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NICKEL AND COPPER - Bulk concentrate shipped to China E-mail

Production at Fox Resources" Radio Hill nickel and copper mill in the Pilbara region of Western Australia has exceeded forecasts resulting in a bulk concentrate shipment of 115 tonnes of nickel and 211 tonnes of copper being sent to China recently.

June was the first month of full production at Radio Hill after commissioning the second ball mill in May 2007 and the mill has now achieved its target throughput of 45 tonnes per hour.

During June the mill produced 3910 wet metric tonnes of concentrate for a delivery of 165 tonnes of nickel metal, 22% above forecast, and record copper metal production of 336 tonnes, 77% above forecast.

Nickel and copper exploration is continuing in the Radio Hill area. A diamond drill hole reached a target down-hole depth of 938 metres and is being cased for the DHEM geophysical probe. The probe will have a search radius of 200 metres from the drill hole, testing for the presence of massive nickel and copper sulphides.

Mineralization associated within the area around the upper levels of the existing Radio Hill orebody was intersected from 164 metres to 189 metres. The hole intersected a suite of basalt lava flows and gabbro dykes to a depth of 895 metres. This package contained several dolerite dykes, two non-mineralized gabbros and multiple, very large quartz-carbonate breccias.

Fox geologists believe these characteristics represent the low pressure fragmentary environment required to form large layered intrusions such as another Radio Hill. The rocks in this package also contained multiple quartz veins bearing trace amounts of nickel and copper sulphides that were carried up by hot fluids from below.
 
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