Metallica Minerals Limited is engaged in mineral exploration, evaluation, progressing development of its bauxite and zircon-rutile heavy mineral sands (HMS) projects and manufacture and delivery of a HMS processing plant to Brisbane. The Company's Cape York HMS and Bauxite Project is located on the west coast of Queensland's Cape York. Its Esmeralda Graphite Project is located near Croydon in north Queensland. It covers a combined area of over 750 square kilometers. The Urquhart HMS Project forms a part of the Cape York HMS and Bauxite project. The Urquhart HMS Project is located on Urquhart Point over three kilometers southwest of Weipa. The Urquhart Bauxite Project, which is also a part of Cape York HMS and Bauxite project, is located over five kilometers south-west of Weipa on Queensland's Cape York Peninsula. The SCONI Project is located in North Queensland, approximately 250 kilometers from Townsville and consists of a range of nickel-cobalt and scandium lateritic deposits.