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QUANTUM
GRAPHITE
MARKET RELEASE
For Immediate Release
13 December 2021
Reinstatement Disclosure
The following information is required to be provided to ASX Limited (ASX) for release to the market in connection with the admission to reinstatement to official quotation of the Ordinary Shares of Quantum Graphite Limited (ABN 41 008 101 979) (the Company) identified by the ASX code QGL.
The Company is not aware of any legal, regulatory, statutory or contractual impediments to it undertaking the activities the subject of the commitments disclosed in the Cleansing Prospectus dated 30 November 2021.
Compliance with ASX Listing Rules and Continuous Disclosure Obligations
The Company confirms that it complies with the ASX Listing Rules and in particular Rule 3.1.
Index of Disclosures
This announcement includes Sections 1 to 4 as follows:
- Business Summary (including Tenement Details and Uley 2 Mineral Reserves)
- Mineral Resources of Uley 2 and Uley 3
- Overview of the Company's Exploration Program
- Financial Information including:-
- Statement of Commitments
- Share Capital Structure and Shareholder Distribution
- Top 20 Shareholder Details
- Proforma Balance Sheet
Listing Rule 1.1, Condition 13
The responsible person is Ms Rochelle Pattison.
Authorised by the Board of the Company
For further information please contact:
Sal Catalano
Managing Director
Quantum Graphite Limited
Quantum Graphite Limited ACN 008 101 979 GPO Box 214, Melbourne, Victoria, 3001 T: +613 8614 8414 E: mail@qgraphite.com www.quantumgraphite.com
QUANTUM GRAPHITE
- Business Summary
- Company History and Business Overview (Uley Graphite Mine)
The Company is the sole producer of coarse flake graphite in Australia from its historical Uley Graphite mine on the Eyre Peninsula onlyin South Australia. The Uley mine is one of the many high-gradecoarse-flake mineralised envelopes within the Company's broader
'Mikkira' graphite resource located on the southern tip of the Eyre Peninsula.
The next stage of development of the Uley mine is the Uley 2 Project represented by a new pit to be developed immediately to the south of the Uley 1 pit and the construction of a process plant and related infrastructure. The project is fully permitted by the Department of Energy and Mining of the Government of South Australia (see Program for Environmental Protection and Rehabilitation issued on 23 December 2014 under the South Australian Mining Act 1971 (Uley 2 PEPR) by the Department of Energy and Mining and https://www.energymining.sa.gov.au/minerals/mining/mines_and_quarries/uley_graphite_mine).
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The Company has completed a feasibility study (Feasibility Study) for the Uley 2 Project and published a JORC 2012 compliant | ||||
Mining Study and Reserves and Resources Estimate (JORC 2012 Mining Study) in December 2019. Further information is available | ||||
at the Company's website, quantumgraphite.com. | ||||
ULEY 2 RESERVE ESTIMATES & MINING STUDY | ||||
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Classification | Tonnage (t) | Average Grade (%TGC) | Contained Tonnes (t) | |
Pit Shell 36 reaches a depth of 132m and | 811,000 | 11.7 | 94,500 | |
Proved | ||||
Probable | 3,191,000 | 11.9 | 381,325 | |
The JORC 2012 Mining Study's detailed | ||||
Pit Optimisation results for Uley 2 include | ||||
Pit Shell 36 which provides the best case, | ||||
undiscounted operating cashflow of | ||||
A$207M. This optimised shell comprises a | ||||
single large pit and is illustrated in Figure 2. | ||||
contains approximately 4.0Mt of mill feed at | ||||
11.9% TGC (Total | ||||
Graphitic Carbon). | ||||
Mineralisation is open at depth and | ||||
continues in a south westerly direction. | ||||
Assays reported on 30 November 2018 in | ||||
Foraccordance with JORC 2012 included total |
graphitic carbon grades of more than 50%.
Figure 2
ABOUT QUANTUM GRAPHITE LIMITED
QGL is the owner of the Uley flake graphite mineral deposits located south-west of Port Lincoln, South Australia. The company's Uley 2 project represents the next stage of development of the century old Uley mine, one of the largest high-grade natural flake deposits in the world. For further information, qgraphite.com.
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1.2 Tenement Information
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The Company's mineral tenements are | ||||||||
solely owned by the Company (through | ||||||||
its wholly owned subsidiary, Quantum | ||||||||
Graphite Operations Pty Ltd). Tenement | ||||||||
locations are set out in Figure 1 below | ||||||||
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(a) | Mining Leases 5561 and 5562 totalling | |||||||
66 ha (inner small rectangle bordered | ||||||||
in blue in Figure 1) with an additional | ||||||||
412.5 ha in Retention Leases 66 and 67 | ||||||||
(larger rectangle bordered in blue | ||||||||
in Figure 1); | ||||||||
(b) A large scale, Exploration Licence 6224 | ||||||||
of approximately 75km2 (area bordered | ||||||||
in red in Figure 1) that includes a | ||||||||
number of primary and secondary | ||||||||
electromagnetic targets (indicated | ||||||||
in Figure 1 as the areas shaded pink | ||||||||
and bright yellow). An application for | ||||||||
renewal of this this licence was lodged | ||||||||
in September 2021. | ||||||||
Figure 1 | ||||||||
2.0 Mineral Resources Uley 2 and Uley 3 | ||||||||
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2.1 Details of the Company's JORC 2021 mineral reserves and resources are summarised below | ||||||||
The Mineral Resource Estimate is calculated at a 3.5% TGC cut-off is as follows: | ||||||||
RESOURCE | CLASSIFICATION | TONNES (Kt) | TGC (%) | DENSITY (t/m3) | TGC (kt) | |||
For | Uley 3 | Inferred | 900 | 6.6 | 2.1 | 59 | ||
Uley 3 Total | 900 | 6.6 | 2.1 | 59 | ||||
Uley 2 | Measured | 800 | 15.6 | 2.1 | 125 | |||
Indicated | 4,200 | 10.4 | 2.1 | 435 | ||||
Inferred | 1,300 | 10.5 | 2.2 | 137 | ||||
Uley 2 Total | 6,300 | 11.1 | 2.1 | 697 | ||||
Uley Project Total | 7,200 | 10.5 | 2.1 | 757 | ||||
Note: Small discrepancies may occur due to rounding.
(KT) = dry metric kilotonnes, (TGC %) = grade expressed in percentage of TGC
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QUANTUM GRAPHITE
2.2 Relationship between Uley 2 and Uley 3
Drilling at the Uley site in September and October 2021 led to an area of the Eastern Conductor site being designated as Uley 3 in November 2021.
onlyThe Uley 3 interpreted graphite mineralisation envelopes in relation to the Uley 2 mineralisation are shown below.
usepersonalUley is one of several mineralised lenses indicated by the known regional and local geology and geophysical data derived from surface SIROTEM (electromagnetic conductivity) and TMI (total magnetic intensity) explorative programs.
Stronger geophysical responses continue to be proven as key indicators for elevated graphitic mineralisation at Uley and are a valid t ol for designing and prioritising drill programs aimed at targeting conductive graphitic layers.
Close up of the results of the transient electromagnetic survey (TEM) of Uley Pit 2 and surrounds are illustrated in Figure 3 below. Exploration utilising TEM has proven to be a reliable marker for high grade graphitic carbon envelopes within the broader Mikkira deposit. The Company's exploration model and long-term development strategy are based on its interpretation of TEM geophysical signatures.
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- Exploration Program for EL 6224
- Overview
The exploration plan for EL 6224 will now include the following:
onlyThe priority of exploration activities in respect of each of the above items will be generally driven by commercial pressures from customers to expand the Uley 2 project's mineral resources and the strategic objective of growing and diversifying the
• | Adding to Quantum's Ore Reserve Inventory with the likely extension of the Uley 2 Ore Reserve to the South and infill drilling |
at Uley 3 aimed at upgrading the Mineral Resource classification to the Indicated level. | |
• | Conducting airborne geophysical TEM (transient electro-magnetic) surveys across currently defined anomalies. |
• Salt Lake, Kacey and Homestead conductive anomaly wide-spaced explorative drilling. |
Company's resources outside of the Uley mineralised envelope.
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