Overview

Mine Type	Open Pit & Underground
Stage	Permitting
Commodities	Zinc Lead
Mining Method	Truck & Shovel / Loader Cut & Fill
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Snapshot	The Citronen Zn-Pb Project is one of the world’s largest undeveloped zinc deposits. Ironbark Zinc Limited (the Company) holds a granted 30-year Mining Permit over the deposit. During 2024, following negotiations with the Greenland Government the Company was successful in securing extensions to key dates pertaining to the financing & commencement of production at Citronen. These extensions, until the end of 2024 and 2026 respectively, are the maximum allowable extensions able to be afforded to Ironbark under its current licence terms.

Deposit type

• SEDEX

Summary:

The Citronen Deposit is interpreted as belonging to the SEDEX deposit class, forming syn-depositionally with sedimentation.

SEDEX deposits are formed in submarine environments by the precipitation of sulphides from metal bearing fluids introduced onto the seafloor through underlying fractures which act as metal-bearing fluid conduits. Large amounts of sulphur are precipitated principally as pyrite and focused around vent areas or ‘mounds’ on the sea floor. Base metal (Zn + Pb) bearing sulphides at Citronen are predominantly located within laminate horizons surrounding these larger sulphide accumulations.

Mineralisation at the Citronen Fjord Zn-Pb Deposit comprises several distinct sulphide mounds containing massive and net-textured pyrite-rich mineralisation, interpreted to represent the focal point of fluid influx, flanked by pyritic laminated sulphides that are locally sphalerite and galena-rich. These laminated sulphides host the majority of economic grade mineralisation.

The deposit consists of multiple sulphide mounds forming in three lateral positions (“vents”), defined as the Discovery, Beach and Esrum ore bodies.

The mineralisation is hosted within two fine-grained sedimentary units, separated by a mass carbonate debris flow. The majority of mineralisation is stratiform, with semi-massive net-textured to massive sulphides accumulating in the core of the mound structure. Structurally controlled stock-work style mineralisation is present within the carbonate debris flows, with the most notable termed the XX ore body. The stratiform mineralisation has been identified from outcrop to a depth of approximately 500 metres, with the mineralisation open at depth. Level 1 is located predominantly within the Discovery ore body, Level 2 is evident discontinuously across all three ore bodies and Level 3 contains the largest volume of sulphides, with a lateral extent of over 3,000 metres between the Beach and Esrum ore bodies.

The mineralisation is pyrite dominated with variable amounts of sphalerite ((Zn/Fe)S) and lesser galena (PbS) present as sulphide species. Minor chalcopyrite (CuFeS2) has been documented and interpreted as having formed during remobilisation and enrichment of primary stratiform-hosted mineralisation. No economically significant Cu or silver (Ag) has been identified to be associated with the sulphide mineralisation.

Primary mineralisation is generally fine to medium grained, weakly to moderately laminated and bedded parallel with regionally deposited sediments. Gangue mineralogy is primarily silt and clay from mudstones deposited contemporaneously with sulphide mineralisation.

Dimensions
The area containing the Citronen Resource stretches 6.5km from the north-west corner of the Esrum Zone to the south-east corner of the Discovery Zone. The deposit is exposed at surface in the Discovery Zone and reaches a depth of 575m below surface in the Esrum Zone. The deposit is open along strike and at depth.

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