COPY OF FINAL PROSPECTUS - Mirabela Nickel
COPY OF FINAL PROSPECTUS - Mirabela Nickel
COPY OF FINAL PROSPECTUS - Mirabela Nickel
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Recent Developments:<br />
Drilling and Exploration<br />
of the Santa Rita Project<br />
Area and the Palestina<br />
Project Area:<br />
Other Projects:<br />
Trading of <strong>Mirabela</strong>’s<br />
Shares:<br />
On April 2, 2007, <strong>Mirabela</strong> executed and delivered a purchase order with<br />
Outokumpu Technology Pty. Ltd. for the construction of the SAG mill and<br />
Ball mill to be used at the Santa Rita Project. See ‘‘Recent Developments’’.<br />
<strong>Mirabela</strong> has an active drilling and exploration program at the Santa Rita Project<br />
area and the nearby Palestina project area with a view to increasing the resources<br />
available to the proposed processing plant at the Santa Rita Project, thereby<br />
potentially justifying a higher production rate and an extended mine life. See<br />
‘‘Drilling and Exploration of the Santa Rita Project Area and the Palestina Project<br />
Area’’.<br />
<strong>Mirabela</strong>’s infill drilling program is focused on the deeper parts of the central,<br />
southern and northern zones of the Santa Rita deposit.<br />
<strong>Mirabela</strong>’s exploration activities are focused on an area within the Santa Rita<br />
Project area, now known as the Peri Peri project area and on the Palestina project<br />
area.<br />
The Peri Peri project is located approximately 1.5 kilometres to the north-east of<br />
the Santa Rita resource. Management believes the mineralization discovered at<br />
Peri Peri is highly prospective for Santa Rita type disseminated nickel deposits.<br />
Follow-up diamond drilling is underway.<br />
The Palestina project is located approximately 25 kilometres to the south of the<br />
Santa Rita Project area. A 1,700 metre drilling program is currently underway to<br />
test coincident IP/geochemical anomalies and stratigraphy at the Palestina<br />
project. Management believes that the Palestina project has the potential for<br />
Santa Rita type mineralization.<br />
In December 2005, <strong>Mirabela</strong> entered into an evaluation agreement with a<br />
Brazilian subsidiary of CVRD Inco Limited (‘‘Inco Brazil’’) pursuant to which<br />
<strong>Mirabela</strong> and Inco Brazil agreed to cooperate with each other to explore,<br />
evaluate and potentially develop new nickel sulphide resources upon the Santa<br />
Rita, Palestina and São Francisco project areas. The evaluation period provided<br />
for thereunder expired on December 12, 2006. However, on February 9, 2007, by<br />
notice to <strong>Mirabela</strong> Brazil, Inco Brazil exercised its right under the evaluation<br />
agreement to earn a 70% interest in aspects of the Santa Rita and Palestina<br />
project areas pursuant to a farm-in agreement substantially in the form of the<br />
agreement appended to the evaluation agreement. Such agreement is currently<br />
being negotiated by the parties. If <strong>Mirabela</strong> Brazil elects to be loan carried into<br />
production Inco Brazil may increase its interest in these projects to 85%. The<br />
evaluation agreement provides that any such farm-in agreement shall exclude, in<br />
pertinent part, (i) the existing Santa Rita sulphide resource and any strike<br />
extensions and any depth extensions thereof economically capable of being open<br />
cut mined; and (ii) any nickel sulphide resource located within 300 metres of<br />
surface with a nickel grade less than 1.0% and any depth extensions thereof<br />
economically capable of being open cut mined. See ‘‘Drilling and Exploration of<br />
the Santa Rita Project Area and the Palestina Project Area — The Inco Agreements’’.<br />
<strong>Mirabela</strong> has an active project generation program through which it has acquired<br />
a portfolio of nickel and other base metal projects in Brazil in addition to the<br />
Santa Rita and Palestina projects. These other projects currently consist of the<br />
Serra Azul, São Francisco, Ponto Novo and Araguaçema projects. See<br />
‘‘<strong>Mirabela</strong>’s Other Projects’’.<br />
<strong>Mirabela</strong> currently has 88,450,000 issued and outstanding ordinary shares, which<br />
are listed on the TSX and on the ASX. Upon completion of the Offering,<br />
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