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Marenica Energy www.marenicaenergy.com.au

Marenica Energy's  (ASX: MEY) principal asset is the Marenica Uranium Project located in the uranium rich Damara Province in Namibia.

 

The project covers 527sq km, with high prospectivity for both secondary and primary uranium deposits. Marenica Energy's strategy is to focus on the evaluation of the Marenica Project as well as to identify and acquire other uranium opportunities globally.

 

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Marenica Energy closes fully underwritten $3.2m rights issue

Marenica Energy (ASX: MEY) has raised nearly $580,000 in its recent fully underwritten one for two non-renounceable entitlement issue to fund further metallurgical testwork at its Marenica uranium deposit.

Importantly, the entitlement issue was fully underwritten by existing substantial shareholder Hanlong Energy.

The shortfall of shares will be placed with Hanlong and sub-underwriters to raise the remaining $2.7 million.

Marenica offered up to 249.3 million shares at $0.013 per share on the basis of one new share for every two existing shares held.

The money raised will be used to fund Marenica’s activities, including the assessment of whether screening, de-sliming, gravity separation, magnetic separation and/or flotation can be applied to upgrade the yield from the Marenica uranium deposit.

Detailed mineralogical testwork conducted as part of a technical review of the project showed the Marenica deposit could be open to processing using techniques not typically used in the recovery of uranium.

Mineralisation at Marenica has been found to have a number of distinctive characteristics, which could be conducive to conventional metallurgical processes used extensively in other industries.

If these techniques can be applied successfully to ore from Marenica, the uranium concentration will be significantly improved, reducing the amount of material to be treated and lowering the capital and operating costs.

The Marenica deposit is located in a world-class uranium province in Namibia, host to Rio Tinto’s (ASX: RIO) Rossing Uranium Mine and Paladin Energy’s (ASX: PDN, TSX: PDN) Langer Heinrich Mine.

It is located about 90 kilometres northeast of Swakopmund in Namibia, and hosts a JORC Resource of 276 million tonnes at 94 parts per million for 57 million pounds of contained uranium.


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