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BLACK CAT SYNDICATE LIMITED Capital/Financing Update 2018

Dec 19, 2018

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Capital/Financing Update

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Update on Recent and Planned Activities

ASX Announcement 20 December 2018

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The Directors of Black Cat Syndicate Limited (“Black Cat” or “the Company”) are pleased to provide investors with an update on recent and planned activities of the Company.

Black Cat Managing Director, Gareth Solly said “Black Cat intends to be a future producer; with that in mind we are rapidly drilling at Bulong to define and grow a JORC Resource base from multiple deposits for future development. Excellent progress has been made in 2018 towards achieving this vision. Initial JORC Resources along the Myhree-Boundary Corridor and the Queen Margaret Corridor are planned for the March 2019 quarter. These corridors, together with a number of other high priority targets, will continue to be systematically advanced in 2019”.

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Figure 1: Diamond rig drilling at the Queen Margaret Mine, Bulong.

Black Cat Syndicate Limited (ASX:BC8)

Suite 6, 16 Nicholson Road Subiaco WA 6008 PO Box 572, Floreat WA 6014 T | +61 458 007 713 E | [email protected] W | www.blackcatsyndicate.com.au ABN | 63 620 896 282

DIRECTORS

Paul Chapman Non-Executive Chairman Gareth Solly Managing Director Les Davis Non-Executive Director Alex Hewlett Non–Executive Director

CORPORATE STRUCTURE

Ordinary shares on issue: 57.3M Market capitalisation: A$8.0M (Share price A$0.14) Cash (30 September 2018): A$3.1M

Update on Recent and Planned Activities

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Activities in 2018

Black Cat has had an extremely busy year including:

  • the engagement of a high quality management team that can transition from exploration to production with Gareth Solly (Managing Director), Dr Damien Keys (Chief Geological Adviser) and Ned Summerhayes (Exploration Manager);

  • completion of a well funded IPO on 30 January 2018 with a tight capital structure;

  • consolidation of the Bulong goldfield for the first time in over 120 years by completing the Bulong and Edwards transactions;

  • development and update of the first ever, comprehensive geological model over the Bulong goldfield;

  • implemented a target ranking system with the objective of quickly building JORC Resources, with targets falling into three categories Advanced, Emerging and Early stage;

  • attained independent expert acknowledgement through successful application for a $138,000 grant under the WA Government’s Exploration Incentive Scheme (“ËIS”);

  • generated strong and continuous news flow by systematically drilling three mineralised corridors as well as other high priority targets generating many promising results;

  • managed shareholder funds carefully and drilled ~24,000m of RC and ~3,000m of diamond at a combined direct drilling cost of <$50/m compared to IPO expectations at a comparable stage of $81/m for RC drilling only; and

  • recently conducted Sub Audio Magnetic (“SAM”) geophysical surveys along the MyhreeBoundary Corridor and Anomaly 38 region to refine drill targeting and geological modelling.

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Figure 2: RC rig drilling at the Boundary Deposit, Bulong.

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Update on Recent and Planned Activities

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Major Achievements in 2018

The Bulong Gold Project is ~25km from Kalgoorlie and close to mills, infrastructure, suppliers and a skilled workforce. The Project has genuine scale potential with efforts aiming to define and grow JORC Resources from multiple deposits along a number of significant mineralised corridors.

On the back of Black Cat’s substantial field activity, there has been a number of major achievements during the year, including:

  • The Myhree-Boundary Corridor has been extended from 140m of mineralised strike at Boundary to a prospective area that stretches ~1,600m south to Myhree. The mineralised strike length of Boundary has increased to ~550m, and ~200m of mineralised strike was discovered at Myhree. Table 1 shows some of the outstanding drilling results achieved and previously reported along this Corridor. An initial JORC Resource is targeted at Boundary down to ~100m in the March 2019 quarter.
Target Hole ID From (m) Interval Gram Metres
Boundary 92BRC33 38 21m@ 8.01g/tAu 168
NBB7 41 26m @ 2.76 g/t Au 72
92BRC29 34 [email protected]/tAu 67
92BRC52 41 21m @ 2.72 g/t Au 57
18BORC015 67 [email protected]/tAu 50
92BRC88 40 12m @ 4.09 g/t Au 49
NBB2 49 8m@ 5.97g/tAu 48
92BRC91 36 16m @ 2.60 g/t Au 42
92BRC87 46 [email protected] g/tAu 41
92BRC31 54 19m @ 2.10 g/t Au 40
92BRC32 33 [email protected]/tAu 34
18BORC003 84 3m @ 10.55 g/t Au 32
92BRC34 42 [email protected] g/tAu 31
92BAC42 33 7m @ 4.35 g/t Au 30
NBB4 79 [email protected] g/tAu 28
92BRC77 64 13m @ 2.14 g/t Au 28
92BRC71 38 [email protected] g/tAu 27
18BORC014 106 11m @ 2.46 g/t Au 27
NBB3 27 [email protected]/tAu 24
NBB8 45 14m @ 1.60 g/t Au 22
18BORC002 33 [email protected] g/tAu 22
NBB10 48 8m @ 2.70 g/t Au 22
92BAC42 43 [email protected] g/tAu 20
18BORC011 150 12m @ 1.61 g/t Au 19
18BORC034 69 [email protected] g/tAu 19
92BRC29 43 10m @ 1.84 g/t Au 18
NBB11 45 [email protected]/tAu 17
18BORC021 66 7m @ 2.49 g/t Au 17
NBB12 60 [email protected]/tAu 17
18BORC025 102 7m @ 2.40 g/t Au 17
92BRC75 60 5m@ 3.03 g/tAu 15
NBB8 78 7m @ 2.16 g/t Au 15
Myhree 18MYRC011 28 11m@ 8.30 g/tAu 91
18MYRC019 104 11m @ 4.03 g/t Au 44
18MYRC003 14 1m@ 36.90 g/tAu 37
18MYRC001 7 5m @ 4.14 g/t Au 21
18MYRC012 119 2m@ 9.63 g/tAu 19
18MYRC004 46 3m @ 5.61 g/t Au 17
18MYRC012 8 [email protected] g/tAu 12

Table 1: Recent and Historic** drill results Myhree-Boundary Corridor.

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Update on Recent and Planned Activities

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  • The Queen Margaret Corridor is a mostly continuous zone of historic workings that extend ~5kms from Queen Margaret South to Wakeful in the north. Drilling results at Queen Margaret have identified strongly mineralised internal veins between the historically mined hangingwall and relatively unmined footwall shears. These internal veins plunge south and occur at frequent intervals that provide a target zone which remains open at depth. An initial JORC Resource at Queen Margaret is targeted for the March 2019 quarter. EIS diamond drilling was recently completed below the historic Queen Margaret and Melbourne workings and has successfully located the Queen Margaret Porphyry at depth showing for the first time that the mineralised system is open below the historic workings. Table 2 shows some of the outstanding drilling results achieved and previously reported along this Corridor.
Target Hole ID From(m) Interval Gram Metres
Melbourne 92BRC100 39 [email protected]/tAu 54
18MBRC004 24 [email protected]/t Au 40
18MBRC005 61 [email protected] g/tAu 35
18QMRC065 31 [email protected]/t Au 22
Queen Margaret 18QMRC060 0 [email protected] g/tAu 349
BAC70 48 [email protected]/t Au 70
93BRC6 48 7m@ 8.75 g/tAu 61
SBRC2 0 [email protected]/t Au 54
18QMRC056 33 4m@ 9.16 g/tAu 37
18QMRC118 87 [email protected]/t Au 35
94BRC30 39 [email protected] g/tAu 33
BAC70 22 [email protected]/t Au 30
94BRC15 49 [email protected] g/tAu 27
94BRC43 31 [email protected]/t Au 27
BAC19 43 [email protected] g/tAu 26
18QMRC031 42 [email protected]/t Au 24
BAC66 29 4m@ 5.05 g/tAu 20
18QMRC001 22 [email protected]/t Au 18
94BRC46 62 2m@ 8.38 g/tAu 17
18QMRC057 32 [email protected]/t Au 16
18QMRC046 70 3m@ 5.30 g/tAu 16
BAC20 50 [email protected]/t Au 16
18QMRC099 52 [email protected]/tAu 15
93BRC14 45 [email protected]/t Au 15
18QMRC006 0 [email protected] g/tAu 15
18QMRC027 31 [email protected]/t Au 14
18QMRC097 25 4m@ 3.37g/tAu 13
18QMRC103 85 [email protected]/t Au 13
18QMRC097 51 [email protected]/tAu 11
18QMRC058 51 [email protected]/t Au 11
Strathfield SBRC38 48 [email protected] g/tAu 245
SFAC10 24 [email protected]/t Au 25
SBRC22 95 [email protected] g/tAu 25
SBRC20 24 [email protected]/t Au 23
92BRC38 37 [email protected] g/tAu 21
18SFRC004 24 [email protected]/t Au 20
SBRC18 44 3m@ 6.13 g/tAu 18
SBRC20 13 [email protected]/t Au 17
SFAC14 44 3m@ 5.26 g/tAu 16
SFAC12 15 [email protected]/t Au 16
SBRC42 64 [email protected] g/tAu 15

Table 2: Recent and Historic** drill results along Queen Margaret Corridor.

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Update on Recent and Planned Activities

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  • Black Cat have drilled high priority Advanced, Emerging and Early targets to ensure that the breadth of the opportunity at the Bulong Gold Project is understood. This strategy has already proven to be highly successful with targets like Boundary moving from Emerging to Advanced and Myhree leapfrogging from Early to Advanced. Other successes include:

  • The Trump Corridor has been extended to 200m and our recent drill holes represent the northern most and deepest drilling at Trump. These holes highlight the potential for mineralised structures along the Trump Corridor. Table 3 shows some of the encouraging drilling results achieved and previously reported in this Corridor.

  • Patch Dam and Woodline are some of the largest alluvial goldfields in WA and have historically sourced >100 oz gold nuggets. The source of the alluvial gold has not been identified. Anomaly 38 sits to the north of these alluvial rich areas and contains zones of high grade mineralisation within ultramafic rocks which may hold the key to this source. Recent drilling and SAM imaging will be used for further interpretation and targeting in this area.

Project Hole_ID From (m) Interval Gram Metres
Anomaly 38 BURC025 116 2m @ 47.60 g/t Au 95
BURC023 82 2m @ 41.66 g/t Au 83
BURC026 31 7m @ 9.40 g/t Au 66
18AARC009 73 2m @ 22.10 g/t Au 44
BURC031 14 2m @ 13.65 g/t Au 27
BURC042 52 1m @ 23.80 g/t Au 24
BA124 44 4m @ 3.90 g/t Au 16
Trump 94BRC65 57 3m @ 14.17 g/t Au 43
18TRRC003 44 8m @ 4.13 g/t Au 33
94BRC68 41 1m @ 15.20 g/t Au 15
18TRRC019 45 4m @ 2.58 g/t Au 10
Virgin Dam BUD002 211 10m @ 6.93 g/t Au 69
VD1 191 4m @ 4.68 g/t Au 19
VD1 137 7m @ 2.27 g/t Au 16
Woodline BUR149 66 12m @ 8.86 g/t Au 106
BRC002 126 2m @ 7.96 g/t Au 16

Table 3: Recent and Historic** drill results for Emerging and Early targets.

Planned Activities for Early 2019

Black Cat is planning an extremely busy and productive year in 2019, including:

  • December 2018 - January 2019 receive assays from recent drilling, along the Queen Margaret, Myhree-Boundary and Trump Corridors;

  • January – March 2019 infill and extensional drilling along the ~1,600m long MyhreeBoundary Corridor;

  • 19-21 February 2019 corporate presentation at RIU Explorer’s Conference, Fremantle WA;

  • January – March 2019 initial JORC Resource down to 70m at Queen Margaret to be completed once all shallow diamond results are returned;

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Update on Recent and Planned Activities

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  • January - March 2019 initial JORC Resource down to 100m at Boundary to be completed once all diamond results are returned;

  • March - April 2019 corporate roadshow to present latest drilling results and initial JORC Resources to investors; and

  • Ongoing drilling of high priority Advanced, Emerging and Early targets to ensure that we understand the breadth of the opportunity at the Bulong Gold Project. Announcement of results on an ongoing basis as each program is completed and interpreted.

For further information, please contact:

Gareth Solly

Managing Director +61 458 007 713 [email protected]

Competent Person’s Statement

The information in this announcement that relates to geology and exploration results was compiled by Mr Gareth Solly, who is a Member of the AusIMM and an employee, shareholder and option holder of the Company. Mr Solly has sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity being undertaken 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 Solly consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on the information in the form and context in which it appears.

The Company confirms that it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information in the original reports, and that the form and context in which the Competent Persons findings are presented have not been materially modified from the original reports.

  • ** Information on historical results outlined in this Announcement together with JORC Table 1 information, is contained in the Independent Geologists Report within Black Cat’s Prospectus dated 27 November 2017, which was released on an announcement on 25 January 2018.

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Update on Recent and Planned Activities

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INVESTMENT HIGHLIGHTS

Black Cat controls 100% of ~84km² of the Bulong Gold Project (“the Project”) of which ~89% of tenements are granted. In addition, there are numerous targets on mining leases meaning low barriers to exploration and production hence strong expected news flow.

The Project is situated just 25km east of Kalgoorlie by sealed road. Mains power runs through the Project with five regional mills, support services and a residential workforce nearby.

  • The Project has a history of complex, unconsolidated ownership and small scale, high grade production:

  • mine production in the Project area ceased in the early 1910s with a total of ~152,000oz @ >1 oz/t Au produced to date;

  • the Queen Margaret Mine was the main producer with ~96,000oz @ >1oz/t Au. Despite the mine’s high-grade production record there has been no effective drilling below the old workings;

  • despite encountering mineralised lodes in a 200m deep drive to the east of Queen Margaret, minimal drilling for parallel lodes has been undertaken;

  • prospectors have seen high specimen and nugget production with multiple +100oz nuggets discovered; and

  • the complex and unconsolidated ownership structures have hampered exploration and mining at the Project.

Black Cat has now consolidated the Project bringing together a number of high-grade, near term, underground production targets along with shallow open cut positions.

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Figure 3: Regional map of Kalgoorlie showing the location of the Black Cat Bulong tenements and nearby infrastructure

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