Avocet Mining PLC Prospectus December 2011

Avocet Mining PLC
West African Projects
hole.
RC
RDG
Reverse Circulation
(RC)
RIL
RL
ROM
RSG
S
Sediment
SOPs
Syama
Th
Stratigraphy
TSX
μm
UTM
UV
VALMIN Code
Vein
VHMS
W
WADS
Wega
Whittle
WGS
XRD
Reverse circulation: Percussion drilling using an air‐cooled bit, cutting the rock into chips
which are flushed to the surface through a double walled pipe by the air pressure.
Avocet Mining’s Resources Development Group.
A percussion drilling technique in which the cuttings are recovered through the drill rods, thus
minimising sample losses and contamination.
Resin in Leach. Ore recovery process.
Reduced Level (same as elevation coordinate).
Run of mine stockpiles. The use of ROM stockpiles is critical to a mining operation by
supplying products with suitable blending specification for a milling operation (e.g. high,
medium and low grade and oxidized and fresh ore or fee milling and refractory ore)
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South.
Rocks formed by the deposition of solids from water.
Avocet Mining Standard Operating Procedures.
Abbreviation for ‘Syama Gold Mine’ located in the Birimian geological Terrain.
Thorium.
Composition, sequence and correlation of stratified rock in the earth's crust.
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Micrometer.
Universal Transverse Mercator.
Ultraviolet ‐ light is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength shorter than that of visible
light, but longer than x‐rays, in the range 10 nm to 400 nm, and energies from 3 eV to 124 eV.
It is so named because the spectrum consists of electromagnetic waves with frequencies
higher than those that humans identify as the colour violet.
Code for the technical assessment and valuation of mineral and petroleum assets and
securities for Independent Expert Reports and is binding on members of the Australasian
Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) and members of the Australian Institute of
Geoscientists (AIG) when preparing public experts reports concerning mineral and petroleum
assets and securities.
Material which was chemically deposited by fluids within a rock fracture. Veins exhibit a range
of textures and minerals, depending primarily on the temperature, depth, and composition of
both the fluid and the host rock. Veins may contain a small amount (