Categories: Energy / General Market Commentary / Precious Metals
Topics: General Energy / General Market Commentary / General Precious Metals

Mawson Resources seeing results as it bids to expand flagship resource in mining hotspot Finland

A milestone was reached in December last year, when the company announced a maiden inferred gold-cobalt estimate

  • A significant and strategic regional scale gold-cobalt discovery in mining friendly Finland

  • Resource on flagship Rajapalot-Rompas project represents just 20% of the 4km trend so potential to expand

  • Experienced management and fully financed for this season's work

What does Mawson Resources do?

Mining group Mawson (TSE:MAW) was incorporated in 2004 and the flagship property is the Rompas  project in Finnish Lapland, a few kilometers south of the arctic circle, where both high-grade gold and cobalt have been discovered over a camp-scale area of more than 10 sq km.

A milestone was reached in December last year, when the company announced a maiden inferred (lower confidence) gold-cobalt estimate for the Raja and Palokas prospects.

The pit and underground constrained inferred resource was put at 424,000 ounces of gold at 3.1 grams/ton gold equivalent, while the combined inferred mineral inventory in the Palokas and Raja prospects was 482,000 ounces of gold equivalent at a grade of 2.4 g/t.

According to the company, the unconstrained maiden inventory puts Rajapalot as one of Finland’s current top three gold projects by grade and contained ounces.  It is also one of only a small group of NI 43 101 cobalt resources. Currently, Mawson is focused on increasing gold and cobalt resources at Rajapalot.

It is worth noting that Finland refines half the world’s cobalt outside China, while the globe's largest cobalt refinery lies 400km to the south of Rajapalot.

Finland becoming mining hotspot

Agnico Eagle's (NYSE:AEM) Kittila mine in the country is the largest primary gold producer in Europe and just north of Mawson's ground and there are several other firms exploring in the area.

Kittila has a mine-life estimated through to 2035 and has proven and probable mineral reserves of 4.4 million ounces gold (31 million tonnes at 4.50 g/t gold) as of December 31, 2018.

The country jumped to the Number One spot in the Fraser Institute’s 2017 ranking of investment attractiveness for mining jurisdictions, up from fifth in 2016.

Click here to continue reading...

Click here to see more from Mawson Gold Ltd.