Last checked at 8 Nov 2023 13:30
8 November 2023
Thor Energy PLC
("Thor" or the "Company")
Drilling starts at Molyhil Tungsten Project
The directors of Thor Energy PLC ("Thor") ("The Company") (AIM, ASX: THR, OTCQB: THORF) are pleased to advise that Investigator Resources Limited ("IVR") (ASX: IVR) has commenced drilling at the Company's Molyhil tungsten project.
Thor holds 100% of the Molyhil project, in the Northern Territory of Australia. On 24 November 2022, Thor executed an AUD$8m Farm-in and Funding Agreement with IVR to accelerate exploration at the Molyhil Project.
Further information has been provided in an ASX Announcement made by IVR on 8 November 2023, which may be accessed as follows:
https://announcements.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20231108/pdf/05x2rj203rmwgz.pdf
The Board of Thor Energy PLC has approved this announcement and authorised its release.
For further information, please contact:
Thor Energy PLC
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Nicole Galloway Warland, Managing Director
Ray Ridge, CFO & Company Secretary | Tel: +61 (8) 7324 1935
Tel: +61 (8) 7324 1935 |
WH Ireland Limited (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker)
| Tel: +44 (0) 207 220 1666 |
Antonio Bossi / Darshan Patel / Isaac Hooper
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SI Capital Limited (Joint Broker)
| Tel: +44 (0) 1483 413 500 |
Nick Emerson
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Yellow Jersey (Financial PR)
| thor@yellowjerseypr.com |
Sarah Hollins / Shivantha Thambirajah / Bessie Elliot
| Tel: +44 (0) 20 3004 9512 |
Competent Person's Report
The information in this report that relates to exploration results is based on information compiled by Nicole Galloway Warland, who holds a BSc Applied geology (HONS) and who is a Member of The Australian Institute of Geoscientists. Ms Galloway Warland is an employee of Thor Energy PLC. She has sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity which she is undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2012 Edition of the 'Australasian Code for
Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves'. Nicole Galloway Warland consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on her information in the form and context in which it appears.
Updates on the Company's activities are regularly posted on Thor's website which includes a facility to register to receive these updates by email, and on the Company's X page @thorenergyplc
About Thor Energy Plc
The Company is focused on uranium and energy metals that are crucial in the shift to a 'green' energy economy. Thor has a number of highly prospective projects that give shareholders exposure to uranium, nickel, copper, lithium and gold. Our projects are located in Australia and the USA.
Thor holds 100% interest in three uranium and vanadium projects (Wedding Bell, Radium Mountain and Vanadium King) in the Uravan Belt in Colorado and Utah, USA with historical high-grade uranium and vanadium drilling and production results.
At Alford East in South Australia, Thor has earnt an 80% interest in oxide copper deposits considered amenable to extraction via In Situ Recovery techniques (ISR). In January 2021, Thor announced an Inferred Mineral Resource Estimate¹. Thor also holds a 30% interest in Australian copper development company EnviroCopper Limited, which in turn holds rights to earn up to a 75% interest in the mineral rights and claims over the resource on the portion of the historic Kapunda copper mine and the Alford West copper project, both situated in South Australia, and both considered amenable to recovery by way of ISR.²³
Thor holds 100% of the advanced Molyhil tungsten project, including measured, indicated and inferred resources?, in the Northern Territory of Australia, which was awarded Major Project Status by the Northern Territory government in July 2020. Thor executed a A$8m Farm-in and Funding Agreement with Investigator Resources Limited (ASX: IVR) to accelerate exploration at the Molyhil Project on 24 November 2022.6
Adjacent to Molyhil, at Bonya, Thor holds a 40% interest in deposits of tungsten, copper, and vanadium, including Inferred resource estimates for the Bonya copper deposit, and the White Violet and Samarkand tungsten deposits. ? Thor's interest in the Bonya tenement EL29701 is planned to be divested as part of the Farm-in and Funding agreement with Investigator Resources Limited.6
Thor owns 100% of the Ragged Range Project, comprising 92 km2 of exploration licences with highly encouraging early-stage gold and nickel results in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
Notes
1 https://thorenergyplc.com/investor-updates/maiden-copper-gold-mineral-resource-estimate-alford-east-copper-gold-isr-project/
2 www.thorenergyplc.com/sites/thormining/media/pdf/asx-announcements/20172018/20180222-clarification-kapunda-copper-resource-estimate.pdf
³ www.thorenergyplc.com/sites/thormining/media/aim-report/20190815-initial-copper-resource-estimate---moonta-project---rns---london-stock-exchange.pdf
4 https://thorenergyplc.com/investor-updates/molyhil-project-mineral-resource-estimate-updated/
5 www.thorenergyplc.com/sites/thormining/media/pdf/asx-announcements/20200129-mineral-resource-estimates---bonya-tungsten--copper.pdf
6 https://thorenergyplc.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/20221124-8M-Farm-in-Funding-Agreement.pdf