Cornish Metals, the AIM-listed tin developer focused on its wholly owned South Crofty project in Cornwall, has returned positive assay results from the first drillhole of its ongoing Roskear surface drilling programme.
Drillhole SDD26_001A, completed to a depth of 1,199.1 metres, intersected tin mineralisation across multiple structures, including 0.79 metres at 4.18% tin in the Roskear 1 South lode and a broader 12.41-metre zone grading 0.43% tin in the Roskear Numbered Zone.
Notably, several intercepts, including two previously unrecorded lodes, fall outside South Crofty's current mineral resource estimate (MRE), pointing to potential resource growth to the west with further drilling.
The grades and structural positions were consistent with the company's geological model, providing added confidence in the continuity of mineralisation beyond existing resource limits.
"Several of the intercepts, including two previously unrecorded lodes, sit outside our current MRE, and we can see the mineralisation continuing to the west," said Lauren Beveridge, Chief Geologist of South Crofty.
The second drillhole, SDD26_002, positioned approximately 100 metres west of SDD26_001A, is currently being drilled and is roughly halfway to its planned final depth, with the 2,400-metre programme targeting extensions to known mineralisation across the Roskear area.
