SKY’s project portfolio offers exposure to the tin market, where a long term growth in prices reflects challenged supply and growing demand amid new applications of the metal. Further details on the tin market can be found here
SKY has strong exposure to the tin market through the 100% ownership of the Tallebung Project in New South Wales. Tallebung stands as an open-pit, technology enabled, near-term tin development. Uniquely placed to provide secure tin supply, to feed irreplaceable and rapidly expanding tin demand, essential in semiconductor, electronics and solar PV technologies.
The Tallebung Tin Project is the site of large-scale historical tin mining in central Western NSW with tin first discovered in the 1890s. SKY is progressively defining a large-scale hardrock tin resource with recent higher-grade tin zones discovered on the margins of the known deposit and exceptional metallurgical performance demonstrated across the entire known deposit.
The shallow, open-pit tin veins combined with the ideal nature of the tin, hosted as large, discrete grains of simple tin-oxide (cassiterite minerals), all ideally lends itself to low-cost tin production advantages, including exceptional X-ray based ore sorting performance, demonstrated to upgrade the tin up to 44x, prior to low-cost gravity separation to produce a saleable tin concentrate
In addition, SKY’s project portfolio offers exposure to gold, copper-gold projects in the world class mining jurisdiction of NSW. SKYs gold exploration strategy is focused on the identification and efficient testing of advanced McPhillamys-type, gold targets in the Late Silurian stratigraphy of NSW. SKYs copper-gold exploration strategy is focused on the identification of advanced projects that can be rapidly expanded by drill testing.
