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GRX Greenx Metals Limited

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GreenX Metals Limited New Copper Targets Identified at ARC (0361Z)

20/01/2022 7:00am

UK Regulatory


TIDMGRX

RNS Number : 0361Z

GreenX Metals Limited

20 January 2022

greenx metals limited

   NEWS RELEASE    20 JANUARY 2022 

New Copper Targets Identified at ARC

-- Latest analysis identifies new "walk-up" native copper and copper sulphide targets for the upcoming field program

-- New priority, walk-up, at-surface target identified along the Knuth Fault which is a Discovery Zone "lookalike" feature

-- Two additional exposures of native copper mineralisation identified from recently unearthed historical documentation at Neergaard Dal

-- Recent structural geology review reinforces evidence of a large-scale mineral system and regional fertility related to identified faults

-- Exploration targeting and efficiency of upcoming field programs greatly improved through enhanced geological understanding of ARC

GreenX Metals Limited (GreenX or the Company) is pleased to report the findings from ongoing geological analysis at the Arctic Rift Copper Project (ARC or ARC Project). The latest analysis identifies new "walk-up" native copper and copper sulphide targets for the upcoming field program.

GreenX in collaboration with its joint venture (JV) partner Greenfields Exploration Ltd (GEX) has advanced its understanding of ARC in northern Greenland. A recent structural geology report describes for the first-time structural features that are tied to the widespread copper sulphide and native copper mineralisation. In addition, an ongoing review of historical notes and data has identified a location containing two types of native copper mineralisation that further strengthens the ARC's analogy with the economically significant Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan, USA, which contained a total pre-mined endowment of 16 Mt of copper.

This validates the JV's geological modelling on ARC and provides multiple new targets for sampling during the upcoming field season.

Mr Stoikovich, Chief Executive Officer of GreenX Metals said: "The latest supporting evidence for extensive and intense copper mineralisation in an entirely new province is very exciting. This true first-mover opportunity has tremendous potential for multiple major new copper discoveries."

Dr Bell, Project Leader said: "Our low-cost mineral system analysis program continues to gain momentum. The concepts for the new province are rapidly gaining supporting evidence and the precision of our targeting is increasing markedly. This greatly improves the efficiency of our upcoming field programs."

Structural Geology Review

A structural review of the currently available datasets of ARC's geology was recently conducted by specialist consultant Dr Mark Munro(1) . It was confirmed that the known copper mineralisation, including the native copper and Discovery Zone copper sulphides, is associated with reverse faults. Reverse faults are considered to be an important structural control on mineralisation at ARC, with the recent study both extending the known reverse faults with associated mineralisation and identifying new reverse faults.

Dr Munro holds a PhD in Structural and Metamorphic Geology from James Cook University. As a three-year post-doctoral researcher at the University of Western Australia he studied the mineralisation, alteration, and structure of deposits. In addition to his considerable field and structural knowledge, he is a 3D modeler and has global experience with precious and base metal projects. Following a position as a mapper with the Geological Survey of Western Australia, Dr Munro has spent four years working as an applied structural geologist for industry. He engages in the structural logging of drill core, in addition to both surface and underground mapping, with view to understanding the multi-scale aspects of deposit generation.

Eigil Reverse Fault

Reverse faults are associated with the Discovery Zone copper sulphides, from which high-grade results have previously been reported (GreenX press release, dated 6(th) October, 2021). This set of faulting is now known as Eigil. The Discovery Zone includes 4.5m grading 2.15% Cu and 35.5 g/t Ag (true width, Chip Line #7); and samples from the 3m long Trench #1 grading 5.28% Cu and 112 g/t Ag and 3.55% Cu and 263g/t Ag. (GreenX press release, dated 6 October, 2021). This at-surface copper sulphide mineralisation is known to have a strike extent of more than 2 km trending beneath the shallow cover of the valley.

The review by Dr Mark Munro has identified the Eigil reverse fault, an extension of the Discovery Zone, that trends to the northwest into Independence Fjord. This demonstrates known mineralised structures intersecting the Zig-Zag flood basalts, and further strengthens the ARC's analogy with the prolific and economically significant Keweenaw Peninsula. At this analogy in Michigan, the mineralised reverse faults are the fluid transport conduits for the strata bound native copper deposition in flood basalts, and copper sulphides in the overlying sediments. The Keweenaw Peninsula contained a pre-mining endowment of +7 Mt of copper contained in sulphides and 8.9 Mt of native copper.

Knuth Fault

A second subparallel, northwest-trending reverse fault known as Knuth, is located 7 km to the southwest of Eigil. The Knuth Fault shows similar reverse motion and has never been sampled and represents an entirely new, easily tested zone that is highly prospective for copper mineralisation. Conceptually, Knuth has a similar strike extent to that of Discovery Zone, creating the potential for a new area of high-grade mineralisation.

Valley Fault

A third reverse fault is identified 15 km southwest of Knuth. The JV partners' extrapolation of this fault has it trending towards the Neergaard Dal native copper occurrence. At this occurrence in 1979, Government geologists found native copper clasts in scree below a cliff face with breccia-hosted and basalt-hosted copper mineralisation.

A new feature identified by Dr Munro is a fault that roughly trends north-south to NNE-SSW striking (defined by the Neergaard Valley) with indications of a west-side-up, east-side-down movement. The Valley Fault may also have a reverse movement given the compression from an ancient mountain building event to the east. Both native copper and copper sulphides are known to occur at the confluence of the Valley Fault and the younger orthogonal reverse faults(2) .

These observations are important as they reduce the number of faults to be examined and provide targets that can quickly be evaluated in the field. Consequently, the search space and hence exploration costs have been reduced, and timelines shortened.

Historical Data Secured - New Native Copper OccurRences Identified

The JV has secured digitised notebooks from the Government's reconnaissance field work that was performed in the area in 1979 and 1980. Valuable new information about sites of native copper was gained from translating these notebooks. Despite being very brief, the field work identified numerous examples of native copper in association with the basalt rocks in Neergaard Valley, the main north-south oriented feature of the Minik Anomaly (GreenX press release dated 6 October 2021).

What is particularly striking is that in the centre of this anomaly there is a historical description of native copper occurring in both breccias (fissures) and gas-cavities occurring near one another. At the Keweenaw Peninsula, native copper specimens weighing over 500 tonnes were mined from fissures and underpinned the original 'gold'-rush. However, it was the copper found in gas-cavities within the flood basalts that underpinned much of the 99-year mining history of the district. The historical description of fissure copper next to cavity-hosted copper within ARC adds strong support to the Keweenaw analogy as well as evidence of a vigorous (favourable), breccia inducing mineralisation event. The JV partners will investigate this site as a matter of priority during the 2022 field program.

Regional Developments

During early December 2021, Ironbark Zinc (ASX:IBG) announced that it secured a Preliminary Project Letter approval for a US$657m loan from the US Government's EXIM Bank for the development of Ironbark's Citronen lead-zinc project. The Citronen project is located approximately 150 km further north than ARC. The loan, if approved, will mean that the United States is financing most of the cost of developing the strategically important Citronen project. This project will include the construction of an airstrip and port at Citronen, which may provide infrastructure support for a future development at ARC.

Greenland has been increasingly recognised as one of the last great mineral frontiers, with interest from leading miners and commodities houses including Anglo American, Glencore, Trafigura, and IGO. More recently, major foreign governments have also stepped in to support and finance mineral development projects. The Australian Financial Review reported that Greenland 'has found itself in the middle of a geopolitical great game', with the funding for Citronen '[surfing] a wave of geopolitical project funding' in the Arctic region. The United States and the European Union are now all making concrete moves to finance mineral projects in Greenland.

ABOUT THE ARCTIC RIFT COPPER PROJECT

The Arctic Rift Copper Project is an exploration joint venture between GreenX and GEX. GRX can earn 80% of ARC by spending A$10 M by October 2026. The ARC Project is targeting large scale copper in multiple settings across a 5,774 km(2) Special Exploration Licence in eastern North Greenland. The area has been historically underexplored yet is prospective for copper, forming part of the newly identified Kiffaanngissuseq metallogenic province. This province is thought to be analogous to the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan, USA, which contained a pre-mining endowment of +7 Mt of copper contained in sulphides and 8.9 Mt of native copper. Like Keweenaw, ARC is known to contain at surface, high-grade copper sulphides, 'fissure' native copper, and native copper contained in what were formerly gas bubbles and layers between lava flows.

-S-

Competent Persons Statement

Information in this announcement that relates to Exploration Results is based on information compiled by Dr Jonathan Bell, a Competent Person who is a member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG). Dr Bell is the Managing Director of Greenfields Exploration Limited and holds an indirect interest in performance rights in Prairie. Dr Bell has sufficient experience that is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity being undertaken, to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2012 Edition of the 'Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves'. Dr Bell consents to the inclusion in this announcement of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.

To view this announcement in full, including all illustrations and figures, please refer to www.greenxmetals.com .

References

(1) Munro, Mark (2021). "Structural Review of the Arctic Rift Copper Project, Greenland", Munro Geoscience Pty Ltd

(2) While available data highlights reverse components along a number of the Northwest-trending faults, key exposures suggest that some record extensional (normal) activation. This suggests a history of potential reactivation.

 
         JORC Table 1, section 2: Reporting of Exploration Results 
------------------------------------------------------------------ 
        Criteria   Arctic 
                    Rift 
                    Copper 
                    project 
         Mineral                         The 
        tenement                        Arctic 
             and                         Rift 
            land                        Copper 
          tenure                       project 
          status                       ('ARC') 
                                      comprises 
                                          a 
                                        single 
                                       Special 
                                     Exploration 
                                       Licence 
                                       ('MEL-S' 
                                      2021-07). 
                                         The 
                                       spatial 
                                         area 
                                          of 
                                         the 
                                     application 
                                          is 
                                      5,774km(2) 
                                          , 
                                         the 
                                       boundary 
                                          of 
                                        which 
                                          is 
                                       defined 
                                          by 
                                         the 
                                       points: 
                                      82deg3'N, 
                                      29deg18'W 
                                      81deg35'N, 
                                       26deg8'W 
                                      82deg3'N, 
                                      25deg41'W 
                                      81deg30'N, 
                                       26deg8'W 
                                      82deg0'N, 
                                      25deg41'W 
                                      81deg30'N, 
                                      26deg54'W 
                                      82deg0'N, 
                                      25deg43'W 
                                      81deg25'N, 
                                      26deg54'W 
                                      81deg59'N, 
                                      25deg43'W 
                                      81deg25'N, 
                                      28deg20'W 
                                      81deg59'N, 
                                      25deg44'W 
                                      81deg21'N, 
                                      28deg20'W 
                                      81deg58'N, 
                                      25deg44'W 
                                      81deg21'N, 
                                      29deg35'W 
                                      81deg58'N, 
                                      25deg46'W 
                                      81deg19'N, 
                                      29deg35'W 
                                      81deg56'N, 
                                      25deg46'W 
                                      81deg19'N, 
                                       31deg0'W 
                                      81deg56'N, 
                                      25deg48'W 
                                      81deg27'N, 
                                       31deg0'W 
                                      81deg55'N, 
                                      25deg48'W 
                                      81deg27'N, 
                                      31deg42'W 
                                      81deg55'N, 
                                      25deg50'W 
                                      81deg34'N, 
                                      31deg42'W 
                                      81deg53'N, 
                                      25deg50'W 
                                      81deg34'N, 
                                       32deg7'W 
                                      81deg53'N, 
                                      25deg52'W 
                                      81deg51'N, 
                                       32deg7'W 
                                      81deg50'N, 
                                      25deg52'W 
                                      81deg51'N, 
                                       31deg0'W 
                                      81deg50'N, 
                                      25deg54'W 
                                      81deg54'N, 
                                       31deg0'W 
                                      81deg46'N, 
                                      25deg54'W 
                                      81deg54'N, 
                                      30deg18'W 
                                      81deg46'N, 
                                      25deg55'W 
                                      81deg58'N, 
                                      30deg18'W 
                                      81deg35'N, 
                                      25deg55'W 
                                      81deg58'N, 
                                      29deg18'W 
 
                                          An 
                                        MEL-S 
                                       confers 
                                          an 
                                      exclusive 
                                        right 
                                          to 
                                       explore 
                                         for 
                                       mineral 
                                         for 
                                        three 
                                        years 
                                          at 
                                          a 
                                       reduced 
                                       holding 
                                        cost, 
                                       provided 
                                         each 
                                       licence 
                                        covers 
                                         more 
                                         than 
                                      1,000km(2) 
                                          . 
                                        After 
                                        three 
                                        years, 
                                         the 
                                        holder 
                                          of 
                                       Special 
                                     Exploration 
                                       Licence 
                                         has 
                                         the 
                                        right 
                                          to 
                                       convert 
                                         the 
                                        area, 
                                        whole 
                                          or 
                                          in 
                                        part, 
                                          to 
                                     conventional 
                                     Exploration 
                                      Licences. 
                                         Due 
                                          to 
                                         the 
                                     Coronavirus 
                                      pandemic, 
                                         all 
                                       licence 
                                      obligation 
                                          in 
                                      Greenland 
                                         have 
                                         been 
                                        paused 
                                        until 
                                         the 
                                         end 
                                          of 
                                        2021, 
                                         such 
                                         that 
                                         the 
                                        MEL-S 
                                         can 
                                       convert 
                                          to 
                                          a 
                                        normal 
                                       licence 
                                          at 
                                         the 
                                         end 
                                          of 
                                        2024. 
 
                                         The 
                                       minimum 
                                     expenditure 
                                      obligation 
                                         for 
                                          a 
                                        MEL-S 
                                          is 
                                     DKK500/km(2) 
                                       indexed 
                                          to 
                                        Danish 
                                         CPI 
                                          as 
                                          of 
                                       January 
                                        1992. 
                                         The 
                                         GEX 
                                      estimates 
                                         the 
                                     expenditure 
                                     requirement 
                                         will 
                                          be 
                                    approximately 
                                     AUD1,080,000 
                                         per 
                                        annum. 
                                       However, 
                                         the 
                                      Government 
                                         has 
                                        waived 
                                         all 
                                     expenditure 
                                     obligations 
                                         for 
                                         2020 
                                         and 
                                        2021, 
                                         and 
                                          as 
                                        such, 
                                          no 
                                       holding 
                                         cost 
                                          of 
                                         the 
                                       licence 
                                         will 
                                     crystallise 
                                        until 
                                          31 
                                       December 
                                        2022. 
                                         The 
                                      obligation 
                                         for 
                                         2022 
                                         will 
                                          be 
                                      calculated 
                                          on 
                                          1 
                                       January 
                                         2023 
                                        based 
                                          on 
                                         the 
                                         area 
                                        under 
                                       licence 
                                          on 
                                          a 
                                      preceding 
                                         day. 
                                     Expenditure 
                                        above 
                                         the 
                                       minimum 
                                      regulatory 
                                     requirement 
                                          is 
                                       carried 
                                       forward 
                                         for 
                                          a 
                                       maximum 
                                          of 
                                        three 
                                        years. 
                                         ARC 
                                          is 
                                          in 
                                         good 
                                      standing. 
 
                                        There 
                                         are 
                                          no 
                                     third-party 
                                      royalties 
                                          or 
                                        other 
                                        rights 
                                       relating 
                                          to 
                                         ARC. 
     Exploration   North 
            done    Greenland 
              by    was 
           other    first 
         parties    commercially 
                    explored 
                    in 
                    1969 
                    and 
                    1972, 
                    which 
                    identified 
                    native 
                    copper 
                    and 
                    copper 
                    sulphides 
                    in 
                    eastern 
                    North 
                    Greenland. 
                    It 
                    wasn't 
                    until 
                    1979 
                    and 
                    1980 
                    that 
                    more 
                    substantive 
                    work 
                    was 
                    performed, 
                    this 
                    time 
                    by 
                    the 
                    Government. 
                    ARC 
                    was 
                    subject 
                    to 
                    commercial 
                    exploration 
                    by 
                    Avannaa 
                    Resources 
                    Limited 
                    ('Avannaa') 
                    in 
                    2010 
                    and 
                    2011. 
                    In 
                    its 
                    first 
                    year, 
                    Avannaa 
                    focussed 
                    its 
                    work 
                    in 
                    a 
                    small 
                    area 
                    in 
                    the 
                    northern 
                    part 
                    of 
                    the 
                    licence 
                    area 
                    known 
                    as 
                    Neergaard 
                    North. 
                    This 
                    work 
                    focussed 
                    on 
                    historical 
                    Government 
                    and 
                    academic 
                    work 
                    that 
                    had 
                    identified 
                    highly 
                    anomalous 
                    copper 
                    mineralisation. 
                    In 
                    2010, 
                    the 
                    work 
                    included 
                    geochemical 
                    soil 
                    sampling, 
                    rock 
                    chipping 
                    and 
                    trenching 
                    of 
                    high-grade 
                    material 
                    associated 
                    with 
                    a 
                    NW-SE 
                    trending 
                    fault 
                    breccias. 
                    Based 
                    on 
                    the 
                    success 
                    of 
                    the 
                    2010 
                    program, 
                    Avannaa 
                    undertook 
                    a 
                    much 
                    larger 
                    regional 
                    reconnaissance 
                    program 
                    in 
                    2011. 
                    This 
                    program 
                    involved 
                    a 
                    heli-supported 
                    geochemical 
                    sampling 
                    program 
                    over 
                    a 
                    large 
                    area 
                    designed 
                    to 
                    test 
                    the 
                    copper 
                    prospectivity 
                    of 
                    various 
                    stratigraphic 
                    positions, 
                    as 
                    well 
                    as 
                    extending 
                    the 
                    length 
                    of 
                    the 
                    'Discovery 
                    Zone' 
                    identified 
                    in 
                    2010. 
                    Both 
                    aspects 
                    of 
                    this 
                    program 
                    were 
                    successful 
                    in 
                    that 
                    the 
                    Discovery 
                    Zone 
                    was 
                    shown 
                    to 
                    have 
                    a 
                    minimum 
                    strike 
                    length 
                    of 
                    2km 
                    before 
                    disappearing 
                    undercover; 
                    and 
                    that 
                    certain 
                    stratigraphic 
                    horizons 
                    show 
                    copper 
                    anomalism 
                    over 
                    a 
                    significant 
                    lateral 
                    extent. 
                    However, 
                    much 
                    of 
                    the 
                    extended 
                    area 
                    explored 
                    by 
                    Avannaa 
                    was 
                    located 
                    to 
                    the 
                    southeast 
                    of 
                    the 
                    ARC 
                    and 
                    is 
                    now 
                    located 
                    in 
                    a 
                    Government-mandated 
                    no-go 
                    zone 
                    for 
                    mineral 
                    exploration. 
         Geology 
                     ARC 
                     contains 
                     a 
                     sequence 
                     of 
                     Mesoproterozoic-aged 
                     sediments 
                     sandstones 
                     belonging 
                     to 
                     the 
                     Independence 
                     Fjord 
                     Basin 
                     that 
                     have 
                     been 
                     intruded 
                     by 
                     highly 
                     altered 
                     dolerites 
                     and 
                     overlain 
                     by 
                     1.2km 
                     of 
                     Mesoproterozoic-aged 
                     flood 
                     basalts 
                     ('Zig-Zag 
                     Fm' 
                     basalts). 
                     In 
                     turn, 
                     the 
                     basalts 
                     are 
                     overlain 
                     by 
                     1.1km 
                     of 
                     Neoproterozoic-aged 
                     (1,000M 
                     to 
                     541M 
                     years 
                     ago) 
                     clastic 
                     and 
                     carbonate 
                     sediments 
                     belonging 
                     to 
                     the 
                     Hagen 
                     Fjord 
                     Group. 
                     The 
                     lower 
                     portion 
                     of 
                     the 
                     Hagen 
                     Fjord 
                     Group 
                     is 
                     dominated 
                     by 
                     sandstones 
                     and 
                     siltstones, 
                     and 
                     the 
                     upper 
                     part 
                     by 
                     limestone 
                     and 
                     dolomites. 
                     Based 
                     on 
                     stream 
                     sediment 
                     samples, 
                     the 
                     iron 
                     oxide 
                     minerals 
                     switch 
                     from 
                     magnetite 
                     to 
                     the 
                     east 
                     of 
                     ARC, 
                     to 
                     haematite 
                     within 
                     ARC, 
                     which 
                     reflects 
                     a 
                     change 
                     in 
                     fluid 
                     oxidation 
                     state 
                     (from 
                     reduced 
                     to 
                     oxidised). 
                     Fluid 
                     flow 
                     is 
                     from 
                     east 
                     to 
                     west 
                     which 
                     implies 
                     that 
                     oxidation 
                     is 
                     a 
                     component 
                     of 
                     the 
                     copper 
                     dropping 
                     out 
                     of 
                     solution. 
                     The 
                     oxidation 
                     of 
                     a 
                     reduced 
                     fluid 
                     is 
                     consistent 
                     with 
                     the 
                     chemistry 
                     required 
                     to 
                     form 
                     native 
                     copper 
                     such 
                     as 
                     that 
                     observed 
                     in 
                     ARC. 
                     The 
                     metamorphic 
                     grade 
                     of 
                     the 
                     Zig-Zag 
                     Fm 
                     basalts 
                     is 
                     of 
                     the 
                     zeolite 
                     facies, 
                     and 
                     the 
                     Hagen 
                     Fjord 
                     Group 
                     sediments 
                     show 
                     lower 
                     grade 
                     metamorphism. 
                     There 
                     is 
                     adequate 
                     preservation 
                     aside 
                     from 
                     mechanical 
                     erosion. 
 
                     Commercially 
                     interesting 
                     copper 
                     mineralisation 
                     occurs 
                     in 
                     both 
                     the 
                     basalts 
                     and 
                     Hagen 
                     Fjord 
                     Group 
                     sediments. 
                     The 
                     basalts 
                     are 
                     known 
                     to 
                     contain 
                     in 
                     situ 
                     native 
                     copper, 
                     and 
                     native 
                     copper 
                     is 
                     found 
                     extensively 
                     in 
                     the 
                     surrounding 
                     drainage 
                     systems. 
                     Significantly, 
                     the 
                     native 
                     copper 
                     specimens 
                     recovered 
                     by 
                     the 
                     Government 
                     in 
                     1979, 
                     and 
                     by 
                     Avannaa 
                     in 
                     2010 
                     measured 
                     17cm 
                     and 
                     weighed 
                     up 
                     to 
                     1kg 
                     respectively. 
                     These 
                     large 
                     native 
                     copper 
                     specimens 
                     are 
                     thought 
                     to 
                     originate 
                     from 
                     amygdales 
                     (gas 
                     voids) 
                     in 
                     the 
                     basalt, 
                     although 
                     native 
                     copper 
                     occurring 
                     in 
                     faults 
                     is 
                     also 
                     known 
                     to 
                     occur 
                     within 
                     ARC. 
                     Greenfields 
                     considers 
                     that 
                     the 
                     age, 
                     setting, 
                     and 
                     mineral 
                     composition 
                     makes 
                     the 
                     Zig-Zag 
                     Fm 
                     copper 
                     analogous 
                     to 
                     the 
                     copper 
                     deposits 
                     of 
                     the 
                     Michigan 
                     Upper 
                     (Keweenaw) 
                     Peninsula, 
                     and 
                     a 
                     primary 
                     source 
                     of 
                     copper 
                     for 
                     the 
                     anomalies 
                     reported 
                     in 
                     the 
                     overlying 
                     sediments. 
                     The 
                     fault 
                     breccias 
                     that 
                     transect 
                     the 
                     basalts 
                     and 
                     Neoproterozoic 
                     sediments 
                     are 
                     interpreted 
                     by 
                     the 
                     Company 
                     to 
                     represent 
                     fluid 
                     pathways 
                     as 
                     there 
                     are 
                     zones 
                     of 
                     intense 
                     potassium 
                     alteration 
                     within 
                     the 
                     surrounding 
                     quartz 
                     dominated 
                     sedimentary 
                     rocks. 
                     These 
                     breccias, 
                     which 
                     are 
                     up 
                     to 
                     25m 
                     wide, 
                     show 
                     copper 
                     mineralisation. 
                     The 
                     chalcocite 
                     and 
                     chalcopyrite 
                     copper-bearing 
                     minerals 
                     are 
                     significant 
                     as 
                     they 
                     demonstrate 
                     that 
                     sulphur 
                     has 
                     been 
                     added 
                     into 
                     a 
                     previously 
                     sulphur-undersaturated 
                     system. 
                     A 
                     source 
                     of 
                     sulphur 
                     is 
                     generally 
                     considered 
                     an 
                     important 
                     factor 
                     in 
                     the 
                     sediment-hosted 
                     copper 
                     'deposit 
                     model'. 
                     Other 
                     important 
                     components 
                     of 
                     the 
                     deposit 
                     model 
                     are 
                     also 
                     reported, 
                     including 
                     pseudomorphed 
                     gypsum 
                     (a 
                     source 
                     of 
                     sulphur, 
                     and 
                     copper 
                     mobilising 
                     salts), 
                     hydrogeologic 
                     seals, 
                     and 
                     contrasting 
                     oxidation 
                     states. 
                     Copper 
                     sulphides 
                     occur 
                     in 
                     the 
                     predicted 
                     geological 
                     lithological 
                     settings. 
                     The 
                     highest 
                     copper 
                     grades 
                     are 
                     close 
                     to 
                     geophysical 
                     gravity, 
                     magnetic 
                     and 
                     electromagnetic 
                     anomalies. 
                     The 
                     640 
                     km(2) 
                     area 
                     of 
                     geophysical 
                     and 
                     geochemical 
                     anomalism 
                     is 
                     dubbed 
                     the 
                     Minik 
                     Anomaly 
                     (or 
                     'Singularity' 
                     in 
                     the 
                     supporting 
                     Technical 
                     Assessment 
                     Report) 
 
                     The 
                     age 
                     of 
                     the 
                     known 
                     mineralisation 
                     concerns 
                     at 
                     least 
                     two 
                     episodes. 
                     The 
                     Company 
                     identifies 
                     the 
                     Elzevirian 
                     Orogeny 
                     (c. 
                     1,250Ma) 
                     as 
                     the 
                     likely 
                     event 
                     associated 
                     with 
                     the 
                     native 
                     copper 
                     mineralisation 
                     in 
                     the 
                     basalts. 
                     However, 
                     the 
                     Neoproterozoic-aged 
                     sediment-hosted 
                     copper 
                     sulphides 
                     demonstrate 
                     that 
                     there 
                     was 
                     a 
                     second 
                     mineralising 
                     event 
                     associated 
                     with 
                     the 
                     waning 
                     Caledonian 
                     Orogeny 
                     (c. 
                     390 
                     to 
                     380 
                     Ma) 
                     The 
                     Elzevirian 
                     and 
                     Caledonian 
                     orogenies 
                     have 
                     a 
                     similar 
                     orientation. 
                     The 
                     c. 
                     385 
                     maximum 
                     age 
                     is 
                     supported 
                     by 
                     the 
                     absence 
                     of 
                     mineralisation 
                     known 
                     to 
                     younger 
                     than 
                     the 
                     Silurian 
                     Period 
                     (443.8 
                     Ma 
                     to 
                     419.2 
                     Ma). 
                     The 
                     Silurian 
                     is 
                     associated 
                     with 
                     the 
                     formation 
                     of 
                     the 
                     Citronen 
                     zinc 
                     deposit, 
                     currently 
                     licenced 
                     by 
                     Ironbark 
                     Zinc 
                     Ltd. 
                     Greenfields 
                     considers 
                     Citronen 
                     and 
                     ARC's 
                     copper 
                     sulphides 
                     to 
                     have 
                     formed 
                     due 
                     to 
                     the 
                     same 
                     event. 
                     The 
                     known 
                     copper 
                     and 
                     zinc, 
                     combined 
                     with 
                     a 
                     Greenfields 
                     interpreted 
                     geological 
                     history, 
                     geochronology, 
                     and 
                     hydrothermal 
                     fluid 
                     temperatures, 
                     to 
                     define 
                     the 
                     +60,000km(2) 
                     Kiffaanngissuseq 
                     Metallogenic 
                     Province. 
 
                     The 
                     basal 
                     flows 
                     of 
                     the 
                     Zig-Zag 
                     Fm 
                     basalts 
                     show 
                     a 
                     marked 
                     depletion 
                     in 
                     nickel. 
                     Such 
                     a 
                     depletion 
                     suggests 
                     that 
                     the 
                     nickel 
                     may 
                     have 
                     been 
                     deposited 
                     into 
                     sulphides 
                     and 
                     conceptually, 
                     as 
                     nickel 
                     sulphide 
                     deposit. 
                     There 
                     has 
                     been 
                     no 
                     effective 
                     commercial 
                     work 
                     on 
                     testing 
                     the 
                     nickel 
                     sulphide 
                     potential. 
                     Pentlandite, 
                     a 
                     nickel-bearing 
                     sulphide, 
                     is 
                     observed 
                     in 
                     at 
                     least 
                     one 
                     of 
                     the 
                     intrusions 
                     beneath 
                     the 
                     basalts. 
                     There 
                     is 
                     no 
                     other 
                     evidence 
                     upon 
                     which 
                     the 
                     nickel-sulphide 
                     prospectivity 
                     can 
                     be 
                     evaluated 
                     at 
                     this 
                     stage. 
 
                     The 
                     known 
                     copper 
                     mineralisation, 
                     both 
                     sulphide 
                     and 
                     native, 
                     appears 
                     to 
                     have 
                     a 
                     structural 
                     control. 
                     An 
                     independent 
                     structural 
                     geologist, 
                     Dr 
                     Mark 
                     Munro, 
                     conducted 
                     a 
                     review 
                     of 
                     ARC 
                     and 
                     confirmed 
                     that 
                     in 
                     an 
                     area 
                     otherwise 
                     dominated 
                     by 
                     normal 
                     faulting, 
                     the 
                     there 
                     is 
                     clear 
                     evidence 
                     of 
                     reverse 
                     faulting 
                     which 
                     GEX 
                     observes 
                     to 
                     correlate 
                     with 
                     the 
                     known 
                     mineralisation. 
                     This 
                     review 
                     was 
                     based 
                     on 
                     satellite 
                     imagery, 
                     as 
                     well 
                     as 
                     oblique 
                     photography 
                     of 
                     the 
                     fjords 
                     taken 
                     in 
                     1979/1980. 
                     Dr 
                     Munro's 
                     review 
                     also 
                     included 
                     GEX's 
                     revised 
                     lithological 
                     and 
                     structural 
                     mapping 
                     based 
                     on 
                     the 
                     same 
                     data, 
                     and 
                     largely 
                     concurred 
                     with 
                     GEX's 
                     interpretation 
                     relative 
                     to 
                     the 
                     historical 
                     mapping. 
                     This 
                     reverse 
                     faulting 
                     does 
                     not 
                     appear 
                     to 
                     have 
                     been 
                     previously 
                     reported 
                     in 
                     the 
                     literature. 
                     Furthermore, 
                     and 
                     new 
                     to 
                     GEX's 
                     understanding 
                     was 
                     that 
                     Dr 
                     Munro 
                     identified 
                     that 
                     Neergaard 
                     Valley 
                     ('Dal' 
                     in 
                     Danish) 
                     as 
                     being 
                     a 
                     fault 
                     with 
                     a 
                     west 
                     side 
                     up 
                     motion, 
                     possibly 
                     in 
                     a 
                     shortening 
                     motion. 
                     At 
                     the 
                     analogous 
                     Keweenaw 
                     Peninsula, 
                     reverse 
                     faulting 
                     is 
                     considered 
                     a 
                     primary 
                     control 
                     on 
                     copper 
                     mineralisation, 
                     and 
                     it 
                     closely 
                     associated 
                     with 
                     both 
                     the 
                     native 
                     copper 
                     and 
                     copper 
                     sulphides 
                     in 
                     Michigan. 
 
                     An 
                     interactive 
                     Government 
                     portal 
                     that 
                     contains 
                     the 
                     geology, 
                     and 
                     supporting 
                     reports 
                     can 
                     be 
                     accessed 
                     via: 
                     http://www.greenmin.gl/home.seam 
                     . 
                     A 
                     fully 
                     referenced 
                     Technical 
                     Assessment 
                     Report 
                     on 
                     ARC, 
                     can 
                     be 
                     accessed 
                     at 
                     http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.18610.84161 
                     . 
           Drill   No 
            hole    drilling 
     information    has 
                    ever 
                    occurred 
                    within 
                    the 
                    ARC 
                    or 
                    in 
                    the 
                    surrounding 
                    area. 
            Data   All 
     aggregation    historical 
         methods    assay 
                    results 
                    presented 
                    in 
                    this 
                    release 
                    are 
                    based 
                    on 
                    those 
                    published 
                    by 
                    third 
                    parties. 
                    Greenfields 
                    has 
                    made 
                    a 
                    point 
                    of 
                    reporting 
                    the 
                    weighted-averages 
                    and 
                    has 
                    avoided 
                    individual 
                    high-grade 
                    results 
                    that 
                    may 
                    not 
                    be 
                    representative 
                    of 
                    the 
                    mineral 
                    system. 
                    No 
                    bottom- 
                    or 
                    top-cuts 
                    have 
                    been 
                    applied. 
                    No 
                    metal 
                    equivalent 
                    calculations 
                    have 
                    been 
                    performed. 
                   The 
    Relationship    reported 
         between    historical 
  mineralisation    trenching 
           width    and 
             and    channelling 
       intercept    results 
        lengths.    are 
                    presented 
                    on 
                    both 
                    'as 
                    is' 
                    sub-perpendicular 
                    intersection, 
                    and 
                    where 
                    available 
                    estimates 
                    are 
                    available, 
                    true-width 
                    basis. 
                    Accompanying 
                    statements 
                    accompany 
                    all 
                    true-width 
                    estimates. 
                    No 
                    sub-parallel 
                    or 
                    parallel 
                    sample 
                    intervals 
                    were 
                    collected 
                    or 
                    disclosed. 
                    These 
                    results 
                    are 
                    disclosed 
                    in 
                    GRX's 
                    news 
                    release 
                    dated 
                    6 
                    October 
                    2021. 
        Diagrams   All 
                    relevant 
                    maps 
                    are 
                    presented 
                    in 
                    the 
                    main 
                    body 
                    of 
                    this 
                    document, 
                    with 
                    additional 
                    tables 
                    and 
                    figures 
                    available 
                    in 
                    the 
                    Technical 
                    Assessment 
                    Report 
                    and 
                    the 
                    GRX 
                    news 
                    release 
                    dated 
                    6 
                    October 
                    2021. 
        Balanced   Greenfields 
       reporting    has 
                    sourced 
                    and 
                    reasonably 
                    presented 
                    the 
                    relevant 
                    results, 
                    where 
                    available. 
                    The 
                    reader 
                    is 
                    cautioned 
                    that 
                    geochemical 
                    rock 
                    chip 
                    samples, 
                    by 
                    their 
                    nature, 
                    are 
                    not 
                    representative 
                    samples. 
                    Geochemical 
                    rock 
                    chip 
                    samples 
                    are 
                    erratically 
                    collected, 
                    lack 
                    scale 
                    and 
                    design. 
                    Geochemical 
                    results 
                    must 
                    be 
                    viewed 
                    as 
                    empirical 
                    evidence 
                    of 
                    anomalism, 
                    and 
                    not 
                    as 
                    a 
                    representative 
                    indication 
                    of 
                    mineralisation. 
                    Furthermore, 
                    due 
                    to 
                    the 
                    historical 
                    nature 
                    of 
                    the 
                    samples, 
                    it 
                    is 
                    not 
                    possible 
                    at 
                    the 
                    time 
                    of 
                    publication, 
                    to 
                    perform 
                    checks 
                    and 
                    balances 
                    on 
                    the 
                    numbers 
                    quoted 
                    in 
                    the 
                    literature. 
           Other   In 
     substantive    1998, 
     exploration    the 
            data    Government 
                    conducted 
                    an 
                    airborne 
                    electromagnetic 
                    survey 
                    in 
                    the 
                    north 
                    of 
                    the 
                    ARC. 
                    The 
                    flight 
                    lines 
                    were 
                    carried 
                    out 
                    at 
                    an 
                    altitude 
                    of 
                    120m 
                    above 
                    ground 
                    on 
                    a 
                    400m 
                    line 
                    spacing. 
                    The 
                    geophysical 
                    data 
                    is 
                    freely 
                    available 
                    on 
                    the 
                    Government 
                    portal. 
                    Sediment-hosted 
                    copper 
                    typically 
                    does 
                    not 
                    respond 
                    to 
                    most 
                    geophysical 
                    methods 
                    and 
                    as 
                    such, 
                    the 
                    data 
                    is 
                    not 
                    suited 
                    to 
                    direct-detection. 
                    The 
                    only 
                    exception 
                    is 
                    3D 
                    induced 
                    polarisation 
                    methods 
                    that 
                    have 
                    not 
                    been 
                    conducted 
                    in 
                    ARC. 
                    However, 
                    Greenfields 
                    identifies 
                    that 
                    the 
                    magnetic 
                    anomaly 
                    is 
                    coincident 
                    with 
                    a 
                    gravity 
                    anomaly 
                    and 
                    interprets 
                    this 
                    signature 
                    to 
                    represent 
                    an 
                    iron-enriched 
                    hydrothermal 
                    footprint. 
                    Native 
                    copper 
                    and 
                    copper 
                    sulphides 
                    occur 
                    within 
                    this 
                    anomaly. 
                    No 
                    bulk 
                    density, 
                    geotechnical, 
                    metallurgical, 
                    rock 
                    characterisation, 
                    or 
                    groundwater 
                    analysis 
                    has 
                    been 
                    performed. 
                    Greenfields 
                    is 
                    unaware 
                    of 
                    any 
                    deleterious 
                    or 
                    contaminating 
                    substances 
                    associated 
                    with 
                    the 
                    known 
                    mineralisation. 
         Further   Despite 
            work    the 
                    highly 
                    encouraging 
                    results 
                    and 
                    strong 
                    indications 
                    of 
                    a 
                    large 
                    mineral 
                    system, 
                    the 
                    ARC 
                    is 
                    at 
                    an 
                    early 
                    stage 
                    of 
                    exploration. 
                    Greenfields 
                    has 
                    tightly 
                    constrained 
                    the 
                    main 
                    mineralising 
                    events, 
                    but 
                    currently 
                    only 
                    2D 
                    data 
                    are 
                    available. 
                    Obtaining 
                    3D 
                    data 
                    down 
                    to 
                    the 
                    basement 
                    of 
                    the 
                    basins 
                    will 
                    help 
                    in 
                    modelling 
                    the 
                    movement 
                    of 
                    metal 
                    rich 
                    fluids. 
                    Due 
                    to 
                    the 
                    extensive 
                    outcrop, 
                    high-quality 
                    rock 
                    sampling 
                    is 
                    recommended 
                    to 
                    provide 
                    a 
                    baseline 
                    geochemical 
                    profile 
                    in 
                    addition 
                    to 
                    quantifying 
                    the 
                    copper-silver 
                    grade 
                    of 
                    the 
                    samples. 
 

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