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Batla Minerals

Batla Minerals SA is a French resource investment company that

successfully listed a portion of its shareholding on the NYSE

Euronext (Marche Libre) in France in May 2007 (ticker: MLBAT).

Our Business

We focus on exploiting our core skills and expertise in the diamond sector.

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Strategy

Effectively and efficiently manage the working of weathered kimberlite, alluvial and eluvial diamond sites, as well as treatment of tailings dumps.

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Investor Information

Informative documentation & records, published for our investors

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History

Follow the timeline of our history in a visual PDF.

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Leadership Team

Meet the driving force behind our work & our teams.

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Social Investment

To date, Batla Minerals’ social investment initiatives have been targeted near our most robust project-in Lesotho. The following initiatives have been managed by Alluvial Ventures, our wholly owned subsidiary operating in Lesotho.

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Share Price

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Where we work

Resource: Superkolong, SA

February 2013

El Nino Mining creates 50/50 SPV with Emu NL (Australia) to purchase Superkolong

May 2014

Batla buys out Emu's 50% share.

Batla owns 100% of Superkolong Diamond Operations

August 2014

Batla buys additional 9% of KMF and increases production to 200k+ tons per month

Production/recovery - Superkolong

Superkolong Diamond Operatioins, Kimberley SA
Year ending 31 March 2014 Estimate for year ending 31 March 2015
Number of tons 1.452.562 2 million
Carats 75.715 108.000
Carats / 100 tons 5.21 5.4

Resource: Letšeng Mine, Lesotho

2001

Alluvial Ventures (AV) entered into contract with Lešteng Mine in Lesotho

Feb 2011

Upgraded Letšeng plant with 2 new crushers to handle hard kimberlite

Sept 2011

Reached full production, 100k tons of hard kimberlite per month

CY 2011

Processed 1.08 million tons of ore, recovered 11,238 carats

CY 2014

Processed 988.908 tons of ore, recovered 10,221 carats

Goals:

Production/recovery - Letšeng

Letšeng Mine, Lesotho Year ending 31 March 2013 Year ending 31 March 2014 Estimate for year ending 31 March 2015
Number of tons 1.025.901 988.908 1.020.000
Carats 10.153 10.221 9.155
Carats / 100 tons 0.99 1.03 0.90

Resource: Kolo Mine, Lesotho

Kolo Mine Phased Development

Phase 1

Phase 1

2014-2015 CAPEX & OPEX estimate at $750K

Kolo

Set up processing

Conduct 60K tons pre-mining test

Sekameng

Complete 50K tons bulk sample to verify existence, quality and value of diamonds

Phase 2

Phase 2

2015-2016 CAPEX est. $2Mil OPEX est. $8/ton

Kolo

Make capital investments to increase capabilities and process 50K tons/month

Sekameng

Process a larger bulk sample of 200K tons

Resource Riviera Tungsten

Phase 1 - 2012-2013 CAPEX & OPEX est. $2Mil (secured)

  • Prospect drilling began in March 2012
  • Environment & Impact Study
  • Update resource classification and complete work required for pre-feasibility
  • Achieve an inferred resource classification by CY2013

Phase 2 - 2013+ CAPEX est. $10-15Mil

  • Complete prospect/infill drilling
  • Assay/metallurgical work
  • Scope work on CAPEX
  • Conduct pre-feasibility study
  • Achieve an indicated resource classification

Goals: