23 November 2017
CENTAURUS SECURES GRANT OF HIGHLY PROSPECTIVE SW2 TENEMENT AT SALOBO WEST COPPER‐GOLD PROJECT120km2 of granted tenure at Salobo West now accessible to Centaurus for copper‐gold exploration
Key Points
- Brazilian Mines Department (DNPM) has granted the SW2 Exploration Licence (EL) which now provides the Company with a combined total area of 120km2 of highly prospective ground at the Salobo West Copper‐Gold Project, located in the Carajás Mineral Province of northern Brazil.
- The grant of the SW2 tenement will open up further exploration fronts for the Company in the Carajás Mineral Province.
- The Company will now look to generate additional copper‐gold drill targets on the SW2 tenement as it has been doing over the last 5 months on the SW1 tenement area - see ASX Announcements on 8 and 20 November 2017.
- The Carajás Mineral Province hosts multiple world‐class iron oxide‐copper‐gold ("IOCG") deposits. The Salobo West tenements are located less than 15km from the biggest of these deposits, Vale's world‐class Salobo Copper‐Gold Mine.
Centaurus Metals (ASX Code: CTM) is pleased to announce that it has secured the grant of the southern tenement (SW2) at its highly prospective Salobo West Copper‐Gold Project, located in the world‐class Carajás Mineral Province (CMP) in the north of Brazil with the Brazilian Mines Department (DNPM) today gazetting the grant of this second key exploration licence.
The grant of the SW2 tenement will open up additional new fronts for the Company's exploration activities alongside the existing SW1 tenement which was granted earlier in June this year and where exploration work has been delivering numerous quality copper‐gold drill targets for the Company.
The Carajás hosts the world's largest known concentration of large‐tonnage IOCG deposits including Vale's giant Salobo Copper‐Gold Mine which has Reserves of 1.2 billion tonnes at 0.63% Cu and 0.4g/t Au and produced approximately 176kt of copper and 317koz of gold in calendar year 20161. The Salobo Mine is considered to be the second biggest IOCG mine in the world today.
Both of Centaurus' Salobo West tenements are located in the same geological context as the Salobo mine and less than 15km along strike.
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Vale Data sourced from "Vale Production in 4Q16" Report and its 20‐F Annual Report for 2016
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Over the last 6 months Centaurus has acquired a significant data base of geological and geophysical information from multiple sources including CPRM (Brazilian Geological Survey). More recently the Company has secured exploration data generated historically by a major mining house that has worked the SW1 tenement in the past. The data is currently being reprocessed, assessed and verified by the Company. Recent soil sampling by Centaurus has validated the quality of the historical soils data. These soils results are set out in the map at Figure 1.
For the SW2 tenement, which has just been granted, Centaurus has reprocessed CPRM airborne geophysical data and has already identified multiple targets which require further ground based follow up exploration work. The reprocessing and analysis of the regional geophysical data was completed by highly regarded geophysical consulting group, Southern Geoscience and Mr Alan King, former Chief Geophysicist for Global Exploration at Vale and Inco.
Centaurus' Managing Director, Mr Darren Gordon, said the Company was very pleased to have secured the grant of the southern SW2 tenement at its Salobo West Copper‐Gold Project.
"Exploration on the SW1 tenement has already delivered great results and allowed the Company to define multiple IOCG drill targets for the Salobo West project but the grant of the SW2 tenement will allow the Company to expand its exploration activities in the Carajás Mineral Province ‐ one of the most prospective mining addresses on the planet.
"The region remains dominated by Vale and being able to secure further ground in this tightly held region is a fantastic outcome for the Company.
Securing a second tenement which lies less than 15km along strike from one of the worlds' biggest IOCG copper mines and features similar host rocks is really exciting," he added.
‐ENDS‐ Released by: On behalf of:Nicholas Read Read Corporate M: +61 419 929 046
Darren Gordon Managing Director Centaurus Metals Limited T: +618 9420 4000
Competent Person StatementPage 2
The information in this report that relates to Exploration Results is based on information compiled by Roger Fitzhardinge who is a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Roger Fitzhardinge is a permanent employee of Centaurus Metals Limited. Roger Fitzhardinge 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 2012 Edition of the 'Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves'. Roger Fitzhardinge 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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Figure 1 - Salobo West Copper Gold Project ‐ Regional Magnetics with SW1 soils ‐ Carajas Mineral Province, Brazil.Page 4
APPENDIX B - TECHNICAL DETAILS OF THE SALOBO WEST IOCG PROJECT, JORC CODE, 2012 EDITION - TABLE 1 SECTION 1 SAMPLING TECHNIQUES AND DATACriteria | Commentary |
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Drilling techniques |
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Drill sample recovery |
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Logging |
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Sub‐sampling |
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techniques and sample | Parauapebas, Brazil as 0.5‐5kg samples. They were dried at 105°C until the sample was |
preparation | completely dry (6‐12hrs), crushed to 90% passing 3mm and reduced to 200‐300g. The |
samples were pulverised to 95% passing 150µm and split further to 50g aliquots for | |
chemical analysis. | |
Quality of assay data and laboratory tests |
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Verification of sampling and assaying |
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Location of data points |
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Data spacing and distribution |
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Orientation of data in relation to geological structure |
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