Australian Silica Quartz Group Limited · ASX:ASQ
Australian Silica Quartz — Investor Presentation (February 2024)
31 slides from Australian Silica Quartz's investor presentation, Feb 13, 2024
Slide 1: Australian Silica Quartz Group Ltd Company Overview
Australian Silica Quartz Group Ltd COMPANY OVERVIEW FEBRUARY 2024 Working to identify and unlock those critical mineral resources needed to power the world's clean energy transition White Springs Quartz, QLD
Slide 2: Disclaimer
Disclaimer u This presentation contains general information only and is, or is based upon, information which has been released to ASX in New bauxite resource at Dionysus project north Darling Range. ASX Release 24 March 2014, 59% Increase in Athena Bauxite Deposit. ASX Release 15 July 2014, 48% incr
Slide 3: Corporate Overview
Corporate Overview Board and Management Substantial Corporate Details (as at 31/12/23) Shareholders % Shares on Issue 281 M Robert Nash One Managed B.Juris, LLB Chairman Market Investment Funds Ltd 15.7% Capitalisation $14 M Sam Middlemas CEO & HD Mining & Cash $2.9 M B.Comm, PGrad DipBus, Company I
Slide 4: ASQ – Unlocking Critical Minerals
ASQ – Unlocking Critical Minerals Company Projects QUARTZ/SILICA* PROJECTS • QLD & WA Hard Rock Quartz Projects • High Purity Quartz R&D • WA Silica Sands Quartz Hill White QB29 *Recognised Critical Minerals Springs Douglas Range QB29 QLD Quartz Ni Cu PGE’s PROJECTS • Koolyanobbing Metals • Julimar
Slide 5: Priority Projects Moving Forward
PRIORITY PROJECTS MOVING FORWARD QUARTZ HILL MGSi QUARTZ PROJECT Actual Planned •HOA negotiated subject to Drilling, Scoping Study and Feasibility Mar 23 •Drilling Complete Sept 23 •17MT MGSi Quartz at 99.04% SiO2 JORC resource definition Dec 23 •Expected to receive Prescribed Project Status by QLD
Slide 6: Hardrock Quartz Projects
ASQ – Unlocking Critical Minerals Hardrock Quartz Projects ► ASQ has been actively targeting, assessing and securing leases naturally occurring hard rock quartz within WA and Queensland, Australia. ► ASQ believes it has one of the largest and highest grade quartz resources in Australia. ► The Compan
Slide 7: Quartz Projects
Quartz Projects Hard Rock Quartz - QLD & WA Localities QUEENSLAND WESTERN AUSTRALIA MT ELIZA QB29 PANDANUS CREEK EPM 28954 DOUGLAS DOUGLAS Douglas Range RANGE RANGE Trucking distance to: Townsville 450 kms; Cairns 290 – 330kms kms Distance to Perth ~ 420 kms All Projects 100% owned by ASQ 7 www.asqg
Slide 8: Quartz Hill, QLD
Quartz Hill, QLD MGSi Quartz Project QUARTZ HILL ► The Quartz Hill MGSi quartz project is located on EPM 26702, (63km2) immediately north of the town of Mount Surprise and 280km northwest of Townsville in Northern Queensland. u Quartz ridge measuring ~1.3km in length u Heritage Survey for drilling c
Slide 9: Quartz Hill, QLD Roadmap to Production
Quartz Hill, QLD Roadmap to Production Targeting high quality silica quartz suitable for Metallurgical Grade Silicon Production • ASQ has entered into a heads of agreement with Private Energy Partners, ( a fully owned subsidiary of Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners (Quinbrook)) for offtake of up to
Slide 10: Quartz Hill, QLD feeding the supply chain
ASQ Quartz Hill, QLD feeding the supply Quartz to Polysilicon chain Targeting high quality silica quartz suitable for Metallurgical Grade Silicon Production, precursor to polysilicon and solar cell production Monosilicon Production Carbon & ASQ’s high quality Reductant quartz feedstock Purification
Slide 11: White Springs, QLD
White Springs, QLD High Purity Quartz Project u Tenement EPM 26727 totals 70km2 and is located 30km east of Georgetown, 320km northwest of Townsville in Northern Queensland and contains the White Springs quartz outcrop. u The White Springs is a series of vertical quartz pipes. The quartz is visually
Slide 12: White Springs, QLD
White Springs, QLD High Purity Quartz Project u Ultra high purity quartz is used in the production of: u crucibles required for the Czochralski (CZ) process for single crystal silicon growth used in the production of semiconductors and photovoltaic cells u fused quartz tubing and ingots used to crea
Slide 13: High Purity Quartz Project
ASQ High Purity Quartz Project focusing on critical Quartz to Crucible minerals Targeting ultra high purity quartz suitable for fused quartz crucibles production, required for photovoltaic cell production High purity quartz ore Crucible Powder placed in mould and fused in Monosilicon High Purity arc
Slide 14: Douglas Range, QLD
Douglas Range, QLD Hard Rock Quartz Project u EPM 26741 (Douglas Range – 81km2 ) is located 10km southwest of Mount Surprise and 280km northwest of Townsville in Far North Queensland. u The lease contains an extensive ring of elevated quartz ridges with a number of visually clean quartz outcrops on
Slide 15: Douglas Range, QLD
Douglas Range, QLD Hard Rock Quartz Project u ASQ have collected a number of rock chip samples within the project area. These samples have returned results up to 99.99% SiO2. u Analysis of rock chip samples indicate the suitability of the Douglas Range quartz as a source of bulk hard rock quartz ore
Slide 16: Quartz Blow Creek, QLD
Quartz Blow Creek, QLD High Purity Quartz Project u Late 2023 ASQ conducted an extensive desktop study aimed at identifying additional sources of high purity quartz in North Queensland. A total of 40 features were interpreted as quartz outcrops having the potential for hosting high purity quartz lea
Slide 17: Seabrook, WA
Seabrook,WA Quartz Project u The Seabrook project is located on E77/2684, 42km northeast of Southern Cross in Western Australia’s Yilgarn region. u It contains an epithermal quartz vein system that can be traced over 5km with up to 30m true width. u Rock chip sampling has been carried out at various
Slide 18: High Purity Quartz R&D
High Purity Quartz R&D u A Research and Development program to produce a high purity quartz is underway utilising samples collected from the Company’s tenement package. u Innovative processing techniques are combined with conventional methods with the aim of producing a high purity quartz product (“
Slide 19: Albany White Hill, WA
Albany White Hill, WA Silica Sand Project • The Albany White Hill Silica Sand Project is located on tenement E70/5262, 70 kms from Albany • ASQ defined an inferred mineral resource estimate of 11.6 Mt with >99.9% SiO2 and <50 ppm Fe2O3 which extends over a strike length of 1,650m and has a maximum w
Slide 20: Albany White Hill, WA
Albany White Hill, WA Silica Sand Project • A Scoping Study looking at the suitability of the deposit for development into a 0.5 – 1.0 Mtpa export operation is progressing. • Preliminary assessment of metallurgy and process plant design, environmental assessment, water supply, the sand market and po
Slide 21: Gingin, WA
Gingin, WA Silica Sand Project • ASQ has reached an agreement with existing sand producer Urban Resources Pty Ltd, (Urban) executing a binding term sheet to jointly exploit Urban’s silica sand deposit allowing ASQ to fast track its entry into the DSO silica sand export market. • ASQ have completed a
Slide 22: Koolyanobbing Metals, WA
Koolyanobbing Metals, WA Ni Cu PGE’s Project • The Koolyanobbing Metals Project (KMP) comprises lease areas of 405km2 granted tenure and 91km2 in application overlying portions of the Koolyanobbing Shear Zone and Koolyanobbing Greenstone Belt. Ref ASX:ASQ Announcement 11 August 2022 • ASQ considers
Slide 23: Koolyanobbing Metals, WA
Koolyanobbing Metals, WA Ni Cu PGE’s Project Late Time Ground EM Conductors Identified • Two conductors, VC4 and VC5, lie within an interpreted mafic/ultramafic volcanic sequence in the underexplored Koolyanobbing Greenstone Belt and are located parallel to and only slightly offset from a 1.5km sect
Slide 24: Koolyanobbing Metals, WA
Koolyanobbing Metals, WA Ni Cu PGE’s Project Gold in Soil Anomalies u Soil sampling was completed late in 2022 across the Golden Wishbone Gold Trend, an area of strong gold anomalism that includes the historic small scale gold mining recorded at the Golden Wishbone Shaft in the late 1930’s with 204
Slide 25: Julimar ASQ JV, WA
Julimar ASQ JV, WA Ni Cu Project • E70/3405 and the Sovereign magnetic complex is located along strike from the globally significant Chalice Mining Ltd (ASX: CHN) nickel- copper-platinum group elements (Ni-Cu-PGE) 30km long Julimar Complex discovery to the south and the Caspin Resources Ltd (ASX:CPN
Slide 26: Julimar ASQ JV, WA
Julimar ASQ JV, WA Ni Cu Project • Three reconnaissance diamond holes completed in 2021 demonstrate a thick sequence of differentiated mafic- ultramafic intrusive rocks extending over the full length of the project. • Several zones of disseminated (low grade) Ni-Cu sulphide mineralisation, together
Slide 27: South Stirling, WA
South Stirling, WA Ni Cu Project • ASQ has secured a strategic landholding position in the Biranup Zone of the Albany-Fraser Orogeny located in the south-west of Western Australia following the identification of an anomalous historic drill hole with elevated Ni, Cu and Cr. • The Company twinned the
Slide 28: Bauxite JV, WA
Bauxite JV, WA Bauxite Projects • ASQ has a joint venture with HD Mining & Investments Pty Ltd, (HDM) the wholly owned subsidiary of Shandong Bureau No.1 Institute for Prospecting of Geology & Minerals • HDM is currently working towards obtaining a 40% interest in the bauxite rights of several tenem
Slide 29: Bauxite Royalty on first 100Mt
Bauxite Royalty on first 100Mt Bauxite Projects • Following the sale of the Bauxite Alumina Joint Venture Bauxite Project to Yankuang Group a royalty on future bauxite sales from the project of 0.9% of FOB price payable to ASQ was negotiated. • The Yankuang Group bauxite project’s contain in excess
Slide 30: ASQ's ESG Commitment
ASQ’s ESG Commitment Sustainability and Responsible Practices Environmental Social Governance Community Sustainable Stewardship Responsibility and Ethics Engagement Practices • Minimizing • Prioritizing safety, • Transparent, • Building strong • Efficient environmental diversity, and accountable, st
Slide 31: ASQ - Working to identify and unlock critical mineral resources
ASQ - Working to identify and unlock those critical mineral resources needed to power the world's clean energy transition CONTACT: NICK ALGIE, Technical and Exploration Manager SAM MIDDLEMAS, Chief Executive Officer Suite 10, 295 Rokeby Road, SUBIACO WA 6008 www.asqg.com.au Phone: +61 8 9200 8200 Fa
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