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Celsius Resources Limited — Investor Presentation 2018
Apr 22, 2018
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April 2018
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Disclaimer
This presentation has been prepared by Celsius Resources Limited (“Celsius” or “CLA”). The information contained in this presentation is a professional opinion only and is given in good faith.
The information contained herein is confidential and proprietary to the Company and is provided to recipients on the terms and conditions set out in this disclaimer. The document, in whole or in part, is not to be distributed, copied or reproduced, in any form, without the prior written consent of the Directors of the Company.
Certain information in this presentation has been derived from third parties and though CLA has no reason to believe that it is not accurate, reliable or complete, it has not been independently audited or verified by CLA.
Any forward looking statements included in this presentation involve subjective judgement and analysis and are subject to uncertainties, risks and contingencies, many of which are outside the control of, and maybe unknown to, CLA. In particular they speak only to the date of this presentation, they assume the success of CLA’s strategies, and they are subject to significant regulatory, business, competitive and economic uncertainties and risks. Actual future events may vary materially from the forward looking statements and the assumptions on which these assumptions are based. Recipients of this presentation are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward looking statements.
CLA makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy, reliability or completeness of information in this document and does not take responsibility for updating any information or correcting any errors or omissions which may become apparent after this presentation is released.
To the extent permitted by law, CLA and its officers, employees, related bodies corporate and agents disclaim all liability, direct, indirect or consequential (and whether or not arising out of the negligence, default or lack of care of CLA and/or any of its agents) for any loss or damage suffered by a recipient or other persons arising out of, or in connection with, any use or reliance on this presentation or information. All amounts in AUD unless stated otherwise.
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Corporate
Capital Structure
Directors/Management
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601.9M shares (CLA)
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Brendan Borg (Managing Director)
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70.5M listed options (CLAO – AUD 0.01 strike)
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Bill Oliver (Non Exec Chairman)
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Mkt Cap AUD 134M at $0.20 (CLA+CLAO)
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Pine van Wyk (Non Exec Director)
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Cash - approx. $4.3 million (end Dec, 2017)
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Ranko Matic (Non Exec Director)
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Melanie Ross (Company Secretary)
Major Shareholders
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Gecko Namibia (Pty) Ltd 8.48%
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J P Morgan Nominees 4.27%
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CitiCorp Nominees P/L 3.26%
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Borg Family Super Fund 2.67%
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Featherbed Australia P/L 2.54%
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HSBC Custody Nominees 2.46%
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Pheakes P/L 2.42%
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Brijohn Nominees P/L 2.31%
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Edward Legg (Project Development Manager)
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The Opuwo Advantage
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A long life, reliable source of cobalt and copper.
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Large scale:
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Maiden JORC Indicated and Inferred Mineral Resource:
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112.4 million tonnes at a grade of 0.11% cobalt, 0.41% copper, and 0.43% zinc , at a cutoff grade of 0.06% (or 600 ppm) cobalt, with contained cobalt of 126,100 tonnes.
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Covers a zone of approximately 10 km with mineralization open in all directions.
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Excellent potential for expansion with mineralisation, and grade continuity, already confirmed over more than 15 km of strike, with over 100 km of prospective strike in total.
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• Favourable mineralogy: cobalt and copper sulphide minerals - cobalt as linnaeite (Co3S4).
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Low in deleterious elements: notably arsenic, cadmium and uranium.
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Namibia: mining friendly, politically stable and safe location with excellent infrastructure.
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Ample access to grid power, water and services allows a range of development options.
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Conventional sulphide flotation with high recoveries (~80%).
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Demonstrated high leach recoveries (~95%).
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Targeting cobalt sulphate and copper metal products.
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Scoping Study due late Q2, 2018.
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Cobalt: a commodity in demand
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Substantial price appreciation over past two years to over USD 90,000/tonne.
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Battery Grade cobalt chemicals have seen greater price increases than equivalent LME metal prices.
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Shift of Chinese EV manufacturers towards cobalt based lithium ion batteries.
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DRC dominant source - security and diversity of supply concerns.
Source: InfoMine.com
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Cobalt: Best Exposure to Battery Boom?
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Namibia: A Premier Mining Destination
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Politically & socially stable:
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Strong rule of law.
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National development agenda.
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Walvis Bay Export Processing Zone - favourable tax considerations.
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Excellent project infrastructure:
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Regional capital Opuwo (supplies, airport, hospital).
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Sealed roads from Opuwo to Windhoek and Walvis Bay Port.
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320MW hydro electric power station at Ruacana linked to 330kV power grid.
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66kV and 33kV lines at Project.
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Infrastructure
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Power and water at Project site.
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Excellent road Infrastructure.
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Services in nearby regional capital, Opuwo.
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Walvis Bay Port.
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Project Ownership Structure
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Celsius moved to immediate 95% interest in Opuwo Cobalt Project in September, 2017 (5% loan carried share remains with local Namibian group).
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Gecko Namibia is the largest shareholder of Celsius as a result of the transaction, and subsequent participation in latest capital raising (8.48%).
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New licences surrounding Opuwo totaling approximately 782 km[2] acquired from Gecko Namibia (total project area now approximately 1,470 km[2] ).
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Over 100 km of cobalt-copper prospective horizon now under control of Celsius.
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Gecko is a diversified mining services, mining, and exploration company - currently operating mines in Namibia.
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- Provides Celsius exploration management and drilling services in country.
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Large-scale Cobalt-Copper Targets
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Mineralisation hosted in Neoproterozoic sediments of the Kaoko Belt (the western extension of the Copper Belt in DRC and Zambia).
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Dolomite Ore Formation (DOF) is a carbon rich, marly dolomitic horizon in a sequence of clastic and carbonate lithologies in the upper Ombombo Subgroup.
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Maiden JORC Mineral Resource defined over 10 km strike.
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Mineralisation intersected over a 15 km zone in initial Celsius drilling, confirmed by assays.
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Over 100 km of potentially mineralised strike - large scale Project.
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Potential for additional mineralised zones, adjacent and parallel to known mineralisation.
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Outcrops at surface.
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Low in deleterious elements (As, Cd, U).
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Cobalt present as linnaeite (Co sulphide).
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Other targets: Zn-Pb-V, Cu-Au, Cr-V, Pb-Zn-Ag.
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Maiden JORC Mineral Resource
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The Mineral Resource estimate comprises 112.4 million tonnes at a grade of 0.11% cobalt, 0.41% copper, and 0.43% zinc , at a cutoff grade of 0.06% (or 600 ppm) cobalt. The Mineral Resource estimate represents contained cobalt of 126,100 tonnes and consists of:
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72.0 million tonnes at a grade of 0.11% cobalt, 0.42% copper and 0.41% zinc in the Indicated category, and a further
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40.5 million tonnes at a grade of 0.12% cobalt, 0.41% copper and 0.46% zinc in the Inferred category.
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The resource has been further split by ore type, with over 95% of the Mineral Resource is comprised of the fresh sulphide ore type, a key feature of the Opuwo Project.
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126,100 tonnes of contained cobalt significantly exceeds the Company’s expectation and its previously announced exploration target.
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Mineralised zones comprising the resource are open in all directions, with excellent scope for expansion with further drilling.
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The Mineral Resource will form the basis of the Project Scoping Study for Opuwo, for which key work programs are advancing well, with delivery expected late in Q2, 2018.
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Maiden JORC Mineral Resource Tables
JORC Compliant Indicated and Inferred Mineral Resource
| Category | Ore Type | Cobalt Cut-off |
Tonnage | Cobalt | Copper | Zinc | Contained Cobalt |
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| (ppm) | (Mt) | (%) | (%) | (%) | (t) | ||
| Indicated | Oxide | 600 | 3.8 | 0.10 | 0.39 | 0.36 | 3,900 |
| Transition-Sulphide | 600 | 1.6 | 0.10 | 0.42 | 0.38 | 1,700 | |
| Fresh-Sulphide | 600 | 66.5 | 0.11 | 0.42 | 0.41 | 73,700 | |
| TOTAL INDICATED | 600 | 72.0 | 0.11 | 0.42 | 0.41 | 79,300 | |
| Inferred | Fresh-Sulphide | 600 | 40.5 | 0.12 | 0.41 | 0.46 | 46,900 |
| TOTAL | 600 | 112.4 | 0.11 | 0.41 | 0.43 | 126,100 |
JORC Compliant Indicated and Inferred Mineral Resources at Various Cobalt Cut-off Grades
| Cobalt Cut-off |
Tonnage | Cobalt | Copper | Zinc | Contained Cobalt |
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| (ppm) | (Mt) | (%) | (%) | (%) | (t) |
| 0 | 294.4 | 0.06 | 0.24 | 0.33 | 177,100 |
| 200 | 238.7 | 0.07 | 0.28 | 0.37 | 169,100 |
| 400 | 146.7 | 0.10 | 0.37 | 0.41 | 142,800 |
| 600 | 112.4 | 0.11 | 0.41 | 0.43 | 126,100 |
| 800 | 87.9 | 0.12 | 0.44 | 0.44 | 109,100 |
| 1000 | 66.4 | 0.14 | 0.46 | 0.45 | 89,700 |
| 1200 | 44.7 | 0.15 | 0.49 | 0.46 | 66,000 |
| 1400 | 24.6 | 0.16 | 0.50 | 0.47 | 40,000 |
| 1600 | 9.6 | 0.19 | 0.46 | 0.45 | 17,900 |
| 1800 | 5.5 | 0.20 | 0.45 | 0.42 | 10,900 |
| 2000 | 3.1 | 0.21 | 0.45 | 0.34 | 6,300 |
- Note that minor rounding errors occur in these tables.
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Mineral Resource Grade Tonnage Curve
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Maiden JORC Mineral Resource Block Model
Block Model Extent - Plan View
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Block Model - Resource Classification
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Block Model - Oblique View (+600 ppm)
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Block Model - Oblique View (+1000 ppm)
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Maiden JORC Mineral Resource Cross Sections
Cross Sectional View - Section 365350mE
Cross Sectional View - Section 366350mE
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Simple, sulphide-hosted mineralogy
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Disseminated and vein-hosted sulphides.
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Mineralisation is chalcopyrite (copper), linnaeite (cobalt), sphalerite (zinc) plus iron sulphides (pyrite/pyrrhotite).
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Flotation testing showed up to 88% of cobalt recoverable into sulphide concentrate.
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Closed circuit flotation recoveries of 80% at a concentrate grade of up to 1.5% cobalt.
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Further work planned to establish optimised flotation parameters, which will consider saleable concentrate specifications and downstream leach processing requirements.
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High leach extraction of cobalt and copper
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Employing an approximately 1% cobalt grade flotation concentrate, 8 different leach regimes were explored.
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Cobalt extraction in autoclave oxidative leaches were typically greater than 95% at temperatures of 115, 135 and 155 deg C and 800 kPa oxygen pressure.
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Copper extractions in these leaches were typically greater than 94%.
• Data suggests that the classical processes of copper SX-EW (Solvent extraction, electrowinning) and cobalt sulphate crystallisation can be employed to produce saleable products.
- Process is acid generating - low additional acid requirements.
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Scoping Study Activities
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Project Development Manager (Edward Legg) appointed to manage studies.
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Key consultants appointed:
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Metallurgy - Orway Mineral Consultants (OMC), Hydromet Pty Ltd and SGS Australia.
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CAPEX/OPEX Estimates - Orway Mineral Consultants (OMC).
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Mining Studies – Pivot Mining Consultants (supported by Gecko Namibia).
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Resource Modeling and Estimation - DMT Kai Batla.
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Environmental, water and social studies - SLR Environmental
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Scoping Study targeted for late Q2, 2018 completion.
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Peer Comparison
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Planned Next Steps
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Continue expansion of mineralisation with further drilling (underway).
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Resource modelling and estimation, culminating in reporting of maiden JORC Mineral Resource (delivered in April, 2018).
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Exploration of other targets across the project area (April, 2018).
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Complete and report Project Scoping Study (targeted for late Q2, 2018).
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Commence Pre-Feasibility Study (late Q2, 2018).*
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Extensive infill and extension resource drilling program (late Q2, 2018).*
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Assuming positive Scoping Study outcome
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Competent Persons Statement
Information in this report relating to Exploration Results is based on information reviewed by Mr. Brendan Borg, who is a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and Managing Director of Celsius Resources. Mr. Borg has sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity which he is undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as defined by the 2012 Edition of the Australasian Code for reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves. Mr. Borg consents to the inclusion of the data in the form and context in which it appears. The Exploration Results are based on standard industry practices for drilling, logging, sampling, assay methods including quality assurance and quality control measure as detailed in the ASX announcements referred to in this presentation.
Information in this report relating to Mineral Resource Estimates is based on information prepared by Mr. Dexter Ferreira, who is a Member of the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions, which is a Recognised Professional Organisation (RPO). Mr. Ferreira is a Contract Resource Specialist for DMT Kai Batla Pty. Ltd., who act as Resource Consultants to Celsius. Mr. Ferreira has sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity which he is undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as defined by the 2012 Edition of the Australasian Code for reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves. Mr. Ferreira consents to the inclusion of the data in the form and context in which it appears.
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