Avalon switches to copper-only focus at Viscaria

A scoping study into the Viscaria copper project, in Sweden, has confirmed that a copper-only development could be justified. In 2013, project owner Avalon Minerals conducted a scoping study on the copper and iron potential at the Viscaria project, which revealed that an openpit mining operation could produce between 15 000 t/y and 22 000 t/y of copper, based on a production rate of 3.5-million tonnes a year and a mine-life of some 10.3 years.