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MIRAMAR RESOURCES LIMITED — Interim / Quarterly Report 2021
Apr 29, 2021
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ASX: M2R | 30 March 2021
Quarter ending 31 March 2021
ISSUED CAPITAL
Highlights
55,060,100 shares on issue
- Phase 1 aircore outlines multiple targets at Gidji JV
52WK SHARE PRICE RANGE
- Follow-up aircore and maiden diamond drilling campaign planned
$0.205 – 0.56
- Heritage approval received for Glandore
MARKET CAPITALISATION
$12.7 million (@ $0.24)
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Gravity survey at Lang Well outlines buried greenstone
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Whaleshark and Bangemall (Mt Vernon) tenements granted
BOARD
Allan Kelly Executive Chairman
Marion Bush Technical Director
Terry Gadenne Non-Executive Director
PROJECTS
Eastern Goldfields Projects
Gidji JV (80%) Glandore Randalls
Murchison Projects
Lang Well Lakeside
Capricorn Orogen
Whaleshark Bangemall
MIRAMAR RESOURCES LTD
ACN 635 359 965 ABN 34 635 359 965 ASX code: M2R
Unit 1, 22 Hardy Street South Perth WA 6151
PO Box 810 South Perth WA 6951
T (08) 6166 6302 E [email protected]
miramarresources.com.au
Miramar Resources Limited (ASX:M2R, Miramar or “the Company”) is pleased to provide a summary of activities completed during the Quarter ending 31 March 2021.
The Company’s primary focus was on completing exploration programmes in the Eastern Goldfields including the phase 2 aircore and initial diamond drilling campaigns at the Gidji JV Project.
EXPLORATION
EASTERN GOLDFIELDS PROJECTS
Miramar has three projects in the Eastern Goldfields with the potential for new gold discoveries within close proximity to existing mining and/or processing operations (Figure 1).
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Figure 1. Eastern Goldfields Projects showing existing gold operations.
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Gidji JV (80%)
The Gidji JV Project is located within the Eastern Goldfields approximately 15km north of Kalgoorlie.
The Project is located within a major structure, the “Boorara Shear Zone”, which hosts gold mineralisation at Paddington, approximately 10km to the northwest, and Horizon Minerals’ “Boorara” gold operation to the southeast.
The project has apparently been poorly explored despite its location in proximity to major gold deposits.
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Figure 2. Gidji JV Project showing historic and recent drilling.
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Phase 1 Aircore Drilling
During the Quarter, the Company received the results of the Phase 1 aircore drilling programme which outlined a number of targets with original 4m assay results of greater than 100ppb Au (i.e. 0.1g/t Au):
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8-Mile – two lines tested the potential for a northern extension to the nearby Runway deposit. The results showed anomalous gold (up to 4m @ 162ppb Au), silver and tungsten over the interpreted position of the Runway intrusive unit.
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Marylebone - 1600m x 300m zone of anomalous gold >0.1g/t Au with visible gold observed in oxidised quartz vein material immediately beneath paleochannel sands. The anomaly is located at the intersection of the NW trending Boorara Shear Zone and a north-south trending structure and has similar geology, structure and scale to the nearby Paddington deposit.
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Piccadilly - 1600m by 300m zone of regolith gold and pathfinder anomalism including 2m @ 0.8g/t Au at the end of hole in GJAC058. The target is located halfway between 8-Mile and Marylebone.
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Railway – two holes (GJAC084 and 085) intersected gold anomalism at the western end of the target, with 8m @ 0.2g/t Au and 8m @ 0.35g/t Au.
Re-assay of 1m re-split samples returned several significant results (Figure 3) which confirmed and upgraded the targets including:
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Marylebone – GJAC096 3m @ 5.26g/t Au from 58m, including 1m @ 13.58g/t Au
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Railway – GJAC084 1m @ 2.09g/t Au from 54m
During the Quarter, the Company also received assay results for “end of hole” samples which included 1m @ 4.5g/t Au in GJAC058 at Piccadilly .
Phase 2 Drilling
Towards the end of the Quarter, the Company commenced the second phase drilling campaign at Gidji, which comprised:
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Infill aircore drilling of the targets defined by the phase 1 aircore campaign
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Initial diamond drill testing of the potential for a northern extension to the Runway deposit
The programme was ongoing at the end of the Quarter.
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Figure 3. Gidji JV Project showing Phase 1 aircore results and new targets.
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Figure 4 . Line 5000N – “Marylebone” target.
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Figure 5. Line 4870N “Railway” target.
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Glandore
The Glandore Project is located within the Eastern Goldfields, approximately 40km east of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia and covers approximately 42 square km. The Project consists of 10 Prospecting Licences and one Exploration Licence, all of which are granted.
The highest priority western part of the project is underlain by a layered mafic sill intruding into basalt and sedimentary rocks. The sill comprises varieties of dolerite and gabbro analogous to the Golden Mile Dolerite.
The local geology has been folded into a north-plunging antiform with the Project located on the eastern limb, southeast of the hinge zone which has been intruded by a granodiorite and felsic porphyry dykes.
The prospective geology is overlain by up to 50m of recent playa lake sediments which thin towards the west. Exploration has been mostly limited to the western part of the project, within the Prospecting Licences, and has been sporadic since the late 1980’s.
Previous exploration including aircore and limited diamond drilling, outlined a significant area of anomalous gold on the eastern side of the late granite pluton. Limited diamond drilling returned significant results including 8m @ 22.5g/t Au, however most sections have no systematic bedrock testing.
The western side of the granite pluton has not been effectively tested for over 2.5km of strike.
During the Quarter, the Company received heritage approvals which will allow for the first exploration campaigns at Glandore to commence.
The first phase of exploration is scheduled to commence in the June Quarter and will include:
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Gravity surveys infilling existing data and covering the Exploration Licence
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Lake aircore drilling along the western and eastern sides of the internal granite
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Land aircore drilling of targets to the south of the lake
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Selected diamond holes following up historical aircore and diamond intersections
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Figure 6. Glandore Project showing historic drilling in relation to the granite intrusion.
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Randalls
The Randalls project is located immediately east of Silver Lake Resources Limited’s Maxwell’s and Cockeyed Bob gold mines, approximately 70km east of Kalgoorlie (Figure 7).
The project consists of a single Exploration Licence Application (E25/596) and covers the same folded Banded Iron Formation and sediments that host the gold mineralisation currently being mined by Silver Lake.
No work was completed during the Quarter as the Company waits for the tenement to be granted.
Soil sampling followed by aircore drilling has proven to be an effective exploration technique in this area and will be used to define targets for drill testing once the tenement is granted.
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Figure 7. Randalls Project showing proximity to Silver Lake Resources gold operations.
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MURCHISON REGION PROJECTS
Miramar has three under-explored gold projects in the Murchison region within proximity of existing mining and/or processing operations (Figure 8).
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Figure 8. Murchison region showing Miramar projects and operating gold mines.
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Lang Well
The Lang Well project consists of a single granted Exploration Licence covering a large, complexly folded remnant greenstone belt located between the Deflector and Golden Grove gold operations (Figure 9).
In 1989, Metana Minerals N.L reported that reconnaissance rock chip sampling returned results from 0.10g/t up to 16g/t Au from oxidised and laminated quartz veining hosted in outcropping granitic schists. (WAMEX A028055). Auger drilling by Jervois Mining Limited in 2010 identified several large +5km long gold +/-
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pathfinder anomalies, however subsequent aircore drilling did not test the anomalies.
During the Quarter, Miramar completed a gravity survey with the aim of better defining the extent of buried greenstone. The results of the gravity survey show that the auger anomalies are apparently related to bedrock structures rather then surficial features.
Garden Gully
The Garden Gully project consists of one granted tenement and two tenement applications covering the western half of the Abbotts Greenstone Belt, west of Meekatharra.
During the Quarter, the Company announced that it had reached agreement to sell the Garden Gully Project to Sipa Resources Limited (“Sipa”).
At the end of the Quarter, the Company was waiting for the two applications to be granted and will then apply for Ministerial consent to transfer the tenements to Sipa.
Figure 9. Lang Well Project location and regional geology.
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GASCOYNE REGION PROJECTS
Miramar has two projects within the Proterozoic Capricorn Orogen, in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia (Figure 10):
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Whaleshark – folded BIF complex under Carnarvon Basin sediments
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Bangemall – multiple applications over areas prospective for Ni-Cu-PGE mineralisation
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Figure 10. Location map for Miramar’s Gascoyne region projects.
Whaleshark
The Whaleshark project is located 40km east of Onslow, WA, and is characterised by a large folded Banded Iron Formation (BIF) complex buried under approximately 100m of Carnarvon Basin sediments (Figure 11).
The project is located within the north-western extension of the Proterozoic Capricorn Orogen and consists of a single Exploration Licence, E08/3166.
Previous exploration has been limited, but WMC Resources intersected gold mineralisation in sulphidised BIF with limited diamond drilling in the mid-1990s. In 2017, a limited programme of EM was conducted but no follow-up work was completed.
The Project has significant unrealised potential for Proterozoic BIF-hosted Au (e.g. Homestake-style) and Iron Oxide Cu-Au (IOCG) mineralisation. Gravity data shows some significant anomalism, notably to the northwest of the BIF, indicating the potential for IOCG mineralisation associated with hematite.
The tenement was granted during the Quarter which allows for initial fieldwork to be completed in mid-2021.
Partial leach surface geochemistry is planned for the Project along with areas of infill gravity. Given the apparent association of gold mineralisation with sulphides, this also highlights the potential to use further ground and/or airborne EM surveys for defining drill targets.
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Figure 11. Magnetic image for Whaleshark Project showing geological interpretation and previous drilling.
Bangemall Ni-Cu-PGE Project
The Bangemall Project covers a series of major crustal-scale structures at the contact between the Yilgarn and Pilbara cratons (Figure 12).
The area has been highlighted by the GSWA and Geoscience Australia as having high prospectivity for Proterozoic craton margin Ni-Cu-PGE mineralisation like that seen in the Albany-Fraser Province (e.g. NovaBollinger), the West Musgraves (e.g. Nebo-Babel) and the giant Voisey Bay and Norilsk deposits.
The Project consists of a number of Exploration Licence applications that cover areas with coincident:
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proximity to major crustal-scale faults - confirmed by seismic traverses
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numerous Proterozoic-aged dolerite dykes/sills with the same age as the West Musgraves
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regional-scale stream sediment Ni-Cu-Pt-Pd anomalism from GSWA sampling
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regional-scale airborne EM conductors
The area has seen a significant amount of exploration for Cu-Pb-Zn mineralisation but minimal exploration for Ni-Cu-PGE’s.
During the Quarter, Miramar applied for three additional Exploration Licences and one of these, E52/3893 (“Mt Vernon”), was granted.
Following tenement grant, the Company committed to conducting a 400m line spaced airborne EM survey during July-August (Figure 13).
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Figure 12. Regional geological setting for the Bangemall Project tenements.
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Figure 13. Proposed Mt Vernon 400m-spaced airborne EM survey.
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CORPORATE
Financial
The Company had cash on hand as of 31 March 2021 of approximately $6.0 million .
Related Party payments for the Quarter, as outlined in the Appendix 5B at section 6.1, total $88,000 and include amounts paid to directors including salary, directors’ fees and statutory superannuation.
Refer to the Appendix 5B for an overview of the Company’s financial activities during the Quarter.
Capital Structure on 31 December 2020
| Description | Number |
|---|---|
| Fully paid ordinaryshares | 55,060,100 |
| Unlisted options exercisable at $0.20 on or before 22 October 2022 | 8,210,000 |
| Unlisted options exercisable at $0.48 on or before 6 January2023 | 50,000 |
| Unlisted options exercisable at $0.25 on or before 9 October 2023 | 6,000,000 |
| Unlisted options exercisable at $0.20 on or before 26 June 2025 | 3,000,000 |
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Use of Funds
Miramar provides the following disclosures required by ASX Listing Rule 5.3.4 regarding a comparison of its actual expenditure to date since listing on 21 October 2020 against the ‘use of funds’ statement in its Prospectus dated 4 September 2020.
| Expenditure | Funds allocated under Prospectus |
Actual to 31 Mar 2021 |
Variance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vendorpayments | $282,500 | $232,500 | $50,000 2 |
| Exploration | $4,430,000 | $521,324 | $3,908,676 |
| Workingcapital | $2,868,855 | $815,573 | $2,053,282 |
| Cost of Offer | $670,000 | $695,785 | $-25,785 |
| TOTAL | $8,251,355 | $2,265,182 | $5,986,173 |
Marketing and Investor Relations
During the Quarter, the Company conducted interviews with several mining publications in relation to the Company’s exploration programmes.
The Company also attended the RIU Explorers Conference in Fremantle.
1 The Use of Funds table is a statement of current intentions. Investors should note that the allocation of funds set out in the table may change depending on a number of factors including the results of exploration, outcome of development activities, regulatory developments and market and general economic conditions.
2 Payment subject to tenement grant
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ASX Releases during the Quarter
| DATE | HEADING |
| 22/03/2021 | Change of Director's Interest Notice (AK) |
| 17/03/2021 | Investor Presentation |
| 16/03/2021 | Drilling Underway at Gidji |
| 08/03/2021 | Exploration Update |
| 25/02/2021 | Half-year Financial Report |
| 24/02/2021 | Exploration to Commence at Glandore |
| 16/02/2021 | M2R: Sale of Garden Gully Project |
| 11/02/2021 | High-grade gold at Gidji upgrades targets |
| 09/02/2021 | Whaleshark Tenement Granted |
| 01/02/2021 | Investor Presentation |
| 01/02/2021 | Gidji drilling intersects visible gold and outlines multiple (targets) |
| 06/01/2021 | Bangemall Ni-Cu-PGE Project Tenement Granted |
Upcoming Activities for Quarter ending 30 June 2021
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Plan follow-up aircore, RC and diamond drilling at the Gidji JV pending receipt of assays
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Commence maiden drilling programme at Glandore
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Schedule maiden Lang Well aircore drilling, pending EIS funding decision
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Plan surface geochemical sampling at Whaleshark
This announcement has been authorised for release by Mr Allan Kelly, Executive Chairman on behalf of the Board of Miramar.
For further information, please contact:
Allan Kelly Executive Chairman [email protected]
Margie Livingston Ignite Communications [email protected]
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About Miramar Resources Limited
Miramar Resources Limited is a WA-focused mineral exploration company with highly prospective gold exploration projects in the Eastern Goldfields, Murchison and Gascoyne regions of Western Australia.
Miramar listed on the ASX in October 2020, following a heavily oversubscribed IPO, and has a Board with a track record of successful discovery, development and production within Australia, Africa, and North America. Miramar’s aim is to create shareholder value through the acquisition, exploration and monetisation of highquality mineral assets.
Competent Person Statement
The information in this report that relates to Exploration Targets or Exploration Results is based on information compiled by Allan Kelly, a “Competent Person” who is a Member of The Australian Institute of Geoscientists.
Mr Kelly is the Executive Chairman of Miramar Resources Ltd. He is a full-time employee of Miramar Resources Ltd and holds shares and options in the company.
Mr Kelly has sufficient experience that is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposits under consideration and to the activity being undertaken to Qualify as a “Competent Person” as defined in the 2012 Edition of the ‘Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves’.
Mr Kelly consents to the inclusion in this presentation of the matters based on his information and in the form and context in which it appears.
Information on historical exploration results for all Miramar’s projects, including JORC Table 1 and 2 information, is included in the Miramar Resources Limited Prospectus dated 4 September 2020.
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Tenement Schedule
| Ownership | Ownership | |||
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| Project | Tenement | Status | Beginning of Quarter |
End ofQuarter |
| Gidji JV | E24/225 | Application | 0% | 0% |
| E26/214 | Live | 80% | 80% | |
| E26/221 | Application | 0% | 0% | |
| E26/225 | Application | 0% | 0% | |
| P24/5439 | Application | 0% | 0% | |
| P26/4527 | Application | 0% | 0% | |
| P26/4528 | Application | 0% | 0% | |
| P26/4529 | Application | 0% | 0% | |
| P26/4530 | Application | 0% | 0% | |
| P26/4531 | Application | 0% | 0% | |
| P26/4532 | Application | 0% | 0% | |
| P26/4534 | Application | 0% | 0% | |
| P26/4221 | Live | 80% | 80% | |
| P26/4522 | Live | 80% | 80% | |
| Glandore | E25/544 | Live | 100% | 100% |
| P25/2381 | Live | 100% | 100% | |
| P25/2382 | Live | 100% | 100% | |
| P25/2383 | Live | 100% | 100% | |
| P25/2384 | Live | 100% | 100% | |
| P25/2385 | Live | 100% | 100% | |
| P25/2386 | Live | 100% | 100% | |
| P25/2387 | Live | 100% | 100% | |
| P25/2430 | Live | 100% | 100% | |
| P25/2431 | Live | 100% | 100% | |
| P25/2465 | Live | 100% | 100% | |
| Randalls | E25/596 | Application | 0% | 0% |
| Lang Well | E59/2377 | Live | 100% | 100% |
| Lakeside | E21/212 | Application | 0% | 0% |
| Garden Gully | E51/1932 | Live | 100% | 100% |
| E51/1972 | Application | 0% | 0% | |
| E51/1972 | Application | 0% | 0% | |
| Whaleshark | E08/3166 | Live | 0% | 100% |
| Bangemall | E08/3176 | Application | 0% | 0% |
| E08/3177 | Application | 0% | 0% | |
| E08/3195 | Application | 0% | 0% | |
| E08/3196 | Application | 0% | 0% | |
| E08/3284 | Application | 0% | 0% | |
| E09/2484 | Application | 0% | 0% | |
| E52/3893 | Live | 0% | 100% |
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