Overview

Mine Type	Open Pit
Stage	Permitting
Commodities	Graphite
Mining Method	Truck & Shovel / Loader
Mine Life	...
Snapshot	The Munglinup project is on a mining lease granted until 2031 within a designated mining reserve. Obtaining environmental approvals and advancing studies remains the priority for the Munglinup graphite development and is expected to be achieved by the December 2024 quarter. MRC Graphite Pty Ltd (MRC) has executed a non-binding term sheet to settle the dispute with JV partner, Gold Terrace, and acquire the remaining 49% interest in Munglinup. Upon completion of the transaction via a formal agreement, MRC will become the 100% owner of Munglinup. The Munglinup Graphite Project, for the fourth consecutive year, was recognised by the Australian Government as a Critical Mineral Project and is included in the Australian Critical Minerals Prospectus 2023.

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

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Personnel

Job Title	Name	Profile	Ref. Date
.......................	.......................		Aug 7, 2024

Employees	Year
......	2020