Aldoro acquiring advanced exploration projects in Youanmi gold mining district

Aldoro Resources (ASX:ARN) opened up 75% at 24.5 cents this morning after emerging from a trading halt and announcing the acquisition of advanced exploration projects including the Penny South Gold Project in the Youanmi Gold Mining District.

Aldoro has entered into a binding option agreement to acquire 100% of Altilium Metals Limited.

With the acquisition of Altilium, Aldoro will acquire Altilium’s five Exploration Licences and two Exploration Licence Applications in the Murchison Region of Western Australia.

The tenements contain a number of advanced exploration projects around the Younami Gold Mining District and the Windimurra-Narndee Igneous Complex. The projects are principally focused on gold, nickel and copper mineralisation.

The tenements form four main project areas, covering a total of 756km²:

1. Penny South Gold Project – contiguous with the Penny West Gold Project owned by Spectrum Metals (ASX:SPX), with over 2.5km strike of Penny West shear
2. Narndee Project Area – consisting of the Narndee Igneous Complex (Ni-CuPGM), and Kiabye Greenstone Belt (Au)
3. Unaly Hill South (Au) – at the convergence of the major Youanmi and Yuinmery regional shears
4. Windimurra Igneous Complex (Ni-Cu-PGM, Li) – recently identified lithium bearing pegmatites

Penny South Gold Project

The Penny South Gold Project lies directly to the south of the Penny West Gold Project owned by Spectrum Metals (ASX:SPX) and contains over 2.5km strike extension of the Penny West Shear, that hosts the historic high-grade Penny West Gold Mine.

Spectrum Metals’ share price has gained ~1,500% over the past year as it progresses exploration. It has reported outstanding recent exploration success at Penny North and at the southern end of the Penny West pit within deeper drill holes beneath cover.

Here is the Penny West Area including Altilium’s Penny South Project:

Historic drilling within tenement E57/1045 at Penny South has encountered various significantly anomalous intersections of gold mineralisation including 2m at 33.98g/t Au, 6m at 1.27g/t Au and 5m at 1.11g/t Au.

Like the Penny West area, tenement E57/1045 contains limited outcrop and is overlain by 1m to 30m of sand and sedimentary cover. The average depth of historic drilling within the Penny South Gold Project is less than 40m down hole.

Aldoro intends to utilise a similar exploration strategy to Spectrum to test surface anomalies at depth.

Here is a view of the wider Youanmi Gold Mining District:

Narndee Project Area

The Narndee Project Area is formed of 2 exploration projects (differentiated by different styles of geology) surrounding the Narndee Igneous Complex – the Narndee Igneous Complex (Ni-Cu-PGM) and the Kiabye Greenstone Belt (Au).

Narndee Igneous Complex (Ni-Cu-PGM)

The Narndee Igneous Complex is a large layered mafic-ultramafic complex covering approximately 700km2. Historic exploration has generally focused on PGM mineralisation using a Bushveld model, whilst historic drill results have found good indications of Ni-Cu sulphide mineralisation.

Maximus Resources (ASX:MXR) flew an airborne EM survey over the complex in 2008, identifying multiple EM targets, but only conducted limited follow up work. Aldoro intends to build on this wealth of historical information, including multiple geophysical datasets, and is excited by the nickel potential of the project.

Kiabye Greenstone Belt (Au)

The Kiabye Greenstone Belt wraps around the western side of the Narndee Complex, predominantly formed of Norie Group amphibolite-metabasalt and Yaloginda metasedimentary units, with a sheared contact against the surrounding Tuckanarra Suite granite.

The greenstone belt extends for over 30km of strike and is historically underexplored due to thin 1m to 5m cover. Anomalous indications of gold have been identified along the length of the belt in historic work.

Unaly Hill South

Tenement E57/1048 lies at the southern end of the Atley Complex, located between the Youanmi and Sandstone Gold Mining Districts and contiguous with Surefire Resources (ASX:SRN) Unaly Hill Vanadium Project.

Whilst the tenement contains a significant vanadium titanomagnetite exploration target it is also considered prospective for gold mineralisation with the intersection of two major regional shears – the northern extension of the Youanmi Shear and its intersection with the Yuinmery Shear, also known to host gold mineralisation.

Windimurra Igneous Complex

Tenement applications E58/518 and E58/519 cover approximately 420km2 of the Windimurra Igneous Complex.

Recent field work and geological mapping interpretation by Altilium has identified over 20 pegmatites at the edge of the Windimurra Complex, that are considered prospective for lithium mineralisation.

Acquisition terms

The key terms of the acquisition are as follows:

• Aldoro will pay a $50,000 option fee to secure the exclusive option to acquire 100% of the issued share capital of Altilium.
• If the Option is exercised, at completion Aldoro will issue Altilium shareholders a total of 10,800,000 fully paid ordinary shares to acquire all outstanding shares in Altilium Metals Limited at a deemed price of $0.15 per share.
• Caedmon Marriott and Rhod Grivas to join the board of Aldoro at completion of the acquisition.
• Aldoro will assume a maximum of up to $250,000 of liabilities and debts held by Altilium, consisting of $100,000 payment to the original vendors of the Narndee and Windimurra Projects, and up to $150,000 of outstanding creditors.
• Issue of 1,200,000 facilitator shares to Xcel Capital Pty Ltd.

Commenting on the acquisition Aldoro’s Chairman Jeremy King said: “We are extremely pleased to reach agreement for the acquisition of Altilium Metals. The addition of their exciting exploration assets, including the Penny South Gold Project, greatly enhances Aldoro’s existing portfolio and builds on our long-term strategy of creating a significant Western Australian exploration and development company.”

Share Placement

Aldoro has finalised binding terms for a share placement to raise capital for exploration activities and working capital.

The company will issue 4,333,333 shares at $0.15 per share to raise $650,000 (before costs) which represents a premium of 12.8% to the 20-day VWAP.

The raising was very well supported by the Altilium vendors in addition to the Aldoro directors who have subscribed for $90,000 of the placement (subject to shareholder approval).