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Millennium Minerals Limited (ASX:MOY) is an emerging metals company focused on the exploration and development of a large tenement portfolio in the East Pilbara region of Western Australia. The high-quality portfolio encompasses a large gold inventory and a secondary molybdenum project.
Millennium Minerals boosts footprint near 1.25m gold oz Nullagine with Creasy Group JV
Millennium Minerals (ASX: MOY) through a strategic joint venture has boosted the company's tenement footprint around the Golden Eagle gold deposit.
Essentially what is so important here for Millennium, is the new tenements host the continuation of the mineralised corridor which extends from Golden Eagle.
Golden Eagle already hosts around 70% of the gold resource attributable to the 1.25 million gold ounce Nullagine Gold Project in Western Australia.
If new exploration confirms an extension to this mineralised corridor within the new tenements, then Millennium has the potential to significantly increase the company's gold inventory.
The joint venture with the Creasy Group covers the Mosquito Creek Formation, providing Millennium with an immediate 70% interest in the tenements.
Consideration for the joint venture is Millennium will issue Creasy just over 8 million shares for the 70% interest, with Millennium sole funding all required expenditure.
Creasy is not required to provide funding until the completion of a Bankable Feasibility Study and a decision to mine.
This will not be a problem for Millennium, as the company is extremely well funded after last month's A$23.2 million fully underwritten rights issue.
Adding to the potential of the new tenements is there has been very little exploration, with the exception of rockchip and stream sediment sampling in recent years.
This work has defined a 1.7 kilometre linear, northeast striking gold anomaly with a greater than 200 parts per billion (ppb) gold core, up to 1,400ppb gold within the fine fraction BLEG stream sediment samples.
Millennium considers that the acquisition allows the company to pursue a more intensive exploration program over the highly significant gold anomaly, which is now defined over a strike length of 4.5 kilometres, trending southwest from Golden Eagle.
Millennium in second joint venture with Galliard Resources Corp:
In other Millennium news, the company has entered a farm-in joint venture on the 100% owned tenements covering the Beatons Creek conglomerates with Galliard Resources Corp.
The joint venture allows Galliard to earn up to a 70% interest in the tenements.
Millennium said the farm-in tenements are not integral to the company’s Nullagine Gold Project, and this agreement essentially brings forward the assessment of the geological potential of the Beatons Creek conglomerates by several years.
For consideration, Galliard will issue Millennium $500,000 in shares.
Millennium will be presenting at the upcoming free investor event “Stars in Resources 2011 Series” in Sydney on Wednesday 6 April. For more information, or to register, click here.


















