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CARNABY RESOURCES LIMITED Capital/Financing Update 2021

Feb 8, 2021

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Capital/Financing Update

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ASX Announcement 9 February 2021

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MALMAC EXPLORATION UPDATE LARGE NEW COPPER-NICKEL-GOLD ANOMALIES IDENTIFIED

Fast Facts

Shares on Issue 117.8M

Market Cap (@ 24 cents) $28.3M Cash $8.3M[1 ]

1As of 31 December 2020

Board and Management

Carnaby Resources Limited (ASX: CNB) ( Carnaby or the Company ) is pleased to provide an exploration update for the 100% owned Malmac project in the Northern Yilgarn Margin of Western Australia.

Highlights

  • At the newly named Salvation prospect, a 6 km long copper-nickelgold anomaly has been defined by soil, rock chip and hand-held XRF. Results include;

  • CB00065 Rock Chip 1,380 ppm copper

  • CBXRF0030 Hand Held XRF 1,203 ppm copper

  • o CB00178 Rock Chip 489 ppm nickel

  • The Salvation prospect is associated with a little-known outcrop of pillow basalt, a key geological criterion for Volcanic Hosted Massive Sulphide ( VHMS ) deposits, including the world-class Degrussa coppergold deposit. The pillow basalt unit is potentially equivalent to the Narracoota Volcanics in the Byrah Basin, reinforcing the emerging discovery potential at Malmac.

  • At the newly named Oolgahroo prospect a 15 km long coppernickel-gold anomaly has been defined by wide spaced soil sampling along the SE extension of the Salvation Fault.

The Company’s Managing Director, Rob Watkins, commented:

“These early-stage results from the first ever systematic exploration at Malmac, covering 621 km[2] of tenure east of Sandfire’s Degrussa coppergold deposit, are significant. The results exemplify the strong pipeline of the Company’s gold and copper projects, from early stage greenfields at Malmac through to advanced exploration and development potential at Strelley in the Mallina Basin of WA and at Tick Hill in Mt Isa, Queensland.

Peter Bowler, Non-Exec Chairman Rob Watkins, Managing Director

Greg Barrett, Non-Exec Director & Company Secretary

Paul Payne, Non-Exec Director

Company Highlights

  • Proven and highly credentialed management team

  • Tight capital structure and strong cash position

  • Commenced exploration at the Mallina Basin in the Pilbara of WA

  • Projects near to De Grey’s Hemi gold discovery on 442 km[2] of highly prospective tenure

  • 100% ownership of the Tick Hill Gold Project (granted ML’s) in Qld, historically one of Australia highest grade and most profitable gold mines

  • Past production of 511 koz at 22 g/t gold

  • Indicated and Inferred Mineral Resource of 845,000 t @ 2.47 g/t gold for 67,100 ounces[2]

  • Proven and Probable Ore Reserves of 459,900 t @ 1.89 g/t gold for 28,000 ounces[2]

  • 323 km[2] surrounding exploration package containing numerous gold and copper targets

  • 2Refer ASX release 5 June 2020, to be adjusted following Tailings Sale & NSR Royalty Agreement, refer ASX release 3 August 2020

Registered Office

78 Churchill Avenue Subiaco Western Australia 6008

T: +61 8 9320 2320

www.carnabyresources.com.au

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Figure 1. Regional Geology of the Malmac Project.

MALMAC WEST E69/3509 (Carnaby 100%)

The Malmac West tenement covers 438 km[2] of Stanley Fold Belt rocks located on the northern edge of the Yilgarn craton located 200 km east of the Degrussa copper-gold deposit and the 7.5 Moz Plutonic gold deposit (Figure 1). The Stanley Fold Belt rocks are bounded to the north by a major crustal scale growth fault named the Salvation Fault.

Historical exploration on the tenement is limited to a small reconnaissance type RAB drill program by WMC resources in 1978 who completed 1-2 km spaced RAB holes. The drilling intersected widespread anomalous zinc in numerous holes along the Salvation Fault.

Historical regional reconnaissance mapping completed by Geopeko in 1984 recorded outcrop of pillow basalts on the tenement. A total of only 8 rock chips have been recorded over an area of 438 km[2] of which 5 recorded higher than 200 ppm copper and up to 621 ppm gold and 0.04 g/t gold.

The Malmac area represents an extremely underexplored inlier of Archaean granite-dominated Yilgarn Craton rocks located on the northern side of the Palaeoproterozoic Earaheedy Basin and remarkably no exploration has been completed on the tenement since the discovery of the Degrussa copper-gold deposit in 2009.

Carnaby Resources has completed a first pass reconnaissance sampling program on broad 2 to 4 km spaced traverses comprising 48 rock chip samples and 111 soil samples at 500m

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spacing analysed using Ultrafine multielement analysis at Labwest. A further 39 readings of outcrop were taken by a portable Olympus Vanta VMR XRF analyser (Tables 1 -3).

The results of this work have outlined a 6km long Copper-Nickel-Gold anomaly named “ Salvation ” and include results up to 1380 ppm copper and 489 ppm Nickel reported from lab analysis of rock chip samples (Fig 2). Elevated gold results of up to 7.2 ppb gold in soils was also recorded from samples taken at Salvation. The 489 ppm Ni rock chip result was sourced from a weathered and altered pillow basalt outcrop (Fig 3) of mafic volcanic rocks potentially equivalent to the Narracoota Volcanics in the Byrah Basin . The little known pillow basalt unit is not recorded in any government publications or geological maps and has only been noted in a single historical exploration report by Geopeko in 1984 who mapped the pillow basalt occurrence. The presence of pillow basalt in the Troy Creek Bed rocks of the Stanley Fold Belt is a key geological criterion for the potential formation of Volcanic Hosted Massive Sulphide ( VHMS ) similar to the Degrussa copper-gold deposit and underlies the previously overlooked and emerging potential at Malmac.

A structural review of the Malmac area has also been completed by structural specialist Dr Brett Davis who highlights a complex structural setting dominated by an inferred thrust duplex setting that is also considered to be prospective for orogenic gold mineralisation.

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Figure 2. The Salvation Copper-Nickel-Gold anomaly and pillow basalt outcrop at the Malmac West tenement.

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Figure 3. Photograph of the pillow basalt outcrop at Malmac West (366572mE, 7196868mN).

MALMAC EAST E69/3510 and E69/3702 (Carnaby 100%)

The Malmac East tenements are situated on the South East extension of the major crustal scale Salvation Fault. First pass reconnaissance mapping and sampling on broad 2 to 4 km spaced traverses totalling of 175 soils samples were submitted for Ultrafine analysis at Labwest covering a suite of 52 elements including gold analysed at trace level detection limit.

The soil sampling has outlined a 15 km long copper-nickel-gold soil anomaly named “Oolgahroo” which appears to be coincident with the Salvation Fault (Figure 4). With very low background levels, the anomaly is coherent with maximum values for Cu, Ni and Au of 73.8 ppm, 55 ppm and 3.3 ppb respectively. The sample spacing over Oolgahroo was extremely broad with 4 km spaced lines and samples taken every 500m along the lines. Follow up exploration is being planned for the 2021 field season.

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Figure 4. Malmac East Tenement map showing the location of the Oolgahroo coppernickel-gold soil anomaly overlain on Total Magnetic Intensity imagery.

Carnaby plans to progress the early-stage exploration results at Malmac with further low cost soil sampling, mapping and rock chip sampling and will consider using geophysics to further refine drill targets during the 2021 field season.

CORPORATE OUTLOOK

Carnaby is strongly funded to be able to aggressively explore its projects with cash at bank of $8.3M as at 31 December 2021 plus $750,000 to be received on 4 March 2021 and commencement of ~$2M in royalty payments from the Tick Hill Tailings Dam sale.

The Malmac project will form a small part of a $3M Carnaby exploration budget for Calendar 2021. Carnaby’s highest priorities are in the Mallina Basin, Pilbara where an 8,000 m Aircore, RC and Diamond Drilling program is about to commence at Strelley to follow up on the extensive gold occurrences recently discovered in the Company’s first drilling program and at Tick Hill in Queensland where high grade gold and extensive copper mineralisation is present over 70 km of Iron Oxide Copper Gold (IOCG) targets immediately south of Hammer Metals (HMX) new Trafalgar copper discovery . A review of the copper mineralisation within Carnaby’s Tick Hill tenements in Mt Isa is currently being completed and an update will be released shortly with details of planned exploration works to be completed in 2021.

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Further information regarding the Company can be found on the Company’s website www.carnabyresources.com.au

For further information please contact: Robert Watkins, Managing Director +61 8 9320 2320

Competent Person Statement

The information in this document that relates to exploration results is based upon information compiled by Mr Robert Watkins. Mr Watkins is a Director of the Company and a Member of the AUSIMM. Mr Watkins consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based upon the information in the form and context in which it appears. Mr Watkins has sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity which is undertaken to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the December 2012 edition of the “Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves” (JORC Code).

Disclaimer

References may have been made in this announcement to certain ASX announcements, including references regarding exploration results, mineral resources and ore reserves. For full details, refer to said announcement on said date. The Company is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects this information. Other than as specified in this announcement and the mentioned announcements, the Company confirms that it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information included in the original market announcements and, in the case of estimates of Mineral Resources, Exploration Target(s) or Ore Reserves that all material assumptions and technical parameters underpinning the estimates in the relevant market announcement continue to apply and have not materially changed. The Company confirms that the form and context in which the Competent Person’s findings are presented have not been materially modified from the original market announcement.

Table 1. Significant Cu & Ni Rock Chip Lab Assays (>100ppm Cu, >100ppm Ni) and Location (MGA94 Zone 51).

Sample ID East North Cu (ppm) Ni (ppm) Prospect
CB00004 366447 7196537 37.8 199 Salvation
CB00065 362431 7197909 1380 50.7
CB00067 362429 7198068 254 195.5
CB00069 362474 7198671 121 183
CB00076 366510 7196804 88.8 103
CB00081 363825 7197659 235 2.5
CB00089 364714 7197999 116 88.3
CB00091 364304 7197408 74.6 112.5
CB00092 364239 7197371 194 319
CB00095 364279 7197385 124 41.4
CB00098 364635 7197425 118.5 66.1

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Sample ID East North Cu (ppm) Ni (ppm) Prospect
CB00178 366573 7196867 61.1 489
CB00180 366465 7196815 12 193
CB00182 366443 7196450 18.5 111.5
CB00185 366585 7196860 46.6 185

Table 2. Significant Cu Rock Chip XRF Analyser Readings (>100ppm Cu) and Location (MGA94 Zone 51).

**MGA_E ** **MGA_N ** Cu(ppm) Prospect
363824 7197658 1203 Salvation
363823 7197648 843 Salvation
363760 7197668 579 Salvation
363760 7197674 524 Salvation
364722 7197045 142 Salvation

Table 3. Significant Cu & Ni Soil Sample Lab Assays (>50ppm Cu, >50ppm Ni, >2.5ppb Au) and Location (MGA94 Zone 51).

Sample ID East North Cu
(ppm)
Ni
(ppm)
Au (ppb) Prospect
WA01016 436000 7175500 51.7 44 2.3 Malmac East
WA01017 435000 7168500 34.7 36 3
WA01023 435000 7171500 53.4 43 1.1
WA01037 433000 7172000 41.9 51 1.6
WA01041 432000 7174500 38 51 0.9
WA01042 432000 7174000 54.5 48 1.7
WA01079 424000 7180000 61.3 38 0.8 Oolgahroo
WA01080 424054 7180092 73.8 52 X
WA01522 439000 7170000 35.1 33 2.9 Malmac East
WA01525 412000 7191000 57.4 51 0.9 Oolgahroo
WA01526 412000 7190500 51 36 1.4
WA01527 412000 7190000 56 42 3.3
WA01528 412000 7189500 55.2 39 2.8
WA01533 412000 7187000 53.6 47 0.8
WA01534 412000 7186500 59.1 55 1
WA01577 416000 7184500 51.7 50 1.2
WA01578 416000 7185000 50.2 40 1.3

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Sample ID East North Cu
(ppm)
Ni
(ppm)
Au (ppb) Prospect
WA01580 416000 7186000 55.8 38 1.6
WA01581 416000 7186500 69.6 41 2.2
WA01588 408000 7190000 38.1 42 2.6
WA01595 433565 7173143 57 42 1.6 Malmac East
WA01596 433564 7173127 51.8 48 1.5
WA01602 362500 7199000 26.4 25 2.7 Salvation
WA01627 360500 7191500 27.8 39 2.5 Malmac West
WA01632 360500 7189000 51 55 1.5
WA01635 360500 7187500 51.3 40 1.1
WA01704 364500 7193500 38.1 31 7.2
WA01710 364500 7196500 31.4 41 2.5 Salvation
WA01719 366500 7193500 37 50 0.9 Malmac West
WA01722 366500 7194500 29.4 37 2.8 Salvation

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.
Rock Chips

Rock Chips were collected by Carnaby staff and submitted for
analysis. XRF readings were also directly taken from several
outcrops using an Olympus Vanta VMR XRF Analyser. Rock
chips are random, subject to bias and often unrepresentative
for the typical widths required for economic consideration.
They are by nature difficult to duplicate with any acceptable
form of precision or accuracy.

Rock chips collected by Carnaby staff were also collected to
assist in characterising different lithologies, alterations and
expressions of mineralisation. These have been logged with
further petrological work to be conducted in the near term.

Rock chips were submitted to ALS Laboratories in Perth for
determination of trace level gold and full suite multi-elements
using aqua regia digest of a 25g charge and analysis ICP-MS
(51 elements).
Soils Samples

Soil samples collected by Carnaby Staff. Involved the removal
of 10cm of surface material and the collection of soil at the “B
Horizon”. Approximately1kgof soil was sieved to collect -

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Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
2mm grain size fraction. Approximately 200g of the sieved soil
was collected in soil geochemistry packets for analysis at the
lab.

Sample submitted to Labwest for Ultrafine + method
developed by the CSIRO for exploration of blind deposits.
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.
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.

Not applicable.
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.
Rock Chip Samples

Rock chips hand specimens of the collected samples were
retained for description and petrology work. These were
logged with respect to lithology, weathering, alteration,
veining and structure. Further detailed petrological work is in
progress.

All rock chip samples were photographed.
Soil Samples

Soils samples were logged in the field with respect to the
regolith type and landform features.
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 beingsampled.
Rock Samples

Entire rock chips were submitted to the lab for sample
preparation and analysis.
Soil Samples.

Soils samples were sieved to obtain the -2mm fraction of soils
(B- Horizon) for analysis.

Sieved soils samples were periodically weighed in the field to
ensure that they exceeded the minimum 200g required for the
Ultra fine + method of preparation.

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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.
Rock Chips

Rock Chips were analysed at ALS in Perth using the
AuME_TL43 method involving and aqua regia digest and
analysis by ICM-MS to detect trace level gold and multi-
elements.

Rock chips analysed at ALS had one Carnaby low level gold
standard inserted in the batch. This was within the acceptable
limits for gold. Results from lab inserted low level gold
standards and base metal standards were within the
acceptable range.

Rock Chips were analysed in the field using a Vanta Olympus
VMR XRF analyser with a real time of 20 seconds per beam in
Geochem mode.
Soil Samples

The Ultrafine + method developed by the CSIRO for
exploration of blind deposits was considered an appropriate
method for detecting gold and base metals given the shallow
transported cover most of the Malmac project.

No standards were used in the reporting of results.
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 anyadjustment to assaydata.
• At the prospect scale the quality of the Malmac data is currently
considered acceptable for exploration purposes. Further
investigation and validation will be undertaken as work programs
progress.
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.
• Qualityand adequacyof topographic control.
• Grid systems used for Malmac was MGA94/51.
• Location points were collected using a Garmin handheld GPS with
an accuracy of +/-3m.
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 Chips
• Rock chip sampling was undertaken at insitu outcrop where
available.
• Rock chip and soil sample spacing at this stage is not suitable for
Mineral Resource Estimation.
Soil Samples
• Soil sampling was undertaken on lines spaced 4km (western half
of Malmac East), 2km (Malmac West) and 1km (eastern half of
Malmac East). The sample spacing along every line was 500m.
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
• The orientation of soil sampling is considered unbiassed. Soil lines
are orientated N-S and both major interpreted structures and
stratigraphy orientated on WNW-ESE in Malmac West and NW-
SE in Malmac East.

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Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
introduced a sampling bias, this should be
assessed and reported if material.
Sample security • The measures taken to ensure sample
security.
• Soil and rock chip samples were transported from the field to the
lab by Carnaby Staff.
Audits or reviews • The results of any audits or reviews of
samplingtechniques and data.
• No external audits or reviews have been undertaken of the recent
samplingtechniques and data.

Section 2 Reporting of Exploration Results

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

Criteria 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 obtaininga licence to operate in the area.
• ELA69/3509 (Malmac East), E69/3510 and E69/3702 (Malmac
West) are exploration licences owned 100% by Carnaby
Resources Ltd.
Acknowledgment
and appraisal of
exploration by
otherparties.
• Acknowledgment and appraisal of exploration
by other parties.
• Malmac has involved a reconnaissance RAB drilling campaign by
WMC resources in 1978 and a regional mapping and rock chip
sampling programme by Geopeko in 1984.
Geology • Deposit type, geological setting and style of
mineralisation.
• The Malmac Project located at the northern edge of the Yilgarn
Craton in Western Australia. It contains deformed rocks of the
Earaheedy and Yerrida Groups within the Stanley Fold Belt and
is situated on the northern side of the Palaeoproterozoic
Earaheedy Basin. A major crustal scale fault, “The Salvation Fault”
bounds the Stanley Fold Belt rocks to the north. The Malmac
Project has potential to host volcanic hosted massive sulphide
(VHMS)mineralisation like the Degrussa Copper- Gold Deposit.
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.
• Included in report. Refer to the report and Table 1.
Data
aggregation
methods
• In reporting Exploration Results, weighting
averaging
techniques,
maximum
and/or
minimum grade truncations (e.g. cutting of
• Individual Copper and Nickel lab results for rock chips have been
reported at a lower cut-off of 100ppm. Associated Copper and
Nickel lab assays have been reported for samples above the
stipulated cut-off.

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Criteria Explanation Commentary
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.
• Individual Copper and Nickel lab results for soils have been
reported at a lower cut-off of 50ppm. Individual gold lab results
for soils have been reported at a lower cut-off of 2.5ppb.
Associated Copper, Nickel and Gold lab assays have been
reported for samples above the stipulated cut-off.
• Metal equivalents have not 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’).
• Not applicable.
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 the body of the 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.
• Cu results <100ppm although not listed in the tables can be seen
in the diagrams within the diagrams in this document.
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
contaminatingsubstances.
• As discussed in the announcement
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
commerciallysensitive.
• Planned exploration works are in the process of being prepared.

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