It sure is getting media...

It sure is getting media coverage.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/opinion/post/-/blog/14166215/gold-explorer-makes-play-for-titanium-project/

Key points to take out of the article:

- 70 million tonnes of JORC-classified resources in the indicated and inferred categories grading better than 7% titanium dioxide

- 20-year mine producing 250,000 tonnes a year of titanium pigment for European markets

- Cove has already held talks with port authorities in Kokkola and potential off take partners




Gold explorer makes play for titanium project
Sean Smith | View Archive July 9, 2012, 7:22 am

Fledgling gold explorer Cove Resources is heading off in a new direction with the aim of producing titanium pigment in Europe within three years.

Cove, which went into a trading halt last Thursday, is expected to tomorrow reveal an $11 million cash and scrip deal to buy an advanced-stage titanium project in Finland from a UAE-based investment company.

The agreement is believed to cover the Koivu project, 60km south-east of the Finnish port city of Kokkola in the country’s west.

Koivu contains nearly 70 million tonnes of JORC-classified resources in the indicated and inferred categories grading better than 7 per cent titanium dioxide, which is widely used in the paint and plastics industries.

Initial studies support the case for a 20-year mine producing 250,000 tonnes a year of titanium pigment for European markets, with the project economics potentially enhanced by magnetite and phosphorus by-products.

It is believed Cove has already held talks with port authorities in Kokkola and potential off take partners as part of its due diligence process. The deal represents the second transformational shake-up of a company which only listed on the Australian Securities Exchange 18 months ago via a $4.5 million exploration float focused on WA’s Eastern Goldfields.

Little more than 10 months later, however, the company added base metals and iron ore exploration interests in the Pilbara via a scrip-based purchase of the privately-owned Blenheim Resources.

Blenheim’s principals, Grant Freeman and Garry Hemming, emerged from the tie-up with a swag of options and performance options in Cove as well as management control, Freeman becoming a non executive director and Hemming the managing director.

Cove held just $2.5 million at its last report for the end of March, suggesting it may have to go back to market to raise the $3 million-plus cash component for Koivu, though the payment may well be staggered over a couple of years.

The company has found little share price joy in gold, having bounced out of the blocks after its float to a high of 32¢.

The stock last traded above its issue price of 20¢ nearly a year ago and, at its last trade of 10¢, is skirting with record lows.
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