Trafford confirms Weednanna tin discovery

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Trafford Resources (ASX: TRF) has announced the results of a recently completed reassay program carried out at the Weednanna tin prospect, located within the company’s 100per cent-owned Wilcherry Hill tenements in South Australia.

The company said the widespread nature of tin at Wilcherry Hill has been confirmed by the number of tin prospects it has been able to identify.

All these tin prospects are located within the Wilcherry Hill and Peterlumbo tenements and include Weednanna, Weednanna North, Ultima Dam East, Ultima Dam West, Telephone Dam, Sunday Iron and Oxy’s Bore.

 

Tin prospects at Wilcherry Hill. Source: Company announcement

 

The company has claimed the results have confirmed Weednanna to be as a new discovery of near surface tin.

Weednanna grade and width highlights include:

2 metres at 1.06 per cent tin from 56m;

2m at 1.07 per cent tin from 104m;

30m at 0.22 per cent tin from 54m;

44m at 0.19 per cent tin from 50m;

20m at 0.28 per cent tin from 2m; and

3m at 0.62 per cent tin from 13m.

During Trafford explained the program selected some 443 samples from the Weednanna drilling database for reassay.

Some tin had previously been recorded in these samples, however Trafford said the methodology used was not the best it could have been.

The company used, what it described as the appropriate analytical technique for cassiterite identification (Lithium Boratte Fusin + ICP-MS finish), for all reassays which resulted in an average of a 10 per cent increase in tin values over the original results.

“In world terms, the discovery, by Trafford, at Wilcherry Hill of a new and extensive tin province is highly significant and should not be underestimated,” Trafford Resources managing director Ian Finch said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

Trafford is in the enviable position of having access to 675 drill holes available for reassay – without having to incur actual drilling and associated costs.

The data from these holes is being examined and this current 443 sample program is part of a larger, prioritised and ongoing program.

Website: www.traffordresources.com