Increase in Coal Resource
Tuesday 4th September, 2007
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Regulator News Service
Strategic Natural Resources plc (”SNR”) is pleased to announce that its 90% owned subsidiary Elitheni Coal (Pty) Ltd (”Elitheni”) has confirmed a substantial increase to its coal resource at Indwe in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
SNR recently listed on AIM on the basis that the resource at the time of listing amounted to approximately 15M tonnes of coal resources, comprising 6.68M tonnes of measured coal resources, 2.45M tonnes of indicated coal resources and 5.92 M tonnes of inferred coal resources.
The latest drilling results under SAMREC rules, as confirmed by William van der Schyff from the Company’s Consultant Geologists Golder Associates Africa (Pty) Ltd (”Golder”), have upgraded the resource for the Phase 1 and 2 areas to approximately 40M tonnes of coal, comprising 10.1 M tonnes of measured coal resource, 1.9M tonnes of indicated coal resource and 28.1 M tonnes of inferred coal resources in situ. The block model size was 50m x 50m x 1m grid.
Jeremy Metcalfe, SNR’s Chief Executive, said “This is an excellent start. An increase of approximately 25M tonnes in such a relatively short time can only be regarded as most encouraging.”
For further info contact:
Jeremy P. Metcalfe
Chief Executive
Strategic Natural Resources plc
Tel: +44 1303 874 798
Allan Piper
First City Financial Public Relations
Tel: +44 20 7242 2666
Rod Venables / Cecil Jordaan
HB Corporate
Tel: +44 20 7510 8600
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