Southern Arc secures W Lombok property for resumption of drilling in Sept
Friday, August 19 2011 - 01:46 AM WIB
The Provincial Government has assigned the services of the Mobile Police Brigade (MPB), an elite security force used nationally to provide stability in times of unrest and civil disturbance, to maintain security within Southern Arc's tenement area, it claimed. In addition, the company has retained the services of Bryan Disher as a security consultant and appointed him to its Board of Advisors, and has appointed a new Security Coordinator to its West Lombok team.
?MPB has been patrolling the project to make its presence known, and all field teams are accompanied by MPB personnel. When drilling resumes in September, Southern Arc will focus its efforts in one area and then move on to the next, so that security forces can establish a perimeter around the exploration site. Drilling will start with the high-priority Waterfall and Bising targets in the Mencanggah area,? it said.
Technical teams have continued with exploration activities, including recovering and logging core and geologic mapping of the North Mencanggah-South Pelangan area seeking further evidence of epithermal Au-Ag and porphyry Cu-Au mineralization.
Southern Arc currently has three drill rigs on site and expects to receive three more by the end of August, with additional rigs scheduled for delivery in September. The Company expects to be drilling an average of 6,000 metres a month at the West Lombok project by the end of October, and is on track to complete National Instrument 43-101 compliant reports for both Pelangan and Mencanggah in the first half of 2012.
On August 8, a group of demonstrators arrived at Southern Arc?s Mencanggah property and set fire to three drill rigs before proceeding to its Pelangan property, where an additional five rigs were damaged, prompting the company to halt exploration activities. (romel)