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Artemis Resources Limited Capital/Financing Update 2017

Aug 1, 2017

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2 August 2017

Artemis Resources Limited ARBN: 80 107 051 749

Level 3, IBM Building, 1060 Hay Street, West Perth, WA Australia, 6006

PO Box R933 Royal Exchange NSW Australia, 1225

Phone: +61 2 9078 7670 Facsimile: +61 2 9078 7661 Email: [email protected] Website: artemisresources.com.au

Directors:

Executive Chairman David Lenigas

Executive Directors Ed Mead Alex Duncan-Kemp

Company Secretary: Guy Robertson

Corporate Information ASX Code: ARV

14km of New Gold Bearing Conglomerates discovered at 100% owned Mt OscarWits Gold Project, Karratha, WA

  • 14km of new gold bearing conglomerate sequences have been identified by Artemis geologists at Mt OscarWits Gold Project - located 16km from Purdy’s Reward.

  • 75m thick stacked conglomerates with an east-west strike outcropping.

  • Mt OscarWits is now 100% owned by Artemis.

  • Approved 117.8km[2] Exploration Licence with heritage surveys.

  • Gold grades up to 10.93 g/t Au from rock chip samples of conglomerates.

David Lenigas, Artemis’s Executive Chairman, commented;

“We have already traced these gold bearing conglomerates for a distance of about 14km and have identified extensive outcropping conglomerate with exposed widths of up to 75 metres as shown in Figure 1. The recent discovery of Archean aged conglomerate gold mineralisation at our Purdy’s Reward Gold Project to the south has been an exciting development for the Company and we have now also identified gold in a very large conglomerate sequence to the north of Purdy’s at our nearby 100% owned Mt OscarWits Project. The potential scale of these Mt OscarWits gold bearing conglomerates are very significant and makes this a new and exciting project for the Company.”

Artemis Resources Limited (“ Artemis ” or “ the Company ”) ( ASX: ARV ) is pleased to announce that it has now taken back 100% control of its 117.8km[2] Mt Oscar exploration licence 47/1217 from Magnetic South Pty Ltd. The tenement is a granted Exploration Licence, and is located approximately 35km south-east of Karratha and 16km north-east of the Company’s new Purdy’s Reward conglomerate hosted gold project.

Note: Mt Oscar Exploration Licence (E47/1217) does not form part of the Artemis Memorandum of Agreement as announced on 29 May 2017 with Novo Resources Corp.

Mt OscarWits Conglomerate Gold Project:

Artemis geologists have just completed a due diligence field inspection of the Mt Oscar tenement (Figure 3). The geological team, after the discovery earlier this year of conglomerate hosted gold at the Purdy’s Reward Gold Project, has now identified significant gold bearing sedimentary sequences within very coarse quartz conglomerate and sandstone units at the Mt OscarWits Project. The Company believes these are part of the Fortescue Group and hence can be directly correlated with the Company’s Purdy’s Reward sequence of mafic sediments and polymictic conglomerates located only 21km to the south-west.

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The Mt OscarWits sedimentary sequences extend over an east-west strike length of some 14km with true widths up to 75m thick in outcrops (Figure 1), with gold currently proven toward the eastern and western ends. The central zone does not appear to have been sampled for gold with the previous focus being primarily on iron ore.

The conglomerates at Mt OscarWits are quartz rich (Figure 2) and “cleaner” in character than the Purdy’s Reward mafic rich conglomerates, as the Mt OscarWits matrix “glue” within the conglomerates is primarily quartz sand and the conglomerate fragments consist of quartz and chert pebbles and boulders.

Figure 1: Mt OscarWits prospective conglomerate sequence is 75 metres thick at the Churnside Prospect, where a rock chip sample returned 10.93 g/t gold from a coarse-grained clast supported cobble conglomerate.

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There appear to be sedimentary sequences totaling up to 75m in true thickness, hosting the gold with an interlayered basaltic unit analogous to the Mt Roe Basalt. The sedimentary sequences at Mt OscarWits have been folded and faulted creating duplication with four units being mapped in several places over the significant strike length.

Exploration activities in recent years have focused primarily on the magnetite iron ore potential of the tenement, where the Company now has a 100% owned indicated and inferred JORC Resource of 126Mt @ 33.8% Fe Head Grade[1] .

As part of the Mt Oscar iron ore rock chip exploration program, geologists sampled a conglomerate unit at the White Quartz Hill Prospect, located some 12km east-north-east of the Mt Oscar iron mineralisation and returned a peak gold assay of 6.38g/t Au (Table 1).

The conglomerate unit at the Churnside Prospect (Figure 1) was sampled. The Churnside Prospect is located 10km west of the White Quartz Hill prospect and 2km northeast of the Mt Oscar iron mineralisation in an area not covered by previous ground based exploration activities. A peak assay result of 10.93 g/t Au (average of 13.9 g/t Au primary and 7.96g/t Au repeat, (Table 1 ) was returned

1 As per Artemis Resources ASX announcement dated 16 Dec 2016

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from the 4 samples collected in the area. The 10.93g/t Au sample was recovered from a coarse-grained clast supported cobble conglomerate and likely represents a primary placer style form of mineralisation in a high-energy environment with a high coarse gold component. The mineralised unit is bounded by a larger matrix supported pebbly conglomerate.

Table 1: Mt OscarWits - White Quartz Hill and Churnside Gold Prospects.

FXMO004 East North Au Au Au Au Au Final
Pt
Pd As
UNITS ppm ppm ppm ppm ppm ppm ppm ppm
METHOD PGM-MS Au-TL43 Au-AA25 Au-OG43 Average PGM-MS23 PGM-MS
ME-ICP61
AKA17263 520220 7687302 >1.00 >1.00 13.90 7.96 10.93 0.0029 0.007 103
AKA17287 529369 7688628 >1.00 >1.00 7.48 5.29 6.38 0.0023 0.002 1200

A significant volume of conglomerates now exists within the Mt Oscar tenement and follow up work is now a priority for the Company.

Based on the recent field inspections, Artemis geologists interpret the conglomerate sequence to be analogous to the Purdy’s Reward prospect and being at the base of the Fortescue Group. This is contrary to the previous governmental mapping on the Roebourne 1:100,000 mapsheet, which interprets the sequence to be at the base of the older Whim Creek Group and part of the regional Pilbara Supergroup.

Fortuitously, the entire prospective sequence of the Mt OscarWits Project falls entirely within the 117.8km[2] Mt Oscar tenement, with the conglomerate sequence having a strike length of about 14km, with numerous repetitions of the prospective horizons evident. These horizons appear to have been caused by folding and faulting substantially increasing the prospective strike length.

Figure 2: Quartz and Chert Conglomerate with sand matrix.

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Figure 3: Artemis Resources Projects in Karratha Area.

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BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON ARTEMIS RESOURCES

Artemis Resources Limited is a resources exploration and development company with a focus on its prospective Pilbara (gold, cobalt, base metals, platinum, platinum group elements and iron ore) and the Mt Clement-Paulsens (gold) project in Western Australia. Artemis owns the fully permitted 425,000tpa Radio Hill nickel and copper operations, processing plant and associated mining and exploration tenements with significant existing JORC 2004 compliant resources of Nickel, Copper and Zinc situated within a 15 km radius of the Radio Hill plant. The Radio Hill Plant is located 35 km south of Karratha in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia.

CONTACTS

For further information on this update or the Company generally, please visit our website at www.artemisresources.com.au or contact:

Investors / Shareholders

Edward Mead Executive Director Telephone: +61 407 445 351 Email: [email protected]

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COMPETENT PERSONS STATEMENT

The information in this document that relates to Exploration Results and Exploration Targets is based on information compiled or reviewed by Allan Younger, who is a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Mr Younger is a consultant to the Company, and is employed by Indigo Geochemistry Pty Ltd. Mr Younger 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’. Mr Younger consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.

FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS AND IMPORTANT NOTICE

This report contains forecasts, projections and forward looking information. Although the Company believes that its expectations, estimates and forecast outcomes are based on reasonable assumptions it can give no assurance that these will be achieved. Expectations, estimates and projections and information provided by the Company are not a guarantee of future performance and involve unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which are out of Artemis’ control. Actual results and developments will almost certainly differ materially from those expressed or implied. Artemis has not audited or investigated the accuracy or completeness of the information, statements and opinions contained in this presentation. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable laws, Artemis makes no representation and can give no assurance, guarantee or warranty, express or implied, as to, and takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for (1) the authenticity, validity, accuracy, suitability or completeness of, or any errors in or omission from, any information, statement or opinion contained in this report and (2) without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, the achievement or accuracy of any forecasts, projections or other forward looking information contained or referred to in this report.

Investors should make and rely upon their own enquiries before deciding to acquire or deal in the Company’s securities.

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JORC Code, 2012 Edition – Table 1

Section 1 Sampling Techniques and Data

(Criteria in this section apply to all succeeding sections.)

Criteria JORC Code explanation JORC Code explanation Commentary Commentary
Sampling Nature and quality of sampling (eg cut Rock chip sampling of outcrops
techniques 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 (eg ‘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 (eg
submarine nodules) may warrant
disclosure of detailed information.
Drilling Drill type (eg core, reverse circulation, Drilling not being reported
techniques open-hole hammer, rotary air blast,
auger, Bangka, sonic, etc.) and details
(eg 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.). _
Drill sample Method of recording and assessing core Not drill samples
recovery 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.
Logging Whether core and chip samples have Samples were geologically logged when
been geologically and geotechnically collected.
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.
Sub- If core, whether cut or sawn and whether Not recorded.
sampling quarter, half or all core taken. A sample size of 1kg was collected and
techniques If non-core, whether riffled, tube sampled, considered appropriate and representative
and sample rotary split, etc. and whether sampled wet for the grain size and style of mineralisation
preparation _or dry. _

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Criteria JORC Code explanation JORC Code explanation Commentary Commentary
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.
Quality of The nature, quality and appropriateness ALSglobal Laboratories (Perth) were used
assay data of the assaying and laboratory for the analysis work carried out on the rock
and procedures used and whether the chip samples. The laboratory techniques
laboratory technique is considered partial or total. below:
tests For geophysical tools, spectrometers, Au by PGM-MS
handheld XRF instruments, etc., the Au by TL43
parameters used in determining the Au by Au-AA25
analysis including instrument make and
model, reading times, calibrations factors
applied and their derivation, etc.
Nature of quality control procedures


Au by OG43
Pt & Pd by PGM-MS23
As by ME-ICP61
adopted (eg standards, blanks,
duplicates, external laboratory checks)
and whether acceptable levels of
accuracy (i.e. lack of bias) and precision
have been established.
Verification The verification of significant intersections
Not drill samples
of sampling by either independent or alternative
and assaying 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.
Location of Accuracy and quality of surveys used to Not recorded
data points locate drill holes (collar and down-hole Grid system used for Fox Resources Ltd
surveys), trenches, mine workings and sampling is MGA 94 (Zone 50)
other locations used in Mineral Resource
estimation.
Specification of the grid system used.
Quality and adequacy of topographic
control.
Data spacing
Data spacing for reporting of Exploration Randomly spaced reconnaissance
and Results. sampling.
distribution Whether the data spacing and distribution
Not for ore resource estimation.
is sufficient to establish the degree of No compositing applied.
geological and grade continuity
appropriate for the Mineral Resource and
Ore Reserve estimation procedure(s) and
classifications applied.
Whether sample compositing has been
applied.
Orientation Whether the orientation of sampling Samples have been
obtained
whilst
of data in achieves unbiased sampling of possible conducting reconnaissance geological
relation to structures and the extent to which this is mapping which was seeking to identify
geological known, considering the deposit type. mineralised structures/lodes.
structure 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.

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Criteria JORC Code explanation JORC Code explanation Commentary Commentary
Sample The measures taken to ensure sample Not known
security _security. _
Audits or The results of any audits or reviews of No audit of rock sampling data has been
reviews sampling techniques and data. completed to date

Section 2 Reporting of Exploration Results

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

Criteria JORC Code explanation JORC Code explanation Commentary Commentary
Mineral Type, reference name/number, E47/1217 is in good standing and is 100%
tenement and location and ownership including owned by Artemis Resources Ltd.
land tenure agreements or material issues with See map elsewhere in this report for
status third parties such as joint ventures, locations.
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.
Exploration Acknowledgment and appraisal of The most significant historic exploration
done by other exploration by other parties. identified to date at Mt Oscar (E47/1217)
parties was completed by Fox Radio Hill Pty Ltd
from 2008, targeting iron ore. A subsequent
joint venture with Magnetic South Pty Ltd
continued to focus on the iron ore potential
of Mt Oscar. This work included rock chip
sampling, reverse circulation and diamond
drilling.
All exploration and analysis techniques
conducted by Fox Resources and Magnetic
South Pty Ltd are considered to have been
appropriate given the available techniques
at the time.
Geology Deposit type, geological setting and At Mt Oscar, gold mineralisation has been
style of mineralisation. identified as being associated with siliceous
conglomerate lithologies.
As exploration is at an early stage at Mt
Oscar, further work is required to determine
the geological setting and provenance of the
gold mineralisation.
Morphology
of
gold
mineralization
is
unknown, assumed to be potentially coarse
grained.
Drill hole A summary of all information material Not relevant to the current rock chip
Information to the understanding of the sampling.
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

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Criteria JORC Code explanation JORC Code explanation Commentary Commentary
Competent Person should clearly
explain why this is the case.
Data In reporting Exploration Results, No upper or lower cut-off grade was
aggregation weighting averaging techniques, applied.
methods maximum and/or minimum grade No metal equivalents are used for
truncations (eg cutting of high grades) reporting.
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.
Relationship These relationships are particularly No mineralisation widths are being
between important in the reporting of reported.
mineralisation Exploration Results.
widths and If the geometry of the mineralisation
intercept lengths 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 (eg ‘down hole length, true
_width not known’). _
Diagrams Appropriate maps and sections (with Appropriate maps and sections are
scales) and tabulations of intercepts available in the body of this announcement.
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.
Balanced Where comprehensive reporting of all Reporting of results in this report is
reporting Exploration Results is not practicable, considered balanced.
representative reporting of both low
and high grades and/or widths should
be practiced to avoid misleading
reporting of Exploration Results.
Other Other exploration data, if meaningful No other significant exploration work has
substantive and material, should be reported been done by Artemis.
exploration data 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.
Further work The nature and scale of planned Plans are to follow-up mapping and
further work (eg tests for lateral sampling with
further
geochemical
extensions, depth extensions or large- sampling, trenching, and drilling.
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.

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