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KEITH YATES – Adelaide Resources Limited. Adelaide Resources Limited. Directors. Keith Yates (Executive Chairman). The Company. Listed in 1996 ASX Code: ADN 57.3 million shares issued Unlisted options - 2.43 million Cash - $2.3 million 1100 shareholders
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Adelaide Resources Limited Directors . . . Keith Yates (Executive Chairman) The Company . . . • Listed in 1996 • ASX Code: ADN • 57.3 million shares issued • Unlisted options - 2.43 million • Cash - $2.3 million • 1100 shareholders • 12 month trading - 10 to 26 cents • Market capitalisation - $12 million (21 cents) John Horan Kevin Wills
Prominent Hill Challenger Olympic Dam Tarcoola Tunkillia Barns Moonta Olympic Copper-Gold Province Proterozoic Gold Arc Adelaide Resources Limited SOUTH AUSTRALIA South Australia GAWLER CRATON 300 KM Adelaide
Adelaide Resources Limited SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PROJECTS South Australia GAWLER CRATON Prominent Hill THE TWINS (Copper-Gold) Olympic Dam BARTON (Nickel) ANABAMA (Copper) EYRE PENINSULA (Gold) 300 KM WARRAMBOO (Iron) MOONTA - WALLAROO (Copper-Gold) Adelaide Olympic Copper-Gold Province Proterozoic Gold Arc
Adelaide Resources Limited EYRE PENINSULA PROJECT THE CHALLENGE IN 1996 • To demonstrate that a very poorly explored region with no mining history in an unfashionable province was prospective for gold • To convince investors of the Gawler Craton’s gold potential and of the project’s merit • To develop cost effective reconnaissance techniques to explore very large areas typically masked by extensive shallow cover and geochemically depleted regolith
Tarcoola Tunkillia Nuckulla Hill Proterozoic gold mineralisation Barns Weednanna Adelaide Resources Limited CENTRAL GAWLER CRATON Proterozoic Gold Arc Stuart Shelf Hiltaba Suite Granites Gawler Range Volcanics Australia’s new goldfrontier
Adelaide Resources Limited THE GOLD ARC • Emerging regional gold province ~500km long • Very little outcrop - sand cover and deep weathering • Recognition of significance required calcrete geochemistry commencing 1995 • Calcrete is highly effective and cost efficient • Large mineralising systems evident in geology
Adelaide Resources Limited PROTEROZOIC GOLD ARC Q1: Why wasn’t it identified by early prospectors? A1: The early prospectors missed it because: • << 1% outcrop • Lack of drainage • Geochemical depletion in upper regolith
Adelaide Resources Limited PROTEROZOIC GOLD ARC Q1: Why wasn’t it identified earlier by modern explorers? A1: Modern explorers missed it because: • Lack of effective reconnaissance gold exploration technique until calcrete geochemistry (1993) • Excepting Tarcoola-Glenloth, 20th century gold exploration didn’t commence until 1995 • Many gold finds are very recent: - Tunkillia 1996, Nuckulla Hill 1996, Weednanna 1999, Barns 2000 • Gold exploration effort only 7 years old with negative market sentiment prevailing for half that time
TYPICAL CALCRETE ANOMALY 0.9 0.9 0.8 1.1 0.8 0.7 1.0 200 Metres 1.0 1.6 1.1 1.8 2.8 1.3 1.2 0.9 1.3 1.6 0.8 1.1 3.0 2.0 19.0 0.3 0.2 2.7 1.6 2.9 4.0 2.3 2.1 2.1 1.4 0.9 0.8 0.7 1.0 0.9 1.4 1.8 12.0 11.0 2.1 3.2 14.0 4.6 7.2 0.9 6.7 3.4 1.4 1.2 1.3 1.9 5.1 7.8 0.9 0.8 1.0 2.4 2.4 3.8 12.0 4.0 3.3 1.3 5.6 5.1 2.2 1.5 10.0 0.9 0.1 1.4 1.2 2.4 2.9 1.6 2.2 2.2 1.0 1.2 1.2 1.0 0.9 2.1 1.4 2.3 1.5 1.1 0.3 1.7 1.6 Calcrete sample location and 2.4 2.5 ppb gold 5 ppb gold 10 ppb gold gold value in parts/billion
Kyancutta GOLD IN CALCRETE 135º 135º30' 136º 136º30’ Eyre Peninsula Tenements 32º30' 30 Kilometres EL 3076 EL 3119 EL 2869 EL EL 2752 2845 Minnipa Barns Yaninee EL 2806 33º EL 2669 Wudinna E y r EL 2844 e Kimba H i g h w a y EL 2846 Warramboo Iron Project (Excluded from Newmont Joint Venture) Darke Peak 33º30' Lock
THE NEWMONT - ADELAIDE DEAL EYRE PENINSULA JOINT VENTURE • 4.65% shareholding in Adelaide Resources • $5 million over 5 years max. for 51% • $1 million minimum per year • Adelaide initial operator • Adelaide may contribute at 49% or dilute to 30% free carried • If required Newmont to assist with mine financing • Sole risk arrangements
30 KM EYRE PENINSULA TENEMENTS Newmont JV (6,701 sq km) Barns Gold Project Wudinna Eyre Kimba Highway Warramboo Iron Project Lock
EYRE PENINSULA JOINT VENTURE with Newmont Australia Update . . . • JV expenditure to end 2003 of $0.77 million • District wide gold exploration effort implemented • 391 RAB/Aircore holes (20,150m) completed at nine gold prospects • 1440 surface calcrete samples collected on nine tenements • Very promising gold targets emerging
10 KM EYRE PENINSULA JV - A new gold district Advanced Defined Anomaly WUD6 Barns Gold Project WUD2 Central 65 x 20km Wudinna KO3
BARNS GOLD PROJECT 2.5ppb gold in calcrete contour 5ppb gold in calcrete contour Drill traverse Northern Zone Bedrock anomaly zone 500 metres Section 6365900mN Western Zones Eastern Zone Southern Zone White Tank Zone Barns Gold Project
100 M 16m @ 1.0 g/t 146.7 @ 0.87 g/t 88.6 @ 1.25 g/t 2m @ 67.6 g/t 11m @ 2.84 g/t 36m @ 1.80 g/t 9m @ 1.17 g/t 11m @ 2.45 g/t Mineralised zone BARNS GOLD PROJECT Eastern Zone Section - 6365900mN Depleted Oxide Primary
10 KM EYRE PENINSULA JV - A new gold district Advanced Defined Anomaly WUD6 Barns Gold Project WUD2 Central 65 x 20km Wudinna KO3
25ppb gold in bedrock 100ppb gold in bedrock 500 M EYRE PENINSULA JOINT VENTURE WUD6 - RAB Drilling 6/0.89 > 2.5ppb calcrete anomaly 1/2.69 RAB drilling 1/1.44 2.6km 217 RAB Holes 9,058 metres > $300,000 spent Section 15/1.04
0 -50 50 to 100ppb Au 100 to 500ppb Au Planned RC Drillhole >500ppb Au -100 EYRE PENINSULA JOINT VENTURE WUD6 - 6362900mN Red Rag Zone Saprolite 2/1.78 22/0.38 Bedrock
EYRE PENINSULA JOINT VENTURE 2004 Budget - $1.3 million ~80% on drilling related activities Calcrete sampling $45K RC Drilling $795K Tenement maintenance $60K Administration $155K RAB Drilling $245K
BARTON Adelaide Resources Limited SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PROJECTS South Australia GAWLER CRATON Prominent Hill THE TWINS (Copper-Gold) Olympic Dam BARTON (Nickel) ANABAMA (Copper) EYRE PENINSULA (Gold) 300 KM WARRAMBOO (Iron) MOONTA - WALLAROO (Copper-Gold) Adelaide Olympic Copper-Gold Province Proterozoic Gold Arc
Target intrusive Airborne EM Traverse Proposed airborne EM survey areas 20 KM Barton Siding Immarna Trans Australia Railway BARTON NICKEL EXPLORATION CONCEPT Eyre Highway
BARTON NICKEL PROJECT Airborne Electromagnetics Hoistem system
BARTON NICKEL PROJECT • Vastly underexplored area • Conceptually attractive geological setting • Target is massive nickel sulphides of Voisey’s Bay style • Airborne EM provides the exploration tool • Negotiations with potential JV party at advanced stage
Adelaide Resources Limited ANNUAL DRILLING ACTIVITY Metres 50000 40000 30000 Forecast 20000 10000 0 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 RC / Diamond RAB / Aircore
Adelaide Resources Limited ANNUAL EXPLORATION EXPENDITURE $ (million) 3.0 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 0 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 Joint Venture Adelaide Resources Limited
Action galore! High levels of drilling in Australia’s newest gold frontier Exciting new gold prospects Active drilling program on new targets inpedigreed copper-gold district ~$2M funding by joint venturers in 2004 with additional ADN expenditure New deals and projects in pipeline Providing shareholders with discovery opportunities!