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EASTERN RESOURCES LIMITED Capital/Financing Update 2021

Aug 3, 2021

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ASX Announcement – 4 August 2021
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OPTION TO ACQUIRE TRIGG HILL LITHIUM PROJECT

Highlights

  • Eastern Iron Limited has entered into a binding Heads of Agreement with Amery Holdings Pty Ltd for an option to acquire a 100% interest in the Trigg Hill Project, which contains a number of Lithium-Caesium-Tantalum (“LCT”) pegmatites.

  • Trigg Hill is strategically located in the Shaw River district, Pilbara, that is approx. 75km SE of Pilbara’s Minerals’ (ASX: PLS) wholly-owned Pilgangoora Lithium-Tantalum mine.

  • Hundreds of pegmatite outcrops occur within the Trigg Hill - Curlew pegmatite swarms covering approximately 5km[2] and the former Trigg Hill tantalum mine with surface lepidolite and spodumene reported.

  • Eastern Iron has engaged highly respected industry veteran Mr. Mark Calderwood, who has 30 years’ exploration and mining experience including over 7 years in pegmatite minerals, as an advisor on the exploration strategy for Trigg Hill.

  • Option provides exposure to lithium in line with global focus on carbon neutrality and demand in battery chemicals for electric vehicles.

Eastern Iron Limited ACN 126 678 037 ( ASX: EFE ) ( EFE or Company ) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a binding Heads of Agreement with Amery Holdings Pty Ltd ACN 009 269 612 to acquire 100% interest in the Trigg Hill Project (E 45/5728), located in the Shaw River district, East Pilbara, Western Australia (the “ Project ”) (Figure 1).

Chairman Eddie King commented: “Lithium is boasting outstanding fundamentals on the back of electric vehicle (EV) adoption which is set to go parabolic. European stimulus packages in 2020 assisted in providing a catalyst to this growth, but as these packages expired, EV sales in Europe has displayed continued robust growth. Along with steady Chinese and North American growth, industry forecasts predict that EVs will dominate half of the total vehicle sales by 2030. On the back of this forecasted demand and with limited future supply, we expect that lithium prices will need to stay elevated to incentivise development of new lithium projects. Eastern Iron intends to gain exposure to the lithium market by acquiring the Trigg Hill Lithium Project, with known curlew pegmatites in a world class jurisdiction with nearby existing infrastructure. We are excited with the acquisition and look forward to working with Mark in developing Trigg Hill.”

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Figure 1: Location of Trigg Hill

Project Summary

Location and tenures

The Project is located in East Pilbara, Western Australia about 225km by road from Port Hedland. The nearest town is Marble Bar located 78km by road. The Project is adjacent to the Mont Webber DSO iron ore mine and camp (Atlas Iron), with existing mine infrastructure including roads, water bores and communications located on the Trigg Hill licence.

The Project is located approximately 75km SE of the Pilgangoora Lithium mine and 77km SE of the Wodgina Lithium and Tantalum mine. The Project is also located 80km SW of Global Lithium Resources‘ Marble Bar Lithium Project.

The Project comprises 1 Exploration Licence Application (ELA 45/5728) which covers 5 blocks. The ELA is expected to be granted in December quarter 2021.

EL No. Permit Name Status Applied For
No. Sub-blocks
E 45/5728 Trigg Hill Application 6-Jul-20
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Geology

Regionally, the Project is located within the East Pilbara granite-greenstone terrain, which is characterised by granitic rocks of the Shaw Batholith. Metamorphosed granitic rocks of the Archean Tambina, Split Rock and Callina Supersuites in the centre and southeast of the project area dominate the local geology. The granites have intruded older Archean rocks of the Pilbara Supergroup, composed of mafic and felsic volcanic rocks, with minor sedimentary and intrusive rocks. These units

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underly much of the western and northern parts of the tenure. The granitic rocks contain extensive swarms of late-stage pegmatites, the source of the tin and tantalum mineralisation in the area.

The geology of the project is largely rafts of amphibolitic and chloritic schists after basalts and dolerites, with some schistose metaperidotites, meta-dunnites and komatiitic metabasalts, between variably gneissic granitoid units of monzogranite, granite, granodiorite and tonalite. Siliceous metasediment units and greisen are also mapped on the property.

Pegmatite dykes related to the various granitic plutons have been intruded into the greenstone sequences and occur in swarms. These are variably fractionated and several have been located that fall at the end of the fractionation sequence in the Lithium- Caesium-Tantalum (LCT) category.

There are two types of pegmatites in the group. The first shows cassiterite, monazite and tanteuxenite, as sub-parallel swarms less than 0.5 metres wide dykes. The second are albite pegmatites, zoned with quartz cores, and containing beryl, formanite, lepidolite, muscovite, spodumene, yttrotantalite, and zinnwaldite. The largest pegmatite exposure is described as tantalum and rare earth bearing in a 200 x 10 metre area, at Trigg Hill, with further pegmatites to the northwest.

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Figure 2: Simplified Geology with known and potential pegmatites

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History

The Project covers the entire Trigg Hill pegmatite swarm and the Curlew pegmatite swarm except for one excised mining lease (M 45/1267) totalling 0.22sq km, covering the Curlew emerald deposit. The history is well documented by Jacobson et al .

Trigg Hill Pegmatites

The tantalum mineral formanite was first discovered at Trigg Hill in 1906, During the 1960s, 340kg of tin-tantalum concentrates were produced. Several small pits and trenches were made in a large tantalum and rare earth bearing pegmatite. Pilgan Mining Ltd exploited in a small-scale operation eluvial and alluvial material surrounding the Trigg Hill pegmatite from 1980-82. They treated 21,000 cubic metres of material and produced an estimate ten tons of tantalum and tin concentrates. Trigg Hill is the Type locality of mineral formanite, analysis of formanite by Simpson (1948) contained 54% Ta205, 27.7% (Y, Er)2O3 1.8% Nb2O5 and 3% other REO Th, U.

Work subsequent to mining included stream sediment and soil sampling, mapping and limited rock chip sampling. Soil sampling returned strong Li and Cs anomalism associated with pegmatite outcrops and areas of interpreted soil covered pegmatite or greisen.

No drilling of the Trigg hill pegmatites has been recorded.

Ta, REO, Li Mineralogy

Jacobson et al documents the presence of tantalum-REO minerals formanite, microlite, calciosamarskite, tanteuxenite and lithium minerals spodumene, lepidolite and zinnwaldite but there is no details attributed to the record. Fresh exposures or pegmatite are limited however the LCT pegmatites are zone albite type. A single scintillometer traverse (Skotsch 1994) indicates that the LCT pegmatites may be more extensive than indicated by surface exposures, see Figure 5.

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Figure 3: Trigg Hill area with soil and rock chip sample locations

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Curlew Pegmatites

The Curlew emerald deposit (excised) was discovered prior to 1940 and was mined from 1976 to 1982 with variable success.

Emeralds, beryl, scheelite and molybdenite are associated with a narrow LCT pegmatite vein. The more prospective pegmatites are the larger LCT pegmatites within the swarm that surrounds the emerald mine. These pegmatites contain formanite and cassiterite and in 2018 limited sampling by Lithium Australia confirmed the presence of lepidolite with pegmatite rock chip samples up to 2.9% Li2O (refer Table 1)

No drilling has been recorded on any of the Curlew pegmatites.

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Figure 4: Curlew area with rock chip sample locations

Potential

There are hundreds of pegmatite outcrops within the greenstones within the Trigg Hill to Curlew greenstone area covering about 5km[2] , most of these are small to medium in size however potential for larger LCT pegmatite bodies particularly in areas of folded or faulted greenstones such as at Trigg Hill.

The pegmatites have potential for tantalum, REO, lithium and tin. The larger zoned LCT pegmatites will be more prospective for the presence spodumene whilst lepidolite can occur in narrow dykes.

Radiometrics (U) can be used to locate larger tantalum pegmatites within greenstone host, some indications of subsurface pegmatites already located (refer figures 3 and figures 4).

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Figure 5: Interpretation of main Trigg Hill LCT Pegmatite (Skotsch, L. 1994)

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Lepidolite in Pegmatite SE Curlew

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Alluvial Formanite (Ta + REO) Trigg Hill

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Formanite (Ta + REO)[(black)] in Pegmatite East Curlew

Figure 6a, 6b, 6c: LCT Pegmatite Minerals at Trigg Hill and Curlew

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Commercial Terms

The Company entered into a binding Heads of Agreement (“HOA”) to acquire a 100% interest in the Project (which includes E45/5728) (“Tenement”) and all environmental approvals, authorisations, mining information, and other assets relating to the Tenements) owned by Amery Holdings Pty Ltd (“Amery”) on the key terms as follows:

  • The Company pay Amery a cash option fee of $10,000 (excluding GST) (“Cash Option Fee”) and issue Amery $20,000 worth of fully paid ordinary shares in the Company (“Shares”), within 7 days of the date when the Tenement is granted (Grant Date), to earn an option for 12 months from the Grant Date.

  • The Company has right to extend option period in 12 month intervals on up to 3 occasions by giving written notice to the Vendor at any time prior to its expiry and payment of a fee of $15,000 at the Company’s election by cash or Shares or a combination of both.

  • The Company can exercise the option to acquire a 100% interest in the Project during the option period to complete the transaction (“Completion”), by paying Amery $250,000 in cash, and either $500,000 in cash or $500,000 in Shares.

  • The Company must complete a minimum of 800 metres of drilling on the Tenement within 15 months of the Grant Date.

  • The Company agrees to pay a royalty payment to Amery equivalent to the value of 1.5% of net smelter return on all minerals produced from the Tenements.

  • The Company agrees to grant Amery a call option to acquire the whole of the Company’s interest in the Tenement for the nominal consideration of $1 in cash if the Company wishes to relinquish the Tenement after the Completion.

  • The Company agrees to engage Mr Mark Calederwood, via Amery, as a consultant.

Table 1: Summary of pegmatite and greisen rock chip samples

SAMPLE ID **MGA_E ** **MGA_N ** **Rock type ** Li2O
**ppm **
Ta2O5
**ppm **
Cs2O
**ppm **
Y2O3
**ppm **
SnO2
**ppm **
11THMI004 736,727 7,610,135 microcline(pegmatite?) 7 0 9 7 0
11THRK001 736,691 7,609,418 pegmatite 42 25 14 49 5
11THRK006 737,019 7,609,741 pegmatite 48 5 6 21 1
11THRK007 736,939 7,609,800 pegmatite 142 4 12 26 4
11THRK008 736,792 7,609,593 pegmatite 76 42 9 133 9
11THRK009 736,792 7,609,593 biotitegreisen 9,532 84 1,863 253 241
11THRK011 736,822 7,609,806 pegmatite 69 2 24 20 2
11THRK012 736,878 7,609,865 greisen? 272 5 7 21 9
11THRK013 736,789 7,609,384 pegmatite 259 3 22 13 3
11THRK014 736,816 7,609,407 pegmatite 42 62 3 74 4
HS001 736,485 7,609,799 greisen mica 7,815 17 637 59 146
HS002 736,666 7,609,375 greisen 39 3 10 39 4
HS003 736,684 7,609,439 greisenisedgranite 33 2 5 12 1
HS004 736,705 7,609,424 greisenisedgranite 2,734 62 177 62 100
HS005 736,872 7,609,582 biotite contact ofpeg. 2,239 40 1,389 22 557
HS006 736,950 7,609,703 pegmatite 12 2 1,267 5 2
HS007 736,797 7,609,589 qtz-mica rock 1,206 5 34 9 387
HS008 736,797 7,609,589 clevelandite 73 14 8 30 5
HS009 736,797 7,609,589 greisenisedgranite 112 2 12 15 4
HS010 736,738 7,609,496 pegmatite 26 9 19 51 3
HS012 732,583 7,609,106 greisenisedgranite 74 1 4 7 1
HS015 737,196 7,611,994 pegmatite 26 1 3 43 2

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Table 1 cont.: Summary of pegmatite and greisen rock chip samples

SAMPLE ID **MGA_E ** **MGA_N ** **Rock type ** Li2O
**ppm **
Ta2O5
**ppm **
Cs2O
**ppm **
Y2O3
**ppm **
SnO2
**ppm **
HS018 737,902 7,612,325 lepidolitepegmatite,dipSE. 28,958 311 2,513 1 429
HS019 737,924 7,612,476 Qtz core ofpegmatite 56 1 355 2 3
THR6 737,660 7,610,600 Unknown rock type 24 3 na na 2
THR7 737,660 7,610,600 Unknown rock type 26 12 na na 2

Notes:

1) 500ppm Li2O, 50ppm Ta2O5, 100ppm Cs2O, 100ppm SnO2 considered as anomalous

  • 2) na = not assayed.

COMPETENT PERSONS STATEMENT

The information in this release that relates to Exploration Results is based on and fairly represents information and supporting documents complied by Mr Mark Calderwood, the sole director of Amery Holdings Pty Ltd.

Mr. Calderwood is a Member of The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Mr. Calderwood has sufficient relevant experience in respect to the style of mineralization under consideration and to the activity being undertaken to qualify as a Competent Person within the definition of the 2012 Edition of the Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves (“JORC Code).

Mr Calderwood consents to the inclusion in this report of the matters based on this information in the form and context in which it appears.

INVESTOR INFORMATION

Further information, previous Eastern Iron announcements and exploration updates are available at the News and Reports tab on the Company’s website –www.easterniron.com.au

This announcement has been authorised for release by the Board of the Company.

Mr Myles Fang Non-executive Director T: 02 9906 7551 Mob: 0404 869 892

ASX: EFE

For enquiries on your shareholding or change of address please contact: Boardroom Limited, GPO Box 3993, Sydney NSW 2001, Phone: (02) 9290 960

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Appendix A JORC Code Table 1 for Exploration Results

Section 1 Sampling Techniques and Data

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 representativity 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.
Sampling to date has been early stage
exploration comprising surface rock and soil
samples,
Rock chip samples were collected by prior
explorers from surface exposures of
pegmatites and ‘greisen’
Soil samples were collected from <6mm
regolith by prior explorer at regular grid
intervals.
There has been a range of sampling
techniques applied and no available quality
assurance and quality control (QA/QC)
documentation.
However, the competent person (CP) is
satisfied that the results are fit for target
generation purposes.
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.).
Not applicable – no drilling results reported
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 – no drilling results reported

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Criteria JORC Code Explanation Commentary
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.
Not applicable – no drilling results reported
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.
There is no detailed information sampling
and preparation techniques. However, the
CP considers the methods of sufficient
veracity for target generation purposes.
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.
XRF instruments were not used for soil or
rock chip sampling.
The soil and rock chip samples reported in
A43234 and A93102 were analysed by
Genalysis laboratory but methodology is
unknown. Samples were analysed for Ag, Al,
As, Ba, Be, Bi, Ca, Cd, Ce, Cr, Co, Cs, Cu,
Dy, Er, Eu, Fe, Ga, Gd, Ge, Hf, Ho, In, K, La,
Li, Lu, Mg, Mn, Mo, Na, Nb, Ni, P, Pb, Pr, Rb,
Re, S, Sb, Se, Sm, Sn, Sr, Ta, Tb, Te, Th, Ti.
Tl, U, V, W, Y, Yb, Zn, Zr.
The rock chip samples reported in A118013
were analysed by ALS laboratory using ME-
MS61. Samples were analysed for Ag, Al,
As, Ba, Be, Bi, Ca, Cd, Ce, Cr, Co, Cs, Cu,
Fe, Ga, Gd, Ge, Hf, In, K, La, Li, Mg, Mn, Mo,
Na, Nb, Ni, P, Pb, Rb, Re, S, Sb, Sc, Se, Sn,
Sr, Ta, Te, Th, Ti. Tl, U, V, W, Y, Zn, Zr.
The analysis of Formanite was completed by
Simpson of the Geological Survey of Western
Australia.

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Criteria JORC Code Explanation Commentary
QA/QC does not appear to have been
undertaken. The CP is of the opinion that the
quality of the data is sufficient to use for
planning further exploration and that, for that
purpose, acceptable levels of accuracy and
precision have been established.
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.
Not applicable – no drilling results reported
Lithium results have been adjusted – original
results reported for Li only – these were
converted to Li2O using standard industry
formula (Li x 2.153). Ta, Y, Sn, Cs have also
converted to pentoxide equivalent.
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.
Rock Chip and soil sample locations were
taken by handheld GPS in GDA 1994 MGA
Zone 50.
RL (z) records are non-existent or not
reliable. RL is not relevant for early-stage
exploration and this information is not
required for planning further exploration.
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.
The data is not appropriate for use in
estimating a Mineral Resource and Ore
Reserve and is not intended for such use.
There has been insufficient recent
exploration to define a Mineral Resource and
it is uncertain if further exploration will result
in the determination of a Mineral Resource
No sample compositing was undertaken
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.
The rock chip samples were collected at
selected sites and it is unknown if the results
are biased or unbiased.
The soil samples of <6mm size fraction were
collect at grid intervals and it is unknown if
the results are biased or unbiased.
Sample
security
The measures taken to ensure sample
security.
Not applicable given the nature of sampling
Audits or
reviews
The results of any audits or reviews of
sampling techniques and data.
No audits or reviews of sampling techniques
has been undertaken

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Section 2 Reporting of Exploration Results

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 obtaining a licence to operate in the area.
Exploration licence application 45/5728
located 78km WSW of Marble Bar in the
Pilbara in the name of Amery Holdings Pty
Ltd. The Company has entered into an
agreement pursuant to which it has the option
to purchase 100% legal and beneficial
ownership of the foregoing tenement, subject
to satisfying a cash payment and granting a
1.5% net revenue royalty payable to the
vendor. Following completion, the Company
will assume responsibility for the payment of
the State Government royalty.
On approval, the Company will be required to
maintain the exploration licence application in
good standing.
The Licence application is subject to a
registered native titled claim in the name of
Nyamal (WC1999/008). Accordingly, access
agreements are required to be completed
prior to commencement of exploration.
Several infrastructure miscellaneous licences
held by Atlas Iron partially overlap the licence
area, an access agreement has been signed
between Atlas Iron and Amery Holdings.
The licence application partially overlies a
reserve for a potential rail line (FNA11568).
Exploration
done by other
parties
Acknowledgment and appraisal of exploration
by other parties.
This report refers to prior exploration results
from several companies and authors. The
key WAMEX reports include:
A043234 Skotsch, L, 1994
A093102 Rothery, J, 2012
A118013 Schiemer, P, 2018
Published references include:
The Guidebook to the Pegmatites of Western
Australia, Jacobson_et al_2007, P52-57; and
The Minerals of Western Australia, Simpson
E. S, Vol2 P259, 263-264
Geology Deposit type, geological setting and style of
mineralisation.
The geology of the project is largely rafts of
amphibolitic and chloritic schists after basalts
and
dolerites,
with
some
schistose
metaperidotites, meta-dunnites and komatiitic
metabasalts,
between
variably
gneissic
granitoid units of monzogranite, granite,
granodiorite
and
tonalite.
Siliceous
metasediment units andgreisen are also

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Criteria Explanation Commentary
mapped on the property.
Pegmatite dykes related to the various
granitic plutons have been intruded into the
greenstone sequences and occur in swarms.
These are variably fractionated and several
have been located that fall at the end of the
fractionation sequence in the Lithium-
Tantalum-Caesium (LCT) category.
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.
Not applicable – no drilling results reported
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.
For plotting purpose soil samples have been
grouped and colour coded at:
0-50ppm Li2O;
50-100ppm Li20;
100-150ppm Li2O; and
>150ppm Li2O

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Criteria Explanation Commentary
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 – no drilling results reported
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.
Figures 3 and 4 show all sample locations for
the Trigg hill and Curlew prospects .
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 soil samples and pegmatite/greisen
sample locations have been shown
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.
All relevant and material exploration data for
the target areas discussed, has been
reported.
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.
Eastern Iron Limited is planning to undertake
detailed sampling within the area followed by
drilling

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