Junior sulfate of potash (SOP) explorer Trigg Mining Ltd., Subiaco, Western Australia, recently secured a significant infrastructure boost for its flagship Lake Throssell SOP project, located some 200 km east of Laverton, Western Australia (GM Dec, 20, 2019).
In late May, the Western Australian State Government and Federal Government announced the award of an A$20 million (approximately US$14 million at current exchange rates) contract to Wongutha Way Alliance, a joint venture between CareyMC Pty Ltd and Central Earthmoving Company Pty Ltd, to seal a 41 km section of the Great Central Road.
The Great Central Road is a key arterial route that runs from Leonora and Laverton, adjacent to and through the Lake Throssell tenements, and onwards through the Northern Territory to Winton in Queensland.
In addition, the Western Australian government recently announced a further phased lifting of intrastate travel restrictions related to COVID-19. This is expected to clear the way for the resumption of field activities and Trigg’s maiden exploration air-core drilling program.
Field exploration activities, including the maiden drilling program at Lake Throssell targeting a JORC resource, subject to results, could commence early in the next quarter, the company said.
The upcoming drilling program at Lake Throssell is designed to establish whether the tenor of surface mineralization, averaging 11,800mg/L SOP and up to 14,800 mg/L SOP11, can be reproduced in the sub-surface aquifer, as is the case at the company’s Lake Rason SOP Project, which has an Inferred Mineral Resource of 6 million mt of SOP, located further to the south.