Las Alteras Project Presentation
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LAS ALTERAS, ARGENTINA
URANIUM PROJECT
APRIL 2024
IMPORTANT NOTICES AND DISCLAIMERS
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Competent Person Statement: The information in this presentation that relates to exploration results, is based on, and fairly represents, information and supporting documentation prepared by Mr Leo Pilapil,
a competent person who is a member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Mr Pilapil has a minimum of five years’ experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit
under consideration and to the activity which he is undertaking to qualify as a competent person as defined in the 2012 Edition of the Joint Ore Reserves Committee Australasian Code for Reporting of
Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves. Mr Pilapil is a related party of the Company, being the Technical Director, and hold securities in the Company. Mr Pilapil has consented to the
inclusion in this presentation of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.
Presentation cover image: Image from the Cerro Solo region
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ARGENTINA URANIUM
NUCLEAR INDUSTRY – CURRENT LANDSCAPE
► Argentina has 3 nuclear reactors operating along with small modular
reactors (SMR) under construction plus negotiations for the possible
construction of a fourth nuclear power plant are ongoing
https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/CNPP2021/countryprofiles/Argentina/Argentina.htm#:~:text=Argentina%20has%20three%20nuclear%20power,%2C%20and%20E
mbalse%20(CNE)
► Argentina currently imports approximately 500,000 lbs of U3O8
annually https://blueskyuranium.com/assets/docs/Argentinas-Expanding-Nuclear-Energy-Industry-Needs-DomesticUranium-Supply.pdf
► No significant uranium production in the country
► With rising uranium prices, there is a likely exploitation of known
resources previously defined at Cerro Solo, Laguna Salada, Sierra
Pintada, and Ivana
Atucha Nuclear Energy facility in Buenos Aires
► Integrated exploration at an Argentinian basin level has not been carried
out and the known resources are plausibly only a fraction of country’s
uranium potential
► Centre for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture Centro (CNEA) controls
Argentina's uranium market (since the 1950s) however this may change
with the new administration and current uranium price environment
Arroyito Heavy Water facility in Neuquen
CHUBUT URANIUM DISTRICT
LAS ALTERAS PROJECT
► Via Greenshift Commodities Ltd (GCOM) subsidiary Buenavida
Metales S.A; Norfolk has exclusivity to 22 claims totaling
60,396 hectares know as the Las Alteras Project
► Las Alteras project is a uranium project portfolio along
Paleochannels and Calcrete environments favorable to giant
uranium deposits
► Las Alteras land package represents a significant opportunity to be
a major uranium explorer within the Cerro Solo District
► Fluvial and pyroclastic sediments constituting the Chubut Group
settled down upon a Jurassic age basement
► These Jurassic volcanics (grouped as the Marifil Formation)
covered much of eastern Chubut and Rio Negro and potentially
supplied the material that makes up the Chubut Group sediments
that host the mineralization
► Uranium hosted with pyrobitumen, indicating fluid mixing with
methane. Potential for major uranium district with in-situ leach
mining extraction considerations
CHUBUT PROVINCE – HIGHLY PROSPECTIVE JURISDICTION
NFL SECURES RIGHTS TO STRONG POSITION SURROUNDING PREMIER CERRO SOLO
DISTRICT
►
Legend
GCOM properties
Third party properties
Los Adobes
CNEA properties
Historical production (open pit)
Cerro Condor
Historical production (open pit)
Uranium Projects
LAS ALTERAS PROJECT
Radiometric anomaly
Uranium activity
Chubut is also host to other significant
resources and exploration projects not
included on map (left) such as ISO Energy’s
Laguna Salada³ non-JORC foreign estimate*
of 10.1m lbs U308
Resource references:
¹Meseta Central
https://www.uramerica.co.uk/assets
NI43-101 Technical Report for a Mineral Resource Estimate (‘MRE’)
totalling 27.9 million tonnes with an average grade of 310 ppm eU3O8
for a contained 19.1M lb of eU3O8 using a cut- off grade of 200 ppm
²Cerro Solo
https://unece.org/DAM/energy/images/UNFC_Reserv/publications/1
919051_E_ECE_ENERGY_109_WEB.pdf
4,420 tU ≤ USD 130/kgU
20 Km
3Laguna Salada
https://www.isoenergy.ca/portfolio/argentina/laguna-salada/
NI43-101 10.1m lbs U308 Indicated 6.3M lbs & Inferred 3.8M lb
Meseta Central¹
19.1M lbs eU3O8
Non-JORC foreign estimate* (NI43-101)
MRE – Mineral Resource Estimate
27.9Mt
Cerro Solo²
11.49M lbs U3O8
Non-JORC foreign estimate* (NEA/IAEA)
RAR – Reasonably Assured Resources
4,420 tU
Radiometrics: Solis, R., Mallet, R.; 1980. Informe final de la Obra 70 Ex. Prospección radimétrica aérea de un área de 100.000 km2,
en las Provincias del Chubut y Santa Cruz. CNEA. Informe Interno CNEA
Cerro Solo
District
Sudamérica
Argentina
*Cautionary Statement: the estimate of mineralisation in respect of
Meseta Central (NI43-101), Cerro Solo (NEA/IAEA) and Laguna Salada³
(NI43-101), reported in this announcement are “foreign estimates” for
the purposes of the ASX Listing Rules, and accordingly: the estimate is
not reported in accordance with the JORC Code; a competent person
has not done sufficient work to classify the foreign estimates as mineral
resources or ore reserves in accordance with the JORC Code; and it is
uncertain that following evaluation and/or further exploration work
that the foreign estimates will be able to be reported as mineral
resources or ore reserves in accordance with the JORC Code. In relation
to Cerro Solo deposit the conversion of 4,420 tU to U308 in lbs is as per
1 MT U in U3O8 = 2,599.79 lbs. U3O8; please see conversion table via
https://www.uranium.info/unit_conversion_table.php
See Classification of Uranium Resources by IAEA here
https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/te_1035_prn.pdf
CERRO SOLO DISTRICT STRATIGRAPHY
REGIONAL GEOLOGY
AGE
FOMATION
CICLE
LITHOLOGY
URANIUM
PROJECTS
LAGO SECO
LAKE
PUERTO UBER
Tc
MARINE
CHACAYCURA
LAKE
MED
CHANNEL
LOWER
PY-LG
JURASSIK
PYROCLASTIC
LAGOON
CHANNEL
LOW ENERGY
CAÑADON
ASFALTO
CHANNEL
HIGH ENERGY
VOLCANICO
CLASTICO
CHANNEL
LAGOON
ARROYO DEL
PAJARITO
LOS ADOBES
LONCO
TRAPIAL
SIERRA CUADRADA
(PICHE RESOURCES)
LAGUNA COLORADA
BARDAS COLORADAS
LA QUEBRADA
PUESTO
LA PALOMA
CHUBUT GROUP
CRETACEOUS
► The San Jorge Basin currently represents the largest
and most prospective district for uranium in Argentina
CERRO
BARCINO
UPPER
BARDAS
COLORADAS
PUESTO
MANUEL
ARCE
PYROCLASTIC
LAGOON
CALCRETE
CERRO
CASTAÑO
Q
► These formations occur at depth of 200 meters over
areas of Las Alteras tenements east of Cerro Solo
► Several other uranium horizons occur higher in the
stratigraphy. Note Puesto Manuel Arce fluvial horizons
near the top of the Cretaceous units also contain U3O8
(e.g. Piche Resources)
MMB
PAMAPA DE
AONIA
► Cerro Solo hosted in the Arroyo Del Pajaro Member of
the Los Adobes Formation. Basal Cretaceous
immediately above Canadon Asfalto member (reduced)
GROUP
LOS ADOBES
CERRO CONDOR
CERRO SOLO
(CNEA)
LAS ALTERAS PROJECT
REGIONAL GEOLOGY
► Cerro Solo sits adjacent to probable
290 degree trending inversion
structure, in lower Cretaceous
sediments, Los Adobes (light green)
sitting above purple Jurassic
Volcanics
► CNEA drill holes within Arroyo
Perdido intersected encouraging
radiometric readings (U3O8 indicator)
on same structure as Cerro Solo
https://unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/energy/se/pdfs/UNFC/ws_I
AEA_CYTED_UNECE_Oct12_Lisbon/14_Lopez.pdf
Regional Geology
Puesto Manuel Arce
Middle K Volcanics
Los Adobes
Lower K Fluvial seds
Jurassic Volcanic
Las Alteras
Western Block
Las Alteras Eastern Block
CERRO SOLO
Arroyo Perdido
20 Km
► Las Alteras tenements to the east sit
either in Los Adobes or in slightly
higher stratigraphic position with
Cretaceous volcanic outcropping
(darker Green).The Los Adobes
formation occurs at approx. 150 –
200 meters depth.
LAS ALTERAS
PROJECT
Major 290° trending
basin inversion structure
CNEA drill hole in
Arroyo Perdido Prospect
Uranium projects
GCOM tenements
20 Km
40 Km
LAS ALTERAS EASTERN BLOCK
AREA NEAR ARROYO PERDIDO PROJECT
► Target areas identified by
CNEA at Arroyo Perdido
project, east of Cerro Solo
surrounded by Las Alteras land
holding
► Previous work by CNEA has
identified prospective
stratigraphy and radiometric
logs in the basal Los Adobes
formation, similar to the Cerro
Solo uranium deposit
Arroyo Perdido
Prospect location
Arroyo Perdido Project
GCOM property
Regional Fault
Modern sediments
Arroyo Perdido (CNEA)
Sandstones &
sediments
Jurassik volcanic
rocks
20 Km
ARROYO PERDIDO ZONE
NORFOLK STRATEGY AND ADVANCEMENT
► Complete due diligence on Las Alteras project
► Establish an exploration team and office in Mendoza,
Argentina
► Target other opportunities including potential to
participate in Government Joint Ventures
► Construct GIS data base of uranium projects which
include further potential acquisitions with Rio Negro,
Chubut and Santa Cruz flagged as highest priority
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THANK YOU
Contact:
Norfolk Metals Limited.
Suite 10, 85-87 Forrest Street
Cottesloe WA 6011
info@norfolkmetals.com.au
www.norfolkmetals.com.au
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