Auroch Minerals update

RNS Number : 5703A

Cadence Minerals PLC

27 March 2017

 

Cadence Minerals Plc

("Cadence Minerals", "Cadence" or "the Company")

Auroch Enters into a Joint Venture Near to the Giant Neves-Corvo Copper & Zinc Mine in Portugal

Cadence (AIM/NEX: KDNC; OTC: REMMY) is excited to report that Auroch Minerals ("Auroch") in which Cadence currently owns a 7.7%, announced a joint venture to earn upto 75% of the "Alcoutin Project". The Alcoutim Project is immediately along strike from the giant Neves Corvo Mine in the western half of the Iberian Pyrite Belt.

The full announcement is available here: http://clients3.weblink.com.au/pdf/AOU/01842027.pdf 

Highlights from the Auroch Release:

·      The Alcoutim Project is immediately along strike and down plunge from Lundin Mining's - giant Neves Corvo deposit that has current global resources of (Lundin mining 2016 Resources and Reserves report):

o  Copper zones - 91 Mt @ 2.5% Cu, 1.1% Zn & 116 Moz of Ag @ 43 g/t

o  Zinc Zones - 118 Mt @ 5.9% Zn, 0.3% Cu & 216 Moz Ag @ 57 g/t

·      Drilling is scheduled to commence within 10 weeks.

·      The IPB is one of the largest and most significant mining districts in the world, and is renowned for its poly-metallic (Cu-Zn dominant) Volcanic Massive Sulphide (VMS) deposits with over eighty (80) known deposits and resources totalling in excess of 1,700 million tons (Mt). It is home to ten (10) Giant deposits (> 100Mt ore) and three (3) Super Giant deposits (> 200Mt ore):

o  Neves Corvo (8 Mt contained Cu + Zn metal);

o  La Zarza (8 Mt contained Cu + Zn metal); and

o  the original Rio Tinto mine (>3 Mt contained Cu + Zn metal)

·      The discovery of Neves Corvo was made in 1977 by drilling geophysical targets including gravity, magnetic and EM anomalies. The volcanic host sequence to Neves Corvo continues under younger rocks into the Alcoutim Licence.

·      The Alcoutim Project has a trinity of similar geophysical anomalies with coincident magnetic, gravity and EM targets.

·      Recent drill intercepts at Semblana - the most recently discovered ore-body (2010) within the Neves Corvo Mine include;

o  PSN44A-1              11.1m @ 14.6% Cu, 1.61% Sn & 133 g/t Ag

o  PSN42                    13.6m @ 1.9% Cu, 2.64% Zn, 56 g/t Ag & 1.15 g/t Au

o  PSM46B-1             20.5m @ 6.1% Cu, 4.0% Zn, 110 g/t Ag & 0.23 g/t Au

·      Twenty-two (22) geophysical targets, comprising gravity, magnetic and EM anomalies have now been identified at the Alcoutim Project.

·      Stage one of exploration program will commence with five (5) diamond drill holes for approximately 5,600m into the highest priority geophysical targets.

·      Auroch to spend ~A$1.4 million to earn a 65% interest in the Alcoutim Project.  Auroch will also have the right, but not the obligation, to earn a further 10% by spending a further ~A$1.25 million.

·      Auroch has A$8.3 million in cash and receivables

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For further information please contact
Cadence Minerals plc	[phone]
Andrew Suckling
Kiran Morzaria
WH Ireland Limited (NOMAD & Broker)	[phone]
James Joyce
James Bavister
Square1 Consulting	[phone]
David Bick
Brian Alexander

Qualified Person

Kiran Morzaria B.Eng. (ACSM), MBA, has reviewed and approved the information contained in this announcement. Kiran holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Industrial Geology) from the Camborne School of Mines and an MBA (Finance) from CASS Business School.

About Cadence Minerals:

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