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DEVELOP GLOBAL LIMITED — Capital/Financing Update 2010
Nov 18, 2010
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Venturex to Acquire New HighGrade Gold Project In Brazil’s Western Tapajós Gold Province
Key Points:
ASX Announcement ASX Code: VXR Released: 19 November 2010
For further details Dr Tim Sugden Managing Director T: +61 8 6389 7400 M: +61 407 085 032 [email protected]
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Multiple high-grade gold assays ranging up to 254g/t Au.
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Mineralised structures up to three kilometres in strike length.
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Style of mineralisation similar to the 2Moz Tocantinzinho discovery located 120km to the northeast.
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Exploration leases controlled or under application by Venturex form a contiguous land package with a total area of 19,700 hectares.
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Venturex now controls five gold exploration projects in the states of Para and Mato Grosso covering a total area of 92,500 hectares.
Venturex Resources Limited (ASX: VXR) is pleased to announce that it has acquired the rights to a significant new high-grade gold project in the Western Tapajós Gold Province in the State of Para in Brazil – an underexplored but highly prospective region with excellent discovery potential.
The acquisition, through its 100%-owned Brazilian subsidiary, CMG Mineração Limitada (CMGM), increases Venturex’s strategic ground holding in central Brazil, where it now controls five gold exploration projects, to 92,500 hectares.
Board
Tony Kiernan Chairman
Tim Sugden Managing Director
Michael Mulroney Non-Executive Director
Allan Trench Non-Executive Director
Anthony Reilly Executive Director
Liza Carpene Company Secretary
The new project provides an attractive new gold exploration opportunity for Venturex in Brazil, to be pursued in parallel with its flagship Pilbara VMS Copper Project in Western Australia.
The Serra Verde Project, which has been operated for over thirty years as a small-scale alluvial artisanal mining operation from high-grade epithermal and mesothermal vein systems, has the potential to host multiple high-grade gold deposits.
The Project is located 120km from the Tocantinzinho granitehosted disseminated deposit, which contains an NI 43-101 compliant Measured and Indicated Mineral Resource of 2.1 million ounces of gold. This Project was recently acquired by Eldorado Gold for US$124 million.
Contact Details
Registered Office Suite 3, Level 1 127 Cambridge Street West Leederville WA 6007
T: +61 8 6389 7400 F: +61 8 9463 7836 [email protected] www.venturexresources.com
ABN: 28 122 180 205
Venturex Resources Limited believes the Tapajós Gold Province, and in particular the Western area, is one of Brazil’s most exciting and underexplored regions with potential for further significant gold and base metal discoveries.
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Location of CMGM’s Gold Projects in Mato Grosso and Para
THE SERRA VERDE TENEMENTS
Exploration leases 850835-884 are under application by CMGM. The Company understands that these will be gazetted by the DNPM within 60 days.
Exploration leases 850336, 850173 and prospecting licences 850174-180 are under application by CMGM Director, Mr Jonas Ferreira da Silva. On grant, these will be transferred to CMGM for zero consideration.
In parallel to these applications, CMGM has executed an Agreement with João Batista da Silva Ferreira to acquire tenements 850359 and 850564.
The following consideration to João Batista da Silva Ferreira is contingent on the gazetting of the central ELAs (850835 – 884) currently under application:
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Total cost of cash payments over four years of BRL$925k (BRL$250k in Year 1, followed by equal instalments of BRL$225k in Years 2-4);
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payment on Mining Approval of BRL$2.0mil and
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a production royalty of 1.5%
Anytime after the second year CMGM may pay out the remaining instalments or withdraw from the Agreement at no further cost.
THE WESTERN TAPAJÓS GOLD PROVINCE
The Western Tapajós Gold Province is the western portion of the Archean-Proterozoic Amazon Craton covering an area of around 135,000km[2 ]
Widespread alluvial gold has been recovered by artisanal miners using primitive methods for over 30 years. Placer concentrations confirm the potential of the Tapajós Gold Province with over 600 tonnes of alluvial gold estimated to have been produced in the last 40 years.
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Primary gold deposits include Tocantinzinho, Palito, São Jorge, Cuiu Cuiu, Creporrizinho, Ouro Roxo, V3 and Jatai, all of which are within 250km of the Serra Verde Project.
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The Western Tapajós Gold Province
SERRA VERDE PROJECT AREA
The Serra Verde Project is located 350km from the town of Novo Progresso and 400km from the town of Itaituba which are major service centres for exploration and mining activities.
Existing small-scale artisanal operations at Serra Verde provide an established base for exploration activities. The project area is approximately 20km from the nearest town of Crepori and can be accessed by light aircraft in 10 minutes or by off road vehicles within two hours.
Preliminary exploration activities by CMGM geologists, including surface sampling, mapping and monitoring of current small scale production have confirmed the potential of the Serra Verde Project area to host multiple high grade gold deposits.
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The Serra Verde tenements (under transfer or application)
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Assay results >0.2g/t in the central Serra Verde Project area.
The Serra Verde area has been continuously operating for over thirty years with production from both alluvial and bedrock sources. Currently small scale production is centred on high grade epithermal to mesothermal vein systems hosted by deformed Palaeoproterozoic Plutonic rocks of the Parauarai Suite and Creporizao Suite and medium to high grade metamorphic rocks of the Cuiu Cuiu Complex.
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Veins in the current operations area are typically E-W trending and are interpreted as dilational structures within the northwest trending regional shear zones in the Crepori Structural Zone.
Of 91 bedrock samples assayed, 29 values exceeded 1g/t Au and 10 exceeded 31.1g/t Au (one ounce per tonne). The highest grade returned to date is 254g/t Au. Most of the high grade samples are from quartz-sulphide veins approximately one metre wide. The veins form sub-parallel sets or irregular stockworks. The altered granite hosts rocks are also mineralised, returning gold grades of up to 100g/t Au.
EXPLORATION PROGRAM
With the addition of the Serra Verde project, CMGM now controls five quality project areas within the states of Mato Grosso and Para covering a total area of ~92,500 hectares.
Over the next six months CMGM will focus on high-grade exploration opportunities at the Serra Verde Project as well as the Rio Pombo Project in northern Mato Grosso. Recent trench sampling results at Rio Pombo include two metres grading 17.9g/t Au and two metres grading 37.5g/t Au. An RC drilling program is anticipated in the first half of 2011.
At Serra Verde, a comprehensive sampling program will be undertaken over the entire lease area in parallel with a trenching program over the exposed mineralised structures. This will assist in the definition of targets for a drilling program for possible start up at the end of the wet season in 2011.
TIM SUGDEN Managing Director
For further information, please contact:
Tim Sugden / Liza Carpene – Venturex Resources Limited on (08) 6389 7400 Nicholas Read / Paul Armstrong – Read Corporate on (08) 9388 1474
About Venturex Resources Limited
Venturex Resources Limited (ASX: VXR) is an Australian base metals and gold exploration and development company with a portfolio of VMS projects in the Western Pilbara of Western Australia. Venturex owns or controls the Whim Creek Copper Mine and all associated mining leases and exploration tenements including copper, zinc, lead, silver and gold resources at Whim Creek, Mons Cupri, Salt Creek and Liberty‐Indee. Other assets include the Whim Creek Hotel, an accommodation village, crushing circuit and various mining infrastructure. The Company is committed to a strategy of consolidating VMS projects in the Western Pilbara and developing Whim Creek as a centralised processing hub. Venturex is also exploring for gold in Brazil through its wholly owned subsidiary CMG Mineração Ltda.
Competency Statement
The information in this report that relates to Exploration Results is based on information compiled Dr Tim Sugden who is a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Dr Sugden is a fulltime employee of Venturex Resources Limited and has sufficient experience relevant to the style of mineralisation, 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”. Dr Sugden consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on their information in the form and context in which it appears.
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SAMPLING RESULTS
| SAMPLING RESULTS | SAMPLING RESULTS | SAMPLING RESULTS | SAMPLING RESULTS | SAMPLING RESULTS | SAMPLING RESULTS | SAMPLING RESULTS |
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| SERRA VERDE SIGNIFICANT GOLD RESULTS ASSAYS > 0.2ppm Au |
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| Sample ID |
Type | UTM_ North |
UTM_ East |
Prospect | Comments | Gold **Ppm ** |
| 93939 | Rock Chip | 9234465 | 501135 | Morro Vermelho |
1m sample of 50cm wide pyritic quartz vein in mafic saprolite |
2.49 |
| 93947 | Rock Chip | 9232426 | 499825 | Fofoca Nova |
50 cm sample of 20 cm wide quartz vein in andesitic basalt, Silicified and sulphidised. |
29.90 |
| 93948 | Rock Chip | 9231253 | 500168 | Fofoca Velha |
Red brown clayey colluvium and minor ferruginous saprolite |
0.41 |
| 93951 | Rock Chip | 9234465 | 501129 | Morro Vermelho |
Intensely ferruginised 80 cm wide quartz vein with, +70% oxides after pyrite |
1.19 |
| 93952 | Rock Chip | 9234465 | 501123 | Morro Vermelho |
1m sample of 40 cm quartz vein with epithermal textures, silica banding and vugs. Wallrock is ferruginous saprolite with numerous ironoxide stringers |
4.71 |
| 93954 | Rock Chip | 9234465 | 501110 | Morro Vermelho |
Dark red saprolite, 1m sample of 40cm wide vein |
0.97 |
| 93955 | Tailings | 9231090 | 497928 | Doca | Quartz sand and reject material. 2mchannelsample |
7.61 |
| 93956 | Rock Chip | 9231090 | 497928 | Doca | Saprolitic green-grey altered granite, with +5% disseminated sulphides (pyrite and chalcopyrite). 1msample. |
2.06 |
| 93957 | Rock Chip | 9231090 | 497928 | Doca | Highly altered, mineralised granite with +10% pyrite. 60 cm sample of 20 cm widevein |
2.57 |
| 93958 | Rock Chip | 9231090 | 497928 | Doca | Pyrite+chalcopyrite+quartz vein.40cm sample of 30cm wide vein |
12.95 |
| 93961 | Rock Chip | 9233248 | 499318 | Ceara | Intensely silicified granite -, 1 m sample |
0.24 |
| 93965 | Rock Chip | 9231090 | 497928 | Doca | 80 cm quartz vein with 50% iron oxide boxworks after sulphides. Granitic saprolite host . Sample collected over 2mchannel. |
0.29 |
| 93966 | Rock Chip | 9233514 | 499518 | Badu | Grey siliceous quartz vein with vuggy and cockade quartz textures. Minor iron oxide on fractures. Sample over 2mof 1.5m vein |
1.44 |
| 93969 | Rock Chip | 9231253 | 500168 | Fofoca Velha |
Altered granite with ferruginous material in fractures. 2m channel sample ofalteredmaterial. |
100.00 |
| 93972 | Rock Chip | 9233961 | 499299 | Badu | Epithermal-style quartz vein material. Fine cockade quartz with grey-white-pink banding. Samples produce visible gold when dollied. 1.5msample of 1.2m widevein. |
2.08 |
| 93973 | Rock Chip | 9233957 | 499296 | Badu | 1.56 | |
| 93974 | Rock Chip | 9231241 | 500179 | Fofoca Velha |
Quartz vein with minor pyrite and visible gold, panned +100 points from 200gm sample. 80cm wide sample of 40cm widevein. |
124.50 |
| 93975 | Rock Chip | 9231241 | 500180 | Fofoca Velha |
Quartz vein with minor pyrite and visible gold, panned +100 points from 200gm sample. 80cm wide sample of 40cm widevein. |
254.00 |
| 93976 | Rock Chip | 9234485 | 501137 | Morro Vermelho |
Vuggy quartz vein with cockade textures in coarse grained sericite and andesitic basalt. 70cm wide sample of 70cm widevein. |
3.92 |
| 93977 | Tailings | 9231140 | 493980 | Agua Suja |
Reject sand and sulphide. Large pit water-filled pit, currently inaccessible, Host was highly sulphidic quartz veinup to 3m wide. |
9.75 |
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| SERRA VERDE SIGNIFICANT GOLD RESULTS ASSAYS > 0.2ppm Au |
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| Sample ID |
Type | UTM_ North |
UTM_ East |
Prospect | Comments | Gold **Ppm ** |
| 93979 | Rock Chip | 9231241 | 500180 | Fofoca Velha |
Red saprolite in cutting after granite, small stockwork veins and suphide stringers, subparallel to veins. 2m wide sample adjacent to 60cm widevein. |
0.21 |
| 93980 | Rock Chip | 9231241 | 500175 | Fofoca Velha |
Vein stockwork with ferruginous staining after sulphides Numerous narrow veins less than one centimetre, sample 5veins over 2m. |
0.54 |
| 93981 | Rock Chip | 9231241 | 500178 | Fofoca Velha |
Vuggy ferruginous quartz vein producing visible gold when panned. 1m sample of vein and wallrock60cm widevein |
87.70 |
| 93982 | Rock Chip | 9231241 | 500171 | Fofoca Velha |
Red saprolite in cutting. No significant veining, Disseminated oxides afterpyrite. |
19.00 |
| 93892 | Rock Chip | 9231258 | 500170 | Fofoca_ Velha |
70cm wide quartz vein with wallrock alteration. 1.2m wide sample of veinandwallrock. |
40.10 |
| 335680 | Rock Chip | 9230620 | 499430 | Apaxionada | East west strike numerous veins with strong alteration ingranite. |
1.86 |
| 335682 | Rock Chip | 9230620 | 499430 | Apaxionada | East west strike numerous veins with strong alteration ingranite. |
2.11 |
| 335683 | Rock Chip | 9230620 | 499430 | Apaxionada | East west strike numerous veins with strong alteration ingranite. |
0.28 |
| 335684 | Rock Chip | 9230663 | 499738 | Paraiba | Shaft mined on sulphidic quartz vein 1.2m wide sample of 2m wide structure including wallrock alteration. |
39.60 |
| 335685 | Rock Chip | 9230639 | 499729 | Paraiba | 1m wide quartz vein dip exposed in shaft. Dips 80 degrees to 300 within sheared granitic wallrock |
56.80 |
| 335691 | Tailings | 9231190 | 500233 | Fofoca Velha |
Tailings composed mainly of granitoid which is being washed to enter main vein. |
0.39 |
| 335692 | Tailings | 9231183 | 500231 | Fofoca Velha |
0.39 | |
| 335693 | Tailings | 9231174 | 500230 | Fofoca Velha |
0.67 | |
| 335701 | Rock Chip | 9231293 | 500188 | Fofoca Velha |
Vein with visible gold currently mined This is third subparallel vein at Fofoca Velha to produce high grade results. 1m sample of 70cm vein. |
145.80 |
| 335706 | Rock Chip | 9231291 | 500184 | Fofoca Velha |
Altered granite adjacent to Paulistas vein, goethite stained, sericite and pink feldspar alteration. Vein is 80cm sample with 2m channeltakenadjacent tovein |
0.39 |
| 335707 | Rock Chip | 9231291 | 500185 | Fofoca Velha |
0.25 | |
| 335709 | Rock Chip | 9230818 | 498826 | Ceara | Sample of vein and altered wallrock, 10% pyrite in wallrock .Strong sericite alteration. 1m sample of 1.2m vein. |
0.35 |
| 335710 | Rock Chip | 9230818 | 498825 | Ceara | 1.40 | |
| 335713 | Rock Chip | 9231293 | 500188 | Fofoca Velha |
Shallow working on mineralised vein, 50-70cm wide 1m samples. |
43.90 |
| 335714 | Rock Chip | 9231293 | 500188 | Fofoca Velha |
90.40 | |
| 335715 | Rock Chip | 9231076 | 498381 | Doca East |
2 m wide vein and alteration zone. Pyrite with minor chalcopyrite. Sampleisfromtrench 2.5m long. |
0.84 |
| 335716 | Rock Chip | 9231078 | 498383 | Doca East |
Sericite green and pink orthoclase alteration. 20% pyrite. Vein sample is 2m wide and includes 80cm wide vein. |
1.91 |
| 335717 | Rock Chip | 9230992 | 497858 | Doca West |
Sulphidic quartz vein .50m wide trending 250. Small veins in granite at 340 |
0.75 |
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| SERRA VERDE SIGNIFICANT GOLD RESULTS ASSAYS > 0.2ppm Au |
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| Sample ID |
Type | UTM_ North |
UTM_ East |
Prospect | Comments | Gold **Ppm ** |
| 335720 | Rock Chip | 9233740 | 501158 | Buceta Groto |
Quartz vein with minor sulphides hosted by andesite and granite. 70cm vein structure. 1.5m sample |
0.21 |
| 335727 | Rock Chip | 9231050 | 497808 | Doca West |
Light green sericitic alteration rock _. 20% disseminated pyrite. 270 strike. |
0.38 |
| 335728 | Rock Chip | 9231050 | 497808 | Doca West |
Pyritic green altered rock. | 0.33 |
| 335729 | Rock Chip | 9231050 | 497808 | Doca West |
Pyritic medium grained granite. | 0.27 |
| 335734 | Rock Chip | 9230604 | 499399 | Apaixonada | 0.5m wide pyritic quartz vein | 2.48 |
| 335735 | Rock Chip | 9230597 | 499432 | Apaixonada | Saprolite sample from wallrock only 5% dissseminated pyrite and 5% stockwork veins. |
0.29 |
| 335736 | Rock Chip | 9230592 | 499452 | Apaixonada | Extension of 355733 vein, 4m wide sample with wallrock. |
0.37 |
| 335737 | Rock Chip | 9232144 | 500813 | Batata | 1.1m wide quartz vein hosted by medium grained granitoid.20% pyrite. |
1.08 |
| 335739 | Rock Chip | 9231350 | 500867 | Saracura Vein |
Quartz sericite vein with minor pyrite, 1.2m wide with 1 m wide selvedge’s. |
0.88 |
All assays were prepared by ACME Analitica Laboratorios Ltd in Goiania Brazil and assayed using a 30gm Fire Assay at the ACME Laboratory in Santiago Chile.
TENEMENT SCHEDULE
| Tenement Name |
Type | Area | **Applicant/Owner ** | Grant Date | Annual Rent | **Other ** |
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| ha | $BRL | Dealings | ||||
| 850564 | EL | 9,302.28 | João Batista da Silva Ferreira |
TBA | 18,790 | UNDER TRANSFER TO CMGM |
| 850359 | ELA | ~2,500 | João Batista da Silva Ferreira |
TBA | 5,050 | AWAITING DNPM GRANT. To be transferred to CMGM . |
| 850336 | ELA | ~1,170 | Jonas Ferreira da Silva (Director CMGM) |
TBA | 2,364 | AWAITING DNPM GRANT |
| 850173 | ELA | 3,847.49 | Jonas Ferreira da Silva |
TBA | 7,771 | AWAITING DNPM GRANT |
| 850174 - 180 | PLA's | 350 | Jonas Ferreira da Silva |
TBA | PL's are free from Annual rents |
AWAITING DNPM GRANT |
| 850835 - 884 | ELA's | ~2,500 | CMGM | TBA | 5,050 | AWAITING DNPM GRANT CMGM IS THE ONLY APPLICANT FOR THESE LEASES |
| Total | 19,700- | BR$ 39,025 |
Applications by Jonas Ferreira Da Silva, a Director of CMGM were made to expedite the acquisition of key leases. All applications granted to Jonas Ferreira Da Silva will be immediately transferred to CMGM for zero consideration and are covered by separate transfer agreement between the director and CMGM. Application sizes may change on grant due to interference with other leases. Changes are not expected to be significant to the project.
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