TERRY BURGESS - Managing Director & CEOSAREIC - 02 May 2011WWW.OZMINERALS.COM
OZ MINERALSCONTINUED INVESTMENT IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA
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OZ MINERALS SNAPSHOT
Market capitalisation:
~A$5 billion
Prominent Hill: Open-pit copper and gold operation. Underground development underway.
Exploration: Priority area – Prominent Hill.Further global and regional opportunities.
Business Development:
Pursuing opportunities in copper.In process of acquiring 100% of Carrapateena copper project.
A$1.3 billion: Cash at 31 December 2010.No debt.
Equity investments:
42.5% of Toro Energy, 12.9% of IMX Resources, 18.9% of Sandfire Resources and others.
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CONTINUED INVESTMENT IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA
1. Prominent Hill update – including our underground development.
2. Carrapateena.
3. Making a difference in South Australia.
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PROMINENT HILL
• The Prominent Hill copper/gold mine is located 650 km north-northwest of Adelaide, approximately 130 km southeast of Coober Pedy and 150 km northwest of Roxby Downs (Olympic Dam) in the Gawler Craton of South Australia.
• Convenient access to the Adelaide to Darwin railway – shipments of concentrate take 48 hours to reach the Port of Darwin. We have approximately 6 trains/wk to Darwin (600-1,000t each). 2 weeks to major Asian ports.
• 1 truck/day to Olympic Dam.
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PROMINENT HILL SITE
TAILINGS DAM
MALU PIT
ROM PAD
PROCESSING PLANT
VILLAGE
ANKATA DEPOSIT AREA
NORTHERN WASTE DUMP
SOUTHERN WASTE DUMP
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PROMINENT HILL FACTS
• A workforce of approximately 800 – this includes contractors.
• Plus 150 underground construction 2011-2012.
• Plus 100 steady-state underground operations 2012 onward.
• We have a local workforce – 80% of our people are from South Australia.
• Mining partner – Thiess.
• Underground contractor – Byrnecut Mining
• Village Services – Sodexo
• Charter Flight services - 10 flights a week from Adelaide and six flights a week from Port Augusta.
• Daily bus service from Coober Pedy.
• Site Facilities – 1200 rooms with en-suites, swimming pool, sports courts and gymnasium.
• Regular family days to bring family members to site to experience life at Prominent Hill.
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PROMINENT HILL PRODUCTIONProduct: High grade (~50% Cu), high quality, copper concentrate.
Production (2010): 112,171t contained copper, 196,400oz gold.
Production Guidance: Contained copper 100,000t to 110,000tContained gold 185,000oz plus -for 5+ years
Mine and Plant: Open pit, mine, crush, grind, flotation.
Cash costs: Competitive C1 cash costs US70.3c/lb for Q1 2011.
Estimated C1 costs 2011: <US70c/lb.
Cu and Au Recovery
15.0025.0035.0045.0055.0065.0075.0085.0095.00
Q1 2009
Q3 2009
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Q3 2010
Q1 2011
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OPEN-CUT MINE
CROSS SECTION – NORTH-SOUTH
Complete
August 2012
June 2014
October 2017(Stock piles continue to be processed after mining of open-cut complete)
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PROMINENT HILL ANKATA - UNDERGROUND• Ankata underground will enable production of 100,000t to 110,000t copper to be maintained.
• The portal was accessed in November and advanced 626 meters by Q1 2011.
• First ore to be produced from stoping by Q1 2012.
• Full mining rates (1.2Mtpa) by Q3 2012.
April 2011
Interim
Dec
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Ankata Decline
VR2A
FinalPortal
VR4A
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PROMINENT HILL ANKATA - UNDERGROUND
Interim Decline Permanent Decline
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PROMINENT HILL – FOCUS ON MUNDA/KALAYA –CONTINUITY APPEARS GOOD
PROMINENT HILL LONG SECTION 2011
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PROMINENT HILL – FOCUS ON MUNDA/KALAYA –CONTINUITY APPEARS GOOD
PROMINENT HILL LONG SECTION 2011
MINING STUDY
2011/2012
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REGIONAL EXPLORATION – NEW MINERAL PROVINCE
• Approximately 7,000km2 tenement area
- 4,000km2 OZ Minerals- 3,000km2 IMX JV
• $50 million regional exploration budget.
• Detailed geophysics surveys undertaken.
• 2011 five drill rigs dedicated to the OZ Minerals regional program and one drill rig for IMX JV exploration.
• 21 holes drilled in quarter one.
• Many holes intersected IOCG alteration.
• Some low-grade mineralisation.
• Program continues.
EL4390
EL3387
EL4446
EL3730
EL3730
EL3518
EL3729
EL3445
EL3830
EL4390
EL4025
EL4429
EL4429
EL4132
EL3795
EL4283
EL4429
Gravity
OZ Minerals tenements
IMX tenements
Coober Pedy
20km
Airborne Magnetic Surveycompleted in Q4
Hallifax
Danae HillMetis
NeptuneCressida
Epsilon
Rouse
Taurus
ArapilesShadwell
IP Surveys in Progress
Near Mine
Future OZ Minerals Prospects
IMX JV target areas
PerseusBlue Duck
Bluebird
Prominent Hill
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ACQUISTION OF THE CARRAPATEENA COPPER –GOLD DEPOSIT IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA
• Agreement to purchase Carrapateena IOCG copper project in March.
• US$250 million, plus US$50 million on production of copper and uranium, gold or silver.
Benefits for OZ Minerals:• Meets strategy: copper, appropriate
production scale potential, favourable mining jurisdiction, long-life potential.
• Development could be funded from anticipated Prominent Hill cash flows.
• Offers development, operations, exploration, logistics and management synergies.
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CARRAPATEENA DEPOSIT - INITIAL INFERRED RESOURCE TO SOUTH
0m 250m
Mineralisation not well understood, potential for
extension to the east
Exploration & Inferred Resource
status area
Exploration area
Chalcopyrite shell in yellow
Exploration & Inferred Resource status areaExploration area
Historic drillhole collar
Historic drillhole trace
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Main depositPotential for
extension at depthMineralisation
open to the east
Target range:
25-45Mt @ 1% Cu, 0.4g/t Au, 140ppm U3O8, 4g/t Ag
Inferred resource:
203Mt @ 1.31% Cu, 0.56g/t Au, 270ppm U3O8, 6g/t Ag
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MINING OPTIONS STUDY
Options:• Block caving.• Inclined sublevel caving.• Stoping at higher levels (then caving).
Lower mining costs
Lower development costs
<$10/t $10‐20/t $20‐50/t
Block caving
Sublevel caving
Sublevel open stoping
Visual representation of the Carrapateena deposit
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BLOCK CAVING INCREASINGLY COMMON
Source: New Gold
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CARRAPATEENA COMPARABLE WITH OTHER GLOBAL BLOCK CAVES
Cu/Au grades and relative deposit size global block caves (Mt)
Cadia East
Oyu-Tolgoi Hugo North Lift
Ridgeway Deeps
Carrapateena
Wafi-GolpuBingham Canyon NE mine
Northparkes Lift 1
Northparkes E48
Grasberg IOZ
Bingham Canyon SE mine
Northparkes Lift 2 Grasberg DOZ
Skouries
Grasberg GBC
Red Chris
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0.25
0.50
0.75
1.00
1.25
1.50
1.75
2.00
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Au g/t
Cu %
Source: OZ Minerals research* NB: Carrapateena based on target range not Resource or Reserve
Operating mines Development project Size = Reserves Mt
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CARRAPATEENA CONCEPTUAL PROJECT SCHEDULE
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Exploration drilling to complete initial Inferred Resource, 10,000m
Option studies for mining
Phase II exploration drilling to move to Indicated Resource
Geotechnical drilling
Pre-feasibility
Exploration shaft
Feasibility study
Construction
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GENERATION OF LOCAL ECONOMIC BENEFITS
• Over 20 local businesses are currently employed at Prominent Hill.
• During 2010
–$12 million was spent in the Coober Pedy region
–$7.5 million in the Upper Spencer gulf and
–$80 million within the state of South Australia.
• Our major contractor also have significant spend in the local area.
• We also spend about $30 million on salaries in South Australia - again this does not include the amounts that our major contractors spend. There over 500 people employed by contractors as part of our workforce at Prominent Hill.
• In 2010 we contributed 16 million in State Government royalties.
xxxWe actively provide employment and business opportunities for people from communities close to Prominent Hill and preferentially purchase goods and services locally wherever feasible.
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DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES AND SKILLS
• Employing locally and developing people from outside the industry - a key priority.
• Continued success with our locally targeted pre-employment training program.
• In 2010, eight indigenous trainees from the APY lands graduated from the program and as a result became full-time employees at Prominent Hill.
• 51 people have now graduated and been offered employment from this program.
− Nationally accredited TAFE qualifications.
− Guaranteed employment
• We have started a new program to train local and indigenous employees to work in a supervisory capacity – this program commenced today.
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GRADUATES AND APPRENTICES
• Our university graduate program is a two year program building on technical planning and people management skills.
• We currently have graduates from the areas of metallurgy, mining engineering, environmental engineering and geology.
• Apprenticeships are a great way to enter the workforce.
• Our apprenticeships are conducted on a full-time basis for a four year fixed term period in electrical and mechanical areas.
• New pilot program in conjunction with DECS – teachers from four schools to visit Prominent Hill this month to better understand opportunities for careers in the mining industry.
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RECRUITMENT CAMPAIGNAttraction of ready skilled people to South Australia is critical
Investor contact:Natalie WorleyHead of Investor & External [email protected]
THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION WHICH REFERS TO MINERAL RESOURCES AND EXPLORATION RESULTS AT CARRAPATEENA IS BASED IN INFORMATION COMPILED BY STUART MASTERS WHO IS A MEMBER OF THE AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY (AUSIMM) (108430). STUART MASTERS IS EMPLOYED BY CS-2 PTY LTD AND IS A CONSULTANT TO OZ MINERALS. HE HAS SUFFICIENT EXPERIENCE WHICH IS RELEVANT TO THE STYLE OF MINERALISATION AND TYPE OF DEPOSIT UNDER CONSIDERATION AND TO THE ACTIVITY WHICH HE IS UNDERTAKING TO QUALIFY AS A COMPETENT PERSON AS DEFINED IN THE 2004 EDITION OF THE ‘AUSTRALIAN CODE FOR REPORTING OF EXPLORATION RESULTS, MINERAL RESOURCES AND ORE RESERVES. STUART MASTERS CONSENTS TO THE INCLUSION IN THE REPORT OF THE MATTERS BASED ON HIS INFORMATION IN THE FORM AND CONTEXT IN WHICH IT APPEARS.WITHIN THIS PRESENTATION REFERENCES TO EXPLORATION RESULTS RELATING TO PROMINENT HILL ARE BASED ON INFORMATION COMPILED BY MR MARCEL VAN ECK MSC WHO IS A FULL-TIME EMPLOYEE OF OZ MINERALS, IS A MEMBER OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENTISTS AND HAS SUFFICIENT EXPERIENCE RELEVANT TOTHE STYLE OF MINERALISATION AND TYPE OF DEPOSIT UNDER CONSIDERATION AND TO THE ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN TO QUALIFY AS A COMPETENT PERSON AS DEFINED BY THE JORC CODE (2004). MR VAN ECK HAS CONSENTED TO THE INCLUSION OF THE MATERIAL IN THE FORM AND CONTEXT IN WHICH IT APPEARS.ALL OTHER REFERENCES TO EXPLORATION RESULTS WITHIN THIS PRESENTATION/STATEMENT ARE BASED ON INFORMATION COMPILED BY MR A HOUSTON BSC WHO IS A FULL-TIME EMPLOYEE OF OZ MINERALS, IS A MEMBER OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENTISTS AND HAS SUFFICIENT EXPERIENCE RELEVANT TO THE STYLE OF MINERALISATION AND TYPE OF DEPOSIT UNDER CONSIDERATION AND TO THE ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN TO QUALIFY AS A COMPETENT PERSON AS DEFINED BY THE JORC CODE (2004). MR HOUSTON HAS CONSENTED TO THE INCLUSION OF THE MATERIAL IN THE FORM AND CONTEXT IN WHICH IT APPEARS.