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Halfmile-Stratmat Project (Halfmile Project, Stratmat Project)

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 Location:
56 km NW from Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada

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2300 - 1177 West Hastings Street
Vancouver
British Columbia, Canada
V6E 2K3
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Overview

StageRestarting
Mine TypeUnderground
Commodities
  • Zinc
  • Lead
  • Copper
  • Silver
  • Gold
Mining Method
  • Mechanized Cut & Fill
  • Post Pillar Cut & Fill
  • Sub-level stoping
  • Avoca
  • Sub-level Retreat
  • Longitudinal retreat
  • Cemented backfill
Processing
  • Flotation
  • Dense media separation
Mine Life2032
The Halfmile-Stratmat integrated project is comprised of the Halfmile mine and the advanced exploration stage Stratmat project.

The Halfmile-Stratmat integrated project consists of two non-contiguous claim blocks, the Halfmile and the Stratmat claim blocks.


Owners

Source: p. 4
CompanyInterestOwnership
Trevali Mining Corp. 100 % Indirect
The Halfmile-Stratmat integrated project consists of two non-contiguous claim blocks, the Halfmile and the Stratmat claim blocks. The Halfmile claim block consists of one mineral title comprising 59 claim units and one mining lease together covering 1,685.5 hectares (ha). Trevali, through Trevali (Maritimes) Ltd., a 100% owned subsidiary of Trevali, has a 100% in the mining lease but only a 61.51% interests in certain claims in the northern portion of the claims underlying the North zone mineralization.

The Stratmat claim block is comprised of 95 contiguous mineral claims units that are 100% held by Trevali (Maritimes) Ltd. The 95 claim units cover a total of 2,079 ha but because the claims overlap the pre-existing Heath Steele lease to the south, the effective area of the property is 1,827 ha.

Deposit Type

  • VMS


Summary:

The Halfmile and Stratmat are volcanic massive sulphide (VMS) deposits typical of the Bathurst Mining Camp (BMC). The BMC hosts 45 volcanic-sediment hosted massive sulphide deposits and 95 occurrences, including the world-class Brunswick 12 Mine. BMC deposits formed in a sediment-covered back-arc continental rift during periods when the basin was stratified with a lower anoxic water column. The basin was subsequently intensely deformed and metamorphosed during multiple collisional events related to east-dipping subduction of the basin.

The VMS deposits typically form lenses of polymetallic massive sulphide. Most deposits are zoned vertically and laterally from a high temperature, vent-proximal, copper-polonium bismuth-rich veined and brecciated core to vent-distal zinc-lead-silver-rich hydrothermal sediments. The vent complex is commonly underlain by a highly deformed sulphide stringer zone that extends hundreds of metres beneath deposits and consists of veins and impregnations of sulphides, silicates, and carbonates that cut chloritized and sericitized volcanic and sedimentary rocks.

The sulphide minerals consist of disseminated and massive pyrite-sphalerite-galena and chalcopyrite. The sulphide minerals are fine- to medium-grained, and are coarser than those typically found in deposits of the BMC.

Disseminated mineralization, commonly of economic grade, occurs in the phyllitic sedimentary rocks as well as in the talc layers which locally grade into massive sulphide. A layer of massive pyrite-chalcopyrite, typically less than 1 m thick, occurs locally on the stratigraphic footwall side of the economic mineralization.

Stratigraphic relationships are based on observations of drill and rock exposures. The copper-rich layer may be in contact with, or grade into pyrite-poor massive sphalerite galena ore that locally is up to a few meters thick (grades average 5 to 15% lead and 15 to 35% zinc). Gangue minerals include muscovite, talc, chlorite, quartz, and carbonates. Many of the copper-rich and lead-zinc-rich massive sulphide layers are separated by talcose or phyllitic zones that commonly carry disseminated sulphide mineralization. Calcite is the most common carbonate, but ferroan dolomite and siderite also are present.


Mining Methods

  • Mechanized Cut & Fill
  • Post Pillar Cut & Fill
  • Sub-level stoping
  • Avoca
  • Sub-level Retreat
  • Longitudinal retreat
  • Cemented backfill


Summary:

At Halfmile, all run-of-mine (RoM) material will be mined by underground mining method. Sublevel open stoping (SLOS) and Sublevel Retreat (SLR) will be the main mining methods planned, supplemented by post pillar cut and fill (PPCF) and mechanized cut and fill (MCF) mining for Upper zone where mineralization dip angle is approximately at 39 degrees. All mining methods will employ either cemented or unconsolidated waste rock as backfill. The mine plan includes 92% of RoM tonnes from SLOS/SLR with down holes (up holes for sill pillar recovery) on 20 m sublevels and cemented or unconsolidated waste rock fill, and 8% of RoM tonnes from PPCF/MCF with unconsolidated waste rock and cemented waste rock (sill level stopes only). There is no permanent sill or rib pillar considered for the SLOS/SLR mining. Limited sill pillars were planned only for the two trial mining opened mining fronts.

At Stratmat, RoM material will be mined by underground mining, too, similar to Halfmile underground mining except there is no PPCF/MCF mining method employed. RoM materials will be directly hauled by 45-tonne capacity underground trucks to Stratmat DMS plant for waste separation.

Due to the complex geometry and variability in strike and dip, the development of a tool box of mining methods is recommended in order to maximize extraction of the Stratmat project.

The most of the S1 Deep zone will tend to use transverse Sublevel open stoping (SLOS) supplemented with longitudinal Sublevel Retrea (SLR) open stope mining method when mineralization width is less than 8–12 m. All other zones will be mining using SLR. A small portion of mineralization can be mined using Uppers such as relatively isolated stope and extremity of strike length. A sub-level spacing of 20 m has been selected for these zones. Backfill for the transverse stopes would be cemented rock fill (CRF) for primary stopes and RF and/or CRF for secondary stopes. Backfill for the longitudinal retreat stopes would be a mix of CRF with RF.

A modified Avoca method could also be utilized in some areas of the Main zone and S1 Shallow zone, instead of the more typical SLR. Modified Avoca is an alternative of longitudinal retreat mining method, which has been successfully implemented in Trevali’s Caribou and Santander operations.


Crushing and Grinding
Crusher / Mill TypeModelSizePowerQuantity
Jaw crusher 1
Cone crusher 1
AG mill 950 kW 1
Ball mill 2 MW 1
Regrind ....................... Subscription required 1 MW 2

Summary:

The RoM production will initially be subjected to primary and secondary crushing at the Stratmat mine site to reduce the rock size to a suitable feed for a dense media separation plant (DMS). This operation will reject barren material from the +3 mm size from the mill feed effectively increasing the mill head grade and reducing the overall operating costs of the concentrator. A Barely Autogenous Grinding (BAG) mill will be used for primary grinding followed by a conventional ball mill for secondary grinding to liberate the minerals to allow flotation to concentrate the metals to
saleable concentrates.

Primary crushing, secondary crushing and screening will be contracted out. The crushed product will be fed to a covered stockpile with a live content of 4,000 tonnes and the DMS plant will be fed using two apron feeders in a tunnel under the stockpile at 175 tonnes per hour. The dense media process is expected to reject 22% of the mass of RoM material in a reject which will be suitable for producing backfill with the addition of the required amount of cement. As only the +3 mm fraction of the RoM material can be upgraded, the -3 mm fraction will be screened out on a wet screen, thickened and the thickener underflow pumped to the ball mill discharge pump box or to a lagoon if the DMS plant is operating and the main plant is down. DMS
upgraded material will be conveyed to a second stockpile with a live content of 3,000 tonnes.

Design feed tonnage to the grinding circuit is 145 tonnes per hour. The BAG mill will operate in closed circuit with a vibrating screen recycling the +5 mm fraction back to the BAG mill. Screen undersize will flow to a secondary ball mill which will operate in closed circuit with 15-inch
diameter cyclones and will grind the material to a P80 of 72 microns.

The upgraded mineralization stockpile will be an insulated structure with 3,000 tonnes of live capacity to allow for operation of the mill during maintenance of the DMS plant or vice versa. A dump point will allow crushed mineralization to be added to this stockpile to completely decouple the operation of the mill from the DMS plant

Primary grinding will be in a BAG mill with a 950 kW motor. A BAG mill is required as the -65 mm maximum size of the mineralization means that there will be no lumps that are large enough to act as media for a semi-autogenous grinding (SAG) mill. A ball mill will not be used because a higher aspect ratio mill is required to ensure that the balls have sufficient energy to break the largest particles at a size that will also provide highly efficient grinding. A double-deck vibrating screen in closed circuit with the BAG mill is included with a designed opening of 5 mm on the lower screen.

Sodium carbonate (soda ash) for pH control and depressants (sodium cyanide and zinc sulfate) will be added to the BAG mill feed to ensure that depression of sphalerite and pyrite occurs as soon as the surfaces are exposed.

A conventional ball mill with a 2 MW motor in closed circuit with a cyclopac having eight 12-inch cyclones will take the BAG mill screen undersize at a P80 in the order of 750 microns and reduce it to the size noted above (P80 of 72 microns) for flotation feed.

Regrinding of the lead/copper rougher and scavenger concentrates and the lead/copper first cleaner scavenger concentrate will be in a M4 (1MW) Isamill.

The zinc regrind mill will be an M4 (1MW) Isamill operated in closed circuit with a cyclopac having 10 five-inch diameter cyclones.


Processing

  • Flotation
  • Dense media separation

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Summary:

The PEA is based on the construction of a new concentrator at the Stratmat site to process both the Stratmat mineralization and the Halfmile mineralization which will be trucked to the Stratmat site. The new concentrator will have a capacity of 3,000 t/d and employ conventional differential flotation technology to produce three saleable metal concentrates of zinc, lead, and copper. For both the metallurgical performance and the operating costs of a new concentrator, reference has been made to the current operations of Trevali at the nearby Caribou Mine.

The DMS plant will be located immediately adjacent and integrated to the primary grinding bay of the concentrator. The RoM material will be crushed and then conveyed to a stockpile with a live capacity of 4,000 tonnes. The stockpile will be covered with walls on three sides. The one open side will make the stockpile accessible to a dozer which will be used to increase the live capacity in freezing conditions. The crushed mate ........

Recoveries & Grades:

CommodityParameterAvg. LOM
Zinc Recovery Rate, %  ......  Subscription required
Zinc Head Grade, % 6.99
Zinc Concentrate Grade, %  ......  Subscription required
Lead Recovery Rate, %  ......  Subscription required
Lead Head Grade, % 2.39
Lead Concentrate Grade, %  ......  Subscription required
Copper Recovery Rate, %  ......  Subscription required
Copper Head Grade, % 0.25
Copper Concentrate Grade, %  ......  Subscription required
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Projected Production:

CommodityUnitsLOM
Zinc kt 1,217
Lead kt  ......  Subscription required
Copper kt  ......  Subscription required
All production numbers are expressed as concentrate.

Operational Metrics:

Metrics
Daily milling capacity 3,000 t *
Annual milling capacity 1.12 Mt of ore *
Tonnes processed, LOM 10,219 kt *
* According to 2017 study.

Reserves at :


Commodity Production Costs:

CommodityUnitsAverage
Assumed price Lead CAD 1.2 / lb *
Assumed price Zinc CAD 1.46 / lb *
Assumed price Copper CAD 3.45 / lb *
* According to 2017 study / presentation.

Operating Costs:

Units2017
Processing costs ($/t milled) CAD 21 *
Total operating costs ($/t milled) CAD  ......  Subscription required
* According to 2017 study.
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2017 Study Costs and Valuation Metrics :

MetricsUnitsLOM Total
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Sustaining CapEx $M CAD  ......  Subscription required
Closure costs $M CAD  ......  Subscription required
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UG OpEx $M CAD  ......  Subscription required
Processing OpEx $M CAD 274
G&A costs $M CAD 155
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Income Taxes $M CAD  ......  Subscription required
Gross revenue (LOM) $M CAD  ......  Subscription required
EBITDA (LOM) $M CAD  ......  Subscription required
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Mine Management:

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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

DocumentYear
................................... Subscription required 2019
Annual Information Form 2018
Financial Review 2017
Preliminary Economic Assessment 2017
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