The success of a near-surface drilling program has enabled Australian explorer Polymetals Resources to increase contained silver resources by 48% to 8.9Moz at its Endeavor mine in the Cobar Basin of NSW.
The JORC compliant measured, indicated and inferred resource for Endeavor’s Upper Main Lodes is 818,000t @ 528g/t silver equivalent, comprising 7.1% for 58,078t zinc, 5.1% for 41,718t lead and 338g/t for 8.89Moz silver.
Exec chairman Dave Sproule says it’s becoming evident that the mine, which has been on care and maintenance since late 2019, may evolve in two stages with an initial low entry cost mining program on the near-surface high-value resources delivering cashflow able to fund the anticipated 10-year-plus mining operation.