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LAKE RESOURCES N.L. — Interim / Quarterly Report 2010
Jan 27, 2011
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Interim / Quarterly Report
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Lake Resources N L, Quarterly Report, October - December 2010
LAKE RESOURCES NL QUARTERLY REPORT OCTOBER–DECEMBER 2010
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SUMMARY
No field work was undertaken during the quarter ended 31[st] December 2010. However planning continued for proposed exploration including drilling at our gold and copper targets in Pakistan.
During the quarter a non-renounceable rights issue was offered to existing shareholders in the Company for up to 35,161,513 shares at $0.05 (5 cents) per share. Shareholders applied for a total of 9,091,125 shares, leaving a shortfall of 26,070,388 shares. The rights issue raised $454,556. As per the notification to the ASX on 14 October, 2010, directors will proceed to place the shortfall to parties unrelated to the directors or any of their associates. Directors expect to complete this allocation prior to the end of February, 2011.
Pakistan
Lake Resources (Lake) is exploring for porphyry copper-gold and epithermal gold deposits in the Chagai District of Balochistan (see p.2 for details). Significant mineral deposits in the region include the Saindak porphyry coppergold mine and the Reko Diq copper-gold project of Antofagasta Plc and Barrick Gold Corporation.
As previously reported, Lake’s three Exploration Licences (ELs) that expired in March 2009 were replaced by three new ELs granted by Government of Balochistan in September 2009. Details are set out in Table 1 and Figure 1 below.
| Table1: Balochistan Tenements | Table1: Balochistan Tenements | Table1: Balochistan Tenements | |
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| Tenement | **Amalaf ** | **Dasht-i-Gauran ** | **Koh-i-Sultan ** |
| **EL Number ** | (71)/5468-78 | (72)/5492-5503 | (73)/5479-91 |
| Area (sq km) | 94.42 | 58.76 | 171.40 |
| Lake Interest | (see Note 1) | (see Note 1) | (see Note 1) |
| Grant Date | 10/09/2009 | 10/09/2009 | 10/09/2009 |
| Expiry Date | 9/09/2012 | 9/09/2012 | 9/09/2012 |
A condition of the new licences is that the Balochistan Government should have up to a 25% interest in the licences – the government advises that preparation of a draft agreement is under way.
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Figure 1: Location and tenement map.
Lake Resources N L, Quarterly Report, October - December 2010
The Amalaf area adjoins the northern boundary of the Saindak copper-gold mine. The exploration target is large tonnage - low grade copper amenable to low-cost open-pit mining and trucking to the Saindak mine. In late 2005, one of two holes drilled by Lake to test part of this target intersected significant low-grade copper-molybdenum over the length of the hole with minor gold (12 -120m, 108 m @ 0.17%Cu & 94 ppm Mo).
The Dasht-i-Gauran area is situated to the west of copper mineralisation reported by TCC from drilling at its Sor Baroot Prospect at the Reko Diq Project, and covers a number of possible alteration zones identified from interpretation of satellite images.
At Koh-i-Sultan , Lake is exploring an extensive system of intensely altered breccia and volcanics covering an area of more than five square kilometres on the margin of an extinct volcanic caldera (See Fig. 2). Strong gold mineralisation was intersected in percussion drillhole LRM-01 on the western margin of the system in late 2005. A five-hole diamond drilling program totaling 2284 m completed in August 2008 resulted in two new discoveries:
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porphyry-type copper-gold mineralisation in drillhole LRMDDH-002 (392 – 520 m, 128 m @ 0.14%Cu and 0.19 ppm Au) and
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a very large, variably-altered and mineralised breccia complex, intersected in all five drillholes, over a width of more than 700 m and a north-south extent of more than 400 m. Geologically significant gold values were intersected in the breccia in four of the five drillholes. It is believed that the southern extension of this breccia also hosts the gold mineralisation intersected in drillhole LRM-001.
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Figure 2: Plan showing Koh-i-Sultan drill sites and alteration zones.
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Lake Resources N L, Quarterly Report, October - December 2010
Exploration
No field work was undertaken during the quarter ended 31[st] December 2010. However planning continued for proposed exploration including drilling at our gold and copper targets at Koh-i-Sultan and the copper target just north of the Saindak Mine at Amalaf.
Fund Raising
During the quarter a non-renounceable rights issue was offered to existing shareholders in the Company for up to 35,161,513 shares at $0.05 (5 cents) per share. Shareholders applied for a total of 9,091,125 shares, leaving a shortfall of 26,070,388 shares. The rights issue raised $454,556. As per the notification to the ASX on 14[th] October, 2010, directors will proceed to place the shortfall to parties unrelated to the directors or any of their associates. Directors expect to complete this allocation prior to the end of February, 2011.
Cash Position
At the end of the December 2010 quarter, net cash on hand totaled A$431,000.
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J.G. Clavarino (M AusIMM, MMICA) Exploration Director
The information in this report that relates to Exploration Results, is based on information compiled by Jim Clavarino who is a Member of The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Mr. Clavarino is Exploration Director of Lake Resources NL and is employed by Argent Resources Pty Ltd. Mr. Clavarino 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. Clavarino consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Office Address 3 Maud Street, Newstead, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 4006 Postal Address GPO Box 1239, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 4001 Telephone Peter Gilchrist (61) (7) 3257 1111 Jim Clavarino (61) (7) 3252 0255 Fax (61) (7) 3257 2122 E-mail [email protected] Web site www.lakeresources.com.au
Share Registry
Lake Resources' share registry is managed by Link Market Services Limited (formerly ASX Perpetual Registrars), Level 15, 324 Queen Street, Brisbane, Queensland, 4000
Shareholder matters including changes of address should be directed to:
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Link Market Services Limited, Locked Bag A14, Sydney South, NSW 1235
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General shareholder enquiries, Phone: 1300 554 474 or (02) 8280 7111
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Email: [email protected]
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