Geologix Explorations Inc.: New Preliminary Assessment Increases Tepal Project Net Positive Pre-Tax Cashflow 96% to an Estimated $749 Million
Published : April 11, 2011
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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - April 11, 2011) - Geologix Explorations Inc. (the "Company" or "Geologix") (News - Market indicators)(FRANKFURT:GF6)(BERLIN:GF6)(STUTTGART:GF6)(MUNICH:GF6) is pleased to announce the positive results from the Tepal project's updated National Instruments 43-101 Preliminary Assessment Study ("PA" or "2011 PA") completed by SRK Consulting (Canada) Inc. ("SRK") of Vancouver, B.C. The new study is based on the recently released resource estimate announced by the Company in its news release dated March 16, 2011, which includes all project drilling data from the Tepal North, South, and Tizate zones up to December 2010. Please see the PDF version of this release on the Company's website for details of the new site plan. Significant highlights of this PA, including the revised mine plan include:

      Change from 2010 PEA
  $749 M net positive earnings EBITDA1 (undiscounted) +96%
  3.48 M ounces gold equivalent2,3 in mine plan +69%
  1.55 M ounces of gold mined in the life of mine ("LOM") plan +58%
  677 M lbs. of copper mined in the LOM plan +93%
  18.1 year mine life +118%
  4.1 years of production to payback  
  96% of 2011 resource tonnes convert to the PA mine plan tonnes (diluted)  
       
1 EBITDA: earnings before interest, taxes & depreciation allowance
2 Gold equivalent is estimated using 2011 PA Base Case $1000/oz. Au, $16/oz. Silver and $2.75 Cu metal prices: (Ag oz. x $16)/$1000 = gold oz., (Cu lbs x $2.75)/$1000 = gold oz. Please refer to Tables 2 and 5 below for separated copper gold and silver production.
3 It must be noted that the ounces gold equivalent does not represent actual ounces of gold in the mine plan, but rather their calculated equivalent value.

Dunham Craig, President and CEO, stated, "We are very pleased with the updated PA, as it validates and quantifies the significance of the resource expansion work accomplished by the Company in 2010. In the six months since the previous PA was announced, Geologix has substantially increased the scale of the project's economics and has extended the mine life from 9 years to 18.1 years without significantly impacting the project's capital costs. These increased numbers have a positive impact on the mine plan, total gold and copper production, NPV, and other overall project economics. These results also give important guidance for the recently commenced pre-feasibility study, as well as ongoing resource expansion and target delineation programs throughout the project area. In completing our Tepal pre-feasibility, the Company intends to incorporate its 2011 exploration results, resize the operation to a higher production level, and optimize the project's NPV."

The mine plan included in this PA consists of conventional flotation concentration and smelting of 130,200,000 tonnes of sulphide ore, and heap leaching of 14,300,000 tonnes of the oxide cap. Metallurgical recoveries for the North and South pits are derived from the 2010 Preliminary Assessment ("2010 PA") and are based only on gold and copper recoveries. Silver and molybdenum mineralization is present in the North and South pits, however historical sampling is not sufficient for silver and molybdenum estimates to be included in this 2011 PA. Recoveries for the Tizate Zone are derived from test work completed in 2011, and have silver and molybdenum in both the March 2011 resource estimate and 2011 metallurgical test work. Tizate zone silver is included in the 2011 PA economics but molybdenum is not being included until further test work determines its commercial processing viability.

It must be noted that the PA is preliminary in nature, that it includes inferred mineral resources that are considered too speculative geologically to have the economic considerations applied to them that would enable them to be categorized as mineral reserves, and there is no certainty that the results of the preliminary assessment will be realized.

Table 1 - Tizate Zone Metallurgical Recoveries to Concentrate
       
Au Ag Cu Mo
66.2% 55.5% 85.3% 70.6%

The 2011 PA base case uses metal prices fixed at $1000/oz. gold, $2.75/lb. copper and $16/oz. silver. Financial estimates are earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization ("EBITDA") and all amounts are stated in $US. Highlights of the PA are:

Table 2 - Tepal 2011 PA Mine Plan4
             
            Gold
    Average Gold Average Copper Equiv2,3
Tepal Mine Plan Tonnes Au g/t Oz. Cu % lbs. oz.
Sulphide Mined 130,200,000 0.33 1,370,000 0.22 608,000,000 3,013,000
Oxide Mined 14,300,000 0.40 180,000 0.22 69,000,000 374,000
Total Ore Mined 144,500,000   1,550,000   677,000,000 3,480,000
4 The PA mine plan considers Indicated and Inferred resources and cannot be classified as "Reserves". Further infill drilling will be conducted for the purpose of improving Inferred Resources to Measured or Indicated categories.

The current Tepal resource to PA Mine Plan conversion rate is 96%. Approximately 38% of the mine plan resources are in the Indicated category and 62% are in Inferred category. The LOM average strip ratio is 1.14 tonnes waste to 1 tonne ore (1.14:1).

Table 3 – Tepal Individual Pit Strip Ratios
       
  North Pit South Pit Tizate
Strip Ratio: 0.81:1 2.04:1 0.87:1
       
Table 4 – Tepal NPV and IRR at Base Case ($1000 Au, $16 Ag$ 2.75 Cu)
and Variable Metal Prices
       
  Case A Case B (Base) Case C
  $900 Au $1000 Au $1200 Au
  $16 Ag $16 Ag $16 Ag
Tepal PA ($ Millions) $2.75 Cu $2.75Cu $3.50 Cu
Project NPV (0% Discount Rate)
Project NPV (5% Discount Rate)
$653 M
$347 M
$749 M
$412 M
$1,320 M
$786 M
Project IRR 20% 22% 34%

The PA mine plan is designed, and capital is estimated on a 23,000 tonnes per day ("tpd") processing plant facility and a 10,000 tpd heap leach facility. Average annual production for the life of the mine is displayed in Table 5 below:

Table 5 – Payable Production: Base Case
         
    Average Average LOM
Average Mine Production Unit Years 1-9 Years 10-18.4 Total
Gold oz. 64,300 40,000 979,000
Copper lbs. 30,700,000 26,100,000 520,700,000
Silver oz. 6,300 171,000 1,767,000
Gold Equivalent12,3 oz. 146,200 112,400 2,438,000
         
Table 6 – Base Case Average Operating Cost on a Co-Product Basis5
     
OPEX per Au equivalent $/oz. Eq. Au payable $478
OPEX per Cu equivalent $/lb. Eq. Cu payable $1.31
 
5 Base Case Operating Cost ("OPEX") per Equivalent Payable Metal
 
Table 7 - Project Capital Cost6
           
Tepal PA Base Case   Year 0 Year 1 Year 2 Total
Initial Capital (pre-full production) M$ $134 $150 $25 $312
Sustaining Capital (post full production) M$       $35
           
6 Initial and sustaining capital are inclusive of EPCM and closure costs. A 10% contingency has been applied. Working capital is excluded.

Table 8 – 2011 Tepal PA Mine Plan Details – Base Case Life of Mine Averages

 
Mine Type   Open Pit (3)
Mine Life   18.1 Years
Payback Period (in production years)   4.1 years
Strip Ratio (Average Life of Mine)   1.14:1
Oxide    
Oxide tonnes processed   14,300,000
Daily Heap Leach Rate   6,700 tpd
Oxide Gold Recovery   77.3%
Oxide Copper Recovery   13.4%
Oxide Processing   Crush 1/2", Heap Leach
Sulphide    
Sulphide tonnes processed   130,200,000
Sulphide Plant Design Capacity   25,000 tpd
Sulphide Mine Plan Throughput   23,000 tpd
Sulphide Gold Recovery   62.8%
Sulphide Copper Recovery   86.6%
Sulphide Processing   Grind/Standard Flotation/Concentrate
Primary Grind Size   ~140 micron
Concentrate Grade   24.8% Cu, 28 g/t Au, 125 g/t Ag
Smelter Penalties   None
Operating Costs    
Mining (Owner fleet) $/t mined $1.36
Mining (Owner fleet) $/t processed $2.92
Sulphide ore $/t milled $4.30
Oxide Ore $/t leached $4.31
G&A and sustaining capital $/t milled $0.68
Average operating cost $/t ore $8.05
Royalties    
NSR Royalty   2.5%

To view the map accompanying this press release please click on the following link: http://media3.marketwire.com/docs/GIX0411.pdf

Mr. Gordon Doerksen, P. Eng., PE, Principal Consultant and Project Manager, SRK Consulting (Canada) Inc., Vancouver, BC, Canada and Mr. Dunham L. Craig, P.Geo, President and CEO of Geologix Explorations Inc., Vancouver, BC, are 'qualified persons' for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Properties of the Canadian Securities Administrators, have reviewed and verified the data contained in this news release.

Geologix Explorations Inc. is a mineral exploration company focused on acquiring, exploring and developing mineral resource opportunities with the potential to host world class mineral deposits. The Company's primary focus is the Tepal Gold-Copper Porphyry Project in Michoacán State, Mexico, where the Company has substantially increased the project's resource estimate and completed an updated Preliminary Assessment. While commencing a pre-feasibility study on the three main mineralized zones, the Company is continuing its exploration programs as it seeks to expand the size of the resource and increase the scale of its possible future mining operation.

The Toronto Stock Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

Geologix Explorations Inc.
Dunham Craig
President & CEO
604.694.1742 or Toll Free: 1.888.694.1742
dcraig@geologix.ca
or
Geologix Explorations Inc.
Jeffrey Wilson
VP Corporate Communications
604.694.1742 or Toll Free: 1.888.694.1742
jwilson@geologix.ca
www.geologix.ca
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Geologix Expl. is a zinc and lead exploration company based in Canada.

Geologix Expl. holds various exploration projects in Mexico.

Its main exploration properties are RO PROPERTY in USA, LISCAY, CAYHUA, SAN FELIPE PROPERTY, SURA, TORO BLANCO and LA JOYA PROPERTY in Peru and EL CARMEN PROJECT, LIBERTAD, SILVER CLOUD, LA CASITA, CONSEJO, TEPAL and SAN AGUSTIN in Mexico.

Geologix Expl. is listed in Canada and in United States of America. Its market capitalisation is CA$ 6.5 millions as of today (US$ 5.0 millions, € 4.4 millions).

Its stock quote reached its highest recent level on April 20, 2007 at CA$ 3.20, and its lowest recent point on January 29, 2016 at CA$ 0.02.

Geologix Expl. has 161 942 893 shares outstanding.

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