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MALACHITE RESOURCES NL – MAR.AX - WKN: 779197
ca 12 Mille € MC: siehe Übersicht unten.
Übersicht: http://www.malachite.com.au/html/about_malachite.htm
MALACHITE HAS FOUR KEY PROJECTS ...
Tooloom Gold Project, where Newmont is spending up to $5 million to farm in
Conrad Silver Project, wholly owned, comprising multiple high grade silver-base metal lodes
Mt Isa Region Copper Project, where drilling has intersected high grade copper-gold mineralisation at two prospects
Elsmore Tin/Tungsten Project, tin and tungsten in hard rock greisen and alluvial deposits
BUSINESS PLAN
Malachite is an ASX listed Australian resources company whose primary aim is to create shareholder wealth by the discovery of a world class ore deposit.
As a specialist explorer the Company is focussing its efforts on the steepest part of the mining industry value curve – the discovery phase (see diagram below). Success with this primary objective would provide significant leverage for Malachite and allow the Company to continue to focus on its strength – exploration for major ore deposits in eastern Australia. Once an ore body has been found by the Company, a joint venture or similar relationship would be formed with a larger mining company that has the expertise to conduct a feasibility study and the technical and financial capacity to develop and operate a mine (e.g. the Newmont farm in at Tooloom).
Malachite has a secondary aim which is pursued in parallel with its primary objective. This is to discover a smaller ore deposit that is amenable to rapid evaluation, permitting and development, allowing the Company to generate a cash flow. Development and mining of such a deposit is more likely to be within the Company’s technical and financial capacity, although a joint venture structure is also possible. The cash flow generated would be used to fund future growth and finance the Company’s primary objective, at the same time minimising the need for new capital issues and dilution of existing shareholders.
In the longer term, Malachite envisages paying dividends to its shareholders and as its corporate expertise grows, it may be able to take on the development and operation of larger projects in its own right.
Exploration emphasis is placed on gold, silver and copper deposits. Deposits targeted for gold and silver are those associated with intrusive rocks within the fold belts of eastern Australia (e.g. Tooloom, where the target is intrusion-related gold deposits of “Alaskan” type, and Conrad, where the silver target lies within a well mineralised granite province). For copper the main target area is the world class Mount Isa copper province in northwest Queensland.
Tin and tungsten deposits are also of interest, especially in northern NSW where the Company is already active in relation to gold and silver. This region is a major historic producer of tin and tungsten and the Company believes there is excellent scope to identify a small resource that could be developed quickly and cheaply to generate cash flow.
Many of the Company’s projects are essentially polymetallic in nature, where gold, silver or copper occur with one or more of tin, tungsten, molybdenum, antimony, lead and zinc. In these cases a significant part of the value may reside in metals other than gold or silver (e.g. Conrad Silver Project).
It is the company's intention to remain unhedged to the fullest extent possible, so as to retain maximum leverage to the prices of gold, silver and copper.
A key strategy with which Malachite is implementing its business plan is the concept of “strategic alliance”, whereby the Company forms business links with other mining companies that offer technical, financial or mineral resources complimentary to Malachite’s. The Company currently enjoys such a relationship with Macmin Silver Limited and Straits Resources Limited, both listed Australian mining companies with interests in the same metals and regions as Malachite. Macmin and Straits are both shareholders in Malachite Resources and a Malachite holds shares in Macmin. Malachite’s managing director serves on the boards of both Macmin and Straits, while Macmin’s managing director serves on the Malachite board.
The following information is current for Malachite Resources NL as at 31 January 2007:
SHARES (ASX Code MAR)
Total number of shares on issue 99,449,065
Number of shareholders 1093
Holding by or on behalf of the
20 largest shareholders 40.81%
SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDERS No. of Shares % of Issued Capital
G G Lowder, M L Lowder &
Ledesa Pty. Ltd...................................5,002,500.....................5.03
Straits Resources Ltd..........................6,233,334 .....................6.27
OPTIONS (ASX Code MAROA)
Exercisable @ 20c on or before
31 August 2008.................................30,349,085