Orion Minerals raises $5.5 million to advance Prieska Project development opportunity
Funds will be used to complete BFS optimisation studies and early stage works for the Prieska Copper-Zinc Project.
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Orion Minerals Ltd (ASX:ORN, JSE:ORN) is a globally diversified metal explorer and developer.
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Funds will be used to complete BFS optimisation studies and early stage works for the Prieska Copper-Zinc Project.
In Australia, the company maintains a tenement package in Fraser Range province as well as mineral rights across several tenements within the Walhalla project area in Victoria.
The company’s flagship asset is its Prieska Zinc-Copper Project in South Africa’s Northern Cape Province.
Shares have been issued to existing BEE shareholders at the asset level and there has been a simultaneous transaction with new BEE partner Prieska Resources.
Byrnecut has an impressive reputation on the African continent both in terms of their operational proficiency and their approach to skills transfer.
The Prieska Project is one of the few permitted mid-tier base metal assets well positioned to move into development and production.
The 980 square kilometre exploration tenement package is 80 kilometres north of the Prieska Project in South Africa’s Northern Cape Province.
In South Africa, Orion owns 70% of the Prieska project, where the company recently completed a BFS that indicates robust returns.
Orion has free-carried exposure to a first-class exploration program being undertaken by IGO in one of Australia’s most prospective new mineral frontiers.