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ALBRIGHT METALS LTD Capital/Financing Update 2018

Aug 15, 2018

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ASX Announcement

16 August 2018

New High-Grade Manganese Find at Brumby Creek

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Reconnaissance mapping and sampling in Bryah Basin identifies highgrade manganese at a new prospect named Brumby Creek .

  • High-grade manganese recorded in 19 rock chip samples:

  • ➢ 5 samples recorded +40% Mn with a highest value of 48.5% Mn , &

  • ➢ 12 samples recorded 30% - 40% Mn.

  • Outcropping manganese mineralisation at Brumby Creek has been mapped over a 2 kilometre strike length.

  • Wide zone of outcropping manganese mapped (over 100 metres wide and 250 metres long), representing an outstanding untested drill target.

  • Drilling at Brumby Creek Manganese Prospect to commence following final works approvals and site clearances.

Bryah Resources Limited (“Bryah” or “the Company”) is pleased to provide an update on manganese exploration activities within its Bryah Basin Project in central Western Australia.

In March 2018, the Company announced the expansion of its Bryah Basin Project exploration programme to include manganese. Since then an extensive programme of ground reconnaissance work has been undertaken with the aim of identifying manganese outcrops and generating targets for follow-up exploration and drilling.

In July 2018, reconnaissance mapping focussed on an area of interest identified from satellite imagery and the recently completed airborne electromagnetic survey. Significant zones of outcropping manganese were identified in this area, which has been named Brumby Creek. The Brumby Creek prospect lies close to the Black Hill and Black Caviar prospects, where previously reported rock chips recorded grades of up to 50% Mn (see Figures 1 and 2).

A total of 19 rock chip samples were collected from manganiferous outcrops at the Brumby Creek prospect and laboratory results from these rock chip samples have now been received. Assay results for these samples are shown in Table 1 and in Figures 3 and 4.

Of the 19 rock chip samples, 5 samples assayed above 40% Mn, including a highest value of 48.5% Mn . A further 12 samples assayed between 30% and 40% Mn. The persistent highgrade manganese recorded in these samples is very encouraging.

Address ASX Code:BYH Projects
Level 1, 85 Havelock Street ABN:59 616 795 245 Bryah Basin – Copper, Gold,
West Perth WA 6005 Shares on issue:56,350,120 Manganese
Tel:+61 8 9321 0001 Latest Share Price:$0.12 Gabanintha – Gold, Copper
Email:[email protected] Market Capitalisation:$6.7M bryah.com.au

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Figure 1 – Bryah Basin Tenements and Regional Geology Map

Address Level 1, 85 Havelock Street Page 2 of 15 West Perth WA 6005

Tel: +61 8 9321 0001 Email: [email protected]

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Figure 2 – Satellite imagery showing Brumby Creek and other nearby Prospects and rock chip sample points

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Local Geology

The Brumby Creek Prospect lies within the Horseshoe Formation.

The Horseshoe Formation includes finely laminated ferruginous (hematitic) shale and siltstone, fine-grained quartz–feldspar wacke with interleaved iron formation and chert, graded quartz wacke, manganiferous shale, garnetiferous biotite–chlorite schist and garnetiferous iron-formation. Relatively high manganese contents are inferred from the abundant manganese oxide staining in weathered and lateritic rocks, and lateritic manganese ore has been mined at the Horseshoe South and Mount Padbury mines.[1]

Structurally, the Horseshoe Formation in this area forms a broad syncline with its axis trending approximately southerly. Recent geophysical interpretation by Resources Potential Pty Ltd has identified a magnetic and conductive manganiferous shale unit, which is co-incident with some of the manganese outcrops sampled, including the highest recorded assay of 48.5% Mn (sample BRYRK284) (see Figure 4).

Manganese outcrops have been mapped over a strike length of 2 kilometres from BRYRK278 to BRYRK281 along the western and southern slopes of, and parallel to, the top of the Horseshoe Range.

Coincidently, the largest area of outcropping manganese identified to date by the Company occurs at the northern end of this 2 kilometres strike and covers an area over 100 metres wide and 250 metres long (see Figures 2-5 and Plate 1). This area of outcropping manganese represents an outstanding untested drill target.

VTEM Survey

The recently completed airborne Versatile Time-domain Electromagnetic (VTEM) survey has identified a significant area with a conductive anomaly response at the Brumby Creek Prospect. The conductive anomaly appears to lie along the axis of the Horseshoe Formation syncline, adjacent to the manganiferous shale unit and generally coincides with the alignment of the creek at the base of a broad valley (see Figure 5).

The conductive zone is interpreted to be caused by geologically young scree deposits, which have potential for containing detrital manganese style mineralisation down slope from outcropping manganese occurrences and sits along the edge of a more conductive paleochannel to the west.

A drilling programme to test this conductive anomaly has been approved by the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety (DMIRS).

1 GSWA Report 59 - Geology and Mineralization of the Palaeoproterozoic Bryah and Padbury Basins Western Australia, by F. Pirajno, S. A. Occhipinti, and C. P. Swager, 2000

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Figure 3 – Satellite imagery showing Brumby Creek Prospect, sample locations and results.

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Figure 4 – Brumby Creek Prospect Interpreted Geology showing sample locations and results.

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Figure 5 – VTEM Imagery (VTEM18_BFz_Ch28_1vd_psc_ne) showing Brumby Creek Prospect

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Plate 1 – L-R - Neil Marston (Managing Director) with Geologists David Thompson and Lindsay Bonnett on outcropping high-grade manganese at the Brumby Creek Prospect (vicinity sample BRYRK281).

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Commenting on the latest results, Managing Director Neil Marston said:

“We are very excited with the latest results from this ground reconnaissance work, which highlights the benefits of having geologists methodically walking the ground and sampling. The scale and manganese grades recorded from the Brumby Creek Prospect are outstanding in our opinion, so it will be a priority target for follow-up work including drilling.

We are keen to drill for manganese at Brumby Creek as soon as possible. We also look forward to testing the various other surface targets identified by our geological team with a programme of shallow drill holes in the coming months.”

Follow-up Exploration Activities

DMIRS work approvals and site heritage clearances for drilling of manganese targets, including at Black Hill, Black Caviar, Devils Hill and parts of the Brumby Creek Prospect have now been obtained. Preparation for drilling is underway and will commence once all logistics and contracts have been finalised.

DMIRS work approvals and site heritage clearances for the remaining parts of the Brumby Creek Prospect, including the main manganese outcrop is underway. Drilling activities will commence as soon as practicable after access approvals are obtained for these areas.

For Further Information, please contact

Neil Marston Managing Director

Tel: +618 9321 0001

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Address Level 1, 85 Havelock Street West Perth WA 6005

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Table 1 – Bryah Basin Project Manganese Samples - Laboratory Results

Sample ID Northing
mN
Easting
mE
Mn
%
Fe
%
Al2O3
%
SiO2
%
P
%
BRYRK278 7190258 645696 41.60 8.11 7.69 5.39 0.07
BRYRK279 7191611 644567 41.93 9.27 7.13 4.7 0.04
BRYRK280 7191889 645480 35.60 11.21 10.63 7.38 0.06
BRYRK281 7191981 645520 38.85 7.85 9.76 7.63 0.04
BRYRK282 7192260 645007 32.25 20.31 5.39 4.51 0.15
BRYRK283 7192284 645100 36.52 13.34 7.75 5.68 0.11
BRYRK284 7192245 645090 48.52 6.75 3.66 2.07 0.09
BRYRK285 7192125 645078 36.04 14.47 8.29 4.49 0.12
BRYRK286 7192113 645107 32.09 19.79 6.51 3.51 0.12
BRYRK287 7192129 645078 29.11 23.19 6.66 3.45 0.18
BRYRK288 7191858 645442 39.46 8.52 8.65 7.05 0.02
BRYRK289 7191817 645495 38.60 15.89 4.12 3.53 0.10
BRYRK290 7191746 645571 32.90 18.49 6.57 3.89 0.08
BRYRK291 7191653 645559 28.41 18.45 4.65 14.59 0.18
BRYRK292 7191619 645398 33.46 18.63 6.95 3.09 0.22
BRYRK293 7190738 645293 36.81 14.70 6.98 3.38 0.09
BRYRK294 7190685 645363 40.32 12.09 6.1 3.46 0.10
BRYRK295 7191225 645329 33.83 20.42 3.98 3.44 0.24
BRYRK296 7191070 645304 41.34 10.37 5.83 4.41 0.16

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About Bryah Resources Limited

In October 2017 Bryah Resources Limited was admitted to the official list on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). The Company is a copper-gold-manganese focused explorer with 2 projects located in central Western Australia, being the 720 km[2] Bryah Basin Project and the 202km[2] Gabanintha Project. In addition, the Company holds a one year option to acquire the historic Horseshoe South Manganese Mine and the Manganese mineral rights over a further 154km[2] of ground in the Bryah Basin.

The Bryah Basin is host to the high-grade copper-gold mines at DeGrussa, discovered by Sandfire Resources NL in 2009, and at Horseshoe Lights, which was mined up until 1994. The Bryah Basin also has several historical and current manganese mines.

Bryah Resources Limited’s copper-gold exploration strategy is:

  • to apply the best and latest exploration methods to evaluate the ground;

  • to use high resolution geophysics to identify deeper structures and potentially mineralised zones, and

  • to drill test targets below the depth of previous drilling.

At Gabanintha, Bryah holds the rights to all minerals except Vanadium/Uranium/Cobalt/Chromium/ Titanium/Lithium/Tantalum/Manganese & Iron Ore (Excluded Minerals). Australian Vanadium Limited retains 100% rights in the Excluded Minerals on the Gabanintha Project.

Competent Persons Statement

The information in this announcement that relates to Exploration Results is based on information compiled by Mr Rohan Williams, who is a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Mr Williams is an employee of Bryah Resources Limited (“the Company”). Rohan Williams has sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity which he is undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2012 Edition of the ‘Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves’. Rohan Williams consents to the inclusion in this announcement of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.

Forward Looking Statements

This report may contain certain “forward-looking statements” which may not have been based solely on historical facts, but rather may be based on the Company’s current expectations about future events and results. Where the Company expresses or implies an expectation or belief as to future events or results, such expectation or belief is expressed in good faith and believed to have a reasonable basis. However, forward looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from future results expressed, projected or implied by such forward-looking statements. Readers should not place undue reliance on forward looking information. The Company does not undertake any obligation to release publicly any revisions to any “forward looking statement” to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this report, or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.

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Manganese Exploration and Sampling

JORC Code, 2012 Edition – Table 1 Exploration Results

Section 1 Sampling Techniques and Data

Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
Sampling
techniques

Nature and quality of sampling (e.g. cut channels, random chips, or specific specialised industry
standard measurement tools appropriate to the minerals under investigation, such as down hole
gamma sondes, or handheld XRF instruments, etc). These examples should not be taken as limiting
the broad meaning of sampling.

Include reference to measures taken to ensure sample representivity and the appropriate calibration of
any measurement tools or systems used.

Aspects of the determination of mineralisation that are Material to the Public Report.

In cases where ‘industry standard’ work has been done this would be relatively simple (e.g. ‘reverse
circulation drilling was used to obtain 1 m samples from which 3 kg was pulverised to produce a 30 g
charge for fire assay’). In other cases, more explanation may be required, such as where there is
coarse gold that has inherent sampling problems. Unusual commodities or mineralisation types (e.g.
submarine nodules) may warrant disclosure of detailed information.

Rock samples were collected with sample sizes of
between 2kg and 5kg from recorded locations.
Drilling
techniques

Drill type (e.g. core, reverse circulation, open-hole hammer, rotary air blast, auger, Bangka, sonic, etc)
and details (e.g. core diameter, triple or standard tube, depth of diamond tails, face-sampling bit or
other type, whether core is oriented and if so, by what method, etc).

No drilling undertaken in this programme.
Drill sample
recovery

Method of recording and assessing core and chip sample recoveries and results assessed.

Measures taken to maximise sample recovery and ensure representative nature of the samples.

Whether a relationship exists between sample recovery and grade and whether sample bias may have
occurred due to preferential loss/gain of fine/coarse material.

No drilling undertaken in this programme.
Logging
Whether core and chip samples have been geologically and geotechnically logged to a level of detail to
support appropriate Mineral Resource estimation, mining studies and metallurgical studies.

Whether logging is qualitative or quantitative in nature. Core (or costean, channel, etc) photography.

The total length and percentage of the relevant intersections logged.

No drilling undertaken in this programme.
Sub-sampling
techniques and
sample
preparation

If core, whether cut or sawn and whether quarter, half or all core taken.

If non-core, whether riffled, tube sampled, rotary split, etc and whether sampled wet or dry.

For all sample types, the nature, quality and appropriateness of the sample preparation technique.

Quality control procedures adopted for all sub-sampling stages to maximise representivity of samples.

Measures taken to ensure that the sampling is representative of the in-situ material collected, including
for instance results for field duplicate/second-half sampling.

Whether sample sizes are appropriate to the grain size of the material being sampled.

The sample sizes are considered appropriate to correctly
represent the surface manganese mineralisation.

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Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
Quality of
assay data and
laboratory tests

The nature, quality and appropriateness of the assaying and laboratory procedures used and whether
the technique is considered partial or total.

For geophysical tools, spectrometers, handheld XRF instruments, etc, the parameters used in
determining the analysis including instrument make and model, reading times, calibrations factors
applied and their derivation, etc.

Nature of quality control procedures adopted (e.g. standards, blanks, duplicates, external laboratory
checks) and whether acceptable levels of accuracy (i.e. lack of bias) and precision have been
established.

Laboratory checks and samples containing standards
were included in the analyses.
Verification of
sampling and
assaying

The verification of significant intersections by either independent or alternative company personnel.

The use of twinned holes.

Documentation of primary data, data entry procedures, data verification, data storage (physical and
electronic) protocols.

Discuss any adjustment to assay data.

No drilling undertaken in this programme.
Location of
data points

Accuracy and quality of surveys used to locate drill holes (collar and down-hole surveys), trenches,
mine workings and other locations used in Mineral Resource estimation.

Specification of the grid system used.

Quality and adequacy of topographic control.

All sample locations were located by the Field Geologist
using a conventional hand-held GPS.

The grid system for the Bryah Project is MGA_GDA94
Zone 50.
Data spacing
and distribution

Data spacing for reporting of Exploration Results.

Whether the data spacing and distribution is sufficient to establish the degree of geological and grade
continuity appropriate for the Mineral Resource and Ore Reserve estimation procedure(s) and
classifications applied.

Whether sample compositing has been applied.

As this programme was a reconnaissance programme
the sample results are indicative in nature and are not
necessarily representative of the surrounding geology.

Outcrop samples were not composited.
Orientation of
data in relation
to geological
structure

Whether the orientation of sampling achieves unbiased sampling of possible structures and the extent
to which this is known, considering the deposit type.

If the relationship between the drilling orientation and the orientation of key mineralised structures is
considered to have introduced a sampling bias, this should be assessed and reported if material.

No drilling undertaken in this programme, so the
relationship of samples collected to geological structures
is not known.
Sample
security

The measures taken to ensure sample security.

The samples collected were placed in calico bags and
transported to the relevant Perth laboratory by courier.

Sample security was not considered a significant risk.
Audits or
reviews

The results of any audits or reviews of sampling techniques and data.

The Company database has been compiled from primary
data by independent database consultants and was
based on original assay data and historical database
compilations.

A regular review of the data and sampling techniques is
carried out internally.

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Section 2 Reporting of Exploration Results

(Criteria listed in the preceding section also apply to this section.)

Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
Mineral
tenement and
land tenure
status

Type, reference name/number, location and ownership including agreements or material issues with
third parties such as joint ventures, partnerships, overriding royalties, native title interests, historical
sites, wilderness or national park and environmental settings.

The security of the tenure held at the time of reporting along with any known impediments to obtaining
a licence to operate in the area.

The relevant tenement (E52/3237) is 100% owned by
Bryah Resources Limited.

At the time of reporting, there are no known impediments
to obtaining a licence to operate in the area and the
tenement is in good standing.
Exploration
done by other
parties

Acknowledgment and appraisal of exploration by other parties.

The manganese deposits in the region were discovered
during the gold rush period between 1897 and 1911
however were of little interest to explorers at the time.

Mining operations between 1948 and 1967 received the
focus of early exploration.

Manganese exploration conducted by BHP Limited, King
Mining Corporation Ltd, Valiant Consolidated Ltd and
various others since the 1960’s was concentrated mainly
around the historic pits at Elsa Group, Millidie, Horseshoe
South, Mudderwearie and Ravelstone.

Tuart Resources Limited and Peak Hill Manganese Pty
Ltd undertook regional exploration over a large portion of
the Bryah and Padbury Basins in the period after 2000,
identifying numerous manganese anomalies from satellite
imagery and aerial photography. Only limited on-ground
exploration of many of these anomalies was undertaken.
Geology
Deposit type, geological setting and style of mineralisation.

These manganese occurrences are within the Lower
Proterozoic Bryah and Padbury Basins. Manganese
deposits are a product of prolonged weathering and
oxidation of sedimentary rocks and chemical
concentration and re-deposition of manganese within
ancient drainage systems. Most of the manganese
deposits are remnants of former drainage
palaeochannels. Although detailed surveys have not
been completed, the location of most manganese
deposits appears to be at about the elevation of the
former palaeosurface. These deposits are now left as
hilltop mesas or cappings (inverted relief).

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Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
Drill hole
Information

A summary of all information material to the understanding of the exploration results including a
tabulation of the following information for all Material drill holes:
o easting and northing of the drill hole collar
o elevation or RL (Reduced Level – elevation above sea level in metres) of the drill hole collar
o dip and azimuth of the hole
o down hole length and interception depth
o hole length.

If the exclusion of this information is justified on the basis that the information is not Material and this
exclusion does not detract from the understanding of the report, the Competent Person should clearly
explain why this is the case.

No drilling undertaken in this programme.
Data
aggregation
methods

In reporting Exploration Results, weighting averaging techniques, maximum and/or minimum grade
truncations (e.g. cutting of high grades) and cut-off grades are usually Material and should be stated.

Where aggregate intercepts incorporate short lengths of high grade results and longer lengths of low
grade results, the procedure used for such aggregation should be stated and some typical examples of
such aggregations should be shown in detail.

The assumptions used for any reporting of metal equivalent values should be clearly stated.

No high-grade cuts have been applied to the reporting of
exploration results.

No metal equivalent values have been used.
Relationship
between
mineralisation
widths and
intercept
lengths

These relationships are particularly important in the reporting of Exploration Results.

If the geometry of the mineralisation with respect to the drill hole angle is known, its nature should be
reported.

If it is not known and only the down hole lengths are reported, there should be a clear statement to this
effect (e.g. ‘down hole length, true width not known’).

As this programme was a limited programme of
reconnaissance sampling no relationships can be
established.
Diagrams
Appropriate maps and sections (with scales) and tabulations of intercepts should be included for any
significant discovery being reported These should include, but not be limited to a plan view of drill hole
collar locations and appropriate sectional views.

See attached figures within this announcement.
Balanced
reporting

Where comprehensive reporting of all Exploration Results is not practicable, representative reporting of
both low and high grades and/or widths should be practiced to avoid misleading reporting of
Exploration Results.

All results are reported without any cut-off grades.
Other
substantive
exploration
data

Other exploration data, if meaningful and material, should be reported including (but not limited to):
geological observations; geophysical survey results; geochemical survey results; bulk samples – size
and method of treatment; metallurgical test results; bulk density, groundwater, geotechnical and rock
characteristics; potential deleterious or contaminating substances.

No other exploration data available.
Further work
The nature and scale of planned further work (e.g. tests for lateral extensions or depth extensions or
large-scale step-out drilling).

Diagrams clearly highlighting the areas of possible extensions, including the main geological
interpretations and future drilling areas, provided this information is not commercially sensitive.

Drilling has been planned by the Company but not
undertaken to date.

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