COPY OF FINAL PROSPECTUS - Mirabela Nickel

GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS
The following is a glossary of technical terms and abbreviations that appear in the prospectus.
assay .................. an analysis to determine the presence, absence and quantity of one or more
elements.
Au.................... the chemical symbol for gold.
basalt .................. dark-colored mafic igneous rocks, commonly extrusive but locally intrusive
(i.e. as dikes), composed chiefly of calcic plagioclase and clinopyroxene.
bornite ................. a sulphide mineral with chemical composition Cu 5 FeS 4 that crystallizes in the
cubic system. It has a brown to copper-red color on fresh surfaces that
tarnishes to an iridescent purple surface. Its purple to bronze iridescence
gives it the nickname peacock ore. Bornite is an important copper ore
mineral and occurs widely in porphyry copper deposits along with the more
common chalcopyrite.
bronzitite ............... an orthopyroxenite mineral dominated by the mineral hypersthene.
chalcocite ............... copper(I) sulfide (Cu 2 S): is an important copper ore mineral. It is opaque,
being colored dark-gray to black with a metallic luster.
chalcopyrite ............. CuFeS 2 , a common copper sulphide mineral.
charnockite ............. an assemblage of rock types, connected in their origin because arising by
differentiation of the same parent magma. The banded structure which these
rocks commonly present in the field is only in a small measure due to
crushing, but is to a large extent original, and has been produced by fluxion in
a viscous crystallizing intrusive magma, together with differentiation or
segregation of the mass into bands of different chemical and mineralogical
composition.
chrysotile ............... an asbestiform sub-group within the serpentine group of minerals.
clinopyroxene ............ a group name for a number of pyroxene minerals that have similar crystal
forms. They are silicates commonly containing aluminum, magnesium,
calcium, and iron in their crystal structures.
Co.................... is the chemical symbol for cobalt.
colloform ............... pertaining to the rounded, globular texture of mineral formed by colloidal
precipitation.
craton ................. a large, usually ancient and stable mass of the earth’s crust.
Cu.................... is the chemical symbol for copper.
cubanite ................ copper and iron sulfide mineral (CuFe 2 S 3 ) that characteristically occurs with
chalcopyrite or pyrrhotite in deposits formed at high temperatures.
cut-off ................. the grade above which material is considered significant and below which
material is not considered significant and is excluded form resource and
reserve estimates.
dilution ................ non-ore material included by mining process and fed to mill.
disseminated sulphide ...... a sulphide deposit, in which the sulphide is non-contiguous and may range
from less than 1% up to about 10% of the total rock. The sulphide occurs as
individual crystals or small crystalline masses in the interstices of other
non-sulphide minerals composing the rock.
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