Bass Metals on track to expand production from Graphmada

Australian miner Bass Metals on Monday reported that it expected to announce a maiden mineral resource at its Mahefedok deposit, at the Graphmada graphite mine, in Madagascar, during the current quarter. The company recently completed a 2 300 m drilling programme at the deposit, with significant intercepts of soft easily mineable saprolite mineralisation, delivering intercepts of 24.4 m at 4.4% fixed carbon, 16 m at 5.1%, 13.2 m at 5.6% and 7.8 m at 6.6%.