Company History

Meridian Minerals (a public unlisted company) was formed in late 2007 as a junior exploration mining company, its focus was on gold and gold-copper projects. The Company's portfolio was assembled through agreements reached with Teck Cominco Australia Pty Ltd and Mithril Resources Limited.

In July 2008 the company was acquired by the publicly listed, Bellevue Resources, an Australian tin and base metals exploration company. The combined entities of the two companies brought together a strong pipeline of gold and base metal projects in New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia, including 23 highly prospective tenements covering almost 10,000 km.

Subsequently, the company name reverted to Meridian Minerals Limited in December 2008. The ASX code changed from BVE to MIV.

The tenements contained in Meridian Minerals' portfolio, form a pipeline of projects at differing stages of exploration. Meridian Minerals has sought to balance the risk/reward equation associated with minerals exploration by having projects ranging from advanced, containing prospects with existing drill intersections ready to be investigated with further drilling, to conceptual projects in unexplored terranes with the potential to deliver truly world-class base metal discoveries. The Directors believe that by having a pipeline of projects balanced between lower risk advanced projects, to higher risk/higher return projects, the opportunity for exploration success is increased.