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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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