Mr. Gary Sutherland reports
IMX CONFIRMS SIGNIFICANT GRAPHITE RESULTS AT THE CHILALO PROSPECT ON ITS NACHINGWEA PROPERTY
IMX Resources Ltd. had significant graphite potential within its Nachingwea property in southeast Tanzania, with rock chip sampling returning high-grade graphite results with assays of up to 29.6 per cent carbon. The majority of the rock chip sampling program was undertaken at the Chilalo prospect, located 25 kilometres to the northwest of the Ntaka Hill nickel sulphide project, as part of IMX's continuing evaluation of the regional mineral potential of Nachingwea. The program was highly successful with 65 rock chip samples returning grades of between 4.8 per cent and 29.6 per cent carbon, with an average grade of 12.9 per cent carbon. A total of 41 rock chips returned grades of greater than 10 per cent carbon.
IMX managing director, Gary Sutherland, said the identification of graphite mineralization within the Nachingwea property further reinforces the outstanding prospectivity of the company's Tanzanian exploration portfolio.
"Coming hard on the heels of our significant gold target at Kishugu, these graphite results provide IMX with an outstanding suite of exploration targets. We believe there is strong potential to define an economic resource within our extensive Nachingwea tenement package," he said
The Chilalo prospect is located within the Usagaran (Mozambique belt) system, which is known for hosting high-grade, coarse flake graphite deposits, such as Syrah Resources Ltd.'s Balama deposit and Uranex Ltd.'s Nachu project. In fact, Uranex's Nachu project is located immediately adjacent to the Chilalo prospect on IMX's eastern tenement boundary. An exploration target of 325 million tonnes to 490 million tonnes at 4- to 9-per-cent-total-graphite content is reported at a 2-per-cent TGC cut-off, and 55 million tonnnes to 115 million tonnes at 6- to 12-per-cent-total-graphite content at a 5-per-cent TGC cut-off. The graphite is at the coarse end of flake size, a size that commands a significant premium.
Exploration target tonnage quantity and grades estimates are conceptual in nature only. These figures are not a mineral resource estimate as defined by the 2012 edition of the Australasian code for reporting of exploration results, mineral resources and ore reserves or National Instrument 43-101, as insufficient exploration has been conducted to define a mineral resource and it is uncertain if further exploration will result in the target being delineated as a mineral resource. A versatile time domain electromagnetic geophysical survey has been completed over the majority of the Nachingwea property, targeting nickel sulphides, and has identified numerous anomalies which are likely to be associated with graphite mineralization. At Chilalo, geological mapping indicates that the graphitic-bearing units are up to 500 metres wide, at surface, and extend over several kilometres of strike and open to the northeast and southwest.
Next steps
The company now intends to analyze the VTEM data to prioritize the strongest conductors, which show the greatest potential for large volumes and/or high grades. Drilling of priority targets is expected to commence in October, 2014.
The Nachingwea property is the subject of a joint venture agreement with MMG Exploration Holdings Ltd., under which it may earn up to a 60-per-cent interest by completing up to $60-million of expenditure. MMG has recently advised that it has almost spent its $10-million Stage 1 expenditure, the completion of which entitles it to a 15-per-cent interest in the Nachingwea property.
CARBON GRADES FROM ROCK CHIP SAMPLES
Sample ID Carbon (%) Sample ID Carbon (%)
37977S 11.15 55001S 13.95
37978S 10.65 55002S 8.86
37979S 4.81 55004S 8.83
37980S 9.42 55005S 15.20
37981S 9.82 55006S 19.50
37982S 9.87 55007S 16.45
37983S 9.59 55008S 7.25
37984S 15.05 55009S 23.30
37985S 10.30 55010S 13.40
37986S 10.35 55011S 10.85
37987S 14.80 55012S 14.85
37988S 9.48 55013S 19.75
37989S 29.60 55014S 12.50
37990S 7.35 55015S 7.22
37991S 25.20 55016S 7.57
37992S 17.15 55017S 10.05
37993S 8.56 55018S 6.28
37994S 7.78 55019S 11.30
37995S 8.56 55020S 4.90
37996S 9.97 55021S 8.11
37997S 11.95 55022S 5.87
37998S 9.34 55023S 18.60
37999S 11.25 55024S 28.30
38000S 10.30 55025S 9.81
41751S 17.55 55026S 11.70
41762S 17.50 55027S 23.50
41763S 10.60 55028S 16.65
41764S 12.40 55029S 29.30
41765S 11.70 55030S 13.65
41766S 19.50 55031S 16.70
41767S 14.70 55033S 8.79
41768S 16.70 55035S 7.50
41769S 18.75 55036S 7.18
41770S 8.81 55037S 15.25
41771S 8.36 55038S 11.50
41772S 12.05 55039S 10.90
41793S 16.95 57040S 7.98
41794S 11.95 57044S 6.43
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