In September 2009 MMG announced a $6 million 18 month program that aims to identify new zinc deposits for future feed sources for the Century processing operations. The program will explore targets on and around the Century mine lease which have the potential to contain repetitions of the shale hosted, straitform-style Century deposit. Numerous vein-style zinc, lead and silver deposits in the region are being investigated.
The program demonstrates MMG's commitment to exhaustively explore all leases near the mine to identify alternative feed sources that could continue utilisation of the site's infrastructure beyond the current life of mine, which is approximately 2015.