St Dizier drilling confirms tin deposit

Stellar Resources has reported excellent tin assays over wide intercepts....

  Stellar Resources has reported excellent tin assays over wide intercepts from the first three diamond drill holes at the St Dizier tin project – one of a number of tin prospects located on its Heemskirk EL, west coast of Tasmania.The intersections include 57m at 0.60% Sn, 22m at 1.12% Sn and 4.5m at 3.82% Snall at relatively shallow depths.The initial program comprised three diamond drill holes, which were successful in returning high grade tin intersections. Stellar is encouraged by the relatively low amount of acid-soluble tin reported, suggesting tin is present as cassiterite. The results indicate potentially favourable metallurgical characteristics for this zone of mineralisation.Further metallurgical test work is planned. Resource definition drilling, aimed at defining a shallow open-pitable resource, is being scoped.Low grade copper was noted in hole ST03 – where a shallow intersection from 27m returned 12m at 0.2% Cu. In the same hole, the interval from 43m returned 29m at 0.3% Zn.Hard rock tin mineralisation at St Dizier was last assessed over 20 years ago. St Dizier is part of a large tin skarn horizon mapped over a distance of several kilometres.The better known prospects include St Dizier, Central and Big H. Apart from a mining lease exclusion over part of the Central prospect held by Stonehenge Metals, Stellar Resources owns 100% of the entire length of the tin skarn.These latest drill holes support previous drilling in the St Dizier main zone – including one vertical hole drilled by Minops Pty Ltd in the early 1970’s, in the same area as ST01, of 101m at 1.7% Sn.Previous exploration of the skarn horizon shows excellent potential along this structure but systematic exploration was hampered by the fragmented nature of the land tenure at that time and the existence of tin quotas. Prior work showed the presence of tin mineralisation virtually from surface at St Dizier.St Dizier is conveniently located on the mineral-rich west coast of Tasmania, which is host to a divergent group of valuable commodities and mining operations. Mining is the foremost industry on the west coast, where a supportive and generally pro-mining culture exists. St Dizier is located adjacent to a wellmaintained sealed road, with easy access to the town of Zeehan – and to existing mineral treatment infrastructure.