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Munglinup Project

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Overview

Mine TypeOpen Pit
StagePermitting
Commodities
  • Graphite
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
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SnapshotThe Munglinup Graphite Project remains a crucial asset in the Company’s overall ambition to supply natural graphite into the key high-demand battery anode markets, with the DFS outlining a graphite asset able to produce approximately 52,000tpa over 14 years.

Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Gold Terrace Pty Ltd 49 % Indirect
Mineral Commodities Ltd 51 % Indirect
MRC Graphite Pty Ltd (operator) 100 % Direct
The Project is a joint venture between MRC Graphite and Gold Terrace. MRC Graphite is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mineral Commodities Ltd. Owner / Operator: MRC Graphite Pty Ltd. Agreement gave MRC an initial 51% interest in the Project. The Company intends to exercise its right to increase its joint venture interest from 51% to 90%.

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Deposit type

  • Metamorphic
  • Sediment-hosted

Summary:

The graphite deposits are located in the northern foreland of the AlbanyFraser Orogen and are hosted by paragneisses of the Munglinup Gneiss. Structurally the prospect is located adjacent to the intersection between the northeast trending Fraser Range Fault and the northwest trending Merredin Fault.

The Munglinup graphite deposits occur as discrete layers in a zone of graphitic schists within a sequence of hornblende and hornblende-garnet gneisses. The rocks have been broadly folded about a WNW/ESE axis, with superimposed minor anticlinal and synclinal flexures. Complex small-scale folding and faulting is common in the relatively incompetent graphitic rocks and the enclosing competent hornblendic gneisses appear to be less deformed.

Targeted graphitic mineralisation occurs within saprolite consisting of clays, quartz, graphite (up to 42% flake) and goethite. Weathering extends down to at least 60m.

The host geology comprises weathered metamorphic material.

The Munglinup area comprises Archean to Paleoproterozoic, metamorphosed granitic and other metamorphic rocks of the Albany–Fraser Orogen, typically hornblende (± garnet) gneiss and migmatite.

Within the gneissic rock mass, rocks containing the Munglinup graphite deposits consist of a succession of tightly folded metasedimentary rocks with a consistent dip from north north east to the south.

The classification scheme most widely accepted for graphite deposits was introduced by Cameron (1960). It classifies known graphite deposits into five categories reflecting the different types of graphite.

Using this classification scheme, it is most likely that the Munglinup deposit
can be characterised as a type 1, disseminated flake graphite in silica-rich meta-sediments deposit.

• Halberts Main Zone:
- Length: 730m
- Width: 90-130m
- Depth: surface to -90m

• Halberts South Zone:
- Length: 560m
- Width: 20-50m
- Depth: surface to -60m

• Harris Area:
- Length: 435m
- Width: 30-70m
- Depth: surface to -35m

• McCarthy West Area:
- Length: 290m
- Width: 100-110m
- Depth: surface to -55m

• McCarthy East Area:
- Length: 260m
- Width: 12-20m
- Depth: surface to -30m

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Production

CommodityUnitsAvg. AnnualLOM
Graphite kt 52745
All production numbers are expressed as concentrate.

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* According to 2020 study.

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* According to 2020 study / presentation.

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Fleet data has not been reported.

Personnel

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