NEW CENTURY RESOURCES
102 developed a best in class waste dump cover system for semi-arid environments that New Century can apply to the remaining dumps .
MMG also carried out substantial proof of concept test work prior to the transaction , determining that a saleable zinc product could be produced from the tailings , proving the viability of the project .
New Century was fortunate to have tailings sample results for the whole life of mine , and so were able to determine to a certain level of confidence what had gone into the tailings since first ore . However , “ The first step for New Century when we took over was to convert the tailings dam into an ore body ,” recalls Harris . “ We needed to do that in order to achieve a JORC — compliant ore reserve .”
“ We drilled out the tailings , using a quarter of the core for assaying to get a clear picture of what the whole ore body looked like , and what the grade profile was
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