Investigator Resources says its Paris silver deposit on the Eyre Peninsula should be suited to open pit mining INVESTIGATOR Resources expects to release a resource estimate for its Paris project on the Eyre Peninsula next month, and says it should be suited to open pit mining. The company has released assay results for the last 49 holes, with results including 8m at 2.7kg per tonne of silver from 48m down-hole. Managing director John Anderson said work on the resource estimate was almost finished. "We have now delineated a mineralised area at Paris of at least 1100m by about 400m,"" he said. The exciting volcanic crater and breccia geology is new in South Australia and has the potential for internal expansions and along strike extensions that will not be included in the first instance within the maiden resource. "The pleasing aspects of this latest drilling are continuing high-grade silver intersections and the shallow nature of the deposit."" The company said the nature of the mineralisation "does suggest the potential for a low cost, free dig open-pit mining method to be considered in future studies." The Paris silver deposit is generally shallow with mineralisation intersected at depths from a few metres below the surface with much of the mineralisation starting around 40m to 50m beneath the surface. "The soft nature of much of the silver-mineralised host rock indicates that "free-dig" mining may be considered as an alternative to more costly drilling and blasting. "A selection of representative samples has been submitted for laboratory metallurgical test work with results pending."" Investigator shares were steady at 14c.