IMX Acquires 50% Interest in the St. Stephen Project
PERTH, AUSTRALIA -- (Marketwired) -- 04/17/13 -- IMX Resources Limited (TSX: IXR)(TSX: IXR.WT)(ASX: IXR) ('IMX' or the 'Company') is pleased to announce that it has exercised its right to acquire a 50% interest in the St. Stephen nickel-copper project (the 'St. Stephen Project') from ABE Resources Inc. ('ABE Resources'), formerly Abitex Resources Inc. ('Abitex') of Val d'Or, Quebec. In consideration for acquiring its interest in the St. Stephen Project, IMX paid ABE Resources Cdn$30,000 and issued 148,000 IMX shares to ABE Resources.
As part of the Company's acquisition of Continental Nickel Limited ('CNI') in September 2012, the Company acquired CNI's interest in the St. Stephen Project. The St. Stephen Project consists of two claim blocks totalling 42.9km2 covering 70% of the St. Stephen Intrusion which hosts sixteen historic magmatic Ni sulphide prospects including a number of individual deposits.
CNI optioned the St. Stephen Property from Abitex in 2008 and spent $1 million in exploration between 2008 and 2012, including a 325 line kilometre helicopter borne, time domain electro-magnetic ('EM') survey, 12km of ground EM survey, diamond drilling (3,025m in 22 holes) and downhole EM surveys. This work resulted in the discovery of five new nickel sulphide occurrences associated with the mafic-ultramafic St. Stephen Intrusion:
G Zone (SSD12-018): 1.17% Ni and 0.44% Cu over 28.1m, incl. 2.50% Ni
and 0.55% Cu over 3.5m
3.02% Ni and 0.56% Cu over 3.65m (CNI news
release May 3, 2012)
Hanson Brook (SSD11-013): 2.35% Ni and 1.06% Cu over 5.45m (CNI news
release January 25, 2012)
Triple J (SSD10-004): 0.63% Ni and 0.22% Cu over 21.4m (CNI news
release September 15, 2010)
Billy's Brook (SSD10-009): 0.51% Ni and 0.41% Cu over 3.3m (CNI news
release September 15, 2010)
Todd Mountain (SSD12-016): 0.80% Ni and 0.24% Cu over 1.95m (CNI news
release May 3, 2012)
The best nickel-copper grades to date are concentrated near the north-western edge of the intrusion near the contact with metasedimentary country rocks in a one kilometre long corridor. Further drilling is required to fully test the extents of these zones and to further test the area of the metasedimentary-intrusive contact. In addition, a number of untested EM anomalies exist throughout the St. Stephen Intrusion.
The St. Stephen Project is located in south-western New Brunswick, Canada, a mining friendly jurisdiction. It is situated close to important infrastructure, only 30km from the port of Bayside where there is an established commercial port facility and 119km from the city of St John, where there is a commercial airport.
Managing Director, Neil Meadows commented, "We are pleased to have acquired a 50% interest in the St. Stephen Project which has shown some encouraging mineralisation from the small amount of exploration work to date and is ideally located in terms of jurisdiction, mineral prospectivity and access to infrastructure. We now plan on determining the most suitable means by which value can be extracted from the project."
The accompanying fact sheet presents a summary of key details of the St Stephen Project.
To view the fact sheet associated with this press release, please visit the following link: http://media3.marketwire.com/docs/130417_St_Stephen_FactSheet.pdf.
NEIL MEADOWS, Managing Director
Competent Persons / Qualified Person / NI 43-101 Statement
Information in this report relating to exploration results is based on data collected under the supervision of, or compiled by Sharon Taylor, who is a registered member of the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario and the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of New Brunswick and has sufficient relevant experience as a qualified person as defined by NI 43-101 and a competent person under the Australian JORC (2004). Ms. Taylor consents to the inclusion of the data in the form and context in which it appears, and approves this disclosure.
About IMX Resources Limited
IMX Resources Limited is an Australian based mining and base and precious metals exploration company, listed on the Australian Securities Exchange ('ASX') and Toronto Stock Exchange ('TSX'), with exploration projects located in Australia, Africa and North America.
In Africa, IMX owns and operates the highly prospective Nachingwea Exploration Project in south-east Tanzania, which includes the potentially world-class Ntaka Hill Nickel Sulphide project. Nachingwea is highly prospective for nickel and copper sulphide, gold and graphite mineralisation. The Ntaka Hill Nickel Sulphide Project is one of the world's best un-developed nickel sulphide projects and has the potential to produce a very clean, high quality premium nickel concentrate.
In Australia, IMX operates and owns 51% of the Cairn Hill Mining Operation, located 55 kilometres south-east of Coober Pedy in South Australia, where it produces a premium coarse-grained magnetite-copper-gold DSO product at a rate of 1.8Mtpa.
IMX is actively developing the Mt Woods Magnetite Project on the highly prospective Mt Woods Inlier in South Australia. IMX currently has a JORC Inferred Resource of 569Mt @ 27% Fe at the Snaefell Magnetite Deposit and a Global Exploration Target of between 200-380Mt @ 25-35% Fe elsewhere in the project. Studies indicate that coarse grained concentrates that could be produced at Snaefell have the potential to produce a direct sinter feed product which has the potential to attract a significant price premium.
IMX has a joint venture with OZ Minerals (the Mt Woods Copper-Gold Joint Venture Project) to explore the Mt Woods tenements for copper and gold. OZ Minerals is spending a minimum of $20M for a 51% interest in the non-iron rights, with IMX retaining a 49% interest in the non-iron rights and 100% of the iron ore rights.
IMX owns 25.65% of Uranex (ASX: UNX), a dedicated uranium exploration company, which is developing the Mkuju Uranium project in southern Tanzania.
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Contacts:
IMX Resources Limited
Neil Meadows
Managing Director
+61 8 9388 7877
nmeadows@imxres.com.au
www.imxresources.com.au
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Tony Dawe
Investor Relations
+61 8 9388 0944
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