Empire Metals Ltd (LON:EEE) managing director Shaun Bunn sits down with Proactive’s Tylah Tully to discuss the recently completed diamond drilling programme at the Pitfield Project in Western Australia. This phase focused on the Thomas and Cosgrove exploration target areas, with a total of 679 metres drilled across five holes. The drilling identified significant zones of weathered saprolite material, nearly double the depth encountered in previous drilling. The data will support the development of a maiden Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) planned for 2025. Key findings include deeper weathered zones, which are highly friable and soft, promising easier mining conditions and reduced energy consumption for processing. The excellent recovery of core samples enables comprehensive metallurgical testwork, including hardness, grindability tests and mineral separation to evaluate titanium extraction. Ongoing gravity testwork and further mineral separation processes will continue in the coming months, alongside hydrometallurgical testing. Core logging revealed highly weathered bedded sandstones, indicating advantageous mining conditions due to the soft and friable nature of the material. Further drilling, along with the metallurgical and geological data gathered, will help refine the geological model and reduce the cost of future drilling aimed at defining a large-scale MRE. #ProactiveInvestors #EmpireMetals #LON #Mining #Australia #Titanium #PitfieldProject #Geology #DiamondDrilling #Metallurgy #MineralResource #CoreDrilling #Exploration #WesternAustralia #TitaniumExtraction #Saprolite #RCDrilling #EnergyEfficiency #Comminution #Anatase #MineralSeparation #Hydrometallurgy #MiningTechnology