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Butcherbird Mine

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 Location:
120 Km S from Newman, Western Australia, Australia

  Address:
Level 2, 45 Richardson Street
West Perth
Western Australia, Australia
6005
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Overview

StageProduction
Mine TypeOpen Pit
Commodities
  • Manganese
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
Production Start...
Mine Life42 years (as of Jan 1, 2022)
Element 25 plans to integrate renewable energy into the power solution over time to target a zero-carbon footprint for the Butcherbird. E25’s goal is to become an industry leading, world class, low-carbon battery materials manufacturer, producing high quality manganese concentrate and battery grade high purity manganese sulphate monohydrate (HPMSM) products for traditional and new energy markets.

The E25’s strategic vision can be summarised in four key stages:
-Stage 1 365Kt per annum: In production and optimising processes;
-Stage 2 1 Mt per annum: Engineering optimisation in progress;
-Stage 3 Battery grade MnSO4: Feasibility study scheduled for completion in late 2022;
-Stage 4 MnSO4 Expansion: Long term – multiple HPMSM modules globally.


Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Element 25 Ltd. (operator) 100 % Indirect
Element 25 Limited owns and operates the Butcherbird Manganese Project.

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Deposit Type

  • Sedimentary


Summary:

The Butcherbird Project area is situated in the Bangemall Basin adjacent to the eastern unconformable boundary of the Savory Basin, in central Western Australia. The Bangemall Basin contains three major stratigraphic units which are outlined below from oldest to youngest:
• The Backdoor Formation consists primarily of shales, mudstone and minor siltstones, outcropping in the southern, western and northern extents of the project area;
• The Calyie Sandstone is comprised of well bedded quartzite sandstone, occurring to the north of the project area at the contact between the Ilgarari Formation and Calyie Sandstone;
• The Ilgarari Formation consists of grey/white shales which also exhibit red/brown weathering, mudstone, miner siltstone layers, and dolerite sills. The Ilgarari Formation is part of the Collier Subgroup and outcrops across the majority of the Bangemall Basin, containing the target manganiferous shales.

Structurally the Ilgarari Formation is generally flat, or gently folded with alternating synforms and antiforms with an east-west dominant axial trend. There are three primary north-east trending structures within the extents of the project area:
• The Neds Gap Fault is a sinistral strike-slip fault that delineates the Ilgarari basin western boundary;
• The Illgararie Mine shear zone consists of a set of sub–parallel shears with a predominant south western dip, which plays host to copper mineralisation;
• The Butcherbird Min ........


Mining Methods

  • Truck & Shovel / Loader


Summary:

The mine plan is designed to utilise the unique tabular geometry of the mineralisation at Yanneri Ridge to provide a simple and low-cost mining operation. Mining has been scheduled to maintain ore supply to the processing plant to meet production requirements. Geotechnical Studies supported by trial mining has identified that the orebody will mostly be mineable using free dig techniques not requiring drilling and blasting to loosen the ore. Mining will consist of loaders mining 1-2m tall benches and delivering the ore into a mobile-crusher feed-hopper via a grizzly.

To enable the loaders to efficiently extract the ore, the ore will be cross-ripped with a dozer prior to mining.

The initial Project open pit is planned to be approximately 1,000 metres long, 650m wide and up to 10m deep. This is a staged seven-year starter pit within the overall optimised final pit shape. This starter pit targets the higher grade proved and probable mining reserve and allows access for mine scheduling with minimal waste removal from the Yanneri Ridge mineral resource.

The current estimated open pit life is 40 years. The pit designs contain 53.1Mt of ore at an average grade of 10.3% Mn and is expected to be mined along with 18.3Mt of waste for an overall strip ratio of 0.36 to 1 (vol:vol). The pit design on which the base case is modelled contains 27% Measured Resources 68% Indicated Resources and 5% Inferred Resources scheduled at the end of the 40 year mining lif ........


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Production:

CommodityUnits2022Avg. Annual (Projected)
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All production numbers are expressed as concentrate.

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Reserves at June 30, 2022:
Reported at a 7% Mn cut-off for the Measured and Indicated categories and an 8% Mn cut-off for the Inferred categories.

CategoryTonnage CommodityGradeContained MetalRecoverable Metal
Proven 13.5 Mt Manganese 11.1 % 1.5 Mt 1.2 Mt
Probable 36.1 Mt Manganese 10 % 3.6 Mt 3 Mt
Proven & Probable 49.6 Mt Manganese 10.1 % 5 Mt 4.1 Mt
Measured 15.3 Mt Manganese 11.5 %
Indicated 40.9 Mt Manganese 10 %
Inferred 206 Mt Manganese 9.8 %
Total Resource 262.2 Mt Manganese 9.9 %

Financials:

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Heavy Mobile Equipment as of December 3, 2020:
HME TypeModelQuantityLeased or
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Mine Management:

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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

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Annual Report 2022
Corporate Presentation 2022
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