Orroroo Mineralisation Targeting & Maiden Drill Program
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ORROROO URANIUM PROJECT
MINERALISATION TARGETING
& MAIDEN DRILL PROGRAM UPDATE
IMPORTANT NOTICES AND
DISCLAIMERS
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Competent Persons Statement: The geological information in this presentation regarding the Orroroo Project update was prepared by Mark Couzens of Indepth Geological Services who is an independent
consultant. Mr Couzens is a member of the AusIMM and has sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration (over 10 years uranium exploration
and ISR experience) and to the activity he is undertaking to qualify as competent person as defined in the 2012 edition of the Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and
Ore Reserves (JORC 2012). Mr Couzens approves of and consents to the inclusion of the information in this announcement and context in which it appears.
The information in this presentation that relates to Exploration Results which have been previously reported are extracted from ASX announcements made by NFL on 7 February 2023 and 6 July 2023 are
available to view of the Company’s website: www.norfolkmetals.com.au. NFL confirms that it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information included in the original market
announcements and, in the case of estimates of Mineral Resources or Ore Reserves, that all material assumptions and technical parameters underpinning the estimates in the relevant market announcement
continue to apply and have not materially changed. NFL confirms that the form and context in which the Competent Person’s findings are presented have not been materially modified from the original market
announcements.
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INVESTMENT THEMATIC
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Uranium Spot Price.
Uranium spot prices continuing to rise with 12 weeks of
consecutive gains as of October 2023
Future Energy Crisis.
electric-power generating
2 Global
capacity by 2050 is expected to
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increase by a range of 50% to 100%.
Government supported Uranium Jurisdiction.
South Australia is recognised for high uranium
prospectivity and proven track record for uranium
mining with strong government support
Greenfields Discovery Potential
Unique opportunity for exposure
to maiden drilling and potential
discovery of an entirely new
uranium district in South Australia
www.energymining.sa.gov.au/industry/minerals-and-mining/mineralcommodities/uranium
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INVESTMENT HIGHLIGHTS
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Imminent Drilling including
targets with proven uranium
mineralisation.
3 of 3 historical wells tested
confirm uranium including peak
reading of 650ppm pU308
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*See Norfolk’s ASX announcement
2 February 2023
Geological similarities to wellendowed South Australian
uranium producers.
Same age sediments as Frome
Embayment hosting Honeymoon
(ASX:BOE) and Four Mile
(Heathgate Resources) with
potential for in-situ recovery (ISR)
mining methods on any
discovered permeable uranium
deposits
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Over 20km of prospective
uranium mineralised
palaeochannel targets.
Maiden drill program will
target the 3 proven uranium
occurrences and their
associated palaeochannel
structures
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100% ownership of Walloway
Basin with no previous
exploration for uranium.
659km2 land holding only 3
hours drive from Adelaide with all
primary facilities located within
Orroroo township
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Exceptional community
engagement.
Over 12 months of diligent
engagement completed to
secure approvals from key
stakeholders and landowners
within Orroroo community
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Tight capital structure with
strong support from brokers
and clients following the IPO.
Renewed interest from
anticipated drilling
commencement and results
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CAPITAL STRUCTURE
SHARES ON ISSUE
33,000,000
OPTIONS
20,489,808
PERFORMANCE SHARES
1,400,000
CASH
$3,029,000 (September Quarterly 2023)
DEBT
Nil
SHARE PRICE
$0.215 (8th November 2023)
MARKET CAPITALISATION
$7,095,000
ENTERPRISE VALUE
$4,066,000
*Options exercise pricing from 25c to 30c with varied expiry dates
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BOARD AND KMP
Ben Phillips
Leo Pilapil
Patrick Holywell
Executive Chair
Non-Executive, Technical Director
Independent, Non-Executive Director
Mr Phillips has over 15 years’ experience in
commercial negotiations with a broad spectrum of
industries including Oil and Gas, Resources,
Medical technology, SaaS and Defence.
Mr Pilapil has over 30 years’ experience as a Geoscientist
and three years as a Financial Planner.
Mr Holywell has over 15 years of experience in accounting, finance and corporate
governance, including employment at Deloitte and Patersons (now Canaccord
Genuity).
Mr Phillips previously held a Non-Executive
Director position at Bronson Group BGR:ASX and
subsequently Mandrake Resources MAN:ASX.
Position as a Corporate Executive at Ironside
Capital Mr Phillips is focused on sourcing,
structuring, funding and management
requirements for small-cap companies both
private and public.
As a geoscientist, he has held director positions for several
junior companies in Australia, Africa and Turkey, mainly
responsible for technical project evaluations, project
acquisitions, project management and business
development.
Mr Pilapil has established drilling companies in Turkey and
Lao PDR servicing several major exploration and mining
companies to complement the acquisition of his own
personal projects.
Mr Holywell is a Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of the Governance Institute of
Australia with the last ten years focused on Director and Company Secretarial
roles in the resources and technology space.
Mr Holywell’s most recent involvements include roles with De Grey Mining
Limited, Si6 Metals Limited and Pentanet Limited.
Mr Holywell has completed a Bachelor of Commerce at UWA, a Graduate
Diploma of Chartered Accounting with the Institute of Chartered Accountants and
the Company Directors Course with the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Mark Couzens
Operations Manager and Technical Advisor
Mark has over 10 years’ experience in sandstone and palaeochannel uranium exploration including exploration roles with Cameco Australia, Heathgate Resources and Mega Hindmarsh.
Most recently, Mark was the Exploration Manager for Cauldron Energy and played a key role in the delineation of the Bennett Well deposit from 4.8Mlbs to 30.9Mlbs and was in charge of uranium
exploration in Argentina. Mark was also a member of the exploration team that discovered the world-class Four Mile deposits in a geological setting analogous to Orroroo 280km to the north.
Mark has extensive experience in both uranium exploration and ISR production where Mark has overseen more than 1,000 holes drilled throughout Australian and Argentinean sandstone hosted
uranium prospects adding invaluable expertise to Norfolk’s maiden drill program
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ORROROO PROJECT
Favoured jurisdiction surrounded by world class resources
► First-mover targeting uranium in the
Walloway Basin
► Walloway Basin is analogous to adjacent
Frome Embayment hosting both
Honeymoon (ASX:BOE) and Four Mile
(Heathgate Resources)
► Early work by Norfolk has confirmed the
presence of sediment-hosted uranium
mineralisation
► Maiden drill program imminent
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ORROROO PROJECT
Walloway Basin prospective for uranium
► 100% owned exploration licences (EL6552
and EL6814) totalling 659km2
► Close to infrastructure, 274km northwest of
Port Adelaide (uranium export facility)
► Excellent community relationships with
landowners, council and community groups
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PROJECT HISTORY
Uranium confirmed via downhole Geophysics of historical wells
► Focus on historical coal exploration
with water wells re-entered and tested
for uranium mineralisation
► 3 of 3 wells tested returned uranium
mineralisation with peak reading of
650ppm pU308
*See Norfolk’s ASX announcement 2 February 2023
ORROROO 7P3
ORROROO 15P
► Uranium at depths from 100-150m,
potential for in-situ recovery (ISR)
mining methods on any discovered
permeable deposits
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► The distance between the known
uranium occurrences at Orroroo helps
portray the potential scale of the project
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PROJECT HISTORY
Gravity Survey defines palaeovalleys
► Gravity survey delineated
two distinct palaeovalleys
► Current focus is the Western
Palaeovalley (host to all 3
uranium occurrences)
► Geophysical gravity
interpretation
corroborates with
historical drilling and
stratigraphic logs
(see next page)
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PROJECT HISTORY
Regional stratigraphic cross-section indicates shallow channels
► First-order sedimentary basin filled with thick
sequences of siltstones and intercalated sands
► Well defined target horizon and regional
prospectively model
► Gamma anomalies are at the contact between
Upper Tertiary sands and reduced siltstones
geologically analogous to the Namba
Formation (hosts the Beverley Uranium
Deposit (Heathgate Resources))
► Further potential for deeper uranium
mineralisation within the Lower Tertiary basal
sands
Schematic East West section of Western Palaeovalley of the Walloway Basin
(refer to image on right hand side of next slide for section reference)
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PROJECT HISTORY
REDOX model defines possible sites for Uranium mineralisation
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Regional-scale REDOX model defined from historic Linc
Energy logs, important vector for Phase 1 drilling
Oxidised Tail
Current level of
observation from
historical Walloway
drilling
Reduced front
Chemical trap for U
mineralisation, target for
current drill program
Cross-section model of a roll front uranium deposit
Planar view of REDOX model overlay onto Western
Palaeovalley in the Walloway Basin
Streamlines Based Stochastic Methods and Reactive Transport Simulation Applied to Resource Estimation of Roll-Front Uranium Deposits Exploited
by In-Situ Leaching - https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/12/10/1209
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PROSPECTIVITY MODEL
Palaeochannels potentially running adjacent to modern day creeks
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The maiden drill program will prioritize the
known uranium mineralisation occurrences
(Targets 1,2 & 4) plus the associated
prospective traverses adjacent to modern day
creeks
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The location of the uranium intercepts from the
historical wells are all located between 50m
and 150m south of modern-day creeks
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This suggests that both modern-day creeks and
subsurface palaeochannels could both track a
west to east path that likely originate from
faulting in the Adelaidean Basement
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Based on this evidence the location of the
palaeochannels can be further explained by a
small increase in slope to the south of the basin
that would result in a 50-150m shift relative to
the modern-day creeks
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PROSPECTIVITY MODEL
Potential source rocks of uranium mineralisation
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The uranium source rocks appear to be part
of the Adelaidean Basement on the western
edge of the modern-day creeks
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Possible uranium source rocks could be
granites or units such as the Brighton
Limestone known to contain levels of
uranium
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If palaeochannels are proven to have similar
geometries and length to the modern-day
creeks, then there could be up to 20km of
prospective uranium bearing exploration
ground depending on the REDOX conditions
within the palaeochannels
Potential
source
rock area
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CONCLUSION
Orroroo Project
► Maiden drill program to target known uranium mineralisation areas
► Potential for ISR mining methods on any discovered permeable uranium deposits
► Geologically analogous to Frome Embayment host to the Honeymoon (ASX:BOE) and Four
Mile (Heathgate Resources) uranium deposits
► 100% tenure of the Walloway Basin with current target(s) of over 20km of prospective
palaeochannels
► Company well funded with tight capital structure
► Excellent community engagement in Orroroo positions company well for a successful maiden
drill program
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APPENDIX - TARGET AREA 1
Linc Energy Historical Well Log - 7P3
This section of the drill log interpreted to
be a flood plain on the edge of a uranium
bearing palaeochannel
This interval was logged as clay from the
historical drilling lithology log by Linc
Energy
The long and short spaced density logs
indicate a sand signature in comparison
to the thick zones of clay 50m above and
50m below this zone
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APPENDIX - TARGET AREA 2
Linc Energy Historical Well Log - 9P2 & 9P3
These two drillholes are interpreted to be
located approximately 5m south from a
deep incising palaeochannel
The presence of an upper and lower
uranium spike suggests that this could be
the upper and lower limbs of a 9m rollfront within a palaeochannel
The long and short spaced density logs
indicate impermeable clay with minor
sand suggesting the uranium source must
be close
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APPENDIX - TARGET AREA 4
Linc Energy Historical Well Log - 15P1
This section of the drill log is interpreted to be an
actual palaeochannel with a vertical height of 8m
This interval was logged as clay from the historical
drilling lithology log
The long and short spaced density logs indicate a
sand signature in comparison to the thick zones of
clay 50m above and 50m below this zone
The interpreted palaeochannel height of 8m is
comparable to the 9m height of the palaeochannel
interpreted in Target 2 giving further confidence to the
palaeochannel interpretation of both targets
Uranium at the base of a palaeochannel is a common
feature in most palaeochannel style uranium deposits
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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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