Washihi Copper-Gold Project Exploration Update
Achievements
Rapid progress in <1.5 years!
✓ Projects secured - October 2010 (post successful Manajem
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negotiations)
Mining licence - granted December 2010
Environmental licence - granted June 2012
✓ JORC Resource – announced February 2012
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Team - established in Saudi Arabia & Perth head office
Rigs 3-6 drilling rigs secured & active
✓ Drilling - +35,000m drilled since Feb 2011 (290 holes), plus
45,000m drilled historically (345 holes)
Mineralisation - extensions defined
Sterilisation drilling work completed
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Project site and
construction
camp
Power line
O Alara Resources Limited
Alara
resources
Sealed Road connecting
project site to Al
Quwaiyah 20min. from
site on the high way to
Riyadh
Geotechnical work - completed with further work underway
Water water bore drilled & pump testing underway.
Agreement reached to procure land for water
Fauna & Flora - studies completed (16 reptile species, 17 bird
species & 44 flora species identified)
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Metallurgy completed, review underway. Coarse grind of P80
< 106μm, delivered 87% recoveries for Cu and 91.5% for Zn,
at concentrate grades of around 30% for Cu and 57% for Zn.
Recoveries may drop marginally below zinc grades of 4.5%.
Moderate hardness (14kWh/t energy). Further work is being
undertaken by ALS Ammtec to complete the 2Mtpa case
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