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Company Information for Amur Minerals Corp

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Exchange AIM; AMC


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Company Statement

Amur Minerals Corporation (AMC) is a rapidly-growing mineral resource exploration and development company focused on base metal projects located in the far east of Russia. The Company has three properties in the region with its principal asset being the Kun-Manie sulphide nickel, copper project located in Amur Oblast. With a JORC compliant resource of over a quarter of a million tons of contained nickel, Kun-Manie is one of the five largest new nickel sulphide discoveries since Voisey’s Bay.


Current Operations

Kun-Manie - world class Ni, Cu sulphide deposit
The Kun-Manie licence area is approximately 950 km² and is located 700 km northeast of the capital city of Blagoveshchensk located on the Chinese border. Amur Minerals commenced seasonal field work on the licence in 2004 and has already established total measured, indicated and inferred resources of over 250,000 tones of contained nickel and 72,500 tons of copper.

Geological Setting:
The dominant geological feature within the licence is the Kun-Manie Massif, which is a metagabbro-anorthosite intrusive of Early Archaean age. The massif hosts a series of mafic and ultramafic nearly flat lying sills, some of which contain economic amounts of sulphide which are enriched with nickel, copper, platinum and palladium. The majority of the identified sills are located within the 40 kilometre long by 2 kilometre wide Krumkon Trend which represents the primary exploration target. Mineralisation includes nickel bearing pentlandite, pyrrhotite and copper-bearing chalcopyrite occurring in both disseminated and veinlet form. To date, more than 100 such sills ranging in thickness from less than a metre to more than 60 metres have been identified within the trend, although not all contain sulphides.

Work carried out to date:
Work carried out to date on the Kun-Manie licence including geophysics, diamond core drilling, trenching and geological mapping which has identified four mineralised targets; the Vodorazdelny, Ikenskoe, Maly Krumkon and Falcon zones, three of which warrant further exploration as the limits of the mineralisation have not been identified.  The four zones are located within a 15 kilometre long segment of the Krumkon Trend.  An additional three drill targets known as Chornie Ispelene, Yan Hegd and Kubuk (also referred to as Ata) have been identified.  Chornie Ispelene and Kubuk lie within the trend whilst the vertically oriented Yan Hegd is located approximately 8 kilometres to its north.  Approximately 50% of the Krumkon Trend remains to be examined by reconnaissance work where existing Soviet data indicates potential exists to identify additional drill targets.

Kustak - Ni, Cu, Mo extension of the Kun-Manie license, a 20 year exploration and mining licence
In February 2007, Amur acquired the Kustakskaya Project, immediately to the east of the Kun-Manie licence and across the Amur Oblast and Khabarovsk Krai border. This 1,034 square kilometre, 25 year exploration and production licence contains two geological terrains. Each terrain contains a different mineralisation type target. The southern half of the licence is interpreted to be a continuation of the Krumkon Trend identified within the Kun-Manie exploration licence. The northern half of the licence area contains Mesozoic granitic intrusives wherein historical Russian results indicate the potential for copper, molybdenum, cobalt and minor nickel to be present.

Anadjakan - copper gold exploration license, potential copper porphyry system
The Anadjakan licence covers an area of 250 square kilometres and is valid for a term of five years, convertible to a 20 year mining licence following a commercial discovery.

The licence is located in the Khabarovsk region and is readily accessible by maintained roads with abundant nearby infrastructure. The area was explored by various groups during Soviet times, most recently in 1991. The project is characterised by:

  • Gold- and copper-bearing veins located within highly developed faults and shear zones in a granitic intrusive complex and its overlying sedimentary rocks. Mineralisation at Anadjakan is characterised by near-vertical quartz and quartz sulphide veins as well as quartz flooded breccia zones. The primary host zone is up to 250 metres in width and extends over 5 kilometres in length. Gold has been confirmed by geochemical sampling, limited trenching and some drilling. Similar structural settings have been identified through geophysics, but remain untested.
  • The potential for an underlying porphyry copper system is provided in historical Russian expert opinions and is evidenced by anomalous copper, molybdenum and gold values detected by geochemical sampling.
  • Extensive alteration of the sedimentary rocks located at the contact of the granitic complex carries anomalous gold values, and is confirmed by geochemical sampling.
  • The property is located within 20 kilometres of power and a rail head at the community of Elban. An extended field season of seven months can be expected.

Amur is conducting a three-phased exploration programme in accordance with the licence agreement. These phases will consist of confirming the existing historical results, conducting trenching and drilling, and concluding with the calculation of a Russian based resource estimate. This work is to be accomplished over the next five years.


Geographical Spread

Russia


Board of Directors and Key Management

Robert Schafer Chairman (Non-Executive)
Robin Young Chief Executive Officer
David Wood Chief Financial Officer

Company Address

Kingston Chambers,
Road Town, Tortola
Tortola, PO Box 173

Telephone:+7 916 242 4406
Website:http://www.amurminerals.com

Additional Address/Key Contact

Khabarovsk
Robin Young
14 Gaidar Street
Office 9
Khabarovsk 680063
Russia

Telephone: +7 4212 755 615
e-mail:  rjyoung@amurminerals.com

Moscow
David Wood

Telephone: +7 916 242 4406
e-mail:  dwood@amurminerals.com

Capital

Ordinary Shares in Issue 121,703,938
Options Outstanding 17,291,456
Fully Diluted Shares Outstanding 138,995,394

Year End

December 31

Nominated Brokers

RBC Capital Markets
Thames Court
One Queenhithe
London EC4V 4DE

Nominated Advisors

RBC Capital Markets
Thames Court
One Queenhithe
London EC4V 4DE

Major Shareholders

Shareholder Shares Held Percent of Outstanding shares
RAB Capital plc 25,234,159 21%
HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) 16,074,673 13%
Banque Cramer & Cie SA 13,766,000 11%
Foxley Associates Limited 8,836,085 7%
Euroclear Nominees 8,654,828 7%
Anturium Resources SA 6,994,094 6%
Polar Star Capital Ltd 6,994,094 6%
Black River Asset Management LLP 6,000,000 5%
Pershing Keen Nominees 6,336,551 5%
National Republican Bank LLC 5,800,000 5%

Related News

23/07/09 - Amur Minerals Has Recovered Its Poise And Is Now Pushing Ahead With Work On The Sizeable Kun-Manie Nickel Sulphide Project In Russia
29/01/08 - Amur Minerals Finds Institutional Wallets Full of Cash, but Appetite to Spend it Mixed

Most Recent Statement

09/09/09 - Interim Results
20/08/09 - Reserve Update - US$6.9bn Value
12/08/09 - Annual General Meeting Date and Venue Change
01/06/09 - Share Exchange and Placing
08/05/09 - Governmental Approvals For Further Exploration At
30/04/09 - Correction - Placing to Raise £180,000

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