North River lifts Namib resource to 1.25Mt

An extensive underground drilling programme over the last six months at North River Resources’ Namib lead-zinc mine, in Namibia, has increased the project’s Joint Ore Reserve Committee-compliant mineral resource estimate 36% to 1.25-million tons. Within this, indicated resources had increased 33% to 877 000 t, at 2.7% lead, 6% zinc and 44.4 g/t sulphide minerals.