CleanTech Vanadium Mining (CTV.V) started a diamond-core drilling program at its Campbell-Crotser fluorspar project in the Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District (IKFD), it said on Friday.
The initial program comprises eight diamond-core drill holes totaling about 9,000 feet, with the potential to extend to a further eight holes, it said. The program is designed to delineate "sufficient" mineralized material to define an initial underground mine plan and to establish the first year of raw fluorspar feed to a planned 500-ton-per-day (tpd) flotation processing plant to produce 97% acid grade fluorspar commercial product.
The program is scheduled to start on Aug. 1, 2026, with the initial program designed for completion by the end of January 2027. Conceptual size-target of the program is between 150,000 and 250,000 tons of raw calcium fluoride materials (CaF2) at about 35% CaF2 based on results from 77 historic drill holes, it said.
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