Strategic Minerals joint venture appoints community advisor

Minerals production and development company Strategic Minerals announced on Friday that NAE Resources - its joint venture with New Age Exploration, and owner of the Redmoor Tin and Tungsten project, has entered a consulting arrangement with Jeffrey Harrison as its community advisor for the Redmoor Project.

The AIM-traded firm said Harrison - a fellow of the Australian Institute of Mining, Minerals and a UK member of the Institute of Quarrying - will represent the joint venture in its engagement with the local community and in progressing land access for the planned drilling programme scheduled to start in the first half of 2017.

It said Harrison is an experienced mining engineer, operations manager and general manager, with more than 35 years of experience in the mining industry.

He was recently the operations manager for Wolf Minerals, where he provided similar services that were instrumental in gaining landowner and community support necessary for the development of the Drakelands tungsten mine, commissioned in 2015 and located 40km from the NAE Resources mine site in Devon.

Harrison lives in Cornwall, around 20km from the Redmoor project.

“We are delighted to have secured the services of such an experienced operator, particularly as both Strategic Minerals and New Age Exploration consider this role as critical to our interaction with the Cornish community,” said Strategic Minerals managing director John Peters.

“The appointment, coupled with the company's recent oversubscribed share issue, sees the company in a good position to exercise its option over a further 33.6% of shares in Redmoor and, hence, provide the funds required to undertake the planned drilling programme scheduled for the first half of 2017.”