Silver Tiger – The Underground PEA At El Tigre Is Imminent, Regional Drilling To Commence This Fall At La Protectora, and Mexican Permitting Is On-Track
Glenn Jessome, President and CEO of Silver Tiger Metals (TSX.V:SLVR – OTCQX:SLVTF), joins me to outline the importance of the imminent Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) on the underground mine at their 100% owned, silver-gold El Tigre Project in Mexico. We then expand the conversation to highlight some upcoming blue-sky regional drilling that the exploration team will commence this fall around the La Protectora historic mine on trend with El Tigre. Wrapping up we also have Glenn separate the facts from the media hyperbole as it relates to mining and permitting in Mexico.
With the open-pit Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) solidly in place at El Tigre, and the operations team ready to hit the ground running just as soon as the final permits are received, the focus then shifted to building towards the upcoming PEA on the underground mine. The team has been compiling the last 5 years of work delineating the 113 million ounces of silver equivalent resources in the high-grade veins, shale, and sulphide zones underground portion of El Tigre, the metallurgical studies, and engineering work to be able to release the PEA by month’s end. This report will center around the already permitted underground scenario utilizing an 800 tonnes-per-day (tpd) mill, and focusing on the initial first 10 years of mine life.
Glenn points out that during the PFS study on their open pit at El Tigre, that the 3rd-party qualified contractor noted when also reviewing their underground resources that they could add between 73-100 million more ounces simply by tightening up the drilling density in a number of areas. We discuss the clear expansion potential beyond what will be highlighted in these initial economics.
Next we widened the vision of the company to their large district scale land position and how El Tigre is focused on just 2.5kms of a 20+ kilometer trend, peppered with a number of historically producing mines to both the south and the north. The board has decided the time is right to step out and start doing regional exploration at the next key target of interest; around the La Protectora mine, located to the north of El Tigre. Glenn mentioned that their exploration team has been on site there for the last couple months, mapping, sampling, and doing some targeting work to be able to start drilling there this Fall.
Wrapping up we focus on the misunderstandings from investors and the media with regards to the operational and permitting environment in Mexico, how the positive meetings between the government and mining companies have been ignored, and why the hyperbolic statements from some market commentators and the media have made a big deal about the “no new concessions” will be granted, not understanding the most mining concessions have already been granted for tens or hundreds of years now, so that won’t really matter, and doesn’t have anything to do with permitting on existing concessions.
If you have any follow up questions for Glenn about Silver Tiger, then please email me at Shad@kereport.com.
- In full disclosure, Shad is a shareholder of Silver Tiger Metals at the time of this recording, and may choose to buy or sell shares at any time.
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