
Dissemination of a Regulatory Announcement that contains inside information according to
NKT Update
Recap:
· NKT is Tier-1 scale mine (that used to be in production) that contains 305Kt of Nickel, 143Kt of Copper, 57 tons of platinum group metals ("PGM") and Gold as confirmed in the Competent Person Report (the "CPR") by
· Tier-1 scale means a large-scale, long-life, and low-cost mine that is considered a cornerstone (company making) asset for a mining company.
· Tier-1 requires high net present value ("NPV") and high internal rate of return ("IRR") with NKT having
· The NKT Nickel-Copper-PGM ore used to be mined and shipped about 1 km distance to Severonickel, one of the world's largest nickel processing plant. As a formerly producing mine, it is well served with the infrastructure that significantly reduces the total CAPEX requirements and the lead-time to restart production.
· According to S&P Global data,
· According to
· Nickel is the main metal at NKT, comprising 50% of the value of the metal basket on a
· Nickel is in the sulphide form that is easily extracted using simple flotation on the basis of successful tests by Gipronickel (Norilsk Nickel's engineering arm) and previous production at NKT. This represents a low CAPEX solution and competitive edge of sulphide nickel assets in comparison to laterite nickel projects, which are more common but require significant CAPEX.
· NKT is located in
· The CPR produced by WAI is available at: www.eurasiamining.co.uk/investors/technical-reports
In Summary:
· With its advanced Monchetundra and NKT (brownfield restart) adjacent mining assets, Eurasia enjoys a first mover advantage in the strategic Arctic area and competitive edge with low CAPEX.
· The benchmarking analysis suggests that the lead-time to restart production can be as fast as 1-2 years as opposed to greenfield projects in
· Arctic asset sale or production restart on
Highlights of the work done since the CPR by WAI:
· About 2/3 of the NKT resources have been defined as reserves under Russian classification by Norilsk Nickel, however the drill core and the trenches have only been analysed for the base metals (Nickel and Copper) and have not been analysed for PGM thus limiting the classification to inferred under the JORC Code due to the application of regression formulas for PGM.
· Eurasia's Arctic subsidiary TMC has done additional drilling of 16,417 meters with 9,224 samples being tested by
· This will allow an upgrade from resources to reserves under the JORC Code as well as the state standards and allow the application for a production permit at NKT.
· In recognition of significant work done by TMC in accordance with the licence agreement, the existing NKT licence of TMC that was supposed to expire on
"The Directors are pleased that compliance with the licence agreement has resulted in the 2-year extension of the licence for our company making Tier-1 scale NKT asset. This allows both the maintenance of the licence and the reserves upgrade to achieve our
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