Macarthur Minerals Joint Venture Partner Update

RNS Number : 1418I

Cadence Minerals PLC

06 August 2019

 

Cadence Minerals Plc

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

Macarthur Minerals (TSX-V: MMS) Joint Venture Partner FE Limited Identifies Areas of Prospectivity for Further Exploration in the Pilbara.

Cadence Minerals (AIM/NEX: KDNC; OTC: KDNCY) is pleased to note the announcement today from Macarthur Minerals (TSX-V: MMS) ("Macarthur") that FE Limited ("FEL") has completed reconnaissance trips to several of Macarthur's lithium, gold and base metals projects in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

FEL has reported that areas of prospectivity were identified in most of the tenements and rock chips were taken for initial tests (results pending). The results from the reconnaissance trips are detailed in the location map, photos and descriptions in the figures below.

Cadence Minerals Holding in Macarthur

Cadence holds approximately 9.8% of the issued equity interest in Macarthur, which is an Australian mining exploration company focused primarily on iron ore, nickel, lithium and gold in Western Australia. It also has a lithium project in Nevada, USA.

About FE Limited

FE Limited (ASX: FEL) is a listed mineral exploration Company that holds or has rights or interests in various projects and tenements prospective for battery metals, copper, iron ore, gold and base metals located in Australia. The Company is focused on the exploration of battery metal projects. In March 2019, FEL entered into an agreement to acquire the Pippingarra Lithium Project and the Marble Bar Lithium Project (Project) from Mercury Resources Group Pty Ltd. These areas complement the tenement portfolio of Macarthur Minerals, establishing an 1800 square kilometre exploration footprint in the important Lithium and Gold region of Western Australia.

On May 14, 2019 Macarthur announced it had entered into an exclusive option agreement with FE Limited (ASX: FEL), for FEL to acquire an interest of up to 75% in the tenements held by Macarthur's wholly owned subsidiary Macarthur Lithium Pty Ltd ("MLi").

Mr Ian S Cooper, B.Sc., A.R.S.M., F.G.S. FAusIMM, a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (membership number 107348), is a consultant of Macarthur and is a Qualified Person as defined in NI 43-101. Mr Cooper has reviewed and approved the technical information contained in the Macarthur news release.

The full release can be found at: https://web.tmxmoney.com/article.php?newsid=8779951354202610&qm_symbol=MMS

This news release is not for distribution to United States Services or for Dissemination in the United States. 

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For further information: Cadence Minerals plc                                                    [phone] Andrew Suckling Kiran Morzaria WH Ireland Limited (NOMAD & Broker)                                 [phone] James Joyce James Sinclair-Ford Novum Securities Limited (Joint Broker)                                 [phone] Jon Belliss

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.

Forward-Looking Statements:

Certain statements in this announcement are or may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are identified by their use of terms and phrases such as ''believe'' ''could'' "should" ''envisage'' ''estimate'' ''intend'' ''may'' ''plan'' ''will'' or the negative of those variations or comparable expressions including references to assumptions. These forward-looking statements are not based on historical facts but rather on the Directors' current expectations and assumptions regarding the Company's future growth results of operations performance future capital and other expenditures (including the amount. nature and sources of funding thereof) competitive advantages business prospects and opportunities. Such forward-looking statements reflect the Directors' current beliefs and assumptions and are based on information currently available to the Directors.  Many factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements including risks associated with vulnerability to general economic and business conditions competition environmental and other regulatory changes actions by governmental authorities the availability of capital markets reliance on key personnel uninsured and underinsured losses and other factors many of which are beyond the control of the Company. Although any forward-looking statements contained in this announcement are based upon what the Directors believe to be reasonable assumptions. The Company cannot assure investors that actual results will be consistent with such forward-looking statements.

 

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