Independence Gold NL (IGO) – Long Nickel Acquisition is part of the Aim to Create Substantial Shareholder Wealth

• The Southstar Database is offering IGO a plethora of opportunities for the creation of individually focused companies.
• The purchase of WMC’s Long nickel mine for $15m under the separately managed Lightning Nickel Pty Ltd is part of IGO’s aim to create substantial shareholder wealth.
• Based on mining only Long and Victor South’s ore reserves of 750,000t at 3.6%Ni for 27,000t of nickel, at a rate of 150,000tpa, IGO’s Nickel management team (headed by Tim Moran) has estimated a 10% NPV of $46m for their attributable nickel. This was based on $60m in after tax cashflow over 5 years, using a nickel price of US$3.15/lb (US$6950/t), and an A$ exchange rate of US55c.
• In our opinion, the 27,000t of Ni should be capable of being exceeded since it excludes almost the same again in the Long orebody’s resources, additional recoverable ore from the pillars (even allowing for geotech), and any possible exploration discoveries.
• Lateral thinking by the IGO team following conceptual viewpoints outside of standard theory has resulted in evaluating two promising 100% owned gold prospect areas called Jeerinah (near Paulsen’s) and Yalgoo West, where initial results have been encouraging.