts within each domain flagged in a database table and composited to 2m downhole giving 6,439 informing samples from 687 drillholes.
  10. A gold grade cap was applied to informing composites to remove minor outliers  Of the 20 composites capped to 12 g/t Au the maximum uncapped grade was 39.14 g/t Au. No grade cap was applied to molybdenum grades.
  11. Routine bulk density measurements show little variation within rock types. An average bulk density based on rock type and oxidation state was assigned to resource model based on interpreted geological units and oxidation state.
  12. Grade interpolated into a constrained block model by domain using Ordinary Krige estimation in 4 passes with parameters based on variography by domain. Estimates validated against informing samples and with nearest neighbour and inverse distance squared block estimation.
  13. Resources have been classified in compliance with the JORC Code as Measured, Indicated and Inferred. Categories allocated by block by domain, based on drill spacing and type, number of informing samples, fill pass and Krige estimate confidence.
  14. Lower cut off grade of 0.3g/t gold applied to blocks in reporting the resource estimates.
  15. Molybdenum grades are reported along with the gold grades by resource categories but a consistent laboratory bias low in molybdenum assay standards of about 20% is recognised by FCF but has as yet not been addressed.

The Mineral Resource block model was interrogated using Whittle Optimization and FCF estimated costs and using a gold price of US$1,000/oz to produce a set of pit shells and hence detailed mine design and production schedule as shown in the table and notes below.  A small portion of the Inferred Mineral Resource is contained within this final pit shell and included in the production schedule and is also reported here with allowance for mining loss and dilution.  The Inferred Mineral Resources estimates stated here are additional to the Ore Reserves but have not been aggregated with them as this not allowed under the JORC code.

March 2011 Mining Reserve and Schedule Resource
Category Tonnes Gold Molybdenum
g/t Moz ppm Mlb
Proven  10.2 1.90 0.62
 616  13.9
Probable 4.8
1.77
0.27
 415  4.4
2P Reserves 15.0 1.85
0.90
 603 18.3
Additional Inferred Resource in-pit 2.9 1.73
0.16
 258 1.7

Notes to accompany ore reserve statement:

  1. Stated Inferred Resource is not included in reserves and is in addition to reserves within the defined pit limits and is included in the planned production schedule with a 5% mining loss applied.
  2. The tenement holder is FCF Minerals Corp (“FCF”). Metals Ex currently holds 85% of FCF, with an option to purchase the remaining 15% at its sole discretion and at any time it chooses. This option has not been exercised so the current net attributable reserve to Metals Ex at the time of writing is 85%.
  3. Reserve estimate are derived from the March 2011 MA Resource Estimate by application of Modifying Factors.
  4. Cut-off grade of 0.3 g/tAu
  5. Optimisation for final pit selection using Whittle Global Optimiser and following parameters.
    1. Maximum material movement of 13Mtpa
    2. Target of 1.75Mtpa delivered to mill
    3. Mining Ore loss of 5%, Mining Dilution included in the resource estimates.
    4. Mining costs varied by region from US$1.11 to US$1.22/tonne
    5. Processing Costs of US$14.45/tonne milled
    6. Period Costs (including mining period costs) of US$2.25/t milled
    7. Gold recovery of 90.4%
    8. Gold Price used of US$1,000/ ounce
    9. No value or process costs attributed to the Molybdenum
    10. A discount rate of 10% pa for DCF and NPV
  1. Scheduling of production using Gemcom Minesched within final Pit Shell.

The information in this report that relates to Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves is based on information compiled by Mr Andrew Vigar, who is a Fellow of The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.  Mr Vigar is an employee of Mining Associates Pty Ltd and has sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity which he is undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2004 Edition of the ‘Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves’.  Mr Vigar consents to the inclusion in this report of the matters based on this information in the form and context in which it appears.

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