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ANNUAL REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED
30 June 2024
ADAVALE RESOURCES LIMITED AND ITS CONTROLLED ENTITIES
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2024
CORPORATE DIRECTORY................................................................................................................................ 4
LETTER TO SHAREHOLDERS .......................................................................................................................... 5
REVIEW OF OPERATIONS ................................................................................................................................ 6
DIRECTORS’ REPORT .....................................................................................................................................22
AUDITOR INDEPENDENCE DECLARATION ...............................................................................................30
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF PROFIT OR LOSS AND OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME ..31
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION .....................................................................32
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS ....................................................................................33
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY ......................................................................34
NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS ................................................................35
CONSOLIDATED ENTITY DISCLOSURE STATEMENT…………….…………………………………….55
DIRECTORS’ DECLARATION .........................................................................................................................56
INDEPENDENT AUDIT REPORT ....................................................................................................................57
ADDITIONAL SHAREHOLDER INFORMATION ..........................................................................................61
ADAVALE RESOURCES LIMITED AND ITS CONTROLLED ENTITIES
CORPORATE DIRECTORY
Directors & Management
Grant Pierce (Chairman)
David Riekie (Executive Director)
John Hicks (Non-executive Director)
Maurice Matich (Non-executive Director)
Allan Ritchie (Chief Executive Officer)
Leonard Math (Chief Financial Officer & Company Secretary)
Registered Office
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Telephone: (61) 02 8003 6733
Email: investor@adavaleresources.com
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Auditor
HLB Mann Judd
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Stock Exchange
Australian Securities Exchange
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SYDNEY NSW 2000
ASX Code
ADD, ADDOA
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LETTER TO SHAREHOLDERS
Dear Fellow Shareholders,
On behalf of the Adavale Board and executive team, we are pleased to present the Annual Report and summary of
the activities and milestones achieved during the 2024 financial year.
In anticipation of the renewed global interest and increasing focus on uranium during the course of the last year,
Adavale has significantly expanded its exploration portfolio in South Australia. This strategy focused on geological
localities that have demonstrated uranium occurrences, recognised paleochannels emanating from uraniumbearing source rocks to underlying geological structures as potential fluid pathways. As a consequence of these
recognised attributes, our expanded Exploration Licences (granted and in application) now cover approximately
6,100 sq km.
During the year, the Company acquired and reprocessed several historical datasets to generate in a cost and time
effective manner, a number of priority target areas. Additionally, the acquisition of the uranium bearing Kilonova
ELs situated within the northern outwash fan of the Flinders Ranges has provided the opportunity to commence the
approvals process to enable a 2,000m aircore drilling campaign to commence shortly at MacDonnell and George
Creek prospects. Furthermore, exploration undertaken by the Company involving gravity, geochemistry, and soil
sampling, has identified an exciting target area described as the Marree Embayment “depocentre,” where
exploratory drilling is planned once the statutory approval process is finalised. We would also like to express our
thanks to the Dieri and Adnyamathanha Traditional Custodians for their assistance and support with these current
and proposed work programs.
The model for the assembly of the South Australian portfolio is based on the amenability for this geological style of
paleochannel hosted uranium mineralisation to be recoverable by In Situ Leaching, which is the production and
processing methodology at the nearby Honeymoon Well (ASX:BOE) and Beverley uranium mines.
The uranium market, as mentioned, has recently experienced a significant resurgence, driven by the reduced
production profile of key players globally, and the expanding shortfall to meet increasing demand by the new and
scheduled nuclear facilities being developed. The political landscape and baseload energy required are providing
strong fundamentals for explorers and uranium producers alike, and Adavale considers that it is very well placed
to benefit through any anticipated exploration success over the years ahead.
The nickel market and changing dynamics have created a challenging environment for explorers, but the Company
was pleased to see a number of notable drilling successes undertaken at our flagship Kabanga Jirani and Luhuma
Nickel Projects in Tanzania. Exploration has been suspended, and activities introduced to preserve the value of the
significant outcomes achieved.
I would like to make special mention and thank our respective management and technical teams in both Australia
and Tanzania for their dedication and contributions over the year.
The Board looks forward to updating our shareholders as we continue to receive results from our upcoming
exploration programs in South Australia and thank you for your ongoing support as we look forward to continuing
to unlock the value of our projects.
The Board of Directors
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ADAVALE RESOURCES LIMITED AND ITS CONTROLLED ENTITIES
REVIEW OF OPERATIONS
NATURE OF OPERATIONS
The principal activities of the Group during the year was mineral exploration in Australia for Uranium and Tanzania
for Nickel. The following sets out the major changes to the Group from both a corporate and operational perspective
during the reporting period and up to the date of the Directors’ report.
Uranium Exploration – South Australia
Mundowdna and Mundowdna South
The Company was awarded a new 591km2 Mundowdna South Uranium Exploration Licence in December 2023.
The new licence (EL6957) is contiguous with Adavale’s Mundowdna EL6821 Uranium Licence that was approved
in late 20221 (Mundowdna licence package).
Following the grant of the Mundowdna South project in 2023, the Company undertook a process of reprocessing
historical electromagnetic (EM) and gravity datasets over the Mundowdna (EL6821) and Mundowdna South
(EL6957) project areas2.
The EM dataset, covering most of the Mundowdna licence package, was originally flown in 2007 for the purpose of
identifying paleochannels within a large recognised alluvial fan extending north-westward out from the Flinders
Ranges. Re-processing and interpretation of the EM dataset, supported by modern satellite imagery strongly
indicates the presence of an extensive paleochannel system within the Company’s Mundowdna licence package.
Figure 1: Interpreted Channels from reprocessed data showing the channels in the alluvial fan and the area of
Great Artesian Basin Influence2
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ASX Announcement – 25 September 2023 – Contiguous Uranium Licence to Expand Footprint in South Australia
ASX Announcement – 7 March 2024 – Updated - EM data indicates uranium exploration potential
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The analysis identified a large EM low running in a NW direction along the western margin of the Mundowdna
licences (Figure 2).
The sharpness of the low feature, particularly along its NE edge suggested it may be fault controlled in part creating
a half graben like feature (a depressed crustal block)3.
By inference, the region of the EM low is interpreted to reflect the greatest thickness (depocentre) of the uranium
prospective Eyre and Namba Formations overlying the basement Maree Subgroup sediments and as such
represent the prime pathway and potential trap site for the earliest uraniferous groundwaters shedding from the
adjacent Flinders Ranges.
Figure 2: Area identified as potential basement low. This was identified using channel 9 – 15 of the re-processed
EM Data. The image above shows channel 13 of the dataset.
In the June quarter, the maiden uranium field exploration program was undertaken at Mundowdna.
The initial exploration activities incorporated the collection of ~800 ionic leach soil samples (to test low threshold
Pb/U indicators) and ground gravity readings along existing pastoral tracks3, See Figures 3 and 4). The sampling
sites were chosen based on their orientation along tracks that cut across the interpreted paleochannel systems
within the two Mundowdna licences. The use of existing pastoral tracks minimised impacts and operate under a
low impact Program for Environment Protection and Rehabilitation (PEPR) for the initial phase of exploration4.
Gravity
Supporting the EM interpretation are the results of the gravity survey undertaken as part maiden exploration
program, which shows a consistent rising gravity trend towards the NE along all surveyed lines, indicating thickening
sediment cover in the SW and thinning towards the NE3.
Detailed interpretation of the gravity data for each line was also undertaken looking for subtle variations in the
gravity that may reflect potential paleochannels. Numerous such anomalies were identified in this way with their
current surface location recorded. Individual anomalies were then classified as either modern day or older
paleochannel depending on their location with respect to the modern-day drainage system (Figure ).
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ASX Announcement 6 June 2024 – Uranium exploration yields high priority drill targets
ASX Announcement 18 January 2024 – South Australian Exploration Program finalised
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Figure 3: Newly acquired gravity data indicating a thickening of sediments in the southwestern portion of the
licence package.
Soil Sampling
Soil samples and surface spectrometer readings collected a part of the Mundowdna program defined numerous
surface uranium anomalies. The anomalies present targets for follow up work programs to test and validate as they
are significantly elevated compared to the surrounding samples in the data. Importantly, these targets coincide with
the interpreted gravity anomalies related to the paleochannels described in Figure .
Figure 4: Zones of anomalous Pb/U Ratios along transects 1-3. Pink circles represent semi-continuous anomalies
that have been mapped by the sampling program. Additional work on these anomalies is required to determine
their usefulness in mapping systems.
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Strategic Acquisition - Exploration Licence 6553
In March 2024, the Company entered into an agreement with Kilonova Metals Pty Ltd for the acquisition of EL6553
in South Australia5.
EL6553 covers 456km2 across two parts, with the first part (to be called ‘Mundowdna South East’) adjacent to
Mundowdna South and the other portion (‘MacDonnell Creek’) to the east of the Company’s Lake Surprise
Uranium Project (See Figure 5).
Figure 5: Exploration Licence areas for Adavale (blue) and Kilonova’s EL6553 (red) over 2 separate areas
The MacDonnell Creek drilling (21 holes for 2,442m, MAMR120-MAMR140) identified a major new uraniumbearing, paleochannel located within an extensive sedimentary package high in anomalous uranium. The channel,
which is trending to the east, is up to 300m wide and 12m deep and has been generated as a result of regional
faulting to the west of the drilling area (Figure ).
The drilling returned the project’s best uranium intercepts, with downhole gamma probing returned a maximum
intersection of 1.0 metre at 263ppm eU3O8 and 0.65 metres at 235ppm eU3O8 in reduced sediments directly
below the channel itself (Figure and Figure ).6
Seven of the drillholes intercepted the paleochannel, with four of these (MAMR 132-135) containing significant
uranium intercepts.
There is an extensive zone of elevated uranium that occurs throughout the Eyre Formation units within the drilling
area. Large volumes of uranium appear to have migrated along a localised fault and have moved through the
permeable sand units within an approximate one kilometre radius. Within a thickness of approximately 25 metres
of Eyre Formation interbedded sand and clay units, there are numerous permeable zones for uranium to move into
as seen by the broad zone of elevated uranium identified in many of the recent drillholes. The channel itself directly
crosses the fault where uranium has migrated along as well as passing through the zone of elevated uranium and
appears to have acted as a preferred pathway for uranium migration.
Evidence that uranium is moving through the channel comes from the fact there is often a thin zone of elevated
uranium located within the underlying interbedded reduced sand and clay unit. Uranium has moved from within the
channel itself, which is highly oxidized, into the more reduced sediments below. The highest grade intersections
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ASX Announcement 26 March 2024 – Strategic licence acquisition to expand uranium portfolio in South Australia
Refer to CXU ASX announcement date 14 July 2011 – “Maree Drilling Results”
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identified from drilling at MacDonnell Creek was 1.0 metre at 263ppm eU3O8 from 107.6m, in hole MAMR132 and
0.65m at 235ppm eU3O8 from 105.7m, in hole MAMR134.6
Further to the west, drilling at George Creek (12 holes for 1,134m) returned significant anomalous uranium
mineralisation associated with a deepening of the sedimentary sequences towards an embayment in a regional
scale fault system. A region of anomalous uranium mineralisation was centred around MAMR149, which returned
a maximum intersection of 0.95m at 136ppm eU3O8 within variable oxidised and reduced sands and clays of the
interpreted Eyre Formation (Figure ).6
The uranium mineralisation at MacDonnell Creek and George Creek are located at redox boundaries within
sediments of Eyre and Namba Formations. The full extent of the MacDonnell Creek and George Creek
mineralisation are yet to be determined and as such will form the principal focus of Adavale’s exploration effort over
the area.
Figure 6: MacDonnell Creek drilling by Cauldron up to 2011 (Source CXU 2011 Annual Report)5
Figure 7: George Creek and MacDonnell Creek prospects identified by Cauldron (within the new MacDonnell
Creek tenure) (source CXU 2011 Annual Report)5
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Subsequent to the end of the financial year, the prerequisite statutory requirements for the aircore drill program at
the MacDonnell Creek and George Creek prospects (EL6553), within the broader Marree Embayment have
progressed with the lodgement of Adavale’s Program for Environment Protection and Rehabilitation (PEPR)
application with the SA Department for Energy and Mining (DEM).
Stage 1 of the aircore drill program involves approximately 20 holes for 2,000 drill metres and is designed targeting
extensions to known uranium redox boundaries at both MacDonnell and George Creek prospects. There is capacity
for additional drilling should the initial results be positive for uranium mineralisation.
Arrangements have been finalised with the Dieri Traditional Owners to complete a Heritage Clearance Survey over
the program area commencing mid September 2024. Accordingly, Adavale anticipates commencing drilling in early
October 2024.
Engagement with the Special Administrator for the Adnyamathanha Traditional Owners to secure heritage
clearances over Marree Embayment Depocentre target areas within ELs 6957 and 6821 is ongoing. The grant of
access to test this drill ready and exciting target area, remains a high priority for Adavale as part of the underlying
uranium strategy for South Australia.
Figure 8: Current exploration and drill target areas at MacDonnell and George Creek.
As part of the South Australian government’s PEPR approval system, Adavale’s geological team has completed the
required site surveys and ground access assessment for the upcoming drill program.
Drill hole locations were pegged as per the PEPR requirements and to facilitate the future Dieri Heritage Clearance
Survey of the area. Selected images from the field survey program can be seen in the images below.
The MacDonnell and George Creek areas are topographically flat with relatively easy vehicular access for the initial
aircore drill program.
Mundowdna South East
In 1973, Nissho-iwai (Australia) Pty Ltd completed a regional exploration program of mapping, rock chip sampling
and drilling for uranium minerals within an area that covers Mundowdna South East. Several anomalous uranium
target areas were highlighted but not extensively followed up.
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Acquisition - Exploration Licence 6890
In May, the Company announced that it had acquired EL6890 from Coast Exploration Pty Ltd. The exploration
licence covers 599km2 and is strategically significant, being contiguous to the Company’s existing Mundowdna and
Lake Surprise project areas (See Figure 5).
Figure 9: Adavale’s expanded Exploration Licence areas in the Marree Embayment South Australia
Further expansion in east of Ceduna and Eyre Peninsula
In June, the Company announced that it had applied for four exploration licences covering 2,446 km2, with a central
location in the Yellabinna area, ~85km east-northeast of Ceduna. The Company is specifically targeting
paleochannel, sandstone hosted uranium mineralisation, which may also be associated with basement intersecting
faults and buried uranium enriched granites of the underlying and adjacent Hiltaba Suite. The new projects
comprise two ELA’s each and have been named the Narlaby Project and Tolmer Project, respectively.
Narlaby Project
The Company has applied for two applications covering 189 km2 and 260 km2 respectively with one to the northwest
of the upper branch of the Narlaby paleochannel (ELA 2024/00043), which hosts the Yarranna roll front uranium
deposits, and one southeast of the Yarranna deposits (ELA 2024/00039), 16 km northeast of Poochera on the Eyre
Peninsula
The Yarranna Uranium Project is held by IsoEnergy Ltd (TSXV:ISO) and is an advanced stage exploration project
discovered by Carpentaria Exploration Pty Ltd in the 1980s. Carpentaria completed aircore and mud rotary drilling,
which resulted in the intersection of significant uranium mineralisation including IR1306 4m at 859 ppm U3O8 from
67m, IR1377 1m at 3,550 ppm U3O8 from 66m, and IR1378 1m at 1,400 ppm U3O8 from 69m7. This mineralisation
is associated with channel sequences of the Narlaby paleochannel.
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ASX Announcement 4 July 2024 – New Uranium Exploration Licenses expand uranium footprint in South Australia. (Refer to
IsoEnergy Ltd – https://www.isoenergy.ca/portfolio/australia/yarranna/ and Open File Envelope No.4010, Carpentaria Exploration
Co. Pty Ltd, 1984)
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Tolmer Project
Adavale has also applied for two exploration licences (ELA 2024/00041, ELA 2024/00042) covering ~1,997km2,
located in the Yellabinna area, ~90km south of Tarcoola and 95km northeast of Ceduna (Figure 11). The Company
is targeting sandstone hosted uranium mineralisation in the Tolmer paleochannel that may also be associated with
basement intersecting faults and buried uranium enriched granites of the underlying Hiltaba Suite.
The application areas cover the upper branches of the Tolmer paleochannel with historical drilling within the
application area limited to coal and heavy minerals exploration.
Wirrulla Project
In July 2024, Adavale has executed a binding Heads of Agreement with Pinnacle Minerals Limited (ASX:PIM) to
acquire 100% of its uranium rights on the Wirrulla Project in South Australia. Wirrulla Project (EL6968) is 957km2
of tenure in the northwestern extents of the Eyre Peninsula South Australia.
Desktop studies have highlighted the uranium prospectivity in the northern extents of the tenement where the
uranium-bearing Narlaby palaeochannel is mapped continuing into the tenement. The palaeochannel hosts high
grade uranium mineralisation at Yarranna, only 10km from the targets identified by satellite and radar imagery
analysis conducted by Pinnacle Minerals.
Figure 10: Wirrulla Uranium Project highlighting uranium mineralisation and targets
An Environment Protection and Rehabilitation (EPEPR/PEPR) plan has been submitted to the SA Department for
Energy and Mining. Adavale is expecting to receive approval this quarter to conduct a maiden drilling program of
the Narlaby paleochannel within EL6968.
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The strategic location of EL6968 relative to Adavale’s exploration licence application and the interpreted
paleochannels.
Figure 11: Adavale Exploration Licence application and Wirrulla Project areas and regional paleochannels and
uranium occurrences identified.
Adavale has now increased its uranium tenement holdings including uranium rights to 6,117km2, making Adavale
one of the largest public listed uranium license holders in the region.
Competent Persons Statement
The information in this release that relates to “exploration results” for the Project is based on information compiled
or reviewed by Mr Patrick Harvey MAppSci, Australia. Mr Harvey is a consultant for Adavale Resources Limited
and is a member of the AIG. Mr Harvey has sufficient experience that is relevant to the style of mineralisation and
type of deposits under consideration as well as to the activity that is being undertaking to qualify as a Competent
Person under the ASX Listing Rules. Mr Harvey consents to this release in the form and context in which it appears.
The company confirms that it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information
included in the original market announcements as referred above. The Company confirms that the form and context
in which the Competent Person’s findings are presented have not been materially modified from the original market
announcement.
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Nickel Exploration – Tanzania
Kabanga Jirani Nickel Project and Luhuma Nickel Project (Tanzania)
Luhuma Central (100% owned) (PL12350/2023) is fully enclosed within Prospecting Licence PL11692/2021 of
which Adavale has to date earned a majority interest of 65% with rights to earn up to 100%8.
The Company views Luhuma Central as a geologically important addition to its existing exploration tenure, due to
its historical results and being within the broader 15km Luhuma geological trend discovered by Adavale9. Historical
results included an intercept of 1.14% Ni over 8.4m in massive sulphides and as such it has been the primary focus
for the Company.
Nickel mineralisation has been intersected in all completed holes to date, with DDLUHC005 intersecting
mineralisation over 340m downhole and then ground electromagnetics extending the strike to a potential 700m
during the reporting period.
Luhuma Central Drilling
During the September 2023 quarter, the Company received assays from the first four holes drilled at Luhuma
Central. Results from its maiden hole DDLUHC001 recorded 4.13m @ 1.03% Ni from 223.3 as well as 1m at 0.63%
Ni from 249m10.
The drillholes DDLUHC001 and DDLUHC002 intersected 4.13m of massive sulphides and 4.90m of blebby and
heavily disseminated sulphides respectively. If mineralised intersections are connected between the drillholes as
they are interpreted to be, then these sulphide bearing intervals would approximate their true thickness (although
the drillholes are not completely orthogonal to the dip).
Sitting approximately 60m to the north of the first two holes DDLUHC003 delivered 7.55m @ 0.96% Ni from
261.7m11.
The massive nickel sulphide intersected in the third hole between 261.7m to 269.25m was hosted within mafic
rocks and dominated by pyrrhotite with between 1% to 5% pentlandite and minor pyrite and chalcopyrite. The
massive sulphides occur below a 5.13m zone of interlayered mafic rocks and meta-phyllite sediments intersected
between 237.42m to 242.55m, which host a series of thin semi-massive pyrrhotite rich veins.
Headline results from DDLUHC004 included 1.12m @ 1.34% Ni from 256m and 7.5m @ 0.42% Ni from 286m. The
fourth hole was located approximately 200m to the south of drillhole DDLUHC003. The sulphide zones intersected
in DDLUHC004 between 250m to 323m are dominated by pyrrhotite with between 1% to 5% pentlandite and minor
pyrite and chalcopyrite12.
Toward the end of the reporting period, the Company received assays from the fifth diamond hole at Luhuma
Central, DDLUHC005, with over 340m of weak disseminated nickel sulphide mineralisation intersected. Within this
interval DDLUHC005 was a 15.6m (downhole) zone of semi-massive and heavily disseminated nickel sulphides
including thin massive sulphide veins between 408m and 423.6m, which upon follow-up check assaying appears
to be of a slightly higher tenor than similar mineralisation intersected in drillholes further to the north.
In addition to this, DDLUHC005 provided another important piece of geological information in that this broad
sulphide zone was associated with a more significantly MgO rich rock type compared to the more northern
drillholes. Subsequent petrographic studies performed on samples from drillholes DDLUHC004 and 005 confirm
the ultramafic character of the Luhuma Central intrusion with thin sections taken over broad intervals described as
either harzburgite or iherzolite containing up to 50% olivine.
Importantly, the petrographic descriptions support the Company’s previously reported observation that the MgO
content of the Luhuma Central intrusion appears to be increasing towards the south, possibly reflecting increasing
prospectivity in this direction13.
ASX Announcement 15 December 2021 – Highly Prospective Nickel Sulphide Tenure Expanded.
ASX Announcement 4 April 2023 – Nickel sulphide drill targets & 15km soil anomaly defined.
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ASX Announcement 11 July 2023 - Assays Confirm Massive Nickel Sulphides at Luhuma Central
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ASX Announcement 25 July 2023 – Adavale Replicates Maiden Massive Nickel Sulphide Intersection in Third Diamond Hole.
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ASX Announcement 17 August 2023 – Multiple Massive and Semi Massive Nickel Sulphide Zones Intersected at Luhuma
Central.
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ASX announcement 2 November 2023 titled - Ground EM Highlights Potential 700m of Strike Extent of Nickel.
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Visual estimates of mineral abundance should never be considered a proxy or substitute for laboratory analyses
where concentrations or grades are the factor of principal economic interest. Visual estimates also potentially
provide no information regarding impurities or deleterious physical properties relevant to valuations.
The potential increase in nickel tenor towards the south described above, together with the similar more primitive
(increasing MgO content) nature of the associated host rocks in this direction indicates that the more prospective
part of the Luhuma Central intrusion may lie further to the south. The significance of these trends pointing to this
part of the intrusion is that further work in this area may identify the high MgO rich ultramafic chonolith (‘magma
tube’) that formed the Luhuma intrusion and from where the magma spread laterally north and south ‘fractionating’
to form the lower MgO rich peripheral lithologies to the main conduit. If present, this high MgO ultramafic chonolith
is where nickel sulphide mineralisation of both higher grade and tenor is likely to have accumulated.
Drillhole DDLUHC006 commenced during the December quarter, stepping out 250m to the south of DDLUHC005.
Unfortunately, a combination of wet weather and drill rig operator issues led to the hole being abandoned prior to
the intersection of the target zone.
Figure 12: Long section at Luhuma Central indicating a thickening to the south-west
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Figure 13: Plan view of current and proposed drill hole location (yellow dot) at Luhuma Central, with estimated
projected position of the sulphide plate
Downhole EM Surveys
Downhole EM (DHEM) surveys are an important tool in assessing the nickel sulphide potential of the project,
providing a vector for follow up exploration. All holes in the current program are being cased with DHEM planned
for all. This will aid in future drill planning.
Following on from the orientation EM survey at Luhuma Central, Adavale completed the detailed ground EM surveys
across the entire previously identified airborne EM anomaly at Luhuma. The survey lines and modelled plates
generated by the surveys are shown in Figure 3. The central plate was derived from the initial orientation survey
that was conducted over drillholes DDLUHC001 to DDLUHC005 to verify that ground EM could correctly identify
the massive sulphide mineralisation intersected in these holes at depth.
Based on the successful correlation confirmed through the orientation survey, additional surveys were conducted
to the north and south of the orientation survey. These extended surveys enabled anomalies to be identified and
modelled over the full strike length of the Luhuma airborne EM anomaly. It should be noted however that the
northernmost plate has a lower modelled conductance than the central plate, thereby implying that the sulphide
mineralisation may not be as well developed in this area. The modelled plates extending across the central survey
area and further to the south do however show an equally strong measure of conductance to the central plate,
implying that the massive sulphide mineralisation intersected in the central area extends to the south. These high
conductance plates cover a strike extent of about 700m.
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Figure 14: Locality of plates modelled from ground EM including collar positions of historically drilled holes a
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