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Corporate Overview
Mark Thompson • Former Chief Investment Officer and co-founder of Galena Asset Management
Executive Chairman Ltd, the fund management arm of Trafigura
• Former partner at Apollo Management, one of the World’s largest private
equity fund managers
• 20 years of experience in trading base metals, derivatives and equities
Tony Truelove • Geologist with over 30 years’ experience in the mining industry.
Technical Director • First class Honours from Adelaide University in 1981
• Senior roles with Billiton, Newmont, Newcrest and Delta Gold and has taken
several projects from discovery through to production
• Extensive knowledge and expertise in tin mineralisation and mining.
Nikki Haylings • Chartered Accountant trained at Arthur Anderson
CFO • Corporate taxation specialist
• Has held control functions within the middle office of the Royal Bank of
Scotland and at Barclays Capital.
• Note: Nikki Haylings is married to Mark Thompson
Sally Norcross-Webb • Former partner at Stephens-Scown Solicitors in Truro, Cornwall where she led
Group Legal Counsel their mining team
• Recently heavily involved in the permitting of Wolf Minerals Tungsten mine at
Hemerdon in Devon in the UK
• Expert in UK mineral rights
Dr Marco Roscher • Geologist with 7 years of experience in geo-data management and data-mining.
Head of Exploration • MSc in Geology from the Freiberg Bergakademie
• PhD degree with honors in the field of stratigraphy, plate tectonics and palaeo-
climate modelling.
• Expert in the geology of the Erzgebirge region
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Tellerhauser Project
History
ASM’s flagship project is Tellerhauser, within our Breitenbrunn licence in Saxony,
Germany. It was discovered “accidentally” by the GDR-Soviet joint venture
company SDAG Wismut (“Wismut”) in 1968 whilst exploring for and developing a Tellerhäuser Project
uranium deposit nearby. A subsequent 20 year exploration programme resulted in
a resource estimate of 20 Million tonnes at a grade of 0.65% tin within the skarn
packages for 124,000mt of contained metal. A further 5.6 Million tonnes at 0.33%
tin was estimated within the schist sequences for an additional 19,000mt of tin.
This was reported in Soviet C1, C2 and Delta categories – the equivalent of
measured, indicated and inferred/exploration target.
Mineralisation Styles
Tellerhauser consists of a series of very large seams associated with skarnified calc-
silicate and limestone beds within a schist sequence. The skarn mineralisation
occurs in three major shallowly dipping seams with a combined strike length of
9km, an average width of 500m and an average thickness of 3m. Tin occurs as
cassiterite, indium as roquesite and zinc as sphalerite.
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Tellerhauser: Historic Work
An 11 month programme of digitising hard-copy plans, sections, drill logs and assay sheets was completed in November 2014.
The database comprises a total of:
TOTAL: £186.9M
Typical exploration drive within Hammerlein section of Tellerhauser – 4m x 3m
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Mineral Inventory Estimates
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Mineral Inventory Estimates
Tellerhauser contains very significant by-product credits of indium and zinc. The resource estimates for these metals are reported as
inferred resources :
The global resource for Tellerhauser can be estimated as 32.2 million tonnes at 0.66% tin equivalent grade
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Mineral Inventory Estimates
The indium resource is one of the largest and highest grade indium resource known and compares
favourably with Toyoho, one of the most significant past indium producers:
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Tellerhauser: Block Models 1
Resource Estimate:
Category Mt Sn % Sn Tonnes
Indicated 2.5 0.46 11,600
Inferred 2.0 0.49 9,900
Total 4.5 0.47 21,400
Hammerlein skarn mineralisation resource estimate at 0.2% Sn
cut-off grade
Category Mt Sn % Sn tonnes
Indicated 2.48 0.33 8,200
Inferred 0.40 0.36 1,400
Total 2.87 0.34 9,700
These high grade zones are at the bottom of the mine and
accessing them for mining purposes will require either the
construction of a decline access or the rehabilitation of the two
internal 400m shafts. This may be done out of cash flow generated
by mining the easily accessible tin and high grade indium at adit
level in Hammerlein first.
The resource is believed to abut a major fault on the left hand side
of this diagram. There is exploration upside if mineralisation existed
across the fault and where it has been thrown to can be
determined.
Category Mt Sn % Sn Tonnes
Indicated 1.1 0.80 8,600
Inferred 9.7 0.51 49,800
Total 10.8 0.54 58,400
Dreiberg resource estimate at 0.2% Sn cut-off grade Key: Tin grade by block in %
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Tellerhauser: Block Models 3
Potential exists to vary output depending on metal The distribution of metals is such that the deposit
prices and other external factors can be mined to various cut-offs.
This means that larger tonnages of mineralisation In addition, the tonnage available in the
are available at multiple potential headings Hämmerlein seam is high, thus delaying the need
to de-water the deeper parts of the old mine.
The mine is partially flooded with a dam across the main adit separating the upper levels of Hammerlein from the flooded lower
levels and the Dreiberg seam. The dry section operates as a tourist mine and it is possible to stand within the orebody. The mine is
serviced by a twin-track 2ft gauge railway which runs the length of the 9km adit and by a single track within all of the exploration
drives. All track is concreted to the floor and in excellent condition, with the original rolling stock also still well maintained.
Very high grade (+0.5%) indium with copper mineralisation in Hammerlein seam
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Tellerhauser: Drill Holes and Underground Infrastructure
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Germany – Exploration Upside
Other Deposits
ASM’s licenses contain 5 other projects which were partially
drilled during Soviet times and upon which there is a Soviet
classification system resource estimation. These estimates are
not considered to be realistic resources and are only considered
exploration prospects at this stage.
No historic assaying for indium was conducted at any of these 1920’s magnetite stope at Breitenbrunn
projects. Hand-held XRF readings from Breitenbrunn average 50
ppm – 100 ppm In.
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Germany – Exploration Upside
Exploration Licences
Saxore holds 3 Exploration Licenses covering the
largest tin in soil anomalies in the Erzgebirge
region of Saxony, Germany. The whole area was
an East German - Soviet exploration programme
in the 1970s and 1980s and has been artisanally
mined since the 12th Century, both alluvially and
in hard rock. ASM sees excellent potential for
high grade, metallurgically simple, greisen style
mineralisation which is within trucking distance
of Tellerhauser.
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Germany – Exploration Upside 2
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Germany – Exploration Upside 3
Mordgrube medieval tin workings – No previous drilling Rote Grube medieval tin workings - No previous drilling
Backofen medieval tin workings – No previous drilling Extensive Henneberger tin workings - No previous drilling
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Germany – Exploration Upside 4
Jacob medieval tin workings – No previous drilling Fletschmaul medieval tin workings - No previous drilling
Henneberger medieval tin workings – No previous drilling Ellbogen medieval tin workings - No previous drilling
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The Cornwall Orefields
History of Mining
Cornwall was a major mining province for tin and copper from maybe 2,000
BCE right up until 1998 when the last tin mine, South Crofty, closed. The
estimated historic production* from Cornwall is circa 2.8 million tonnes of
tin and 2 million tonnes of copper.
Most Cornish valleys have been worked for alluvial tin since pre-history but
in more modern times mining was focused on high grade, narrow width,
mineralised fault structures (lodes) associated with peaks or ridges in the 6
granite intrusions which underlie the County.
Exploration Potential Historic Mining Areas by metal after Dines (1956) showing the North St
Austell Granite area of operation for Treliver Minerals
The ore field remains underexplored for other types of mineralisation –
especially bulk tonnage deposits of replacement style mineralisation at
lower grade. These types of deposits are targets for Treliver Minerals. Other
targets include high grade historic mines where technical limitations such as
an inability to pump excessive water ingress caused their closure rather than
an exhaustion of reserves.
Exploration Rights:
Exploration in the UK can be difficult due to the rights to minerals originally
being owned by the surface rights owner rather than by the Government.
Complicating things further is that there is no central register of rights and
that often these rights were separated from the surface rights and sold on.
Treliver is highly active in identifying ownership of mineral rights and
entering into agreements in order to build large blocs of prospective land
worthy of modern exploration. Traditional Cornish engine houses on the cliffs at Botallack – here they
were mining lode type mineralization out under the sea
* After Dines (1956), Alderton (1993) and South Crofty Plc (1988-1998), as collated by Dr Nick
LeBoutillier. http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/geologyofcornwall/Mineralisation.htm
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Treliver Farm Project
Discovery
Treliver Farm was discovered by Billiton Exploration (UK) Ltd in 1982 following a
regional stream sediment and soil sampling survey. Billiton partially drilled the
property but walked away from tin exploration after a calamitous drop in tin prices
associated with the collapse of the International Tin Council in 1985.
Exploration Activities
Treliver has drilled 6,000m in 58 holes along 700m of strike and has defined an
inferred resource estimate of 4.5Mt @ 0.15% Sn in the top 100m for 6,700 mt In-situ minor lode grading 10% Tin from 17th
contained tin. Century working at Treliver Farm
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Treliver Farm Drill Highlights
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Treliver Farm Resource
Inferred Resource
Wardell Armstrong International (WAI) has recently reported an independent
resource estimate:
Grade-tonnage
The resource has been estimated at various cut-offs as follows:
Potential for a small “starter-pit” at a grade of between 0.3 and 0.4% Sn can be seen
and preliminary metallurgical testwork looking at this option is planned during 2015
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Godolphin Project
Mineral Rights
Treliver owns a highly prospective package of freehold mineral rights, The Duke of Leeds Estate. These rights contain large parts of the
Wheal Vor and Bosworgey districts. Parts of Wheal Vor sit within our ownership – Vor is widely regarded as one of the best tin mines
that operated in Cornwall, both in terms of the very high grades and the tonnages. It is reported that between 45,000 and 60,000 tons
of tin were produced from the Great Wheal Vor group of mines during the 19th century. Average mined head grade in Wheal Vor is
estimated at 3.5% tin with a 1.5% cut-off. The adjacent mine, Wheal Metal, was mined at an average of 7% with an unknown cut-off
grade. Several attempts to reopen Wheal Vor between 1870 and 1930 failed – either due to equipment failure or to a lack of capital.
The resources identified in the past remain in-situ.
Work Programme
Our work on our rights includes a substantial soil sampling programme and the digitisation of historic mining records into a 3D model.
This has identified a number of drill targets – including a previously unmined sulphide zone around a regional fault called the Great
Fluccan which crosses perpendicularly to the mineralised lodes. +10kg grab samples of this material have been assayed at 12% Zinc, 6%
Copper, 4%, 800ppm Indium, 200 g/t Silver and 0.5 g/t Gold – this is material that was not possible to process in the 19th Century.
Many of the lodes in the area have been mined only on one side of the Great Fluccan, usually on the Eastern side only.
Exploration Target:
The historic data is consistent with a remaining resource of +10 Million tonnes at +1% Sn for +100,000mt contained tin.
Soil Geochemistry data for area to the West of the Great Fluccan Long Sections of Wheal Vor and Wheal Metal Mines with drill targets numbered 26
St Austell Bay Project
Marine Alluvial Dredging for Tin
Indonesia is the World’s largest tin producer country with the
majority of their production of circa 75,000mt per annum
coming from dredging drowned beach terraces at sea off the
islands of Bangka and Belitung. Similar deposits are found off
the coast of Cornwall but have never been exploited.
Indium 99.99% Europe Price in US$/kg, Metal Bulletin & Asian Metal
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