Junior miner South Harz Potash (SHP), formerly Davenport Resources Ltd., West Perth, Western Australia, said on Oct. 10 that it has signed the drilling contract for the first confirmatory hole at its Ohmgebirge Mining License area in Germany with deep drilling specialist company H. Anger’s Söhne Bohr- und Brunnenbaugesellschaft, conditional on permit approval.
The aim of the drilling is to collect potash core samples from depth to assist in verifying historical drilling in the license area by the former East German state in the 1980’s. The confirmation drillholes will allow the company to upgrade its current inferred resources to indicated within the mining license area (GM May 28, p. 34), thus allowing the release of a Technical and Economic Assessment in first-quarter 2022.
SHP plans to drill two holes. The first drillhole, OHM-02, is planned in fourth-quarter 2021 and is expected to fully penetrate the known potash horizon in the area. The application to drill a second hole is currently being processed.