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Premium Product High grade lumpy Wessels manganese ore adds furnace Value-In-Use and is essential in terms of required manganese units when producing high grade ferromanganese alloys DFS currently being prepared by TWP with completion by Q2 2012 Mine design is very similar to neighbouring BHP Wessels mine and Nchwaning mine with standard room and pillar mining Capacity designed to accommodate Trasnet allocation with potential to increase production Lehating accepted by Transnet as a long term allocation process qualified customer to export on the Hotazel-Port Elizabeth rail corridor 13 Mt @ 48% Mn for a >15 year mine life Low phosphorous and sulphur
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DFS in process
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Overview
Lehating Mining (Pty) Ltd is a South African company which owns a 100% interest in the Lehating Manganese Project (Lehating or the Project ) located in the Kalahari Manganese Fields of the Northern Cape. Phase 1 drilling commenced in October 2006 with all exploration work completed in 2011. Lehating has a SAMREC compliant high-grade manganese ore resource of 13 million tons grading 48% Mn Potential to increase resources to 30 million tons by including adjacent properties which could be mined from Lehatings mine and plant infrastracture
Corporate Structure
Founders* (64%) Traxys Projects (18%) Workers Trust* (5%)
TWPI* (13%)
Traxys
TWP
Leadership
Charles Sambo
Charles Sambo is a mining engineer and is the Chief Executive officer of Lehating Mining. Charles has 19 years' experience in general management, operations management, and project finance within the mining industry. Charles has most recently served as Chief Operations Officer of Wesizwe Platinum Ltd and has held the positions of General Manager Mining of Metallon Gold, and Analyst at Rand Merchant Bank. He holds a BEng in Mining, MSc in Mining, an MBA, and has completed an International Executive Development Programme at Insead Business School. He is registered with a Mine Managers Certificate of Competency.
Nico Hager Nico is a legal consultant with more than 20 years' corporate and mining law experience. He is a director of PlatChrome ((Pty)) Ltd and was a mining rights advisor to BHPBilliton for many years.He holds B.Juris LLB degrees and a National Diploma in Deeds Registration Solly Nkosi Solly Nkosi is a chemical engineer and the Operations Manager of DMS Powders which forms part of the Siyanda Resources Group of companies Solly is experienced in operations and production management gained in the chemical and metalliferous industries.Solly is a director of Afmelo Investments (Pty) Ltd, a South African black empowerment investment company, and most recently also served as the Human Resources and Industrial relations manager of DMS Powders. He holds a BSc degree in Chemical Engineering, and a Bachelors degree in Business Administration and an MBA. He is a Six Sigma operational excellence Master Black Belt. Solly is currently busy with his DTech in Industrial Engineering. Through Afmelo Investments, Solly is the appointed voting representative in Lehating Mining (Pty) Ltd to represent the interests of the Lehating employee and social development trusts.
Dean Cunningham Dean Cunningham is the Chief Executive Officer of TWP Investments Limited and an Executive Director of Basil Read Corporate Finance which both form part of the Basil Read Group of companies. Dean is experienced in all aspects of mining, corporate finance, equity markets and research experience. Over the course of his career to date, Dean has held key positions in all these fields, notably as Director and Head of Mining Research for Investec Securities Limited and Head of Equity Sales at Nedbank Securities. For several years he also operated his own mining research and financial advisory company. Dean, who holds a BSc Honours in Mining Engineering and is a stock broker member of the JSE, is also an accredited rough and polished diamonds expert.
Tim Mosey Tim Mosey is the Managing Director of Traxys Projects LP, a specialized investment arm of the Traxys Group, a global leader in the marketing and sourcing of metals, minerals and energy products to a wide range of mining and industrial partners. Experienced in all aspects of mineral development from exploration to production, Tim most recently served as Vice President of Resource Capital Funds and as an international mining consultant for SRK Consulting. Tim holds a BSc in Geological Engineering and an MSc in Mining Engineering.
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Manganese Market
Lehating
BHP Wessels
(44 - 46%Mn)
Assmang Nchwaning
(44 - 48%Mn)
Assmang Gloria
(39%Mn)
Kalagadi Mn project
(38 40%Mn)
BHP (old)Hotazel
(38 40%Mn)
UMK project
(40%Mn)
Upside Case 960,000 85% 816,000 $120m $1.50/dmtu $1.85/dmtu $3.35/dmtu $6/dmtu
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Comparable Mn Projects
Lehating is higher grade than all current developing peers
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Resource (Mt)
Bootu Creek 25 35 45
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Lehating Orebody
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IRON CONTENT
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SEAM THICKNESS
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SHAFT
Main Shaft Depth 273m Excavated diameter 7.5m Lined diameter 6.5m
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Silicomanganese
Specialty steel Stainless steel, High Strength Low Alloy (HSLA) steels
1. EMM is an intermediate product used mainly in stainless steel and other metal alloying. Source: Roskill, CRU.
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Manganese reserve base1 (contained manganese) 1 billion tonnes 500 million tonnes Ukraine Kazakhstan (Mid-grade) (Mid-grade) China (Low-grade) Ghana (Low-grade) Brazil (High-grade) Gabon (High-grade) Australia (High-grade) India (Mid-grade)
1. Defined by the US Geological Survey (USGS) as that part of an identified resource that meets specified minimum physical and chemical criteria related to current mining and production practices. The reserve base includes those resources that are currently economic (reserves), marginally economic (marginal reserves), and some of those that are currently subeconomic (subeconomic resources).
Logistics Solutions
Pricing Basics
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