RareX Limited Investor Presentation
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Exploring and developing rare earths projects in Australia
Plus, high-potential copper-gold exploration in NSW
Investor Presentation, September 2020 │ Jeremy Robinson, Executive Director
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Competent Person Statement: The information in this presentation relating to the Mineral Resource estimate for the Cummins Range Rare Earths Project is extracted from the Company’s ASX
announcement entitled ‘Globally Significant Maiden Resource of 13Mt at 1.13% TREO’ as updated by the ASX announcement entitled ‘Update to Mineral Resource Estimate Announcement’, both released
on 15 October 2019. REE confirms that it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information included in the previous announcements and that all material assumptions and
technical parameters underpinning the Mineral Resource estimate in the previous announcements continue to apply and have not materially changed.
Investment Overview
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Strategically located asset: 100%-owned Cummins Range Rare Earths
Project in Western Australia – Tier-1 mining jurisdiction
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Significant maiden JORC 2012 Rare Earths Mineral Resource:
Inferred Resource of 13Mt at 1.13% TREO with 22.1% NdPr
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Drilling program recently completed and awaiting assays
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High-quality exposure to Lachlan Fold Belt exploration: via 35% stake
in Trundle Project with Kincora Copper (RareX owns 9.6% of Kincora)
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Exciting drilling underway: Assays up to 51m at 1.17g/t Au and 0.54%
Cu and funded for additional 17 holes
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100%-owned Project at Orange East: 15km along strike from 2Moz
McPhillamys Gold Project with strong geological similarities
A Rare Earth explorer and developer with significant exposure to
copper-gold exploration in the world-class Lachlan Fold Belt of NSW
Corporate Snapshot
Capital Structure
ASX Code
Shareholders
REE
Share Price (14 September 2020)
$0.059
Shares on Issue
356m
Market Capitalisation
$21.0m
Net Cash
$3.4m
Listed Investments (14.95m TSXV:KCC)
$2.6m
Enterprise Value
$15.0m
Board and Management
Chairman
John Young
Executive Director
Jeremy Robinson
Non-Executive Director
Shaun Hardcastle
Non-Executive Director
Cameron Henry
Exploration Manager
Guy Moulang
Consultant Metallurgist
Gavin Beer
Consultant Geophysicist
Jayson Meyers
Top 20 Shareholders
40%
Number of Shareholders
1,873
Rare Earths
• Rare Earths are a group of 17 elements essential to the new world economy – grouped in to Light
Rare Earth Elements (LREE) and Heavy Rare Earth Elements (HREE)
• RareX is focused on the production of LREE’s Neodymium-Praseodymium (NdPr) which are
critical to the manufacture of Neodymium-Iron-Boron (NdFeB) Rare Earth Permanent Magnets
(REPM) which contain approximately 32% NdPr.
Rare Earth Permanent Magnets (REPMs)
Electric Vehicles
• Whatever the type of EV (BEV, HEV PHEV) or the power source (Li Batteries, H Fuel
Cells etc) they all use REPM motors.
• Each EV requires approximately 1kg to 2kg of REPM which is used in rare earth
magnets forming part of an EVs electric motors. EVs expected to grow from 3m to
35m by 2030.
Wind Turbines
• Wind power and Solar power set to dominate the renewable energy economy as
cost effective mass deployable technologies.
• Wind power historically dominated by onshore capacity now increasingly moving to
offshore capacity as turbines become larger and more efficient. Offshore has greater
use of REPM’s compared to onshore.
• Each MW of direct drive REPM wind turbine capacity contains 600kg of REPM
containing 200kg of NdPr.
Rare Earths Market
• China dominates production of rare earths and rare
earth magnets accounting for 80% of global
production representing a strategic weakness for the
United States of America.
• China has recently become significant importer of
Rare Earths concentrates for processing – In 2019
China supply dropped to only 61% (essentially 100%
2015) following ongoing crackdown on illegal supply.
• Rare earth prices extremely sensitive to trade
disputes such as in 2011 when NdPr traded above
US$280/kg (600% above current prices).
Cummins Range Rare Earths Project
• Tier-1 mining jurisdiction: Located in the Kimberley region of
Western Australia
• Airstrip and township nearby: 130km from Halls Creek
Township and Airstrip.
• Good access: Accessible via Great Northern Highway, Tanami
Track and pastoral tracks.
• Established mining district: Located near Northern Minerals’
Browns Range Rare Earth Mine and Pantoro’s Nicholson's Gold
Mine
• Port Facilities: Potential access to Wyndham and Darwin Ports
Advanced, high-quality Rare Earths Project located in a Tier1 mining jurisdiction
Substantial Maiden JORC 2012 Resource
•
Significant maiden JORC 2012 Inferred Resource of 13Mt at 1.13%
TREO released 15 October 2019
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Neodymium and Praseodymium “NdPr” content of 22.1% and ultra low
thorium of 50ppm ThO2 equals premium product
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Weathered carbonatite with REE mineralisation mostly hosted within
laterite horizon (same at Mt Weld)
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Deposit outcrops and has dimensions amenable to low strip ratio open
pit mining
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Recently completed 6,143m of drilling and awaiting assays
Cummins Range Inferred Mineral JORC 2012 Resource
Tonnes (Mt)
Grade (TREO)
TREO (kg)
13.0
1.13%
147,300,000
Low Capital Strategy
• Rare Earth mineralogy dominated by monazite – the most
well understood Rare Earth Mineral from a processing
perspective
• RareX is working with industry experts to review test work
and plan further optimisation to improve un-optimised
concentrate grade and recoveries
• Strategy is to produce a saleable monazite concentrate to
sell on an FOB / CIF basis to China – Working with Talaxis
Group (subsidiary of Noble Group)
• This approach will significantly reduce CAPEX
RareX has a low CAPEX development strategy for Cummins
Range, based on production of a monazite concentrate
SIMPLIFIED FLOWSHEET
Exploration – Weld North
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Tenement recently granted and Programme of Work “PoW” lodged with
DMIRS – Expecting to be on the ground in October
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Contains a 5km wide airborne magnetic circular anomaly which RareX
considers to be prospective for being caused by an REE-bearing circular
carbonatite intrusive complex
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Sits below regolith cover which masks the buried bedrock source for this
magnetic anomaly
•
Part of Greenfields exploration strategy to discover
another world-class rare-earth carbonatite
deposit in Australia
NSW Copper-Gold Assets
• RareX retains a 35% free-carried interest multiple
projects and owns 7.2% of TSXV-listed Kincora Copper
• Kincora is currently completing successful 3,800m drill
program at flagship Trundle project comprising six deep
holes with assays up to 51m at 1.17g/t Au and 0.54% Cu
• Kincora recently raised C$5.3m capital raise to fund 17
hole program at Trundle
• Kincora exploration led by John Holliday, principal
discoverer of the world-class Cadia deposit
• RareX recently retained 100% ownership of Orange East
Project
Trundle Project – 35% Free-Carried
• The only brownfield porphyry project held by listed
juniors in the Macquarie Arc
• Trundle is the western section of the Northparkes
intrusive complex, that hosts the second largest
porphyry mine in Australia
• Exploration being driven by highly experienced team
at Kincora Copper Limited led by John Holliday
• Confirmed similar geological settings/controls as
Cadia and Northparkes, Australia’s largest and
second largest porphyry mines
• Seeking to discover a cluster of new porphyry
deposits
Trundle Project – Trundle Park Target
•
51m at 1.17g/t Gold and 0.54% Copper from 39m in skarn at Trundle Park
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Similar in style to the Big Cadia skarn that is peripheral to the Cadia porphyry copper-gold deposits
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Highly encouraging 21.5m at 0.25g/t Gold and 0.03% Copper to EOH in lower porphyry zone
Trundle Project – Further Drilling
• Drilling to date has confirmed
mineralized porphyry intrusion
systems
• Confirmed better widths,
alteration and mineralization
than previous drilling at the
Trundle project
• Following recent capital raise by
Kincora it is fully funded for
additional
• 9 Holes at Mordiollac
• 8 hole at Trundle Park
• Expecting 2nd rig to mobilize to
site soon
Other Free-Carried NSW Projects
• Highly prospective for new
undercover discoveries
• Fairholme and Jemalong,
located near Evolutions Cowal
Gold Mine:
• Condobolin – Prospective for
VHMS style Base Metal and
Gold Deposits
• Cundumbul – located south of
exciting new Boda Discovery
Orange East – 100% Owned
• Located ~15km along strike from Regis Resources’
2Moz McPhillamys Gold Deposit
• Strong geological and geochemical similarities to
McPhillamy’s including:
Both hosted in the Silurian volcaniclastic rocks of
the Anson Formation adjacent to the GCFZ;
Both have coincident Au-As-Ba-Bi-Pb-Cu-Mo-Te
surface anomalies, with the Gunnarbee
geochemical anomaly extending over an area
~1,000m north-south by 200m east-west
Both have K radiometric high anomalies
• Gunnarbee Prospect never drilled
Currently reviewing project data before planning next steps
Key Investment Takeaways
High-quality, advanced Rare Earth Project in WA
Recently completed major drilling program and awaiting
assays
Building a portfolio of high-quality Rare Earth assets
Significant exposure to NSW porphyry copper-gold
exploration
100%-owned NSW gold exploration project in Tier-1
address
With a $21.0m market capitalisation, strongly leveraged to
exploration success and growth on two fronts
For further information, please contact:
RareX Limited
Jeremy Robinson
Executive Director
Ph: 08 6143 6720
Media Enquiries
Nicholas Read
Read Corporate
Ph: 08 9388 1474
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