The moderately hard material in all three deposits was judged to be ideally suitable for standard grinding processes.

Strickland Metal managing director Paul L’Herpiniere said: “Polymetallic deposits such as those which occur at Rogozna are very common in the Western Tethyan Belt, including the world-class Zn-Pb-Ag Trepca deposits located in proximity to Rogozna and the Rupice Ag-Zn-Pb-Au-Cu deposit that was recently developed by Adriatic Metals at Vares in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Given the extended history of mining in the region, the successful processing of these deposits using industry-standard flotation techniques has long been established.”

According to management, the program should wrap up by mid-2025 with the findings feeding back into the broader scoping studies for Rogozna due to start later next year.

With four rigs continuing to drill around the clock at Rogozna, exploration work in Serbia is still in full swing. Several holes with assays are still outstanding including, notably, the initial Kotlovi exploration holes, 400m to the south-west of Medenovac.

Enough data is now available from recent drilling at Medenovac to push forward plans for a maiden resource in the new year. Some of the more impressive numbers included a huge 50m intercept at 5.6 g/t gold equivalent as part of an even bigger 365.8m intercept at 2 g/t gold equivalent, which pushed the high-grade zone out to 150m and 60m further to the south.

As the drill rigs continue to pepper the site, Strickland seems to have no problems finding ounces at Rogozna and the early metallurgical signs appear to have ticked all the boxes.

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