# Savannah Resources Q&A with CEO David Archer: Phase I Mapping & Drill Programme (LON:SAV)

- Link: https://www.directorstalkinterviews.com/savannah-resources-qa-ceo-david-archer-phase-i-mapping-drill-programme-lonsav/412731660
- Published: 2017-07-11T12:08:25+01:00
- Author: Amilia Stone

**Savannah Resources Plc** (LON:SAV) Chief Executive Officer David Archer caught
up with DirectorsTalk for an exclusive interview to discuss the Phase I Mapping 
and Drill Programme at Mina do Barroso in Portugal

 

**Q1: The Savannah Resources lithium project in Portugal, what are the key features
that you see there?**

**A1**: I think there are probably 5 major items that I think characterise the opportunity.
The first thing is that the project is in Portugal, it’s a very favourable mining
jurisdiction and both the national and regional government is very focussed on the
lithium industry and the successful development. The second thing is that our project
involves a grant of mining lease and that really provides us with a very good opportunity
to take the project into production quickly and hopefully be one of the first lithium
mines in Europe. We’ve got an excellent portfolio with exploration upside, it’s 
got spodumene which is the key lithium mineral and a great metallurgy and it’s all
hard rock material at surface.

 

**Q2: You’ve published some results today for the Barroso mine, what do these results
mean?**

**A2**: Well, they’re all on the Mina do Barroso mine for a start so these major
pegmatites and they’ve all been proven to be characterised by the lithium mineral
spodumene and we’ve provided a bit more colour around the potential surface extent
of 3 of the deposits, Reservatorio, Grandao and the NOA deposit. Reservatorio looks
really very interesting, about 600 metres in the strike up to about 85 metres in
width and has the potential to be a series of stack that could aggregate into a 
very large resource. Importantly, all 3 of the areas have very good lithium grades
of around 1.6% so lithium in the spodumene concentrate.

 

**Q3: So, an exciting time for Savannah Resources Plc! What are the next steps from
here?**

**A3**: This mapping has been very useful in terms of helping us define where we
should be drilling, our next round of drill, which should start up in the week commencing
17th July. We’re planning an RC programme of between 3,000 and 5,000 metres and 
the results of that, when aggregated with older drilling data, should allow us to
come out with the JORC resource and start proving a little definition around the
size of the resource envelope. So, very exciting time and we’re looking forward 
to being able to release some outstanding results a bit later in the year.

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