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APC MINERALS LIMITED Management Reports 2012

Jul 26, 2012

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ACTIVITIES REPORT - FOR THE PERIOD ENDING 30 JUNE 2012

THE COMPANY and PROJECTS

  • A Western Australian minerals explorer searching for precious and base metals in overlooked and underexplored greenstone belts of the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia

  • Experienced Directors with strong and diverse backgrounds in company management, leadership and mineral exploration management

  • Exploration Manager with 24 years experience including 7 years in the Leonora and Lake Wells - Yamarna areas

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SUMMARY and HIGHLIGHTS

  • A regional Rotary Air Blast (RAB) - Air core (AC) drill program completed on Lake Wells Project tenements E38/1903, E38/2113 and E38/2505 returned encouraging shallow gold anomalies

  • Reverse circulation (RC) drilling completed at the Iron Tank and Venus prospects, Mailman Hill with broad gold anomalies and a base-metal anomaly recorded

  • Reverse circulation (RC) drilling and (AC) drilling planned to commence in the September 2012 quarter on the Axford Prospect at Lake Wells

EXPLORATION ACTIVITIES

LAKE WELLS PROJECT

E38/1903, E38/2113, E38/2114 and E38/2505 – 100% Goldphyre Resources Limited

A reconnaissance RAB-AC drilling program was completed on the Lake Wells Project, located 160 kilometres north of Laverton. The drilling program tested regional target areas on tenements E38/1903, E38/2113 and E38/2505 (Table 1).

Table 1. Drill Status Table

Hole_ID Tenement Drill_Type Prospect Holes Metres
LGAC001-009 E38/1903 AC Yilly 9 381
LGAC053-055 E38/1903 AC Reconnaissance 3 8
LGAC043-052 E38/2113 AC Reconnaissance 10 361
LGAC010-042 E38/2505 AC Reconnaissance 33 1,426
LGRB001-039 E38/2505 RAB Reconnaissance 39 890
TOTAL 94 3,066

YILLY AREA

Scout drilling on the Yilly area consisted of nine reconnaissance holes (LGAC001-009, 381m) and tested magnetic features and low, elevated soil sampling (maximum 3ppb gold) on the eastern portion of E38/1903. Composite assay results have been received for these nine drill holes.

The first hole of the line, LGAC001, returned encouraging composite gold anomalous intercepts: 12m @ 73 ppb Au from 4m depth (recorded in laterite and sandy grit) and 4m @ 129 ppb Au from 36m depth (logged in weathered granitic and gabbroic rocks) (Table 2, Figure 1).

Table 2. Lake Wells – Yilly Area - Anomalous Gold Results

Hole
Depth(m)
Hole Northing(m) Easting(m) Dip Azimuth Interval Width(m) Gold (ppb)
From
(m)
To(m)
LGAC001 6988140 505570 -90 - 4 16 12 73 40
32 36 4 129
LGAC004 6989208 505297 -90 - 28 32 4 70 52

Datum: GDA94 Co-ordinate system with collar pickup by hand-held GPS Garmin 60 Note: All composite samples (maximum 4m interval) were collected by scoop or spear from Air-core drill chips and delivered to Bureau Veritas Kalassay Lab, Kalgoorlie for 40g Fire Assay Digest with ICPMS Finish (FA40_ICPMS). (Detection Limit – 1ppb Au)

Although considered low tenor, the gold anomaly recorded in LGAC001 is believed to be of particular significance, as LGAC001 is located at the start of the reconnaissance drill line and the closest historic drilling is approximately 1km to the south.

Follow up AC drill testing is planned in the area around LGAC001 and will also focus on an adjacent, strong north-south trending structure interpreted from aeromagnetics. Another elevated gold anomalous zone in LGAC004 (4m @ 70 ppb Au from 28m) also requires further AC drill testing. It is planned to further investigate this prospective area when a track-mounted drill rig is scheduled to test the Axford Prospect in late June 2012.

Field logging of these drill-holes revealed a variably weathered sequence of laterite, sands and clay overlying weathered gneiss and schist with volcanics and gabbroic rocks.

Three scout AC holes (LGAC053-055) were also completed on E38/1903 and recorded very shallow weathered dolerite. Results are currently pending.

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Figure 1. Yilly Area - Drill Collar Plan with TMI Magnetics base map showing gold anomalies.

A track-mounted drilling rig has been secured to test the Axford Prospect. This drilling rig will conduct follow up testing on gold anomalies recorded in the first pass AC drilling program.

LAKE WELLS – CENTRAL AREA E38/2113 – 100% Goldphyre Resources Limited

Scout AC drilling (10 holes, 361m) was completed on E38/2113. Logging revealed weathered mafic, gneissic and granite-porphyry rock types.

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Figure 2. Lake Wells East Area (E38/2505) - Drill Collar Plan with TMI Magnetics base map showing elevated gold, PGE, copper and zinc values.

LAKE WELLS – EAST AREA E38/2505 – 100% Goldphyre Resources Limited

A regional RAB/AC drilling program was completed on E38/2505 (Table 3, Figure 2). Drilling was carried out on selective east-west traverses with hole centres ranging from 160-320m apart and the reconnaissance program was successful in evaluating major structural and lithological features, including the interpreted northern extension of the Yamarna Shear and the dislocated Mt Gill Greenstone Belt.

The drilling has confirmed the Mt Gill Greenstone Belt lies beneath relatively shallow sand cover (approximately 5m-40m thick) and a variety of rock types were recorded. Field logging revealed a 5m-30m thick sand horizon overlying a variably weathered sequence of sedimentary rocks, gneiss, basalt, granite and mica schists with hole depths ranging from 6m-74m.

An encouraging gold value of 1m @ 30 ppb Au was received from drill-hole LGAC029 (Table 3). Although considered low tenor, this gold result is believed to be significant in this under-explored region, taking into account the wide-spaced nature of first pass, shallow drilling and elevated gold values recorded at the end of the hole. Furthermore, the drill-hole LGAC029 is the last effective hole (that is, the drill-hole penetrated successfully through sand and clay to basement rock) on the traverse line (Figure 1).

Approximately three kilometres south-east of hole LGAC029, elevated platinum and palladium values were recorded in hole LGAC027. Again, the platinum and palladium values were recorded near the end of hole and LGAC027 is located on the western end of the drill traverse.

Table 3. Lake Wells East Area - E38/2505 Elevated Results Table.

Northing
(m)
Easting
(m)
Width
(m)
Gold
(ppb)
Pt
(ppb)
Pd
(ppb)
Hole
Depth(m)
Hole Dip Azimuth Interval
From
(m)
To(m)
LGAC027 6955398 545477 -90 - 36 40 4 2 8 10 41
40 41* 1 1 15 6
LGAC029 6957797 543763 -90 - 44 45 1 30 <1 <1 46
45 46* 17 <1 <1

Datum: GDA94 Co-ordinate system with collar pickup by hand-held GPS Garmin 60, Hole Inclination by clinometer. Note: All composite samples (maximum 4m interval) were collected by scoop or spear from Air-core drill chips and delivered to Bureau Veritas Kalassay Lab, Kalgoorlie for 40g Fire Assay Digest with ICPMS Finish (FA40_ICPMS). (Detection Limit – 1ppb Au,Pt,Pd)

Interpretation of magnetics and the location of the holes with elevated gold, platinum and palladium have revealed a priority target area, requiring further AC drill testing.

Low level copper and zinc values were also recorded from RAB drilling on the western margin of the project area. Drilling in this location tested strong magnetic, linear features interpreted to be mafic and ultramafic rock units. The elevated copper and zinc values were recorded in schist bedrock and reflect base metal potential. Further infill AC drilling is planned to evaluate this base metal target area

MAILMAN HILL

E37/990 and P37/7877 – 100% Goldphyre Resources Limited

A Reverse Circulation (RC) drilling program was completed in the reporting period on the Iron Tank and Venus prospects at the Mailman Hill Project (Table 4, Figure 3).

Table 4. Mailman Hill Drill Status Table.

Hole_ID Tenement Drill_Type Prospect Holes Metres
MHRC001-014 E37/990 RC Iron Tank 14 958
MHRC015-017 E37/990 RC Venus 3 243
TOTAL 17 1,201

The RC drill program at the Iron Tank Prospect was successful in testing along strike to the north and south of the broad gold anomaly (28m @ 0.50 g/t Au from 17m) in historic RC hole ITRC001 (Iron Tank Prospect), located in the western part of E37/990 (Figure 2). (Reference Jindalee Resources Limited ASX release dated 28 October 2004, Quarterly Report to Shareholders for 3 months ended 30 September 2004). This drilling also tested beneath shallow AC gold anomalies (previously reported in the Goldphyre Resources Limited Quarterly Activities Report for the Period Ending 31 March 2012).

Logging of the Iron Tank RC drilling recorded sandstone and siltstone rock types with irregular silica, iron oxide and biotite alteration and minor quartz veining. Rare to minor very fine-grained pyrite was logged in eight of the fourteen holes completed.

Reconnaissance RC drilling was also completed at the Venus Prospect, located in the central part of the Mailman Hill project and consists of historic air-core (AC) drill-holes with anomalous zinc and copper values (zinc up to 2108 ppm Zn and copper up to 660 ppm Cu). Three holes (MHRC015-017) were drilled to test beneath the anomalous copper and zinc values encountered in the weathering profile of historic drill-holes. (Reference Goldstream Mining NL, Exploration Licence 37/264 Dingo Well Annual Report dated June 1995, page 22).

Reconnaissance RC drill logs at the Venus Prospect recorded weathered to fresh siltstone and silicified felsic volcanic rock types with minor quartz veining. A three metre wide, dark brown, weathered ferruginous interval encountered in hole MHRC015 may represent a gossanous zone.

Composite results were received in July and reported to the ASX on the 3[rd] July and are included in this report for reference only

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Figure 3. Mailman Hill Project showing Iron Tank and Venus RC drill hole locations

The Venus Prospect is located in the central part of the Mailman Hill project and consists of historic air-core (AC) drill-holes with anomalous zinc and copper values (zinc up to 2,108 ppm Zn and copper up to 660 ppm Cu*)

(*Reference Goldstream Mining NL, Exploration Licence 37/264 Dingo Well Annual Report dated June 1995, page 22).

Table 2. Mailman Hill Gold Results Table

Northing
(m)
Easting
(m)
Width
(m)
Hole Depth
(m)
Hole Dip Azimuth Interval Gold (ppb)
From (m) To(m)
MHRC001 6803795 362589 -60 270 24 28 4 100 68
MHRC002 6803753 362655 -60 270 20 40 20 186 83
incl 36 40 4 407
48 60 12 233
MHRC003 6803709 362613 -60 270 24 28 4 176 65
44 48 4 129
MHRC004 6803710 362654 -60 270 16 44 28 167 65
MHRC005 6803709 362694 -60 270 24 28 4 290 68
52 64 12 366
incl 56 60 4 570
MHRC008 6803629 362715 -60 270 44 48 4 136 71
60 68 8 161
MHRC009 6803790 362624 -60 270 20 40 20 209 62
MHRC012 6803866 362580 -60 270 16 36 20 158 62
MHRC013 6803865 362637 -60 270 84 86 2 119* 86
MHRC014 6803755 362611 -60 270 16 44 28 237 65
incl 20 24 4 462
*End of hole
intercept

Datum: GDA94 Zone 51 Co-ordinate system with collar pickup by hand-held GPS Garmin 60, Hole Inclination by clinometer. Note: All composite samples (maximum 4m interval) were collected by scoop or spear from Reverse Circulation drill chips and delivered to Bureau Veritas Kalassay Lab, Kalgoorlie for 40g Fire Assay Digest with ICPMS Finish (FA40_ICPMS). (Detection Limit – 1ppb Au,Pt,Pd)

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Figure 2. Mailman Hill Project showing Iron Tank RC Drilling

YAMARNA PROJECT

E38/1949 – 100% Goldphyre Resources Limited

Evaluation work is proceeding and the company will advise when specific drill targets have been identified.

The company has been engaged in continuing negotiations with the Yilka claimant group for the purposes of meeting heritage clearance obligations for exploration access to the project area.

ISLAND VIEW PROJECT

E15/1049 and E15/1050 – 100% Goldphyre Resources Limited

Historic data compilation, target assessment and evaluation work is proceeding and the company will advise when specific drill targets have been identified.

APPENDIX 1 - LAKE WELLS RAB/AC COLLARS

Hole_ID GDA_Northing GDA_Easting Depth
LGAC001 6988140 505570 40
LGAC002 6988526 505677 36
LGAC003 6988965 505544 34
LGAC004 6989208 505297 52
LGAC005 6989516 505128 40
LGAC006 6989907 504993 33
LGAC007 6990299 504808 49
LGAC008 6990555 504506 74
LGAC009 6990811 504205 23
LGAC010 6955399 548514 45
LGAC011 6955404 548357 21
LGAC012 6955400 548202 59
LGAC013 6955402 548033 37
LGAC014 6955398 547879 40
LGAC015 6955396 547720 39
LGAC016 6955398 547556 49
LGAC017 6955401 547402 49
LGAC018 6955398 547239 30
LGAC019 6955395 547077 30
LGAC020 6955394 546920 35
LGAC021 6955397 546758 48
LGAC022 6955399 546593 63
LGAC023 6955398 546439 39
LGAC024 6955396 546275 41
LGAC025 6955402 546111 42
LGAC026 6955400 545799 47
LGAC027 6955398 545477 41
LGAC028 6957796 543918 20
LGAC029 6957797 543763 46
LGAC030 6957797 543602 45
LGAC031 6957800 543444 36
LGAC032 6957801 543277 45
LGAC033 6957797 542963 51
LGAC034 6957796 542642 43
LGAC035 6957806 538472 24
LGAC036 6957804 538327 48
LGAC037 6957792 538148 66
LGAC038 6957811 538001 27
LGAC039 6957800 537841 53
LGAC040 6962402 534562 61
LGAC041 6962403 534640 55
LGAC042 6962402 534680 52
LGAC043 6982425 504880 102
LGAC044 6981000 516590 16
LGAC045 6981350 516300 30
LGAC046 6981690 516050 28
LGAC047 6982006 515825 83
Hole_ID GDA_Northing GDA_Easting Depth
LGAC048 6980357 517613 20
LGAC049 6980357 517394 22
LGAC050 6980370 517151 12
LGAC051 6980654 510310 25
LGAC052 6980680 510408 23
LGAC053 6981270 503893 4
LGAC054 6981410 502531 3
LGAC055 6982927 501221 1
LGRB001 6962399 536682 27
LGRB002 6962400 536525 21
LGRB003 6962394 536361 47
LGRB004 6962398 536206 57
LGRB005 6962400 536040 24
LGRB006 6962400 535878 18
LGRB007 6962403 535722 23
LGRB008 6962402 535562 13
LGRB009 6962400 535404 15
LGRB010 6962400 535241 22
LGRB011 6962398 535079 10
LGRB012 6962403 534923 45
LGRB013 6962399 534764 59
LGRB014 6962398 534602 51
LGRB015 6957002 535400 21
LGRB016 6957001 535561 12
LGRB017 6957002 535726 40
LGRB018 6957003 535879 17
LGRB019 6957004 536037 17
LGRB020 6957003 536200 15
LGRB021 6956998 536364 17
LGRB022 6957002 536523 17
LGRB023 6957799 536401 12
LGRB024 6957798 536559 17
LGRB025 6957860 536717 48
LGRB026 6957800 536880 18
LGRB027 6957801 537041 15
LGRB028 6957803 537201 19
LGRB029 6957799 538161 12
LGRB030 6957800 538320 20
LGRB031 6957804 538482 12
LGRB032 6957798 539759 21
LGRB033 6957801 540079 21
LGRB034 6957803 540408 18
LGRB035 6957800 541998 15
LGRB036 6957797 543278 6
LGRB037 6957797 543276 6
LGRB038 6957802 545990 18
LGRB039 6955396 548522 11

All holes -90, RAB/AC Blade method. Datum: GDA94 Co-ordinate system

APPENDIX 2 - MAILMAN HILL RC COLLARS

Hole_ID GDA_Northing GDA_Easting Depth
MHRC001 6803795 362589 68
MHRC002 6803753 362655 83
MHRC003 6803709 362613 65
MHRC004 6803710 362654 65
MHRC005 6803709 362694 68
MHRC006 6803635 362634 68
MHRC007 6803634 362675 65
MHRC008 6803629 362715 71
MHRC009 6803790 362624 62
MHRC010 6803791 362682 65
MHRC011 6803866 362518 65
MHRC012 6803866 362580 62
MHRC013 6803865 362637 86
MHRC014 6803755 362611 65
MHRC015 6803261 368750 86
MHRC016 6803169 368759 89
MHRC017 6803168 368826 68

All holes -60/270 (magnetic), RC Blade Face Sampling Hammer method. Datum: GDA94 Zone 51 Co-ordinate system

ABOUT GOLDPHYRE RESOURCES LIMITED

Goldphyre Resources Limited is a gold exploration company with strategic ground holdings in the Leonora/Laverton region and Higginsville region in Western Australia. It has acquired 9 granted tenements over four projects which it considers prospective and underexplored.

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The Lake Wells project is located 160 km north north east of Laverton and consists of a significant area of deformed greenstone-granitoid in the northeast part of the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. The project includes a range of underexplored geological settings including the interpreted northern extension of the gold prospective Yamarna Shear Zone. Shallow, historic drill-hole gold and nickel anomalism provides immediate drill targets prospective for gold, nickel, platinum group elements (PGE), base metals and uranium.

The Yamarna project is located 140 km north east of Laverton and lies adjacent to significant gold resources and uranium mineralisation, including the Attila-Alaric gold deposit, the recently discovered high-grade Central Bore gold deposit and the calcrete-hosted Thatcher Soak uranium prospect. The project is concealed by sand and calcrete and is highly prospective for gold, uranium and PGE.

The Mailman Hill project is located 25 km east of Leonora. It includes a significant section of the Keith Kilkenny Fault Zone and a structurally complex mafic-felsic-sedimentary package considered highly prospective for gold and base metals. It captures the potential of the Crawfords gold prospect, located near the northern boundary of the project and historic drilling has returned broad, anomalous drill-hole gold intercepts within the project area.

The Island View project is proximal to several significant gold deposits and mineralisation styles, including the Higginsville gold operation (approximately 12 km to the west) and a series of shallow, palaeochannel gold deposits to the east which have been previously exploited and at which a neighboring company is preparing to recommence mining operations.

As a mineral explorer, the Company will look to general capital growth by exploration success and acquisition of any complementary projects that have the potential to add value for Shareholders.

CONTACT: MEDIA CONTACT: Ron Punch Colin Hay Executive Chairman Professional Public Relations Goldphyre Resources Limited Tel: +61 8 9388 0944 / 0404 683 355 Tel: +61 8 9389 2111 Email: [email protected] www.goldphyreresources.com.au

COMPETENT PERSONS STATEMENT

The information in this report that relates to Exploration Results, Mineral Resources or Ore Reserves is based on information compiled by Mr Brenton Siggs who is a member of the Australasian Institute of Geoscientists. Mr Siggs is contracted to the company through Reefus Geology Services and is a Non-Executive Director (Exploration Manager) of Goldphyre Resources Limited. Mr Siggs has sufficient experience relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity currently being undertaken to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2004 edition of the Australian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves. Mr Siggs consents to the inclusion in this report of this information in the form and context in which it appears.