Metallic Financial institution Restricted (ASX: MBK) (‘Metallic Financial institution’, ‘MBK’ or the ‘Firm’) is happy to announce additional particulars concerning the Wadi al Junah Copper-Zinc-Gold-Silver Venture (‘Wadi al Junah’ or ‘the Venture’), which has been awarded to Consolidated Mining Firm (CMC) following a extremely aggressive Saudi authorities exploration licensing Spherical 6.
Highlights
- As introduced on 6 November, MBK’s Saudi Arabian JV firm, has been awarded the Wadi Al Junah Venture as a part of the Saudi Authorities’s Exploration Licensing Spherical 6
- Wadi Al Junah is potential for volcanogenic large sulphide (VMS) copper-zinc- gold-silver mineralisation and for shear zone gold-silver, with a number of untested precedence targets
- The Venture is 35km east of the Al Hajar Au-Ag-(Cu-Zn) deposit beforehand mined by Ma’aden and is proximal to the regional centre of Bisha, and near main entry routes, native cities and workforce
- Saudi exploration technique is supported by a nicely capitalised in-country JV Firm in CMC and important Saudi authorities incentives to de-risk and fast-track exploration
- Metallic Financial institution continues to evaluate new potential challenge areas in Saudi Arabia potential for copper, gold and different crucial minerals – a number of tenement purposes in progress
CMC is a Saudi Arabian restricted legal responsibility firm owned by MBK (60%) and Central Mining Holding Firm (‘CMH’, 40%). CMH is a member of the Al Qahtani Holdings group, and was the JV companion of Citadel Sources which, below the management of Inés Scotland as Managing Director, was chargeable for the exploration and improvement of the Jabal Sayid copper challenge in Saudi Arabia (previous to its acquisition by Equinox). CMC will likely be chargeable for managing and implementing the work program for the Wadi Al Junah challenge utilising the technical experience of MBK, because the exploration JV companion, together with the KSA experience of the Al Qahtani Group. CMC has a present capitalisation of SAR5m (~AUD2.1m).
Wadi al Junah with an space of 427km2 was the most important of the initiatives supplied in Spherical 6 and is proximal to the foremost regional centre and airport of Bisha, with main entry routes passing by the license space and native cities and workforce shut by. The Venture is situated within the potential Wadi Shwas Gold Belt, a area under-explored for shear zone gold, VMS copper-zinc-gold-silver and intrusion-related gold and base steel deposits. It’s supported by a number of mineral occurrences with encouraging geological observations, and gold, silver and copper grades in historic regional- scale reconnaissance mapping, which haven’t been adopted up by trendy work.
MBK’s technical group has ready a complete two-year work program, with an preliminary deal with following up the earlier restricted and floor based mostly exploration for mineral occurrences of copper, gold and silver. MBK is aiming to be drill-ready inside the subsequent six months.
Commenting on this acquisition, Metallic Financial institution’s Chair, Inés Scotland mentioned:
“The profitable tender for the Wadi al Junah challenge in Saudi Arabia by our JV firm CMC by way of a tightly contested and extremely aggressive exploration spherical speaks to our dedication, functionality and technical experience in reaching our technique of buying potential tenure inside Saudi Arabia, which we imagine stays underexplored and extremely potential.
Wadi al Junah represents our first challenge again in Saudi Arabia, a area during which MBK’s administration group has intensive expertise and a confirmed observe file of success, having beforehand developed the Jabal Sayid challenge. We’re well-supported by each our JV companion and the numerous authorities incentives supplied by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in seek for the subsequent Jabal Sayid. The Arabian Protect has a lot underexplored potential, and we’re able to get our preliminary section of exploration underway as shortly as potential.”
Wadi al Junah Copper-Zinc-Gold-Silver Abstract
The Wadi al Junah challenge space covers an space of 427sq km inside the Asir province of the Arabian Protect, southwest Saudi Arabia (Figures 1 and a pair of). It’s roughly 375km south-east of Jeddah, 150km east-northeast of the port of Al Quinfidhad and round 35km east of the Al Hajar Au-Ag-(Cu- Zn) deposit beforehand mined by Ma’aden. It’s proximal to the foremost regional centre and airport of Bisha, with main entry routes passing by the license space and native cities and workforce shut by. Nearly all of the challenge space is accessed by native tracks and wadi valleys in reasonable topography.
Determine 1: MBK MENA initiatives displaying Wadi al Junah (Saudi Arabia) and Malaqa, Space 47 and Space 65 (Jordan).
Determine 2: Wadi al Junah location map inside the Arabian Protect displaying main geological provinces and main Au and Cu mines (modified from KSA Ministry of Trade and Minerals publication after Nehlig et al, 2002)
Geology
Wadi al Junah is located inside the central Asir terrane of the Archaean Arabian Protect (Determine 2) inside the ~80km lengthy north-trending Wadi Shwas Gold Belt. The Shwas VMS belt on the western margin of the Wadi Shwas Gold Belt is host to the Al Hajar Au-Ag-Cu-Zn deposit, and quite a few different VMS base steel and Au mineral occurrences of Proterozoic age are current within the area (Determine 3).
Three recognized mineral occurrences happen within the tenement space – Haniyat (Ag-Cu-+/-Au+/-Zn), Wadi al Maytha (Ag-Cu) and Wadi Umm Rahka (Ag-Cu). Very restricted rock chip sampling as a part of regional scale mapping work within the 1960’s and 1970’s consists of outcomes as much as 1.53% Cu, 0.44g/t Au and 160g/t Ag from these prospects, which had been by no means adopted up1.
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