121 Mining Investment Presentation London - November 2023
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Targeting Sustainable
Tin and Tungsten Production
121 MINING INVESTMENT
PRESENTATION
LONDON
20 – 21 NOVEMBER 2023
ASX | VMS
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Disclaimer and Competent Persons Statement
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENT
This presentation may contain certain forward-looking statements and projections regarding: estimated, resources and reserves; planned production and operating costs
profiles; planned capital requirements; and planned strategies and corporate objectives.
Such forward-looking statements/projections are estimates for discussion purposes only and should not be relied upon. They are not guarantees of future performance and
involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors many of which are beyond the control of Venture Minerals Limited. The forward-looking
statements/projections are inherently uncertain and may therefore differ materially from results ultimately achieved;
Venture Minerals Limited does not make any representations and provides no warranties concerning the accuracy of the projections, and disclaims any obligation to
update or revise any forward-looking statements/projects based on new information, future events or otherwise except to the extent required by applicable laws;
COMPETENT PERSONS STATEMENT
The information in this report that relates to Exploration Results, Exploration Targets and Minerals Resources is based on information compiled by Mr Andrew Radonjic, a
fulltime employee of the company and who is a Member of The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Mr Andrew Radonjic has sufficient experience which is
relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposits 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’. Mr Andrew Radonjic consents to the inclusion in the report
of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.
The information in this report that relates to Mineral Resources for the Mount Lindsay and Livingstone Projects is based on information compiled by Mr Andrew Radonjic, a
fulltime employee of the company and who is a Member of The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Mr Andrew Radonjic has sufficient experience which is
relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposits under consideration and to the activity which he is undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the
2004 and 2012 Edition of the ‘Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves’. Mr Andrew Radonjic consents to the inclusion
in the report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears. This information was prepared and first disclosed under the JORC Code
2004. It has not been updated since to comply with the JORC Code 2012 on the basis that the information has not materially changed since it was last reported.
NO NEW INFORMATION OR DATA
All material assumptions and technical parameters underpinning the Minerals Resource and Reserve estimate referred to in previous ASX announcements continue to apply
and have not materially changed since last reported. The company is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information included in the
announcement.
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Highlights
•
Mount Lindsay Underground Feasibility Study to include additional,
potential large-scale quantities of tin and boron within the current
resource base, and extensively throughout the greater Mount Lindsay
skarn system. The tin-borates have not previously been assessed in any
mining studies. Borate minerals contain a large amount of Boron, a
critical mineral in the solar panel industry;
•
REE strategy expanded with new priority targets in Western Australia, including
the JV at Brothers into neighbouring REE project hosting shallow drill hits up to
49 m @ 1,313 ppm TREO. Follow on work identifies massive new REE Target
at Brothers named Jupiter with clay results up to 3,969 ppm TREO;
•
Chalice Mining after identifying two new Nickel-Copper-PGE targets, have
committed to the second stage of the JV which requires a further $2.5 million of
expenditure by July 2024 to earn a further 19% interest (for a total of 70%) in
the South West Project;
•
Riley Iron Ore Mine prepared for a quick restart should the market conditions
become favourable;
•
SensOre Farming into Golden Grove North Project, Venture retains REE
rights, earn-in includes drilling of Vulcan High Grade REE Target;
•
Ni-Cu-PGE portfolio significantly expanded through the acquisition of highly
prospective tenure at the Kulin Project, effectively doubling Venture’s Ni-CuPGE portfolio. Recent exploration has identified clay hosted REE targets.
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Corporate Snapshot
Market Snapshot ASX:VMS/VMSO
Shares on issue
1,950m
$0.030
1.1c
$0.025
39.9m
$0.020
60.2m
$0.015
Market capitalization
A$21.5m
$0.010
Cash balance (30 September 2023)
~A$2.0m
$0.005
Debt (30 September 2023)
A$0.0m
Enterprise value
A$19.5m
Share price
Unlisted options1
Listed Options @ $0.036
1.
$0.000
Oct-22
20
15
10
5
Jan-23
Apr-23
Volume
30,000
Top 20
22.6
25,000
Directors and Management
2.90
Elphinstone Holdings Pty Ltd
2.70
WGS Pty Ltd
2.51
Jul-23
Oct-23
-
Share Price
Tin Price
35,000
%
Volume (Millions)
25
Price ($)
20m @ Var Prices, 19.9m @ A$0.06
Major Shareholders
Share Price and Volume
Share Price (A$)
20,000
15,000
10,000
5,000
0
Oct-22
Jan-23
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Apr-23
Jul-23
Oct-23
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Directors and Key Management
A dedicated management team with a wealth of experience and credited with a number of
discoveries both in Australia and internationally
Chairman of Venture Minerals
Limited;
Over 40 years experience as a
Chartered Accountant,
specialising in Corporate
Restructuring & Finance and as
a Professional Company
Director;
Held executive directorships
with a number of successful
ASX listed companies.
Dr Stuart Owen
Exploration Manager
Andrew Radonjic
Managing Director
Mel Ashton
Non-Executive Chairman
Mine Geologist and Mineral
Economist;
>35 years experience with a focus
on gold and nickel in the Eastern
Goldfields of Western Australia;
Instrumental in three significant
gold discoveries north of Kalgoorlie
that led to the pouring of over 1.5
million ounces;
Co-lead the exploration team during
the discovery of the Mount Lindsay
Tin-Tungsten-Magnetite deposits,
Tasmania;
Held Managing Director role at
Nickelore Limited;
Co-founded Blackstone Minerals
Limited.
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BSc & PhD in Geology, member
of the AIG and over 25 years
of experience in mineral
exploration which included gold
and nickel;
Senior Geologist in the
exploration team that discovered
and delineated the Paulsens
Gold Deposit in the Ashburton
region of WA;
Exploration Manager in the
Adamus team that discovered
and delineated the Southern
Ashanti Gold Deposits, Ghana;
Exploration Manager for
Venture during the discovery of
the Mt Lindsay Tin-TungstenMagnetite deposits, Tasmania.
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Project Locations
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Location of Mount Lindsay Tin-Tungsten Deposit
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Mount Lindsay: Historic Tin Mining
Historic Stanley Reward Alluvial Tin Workings
Tin for the future
Tin is an important part of the Fourth Industrial Revolution through solder which is the
glue that connects everything that is electronic;
Tin is technically diverse and hence is also an important part of the Green Industrial
Revolution as this is led by technology as the world converts to an electricity-based
economy.
Tin is required for:
Electric
Vehicles
Solar
Cells
Recycling
Wind
Power
Energy Storage
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Today’s and Tomorrow’s Applications for Tin
Solder market technology drivers:
Electronics miniaturisation impact fading,
Lead-free conversion has resumed.
5G to lead the new electronics era:
Currently ~400g of Tin per car
5G to be the platform for connected future,
Two phases of infrastructure build,
Real market boosts beyond 2025.
Electric vehicles may increase tin use:
EV sales to reach 30% share by 2030,
Electronics content in eV to increase x 5,
New copper-tin components.
Tin technologies for energy storage:
Advanced lead-acid needs tin,
Lithium-ion technologies advancing,
Next generation even more likely to use tin.
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Source: International Tin Association.
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“Could a lack of ESG compliant tin supply affect the pace
of energy transition?” – Wood MacKenzie
There is no shortage of tin supply potential, but ESG risk is a factor;
Venture, as an Australian tin producer, can capitalise on global demand for ESG compliant tin.
Global Tin Reserves (kt)
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0
China
Russia
Indonesia
Egypt
Brazil
Bolivia
Peru
Congo
Myanmar
Morroco
Laos
Other
2020 Tin Mine Production (kt)
100
80
60
40
20
0
China
Indonesia
Myanmar
Brazil
Peru
Bolivia
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Congo
Australia
Other
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Tungsten Ore at Mt Lindsay: A Critical Mineral
Tungsten is ranked by the British Geological Surveys, US Department of Defence, the
European Commission, Japan, Russia and Australia as a 'critical' mineral:
• Due to its economic importance,
• Supply risk – dominance of China in the market,
• Inability to be substituted.
Tungsten is a key input to industries vital to
national security:
• With hardness second only to that of diamonds,
• The highest melting point of all metallic elements.
US and European end‐users are looking to reduce their
dependence on Chinese production.
* Tungsten in Core Results for ML070 which
returned a drill intersection of 12 metres @
1.69%WO3 from 105 metres. Refer to ASX
announcement 14 February 2008.
Diverse commercial, industrial and military applications:
• Steel hardening, aeronautical and automobile
manufacturing, armaments, semiconductors,
electronics, lighting, rail, chemicals and high
Technology.
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EV Metal and Critical Minerals Demand – time to
re-assess Mount Lindsay
EV Metal and Critical Minerals demand drives re-assessment of the high grade
tin and tungsten resource base at Mount Lindsay;
Uniquely positioned with Mount Lindsay being one of the largest undeveloped tin
projects in the world, containing in excess of 80,000* tonnes of tin metal;
Mount Lindsay also hosts, within the same mineralised body, a globally significant
tungsten resource containing 3,200,000* MTU (metric tonne unit) of WO3;
Updated Feasibility Study for an underground mine, focused on the higher grade
portions at Mount Lindsay, which previously reported resources* included 4.7Mt @
0.4% Sn & 0.3% WO3, including drill results such as**:
MacDonald Shoot (Main Skarn)
Radford Shoot (No.2 Skarn)
8 m @ 1.4% WO3 from 104 m
16 m @ 1.1% Sn from 353 m
18 m @ 2.2% Sn from 160 m
12 m @ 1.7% WO3 from 105 m
26 m @ 2.7% Sn from 202 m
8 m @ 1.2% WO3 from 244 m.
* Refer to ASX announcement 17 October 2012 . ** Refer to ASX announcement 14 October 2021
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Large-Scale quantities of Tin and Boron identified at
Mount Lindsay
Current study to include additional, potential large-scale quantities of tin and boron
within the current resource base, and extensively throughout the greater Mount
Lindsay skarn system. The tin-borates have not previously been assessed in any
mining studies and borate minerals contain a large amount of Boron;
Boron is a critical mineral in the solar panel industry;
Boron is an important and versatile element in the modern world, used in
everything from computer screens to fertilisers to creating powerful magnets for
wind turbines and EVs;
Australia does not produce boron, but instead relies on supply from large producers
such as Turkey, which comes with potential disruption and the risk of political
instability.
Main Skarn & No. 2 Skarn
Other Skarns at Mount Lindsay
20 m @ 0.9% B from 324 m
22 m @ 0.6% B from 92.7 m
28 m @ 1.1% B from 138 m
75.3 m @ 0.3% B from 299 m
24 m @ 0.9% B from 123 m
30m @ 0.9% B from 196 m
22 m @ 0.7% B from 36 m
18 m @ 1.0% B from 211 m.
20 m @ 0.6% B from 63m
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Mount Lindsay Highlights
More than 100,000m of diamond core drilling has been completed on the project by
predominately Venture, most of which has been used to define JORC compliant
resources with ~70% in the Measured & Indicated categories;
Open Pit Feasibility Study completed with comprehensive metallurgical test-work and
post-feasibility delivered a very high grade 75% tin concentrate result that would
attract price premiums;
Tin is at ~US$25,000/t (higher than 10-year average), about three times the price
of copper and has increased by ~85% since early 2016;
Tungsten’s APT price is at ~US$295/mtu has increased by ~75% since early 2016;
Several High-Grade Targets with drill results to follow up including
Big Wilson with 17.4m @ 2% tin
Webbs Creek with 8.5m @ 0.4% tin & 0.2% tungsten.
Major landholding in a premier tin district and a globally recognised tier one ESG
jurisdiction.
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High Grade Tin-Tungsten Targets and Tin-Boron Skarns
*See Metals X Announcement “2022 Renison Mineral Resource Update”, 14 June 2022
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New Tin Drilling Discovers Large Mineralised Skarn along
strike from Renison Bell Tin Mine
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REE mineralisation discovered immediately adjacent
to Tin Zones at Mount Lindsay
Very High Grade Magnet REE identified at surface near
Reward REE Drill Intersections
Highly anomalous zone is
further supported by some
of the six historic terrace
gravel samples with peak
assays of the key REE being
4,337 ppm (0.43%)
Praseodymium Oxide
(Pr6O11), 4,774 ppm (0.48%)
Neodymium Oxide (Nd2O3),
731 ppm Terbium Oxide
(Tb4O7) and 4,902 ppm
(0.49%) Dysprosium Oxide
(Dy2O3).
REE strategy expanded with new priority targets in WA
• Acquired and identified new priority
Rare Earth targets to increase
exposure in the Rare Earth Element
space, with a particular focus on the
clay hosted REE mineralisation type.
• Brothers 511 km2 tenement package
adjacent to the Vulcan Prospect, with
very high grade REE results up to
12.5% TREO. Contains surface
laterite samples grading up to 1,864
ppm combined REE from State
Government dataset.
• Bandy 809 km2 tenement package,
which hosts combined REE laterite
results up to 2,704 ppm from the
same State Government dataset,
which is the highest value recorded
from government sampling in the
West Yilgarn area.
JV at Brothers on neighbouring REE project hosting
shallow drill hits up to 49 metres @ 1,313 ppm TREO
• Signed a JV agreement to earn into the
Iron Duke REE Project, which hosts two
shallow historic drillholes, both of which
have broad, high grade intersections of
Total Rare Earth Oxides (“TREO”).
• Located immediately south of the 100%
owned Brothers REE Project with only two
historic RC drill holes at Iron Duke, both of
which intersected broad, high grade zones
of REE, the Project is very well positioned
for a new REE discovery.
• Also pegged an additional 504 km2
tenement package adjacent to both the
Brothers and Iron Duke Projects, bringing
the total project area up to 1,165 km2 of
prospective REE tenure .
Venture’s Maiden Drilling program confirms High Grade
clay hosted REE discovery at the Brothers Project
•
Venture’s Maiden Drilling program has confirmed High
Grade clay hosted REE mineralisation has been
discovered at the Greater Brothers Project (Brothers
including Iron Duke) with several intersections of up 15
metres at 2,500 ppm TREO within broader zones of up
to 45 metres at ~1,500ppm TREO throughout an
extensive area.
•
BRAC009 45 m @ 1,455 ppm TREO from 70 m to EOH,
Including 15 m @ 2,105 ppm TREO from 80 m.
•
BRAC024 19 m @ 1,931 ppm TREO from 55 m to EOH
including 5 m @ 3,380 ppm TREO from 60 m.
•
BRAC036 30 m @ 1,982 ppm TREO from 35 m to EOH
including 15 m @ 2,672 ppm TREO from 40 m.
•
BRAC037 40 m @ 1,832 ppm TREO from 25 m to EOH
including 10 m @ 2,725 ppm TREO from 30 m.
•
BRAC039 42 m @ 1,619 ppm TREO from 5 m to EOH
including 10 m @ 2,595 ppm TREO from 30 m.
Massive new REE Target identified at Brothers with
results up to 3,969 ppm TREO
• Identification of a new large REE target
named the “Jupiter Prospect”. The target
is defined by a coincident gravity and
magnetic anomaly extending over 40
square kilometres which hosts extensive
REE rich clays.
• Reconnaissance aircore drilling has
shown a strong correlation between the
magnetic/gravity highs and the broad
widths of near-surface, high-grade TREO
results.
• The potential to deliver a substantial
resource is apparent from these results
and follow up drilling will commence
shortly.
Jupiter REE Target defined by a coincident gravity/magnetic
anomaly over 40 sq. km hosting extensive REE rich clays.
BRAC039 42 m @ 1,619 ppm TREO from 5 m,
including 10 m @ 2,595 ppm TREO
BRAC036 28 m @ 2,246 ppm
TREO from 37 m, including
11 m @ 3,008 ppm TREO
BRAC036 28 m @ 2,246 ppm
TREO from 37 m, including
11 m @ 3,008 ppm TREO
BRAC037 40 m @ 1,832 ppm TREO from 25 m,
including 10 m @ 2,725 ppm TREO
Brothers REE Project with the new large-scale Jupiter
Target, is well located between Major Processing Plants
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SensOre and Venture Reach Farm-in Agreement on
Golden Grove North Project
SensOre to earn up to 70% in all
mineral rights with the exclusion of
Rare Earths by spending up to $4.5m
in two stages;
SensOre to spend $1.5m to earn 51%
and an additional $3m for a further 19%
interest whilst granting Venture with an
option to clawback 10% of the project
within the first 2 years;
SensOre will utilise proprietary AI
technology at Golden Grove North giving
Venture exposure to the exploration
upside of this advanced technology;
SensOre’s proprietary AI technology has
already highlighted lithium and copper
exploration potential at Golden Grove
North.
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Very High Grade REE discovered at the Vulcan prospect
within Golden Grove North
Under the terms of the Agreement, as part
of the initial RC/Diamond Core drilling
program, SensOre has agreed to drill the
High Grade Vulcan Rare Earth target which
Venture retains the mineral rights;
The Vulcan Rare Earth drilling will allow
Venture to test the recently received
High Grade REE surface sample results
at the Vulcan prospect within the Golden
Grove North Project. Results included
several values over 1% TREO ranging up
to 12.5% TREO with 5,460 ppm (0.55%)
Praseodymium Oxide (Pr6O11) and 14,575
ppm (1.46%) Neodymium Oxide (Nd2O3).
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Location of Riley Iron Ore Mine
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Riley Iron Ore Mine - Currently
Steady state production achieved;
First Shipment of Iron Ore completed;
Volatile market conditions for iron ore;
Plant on Care & Maintenance whilst waiting for improving market
conditions.
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Key Investment Highlights
The advanced Mount Lindsay Tin-Tungsten Project is well positioned to take advantage of
the strong EV and critical mineral markets;
Venture Minerals is targeting sustainable Tin and Tungsten Production from Mount
Lindsay to capitalize on the global demand for decarbonisation commodities;
Brothers REE discovery confirmed with Maiden Drilling returning several intersections of up
15 metres at ~2,500 ppm TREO over an extensive area now supported with the massive
Jupiter Target defined by a coincident gravity/magnetic anomaly over 40 sq. km in size;
Chalice proceeding to Stage Two of the South West JV, is a strong endorsement of the
Project and highlights the potential for Thor to deliver a magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE discovery;
Riley Iron Ore Mine is a free option to the iron ore price;
SensOre’s proprietary AI technology has already highlighted lithium and copper exploration
potential at Golden Grove North, Venture retains REE rights with SensOre to drill Vulcan
High Grade REE target as part of earn-in;
7 REE targets identified at the Kulin Project, in addition to the highly prospective Ni-Cu-PGE
targets in a highly sought-after ground position proximal to the Julimar Ni-Cu-PGE deposit.
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Targeting Sustainable
Tin and Tungsten Production
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