Avebury ships bulk ore sample

Allegiance Mining cut a 50 m length of the Central Avebury orebody from the lower level of the Avebury nickel mine in Tasmania, Australia, during January and some 5,000 t of nickel sulphide bearing ore was produced. The ore was crushed and trucked to the Hellyer Mill located 125 km north of Avebury for metallurgical testwork, starting late February designed to confirm mill production rate assumptions used in the feasibility study for the Avebury project.

The geometry of the Central Avebury orebody exposed during mining was roughly as predicted in the feasibility study resource model but the ore zone contained more high-grade massive sulphides than expected. The zones of massive nickel sulphides are encouraging but, the company warns, “it is important to note that a 5,000 t bulk sample from a single location is not completely representative of the whole ore zone.

See IM March 2005 for more on the Avebury project. www.allegiance-mining.com.au