MINE’S NEW SURFACE DRILLING PROGRAMME WILL UNEARTH CORNWALL’S HIDDEN TREASURE
Western United Mines Limited will widen its exploration and investigation programme by widespread surface drilling beyond the South Crofty site.As part of a strategy to speed up the process of getting the mine back into full production and pinpointing exactly where the best mineral deposits are, geologists and engineers will be drilling down at specific areas across the county to collect core samples. Final shakedown trials are being carried out at WUM’s base in Pool on two refurbished surface core drill rigs before they are moved to begin drilling in earnest at other sites. The first place