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WEEBIT NANO LTD — Capital/Financing Update 2011
Mar 15, 2011
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EXPLORATION UPDATE
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ACN 146 455 576
Highlights
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Encouraging results from Johnston Range hematite/magnetite drilling
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Best hematite intercept – 16m at 55.7% Fe
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Best magnetite intercept – 98m at 33.6% Fe
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Ongoing mapping indentifies new hematite targets
ASX Release
16 March 2011
Suite 2, 12 Parliament Place West Perth WA 6005 PO BOX 902 West Perth WA 6872
P + 61 8 9482 0580 F + 61 8 9482 0505 E [email protected] W www.radariron.com.au
Contact:
Jonathan Lea Managing Director E [email protected]
Phillip Wingate Company Secretary E [email protected]
Directors:
Alan Tough - Chairman Jonathan Lea - Managing Director Ananda Kathiravelu - Non-Executive
Issued Capital: 61,880,112 Ordinary Shares 22,750,000 Unlisted Options
ASX Code:
RAD (Fully Paid Ordinary Shares)
Media Enquiries:
Fortbridge +612 9331 0655 Luke Dean 0414 535 433
- Drilling to recommence in April
Radar Iron Ltd (ASX: RAD) is pleased to provide an exploration update at tenements north of Southern Cross in the central Yilgarn region.
Along with further geological reconnaissance mapping, a drilling programme was undertaken at Johnston Range to provide geological stratigraphic information and to commence testing of hematite and magnetite targets.
Mapping both at Johnston Range and in other project areas has indicated the presence of enriched banded iron formations that form a number of hematite targets. Assessment and prioritisation of these targets continues prior to drill testing.
The drilling programme was undertaken in February 2011 with 1978 metres of RC drilling completed. Assaying has been completed with Davis Tube Recovery (DTR) results expected later in March.
Five hematite targets were tested, with the Rowling prospect returning the best results. The Rowling results indicate the potential to define economic hematite mineralisation in the Johnston Range project area. With over twenty targets remaining to be tested, the potential for economic hematite mineralisation remains high. Drilling is scheduled to commence in April to further test the Rowling prospect and other hematite targets.
Three magnetite targets were tested with the focus on areas highlighted as having the most potential for mineralisation based on the recent geophysical review of the area. Significant widths of magnetite were intercepted with average grade around 33-34% Fe. The results reinforce the large exploration potential as defined recently for magnetite mineralisation.
Drilling data is shown in Table 1 with assay results in Tables 2 and 3.
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EXPLORATION UPDATE – MARCH 2011
Johnston Range Project
General
Ethnographic and botanical surveys are being undertaken in March to facilitate further drilling approvals for the hematite and magnetite mineralisation at Johnson Range and the Die Hardy Project. Some drilling approvals are already in place and others are expected by late March/early April. On this basis, a major drill programme (approximately 10,000m) is scheduled to commence in April to further test hematite and magnetite targets and commence the resource definition process.
Hematite
During project generation work in 2010, a total of 35 potential hematite targets were generated on the Johnston Range project through a combination of geophysical data review and ground reconnaissance mapping. Of these, only 5 have been specifically tested by the first pass drilling in February. The results for the Rowling prospect indicate that the BIF has been enriched in places to economic grades. Elsewhere, encouraging surface exposures were shown to represent shallow enrichment.
While a number of the more obvious targets were tested by first pass drilling, the potential for hematite mineralisation remains high with numerous outcropping and buried anomalies remaining to be tested. The current expectation for hematite mineralisation in the Johnston Range area is for a number of relatively small bodies that will accumulate to provide a critical tonnage sufficient to justify mining.
With over twenty hematite targets still to be tested and new targets being defined by mapping (both at Johnson Range and in other project areas), Radar remains confident of validating the exploration model. Drilling commencing in April will test the Rowling prospect and other hematite targets.
Magnetite
Following from the recently announced geophysical review of the exploration potential for magnetite at Johnston Range (4.0Bt - 6.7Bt at 20-45% Fe*) a number of the more prominent magnetite zones were tested during the current drill campaign. The aim was to establish the potential size of the BIF mineralisation and to obtain initial samples for DTR testing.
* Radar Iron advises that the potential quantity and grade of iron deposits reported as exploration target potential is conceptual in nature and there has been insufficient exploration to define a Mineral Resource and it is uncertain if further exploration will result in the determination of a Mineral Resource. See ASX Release dated 31 January 2011 for details.
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EXPLORATION UPDATE – MARCH 2011
The results were highly encouraging with 3 zones identified with estimated thicknesses of 80-150m with grades consistently above 30% Fe. The potential length of each mineralised zone (Lange, Muldoon and Rowling) is 4-5 km and 3-4 BIF units oriented approximately parallel to each other have been identified. Testing has only been completed on one or two of the units at each location.
The DTR (Davis Tube Recovery) results are expected by the end of March. The full significance of the magnetite results will be discussed in a further ASX release once the potential metallurgical recovery properties are better understood.
The drilling provided geological information on the location of the BIF units and commenced the process of validating the announced exploration potential. Radar remains confident of defining a significant resource of magnetite mineralisation in the coming year.
Drilling approvals are currently being sought to enable commencement of definitive testing of magnetite targets, aimed at JORC resource estimation later in the year.
Regional
Ethnographic and botanical surveys are also being undertaken in March at the Die Hardy project to facilitate further drilling at the Lara prospect. This major magnetite target is 200-300m wide and over 3km in length. Future magnetite drilling will focus on the mineralisation that has the best indicative metallurgical properties (i.e. at Johnston Range or Die Hardy).
Radar has acquired the iron ore rights to over 900km[2] of tenements from Southern Cross Goldfields. The tenements contain approximately 80 linear kilometres of banded iron formation. The transaction will be completed in March.
A geophysical review of the new ground has commenced along with field reconnaissance. It is likely a regional gravity survey will be undertaken in coming months to complement existing aero-magnetic data and to assist in target definition.
A number of areas have already been identified as containing outcropping hematite mineralisation. Following further field reconnaissance, these will be drill tested as warranted later in 2011.
Corporate
Radar is in the process of finalising the terms of the entitlements issue of options as specified in the IPO Prospectus dated November 5, 2010. Details of the issue will be announced in a disclosure document in coming weeks.
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EXPLORATION UPDATE – MARCH 2011
TABLE 1 Drill Hole Data
| Drill Hole Number |
Drill Hole Data and Location | Drill Hole Data and Location | Drill Hole Data and Location | |||
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| Prospect | Length | East | North | Dip | Azimuth | |
| RIRC012 | Dang | 54 | 728922 | 6717322 | ‐60 | 305 |
| RIRC013 | Dang | 90 | 728920 | 6717323 | ‐60 | 125 |
| RIRC014 | Dang | 120 | 728941 | 6717291 | ‐60 | 305 |
| RIRC015 | Dang | 96 | 728808 | 6717124 | ‐60 | 305 |
| RIRC016 | Muldoon | 72 | 713228 | 6711679 | ‐60 | 250 |
| RIRC017 | Muldoon | 96 | 713192 | 6711874 | ‐60 | 250 |
| RIRC018 | Muldoon | 120 | 713047 | 6712670 | ‐60 | 250 |
| RIRC019 | Muldoon | 114 | 713070 | 6712677 | ‐60 | 70 |
| RIRC020 | Rowling | 96 | 711962 | 6713412 | ‐60 | 100 |
| RIRC021 | Rowling | 126 | 712021 | 6713428 | ‐60 | 100 |
| RIRC022 | Rowling | 138 | 712042 | 6713430 | ‐60 | 110 |
| RIRC023 | Rowling | 60 | 712028 | 6713432 | ‐60 | 280 |
| RIRC024 | Rowling | 88 | 711996 | 6713423 | ‐60 | 100 |
| RIRC025 | Clutch | 78 | 726256 | 6710465 | ‐60 | 305 |
| RIRC026 | Lange | 114 | 726720 | 6715268 | ‐60 | 125 |
| RIRC027 | Lange | 150 | 726706 | 6715284 | ‐55 | 305 |
| RIRC028 | Lange | 72 | 726746 | 6715241 | ‐60 | 125 |
| RIRC029 | Lange | 36 | 726742 | 6715245 | ‐60 | 305 |
| RIRC030 | Dang | 108 | 728494 | 6716798 | ‐60 | 125 |
| RIRC031 | Dang | 150 | 728506 | 6716774 | ‐60 | 305 |
Notes:
Coordinates MGA94 Zone 50
TABLE 2 Hematite Assay Results
| Prospect | Drill Hole Number |
Intercepts ‐ | Intercepts ‐ | Average Weighted Grades | Average Weighted Grades | Average Weighted Grades | ||||
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| From | To | Length | % Fe | % SiO2 | % Al2O3 | % P | %S | LOI | ||
| Dang | RIRC013 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 56.0 | 11.2 | 3.09 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 5.90 |
| Rowling | RIRC021 | 0 | 30 | 30 | 53.1 | 10.7 | 4.23 | 0.05 | 0.06 | 9.00 |
| Rowling | RIRC023 | 2 | 18 | 16 | 55.7 | 8.5 | 2.34 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 8.80 |
| Rowling | RIRC024 | 16 | 26 | 10 | 56.0 | 6.3 | 3.53 | 0.06 | 0.01 | 9.14 |
Note:
Assaying on 2m sample intervals Assaying (XRF) completed by Spectrolab, Geraldton 50% Fe cut‐off applied Maximum of 4m internal dilution
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EXPLORATION UPDATE – MARCH 2011
TABLE 3 Magnetite Assay Results
| Prospect | Drill Hole Number |
Intercepts ‐ | Intercepts ‐ | Average Weighted Grades | Average Weighted Grades | Average Weighted Grades | ||||
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| From | To | Length | % Fe | % SiO2 | % Al2O3 | % P | %S | LOI | ||
| Dang | RIRC013 | 28 | 50 | 22 | 34.1 | 49.2 | 0.61 | 0.05 | 0.02 | 2.56 |
| Dang | RIRC014 | 74 | 120 | 46 | 33.4 | 45.9 | 1.20 | 0.06 | 0.11 | 1.74 |
| Dang | RIRC015 | 82 | 96 | 14 | 33.8 | 45.3 | 1.12 | 0.06 | 0.13 | 2.03 |
| Muldoon | RIRC017 | 54 | 86 | 32 | 37.1 | 45.3 | 0.31 | 0.07 | 0.00 | 2.02 |
| Muldoon | RIRC018 | 66 | 106 | 40 | 34.9 | 45.6 | 0.85 | 0.07 | 0.08 | 0.17 |
| Muldoon | RIRC019 | 64 | 106 | 42 | 35.2 | 46.1 | 0.52 | 0.07 | 0.04 | ‐0.57 |
| Rowling | RIRC021 | 48 | 118 | 70 | 33.0 | 46.8 | 2.02 | 0.05 | 0.06 | 1.21 |
| Rowling | RIRC022 | 40 | 138 | 98 | 33.6 | 46.0 | 1.45 | 0.05 | 0.02 | 1.11 |
| Rowling | RIRC024 | 78 | 88 | 10 | 37.8 | 39.9 | 0.64 | 0.04 | 0.05 | 5.34 |
| Lange | RIRC026 | 76 | 90 | 14 | 30.6 | 46.5 | 2.72 | 0.05 | 0.12 | 4.93 |
| Dang | RIRC030 | 86 | 100 | 14 | 31.0 | 44.0 | 2.76 | 0.06 | 0.11 | 4.86 |
| Dang | RIRC031 | 66 | 150 | 84 | 33.9 | 46.0 | 0.59 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 2.01 |
Note:
Assaying on 2m sample intervals Assaying (XRF) completed by Spectrolab, Geraldton 20% Fe cut‐off applied Maximum of 4m internal dilution
For or on behalf of Radar Iron Ltd
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Jonathan Lea
Managing Director
The information in this report accurately reflects information prepared by competent persons (as defined by the Australasian Code for Reporting of Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves). It is compiled by Mr Jonathan Lea, an employee of the Company who is a Member of The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy with the requisite experience in the field of activity in which he is reporting. Mr Lea has sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and the 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 Lea consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.
The potential quantity and grade of iron deposits reported as exploration potential is conceptual in nature and there has been insufficient exploration to define a Mineral Resource and it is uncertain if further exploration will result in the determination of a Mineral Resource.
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EXPLORATION UPDATE – MARCH 2011
Background
Radar has substantial potential for both hematite and magnetite mineralisation with over 120km in length of multiple banded iron formation contained on its leases. Initial exploration has identified a number of obvious targets to be tested immediately. Continuing ground mapping and geophysical assessment are expected to define additional targets in the current year.
Hematite ores can typically be directly shipped following crushing and sizing and typically grade in excess of 57% Fe. The potential exists for lower grade hematite ores associated with magnetite mineralisation to be treated and upgraded prior to sale.
Magnetite ores typically require processing to remove silica and increase the iron grade prior to export. Development of magnetite resources involves significantly higher capital input and the provision of substantial power and water supply to allow grinding and magnetite separation of the mineralisation. For this reason magnetite developments typically take longer and are more technically challenging.
Davis tube recovery test work simulates the likely performance of magnetite ores being processed through a typical magnetic separation process in a concentration plant. After fine crushing or pulverising the sample is passed by a magnet and the magnetic fraction is then assayed and weighed. Typically a mass recovery of greater than 30% with iron grades around 70% and silica below 5% is considered desirable.
Figure 1: Project Area
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Figure 2: Project Location, Tenements, Regional Geology and Magnetics
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Figure 3: Johnston Range – Drill hole location
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Figure 4: Johnston Range – key magnetite targets
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Figure 5: Schematic Cross Section – Muldoon/Rowling
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