Yangibana Rare Earth Project - Resource Update

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Cadence Minerals PLC

22 November 2017

 

Cadence Minerals Plc

("Cadence Minerals", "Cadence" or "the Company")

Yangibana Rare Earth Project - Resource Update

Cadence Minerals (AIM/NEX: KDNC; OTC: KDNCY) is pleased to report that Hastings Technology Metals Limited ("Hastings") (ASX: HAS), the operator of the Yangibana Rare Earth Project ("Yangibana"), has announced a final JORC Code Resource for 2017 of 21 million tonnes at 1.17% of Total Rare Earth Oxides ("TREO").

Cadence has a 30% free carried  interest in some of the tenements included in the Yangibana mineral resource statement. The Yangibana deposit hosts extensive rare earths-bearing ferrocarbontite  /ironstone veins that were evaluated by drilling in the 1980s and by Hastings in 2014 and 2015. It has the potential to host larger, carbontite-hosted rare earth mineralisation at depth, but this target has yet to be assessed.

Of the mineral resource reported the total resource in the tenements in which Cadence holds a 30% is as follows:

Total Resource in Tenements 30% held by Cadence
Category	Tonnes	Nd2O3+Pr6O11	TREO	Nd2O3	Pr6O11	Dy2O3	Tb4O7
		%	%	ppm	ppm	ppm	ppm
Measured	900,000	0.43	1.64	3,258	997	42.8	17.55
Indicated	2,100,000	0.46	1.76	3,507	1,061	45.1	17.39
Meas + Ind	2,900,000	0.45	1.72	3,433	1,042	44.4	17.44
Inferred	2,700,000	0.37	1.42	2,806	860	39.6	14.17
TOTAL	5,600,000	0.41	1.58	3,134	955	42.1	15.88
Note: Rounding errors may occur

This total resource represents some 36% of the entire mineral resource of Yangibana and importantly has a similar Nd₂O₃+Pr₆O₁₁  grade to the resource in areas not covered by the tenements jointly owned by Cadence.

The full release can be found at: Hastings Technology Metals Release 22 Nov 2017

Details of Ownership

On 1 December 2011, Cadence announced that it had acquired a 30% free carried interest to Bankable Feasibility Study of the Yangibana North Rare Earth Deposit. The exploration costs until the commencement of the BFS are therefore borne solely by Hastings (70% owners and operator). The same terms agreed and announced on 1 December 2012 also apply to Gossan, Hook, Kanes Gossan, Lions Ear and Bald Hill North.

Kiran Morzaria, Chief Executive Officer of Cadence, commented:

"It is great to see the progress being made at Yangibana. As electrical vehicle manufacturers continue to  switch from induction to permanent magnet motors, neodymium (Nd) and praseodymium (Pr) are taking centre stage in the rare earth element suite. Yangibana has high grades in these elements, and we believe that this sets it apart from many other rare earth deposits currently under exploration or development. In 2017, 75% of the rare earth market by value was represented by Nd and Pr and we see Yangibana as an important part of that supply chain. We look forward to the publication of the BFS and the mining plan, so that we can determine when and how much ore will be mined from our jointly owned tenements."

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For further information, please contact.
Cadence Minerals plc	[phone]
Andrew Suckling
Kiran Morzaria
WH Ireland Limited (NOMAD & Broker)	[phone]
James Joyce
James Sinclair-Ford
Hannam & Partners LLP (Joint Broker)	[phone]
Neil Passmore
Giles Fitzpatrick
Square1 Consulting	[phone]
David Bick

Qualified Person

Kiran Morzaria B.Eng. (ACSM), MBA, has reviewed and approved the information contained in this announcement. Kiran holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Industrial Geology) from the Camborne School of Mines and an MBA (Finance) from CASS Business School.

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Cadence invests across the globe, principally in lithium mining projects. Its primary strategy is taking significant economic stakes in upstream exploration and development assets within strategic metals. We identify assets that have strategic cost advantages that are not replicable, with the aim of achieving lower quartile production costs. The combination of this approach and seeking value opportunities allows us to identify projects capable of achieving high rates of return.

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