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Erin Ventures (TSXV: EV) announced this week that it is ready to continue drilling at its Piskanja property in Serbia to advance the fundamentals of the boron project towards feasibility.
In a press release, the Victoria, British Columbia-based miner said that management just finished putting together the next work program, which will be completed in approximately a 60-day period, once commenced.
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“This work program is designed to ensure that the project continues to comply with both the Canadian Institute of Mining ‘Best Practice Guidelines’ and Serbian mine licensing and mine development regulations,” the media statement reads.
In the brief, Erin explained that the planned work for this program includes diamond drilling of 5 HQ diameter horizontal holes on an existing 100 by 100 metre drill grid; 4 SQ diameter horizontal diamond drill holes on a 25 by 25 metre grid to be dual-purposed as a metallurgical testing bulk sample, and to increase the tonnage in the measured category; 2 PQ diameter structural drill holes on a grid of 50 by 50 metres, and; 1 SQ diameter drill hole on the 100 by 100 metre grid, designed to be multi-purposed as a hydrogeological monitoring station and as an exploration hole.
Piskanja is located 250 kilometres south of Belgrade. The project has an indicated mineral resource of 7.8 million tonnes averaging 31% B2O3, and an inferred resource of 3.4 million tonnes averaging 28.6% B2O3.
