Ursa’s Key Assets
*The Shakespeare Mine
The Shakespeare PGM-Ni-Cu Mine is located 70 km west of Sudbury, Ontario. In 2010 and 2011, through contract mining, the Company trucked and delivered a total of over 360,000 tonnes of ore to the Sudbury’s Strathcona Mill for processing. Total revenue generated was over $20,000,000. Ursa believes there is potential to increase throughput and realize cost savings by constructing a mill on site.
The feasibility study by Micon International Limited in January 2006 and subsequently updated in 2008, defined a Probable Reserve of 11,828,000 tonnes grading 0.33% nickel, 0.35% copper, 0.02% cobalt, 0.33 g/t platinum, 0.36 g/t palladium and 0.18 g/t gold. The mineral reserve is to a maximum depth of 250 metres below surface.
| |
Tonnes (t) |
PGM+Au (g/t) |
Ni (%) |
Cu (%) |
| Probable |
11.8 Million |
0.87 |
0.33 |
0.35 |
With a 4,500 tpd Mill on site, the study projects an after tax internal rate of return ("IRR") of 22.6% (29.1% pre-tax IRR) on an initial total capital cost of C$148,193,000.The undiscounted total annual cash flow ("NPV") is C$169,581,000 and the NPV discounted at 8% is C$73,297,000. The project has a 7.2 year mine production life. The economic analysis makes the assumption of the following long term metal prices over the life of the project, expressed in 2007 dollars, nickel US$9.37/lb, copper US$2.11/lb, cobalt US$27.57/lb, platinum US$995.52/ounce, palladium US$342.49/ounce, gold US$563.27/ounce.
