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DART MINING NL Capital/Financing Update 2023

Nov 28, 2023

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ASX Release

29 November 2023

Recommencement of Field Activities – Dorchap Lithium Project

Dart Mining NL (ASX:DTM) (“Dart Mining” or “the Company”) is pleased to announce that the success reported from Phase 1 diamond drilling has secured ongoing exploration support as part of the Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A (NYSE: SQM ) $12 million SQM earn-in agreement with Dart Mining. Field activities have re-commenced across the project area with multiple field teams operating across high priority target areas. Works have commenced within the central Gosport region, with mapping and sampling of outcropping pegmatites.

Highlights Include:

  • Ongoing support from SQM for Earn In JV exploration efforts

  • Multiple field crews in operation across high priority targets

  • 100’s of untested pegmatite targets to be mapped and sampled

Field activities are focusing on the accelerated testing of pegmatite targets identified by the Lidar survey completed in 2021 ( 27 October 2021: “LiDAR Points Towards Increase in Lithium Pegmatites” and 18March 2021: LiDAR Data Acquisition over Strategic Projects”) . Over 220 previously unmapped outcrops bearing similar features to known pegmatite dykes were identified, with 100’s remaining untested.

Work is also progressing on the approvals process for the commencement of diamond drilling at the Gosport Prospect within the Dorchap Lithium Project. Permitting is currently going through the submission and approval of a standard work plan to allow for the establishment of access and drill pads for the drill testing of the Gosport Dyke Group. The Gosport region is a central zone with a high number of prospective pegmatite dykes in close proximity with demonstrated Lithium potential through initial high-grade rock chip sampling within exploration license EL5315.

Chairman, James Chirnside commented: “The Dorchap Lithium project remains a top priority of Dart Mining. The acceleration of permitting and field activities as well as continuing support from SQM on the project, are testament to our confidence in, and prospectivity of, the region. These field activities build on our existing understanding of the system as we seek to increase the number of prospective targets for future drill testing.”

Contact: James Chirnside Webpage: www.dartmining.com.au Email: [email protected] LinkedIn: Dart Mining NL Mobile: +61 447 447 613 Twitter: @DartMining

Dart Mining NL ABN: 84 119 904 880 Level 6, 412 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000

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Figure 1: Tenement location plan – blue square location of Figure 2.

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Figure 2: Prospect locations showing Mapped Dykes and Targets.

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Dorchap Lithium Project Summary

Dart Mining geologists first identified the lithium prospectivity of pegmatite dykes in the Dorchap Range in 2016 and set about acquiring exploration leases across the region ( Dart Mining ASX May 2016 ; Dart Mining ASX August 2016 ). These are the first recorded lithium pegmatites identified in Victoria, and are believed to have been sourced from the nearby Mount Wills Granite. A regional sampling program consisting of 826 samples has identified a strong fractionation trend across the Dorchap Range, resolving a 20 km ×12 km zone of strongly fractionated pegmatites bearing enriched Li, Cs, Ta, Be and Sn mineralisation ( Dart Mining ASX July 2021 ).

Dart Mining’s chip sampling program has yielded rewarding results, including: 16m at >530 ppm Cs2O, 0.32% Li2O and 104 ppm Ta2O5, and grab samples at 1.57% Li2O and 0.1% Ta2O5 at the Bluejacket Dyke in Glen Wills, along with 10m at 0.95% Li2O from the Eagle Dyke and 10m at 1.38% Li2O from the Holloway Dyke (Dorchap Range), and 10m at 1.22% Li2O from Scrubby Dyke, 1m at 838 ppm Cs2O and 0.46% SnO2 , and a grab sample at 9.98% SnO2 from elsewhere in the Dorchap Range ( Dart Mining ASX July 2021 ). The initial short drilling program in 2019 has been followed by an airborne LiDAR mapping program in early 2021 ( Dart Mining ASX March 2021 ), which has allowed additional, detailed mapping of pegmatite dykes that were previously overlooked in pockets of dense bush across the Dorchap Range.

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For more information contact:

James Chirnside Peter Taylor Managing Director Investor Relations Dart Mining NL NWR Communications [email protected] [email protected] +61 447 447 613 +61 412 036 231

About Dart Mining

Dart Mining (ASX: DTM) has the aim of evaluating and developing several historic goldfields, as well as substantiating a new porphyry province in Northeast Victoria. The area is prospective for precious, base, and strategic metals. These include Lithium, Gold, Silver, Copper, Molybdenum, Zinc, Tungsten, Tin, Tantalum, and a host of other important minerals. Dart Mining has built a strategically placed gold exploration footprint in the Central and Northeast regions of Victoria, where historic surface and alluvial gold mining indicates the existence of potentially significant gold endowment.

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Additional JORC Information

Further details relating and information relating to Dart Mining’s Strategic and Technology metals exploration programs can be found in Dart Mining’s ASX announcements:

  • 17[th] October 2023: “Dorchap Lithium Project Update”

  • 13[th] September 2023: “Excellent Lithium Drill Results”

  • 22[nd] June 2023: “First Assay Results from Phase 1 Drilling”

  • 6[th] October 2021 : “Lithium Drilling Update”

  • 27[th] October 2021: “LiDAR Points Towards Increase in Lithium Pegmatites”

  • 21[st] July 2021: “Strategic & Technology Metals”

  • 18[th] March 2021: “LiDAR Data Acquisition over Strategic Projects”

  • 10[th] February 2021 : “Exploration Strategy & Tenement Status Update”

  • 19[th] June 2019 : “Lithium Project Update”

  • 19[th] March 2019: “Lithium Exploration Drilling to Commence at the Dorchap Project”

  • 14[th] November 2018 : “Lithium Exploration Update”

  • 10[th] September 2018: “Exploration Update: Dorchap Lithium Project”

10[th] May 2018 : “Significant Lithium Mineralisation in Pegmatites of the Dorchap Range, Victoria”

  • 21[st] December 2017: “Lithium Exploration Update”

  • 6[th] October 2017: “Lithium Tenements & Prospects”

  • 3[rd] April 2017: “Lithium Exploration Update”

3[rd] April 2017: “Exploration Program Confirms Significant Lithium Pegmatites in NE Victoria”

  • 6[th] February 2017: “Acquisition of Tenement Package”

  • 9[th] August 2016: “Company Update: Lithium”

  • 1[st] June 2016: “Exploration Tenement Update”

18[th] May 2016 : “Tenement Application Update”

Additional information on Dart Mining’s other recent and current exploration activities can be found in:

26[th] May 2022: “Granite Flat Drilling Completion”

  • 15[th] February 2022: “Granite Flat Cu-Au Diamond Drilling Update”

  • 11[th] October 2021: “Granite Flat Diamond Drilling Update”

  • 29[th] September 2021: “Multiple Drill Targets Identified at Granite Flat”

  • 14[th] September 2021: “Encouraging Copper-Gold Drill Results from Granite Flat”

27[th] May 2021: “Initiation of Geophysical Surveys at Granite Flat”

11[th] May 2021: “Diamond Drilling Program for Copper-Gold Mineralisation Commences”

18[th] March 2021: “LiDAR Acquisition over Strategic Projects”

  • 8[th] March 2021: “Granite Flat High-Grade Gold, Silver, Copper Drill Results”

27[th] October 2020: “Orogenic Gold and Porphyry Prospectivity, Mitta Mitta, NE Victoria”

22[nd] September 2021: “Mt Elmo Goldfield Mineralisation”

6[th] April 2021: “Strong Gold Mineralisation Intercepted at Rushworth”

16[th] February 2021: “Sandy Creek Significant Gold Mineralisation”

19[th] October 2020: “Drill Results Reveal High-Grade Gold”

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Forward-Looking Statement

Certain statements contained in this document constitute forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, Dart Mining’s current expectations, estimates and projections about the industry in which Dart Mining operates, and beliefs and assumptions regarding Dart Mining’s future performance. Such forward-looking statements are based on a number of estimates and assumptions made by the Company and its consultants in light of experience, current conditions and expectations of future developments which the Company believes are appropriate in the current circumstances. When used in this document, words such as; “anticipate”, “could”, “intends”, “estimate”, “potential”, “plan”, “seeks”, “may”, “should”, and similar expressions are forward-looking statements. Although Dart Mining believes that its expectations presented in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, such statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause the actual results, achievements and performance of the Company to be materially different from the future results and achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned that forward-looking information is no guarantee of future performance and accordingly, investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forwardlooking statements.

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APPENDIX 1

TENEMENT STATUS

All tenement applications continue to pass through the approvals process with the tenements remaining in good standing as of the 30 September 2023 (Table 1.1 – Figure 1.1).

Table 1.1. TENEMENT STATUS

Tenement
Number
Name Tenement Type Area (km2)
Unless
specified
Interest Location
MIN006619 Mt View2 Mining License 224 Ha 100% NE Victoria
EL5315 Mitta Mitta4&5 Exploration Licence 148 100% NE Victoria
EL006016 Rushworth4 Exploration Licence 32 100% Central Victoria
EL006277 Empress5 Exploration Licence 87 100% NE Victoria
EL006300 Eskdale3&5 Exploration Licence 96 100% NE Victoria
EL006486 Mt Creek5 Exploration Licence 116 100% NE Victoria
EL006764 Cravensville Exploration Licence 170 100% NE Victoria
EL006861 Buckland Exploration Licence 414 100% NE Victoria
EL007007 Union Exploration Licence 3 100% Central Victoria
EL006994 Wangara Exploration Licence 190 100% Central Victoria
EL007008 Buckland West Exploration Licence 344 100% NE Victoria
EL007099 Sandy Creek5 Exploration Licence 437 100% NE Victoria
EL006865 Dart Exploration Licence_)_ 567 100% NE Victoria
EL006866 Cudgewa Exploration Licence 508 100% NE Victoria
EL007170 Berringama Exploration Licence 27 100% NE Victoria
EL007430 Buchan EL (Application) 546 100% Gippsland
EL007435 Goonerah EL (Application) 587 100% Gippsland
EL008161 Colbinannin EL (Application) 100% Central Victoria
EL007425 Deddick Exploration Licence 341 100% Gippsland
EL007428 Boebuck Exploration Licence 355 100% NE Victoria
EL007426 Walwa Exploration Licence 499 100% NE Victoria
EL007754 Tallandoon5 Exploration Licence 88 100% NE Victoria
RL006615 Fairley’s2 Retention License 340 Ha 100% NE Victoria
RL006616 Unicorn1&2 Retention License 23,243 Ha 100% NE Victoria
EL9476 Woomargama Exploration Licence 85 100% New South Wales
EL9516 Brewarrina Exploration Licence 185 100% New South Wales

All tenements remain in good standing as of 30 September 2023.

NOTE 1: Unicorn Project area subject to a 2% NSR Royalty Agreement with Osisko Gold Royalties Ltd dated 29 April 2013.

NOTE 2: Areas subject to a 1.5% Founders NSR Royalty Agreement. NOTE 3: Areas are subject to a 1.0% NSR Royalty Agreement with Minvest Corporation Pty Ltd (See DTM ASX Releas June 2016).

NOTE 4: Areas are subject to a 0.75% Net Smelter Royalty on gold production, payable to Bruce William McLennan. NOTE 5: Tenements subject to conditions noted in the SQM earn-in agreement (Dart Mining ASX December 2022 SQ Earn-In)

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Figure 1.1: Location of Dart Mining’s exploration properties in Northeastern and Central Victoria.

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