Landowner Access secured at Orroroo Uranium Project
Released
Released
Announcement PDF
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Landowner Access secured
at Orroroo Uranium Project
Date: 5th October 2023
ASX Code: NFL
Capital Structure
Ordinary Shares: 33,000,000
Unlisted Options: 9,490,000
Listed Options: 9,999,808
Performance Shares: 1,400,000
Current Share Price: 20.0c
Market Capitalisation: $6.6m
Cash: $3.21m (30 June 2023)
Debt: Nil
• Maiden drill program freehold land access confirmed
Directors
Ben Phillips
Executive Chairman
• ASX market seeing increasing interest in uranium explorers as
spot prices reach 12-year highs, exceeding US$70 per pound1
Leo Pilapil
Technical Director
Patrick Holywell
Non-Executive Director
• Land access areas include approval for reconnaissance drill
traverses to test priority uranium targets of paleochannels with
proven gamma anomalies and uranium occurrences (see release
27th February 2023)
• Orroroo ‘Roos’ A-Grade team, proudly sponsored by Norfolk,
win the recent Northern Areas Football Association Grand Final
Commenting on Norfolk Metals, Executive Chairman Ben Phillips states:
Arron Canicais
Company Secretary
Contact Details
Level 2
85 Forrest Street
Cottesloe WA 6011
Phone: +61 8 6555 2950
norfolkmetals.com.au
“We are pleased to secure access for the inaugural drill program at the
Orroroo project, and thank the local landholders, community groups
and District Council of Orroroo Carrieton for their ongoing support. This
access milestone is key to the final stages of regulatory approval prior to
drilling. Norfolk will now immediately submit the required paperwork to
the respective government departments and acquire the necessary drill
permits. Having sponsored the Orroroo Football and Netball Club for the
2023 season while engaging with stakeholders, the Norfolk team and I
were exceptionally happy with the recent A-Grade win in the Grand
Final. Everybody loves backing a winner”.
Land Access Agreements
Norfolk Metals (Norfolk or the Company) has executed Land Access Agreements
(Agreements) with seven (7) freehold landowners within EL6552. These Agreements have
been prepared in order to facilitate the upcoming maiden drilling program (Program). The
planned Program will consist of up to twenty (20) RAB (rotary mud) holes up to one hundred
and sixty metres (160m) deep within the approved area(s) and pending roadside approvals.
In addition to the Agreements, Norfolk is in advanced discussions with the District Council of
Orroroo Carrieton (Council) to expand the scope of the planned drill program to roadside
drilling, enabling rapid reconnaissance drilling of priority targets.
All holes drilled in the Program will be logged immediately after completion with Gamma
and Prompt Fission Neutron (PFN) tool, enabling ‘real time’ assessment of intersected
uranium mineralisation for immediate follow-up.
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Government Approvals
Norfolk has commenced lodgement of all documentation with the relevant government
authorities for final statutory approval, inclusive of the Program for Environmental Protection
and Rehabilitation (PEPR) and the Radiation Management Plan (RMP). The RMP was
submitted to the Environmental Protection Authority in September 2023. The PEPR can now
be finalised and submitted to the Department of Energy and Mining (DEM) with the recently
executed Agreements.
The project status and final drill program will be summarised in a technical presentation and
released to market in due course.
Orroroo Football A-Grade 2023 Premiers
The Orroroo Football Club (the ‘Roos’) A-Grade team won the Northern Areas Football
Association at an away game Grand Final (50-56) on the 16th of September 2023 against
long standing rivals Booleroo Melrose Wilmington Football Club (BMW). Norfolk, along with
Elders, has been a Platinum Sponsor of the Orroroo Football and Netball Club for the 2023
season. We are extremely pleased for the team, coaches, support staff, all associated
families and the wider Orroroo community in the success of the 2023 Premiership.
Orroroo A-Grade 2023 Premiers
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Orroroo Next Steps – Indicative 3 month timeline
Norfolk is rapidly progressing the Orroroo Uranium Project. The price of uranium has recently
surged to its highest level in 12 years1. Indicative news flow is planned as follows;
1. Completion of all required regulatory paperwork with government departments
2. New technical presentation including drill program
3. Receipt of approval from DEM for drill program and proposed commencement date
4. Commencement of maiden drill program
5. Announcement of maiden drill program results
Roger River Project Update
Norfolk is continuing the work to obtain a better understanding of the copper and gold
mineralisation at Roger River to guide the next exploration phase and likely drilling. On the
25th of July 2023 Norfolk announced a surface geochemical sampling program was
underway along with the proposed submission of historical samples. The program aims to
provide a lateral vector of the copper mineralisation intersected in the first diamond drill
hole over the Anomaly 2 (A2). The Company is endeavouring to determine if all of the
preferred historical soil samples (not sampled for Cu) over the White Water and A2 Prospects
can be re-submitted for Cu (multi-elements) analysis. It is important to note that there are
coincident gold and arsenic soil anomalies within the White Water Prospect that remain
untested with drilling. The program is ongoing and once completed with full interpretation
the findings will be released to market.
END
This announcement has been authorized by the board of directors of Norfolk.
Competent Persons Statement
The information in this announcement 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 Australasian 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 holds securities in the Company. Mr Pilapil has consented to the
1 https://www.afr.com/companies/mining/uranium-surges-to-12-year-high-on-coup-
decarbonisation-20230915-p5e4x8
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inclusion in this announcement of the matters based on his information in the form and
context in which it appears.
About Norfolk Metals
The Roger River Project comprises two granted exploration licenses, EL20/2020, and
EL17/2021, which together cover 261km2, located 410km northwest of the capital city of
Hobart, Tasmania. The Project is prospective for gold and copper as indicated by the intense
silicification, argillisation and diatreme breccias in close proximity to the Roger River Fault
along with carbonate-rich host rocks.
The Orroroo Uranium Project comprises two granted exploration licenses, EL6552, and
EL6814, which together cover 659km2, located approximately 274km northwest of the
capital city of Adelaide, South Australia within the Walloway Basin, which is an elongate
Tertiary Basin approximately 50km long and up to 15km wide. It consists of Tertiary and
Quaternary sediments unconformably underlain by Adelaidian basement.
For further information please visit www.norfolkmetals.com.au.
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