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Impact Minerals Limited
The New “Playa” in HPA
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What lies beneath Lake Hope?
A Transformational Acquisition
ASX Release 21st March 2023
SCOPING STUDY
ASX Release 9th November 2023
What is High Purity Alumina?
• Alumina (aluminium oxide – Al2O3) with a purity of
>99.99% or “4N”
• 3N = 99.9%, 5N = 99.999%
• Listed on the Australian Critical Minerals List.
What is HPA used for?
• Separators in Lithium-ion batteries
• LED and MicroLED
Forecast Supply and Demand for HPA
Forecast Supply
Deficit of HPA in
2026
Kindly Provided by Alpha HPA Limited
What is High Purity Alumina (99.99% Al2O3) worth?
Purity Grade
Specification
Price Range per
tonne
Application
Smelter Grade
99.5%
US$4,000
Precursor
chemical,
abrasives
3N HPA
99.9%-99.98%
US$5,000US$15,000
Sapphire,
abrasives,
catalysts
4N HPA
99.99-99.998%
US$15,000US$25,000
Li-B coatings,
sapphire wafer
5N HPA
99.999%
US$25,000+
Li-B coatings
6N HPA
99.9999%
$50,000+
Specialty
applications
In-house figures researched by Impact Minerals Ltd
• A High-Margin and
High Demand
Business
Lake Hope: A multi-decade HPA mine
880,000 Tonnes of Al2O3 (Alumina).
Benchmark production of 10,000 tonnes per annum
= >50 year mine life
ASX Release 19th June 2023
Project
Location
Western
Australia
A Tier One
Jurisdiction
Lake Hope: a unique deposit
West Lake
East Lake
1 km
The Perfect Orebody?
Micron to nanometre sized particles!
10-15 Year
”starter pit”
ASX Releases 21st March 2023 and
8th November 2023
Very low cost mining
Less than 5% of Opex
The shallowest, highest-grade open pit anywhere?
• High grade: approx. 27% Al2O3.
• Cheap, free-digging ore to be processed offsite.
• Tiny environmental footprint: biologically sterile.
• No long-term rehabilitation liability.
• Permitting to be fast-tracked.
• Very low carbon emissions.
STRONG ESG
CREDENTIALS
Highlights and achievements Q3:
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Modern Slavery Policy reviewed
and adopted by Board
Stakeholder Materiality
Assessment planning and
scheduling
Decarbonisation roadmap under
development for further
communication
Focus areas for Q4:
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Development of ESG-inclusive
Board Skills Matrix
Conduct Stakeholder Materiality
Assessment
Set timeline for GHG Corporate
Inventory Scope 1 & 2
First Nations:
Heritage Clearance Granted
The Ngadju
The Ngadju community is an immensely
proud First Nations people who continue to
develop the Ngadju membership. We want
all Ngadju people to experience
improvements in physical and spiritual
health and to assist with teaching and
learning Ngadju culture to provide many
opportunities to lead connected and
fulfilling lives.
ASX Release 27th July 2023
Disruptive Sulphuric Acid Process to produce HPA
• Fine grained minerals give unexpected reaction kinetics.
• Cheap reagents.
• High recoveries up to 86%
• Process achieves 99.99% Al2O3 (HPA).
• Saleable waste-products.
• Optimisation during Pre-Feasibility Study.
• Other products: aluminium nitrates,
aluminium sulphates, other high purity metals and salts.
ASX Releases 21st March 2023 and 18th October 2023
Will we be the lowest cost producer?
ASX Release 9th November 2023
The Alpha HPA Journey (ASX:A4N)
$1 B!
$10 M
About Impact Minerals (ASX:IPT)
Shareholders
Board of Directors and Management
Capital Structure
Non-Executive Chairman: Peter Unsworth
Managing Director:
Dr Mike Jones
Non-Executive Director. Dr Frank Bierlein
Non-Executive Director. Paul Ingram
Exploration Manager:
James Cumming
Lake Hope Manager:
Roland Gotthard
Listed on ASX
November 2006
Bunnenberg Family
15.7%
Shares on Issue
2,864 million
ABC Beteiligungen
7.7%
Options
205M unlisted 158M IPTOB
Directors
1.1%
Share Price
1.2c
Top 20
41%
Market Cap
$34 million
Top 50
49%
Cash
A$3.1 million
No of Shareholders
4,530
Acquisition
3 year
1 Year
Share
price
Forward Plan
2023
2024
2025
Maiden Resource
Scoping Study and PFS start
Mining Lease Application
Optimisation
Marketing Samples
Completion of PFS
Start DFS
10 tpa Pilot Plant
Qualification Samples
Complete DFS
Mining Lease Granted?
Qualification Trials
2026
1000 tpa Pilot Plant
Financing for
full scale plant
Offtake Agreements
COME WITH
US ON THE
JOURNEY
• We aim to be one of the lowest-cost
producers of HPA globally.
• We have a unique deposit in a Tier 1
Jurisdiction.
• We have a cost-disruptive metallurgical
process now in PFS.
• We will build out our capabilities in
metallurgy and final product specification.
• We will deliver into a high-margin, growth
market with significant upside potential.
Competent Persons Statements
This review of exploration activities and results, and the metallurgical test work contained in this presentation is based on information compiled
by Roland Gotthard, a Member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgists. He is an employee of 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). Mr Gotthard has consented to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on his
information in the form and context in which it appears.
The data in this presentation that relates to Mineral Resource estimates for the Lake Hope Project is based on information evaluated by Mr
Simon Tear who is a Member of The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (MAusIMM) and who has sufficient experience 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 Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves (the “JORC
Code”). Mr Tear is a Director of H&S Consultants Pty Ltd and he consents to the inclusion in the presentation of the Mineral Resource in the
form and context in which they appear.
The information in this presentation that relates to the Mineral Resource for the Lake Hope Project is based on information announced to the
ASX on 19th June 2023. The information in this presentation that relates to the Scoping Study for the Lake Hope Project is based on information
announced to the ASX on 9th November 2023. The Company confirms that it is not aware of any new information or data that materially
affects the information included in the relevant market announcement, and that all material assumptions and technical parameters
underpinning the estimates in the relevant market announcement continue to apply.
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