Hallo Kollegen,
auf vielfache Anregung eines Einzelnen (Ulfur) eröffne ich einen Thread über Ovoca Gold PLC, eine Explorationsfirma, die sich aus einer ehemals Irisch-Schwedischen Gold-Silber Explorationsfirma in den letzten 12 Monaten gemausert hat zu einer eurasiatisch aufgestellten Explorationsfirma. Ich hab die Aktie der Firma seit Februar / März 2006 im Depot.
Hauptinteresse bei mir lag damals im Gebiet auf der Halbinsel Kola, das PGM haltig ist. Problem der Firma: Russland ist politisch immer noch ein schwieriges Pflaster.
Es sind Ex-Leute der Oxus Gold, die sich im Frühsommer letzten Jahres in die kleine Ovoca Resources eingekauft haben, und zusammen mit der acquirierten, russischen Norplat mit Gebieten auf der Halbinsel Kola, und Teilen des Managements der Norplat, so eine völlig neu aufgestellte Firma in London an die Börse brachten.
(Ende Juni 2005 war das.)
Wichtigste Standorte: Russland, Schweden.
Schwerpunkte: Gold, Silber, Kupfer, PGM´s, Molybdän.
Das zuletzt per Kapitalerhöhung gekaufte Silbergebiet in Ostrussland (Goltsovoye) ist wohl mit am weitesten gediehen, da dort arbeitende Minenbereiche übernommen wurden.
Den (behaupteten) Zeitplan bis 2008 / 2009 - bis dahin soll dort die Produktion voll anlaufen - habe ich unten mit angehängt, im nächsten Posting, Goltsovoye betrifft dort die 2., 3., & 4. Grafik.
Ansonsten wird erstmal noch gebohrt, gehämmert & Geld gesammelt.
Aber seht selbst.
Ich fasse ein paar Infos aus der Präsentation & den letzten News zusammen.
Grüsse,
gutso
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Homepage: Ovoca Gold Plc
Handelbar in London (& Irland), WKN 903680
Company Summary & Objectives
74% interest in 74 m/oz silver deposit in Eastern Russia
acquisition cost / oz silver = $0.35 in shares
acquisition subject to EGM approval by shareholders in May/June 2006
Platinum, copper/molybdenum porphyry properties in Kola, Western Russia
drilling ongoing
Gold exploration targets on 10 licences in Sweden
drilling underway
6 m/oz pa silver production at $3.67/oz cash cost by 2008
current silver price range $12 to $14/oz
Upgrade resources in Russia and Sweden
Experienced management teams in Russia and Sweden (ANMERKUNG: DAS MANAGEMENT BESTEHT AUS Ex- Oxus Gold Leuten!)
Current Operations
IRELAND
The Newcastle West Block (PL’s 3545, 3858 and 3859). During January 2004, Ovoca Resources PLC signed a Heads of Agreement with Aurum Mineral Resources, in advance of finalising a formal Joint Venture Agreement. Aurum Mineral Resources will agree to spend at least €100,000 throughout the Newcastle West Block (PL’s 3545, 3858 and 3859) in north-west County Limerick, Ireland on data compilation, digital data capture, fieldwork and target generation programmes. In addition, Aurum will endeavour to find a suitable third party to fund further detailed exploration.
The Block lies immediately to the west, and north of the town of Newcastle West, Co Limerick. The area has limited exposure with a relatively thick and extensive glacial till cover. The licence areas are predominately underlain by supra-Waulsortion Reef Limestone (RK) and Waulsortain Limestone (WA) and depths to the prospective target horizon (base of Waulsortian) are between 350m – 700m. The Waulsortian Limestone of the area has been shown to be up to 400m thick.
The Newcastle West Block is located in a highly prospective Zn-Pb play to the west of a volcanic and associated intrusive package around Pallas Green. In ground to the north of the volcanics, the Noranda - Minco Joint Venture has been intersecting highly encouraging semi-massive to massive pyritic breccias and associated Zn-Pb grades. Other significant mineralization is known in the area at Courtbrown, Co Limerick just north of the Newcastle West Block (1Mt @ 3.5% Zn, 2% Pb and 14g/t Ag). Also further to the west, Cu-Ag and Cu-Ag-Hg mineralization is recorded at Aherlow, Co. Tipperarry and the disused Gortdrum Mine.
In addition to these substantial mineral deposits, there are numerous minor known mineral localities in the area, including Sb, Ag & As mineralization at Coolbaun and Zn, Pb & Ag mineralization at Rathkeal on PL’s 3488 and 3499 (Tara Mines).
RUSSIA
Kola Platinum and Gold Exploration Licence Area
Kola Peninsula Russia on Finnish Border
Platinum, gold, copper exploration within 152 square kilometre licence. Strong experienced local management based in Monchegorsk. 900,000 ozs gold in Russian P1 category. 7,000 metre drill programme underway. Potential major platinum deposit up to 3.2 g/t over 10 metres of mineralisationThe Oleninskoye and Nylam I and II areas are Ovoca’s current primary target areas with 7000 metre drilling programme underway on Oleninskoye area and drill targets identified on Nylam I and II
Interpreted as a collapsed caldera within the wider K-V greenstone belt, at least six separate mineral deposits have been identified at this geological location, which provides scope for numerous other potential discoveries, including:
Massive sulphide copper-gold veins & pgm mineralised diorite-gabbro (Oleninskoye)
Copper-gold-molybdenum porphyry (Pellapahk)
Layered basic intrusive with free gold & pgm’s (Leshaya)
SWEDEN
Swedish Gold Exploration Licence Area
Ovoca holds seven exploration claims; Klippen, Krokliden, Sjoliden, Nottjarn, Tannsele, Ekorrtrask and Bysstrask (approximately 25,000 ha) in Northern Sweden . The claims are located alongthe relatively under explored northwest trending structure that extends from Storuman in the NW to Lycksele in the SE, termed the ‘Gold Line’.
This belt has the potential to become one of the world’s newest mining districts. The low level of competitor activity coupled with extensive gold geochemical anomalies and open, available land position makes this an exciting place to commence gold exploration.
The central portion of the ‘Gold Line’ hosts three resource category projects; Blaiken – indicated and inferred resource of 8.4 Mt at 0.4 g/t gold, Barsele – indicated and inferred resource of 7.48 Mt at 1.8 g/t gold and Faboliden – indicated resource of 15 Mt at 1.4 g/t gold.
With a fourth project, Svartliden expected to commence production in late 2004. Resources at Svartliden currently stand at 2.62 million tonnes at 4.80 g/t gold (403,000 ounces) at a 1.5g/t gold cut-off, which include Proven and Probable Reserves of 1.41 million tonnes at 5.65 g/t gold (256,000 ounces). Direct cash operating costs for the Svartliden open cut operation, inclusive of provision for rehabilitation are predicted to be US$165 per ounce. Average annual production will be 50,000 ounces from a 300,000 tonnes per annum CIL plant (Dragon Website).
Latest News
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Ovoca Increases Shareholding in Norplat to 100%
Friday, 25th August 2006
Ovoca Gold Plc (AIM:OVG; IEX: OVX) annonces that it has acquired 8,100,000 ordinary shares in its subsidiary Norplat Limied ('Norplat'), under the terms of the May 2005 Norplat Option Agreement, in consideration of the issue of 8,910,000 new Ovoca ordinary shares of €0.025 each ('Ordinary Shares).
As a result, Ovoca now has 314,831,010 Ordinary Shares in issue and has a 100% interest in Norplat.
In addition, application will be made for 2,500,000 Ordinary Shares to be issued to satisfy certain professional service and consultancy liability obligations.
Roger Turner, Charman, said "We are delighted to complete the acquisition of Norplat, which is strategic to our long term plans. Exploration work has been continuing on Norplat's Kola Peninsula licences on gold and copper targets. Meanwhile, on the other side of Russia at our Goltsovoye silver project, drilling has commenced earlier this month as part of the bankable feasibility study under the supervision of Wardell Armstrong International. Following completion of the bankable study, Ovoca Gold plans to rapidly move into mine construction during 2008 and position the company to become a mid-tier precious metals producer."
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Encouraging Results from Kola Exploration Programme as Goltsovoye Feasibilty Study Makes Good Early Progress
Monday, 10th July 2006
Ovoca Gold plc (LSE/AIM: OVG.L and IEX: OVX.I) the listed Gold and Silver Mine Development and Exploration Company is pleased to announce ongoing drilling results on the Oleninskoye Gold Deposit and Pellapahk Copper-Molybdenum Deposit, Kolmozero-Voronya License, Kola Peninsula, Northwest Russia. In addition, the Feasibility Study at the Goltsovoye Deposit is advancing well, with drilling activities already underway.
Oleninskoye gold deposit
Oleninskoye is currently undergoing drilling. Positive assay results have been received from the Oleninskoye bore hole ‘C-BF 075’ returning an intersection of 13.7 grammes per tonne gold over an intersection of 1.5 metres. In addition, three separate bore holes from Oleninskoye and one from South Leshaya intersected a tantalum bearing pegmatite at the projected depth of the orebody intersection. These pegmatite dykes are narrow, near vertical, sheet like intrusive bodies which cut across the general trend of the orebodies and host rocks. The drill programme has been redesigned to intersect the orebodies.
In addition, the company has been informed from the assay laboratory that assay samples contain coarse irregularly dispersed gold grains. Coarse grains of gold up to 2 millimetres in diameter have been observed in both core and trench samples but assay results have not reflected what should have been a substantial gold grade. Standard sampling and assay techniques are not designed to take into account the presence of coarse irregularly dispersed gold grains known as the ‘nugget effect’. As a result the sampling and assay techniques have now been modified and the orebody intersections are being resampled and assayed using significantly larger samples and using wet screening techniques which are specific for the analysis of orebodies containing coarse gold.
Pellapahk copper-molybdenum deposit
Drilling results from the Pellapahk copper-molybdenum deposit to the northwest of Oleninskoye continue to produce significant intersections. The Pellapahk deposit was explored to a limited degree during the Soviet period and results from Ovoca’s drilling have extended the area of known mineralisation to over 3 kilometres and over a width of not less than 500 metres. Previous Soviet drilling had produced average grades of from: 0.1% to 0.75% copper; 0.035% to 0.125% molybdenum and 0.01 to 0.57 grammes per tonne gold. Borehole C-BF-67B contained multiple intersections containing the following:
(ANMERKUNG: TABELLE UNTEN - RECHTS NEBEN DEM BÖRSEN-CHART - ALS GRAFIK)
Such results compare favourably with similar deposits such as Mineral Park in northern Arizona with grades of 0.13% copper and 0.037% molybdenum. The results from further drilling on Pellapahk are expected soon. All intersections were within 100 metres from surface.
Goltsovoye
In addition, Ovoca is pleased to announce that the management team at the Goltsovoye Deposit in Magadan in Northeast Russia have made a good start on the Bankable Feasibility Study. Personnel and equipment are on site and drilling activities are already mobilised.
Commenting on these preliminary exploration results, Chief Executive Barrie Oakes said, “The presence of coarse gold has been identified in recent holes at Oleninskoye and modifications to the sampling and assaying techniques have been implemented to deal with this nugget effect. The Pellapahk porphyry deposit has now been shown to extend over a 3 kilometre long and 500 metre wide area and indicates the presence of a large, potential world class open pittable, deposit which is now undergoing more exploration to define its size and grade. We look forward to the results from the ongoing drilling programmes at Pellapahk, Oleninskoye and South Leshaya and we will report them as they become available.”
Glossary:
Coarse irregularly dispersed gold grains: gold grains which are usually visible to the naked eye and greater than one millimetre diameter which do not have a regular distribution throughout the host rock
Dykes: vertical or steeply dipping sheet like intrusive rock formations which cut across other geological structures and rock strata at a high angle
Pegmatite: a light coloured rock formed of coarse crystals often associated with rare metals
Tantalum: greyish silver, heavy and very hard metal almost completely immune to chemical attack. It occurs in such minerals as columbite, tantalite and euxenite
The above information has been reviewed and verified by Mr. Roger Turner, Director and Chairman of Ovoca, for the purposes of the Guidance Note for Mining, Oil and Gas Companies issued by the London Stock Exchange in March 2006. Mr Turner, with 40 years of mining engineering, manaagement and conslting experience, graduated as a mining engineer from the Camborne School of Mines, has an M.S. degree in Economic Geology from Leicester University and is a member in good standing with the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and a UK Chartered Engineer.
Ovoca Gold Plc is an international exploration company quoted in London (OVG.L) and Dublin (OVX.IR), exploring for precious and base metals in Russia, Sweden and Ireland
For further information please visit http://www.ovocagold.com or contact:
Simon Beardsmore, Commercial Manager - Ovoca Gold Plc
Tel: +44 (0)207 397 8159
Email: simon.beardsmore@ovocagold.com
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Tel: +44 (0)7887 920 530 / +44 (0)7932 740 452
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