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DEEP YELLOW LIMITED — Capital/Financing Update 2008
Jun 15, 2008
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Capital/Financing Update
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Monday, June 16, 2008
Company Announcements ASX Limited
WCP RESOURCES TO ACQUIRE DEEP YELLOW’S SHERRIN CREEK QUEENSLAND PHOSPHATE INTERESTS
WCP Resources Ltd (ASX Code: WCP) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Superior Uranium Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Deep Yellow Limited (ASX Code: DYL), to earn a 100% interest in all minerals of the Queensland tenement EPM 16007 with the exception of any uranium and associated deposit minerals.
The EPM 16007 tenement - 70 kilometres northwest of Mount Isa - covers 351 square kilometres in an area with phosphate deposits in the Georgina Basin, Queensland.
Previous drilling undertaken on EPM 16007 has returned encouraging intercepts of P2O5 with hole Y105 containing 14.5 metres of 12.93% P2O5 from 16.8 metres depth, including 9.9 metres at 15.38% P2O5 from 19 metres depth ; and hole SC27 containing 11.9 metres at 15.41% P2O5 from 33.8 metres which includes 7.9 metres at 21.71% P2O5 from the same depth.
WCP Resources will undertake a comprehensive evaluation of all existing exploration data which includes geological mapping, airborne and ground geophysical surveys and percussion drilling.
This work will facilitate the implementation of a strategic exploration program designed to quantify the potential of the licence to host an economic phosphate resource.
“To join companies such as Legend International Holdings, Inc and others that aim to develop the Georgina Basin into a world class Phosphate producing region, is very exciting for WCP,” the Company said today.
“Development potential for the area is enhanced by phosphate prices which are at 30 year highs,” the Company said.
“World demand has risen substantially for fertilizer - a primary use of phosphate rock – and there is a shortage of good quality phosphate rock and phosphate to meet increased global demand particularly in China, India and Latin America.”
WCP Resources Ltd ABN 50 002 664 495 www.wcpresources.com.au
Level 1, 161 Sussex Street Sydney NSW 2000
Ph: +61 2 9248 6900 Fax: +61 2 9262 1559
Email: [email protected]
Terms of the Agreement
The transaction terms provide for WCP to earn a 100% interest in all minerals contained within EPM 16007, with the exception of any uranium and associated deposit minerals which shall remain 100% owned by Deep Yellow, via an upfront payment of $100,000 worth of WCP’s ordinary shares at a price equal to the Company’s 5 day VWAP; and an additional payment of $250,000 worth of WCP’s ordinary shares at a price equal to the Company’s 5 day VWAP in the event it elects to retain its interest in twelve months time. WCP is responsible to ensure that the statutory expenditure levels and annual work programs for the tenement are met.
EPM 16007
EPM 16007, covering an area of 351 square kilometres, is situated 70 kilometres northwest of Mount Isa. Approximately 155 square kilometres of this licence is underlain by marine sediments of the Beetle Creek Formation. The Beetle Creek Formation, comprised of phosphatic siltstones and cherts overlying limestone, basal sandstone and conglomerate, is understood to have formed within Early Cambrian depositional centres caused by rifting in the southern regions of the intracratonic Georgina Basin. The Georgina Basin covers some 330,000 square kilometres and spans the Northern Territory and Queensland border.
This licence surrounds Legend International Holdings, Inc exploration licence (EPM 14912) to the northeast, east and southeast, which contains three phosphorite deposits, namely Lily Creek, Engine Creek and Sherrin Creek. These sediments have been explored for their phosphate potential in numerous stages since the late 1960’s and the three deposits are reported to contain historic non-complaint mineral resources of 336 Mt at a grade of 15.7% P2O5[1] .
Percussion drilling undertaken on EPM 16007 during 1968 and 1969 has returned encouraging intercepts of P2O5 as summarised in the table below and detailed in Appendix 1. Preliminary assessment of this drilling indicates variably mineralised phosphatic sediments to extend in a discontinuous belt trending northwest-southeast across the western portion of the licence where there is a general increase in grade and depth towards the southeast.
| Hole Number | Interval | P2O5 | Depth From |
|---|---|---|---|
| (m) | (%) | (m) | |
| Y060 | 24.38 | 5.45 | 9.14 |
| Includes | 6.10 | 13.06 | 16.76 |
| Y105 | 14.48 | 12.93 | 15.24 |
| Includes | 9.91 | 15.38 | 19.05 |
| Y106 | 19.05 | 4.84 | 12.95 |
| Y176 | 21.34 | 3.18 | 24.38 |
| Y177 | 19.81 | 4.56 | 16.76 |
| Y208 | 15.24 | 6.30 | 12.19 |
| Includes | 8.38 | 9.74 | 14.48 |
| SC27 | 11.89 | 15.41 | 33.83 |
| Includes | 7.92 | 21.71 | 33.83 |
Note[1] : Queensland Minerals 2006, Sherrin Creek , Queensland Minerals, viewed 14 June 2008, http://www.vizmap.com/NRM/Commodities/494100.htm and Queensland Minerals 2006, Lily Creek , Queensland Minerals, viewed 14 June 2008
http://www.vizmap.com/NRM/Commodities/494076.htm
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For further information contact WCP Resources on +61 (0)2 9248 6900:
Gavin Daneel General Manager Operations Greg Martyr Executive Director Levi Mochkin Executive Director
Competent Person Declaration
The information in this document that relates to Exploration Results, Mineral Resources or Ore Reserves is based on information compiled by Mr Gavin Daneel, who is a Member of The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Mr Daneel 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 in the 2004 Edition of the ‘Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves’. Mr Daneel, who is a full-time employee of the Company, consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.
Notes to accompany Appendix 1 below:
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Coordinates are GDA94, Zone 54
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Intercepts quoted above have been composited for each cut off over a minimum of 1 metres and included dilution of greater than, or equal to, 0.001% P2O5 over less than or equal to 1 metres.
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Intervals set out in this release are downhole lengths and not true widths. Holes were all drilled at a horizontal declination of -90 degrees and intersected the overall target zone at an average angle of approximately 90 degrees indicating the downhole lengths are approximately 100% of the true widths.
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Appendix 1. Summary of assay results from percussion drillholes drilled by earlier explorers in 1968 and 1969 on the Sherrin Creek area that fall within EPM 16007.
| Hole Number |
Easting | Northing | Azimuth/Dip | Depth From |
Depth To |
Interval | P2O5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (m) | (m) | (degrees) | (m) | (m) | (m) | (%) | |
| (0% P2O5 cutoff) | |||||||
| Y060 | **275214.9 ** | 7755283.0 | 0/-90 | 9.14 | 33.53 | 24.38 | 5.45 |
| Y062 | 277792.3 | 7757496.7 | 0/-90 | 19.05 | 27.43 | 8.38 | 1.01 |
| Y105 | **276212.5 ** | 7754037.7 | 0/-90 | 15.24 | 29.72 | 14.48 | 12.93 |
| Y106 | 275159.4 | 7754231.5 | 0/-90 | 12.95 | 32.00 | 19.05 | **4.84 ** |
| Y175 | 275270.5 | 7756295.3 | 0/-90 | 18.29 | 30.48 | 12.19 | 2.94 |
| Y176 | **276673.5 ** | 7756247.6 | 0/-90 | 24.38 | 45.72 | **21.34 ** | 3.18 |
| Y177 | **276561.9 ** | 7755212.9 | 0/-90 | 16.76 | 36.58 | **19.81 ** | 4.56 |
| Y180 | 276721.5 | 7758508.1 | 0/-90 | 25.91 | 39.62 | 13.72 | 0.64 |
| Y208 | **277863.9 ** | 7753671.1 | 0/-90 | 12.19 | 27.43 | 15.24 | 6.30 |
| SC1A | 276802.0 | 7751348.3 | 0/-90 | 21.34 | 23.16 | 1.83 | 3.12 |
| SC25 | 288124.1 | 7739717.0 | 0/-90 | 23.77 | 24.99 | 1.22 | 2.93 |
| SC25 | 26.21 | 30.18 | 3.96 | 5.25 | |||
| SC27 | **283067.9 ** | 7738045.1 | 0/-90 | 33.83 | 45.72 | 11.89 | 15.41 |
| SC28 | 286315.1 | 7738084.4 | 0/-90 | 23.77 | 26.82 | 3.05 | 3.84 |
| SC29 | 289533.4 | 7738114.1 | 0/-90 | 26.82 | 34.44 | 7.62 | 7.59 |
| (5% P2O5 cutoff) | |||||||
| Y060 | 10.67 | 12.95 | 2.29 | 14.57 | |||
| Y060 | 16.76 | 22.86 | 6.10 | 13.06 | |||
| Y105 | 16.00 | 29.72 | 13.72 | 13.52 | |||
| Y106 | 15.24 | 17.53 | 2.29 | 8.73 | |||
| Y106 | 19.05 | 25.15 | 6.10 | 9.41 | |||
| Y175 | 24.38 | 25.91 | 1.52 | 7.10 | |||
| Y176 | 25.15 | 32.77 | 7.62 | 8.15 | |||
| Y177 | 17.53 | 21.34 | 3.81 | 10.38 | |||
| Y177 | 22.86 | 25.91 | 3.05 | 6.78 | |||
| Y208 | 14.48 | 22.86 | 8.38 | 9.74 | |||
| SC25 | 26.21 | 27.43 | 1.22 | 8.18 | |||
| SC27 | 33.83 | 41.76 | **7.92 ** | 21.71 | |||
| SC29 | 26.82 | 34.14 | 7.32 | 7.72 | |||
| (10% P2O5 cutoff) | |||||||
| Y060 | 10.67 | 12.19 | 1.52 | 17.65 | |||
| Y060 | 16.76 | 19.05 | 2.29 | 13.93 | |||
| Y060 | 20.57 | 22.10 | 1.52 | 19.80 | |||
| Y105 | 16.00 | 17.53 | 1.52 | 13.55 | |||
| Y105 | 19.05 | 28.96 | **9.91 ** | 15.38 | |||
| Y106 | 19.05 | 20.57 | 1.52 | 11.05 | |||
| Y176 | 30.48 | 32.00 | 1.52 | 11.55 | |||
| Y177 | 18.29 | 20.57 | 2.29 | 12.10 | |||
| Y208 | 16.00 | 19.05 | 3.05 | 18.20 | |||
| SC27 | 33.83 | 41.76 | **7.92 ** | 21.71 | |||
| SC29 | 28.04 | 29.26 | 1.22 | 13.75 |