Argent Minerals Limited is an ASX-listed public company focused on creating shareholder wealth through the discovery, extraction and marketing of precious and base metals. A key goal of the Company is to become a leading Australian polymetallic producer. The Company’s project assets are situated in the Lachlan Orogen in New South Wales, Australia, a richly mineralised geological terrane extending from northern NSW and the highly prospective Gascoyne Region, Western Australia. Other projects include the highly prospective region of western Tasmania, where Argent’s ground is. strategically positioned between world class mines Rosebery (high grade polymetallic deposit) and Renison Bell Tin Mine (one of the world’s largest and highest-grade tin mines).
Argent Minerals’ two projects, in each of which the Company owns 100% interest, is strategically positioned within a compelling neighbourhood which hosts world-class deposits including one of the largest underground copper-gold mines in the southern hemisphere, Newcrest’s Cadia Valley Operations in NSW. The WA assets lie proximal to HAS -Hastings Technology Metals, Dreadnought, Fortescue Metals and Rio Tinto Limited.
Currently the company’s tenement package cover over 1,038 km2 in Western Australia targeting Cu-Ni-REE-PGE and Cu-Pb-Zn-Ag within 1,734 km2 in New South Wales and 411 km2 in Tasmania. The company also has the Kempfield Deposit currently estimated under the 2012 JORC Code at 127.5 million ounces silver equivalent of silver, lead, zinc & gold.