Cleveland Project – Tasmania
Cleveland Tin Project – Tasmania
Elementos Limited owns 100% of the Cleveland Tin Project in Tasmania, following a merger in 2013 with then unlisted company Rockwell Minerals Limited. The site is located 80km southwest of Burnie in the mineral-rich northwest region of Tasmania, Australia.
An historic mine that already boasts excellent power, water and transport infrastructure, revised JORC Study results for the Cleveland Tin Project were announced on 26 September 2018, indicating a substantial increase in resources.
Site Location
Cleveland Resources
Cleveland Geology
– Stratiform semi-massive sulphide replacement ore lenses within a carbonaceous sedimentary package
– Quartz porphyry hosted tungsten bearing quartz-stockwork, greisen orebody below 350m
– Principle sulphide mineral is pyrrhotite (magnetic) with cassiterite and minor stannite and chalcopyrite
Cleveland Metallurgy
A significant amount of testwork has been carried out on re-treating the significant tailings resource at Cleveland. Tailings recovery testwork to-date has developed a process to a 52% Sn concentrate with a 49% recovery.
Metallurgical testwork is being carried out on recently collected drill core hard rock lode samples to assess improvements in gravity and flotation processes since the underground mine last operated at Cleveland in 1986. The historical hard rock processing circuit produced a 55% Sn concentrate with a 55% recovery.
The proposed Cleveland processing flowsheet
Cleveland Tin Project History
Cleveland Tin Project operated as an underground mine from 1908 – 1917 and more recently by Aberfoyle Resources from 1968 – 1986.
The total ore mined to date is 5.65mt @ 0.68% Sn & 0.28% Cu, producing 23,519t of Sn and 9,691t of Cu.
The mine closed in 1986 due to a collapse in tin price. At that time, the mine was recorded as showing hard rock JORC resources of 7.44mt @ 0.65% Sn & 0.25% Cu and 3.97mt @ 0.28% WO3 remaining to be mined. As mentioned earlier, significantly larger resource was announced on 26 September 2018 following a revised JORC Study.
Historical workings extend more than 400m below the surface. Mechanised sub-level overhead benching mining method was used. The conventional cassiterite recovery process of gravity followed by flotation was engaged, and the mine benefited from underground and surface infrastructure rehabilitation in1990.
