About Rubicon Resources
- Rubicon Resources Limited (Rubicon) listed in February 2007 after a successful IPO to fund exploration programs on its Projects.
- Rubicon is a focused exploration company with a large and diverse tenement portfolio, predominantly located in Western Australia. The majority of these tenements are strategically located in highly productive mineralised belts.
- Rubicon is exploring principally for gold and copper; commodities that are trading at excellent prices with strong future prospects.
- Rubicon has an excellent portfolio of joint ventures funded by respected companies to supplement its own exploration activities.
Projects
A portfolio covering approximately 7,000 square kilometres of tenements prospective for gold, copper-gold and/or copper-lead-zinc deposits, including:
- The 2,900 km² Warburton Project, located in the Western Musgrave Province, with known copper mineralisation and strong potential for stratabound copper deposits and copper-nickel deposits. Rubicon is exploring in partnership with major shareholder Vale EA Australia Pty Ltd.
- The 950 km² Yindarlgooda Project centred 50 kilometres east of Kalgoorlie, with gold and volcanic massive sulphide (VMS) base metal potential and known gold mineralisation present. Rubicon has four separate joint ventures at Yindarlgooda with combined potential expenditures of $7.9m.
- The 800 km² Celia Project located in the southern Laverton Tectonic Zone, one of Australia's premier gold provinces.
- The 1,200 km² Desdemona Project located along the productive Keith Kilkenny Fault Zone southeast of Leonora, prospective for gold and VMS base metals.
- The Bencubbin Project located north of Merredin, where gold mineralisation has been defined by limited previous exploration.
- The Erlistoun Project, located north of Laverton with good gold prospctivity.
- The Wyloo Project in the western Pilbara with potential for Channel Iron Deposits.
- The 1,620 km² Canobie Project in the northern part of the Mt Isa Inlier in Queensland with prospectivity for IOCG and Mt Isa-style base metal deposits.
Proven and Experienced Board and Management
- Rubicon has a highly skilled and experienced Board and management team in exploration, project evaluation and acquisition, feasibility studies, project development, mine operating and public company corporate skills.
- The Board and management are suitably experienced to oversee the Company's development and apply modern exploration techniques cost effectively to obtain maximum benefit from exploration funds.