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AVIRA RESOURCES LTD Capital/Financing Update 2022

Feb 15, 2022

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16 February 2022

The Manager Market Announcements Office Level 40, Central Park 152-158 St Georges Terrace PERTH, WA 6000

AVIRA RESOURCES ACQUIRES THE OPTION TO PURCHASE LITHIUM PROSPECT

LOCATED IN REGION CONSIDERED TO BE A LITHIUM HOTSPOT

Highlights

  • The Yule River Lithium Prospect is situated in close proximity (~5kms) to the Albermale/Mineral Resources owned Wodgina Lithium deposit.

  • The prospect consists of 3-blocks (ELA45/5770) covering an area of 9.5km[2] . The tenement hosts the same rock types as the Wodgina Lithium Deposit.

  • This region is considered to be highly prospective for Lithium with neighbouring, significant landholders in the region including ALB (Albermarle), PLS (Pilbara Minerals Ltd), FMG (Fortescue Metals Group Ltd).

  • High grade rock chips up to (MINEDEX: Stannum/Metalicity): 2.45% Li2O with 127 ppm Ta2O5 and 480 ppm Sn.

  • Option to acquire prospect on commercially favourable terms subject to a six-month exclusivity period.

  • Placement of AVW fully paid ordinary shares to raise a total of A$2,000,000 to facilitate project exploration and increase working capital reserves.

Avira Resources Limited (ASX: AVW ) (“ Avira” or “ Company” ) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a binding option agreement with GTT Ventures Pty Ltd (“ GTT ” or “ Vendor ”) (ACN 601 029 636) granting the Company an option to acquire a 100% interest in licence application ELA45/5770 (“ Tenement ” or “ Yule Project ”) in the Marble Bar region of Western Australia.

Commenting on the transaction Avira’s Executive Director said , “The addition of this Project to the exploration portfolio provides us with a fantastic opportunity to develop a project that is located in a known province for this essential material for the production of Lithium-ion batteries which in turn occupies an increasingly important position in the renewable energy space.”

About the Project

The Yule River Project is situated approximately 120km by road south of Port Hedland, accessed by the Great Northern Hwy, approximately 5km from the Wodgina Lithium Deposit (ALB/MIN: 259.2 Mt @ 1.17% Li2O) and ~30km from the Pilgangoora Lithium Deposit (PLS: 223.2Mt @ 1.27% Li2O) with numerous Li-Ta-Sn deposits located within a 130km radius with other major projects including the

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Marble Bar (Li) Deposit and the Tabba Tabba (Ta) Deposit. This region is considered to be a Lithium hotspot with neighbouring, significant landholders in the region including ALB (Albermarle), PLS (Pilbara Minerals Ltd), FMG (Fortescue Metals Group Ltd) & ESS (Essential Metals Ltd) (Figure 1).

ELA45/5770 consists of 3-blocks covering an area of 9.5km2. The tenement hosts the same rock types as the Wodgina Lithium Deposit and is along-strike from numerous MINEDEX Li-Ta prospects and occurrences (Figure 3). 10 MINEDEX occurrences located within the tenement boundary. Only 11 historical RC drill holes (1,011m) and 199 geochemical samples completed.

High grade rock chips up to (MINEDEX: Stannum/Metalicity): 2.45% Li2O with 127 ppm Ta2O5 and 480 ppm Sn.

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Figure 1. Location of the Yule River Project (ELA45/5770) in relation to mines and emerging prospects.

The Yule Project is currently undergoing compilation and re-assessment of previous WAMEX data, complemented by a planned field reconnaissance trip to ground truth identified access and assess the pegmatite dyke orientations and general considerations of undertaking a drilling campaign in this region. Secondary assessments of the mapping completed by previous explorers will look for priority areas within the host lithologies within the tenure.

The planned field trip to the Yule River Project is to be undertaken in March 2022 and is focussed on determining appropriate access and field checking prospective structures and non-magnetic signatures observed in open-source government data.

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A closer assessment of magnetically low areas within the Honeyeater Basalt (figure2) will be made to determine the width of LCT (lithium-ceasium-tantalum) pegmatite dyke swarms and potential for coalescence at depth within the mapped pegmatites.

Extensive rock chips were collected by previous explorers and two of the identified Li anomalous zones have not been tested by drilling. These may be similar to the already drill tested Tria prospect which has an anomalous drill hole intercept of 22 m at 0.18% Li2O including 2 m at 0.46% Li2O (WAMEX A115322) within the magnetically low zone. The highest grade rock chip at the Duus prospect is also inadequately tested by drilling.

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Figure 2: Local Geology and magnetics of the Yule River Tenement ELA45/5770 – note Honeyeater Basalt with patchy magnetic signal similar to Wodgina.

Field traverses following up 0.11% Cs2O rock chips at the Stannum prospect and two anomalous zones of rock chips (red circles in figure 3) in the south of the tenement application will be primary reconnaissance activities. At the Tria prospect apparently shallow dipping LCT pegmatites were encountered below weakly anomalous surface samples. Stacked pegmatites are known to occur in the Wodgina and Pilgangoora deposits and an assessment of likely dips in the outcrops will be routinely collected in the target areas. More broadly the system is anomalous for Tin (Sn), Tantalum (Ta), Niobium (Nb) and weak anomalism in Rubidium (Rb). Bedrock may contain areas of enrichment in these elements with small alluvial shows of Sn and Ta recorded by previous explorers.

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Figure 3: Geochemical rock chip anomalism (untested top quartile values in red) over 40m TMI magnetics ELA45/5770, drillholes in white (enclosing purple diamond)

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Terms of Option and Acquisition

As set out above, Avira has entered into an agreement with GTT Ventures Pty Ltd pursuant to which GTT has granted an option to Avira (“ Option” ) to purchase exploration licence application ELA 45/5770 in the Marble Bar region of Western Australia (“ Option Agreement ”). The proposed key terms and conditions of the Option Agreement are set out below:

Option Period

  • The Option expires on the date that is six (6) months following the date of execution of the Option Agreement.

  • In the event that ELA 45/5770 has not been granted by this date, the option period shall be automatically extended by a further six (6) months.

Conditions Precedent

The Option Agreement and the obligation of the parties to complete the sale and purchase of the Tenement is subject to and conditional upon:

  • exercise of the Option by the Company as the purchaser;

  • the Company having received all necessary shareholder approvals required in order to give effect to Settlement, including the issue of the Consideration Shares and Performance Shares and any other approvals required under the Corporations Act or the ASX Listing Rules (including under item 7 of section 611 of the Corporations Act to the extent required);

  • the execution of a final form Heritage Agreement by GTT and Kariyarra Aboriginal Corporation;

  • • the Company and GTT using best endeavours to execute the required documents to enforce the 1% Net Smelter Royalty over all minerals extracted from ELA 45/5770. If the parties are unable to agree on terms within 2 months of the Execution Date, the parties agree to revert to the Energy & Resources Law Association (formerly AMPLA) standard form Minerals Royalty Agreement to enforce the Net Smelter Royalty; and

  • the Company undertaking a capital raising at an issue price of $0.005 (“ Raising” ), which GTT or its nominee has a firm allocation of the greater of $1,000,000 or 50% of the Raising, within three (3) days of the execution date of the Option Agreement.

Consideration

  • Option (exclusivity) Fee - a non-refundable cash payment of $150,000, payable on execution of the Option Agreement (“ Option Fee” ).

  • Option Exercise Fee – on exercise of the option will incur a fee of:

  • Cash consideration of $1,000,000; or

  • Equity based consideration of $1,000,000 in the capital of Avira fully paid ordinary shares (“ Shares” ) with the issue price of the Shares calculated at the higher of $0.005 and a 10% discount to the 20-day VWAP payable upon the date of exercise of the Option by Avira and subject to approval at the Company’s next general meeting of shareholders.

About the capital raising

The Company is also pleased to announce that it has received firm commitments from sophisticated and professional investors to subscribe for 400 million Shares at $0.005 per Share to raise $2,000,000 (“ Placement” or “Raising” ) before costs.

Funds raised via the Placement will be applied to progressing the development of the existing and new exploration projects held by the Company, business development and for general working

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capital. The Placement Shares will rank equally with existing fully paid ordinary shares on issue and are intended to be issued without shareholder approval under the Company’s current capacity as follows:

  • 228,121,000 Placement Shares to be issued pursuant to ASX Listing Rule 7.1; and

  • 171,879,000 Shares to be issued pursuant to ASX Listing Rule 7.1A[1] .

The Placement price represents a 2% premium to the 15-day VWAP of AVW shares as at 11 February 2022 of $0.0049 and a 20% discount to the Company’s last closing price of $0.006.

CPS Capital Group Pty Ltd (ABN: 73 088 055 636) (CPS) have been engaged by the Company as the Lead Manager to the Placement. CPS and or its Nominees will receive a Management fee of 1%, plus GST, for managing the Share placement and a Placement fee of 5%, plus GST, for funds raised via the Placement.

1The Shares to be issued under 7.1A are conditional on the minimum pricing condition under ASX Listing Rule 7.1A.3 being satisfied. Where this does not occur, the issue of those Shares will be subject to Shareholder approval at the Company’s next General Meeting of Shareholders (GM).

-ENDS-

For, and on behalf of, the Board of the Company, and authorised for release. David Deloub

Executive Director Avira Resources Limited

Shareholders and other interested parties can speak to Mr Sonu Cheema if they have any queries in relation to this announcement: +618 6489 1600.

About Avira Resources Limited

Avira Resources (AVW)is an ASX listed mining exploration company. In addition to the Wyloo Project tenement exploration licence applications located in the Ashburton Basin, the Company holds two tenement packages within the Paterson Range province which is host to a number of substantial gold, copper and manganese mines and deposits, including the Telfer gold-copper mine. The Avira projects are situated in the Yeneena basin sedimentary rock formation that hosts both the Nifty and Maroochydore copper deposits and the Woody Woody Manganese mine.

Forward looking statements

This announcement contains forward-looking statements which are identified by words such as ‘may’, ‘could’, ‘believes’, ‘estimates’, ‘targets’, ‘expects’, or ‘intends’ and other similar words that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements are based on an assessment of present economic and operating conditions, and on a number of assumptions regarding future events and actions that, as at the date of this announcement, are expected to take place. Such forward-looking statements does not guarantee future performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other important factors, many of which are beyond the control of the Company, the directors and our management. We cannot and do not give any assurance that the results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements contained in this prospectus will actually occur and investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. We have no intention to update or revise forward-looking statements, or to publish prospective financial information in the future, regardless of whether new information, future events or any other factors affect the information contained in this announcement, except where required by law. These forward looking statements are subject to various risk factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from the results expressed or anticipated in these statements.

Competent Persons Statement

The information in this announcement that relates to Exploration Results is based on and fairly represents information and supporting documentation prepared by Mr John McDougall. Mr McDougall is a consultant geologist for AVW and a member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists. Mr McDougall has sufficient experience relevant to the styles of mineralisation and types of deposits which are covered in this announcement and to the activity which they are undertaking to qualify as a

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Competent Person as defined in the 2012 edition of the ‘Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves’ (“JORC Code”). Mr McDougall consents to the inclusion in this announcement of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.

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 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.
Historic Rock chips are logged as grab and
composite
samples
within
WAMEX
report
A115322 Annual Technical Report E45_4677
Nov2017, only 3 of the anomalous Lithium
bearing samples were grab samples with highest
grade sample a composite. Stannum rock chipis
a grab sample highlight form Mindex. RC drilling
results are a split from 1m downhole samples.
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).
RC drilling
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 discrepancies reported in recovery through
the pegmatite host
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.
All chips were geologically logged and files are
available with report A115322

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Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary

The total length and percentage of the
relevant intersections logged.

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.
Sub sampling and size was appropriate to the
style of mineralisation

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.
Assay techniques for Li and reporting of Li2O is
appropriate to the mineralisation style. No assay
QC is presented in A115322

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 adjustment has been made to historical data

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.
Data is in MGA94 Zone 50. Historic rock chip and
collar locations collected by handheld GPS

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Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary

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.
Rock chip sampling is not systematic; however,
some anomalous areas are spatially distant to
drilling.

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.
Drill thicknesses are interpreted as near true
thickness on historical sections(shallow dipping
pegmatite).

Sample
security

The measures taken to ensure sample
security.
Not applicable – Historic Data

Audits
or
reviews

The results of any audits or reviews of
sampling techniques and data.
Primary data was checked in the A115322 files

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.
ELA45/5770 is under option by Avira and is
described in the body text.

Exploration
done by other
parties

Acknowledgment
and
appraisal
of
exploration by other parties.
Several other surveys have been undertaken
for Tantalum mineralisation; however these
are not directly relevant to the lithium
prospectivity. Lithium was not assayed by
explorers prior to Metalicity’s work A115322

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Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary

Geology

Deposit type, geological setting and style of
mineralisation.
Lithium mineralisation in LCT Pegmatites

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:

easting and northing of the drill hole collar

elevation or RL (Reduced Level – elevation
above sea level in metres) of the drill hole
collar

dip and azimuth of the hole

down hole length and interception depth

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.
See figure 3 for locations of historic drilling.
Drilling at Stannum for Ta were 50-80m holes.
The drilling at Tria, Vun and Duus prospects
were 50-130m total depth.

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 data aggregation bias in historic - 1m RC
samples

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’).
Vertical holes in flat dipping pegmatites

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.
No new discovery, collars in plan Figure 3

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Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary

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 Li ranges reported in Figure 3

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.
Previous assessment of Hymap data and
geochemical
sampling
for
Sn,
Ta
has
occurred.

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.
Areas of focus are indicated in Figure 3
circled in red. Mapping of pegmatite in these
areas is priority.

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