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Lake Giles Magnetite (Moonshine) Project

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Mine TypeOpen Pit
StagePermitting
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  • Iron Ore
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  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
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SnapshotThe Lake Giles Iron Project comprises the Moonshine Magnetite Project and the Ularring Hematite Project.

The Lake Giles Project consists of a series of Banded Iron Formation (BIF) hematite and magnetite prospects. The NI43-101 Technical Report (announced on October 1, 2020) covers the mineral resource and preliminary economic assessment (PEA) of the magnetite mineralisation of the Moonshine and Moonshine North prospects, completed by Snowden and the hematite resources of the Ularring project completed by CSA Global.
Related AssetLake Giles Hematite (Ularring) Project

Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Macarthur Minerals Ltd. 100 % Indirect
The Lake Giles Project area comprises 15 Mining Leases which are all held by Macarthur Iron Ore Pty Ltd (MIO), a 100% owned subsidiary of Macarthur Minerals Limited (MMS).

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Deposit type

  • Banded iron formation

Summary:

Macarthur’s tenements cover a portion of the Yerilgee Greenstone Belt which is over 80 km in length and up to 10 km wide and lies within the Southern Cross Province of the Yilgarn Craton. The Yilgarn Craton consists of multiple lenticular greenstone belts surrounded by variably foliated gneissic granitoids.

The greenstone belts consist of metamorphosed ultramafic, mafic and sediments, including BIF which are Archean in age and are commonly intruded by mafic, intermediate and granitic rocks.

The parts of the north-northwest trending Yerilgee greenstone belt covered by the Project tenements comprise a layered succession of Archean rocks. At the interpreted base of the succession is a sequence of high-magnesium basalt flows more than 1 km thick overlain by komatiitic ultramafic volcanic rocks with narrow interflow BIFs and in some cases, other sedimentary rocks. High-magnesium basalt lavas with occasional interflow BIFs overlain, possibly unconformably, by sedimentary rocks (cherty, silicified, pyritic and graphitic) are interpreted to form the top of this sequence. In places, gabbroic sills interpreted to be co-magmatic with the upper high-magnesium basalts, have been intruded into the lower mafic and ultramafic lavas. The elongated lens shaped Yerilgee belt is bounded by major north-northwest trending fault/shear zones. The iron ore mineralisation consists of secondary pisolite mineralization, primary magnetite mineralization associated with un-oxidized BIF and ultramafic rocks, and goethite-hematite mineralization associated with oxidized BIF.

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Production

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Iron kt 3,00074,000
All production numbers are expressed as concentrate.

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* According to 2022 study.

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