Metals & Minerals News

Strategic receives Leigh Creek call option payment

Cornwall Resources Ltd’s parent company said it had received the A$100,000 for an exclusive call option to acquire the Leigh Creek copper mine in South Australia.

Deadline: six months to decide whether to buy 100% of the property (Pixabay)

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If the sale proceeds and completes, Strategic Minerals plc is expected to use net proceeds for its Cornish subsidiary’s Redmoor tin-tungsten project in the east of the county.

Potential purchaser Axis Mining & Minerals Pty Ltd now has six months to decide whether it wants to buy 100% of the asset for an initial payment of A$1.9 million cash.

Strategic Minerals also owns the distribution rights to the Cobre magnetite mine project in New Mexico, USA, which has been in production since 2012.