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ECLIPSE METALS LIMITED. Capital/Financing Update 2015

Jan 11, 2015

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Capital/Financing Update

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www.eclipseuranium.com.au Eclipse Metals Ltd is an Australian exploration company focused on exploring the Northern Territory and Queensland for multi commodity mineralisation. The company has an impressive portfolio of assets prospective for uranium, manganese, gold, iron ore, and base metals. The Company’s mission is to increase Shareholder wealth through capital growth and ultimately, dividends. Eclipse plans to achieve this goal by exploring for and developing viable mineral deposits to (ASX: EPM) are generate mining or joint venture income.

ASX ANNOUNCEMENT

12[th] January 2015

Australian Securities Exchange Companies Announcements Office ASX Limited Level 40, Central Park 152-158 St Georges Terrace PERTH WA 6000

COMMENCEMENT OF THIRD PHASE OF EXPLORATION MARY VALLEY MANGANESE PROJECT

The Directors of Eclipse Metals Limited ( “Eclipse Metals” or the “Company” ) (ASX: EPM) are pleased to announce plans to commence a third phase of exploration on the Company’s Mary Valley Manganese Project tenements.

BOARD

Carl Popal Executive Chairman

The Mary Valley tenements are centred about 15km south of the town of Gympie in southeast Queensland, 138km by road north from Brisbane. Gympie is a major regional centre and able to provide services and infrastructure support for exploration and mining activities.

Pedro Kastellorizos Executive Director

Rodney Dale Non-Executive Director

In 2014, fieldwork over the old Amamoor Manganese Mine workings verified that these workings exploited the largest known deposit of manganese mineralisation in the Mary Valley tenements.

COMPANY SECRETARY

Eryn Kestel

REGISTERED OFFICE

Preliminary inspection confirmed that unmined mineralisation is exposed in the walls and floor of the workings. These previously mined ore-zones are remnants of outcropping highgrade pods of manganese mineralisation. The pods are hosted within a manganese-enriched layer of rock which has the potential to contain additional high-grade mineralisation at depth. The first priority of fieldwork at Amamoor is to conduct detailed geological mapping of the old workings and surrounds to clarify orientation of the mineralisation. This will facilitate development of a drilling programme to test manganese mineralisation along strike and at depth below the old workings.

Large piles of crushed rocks within the Amamoor workings, which may be historical stockpiles, will be mapped and sampled to determine size distribution and grade as part of the mapping programme. Such stockpiles may provide an initial source of saleable manganese product.

The second largest production of manganese ore from the Mary Valley field was from the old Upper Kandanga Manganese Mine (also referred to as the Cameron mine) which was last mined in 1966. Field inspection of the workings in 2014 indicated that there is potential to discover significant quantities of economic manganese mineralisation at this prospect and further investigation is warranted.

Historical workings and surrounds of the old Upper Kandanga Mine will be mapped and sampled to better understand this deposit with a view to conducting reconnaissance drilling to follow-on from drilling at Amamoor.

C/-NKH Knight Unit 19 Level 2, Spectrum 100 Railway Road Subiaco WA 6008 Phone: +61 8 9367 8133 Fax: + 61 8 9367 8812

PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS

Level 3, 1060 Hay Street West Perth WA 6005 Phone: + 61 8 9480 0420 Fax: + 61 8 9321 0320

AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS NUMBER 85 142 366 541

SHARE REGISTRY

Security Transfer Registrars 770 Canning Highway Applecross WA 6153

ASX CODE EPM

WEBSITE

www.eclipsemetals.com.au

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Figure 1: Regional Interpreted Geology Map showing the 2014 Eclipse sample locations with % Mn and new EPM25698 application (outlined in red boundary)

As part of this phase of exploration, an assessment will also be made of any new manganese deposits which may be found and access routes in general, as time permits,

For and on behalf of the board.

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Pedro Kastellorizos Executive Director

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For further information please contact:

Carl Popal Pedro Kastellorizos Executive Chairman Executive Director T: +61 8 9480 0420 T: +61 8 9480 0420

The information in this report that relates to Exploration Results together with any related assessments and interpretations is based on information compiled by Mr Peter Spitalny on behalf of Mr Pedro Kastellorizos and Mr Giles Rodney (Rod) Dale, both Directors of Eclipse Metals Limited. Mr Spitalny is a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and has sufficient experience relevant to the styles of mineralisation under consideration and to the activity which he has undertaken to qualify as a Competent Person

Mr Dale is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and has sufficient experience relevant to the styles of mineralisation under consideration and to the activity being reported 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 Kastellorizos is a geologist with over 17 years of experience relevant to the styles of mineralisation under consideration and to the activity which he is undertaking as Executive Director.

Mr Peter Spitalny consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears. The Company is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information in this report and such information is based on the information compiled on behalf of company Geologists, Executive director Mr Pedro Kastellorizos and Non-Executive Director Mr Giles Rodney (Rod) Dale.

Reference

Brooks, J.H. (1962) Mary Valley Manganese Deposits. Queensland Department of Development and Mines. Geological Survey of Queensland Publication No. 308

Cranfield, L.C. (1999) Gympie Special; Queensland 1:100,000 Geological Map Commentary. Department of Mines and Energy, Queensland

Donchak, P.J.T., Purdy, D.J., Withnall, I.W., Blake, P.R. and Jell, P.A. (2013) Chapter 5. New England Orogen in Jell, P.A. (eds) “Geology of Queensland” Geological Survey of Queensland, p305-472

Evans, A.M. (1993) Ore Geology and Industrial Minerals; An Introduction Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, Great Britain

Macandie, A.G. (1959) Manganese ore deposits, Mary Valley Queensland. Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. Internal Report

Murphy, P.M., Schwarzbock, H., Cranfield, L.C., Rollason, R., Murray, C.G. and Scott, M. (1999) Gympie Special Sheet 9445 Part 9545, 1:100,000 Geological Map Series First Edition 1999 Department of Mines and Energy, Queensland

Ostwald, J. (1992) Mineralogy, paragenesis and genesis of the braunite deposits of the Mary Valley Manganese Belt, Queensland, Australia. Mineralium Deposita 27, p326-335

Scriven, N.H. and Munson, T.J. (2007) Manganese in the sand and Spinifex, Bootu Creek area, Northern Territory. Pdf from nt.gov.au

Smith, K.G. (1959) Mary Valley Manganese Deposits; Report of an inspection, February 1959. Department of National Development, Bureau of Mineral Resources Geology and Geophysics Records 1959/30

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