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 The Hardshell property is located about 80 kilometres southeast of Tucson, Arizona, approximately 13 kilometres north of the U.S. border with Mexico. The property is 100% owned by Arizona Minerals Inc., which is 80% owned by Wildcat Silver.
Wildcat published an updated mineral resource estimate in early 2010 which increased the size of the resource and upgraded a significant portion to the indicated category. A second update to the mineral resource estimate was published in April 2010. Hardshell is now estimated to contain an indicated resource of 36.2 million ounces of silver and 900 million pounds of manganese, plus an inferred resource of 84.9 million ounces of silver and 7.5 billion pounds of manganese, as detailed below:
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Indicated Mineral Resources |
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Oxide |
Tonnes (000s) |
Ag
(g/t) |
Mn
(%) |
Cu
(%) |
Zn
(%) |
Pb
(%) |
Ag
(M oz) |
Mn
(tonnes) |
Cu
(tonnes) |
Zn(tonnes) |
Pb
(tonnes) |
|
6,004 |
187.8 |
6.83 |
0.10 |
1.03 |
1.06 |
36.2 |
410,000 |
6,000 |
62,000 |
64,000 |
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Inferred Mineral Resources |
|
Oxide |
Tonnes (000s) |
Ag
(g/t) |
Mn
(%) |
Cu
(%) |
Zn
(%) |
Pb
(%) |
Ag
(M oz) |
Mn
(tonnes) |
Cu
(tonnes) |
Zn
(tonnes) |
Pb(tonnes) |
|
39,268 |
61.0 |
7.66 |
0.06 |
1.55 |
1.13 |
77.0 |
3,009,000 |
22,800 |
609,000 |
445,000 |
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Sulphide |
6,999 |
35.0 |
5.77 |
0.10 |
2.25 |
2.04 |
7.9 |
404,000 |
7,000 |
157,000 |
143,000 |
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