Tertiary Minerals plc is pleased to announce that it has signed a Technical Cooperation Agreement (the “Agreement”) with First Quantum Minerals Limited (“FQM”) in connection with two of its copper exploration projects in Zambia.
Key Points:
· The Agreement covers Tertiary’s Mukai and Mushima North Project Interests (the “Projects”).
· The Mukai Project Exploration Licence is located in Zambia’s North-western Province and is directly adjacent to FQM’s Trident Project which includes the large Sentinel Copper Mine and the recently opened enterprise Nickel Mine.
· The Mushima North Exploration Licence, in the Kasempa District, is also in an active exploration area for FQM and is prospective primarily for iron-oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation.
· FQM & Tertiary will establish a Technical Committee with the objective to work collaboratively with respect to advancing exploration and development of the Projects.
· The Technical Committee will advise and assist Tertiary in relation to all technical matters relating to the Projects.
· FQM will provide Tertiary with all of its historical exploration data for the two licence areas and Tertiary will submit its exploration results to the Technical Committee on an ongoing basis.
Commenting today, Executive Chairman Patrick Cheetham said:
“This Agreement will turbo-charge Tertiary’s Zambian exploration in these two key licence areas. We are set to benefit from FQM’s extensive and in-depth country experience, gained over many years of exploration and mine development in Zambia and, importantly, its site-specific historical exploration in and around these two exciting projects.
“For Tertiary, the Agreement will effectively harness the expertise of one of the world’s largest copper producers without the associated cost, and in return FQM will gain first-hand knowledge of any new discoveries that we make, and will be in pole position, should we seek an exploration or development partner in future. Nevertheless, it is important to stress that the Agreement does not bind either company to any further agreement or grant FQM any first rights of refusal and so is not commercially restrictive for Tertiary.
“We are grateful to FQM for proposing such a free-thinking arrangement and we look forward to working with their team.”
For more information please contact:
Tertiary Minerals plc:
Patrick Cheetham, Executive Chairman
+44 (0) 1625 838 679
