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Many Peaks Minerals Limited (ASX:MPK) (Many Peaks or the Company) is pleased to announce entering a binding Share Sale Agreement (Agreement) with Turaco Gold Limited (Turaco) to acquire its 89% interest in CDI Holdings (Guernsey) Ltd (CDI Holdings). CDI Holdings is an 89% subsidiary of Turaco, held with Predictive Discovery Limited (Predictive), holding an 11% free carry ownership in a joint venture with Turaco. The Agreement will trigger Turaco’s drag-along right in its joint venture with Predictive, whereby Many Peaks will also acquire Predictive’s remaining 11% interest and consolidate 100% ownership of the joint venture entity CDI Holdings.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Agreement to acquire 100% interest in Turaco Gold Ltd and Predictive Discovery Ltd joint venture holding the right to acquire an 85% interest in four mineral permits in Cote d’Ivoire
- Permits cover expansive 1,275km2 land package including recent gold discoveries with over US$4m previous exploration expenditure
- Acquisition includes the Ferke Gold Project, hosting the recent Ouarigue South discovery with open mineralisation ready for follow-up, and the Odienne Project immediately along strike from new gold discoveries
- Drilling to commence as soon as practicable in the coming quarter
Ferke Gold Project, 300km2
- 16km mineralised trend in soils with limited exploration follow-up.
- Previous diamond drilling confirms new discovery at the Ouarigue South prospect; results include:
- 35.95m @ 3.88 g/t gold within 77.6m @ 2.33 g/t gold from 45.9m and; 4.7m @ 6.14 g/t gold from 134m – FNDC001
- 91.1m @ 2.02 g/t gold from surface – FNDC008
- 47m @ 3.72 g/t gold from surface – FNDC012
- 15m @ 2.06 g/t gold from surface and 116.5m @ 0.98 g/t gold from 34.5m, including 30.09m @ 1.86 g/t gold – FNDC005
- 18m @ 3.38 g/t gold from 107m and; 13.65m @ 2.13 g/t gold from 194m – FNDC018
- 9.75m @ 7.46 g/t gold within 54.17m @ 1.88 g/t gold from 59.58m – FNDC019
Odienne Project, 758km2
- Project covers significant extent of high-strain corridor associated with the Archean domain
- margin and is comparable in stratigraphy to Guinea’s Siguiri basin
- On trend with Predictive’s 5.4Moz Au Bankan Project and Centamin’s 2.16Moz ABC project and contiguous to a new discovery by Awalé Resources/Newmont joint venture
- Recent first pass, wide-spaced air core drilling highlights a continuous zone of mineralisation returning >1g/t gold over 1,200m strike extent, with results including:
- 12m @ 1.18g/t gold from 4m
- 12m @ 1.06g/t gold from 16m
- 8m @ 1.30g/t gold from 28m
CDI Holdings is the holding company for two wholly-owned Ivorian entities, including the Ivorian subsidiary party to a joint venture with Gold Ivoire Minerals SARL (GIV Joint Venture) in Cote d’Ivoire in which it has earned a 65% interest and retains an exclusive right to earn-in to an 85% interest by sole funding any project within four mineral licences in Cote d’Ivoire to feasibility study.
The consideration for the purchase of 100% of CDI Holdings will be an aggregate 5,617,978 fully paid ordinary shares in Many Peaks subject to a 12 month escrow, to be issued under the Company’s capacity under ASX listing rule 7.1. Upon completion, Many Peaks will also assume a royalty deed for a 1% net smelter return royalty payable to Resolute (Treasury) Pty Ltd (Resolute)—further information on terms and conditions precedent outlined below.
Many Peaks’ Executive Chairman, Travis Schwertfeger, commented: “The Ferke and Odienne Projects in Cote d’Ivoire deliver Many Peaks a strong foundation of exploration success in Cote d’Ivoire with the potential to build significant high- grade ounces in the near term. Both projects are already covered with systematic geochemical coverage and high-resolution geophysics, which have led to demonstrated gold mineralisation confirmed in drilling. Leveraging over US$4m of previous expenditure in recent years has generated multiple targets ready for follow-up, including extension targets, providing Many Peaks with a transformational acquisition with near-term resource potential viable.
Our team has a depth of West African operating experience tied to multiple discovery and development projects over the past 15 years, and our technical team looks forward to operating in Cote d'Ivoire again. Over recent years, it has emerged as a premier jurisdiction within West Africa to operate in, with several recent exploration and development successes.
Figure 1: Project Locations
Ferke Gold Project
The Ferké Gold Project (Ferke) is located in northern Cote d’Ivoire, covering 300km2 in a granted exploration permit licence. Ferke is situated on the eastern margin of the Daloa greenstone belt at the intersection of major regional scale shear zones (refer to Figure 1). Initial exploration undertaken at the Ferke Gold Project by Predictive Discovery Ltd in 2016 and 2017 (previously referred to as Ferkessedougou North) comprised several phases of geochemical stream and soil sampling across the permit area, which has defined a more than 16km long gold-in-soils anomaly on the ‘Leraba Gold Trend’ (refer to Figure 2 and Predictive’s ASX announcement dated 2 February 2017).
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Significant acquisitions of projects in some of the most prolific gold districts of Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa, position Many Peaks for significant discoveries, giving the stock a compelling investment case.
Overview
Many Peaks (ASX:MPK) is an Australia-based mineral exploration company with gold assets in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa, and exposure to key energy transition assets in Newfoundland, Canada. With drill-ready targets across its projects, Many Peaks aims to realise growth and value creation through exploration discovery and near-term mineral resource definition.
In West Africa, the company is focused on four recent acquisitions in Côte d’Ivoire totaling 1,919 square kilometres, including the more advanced-stage Odienné and Ferké gold projects with recent gold discoveries and more than US$4 million in previous exploration expenditures.
The company acquired a portfolio of three projects from Turaco Gold Ltd in May 2024, consolidating interests held in the projects by Turaco and Predictive Discovery Ltd. The Company’s establishment into one of the fastest growing gold regions in the world was quickly followed with a binding agreement securing an exclusive option to acquire a 100 percent interest in the Baga gold project, which comprises two permits totaling 644 square kilometres in eastern Côte d’Ivoire.
Many Peaks’ Canadian asset targets the lithium potential in Newfoundland, where an emerging lithium district is strategically positioned with access to both European and North American markets.
A management team with a range of experience throughout the natural resources industry leads the company towards achieving its goals of strengthening shareholder value through exploration.
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Advancing gold discoveries in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa
High-Grade Gold Confirmed at Bronzewing South
- Partial results received from the diamond tail of drill-hole BWSRC081 with the visible gold zone returning 15.5g/t Au over 0.48m from 416.5m. This high- grade zone is reported within a broader intercept of:
- 8.95m at 1.32g/t Au from 414m, including:
- 0.48m at 15.5g/t Au from 416.5m; and
- 0.55m at 3.52g/t Au from 422.4m.
- 8.95m at 1.32g/t Au from 414m, including:
- Follow-up drilling along strike from these intercepts is scheduled to commence in the coming days to define the extent of the south-trending zone of gold mineralisation with a diamond tail of drill-hole BWSRCD086.
- Drill results indicate the inadequacy of historical air-core drill testing with a significant search space now open on the boundary with the historical Bronzewing Mining Lease.
- Diamond drilling at the Central Target, located ~1.7km to the south of the Eastern Target and within the same structural corridor, has encountered zones of intense locally massive quartz veining associated with brecciation below historical Hammer gold drilling anomalies of:
- 20m at 1.5g/t Au from 120m in drill-hole BWSRC0037, including:
- 8m at 2.4g/t Au from 120m; and
- 4m at 3.9g/t Au from 120m.1
- 20m at 1.5g/t Au from 120m in drill-hole BWSRC0037, including:
- Assay results from the remaining program will be progressively released in the coming weeks.
Figure 1. Photo of massive quartz carbonate veining intersected in drill-hole BWSRCD082 diamond tail at Hammer’s Central Target Zone (213m to 221.5m).
Hammer’s Managing Director, Daniel Thomas, said:
“The confirmation of high-grade gold mineralisation at Bronzewing South is a significant step in our search for an economically viable gold target at our Yandal Gold Project. High-grade mineralisation can be traced with multiple intercepts to the north of our project area, with the mineralised structure interpreted to extend for hundreds of metres.
“We will now look to test this structure approximately 100m further south on our project area. We are very much looking forward to follow-up drilling at the Eastern Target, as we enter a zone without any previous drilling coverage.
“The team is encouraged by the observations in recent drilling at the Central Target and the potential for this corridor to be connected to the Eastern Target drilling some 1.7km to the north. This corridor is largely untested below the ineffectual air-core drilling and, with a prominent shear zone interpreted to connect these targets, it is of high interest to the team in our search for a significant gold discovery.”
Figure 2. Plan view of the Bronzewing South tenement EPM36/854, showing Bronzewing orebodies on Northern Star Resources mining lease, historical Hammer RC drilling intercepts and the structural corridor of interest containing Hammer’s Central and Eastern Target Zones (refer to ASX announcement 9 November 2020).
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