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Apogee eyes new oxide potential at Pulacayo silver project
By Mineweb · January 31, 2012 · 1:28 am · Leave a Comment
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By Kip Keen
With strong near-surface silver intercepts out today, Apogee Silver (TSX-V: APE) shone the light on the potential to open-pit mine oxides at the Pulacayo project in southwestern Bolivia.
Until recent metallurgical tests proved otherwise, Pulacayo had been an underground mining story with resources exclusively encompassing deeper sulphides beneath a 50- to 100-metre-or-so layer of oxides at surface.
