Issia
Ta, Nb, Be, Li
At a Glance
New tantalum district with historic production and limited artisanal activity
Shallow shovel-ready deposits with early production potential
Production upside from near-surface and hard rock pegmatite discoveries
Opening a new tantalum district
- 100% interest in large scale project covering up to 1,015 km2 including licence applications
- First granted licence and currently active is Badinikro with 112km2
- Well located with good infrastructure
- Prospective geology for tantalum-rich coltan exploration
- Occurrences of tantalum, niobium, beryllium and lithium
- Historic semi-industrial production by the national mining company (SODEMI) on a directly adjacent mining licence
Preserved mineralisation at surface and at depth
- Licences cover both alluvial / eluvial placer deposits of tantalum-rich coltan at surface, and
- Hard rock pegmatites located underneath or in the vicinity
Phase I: Focus on shallow low-cost production and early cash flow
- Near-term resource estimate using pitting and auger drilling
- Simple washing and concentration using particle size and gravity separation
- Preliminary JORC exploration target
- Unique opportunity to generate early cash flow and derisk project upside
Phase II: Upside from primary hard rock sources
- Multiple mineralised pegmatites in tantalum discovered across the licence
- Systematic exploration and ranking of discoveries
- Exceptional trench core grades over 1000ppm Ta
- Associated minerals include niobium, beryllium, rubidium, magnetite, ilmenite, caesium and lithium
- Drill targets already identified for future programmes
