Interview and Presentation for Proactive Investors
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ASX ANNOUNCEMENT
Date: 5 May 2015
Number: 401/050515
INTERVIEW AND PRESENTATION FOR PROACTIVE INVESTORS
Impact Minerals Limited is pleased to provide an interview by Proactive Investors and Stock Tube
with Dr Mike Jones in which he discusses Impact’s recent identification of high grades of rare
platinum group metals at the Company’s Broken Hill Project.
To listen to the broadcast, please click on the following link:
AUDIO INTERVIEW
Attached also is a presentation which will be delivered by Dr Jones this week to investors at
functions organised by Proactive Investors in Melbourne and Sydney. The presentation provides an
update on Impact Minerals’ latest activities including the abovementioned PGM metals discovery at
Broken Hill as well as future plans at the high grade Commonwealth gold-silver-base metal project
where drill results of up to 4 m at 41 g/t gold (1.3 ounces) require follow up drilling.
A copy of both the audio interview and presentation will be posted on Impact’s website
www.impactminerals.com.au.
James Cooper-Jones
Company Secretary
26 Richardson Street West Perth Western Australia 6003
Tel +61 (8) 6454 6666 Facsimile +61 (8) 6454 6667
Email info@impactminerals.com.au www.impactminerals.com.au
Investor Presentation
Managing Director: Dr Mike Jones
April 2015
Three Potential Company-Making Projects
Commonwealth, NSW
Broken Hill, NSW
Mulga Tank, WA
Introducing Impact Minerals (ASX:IPT)
Listed on ASX
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Up 60% on
0.01% of stock!
November 2006
Shares on
Issue
566m
Options
8 m listed IPTO
34m unlisted
Share Price
2¢
Market Cap:
$11 million
Key Projects
Commonwealth 100%
Au-Ag-Zn-Pb-Cu (NSW)
Broken Hill JV 80%
Ni-Cu-PGM (NSW)
Mulga Tank 100%
Ni-Cu-PGM (WA)
Botswana Uranium 100%
6 month Price Chart
Shareholders
Bunnenberg Family
Directors
Top 20
Top 50
30%
9%
56%
65%
Board of Directors
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Peter Unsworth
Chairman
Founding Non-Executive Chairman of both Impact Minerals and Invictus Gold.
35 years public and private sector experience in corporate finance, securities & investment industries.
Previous Chairman of West Australian Government Owned ‘Gold Corporation’; operator of The Perth
Mint.
Dr. Michael G
Jones
Managing
Director
Founding Director of Impact Minerals and Invictus Gold.
Specialist in target generation and exploration technologies.
Previously worked for Western Mining Corporation; Founding Director of Lithofire Consulting Group.
Holds a degree in Mining & Exploration Geology, & a Ph.D in gold deposits from Imperial College, UK.
Dr. Markus
Elsasser
Non-Exec
Director
German financier and investor in the mineral resources industry.
Current Non-Exec Director of: Arctic Gold AB, Kopy Goldfields AB, Stellar Resources Ltd, Stellar
Diamonds Plc.
Holds a degree and Ph.D in Business Administration from Cologne University, London.
Paul Ingram
Non-Exec
Director
30 years experience in corporate and technical side of mining and exploration.
A geologist, he completed various international posts within the metals and energy industries.
Currently a Board Member of Australian Pacific Coal Ltd and Consolidated Global Investments
Ltd.
Impact has 3 projects each with the potential for
the discovery of a major mine
1. Broken Hill (NSW): High grade platinum discovery by Impact
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Highest platinum grades in Australia: high dollar-per-tonne value ore
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Past drill results of 2 m at 52 g/t platinum equivalent
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30 metre thick zone at 6 g/t platinum equivalent
including 5 to 10 metre thick zones at 15 g/t platinum equivalent
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Share price recently increased 60% on low volume following drill results
leading to strong interest from brokers and mining media
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Potential for more than 1 million ounces of PGE plus copper-nickel
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Follow up drill programme to start soon
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Impact owns 87%, earning 90%
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Red Hill Discovery
Recent Broker Reports on Impact
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In January IPT announced the results from its maiden drill program at the Red
Hill project near Broken Hill. The program confirmed the presence of
significant thicknesses of high grade Platinum Group Elements (PGM’s)
together with associated nickel and copper. Its early days but the grade and
extensions of the previously untested zones show early promise.
Of particular interest was the two zones discovered below the existing Red Hill
shaft (excavated in the early 1900’s) which returned 13.8m @6.3g.t PGE, 1.1%
Cu and 0.3% Ni. The zones at this stage are “poddy” but IPT has delineated
zones not previously interpreted that are open at depth and along strike.
Importantly some of the intercepts contained what is known as 7PGM minerals
which includes high value PGM’s of osmium, iridium and rhodium.
IPT will commence a drill program on Red Hill at the end of May aimed at
extending current zones of mineralisation, if successful this could significantly
increase the potential for a larger resource at depth.
Figure 1: Broken Hill – Red Hill prospect
SOURCE: COMPANY
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2. Commonwealth (NSW): High grade gold-silver-zinc-lead-copper
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Impact has defined an Inferred Resource of:
722,000 t at 4.7 g/t gold equivalent for 110,000 gold equivalent ounces
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Deposit will grow with further drilling because of high grade drill results at
edge of resource e.g. 4 m at 41 g/t (1.3 ounces) of gold
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Multiple targets for deposits containing more than 2 million ounces of gold
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Potential for early production
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Follow up drilling to start Q3-Q4 2015
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Large strategic ground holding of 315 sq km
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100% ownership
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Deposit
3. Mulga Tank (WA): High grade nickel and gold
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Large strategic landholding of 420 sq km
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100% owned by Impact
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Recent purchase of 100% equity for A$275,000 cash from
ex-Joint Venture partners for 1/6th of the earn-in price
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Potential for major nickel discovery such as the nearby Perseverance
mining camp 100 km in same geology with >1.5 million tonnes of nickel
metal ($25 billion value)
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Impact has discovered high tenor nickel and copper with platinum potential
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Co-funding Western Australian Government drilling grant of up to
$125,000 awarded for next drill programme
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Further airborne and ground
geophysical surveys required
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Sand cover stopped
previous explorers
Broken Hill Project
PGM-Nickel-Copper
New South Wales
Impact 87% GCR 13%
Highest platinum grades in Australia
• Ultramafic rocks with high grade
platinum over a 40 km belt
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Widespread rare high grade
platinum group metals:
platinum, palladium, rhodium, osmium,
iridium, ruthenium
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3 priority targets:
Red Hill: lmpact discovery of high
grade PGE-Cu-Ni mineralisation. Drill
intercept of 32 m at 6 g/t platinum eq.
Platinum Springs: previous drill
intercept of 52.6 g/t platinum eq.
2 m at 10.9 g/t Pt, 23.6 g/t Pd,
4.5% Cu, 6.1% Ni.
Moorkai: Exceptional rock chip
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samples with up to
6.8 g/t Pt, 28 g/t Pd, 9% Cu, 2.6% Ni.
Emerging Discovery at Red Hill
Massive,
disseminated and
vein-hosted nickel and
copper
sulphide and oxide
28 m at 6 g/t
platinum equivalent
32 m at 6 g/t
platinum equivalent
Contains up to 4 g/t of
the rare PGMs
rhodium, iridium,
osmium, ruthenium
High dollar per tonne
value
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Red Hill: the start of something big?
5 to 13 m
intercepts at
5 to 15 g/t
platinum
equivalent
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Follow up drill targets at Red Hill
• 1969: Two drill holes
by CRA but in wrong
direction
• Six immediate drill
targets
• Hundreds of metres of
untested strike extent
• Untested EM/IP
anomalies
• Follow up 1,000 m drill
programme in Q2-Q3
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Regional Potential:
Moorkai Intrusive Complex
• Spectacular rock chip
results and bulk samples
over 9 km of strike
• Limited assays indicate
the rare PGMs (rhodium,
iridium, osmium and
ruthenium) are likely to
be widespread and high
grade
• Limited drilling only at
Platinum Springs and
Round Hill
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Major Copper-Gold Mining Province
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Commonwealth Project
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Large land holding: 315 sq km
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>50 km of strike potential for 2 types of
deposit
– Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide
e.g. Woodlawn analogue
7 million ounces gold equivalent
(US$10 billion value)
– Porphyry copper gold
e.g. Cadia-Ridgeway
>25 million ounces gold equivalent
(US$40 billion value)
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Close to recent porphyry copper-gold
discoveries at:
Galwadgere:
2 Mt at 1% copper and 0.3 g/t gold
Kaiser-MacGregor:
41 m at 1.2% Cu and 1.1 g/t Au from 18m
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Target: >1 million gold equivalent ounces
eg Woodlawn deposit, Goulburn, NSW (Heron Resources)
• Silurian VMS Deposit: 7 million ounces gold equivalent (US$8 bn)
• 17.7 Mt at 1.4 g/t gold, 80 g/t silver, 1.7% copper, 9.9% zinc,
3.8% lead
• Multiple lenses down to at least 630 m depth:
new lenses discovered by geophysics
Average drill
depth at
Commonwealth
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Commonwealth: Deposit Model
Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide (VMS)
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Poorly Explored High Grade Project
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Gold-rich Massive Sulphide
Deposit
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Mined 1906-1930’s
6500 t at 6 g/t Au, 150 g/t Ag,
2% Cu, 15% Zn & 7% Pb
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Poorly explored prior to Impact:
66 drill holes for an average depth
of 53 metres.
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Previous exploration focus along
300 m strike at Commonwealth
Mine
Commonwealth Trend Potential
Impact Work
• IP Survey: three
trends identified
• Soil geochemistry:
multiple targets
• 21 drill holes for
3,600 m
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Inferred Resource Statement
722,000 tonnes at 4.7 g/t gold equivalent
for 110,000 gold equivalent ounces
>1,000 oz gold equivalent per vertical metre from surface
Potential very profitable starter pit
Category Tonnes Au ppm Ag ppm
Inferred 722,000 2.78
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Cu%
0.1
Pb% Zn%
0.6 1.5
Resource includes high grade lens at Main Shaft
145,000 tonnes at 10 g/t gold equivalent
for 47,000 gold equivalent ounces
Category Tonnes Au ppm Ag ppm
Inferred 145,000
4.3
142
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Cu%
0.2
Pb% Zn%
1.7 4.8
Resource Open Along Trend and at Depth
Looking North
Drill Targets
Rhyolite
Looking West
New massive
sulphide lens
4 m at 41 g/t gold
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Commonwealth
South
New massive
sulphide lens
Main Shaft
Potential at Depth and along Trend
High grade results open along trend and at depth
New massive
sulphide lenses
Main Shaft
6 m at 7 g/t gold,
383 g/t silver, 8.5% zinc,
3.2% lead and 0.3% copper
Commonwealth South
7 m at 25 g/t gold,
62 g/t silver, 3.8% zinc and
1.3% lead (IPT17)
2 m at 6.7 g/t gold,
61.6 g/t silver, 3.8% zinc and
3.2% lead; and
4 m at 6 g/t gold,
25 g/t silver, 1.4% zinc and
0.3% lead (IPT14).
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What’s hiding under Silica Hill?
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Large sulphide-silica alteration system at least 300 m thick and 500 m long
Significant thick and high grade silver results – possible epithermal feeder zone
The big one?
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Porphyry-Copper
Potential
• Multi million ounce
potential
• Recognition of metalassemblages in soil
geochemistry indicating
– Cu-Au Porphyry and
Skarn
– Au-Ag-base metal
high sulphidation
over many square
kilometres
• Major breakthrough for
Impact
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Mulga Tank Project
Nickel-Copper-PGE
Western Australia
Impact 100%
Emerging WA Nickel Province
• Near to world class nickel mines:
– Perseverance >1 Mt Ni metal
– Mt Keith >2 Mt Ni metal
– Kambalda camp >1 Mt Ni metal
• Recent discoveries at
– Nova-Bollinger deposit
(0.5 Mt Ni Eq.)
– Camelwood (Ni)
– Collurabie (Ni-Cu-PGE)
– Cambridge-Dragon (Ni-VMS)
• Poorly explored because of sand
cover
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Mulga Tank: Targeting a new nickel camp
The Mulga Tank Dunite is very similar to the geology at
Perseverance – Rocky’s Reward – Venus
in Western Australia
(>1.5 million tonnes of nickel metal: US$25 billion value)
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Impact discovery of High Grade Nickel-Copper
13 drill holes: 11 with significant nickel-copper
• Four of six targets tested
returned high tenor
nickel and copper in
komatiites, veins and
dunite
• Mineralisation extends
over many sq km
Kambalda Camp >2 Mt Ni
Area of
Mulga Tank
Dunite
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Next Steps: 2015 Work Programme
• Broken Hill:
Follow up drilling in Q2-Q3 2015
• Commonwealth
Interpretation of IP and ground gravity in progress
Focus on Silica Hill: soil geochemistry Q2 2015
Follow up drill programmes Q3 2015:
Resource Extension and Silica Hill – Doughnut Targets
• Mulga Tank
Airborne magnetic survey and ground EM/SAM surveys
Joint Venture partner
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DISCLAIMER
What You Should Know
Find out more – This presentation is being used as a presenter’s aid with summarised information. See
Impact’s other periodic and continuous disclosure announcements lodged with the Australian Securities
Exchange, which are available at www.asx.com.au or www.impactminerals.com.au, for more information.
Third party information – Impact does not make any representations as to the accuracy or otherwise of third
party information, including where projections are given.
Forward-looking statements – Within this presentation there may be certain forward-looking statements,
opinions and estimates. These are based on assumptions and contingencies which are subject to change
without notice and are not guarantees of future performance. Impact assumes no obligation to update such
information.
Taking action – Please undertake your own evaluation of the information in this presentation and contact your
professional advisers if you wish to buy or sell Impact shares.
Competent Person Statement and JORC Compliance
Exploration Results: The review of exploration activities and results contained in this report is based on
information compiled by Dr Mike Jones, a Member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists. He is a director
of the company and works for Impact Minerals Limited. He has sufficient experience which is relevant to the
style of mineralisation and types of deposits under consideration and to the activity which he is undertaking to
qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2012 edition of the Australasian Code for Reporting of
Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves (the JORC Code). Mike Jones has consented to
the inclusion in the report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.
Commonwealth Resource Statement: The information in this report which relates to Mineral Resources is
based upon information compiled by Ian Glacken, who is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and
Metallurgy. Ian Glacken is an employee of Optiro Pty Ltd and has sufficient experience which is relevant to the
style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity which he is undertaking to
qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2012 edition of the Australasian Code for Reposting of
Exploration Results, Mineral resources and Ore Reserves. Ian Glacken consents to the the inclusion in the
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release
of a summary based upon his information in the form and context in which it appears.
JORC Compliance - 1
Resource and Reserve estimates: The information in this presentation relating to estimates of
Exploration Results and Mineral Resources have been extracted from the following reports:
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ASX Release Date
Title of ASX Release
17 April 2015
High Grades of Rare but Potentially Economic PGM Elements Assayed at Impact’s
Broken Hill Project
1 April 2015
New Drill Targets for High Grade Copper-Nickel-Platinum Group Metals at Broken
Hill
19 February 2015
Maiden High Grade Resource at Commonwealth, NSW
6 February 2015
Impact Moves to 100% of the Mulga Tank Ni-Cu-PGE Project
23 January 2015
Further High Grade PGE-Copper-Nickel Assays returned at the Red Hill Prospect,
Broken Hill
17 December 2014
High Grade Copper-Nickel-PGE Assays at Red Hill Prospect, Broken Hill
22 October 2014
Assays Confirm 1 Km2 High Grade Gold-Silver Project at Commonwealth, NSW
22 September 2014
Bonanza Gold Grades at Commonwealth South
1 July 2014
Major Porphyry Copper-Gold and High-Grade Epithermal Gold-Silver-Base Metal
Potential Revealed at the Commonwealth Project, NSW
JORC 2012 Compliance - 2
The ASX releases referenced in the previous slide are on the Impact website at www.impactminerals.com.au. The Company
confirms that it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information included in the most recent
market announcement for each deposit and, in the case of Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves, that all material assumptions
and technical parameters underpinning the estimates in the relevant market announcement continue to apply and have not
materially changed. The Company confirms that the form and context in which the Competent Person’s findings are presented
have not materially modified from the original market announcement.
Platinum Equivalent Calculations for Broken Hill
Platinum equivalent calculation represents the total metal value for each metal, multiplied by the conversion factor, summed and
expressed in equivalent platinum percentage. These results are Exploration Results only and no allowance is made for recovery
losses that may occur should mining eventually result. However it is the Company’s opinion that elements considered here have
a reasonable potential to be recovered as evidenced in similar multi-commodity natured mines elsewhere in the world. Platinum
equivalent conversion factors and long-term price assumptions used in $A dollars are as follows:
Platinum $1,528/ounce; palladium $1,015/ounce; rhodium $1,506 /ounce; osmium $500/ounce; iridium $763/ounce, ruthenium
$65/ounce, gold $1581/ounce, copper $3.60/lb and nickel $7.54/lb.
Gold Equivalent Calculations for Commonwealth
Gold equivalent calculation represents the total metal value for each metal, multiplied by the conversion factor, summed and
expressed in equivalent gold percentage. These results are exploration results only and no allowance is made for recovery
losses that may occur should mining eventually result. However it is the Company’s opinion that elements considered here have
a reasonable potential to be recovered as evidenced in similar multi-commodity natured mines elsewhere in the world. Gold
equivalent conversion factors and long-term price assumptions used are as follows:
Gold $1581/ ounce, silver $22.21/ounce, copper $7,320/tonne, lead $2,345.94/tonne; zinc $2,74/ tonne.
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