REG - Corcel PLC - Option to Acquire Australian Lithium Project

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22/02/2023 07:00

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RNS Number : 6319Q  Corcel PLC  22 February 2023

Corcel PLC

("Corcel" or the "Company")

 

Option to Acquire Australian Lithium Project

22 February 2023

Corcel Plc (London AIM: CRCL), the extractive industries exploration and
development company, with interests in battery metals including nickel,
cobalt, and rare earth elements, announces that it has signed an exclusive
30-day option with Huntsman Exploration Inc. ("HMAN") to acquire 100% of the
lithium rights of the Canegrass Lithium Project, consisting of several granted
mineral tenements, adjacent to Aldoro Resources Ltd's ("Aldoro"), Wyemandoo
Pegmatite project in Western Australia.

Corcel Chief Executive Officer, Scott Kaintz commented: "We are delighted to
rapidly follow our recent acquisition and subsequent farm out of Mt Weld, with
an option to acquire a second high quality Australian battery metals asset.
 The Canegrass Lithium project, which sits next to (and could be an extension
of) Aldoro's existing pegmatite project, has generated rock chip sample grades
of up to 2% Li20 and rubidium grades of up to 1.8% and is ripe for near term
high impact drill activity.  Meanwhile, the market for lithium market remains
buoyant with prices well above multi-decade historical norms."

About the Canegrass Lithium Project

The project covers an area extending over part of the Windimurra Igneous
Complex, a large differentiated layered ultramafic to mafic intrusion emplaced
within the Yilgarn craton of Western Australia.  It is conical to a
sheet-like body intruded into the Archaean granite-greenstone terrain of the
Murchison Province, outcrops over an area of approximately 2,500 km(2) and has
an age of approximately 2800 Ma.  The complex is dominantly comprised of
basic cumulate rocks that can broadly be classified as gabbroic in
composition.  Magmatic layering dips inwards at the margins and flattens in
the centre.  It is dissected by large scale strike-slip shear zones so that
the original extent of the complex is unknown.  The Windimurra Igneous
Complex is part of a much larger suite of similarly layered ultramafic to
mafic bodies emplaced between 2,700-2,800Ma across the Murchison Province.
Collectively, these complexes are similar in thickness, volume, and
composition to the Bushveld Igneous Complex of South Africa.

The project is predominately underlain by the lower zone of the Windimurra
Intrusive Complex, a series of olivine-rich gabbro and gabbronorite which
grade upwards into more leucocratic gabbroic rocks. The Lower zone is
separated into a western and eastern lobe by the Shephards Discordant Zone
("SDZ"), which represents a significant break in the igneous stratigraphy and
is characterised by magnetite and magnetite-bearing gabbro. To the east of the
SDZ lies a package of mafic volcanic rocks, felsic volcaniclastic sandstones,
and banded iron-formation bounded by the Wyemandoo Shear Zone and are part of
the Norie Group.

Historic exploration completed by Aldoro has consisted of satellite imagery
interpretation, geochemical sampling, rock chip sampling and an initial phase
of drilling.  Due to the high degree of outcrop exposure and lack of
vegetation, satellite imagery interpretation provides a rapid low-cost
evaluation method to initially review and target pegmatite swarms.  A
satellite imagery-based interpretation was conducted by HMAN across the
entirety of the Canegrass Lithium Project and revealed extensive swarms of
what is being interpreted as pegmatites.  These interpreted pegmatites are
located within the same lithologies and setting as that at Aldoro's Project.
Furthermore, rock chip sampling conducted by Aldoro has confirmed the presence
of high-grade rubidium with associated lithium mineralisation 1,400 m to the
east of the Canegrass Lithium Project.

Transaction Details:

 

Corcel has signed an exclusive 30-day option to acquire the lithium rights at
the Canegrass Lithium Project, which are overlaid on tenements associated with
the Canegrass Nickel Project (rights to which are not included in this
transaction), and has agreed to pay the vendor during this period a
non-refundable option payment of £20,000.  Corcel has commenced due
diligence on the project and intends to complete this during the 30-day option
period.

 

In the event that Corcel chooses to exercise the option to proceed to acquire
the lithium rights at the project, the Company will issue HMAN 50,000,000 new
ordinary shares ("Acquisition Shares") at a deemed issue price of 0.4p
equating to £200,000 in aggregate.  This represents a 34% premium on the
closing price on 21 February 2023 and is also the entry price of the new
cornerstone investor as announced on 21 December 2022.

 

Qualified Persons Statement:

 

The information in this announcement that relates to the Exploration Results
for the Canegrass Lithium Project is based on information compiled and fairly
represented by Mr Robert Jewson, who is a Member of the Australian Institute
of Geoscientists. Mr Jewson has sufficient experience relevant to the style of
mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration, and to the activity
which he has undertaken, to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the
2012 Edition of the Joint Ore Reserves Committee (JORC) Australasian Code for
Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves. Mr
Jewson consents to the inclusion in this report of the matters based on this
information in the form and context in which it appears.

For further information, please contact:

Scott Kaintz
 
Corcel Plc CEO

020 7747 9960
 
 

James Joyce / James Bavister /Andrew de Andrade             WH
Ireland Ltd NOMAD & Broker

0207 220 1666
 

Patrick d'Ancona
 
Vigo Communications IR

0207 3900
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