Weatherly WTI Investor Presentation
Weatherly WTI Investor Presentation
Weatherly WTI Investor Presentation
March 2011
Revitalised, refocused, positioned for growth
Disclaimer
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Weatherly International (WTI)
Weatherly is an international resources
company focused on copper and bulk
minerals in Africa.
Tambao(Mn)
Weatherly’s
y strategy
gy in Namibia is to develop
pa
copper mining business capable of sustaining
20,000 tpa of copper at average industry cost of
production for the next ten years
NAMIBIA
Otjihase (Cu)
Matchless (Cu)
Tschudi (Cu)
Key shareholders(1)
Blackrock 16.7%
Directors & associated companies(2) 12.2%
%
Namibian interests(3) 8.6%
Gartmore 2.7%
40.2%
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Financial Highlights
6m to Year to 30
31 Dec Jun 2010
2010 US$
US$
Income Statement Maintaining and developing mines (3.2) (5.7)
Depreciation (1.6) (5.0)
Profit on disposal of property 1.1 19.8
Operating profit/loss (3.7) 9.1
Period highlights:
• Sale of Kombat received US$3.2m
• Placing £4.45m (US$7m) in November 2010
• US$7m Louis Dreyfus loan facility
Operational Objective:
• First sales revenue expected March 2011
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Namibian Assets
NAMIBIA
Otjihase (Cu)
Matchless (Cu)
Tschudi (Cu)
T
Tsumeb
b Tailings
T ili (C
(Cu))
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Central Operations
(Note 1)
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Otjihase Mine Area
Otjihase Mine – Plan View
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Otjihase and Matchless
Five Year Plan (Note 1)
Resources 7.9mt 2.14% Cu 0.35g/t Au
Reserves 3.9mt 1.70% Cu 0.25g/t Au
64,934t Cu 31,350oz Au
Ann. production 7,100t (Cu in
Five year plan concentrate) 35,500t Cu 17,139oz Au
Cost of Production :
Ex LME Cu (C1)US$3,258/t Cu
US$5,500/t Cu
NPV (10%) US$35m
US$7,000/t Cu
US$67m
Remaining Resources After Five Years:
Remaining retreat to surface 29,426t Cu 14,211oz Au
Potential new mine (Tigerschlucht) 75,000t Cu
Note 1 – Based on Coffey Technical Review and Valuation of Otjihase & Matchless mines, March 2010
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Matchless Mine – Plan View
5 YR PLAN 1
NEXT 7 YRS 1
East Shoot
S
River Shoot
N t 1 – Assumes
Note A mining
i i rate
t att 150
150,000
000 ttpa
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Central Operations – Life of Mine Plan
YEARS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Karuma1
MWE1
Retreat to Surface2
River Shoot2 Development
Western Prospect2
Otijhase
Matchless
Note 1 – Current 5 y
year p
plan
Note 2 – Subject to conversion of resources to reserves
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Northern Operations
Underground portal
Test pits
28 o
Tschudi Open Pit
Processing Route:
Results to date support either heap leaching the transitional ores
followed by flotation of the primary ores or simply flotation of both
ore types. Estimated average production of 13,000tpa of copper
and 280,000ozs Ag (10yr life).
Note 1 – Source: Coffey Report based only on JORC compliant measured and indicated resources
Note 2 – Source: Coffey Report, based on pit shell 16 to 186m depth fully diluted with a waste to ore ratio of 5.7:1
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Tschudi Open Pit
Key attractions:
• E i
Environmental
t l approvall for
f open pit
it granted
t d in
i 2003
Note 1 – ‘Recovery of copper from Tschudi Ore Deposit’ – Goldfields Laboratories R Haegele 1995
Note 2 – ‘Tschudi Copper Project’ - INDEC Contract BO3020 Santiago Chile July 2003
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Exploration Tschudi Syncline
Target areas
for 2011
Tschudi
ML 125
EPL132A
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Tsumeb Tailings
Weatherl
Weatherly has commissioned DumpD mp & Dune
D ne
contractors to drill the dam, and Coffey to prepare a
resource report as the basis for a full feasibility
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Copper Development Plan
Note 1 – Source: Coffey Technical Review and Valuation of Otjihase & Matchless mines, March 2010
Note 2 – Source: Coffey Report, based on pit shell 16 to 186m depth fully diluted with a waste to ore ratio of 5.7:1
Note 3 – Source: Coffey Mining “Preliminary Pit Optimisation Results “ December 2009
Note 4 – non compliant ‘historical’ resource, can not be relied upon
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Forecast Production
8000
6000
4000
? ? ? ?
2000
0
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
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Exploration
Note 1 – EPL 132A expired on 9/3/2008 – application for renewal submitted prior to expiry
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Regional Copper Geochemical Soil Sampling Map
EPL132A
TSUMEB
TSCHUDI
TSUMEB
WEST
Similar orebody
morphology &
mineralogy to
Tsumeb
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Berg Aukas
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Berg Aukas
A B
In conclusion
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