Mr. Brad Marwood reports
TIGER RESOURCES LIMITED - DECEMBER 2010 QUARTERLY ACTIVITIES REPORT
Tiger
Resources Ltd. is providing an activity report
for the December, 2010, quarter.
Kipoi copper project
(Tiger 60 per cent) Kipoi stage 1 development
The stage 1 development of the high-grade Kipoi copper project, located
in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Katanga copper belt, comprises an
open pit mining operation with a crushing and heavy media separation
(HMS) plant. The plant will produce a concentrate product averaging 25 per cent
copper which will be available for sale to local and export customers.
Development activities progressed on time and within budget during the
quarter.
Mining contract
Mining contractor MCK Mining SPRL (MCK) commenced mining operations
during the quarter and has developed the Kipoi pit with ore exposed
ready to feed the plant. During the quarter MCK also completed the
access road, plant site earthworks, site establishment and equipment
mobilization. A total of 240,000 tonnes of waste material were mined during
the quarter. No ore mining was undertaken.
Plant construction and installation
During the quarter DRA Mineral Projects (Pty.) Ltd. completed the design,
procurement and infrastructure requirements for the plant. The plant
was assembled in Johannesburg, before being disassembled into modules
for transport to site. Freighting of the plant components to Kipoi and
site erection commenced during the quarter.
Owner's works
Significant progress was made with owner-managed works during the
quarter:
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Refurbishment of the site-based mess and contractor facilities were
completed;
- Mining department was established and managed the mining contractor;
- Heap leach pad and slimes dam construction commenced;
- Recruitment of operations personnel commenced;
- Fuel supply contract, catering and medical servicing contracts were
finalized;
- The water supply dam was completed and filling commenced prior to the
wet season.
Development schedule
The Kipoi stage 1 development continues to make good progress with
commissioning planned to commence in March, 2011. All contractor and
owner works are proceeding within scope, on time and within respective
budgets.
Kipoi stage 2 development
Stage 2 SXEW development study
Tiger appointed ARCCON, an experienced engineering group based in Perth,
to complete an initial study to define the scope and size of a
conceptual stage 2 SXEW operation to produce LME-grade copper cathode
at Kipoi.
Progress during the quarter included the completion of the life-of-mine
plan schedule, plant design and sizing. Finalization of costing is
expected to be completed during first-quarter 2011. Under current planning the
SXEW facility would have a life exceeding 10 years with production
scaling up to 50,000 tonnes per annum of copper metal.
Near-mine exploration at Kipoi
Exploration plans have been developed to test targets within the Kipoi
mining lease that have potential to provide additional feed to the
planned infrastructure. Tiger intends to commence drilling of these
targets during the first quarter of 2011. The on-site sample preparation facility at
Kipoi has been recommissioned and is currently in use for preparation
of samples generated by exploration activities.
Lupoto project (100 per cent)
An air core program of 536 metres, RC drilling program of 2,821 m and diamond
drilling program of 891 m was carried out at Lupoto during the December
quarter.
This included an extension and infill drilling program at Sase Central,
a prospect within the Lupoto licence area.
First assay results received include the following significant
intersections:
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48 metres at 2.11 per cent Cu intersected in hole SASRC001;
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32 metres at 1.10 per cent Cu intersected in hole SASAC442;
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10 metres at 2.10 per cent Cu intersected in hole SASAC443;
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35 metres at 1.18 per cent Cu intersected in hole SASAC446;
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Holes SASRC001, SASAC442 and SASAC446 ended in mineralization.
The drilling program successfully extended the strike length and width
of mineralization at Sase Central. Mineralization is now delineated
over a strike length of 700 m and with a width extent of up to 300 m.
Mineralization remains open along strike and at depth.
Receipt of final results of the drilling program has been delayed
through holdups in clearing the samples through customs at the South
African border. Assay results from the ALS Laboratory in Johannesburg
are now expected to be received and available for release during
February, 2011.
A maiden resource estimate for Sase Central is currently being estimated
by geological resource consultants Cube Consulting and is scheduled for
completion during the first quarter of 2011.
New targets were discovered through soil sampling. The new
targets, Sase South and Mwana East, will be subject to further
investigation in 2011.
Corporate
Cash on hand at the end of the quarter was $13.3-million (Australian)
($13.5-million (U.S.)).
The company's financial year-end has been changed to Dec. 31 to
align reporting with its DRC subsidiaries. Tiger will therefore prepare
an annual report for the six-month period to Dec. 31 and hold its
next annual general meeting during May, 2011.
Background
The Kipoi project covers an area of 55 square kilometres and is located 75 kilometres
north-northwest of the city of Lubumbashi in the Katangan province of
the DRC. The project contains a 12-kilometre sequence of mineralized Roan
sediments that host at least five known deposits: Kipoi Central, Kipoi
North, Kileba, Judeira and Kaminafitwe. The company has reported JORC
standard resources at three of the deposits. The principle deposit is
Kipoi Central which contains a zone of high-grade copper mineralization
within a much larger lower-grade global resource.
The company proposes a staged development at the Kipoi project. The high-grade zone of mineralization at Kipoi Central is proposed to be
exploited during the stage 1 development. During the three-year life of
stage 1 a total of 900,000 tonnes per annum of 7 per cent Cu is planned to be processed
through a heavy media separation plant to produce the equivalent of
35,000 tonnes per annum of copper.
A study is under way for the development of a stage 2 SXEW facility at
Kipoi that conceptually would have a life exceeding 10 years with
production scaling up to 50,000 tonnes per annum of copper.
We seek Safe Harbor.
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