Download - August 2011
Building Gold Resources in Brazil’s Tapajos Region
TSX-V: MNM | www.magellanminerals.com
August 2011
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Why Invest in Magellan?• Region with Excellent Potential: the Tapajos is the World’s third
largest placer gold province, estimated to have produced 20-30 Mozfrom streams between 1978 and 1995 from artisanal, garimpeiro-type miners
• Experienced Management: 150+ years of mining experience, track record for discovery. Management is previously responsible for discovery of the nearby Tocantinzinho deposit (2.5Moz), now owned by Eldorado Gold
• Projects: two organic, grass roots gold discoveries so far - and building…
• Cuiu Cuiu – 1.3Moz gold resource (100,000oz indic + 1.2Moz inf), drilling with 3 rigs
• Coringa – 370,000 oz gold resource (270,000oz indic + 100,000oz inf), drilling with 3 rigs
• Key Stakeholders: Newmont Mining owns 2.5%; Kinross owns 1%
• Strong Cash Position: $20.5 M in treasury – Q2, 2011
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Proven Management Team
• Jim Stypula, Chairman - previously CEO of Chapleau Resources, financier with 20years experience in mineral exploration. Founding director of Far West Mining
• Alan Carter, B.Sc., Ph.D., President & CEO, Director - 20 years of experience.Former Exploration Manager for Rio Tinto and Business Dev. Manager at BHP Billiton.Director and co-founder of Peregrine Diamonds and Peregrine Metals. Raised +$100Min capital for mining and exploration companies since 2004
• Dennis Moore, B.Sc., P.Eng., VP Business Development, Director - explorationgeologist with 27 years experience, half of it in Latin America. Responsible fordiscovery of the Tocantinzinho deposit, now owned by Eldorado Gold
• Paul Hansed, C.A., B.A., Chief Financial Officer - 20+ years of accounting andfinance experience including 19 years with KPMG in Canada and Europe. CFO ofMagellan Minerals since March 2008
• Guillermo Hughes, B.Sc., P.Eng., - Chief Geologist - 26 years experience in themineral exploration industry including experience in Argentina, Peru and Brazil
• Gordon Allen, B.Sc., - Head, Regional Exploration - 35 years experience in themineral exploration industry, predominantly in Latin America. Exploration experienceFar West Mining Ltd., and the discovery of the Santo Domingo IOCG deposit innorthern Chile.
• Derek White, B.A., Director - currently Executive VP Bus. Dev. of Quadra Mining andwith 20+ years financial experience in the mining and metals industry. He worked forImpala Platinum Ltd, Gencor and Billiton, where he was CFO of the Base MetalsDivision
• Mario Szotlender, Director - former CEO of Rusoro Mining, Director of EndeavourSilver and Radius Gold. 20 years experience financing and managing companiesin Latin America
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The Tapajos : World’s third largest placer gold belt
• Site of the world’s largest ever gold rush from 1970’s to 1990’s
• Largest alluvial gold province in Brazil, third largest alluvial gold province in world – previous production from streams estimated at 20-30 Moz of gold
• Geology is similar to other prolific gold belts (e.g. Eastern Canada, Western Australia). World-class potential
• Under-explored province. One mid-size deposit discovered so far: Tocantinzinho (2.5 Moz)
• Kinross, Eldorado and Newmont are active. Eldorado acquired Tocantinzinho for $122M during mid 2010. Eldorado also spent $5M on a 27% stake in Serabi Mining in 2010
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Key land position in competitive belt
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Cuiú Cuiú’s Relation to Tocantinzinho
• Cuiú Cuiú is one of the two largest historic garimpeiro gold producers in the Tapajós*
• Tocantinzinho deposit is 1.5 km (2.5Moz resource) long and produced an est. 200,000oz of gold from artisanal surface workings **
• Cuiú Cuiú is 12 km long and 25 km NW of Tocantinzinho and produced 2Moz from streams
• Eldorado’s PFS complete with an 11.8% IRR. A FS is the next step. Will make a construction decision by the end of 2011
* Source : DNPM
** Source: Melho, R. 2007. A preliminary assesment of the Tocantinzinhop gold project, Tapajos gold province, Para Brazil. NCL Brazil 43-101 report
Cuiu Cuiu2Moz from streams+1.3Moz resource
to date
Tocantinzinho0.2Moz from streams
2.5Moz resource
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Cuiú Cuiú
• 1.2 Moz of Inferred resources and 0.1 Moz of Indicated goldidentified to date at Central and Moreira Gomes at grade of 1.2g/t
• 470 Sq km concession, 100% owned
• 12 km long gold-in-soil anomaly based on 10,000 soil samples
• 25,000m of drilling planned for 2011, 3 rigs currently operating
Aerial view of village of Cuiu Cuiu
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Cuiú Cuiú – a district rather than a project
Placer gold workings
Placer gold workings
Central deposit 0.6Moz
Moreira Gomes deposit 0.7Moz
Placer workings and soil anomalies
Au in soils (ppb)
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Cuiú Cuiú….1.3Moz and counting
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Central – 1 of 2 deposits so far at Cuiú Cuiú
• Bulk tonnage open pittable deposit
• Inferred resources to date at Central total 17Mt @ 0.9 g/t gold (0.5Moz) + Indicated resources of 3.4Mt @ 1.0 g/t (0.1Moz)
• Central deposit currently extends over approx. 1,000m strike and 450m depth
• Deposit remains open to north, south and at depth
• Additional drilling is in progress
Aerial view of Central deposit looking north
Stockwork mineralization on surface at Central
Outline of mineralized
zone at Central
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CentralSE-NW section through Central
Typical mineralized interval Central zone – hole CC-55-10, 2.15g/t Au
Central Total Resources
TonnageAu g/t
Contained Au
Tonne x 1000 gpt oz.
Indicated Resources
3,400 1.0 100,000
Inferred Resources
17,000 0.9 500,000
* Mineral resources are not mineral reserves and do not have demonstrated economic viability. Please note that all figures have been rounded to reflect theirappropriate level of accuracy.
* These resources are constrained by mineable shapes and cut-off grades to meet the requirement that resources must have reasonable prospects for economicextraction. The mineable shapes are either Lerch-Grossman pits or conceptual underground stopes. Resources falling within the pits are reported at cut-off gradesof 0.3 gpt Au for fresh rock or 0.4 gpt Au for saprolite. Stope shapes only include blocks above a cut-off grade of 1.3 gpt Au. The cut-off grades consider a goldprice of $1,250 per ounce and metallurgical recoveries of 91% for fresh rock and 66% for saprolite.
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Central – potential extensions
New soil anomaly to SE of Central
Untested soil anomaly
3D and map views of Central body and gold–in-soil anomaly
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Moreira Gomes – 5km from Central
• Bulk tonnage open pittable deposit
• Inferred resources to date at MG total 14Mt @ 1.5 g/t gold (0.7Moz)
• MG deposit currently extends over approx. 1,500m strike and 350m depth
• Deposit remains open to east and at depth. Potential for parallel structures currently being tested, e.g 7.5m @ 18.8g/t gold
• Drilling currently in progress
Aerial view of Moreira Gomes deposit looking north
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Cuiú Cuiú – Moreira Gomes/Guarim
* Mineral resources are not mineral reserves and do not have demonstrated economic viability. Please note that all figures have been rounded to reflect theirappropriate level of accuracy.
* These resources are constrained by mineable shapes and cut-off grades to meet the requirement that resources must have reasonable prospects for economicextraction. The mineable shapes are either Lerch-Grossman pits or conceptual underground stopes. Resources falling within the pits are reported at cut-offgrades of 0.3 gpt Au for fresh rock or 0.4 gpt Au for saprolite. Stope shapes only include blocks above a cut-off grade of 1.3 gpt Au. The cut-off gradesconsider a gold price of $1,250 per ounce and metallurgical recoveries of 91% for fresh rock and 66% for saprolite.
Moreira Gomes
Total Resources
TonnesAug/t
Contained Au
Tonne x 1000
gpt oz
Inf. Resource
14,000 1.5 700,000
Map shows airborne magnetic data, grade
contours, and drill hole
locations
Drill Targets
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Cuiú Cuiú – Moving forward in 2011
• Drilling with four rigs (25,000m program) – extensions to MG and Central. Also drilling at J Baixo, J Cima, Babi, Miraboa and Miraboa W targets
• Metallurgical test work
• Follow up of other areas with extensive alluvial gold workings to NW and E
• Updated resource estimate by end 2011
Drilling at Central
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Coringa
• 0.3 Moz of Indicated resources and 0.1 Moz of Inferred gold identified within three zones, Serra, Meio and Galena – average grade of 9g/t gold
• PEA returned NPV of US$82.5M and IRR is 59% @ US$1200 per oz
• 1.8km of 10km of structures drilled in detail to date. Recent soil sampling suggests potential for additional +7km of untested structures
• 235 sq km concession, 100% owned
• 10,000m of drilling (3 rigs) planned outside existing resources for 2011
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Coringa – excellent infrastructure
• Located 200km SE of Cuiu Cuiu
• Magellan controls 23,500 ha at Coringa and has a ROFR on surrounding 180,000 ha
• Located 65km SE of town of Novo Progreso, 21km E of main BR-163
• Mains power (138kv line) occurs 21km to west of project
• Ease of permitting due to municipal zone designation
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Coringa – largely untested
• Sub-vertically dipping quartz veins within volcanics and granites
• Diamond drilling (11,000m) has defined >10 km of gold-bearing veins, of which only 1.8km have detailed drilling information
• Resource identified in three high grade zones: Galena, Serra, Meio
• Vein system is open in all directions
• Two new zones discovered recently: Valdette and Demitrio
• Currently drilling with 3 rigs370,000oz resource
confined to;
Galena
Serra
Meio
0 1km
Valdette
Demetrio
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Meio Block – consistently high grades
Drill plan
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Coringa – Resource Estimate
Assumes 2g/t Au cut-off, SG of 2.7t/m3 and minimum mining width of 1.5m
Resource represents less than 20% of vein system discovered to date.
Raising the cut-off grade to 5 g/t gold results in a M&I resource of 0.563 Mt @ 12.37 g/t gold (223,914oz) and an inferred resource of 0.178 Mt @ 14.65 g/t gold (83,873oz) on a diluted basis
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Coringa – Scoping Study
• Scoping study indicates a project IRR of 34% and an NPV @ 5% of $41.3M assuming $950 per oz
• Based on 400t/d cut and fill underground mine producing 36,000oz / yr. Processing via crushing and CIL circuit
• Initial Capex of US$26.4M. Operating cash cost of US$418/ozand payback period of 3.7 years
• Process recovery = 93.8%. Actual recoveries at Serra and Meio are 99.0% and 97.7% respectively
• NPV @ $1200 per oz is US$82.5M and IRR is 59%
Mineralized intercept DDH 62 Meio zone
Coringa Camp
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Coringa – Upside
• Recent soil sampling has identified two major new and untested gold in soil anomalies
• 10,000m drill program began March 2011 & is aimed at expanding resources
• Recon. work in progress on other gold drainage anomalies and showings
Drilling in progress
Grab sample from surface 2.5km SE of Come Quieto
Demetrio
Come Quieto Sur
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Coringa – Moving forward in 2011
• Drilling with two rigs (10,000m program) outside existing resources
• Follow up sampling of other target areas on project, e.g. Sal, Pista, Jatoba, Come Quieto Sur
• Updated resource estimate by end 2011
• Commencement of feasibility study –early 2012
Drilling at Coringa project
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Mato Grosso JV
• Magellan has acquired a 35% - 50% interest in 320,000ha of the BaixadaCuiaba gold belt in southern MatoGrosso
• Excellent access with power and water. Flat terrain - cattle farming
• The belt is characterised by an E-W Proterozoic fold and thrust schist belt extending 100km in length
• Approx. 20 small open pit mines are currently in production. +100 abandoned open pits
• Belt has potential to host several large low grade (0.5 – 1.0g/t) Au deposits
Oregon pit, Pocone; approx 1km in diameter
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Corporate Information
Recent Financings
Closing No. of shares Price Warrants Amount
Feb 2008 (IPO) 11M $1.00 expired $11M
Dec 2009 18.3M $0.70 ½ @ $1.00 $12.8M
June 2010 10M $0.75 none $7.5M
Oct 2010 19.2M $1.20 none $23M
Capital Structure
Shares outstanding 109.4M
Options 7.7M
Warrants 8.8M
Fully Diluted 127.4M
Cash $18.5M
Market Cap. $86M
Major shareholders
Management 11%
Institutions 45%
Newmont 2.5%
Kinross 1%
Analyst Coverage
National Bank Financial
Shane Nagle
Mackie Research
Dale Mah
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Further Information
Alan Carter
President & CEO
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Tel. + 1 604 676 5663
Fax + 1 604 676 5664
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Lawyers
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Corporate Communications
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