Alpha Exploration

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Primary ticker: TSXV:ALEX
Stage of development: Exploration
Primary minerals: Gold, Copper, Zinc
Project to promote: Kerkasha
Project location:  Eritrea
Website: alpha-exploration.com

Alpha (TSX-V:ALEX) is an exploration company that is rapidly advancing a number of important gold and base metal discoveries across its 100% owned, large (771 km2) Kerkasha Project in Eritrea. The Company has made three new, exciting discoveries in the last three years and is managed by a group of highly experienced and successful professionals, with long track records of establishing, building and successfully exiting a number of world class gold and base metals discoveries in Eritrea, and across the wider Arabian Nubian Shield.

The Aburna Gold Prospect is an exciting new gold discovery where recent drilling has established a high-grade discovery with grades including 18m @ 15.33 g/t Au, 16 m @ 14.07 g/t Au, 9 m @ 10 g/t Au and 23 m @ 6.74 g/t Au. The Anagulu Gold-Copper Prospect includes recent drilling intersections of 108 m @ 1.24 g/t Au and 0.60% Cu and 49 m @ 2.42 g/t Au and 1.10% Cu within a porphyry unit mapped over at a >2 km strike length. The Company is also advancing exploration of the Tolegimja volcanogenic massive sulphide copper-zinc-gold prospect and over 17 other gold and base metal prospects since listing in 2021.

Cash: CASD 4.5M
Debt: NIL

Major shareholders:
Management Ownership – 13.8%

Financials

Management Profile

Berhane Soquar – Significant Investor, co founder

What is your rationale for taking part in 121 Mining Investment?

Alpha listed on the TSXV on in 2021 and has made significant progress since then with three major new discoveries defined on our 771km2 Kerkasha licence. The Company has raised nearly C$12m in the last 12 months within difficult markets which we believe is testament to the exploration success of the team and the strong management track record in Eritrea. Alpha has attracted some highly desirable and long term supportive shareholders including Adrian Day Asset Management, Konwave, Crescat Capital, US Global and most recently, Rick Rule has joined as a shareholder. Given very positive recent drilling results including 18m @ 15.33 g/t Au from our flagship Aburna gold project, we are keen to meet with new potential investors in the Company.

What recent news would you like to highlight to investors attending?

At the start of PDAC this year we announced some spectacular shallow, high grade drill results from our flagship Aburna Gold Prospect including 18m @ 15.33 g/t Au and 49m @ 2.75 g/t Au. Please see the full news release here: https://alpha-exploration.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/News-Release-Alpha_Drilling-Results-01-March-2024.pdf

What are your key goals in 3 months, 6 months, 12 months?

3 Months:
– Ongoing drilling at the Aburna Gold Prospect to fully define the high grade mineralisation recently drilled at Hill 52 including 18m @ 15.33 g/t Au and 49m @ 2.75 g/t Au.
– Drilling within the “Gap Zone” that links Hill 52 and mineralisation at Central to form a >1km drilled mineralised lens

6 Months:
– Drilling up to 20,000m to fully define 2km of mineralisation at Aburna
– A RAB (rotary air blast) drill rig is expected to be on site in Q3, 2024 and will be our third available drill rig on the project. The RAB rig will be used to rapidly define additional high grade shoots as Aburna as well as better defining new drill targets at the Anagulu Au-Cu Porphyry Prospect and the Tolegimja VMS discovery. RAB drilling is a low cost and very rapid drilling technique widely used across Africa and Australia on similar projects.

12 Months:
Definition of the key mineralised lenses at Aburna that we believe will form the basis for resource drilling. Alpha is targeting a major, multi million ounce discovery at Aburna
Further defining high grade Cu-Au mineralisation at Anagulu including a number of priority drill targets recommended by a world renowned porphyry expert who has recently visited the project.

What do you see as the key risks and challenges facing your company at the moment and how are you overcoming these?

Given the Company’s recent successful capital raising including C$6.7m closed in April 2024, we are well positioned to not only advance our exploration projects but also weather shorter term risks within the wider capital markets. Although Eritrea has been very stable for many years with a successful mining industry developed, regional risks remain within this region of Africa.

What do you think makes your company such a compelling investment?

1. Three discoveries in 3 years
2. A highly experienced and successful management team
3. Exposure to copper, gold, zinc
4. Prospective license in the Arabian Nubian Shield with 17 prospects and 3 discoveries 

What are the top 3 key investor takeaways?

1. Major new gold discovery at Aburna with the potential to be a multi million ounce gold project.
2. Significant copper-gold porphyry discovery & VMS discoveries with 17 other projects on the licence.
3. Exposure to next exploration frontier, the Arabian Nubian Shield, with first class management