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CASTLE MINERALS LIMITED AGM Information 2011

Nov 21, 2011

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2011 - A Year of Discovery

Annual General Meeting of Shareholders 22 November 2011

  • Largest Landholder with >11,000km2
  • Three greenfields gold discoveries in 2011
  • Kandia
  • Baayiri
  • Koda Hill
  • Proven the prospectivity of our land holding
  • 2011/12 field season underway
  • Well funded with >\$6 M, own drill rig, new site office/accommodation facilities established in Wa
  • Increased in-country staffing

Michael Ashforth - Non Executive Chairman,

Executive director of Macquarie Capital. Former MD of Gresham Advisory Partners and partner of Freehills.

Michael Ivey – Managing Director & CEO

Geologist, 25 years corporate, technical, exploration and mine development experience Former CEO of 300Koz pa Australian gold producer. 2002 Gold Mining Journal Mining Executive of the Year

Campbell Ansell - Non Executive Director

Chartered Accountant with long term involvement in resources sector having held numerous public, private & government board positions.

Des Kelly- Secretary

Des Kelly has over 30 years financial and corporate management experience focused mainly in the resources sector and provides corporate and administration management expertise to a number of publicly listed companies

Haydn Hadlow- Exploration Manager

Haydn Hadlow is a geologist with more than 25 years Australian and international gold exploration and resource management experience having previously held senior roles with IAMGOLD Corporation, Placer Dome Asia Pacific and Pancontinental Limited

Ed Mills - Supervising Geologist Ghana

Geologist, with MSc from Rhodes University . Extensive exploration and mining experience in Ghana, DRC , Rwanda and Australia

Paul Amoako-Atta - Ghana Representative and Geological Consultant

Geologist, formerly Ghana Geological Survey and Ghana Minerals Commission. Principal of Terrex Limited a Ghana Based geological consultancy

  • Issued Shares 113.5m
  • Options (35c Dec 2011 and 40c) 4.55m
  • Market Cap (@30c) \$34m
  • Cash (Nov 2011) \$6.1 m
4.55m
\$34m

% Issued Capital
Azumah Resources 14.7%
Lujeta Pty Ltd 8.9%
Harper 7.5%
Bridgelane Pty Ltd 6.7%
HSBC Custody Nominees 6.6%
M Ivey Pty Ltd 4.6%
Mr Henry Wiechecki 4.5%
Resources Capital Fund Vlp 3.8%
Bluestar Resources Limited 3.3%
Ivoryrose Holdings Pty Ltd 2.6%

Top 20 75.5%

Tight Capital Structure
Register includes;
Seamans Capital (Boston)
Resource Capital Funds VLP (Denver)

Leveraged to exploration success

Directors/Founders ~22%

4

  • Largest land holder in Ghana
  • 6 exploration projects covering ~11,000 km2
  • Two gold discoveries in 2008
  • Three discoveries in 2011
  • Focus on Akoko and Wa Projects
  • Antubia and Opon Mansi programs planned

  • ~10,000km2
  • Good title 3 RL's, 17 PL's/PLA's
  • acquired Nov 2007
  • No historic minerals drilling
  • Julie West defined 2009, (415,000t @ 4.2g/t)
  • 4 advanced regional exploration areas

Wa-Lawra Belt South Wa

Julie West – Jang

Kandia

  • Wa-Lawra trend (~70 strike km) has same stratigraphy as ~800,000 oz Kunche Bepkong deposits
  • Never drilled
  • Western area adjacent to Black Volta has variable alluvial cover sequences
  • Conventional soils sampling largely ineffective
  • Auger and RAB/Aircore drilling required as first test
  • 25,000m initial RAB program proposed for 2011/12

  • Intersection of Wa-Lawra and Bolgatanga greenstone belts
  • Extension of Batie West structure
  • No pre Castle drilling
  • Soil anomaly confirmed and refined by auger drilling
  • 112 aircore holes on 3 lines completed June 2011 as first test of the 5km x 3km auger anomaly
  • Birimian sediments intersected in all holes

  • Maiden aircore drilling outlines coherent gold trend intersecting
  • 26m @ 0.24 g/t gold from 25m to EOH (11SWRB47)
  • inc.10m @ 0.51g/t gold from 25m and
  • 10m @ 0.54 g/t gold from 25m (11SWRB69)

Kandia Trend

  • Previously unknown area of active artisanal gold workings identified in May 2010
  • Granite/sediment $\overline{\mathcal{Z}}$ contact
  • 9 discrete geochemical $\overline{\mathcal{A}}$ anomalies defined over 12km of strike
  • Geophysical survey extended to cover Kandia Trend
  • 15,000m RC drilled $\overline{\phantom{a}}$

  • Greenfields gold discovery made from drill testing soil anomalism
  • RC drilling has confirmed persistent bedrock gold mineralisation up to 45m wide over +600m of strike. Open to the south and down dip
  • Evidence for a parallel zone to the west that requires testing
  • Excellent potential to define a bulk tonnage sediment hosted gold resource
  • Initial resource calculation November 2011
  • Numerous other anomalies to test on strike and parallel targets over many strike kilometres

  • +50km of anomalous gold geochemistry

  • Hosts Julie West gold deposit and two new discoveries - Koda Hill and Baayiri
  • 3km west of AZM's Julie deposit
  • No historic pre CDT minerals drilling

500m long laminated quartz vein

5m @ 28g/t gold, 2m @ 41g/t gold 7m @ 23g/t, 3m @10g/t

  • Conceptual open pit study (\$600/oz shell) captures 250kt@ 4.9g/t gold
  • Cash cost of US\$295/oz

Julie – Jang Trend

  • 12 x 6km area of strong gold anomalism in an area never previously explored or sampled
  • Surface soils up to 2,671ppb gold
  • Highest tenor and size reported so far along Julie- Jang Trend
  • Excellent structural position enhances prospectivity
  • First RC drill program in March 2011discovers significant gold mineralisation:

55m @ 1.82g/t gold from 15m

Julie – Jang Trend

Phase One RC

  • 55m @ 1.82g/t gold fm 15m (BARC 07) Inc. 40m @2.02g/t
  • 5m @ 6.64g/t from surface (BARC 02)
  • 20m @ 0.55g/t gold from10m (BARC 06)

Phase Two RC

  • 15m @ 2.73 g/t gold from 30m inc.10m @ 4.0g/t gold from 30m and
  • 20m @ 1.08 g/t gold from 20m
  • 3m @ 1.86g/t gold from 0m (eastern zone)

$0.23$

$0.55$

6.39

$2.52$

2.37

1.U8
1.3
2.72 2.14
1.64
1.78
1.68
1.24
4.03 1.98
3.27
$0.4\,$
3.12
0.44
0.66 1.68
1.16
2.11
0.68
0.26
0.6 0.48
0.03
0.1

ANGELIA

  • RC Hole 2011BARC07
  • ~15m oxide mineralisation
  • ~40m primary mineralisation
  • 1m Splits: 52m @ 2.02g/t gold
  • Free milling >90%

  • ~11,000km2 Wa Project is an exceptional underexplored landholding
  • 50,000m of drilling completed in 2011

  • Kandia, Baayiri and Koda Hill greenfield gold discoveries
  • Initial Resource for Kandia
  • Purchased own drill rig + 3 new support vehicles
  • Established Exploration Office in Wa

  • Three Full time Geologists employed plus existing large contract workforce
  • Field work has commenced on Wa project second team to start this week
  • Established that the Wa landholding hosts a variety of gold mineralisation styles in different rocks types

  • Akoko South and Akoko North prospects
  • 10km east of Adamus Resources 2 Moz Salman/Anwia project
  • 30km south of 22 Moz Tarkwa goldmine
  • Ashanti Gold Belt

  • Resource grade at Akoko North has increased by 37%
  • Akoko North totals 1.1mt @ 2.2g/t gold for 77,400 ozs
  • Combined Resource estimate for Akoko North and Akoko South totals 103,300 ozs
  • Scoping studies at Akoko North captures 1.07mt @ 2.0g/t gold (68,000 ozs) at a cash cost of US\$575/ounce

  • Four Diamond drill holes completed October 2011 returned best results of
  • 12m @ 2.68 g/t gold from 24m (11ANDD02) and
  • 11.8m @ 3.24 g/t gold from 0.7m (11ANDD03)

Infill and extensional sampling at Akoko North and Akoko East prospects has confirmed significant soil anomalism, that combined, extends for an aggregate 15 strike km and offers immediate new drill targets

One of the cheapest West African stocks with potential for multiple uplift on exploration success

web: www.castleminerals.com

email: [email protected] Perth Office: Unit 6, 1 Clive Street West Perth

Julie West Deposit April 2009 OK Resource Estimate 1g/t cut-off

Indicated Inferred Total
Type Tonnes Au Au Tonnes Au Au Tonnes Au Au
t g/t Ounces t g/t Ounces t g/t Ounces
Oxide
Transitional 66,700 3.8 8,200 3,500 7.8 900 70,200 4.0 9,000
Fresh 316,200 4.3 43,900 28,400 3.5 3,200 344,600 4.3 47,100
Total 382,900 4.2 52,100 32,000 4.0 4,100 414,700 4.2 56,200

Akoko North Deposit 2011 Mineral Resource Estimate 0.8g/t Cut-off

2011 Mineral Resource Estimate 0.8g/t Cut-off
Indicated Inferred
Type Tonnes Gold Tonnes Gold Tonnes Gold Gold
t g/t t g/t t g/t Ounces
Laterite 1,200 2.0 700 1.9 1,900
1.9
120
Oxide 515,700 1.6 351,000 2.1 866,700
1.8
50,200
Transition 8,400 1.2 44,000 1.4 52,000 1.4 2,300
Fresh 183,000 4.2 183,000 4.2 24,700
Total 525,000 1.6 578,000 2.7 1,103,000 2.2 77,400
Akoko Project Total
Akoko North and South Deposits
Indicated
Inferred
Deposit
Tonnes
Gold
Tonnes
Gold
Total
Tonnes Gold Gold
t g/t t g/t t g/t Ounces
Akoko South 610,300 1.3 610,300 1.3 25,900
Akoko North 525,000 1.6 578,000 2.7 1,103,000 2.2 77,400
Total 525,000 1.6 1,188,300 2.0 1,713,300 1.9 103,300

Information in this announcement that relates to Exploration Results is based on information compiled by Michael Ivey, Castle Minerals Limited Managing Director, who is a Member of The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Michael Ivey is a permanent employee of Castle Minerals Limited and has sufficient experience that 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 2004 JORC Code. Michael Ivey consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.