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ELEMENT 25 LIMITED Interim / Quarterly Report 2009

Oct 26, 2008

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Interim / Quarterly Report

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QUARTERLY REPORT

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Three Months Ending: 30 September 2008

ASX CODE: MZM ISSUED SHARES: 41.69M 52 WEEK HIGH: $0.31 52 WEEK LOW: $0.06

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CONTACT:

JUSTIN BROWN Managing Director +61 8 9228 4833

BOARD:

Denis O’Meara: Chairman Justin Brown: MD Terry Grammer: Non-Exec Ian Cornelius: Non-Exec

HIGHLIGHTS

PEAK HILL (100%)

  • Resource upgrade process has commenced.

  • Drilling deferred to end of Q1 2009.

MT PADBURY E52/1529 (100%)

  • Agreement signed to sell iron ore rights to Midwest Corporation Limited for up to $6M cash plus royalty.

  • Earn-in completed – MZM now owns 100% interest, an important step in allowing the Midwest (iron ore) and Auvex (manganese) deals to proceed.

CALLAWA (100%)

  • Drilling completed to test high grade surface copper mineralisation.

KEY PROJECTS:

PEAK HILL (100%) Gold

  • Programme failed to define sub surface extensions, however a regional Pb/Zn anomaly was defined.

ROBINSON RANGE (100%)

MT PADBURY (100%) Gold, Manganese, Iron

CALLAWA (100%) Copper, Gold

TALGA (90%) Gold, VMS

ROBINSON RANGE (70%) Uranium, Gold

KEY SHARE POSITIONS:

AUVEX RESOURCES LTD 10,000,000 FPO Shares

BUXTON RESOURCES LTD 2,000,000 FPO Shares

  • Joint Venture with Greater Pacific Gold Limited terminated.

The September quarter has seen a tumultuous period in global markets with a dramatic negative effect on the share prices of most resource companies world wide.

In light of the changing commercial environment it is critical that the Company review its strategic direction to maximise returns for shareholders going forward.

Montezuma’s advantage lies in the quality of assets at Peak Hill, and the important cash generation potential of the deals with Auvex Resources and Midwest Corporation.

Outside these core components of the Company’s strategy, a comprehensive review of the remaining assets has been initiated and significant rationalisation is expected to preserve capital and allow the Board to look at new opportunities in this volatile marketplace.

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PEAK HILL (MZM 100%)

To preserve capital until the Company’s cash position is secured by the completion of the Midwest Corporation deal in relation to the iron ore at Mt Padbury, drilling at Peak Hill has been deferred to Q1 2009.

The development of the gold resources at Peak Hill remain a core component of the Company’s overall strategy and the work programme to produce a revised resource estimate for the deposit remains on track for the next two quarters.

MT PADBURY (100%)

IRON ORE

Montezuma has entered into an agreement with Midwest Corporation Limited whereby Midwest will purchase 100% of the iron ore rights over E52/1529 by paying Montezuma up to $6M cash plus a royalty on production.

The deal is subject to several conditions precedent. On satisfaction or waiver of the conditions precedent prior to 30 October 2008, Montezuma will receive an initial payment of $1M cash.

On satisfaction of certain conditions subsequent, Montezuma will receive a further payment of $1M cash. It is anticipated that this second payment will be made in the first half of 2009.

Midwest will commence exploration as soon as practicable to define an iron ore resource in excess of 10M tonnes grading over 50% Fe. Once this hurdle is reached, Midwest will make a third payment of $4M cash to Montezuma.

Montezuma will retain a royalty of 0.5% on all iron ore sold grading between 30-50% Fe and 1% on all iron ore sold grading over 50%, the latter being first subject to the definition of a 10M tonne resource grading over 50% Fe.

If the conditions subsequent are not satisfied or waived, Midwest has the right to terminate the agreement at which time Montezuma will issue shares to Midwest to the value of $1M, calculated on the volume weighted average price of Montezuma’s shares over the preceding 30 days.

The completion of this sale with Midwest is an exciting milestone for Montezuma, providing the Company with important working capital to fund our ongoing exploration work at the Peak Hill Gold Project (MZM 100%) and our regional portfolio, with retained exposure to the iron ore potential should Midwest be successful in commencing a mining operation within the project area.

We look forward to keeping the market appraised as key milestones and payments related to this agreement are completed.

MANGANESE

Auvex Resources Limited, in which Montezuma is entitled to 10M fully paid ordinary shares, continues to develop their manganese export business. They have successfully raised over $4.5M in funding by placing shares at $0.20 and these funds are being applied to the development of the Sunday Hill and Ant Hill manganese deposits in Western Australia.

Drilling is underway at Ant Hill with visually encouraging results so far, although assays are pending. They are working to have 20,000t of manganese ore on ground by the end October ready for marketing. All site infrastructure is in place to commence full scale commercial production in 2009.

GOLD

As part of the follow up programme to test previously intersected gold mineralisation at the Wood Creek Prospect within the Mt Padbury project, a programme of twelve RC drill holes were designed on four lines, with three holes per line, each hole 50m apart.

The drilling is centred on the trend of a +50ppb soil sample anomaly which has not been adequately tested by previous drilling.

One hole was successfully completed to a depth of 100m before it became clear that the rig under equipped to complete the programme.

This completed hole, MP08001 intersected weathered mafics and into fresh siltstone. Quartz veining and a weathering front was focused on the mafic/siltstone contact, with abundant fuchsite alteration and sulphides including pyrite chalcopyrite.

Initial assays returned poor results, with a maximum gold value of 0.12 ppm Au over 1m. The pulps have been submitted to an alternative lab for check assays (results pending).

Hole ID Easting Northing RL Dip Azi Depth
MP08001 635550 7162000 500 -60 90 100m

CALLAWA (100%)

A programme of work was completed to test previously identified high grade copper in rock chips at the Callawa Project. In the second phase of work an additional 18 rock chip samples were taken for analysis. In the north, samples were taken from outcropping gossanous material, and areas of outcropping quartz bearing rocks. In the south, these were selected on outcrops of quartz rich material.

In the north, 3 samples over outcropping gossan recorded 9.35% , 7.63% and 2.65% Cu and 68ppb, 50ppb and 83ppb Au respectively. These outcrops occur in largely dolomitic sediments, close to the greenstone/granite contact.

In the south, additional significant Cu values were obtained. The Mindex location “Post Office Well’, recorded a max of 0.087% Cu, confirming low grade Cu anomalism to the mineral occurrence. A grade of 0.121% Cu occurs in a N-S trending quartz vein east of and sub parallel to the greenstone raft, and is at the far south of the tenement. This anomalous value hints that some copper may be mineralised in the nearby greenstone, and hidden by the cover sediments/soils. This area may warrant reconnaissance drilling to follow up the data.

In addition to the rock chip sampling, an aircore programme was undertaken comprising 40 holes for 1,407m targeting two areas:

  • High density drilling centred over the known copper outcrops to confirm and delineate the mineralisation

  • 2 lines, 5km apart, south of the de grey river, centred over the geophysical anomaly, seeking extensions under cover of the mineralisation seen at the outcropping Cu occurrences

The drilling failed to confirm the high grade surface results, however did return significant Pb anomalism and weak Zn anomalism at depth within amphibolites.

Overall, a broad zone of low order base metal anomalism was identified, open to the north. Additionally significant geological complexity was identified, in contrast to the available regional geological mapping data, including amphibolite, and meta-sediments in addition to the regional granitoid.

Sample ID Lat Long AU_ppb AU2_ppb Ag_ppm Cu_ppm Pb_ppm Zn_ppm
88369 -20.6779 120.455 -1 0 -0.05 9 3 5
88370 -20.6783 120.455 -1 0 -0.05 5 -1 3
88371 -20.6781 120.455 -1 0 -0.05 6 2 25
88372 -20.6726 120.457 -1 0 -0.05 7 4 3
88373 -20.6725 120.457 -1 0 -0.05 18 4 5
88374 -20.6657 120.462 -1 0 -0.05 8 2 8
88375 -20.6702 120.439 -1 0 -0.05 9 4 24
88376 -20.6832 120.44 68 67 25.9 93500 105 8
88377 -20.6832 120.44 83 0 2.75 26800 52 19
88378 -20.6831 120.44 50 63 15.7 76300 62 9
88379 -20.8095 120.476 -1 0 -0.05 136 6 10
88380 -20.8097 120.476 -1 0 0.3 1210 10 5
88381 -20.7392 120.478 5 0 0.7 333 17 4
88382 -20.7392 120.478 -1 0 0.2 873 4 11
88383 -20.7394 120.478 -1 0 -0.05 19 -1 2
88384 -20.7844 120.467 -1 0 -0.05 46 1 3
88385 -20.7995 120.473 -1 0 -0.05 7 -1 2
88386 -20.7996 120.473 -1 0 -0.05 20 -1 9

Table: Rockchip results.

HOLE ID Lat Long DEPTH DIP AZIMUTH MAX Cu
(ppm)
MAX Pb
(ppm)
MAX Zn
(ppm)
MAX Au
(ppb)
CAL001 -20.6841 120.4379 21 -60 270
43

7

66

7
CAL002 -20.6842 120.4388 61 -60 270 109 188 343 3
CAL003 -20.6842 120.4398 37 -60 270 40 15 65 1
CAL004 -20.6842 120.4407 21 -60 270 36 4 74 1
CAL005 -20.6833 120.4383 61 -60 270 130 17 45 6
CAL006 -20.6832 120.4389 61 -60 270 148 71 150 7
CAL007 -20.6833 120.4401 37 -60 270 54 28 157 3
CAL008 -20.6833 120.4404 61 -60 270 53 10 69 2
CAL009 -20.6833 120.4401 40 -60 90 79 10 102 8
CAL010 -20.6815 120.4370 49 -60 270 122 14 83 9
CAL011 -20.6814 120.4379 37 -60 270 39 15 72 1
CAL012 -20.6814 120.4378 23 -60 270 41 13 69 1
CAL013 -20.6815 120.4388 30 -60 270 37 8 96 1
CAL014 -20.6815 120.4390 30 -60 270 24 11 72 1
CAL015 -20.6814 120.4395 46 -60 270 36 20 76 1
CAL016 -20.6815 120.4398 19 -60 270 32 3 74 1
CAL017 -20.7392 120.4361 63 -60 270 153 14 56 10
CAL018 -20.7392 120.4378 48 -60 270 52 11 50 7
CAL019 -20.7402 120.4398 24 -60 270 47 11 51 4
CAL020 -20.7396 120.4418 23 -60 270 53 12 59 3
CAL021 -20.7389 120.4437 30 -60 270 66 19 53 2
CAL022 -20.7380 120.4206 16 -60 270 34 7 47 1
CAL023 -20.7381 120.4226 18 -60 270 47 10 49 5
CAL024 -20.7381 120.4245 21 -60 270 57 9 58 5
CAL025 -20.7382 120.4264 44 -60 270 41 10 92 4
CAL026 -20.7382 120.4265 22 -60 270 37 9 71 5
CAL027 -20.7798 120.4422 22 -60 270 42 9 54 1
CAL028 -20.7802 120.4439 30 -60 270 46 9 60 1
CAL029 -20.7801 120.4459 35 -60 270 48 10 42 2
CAL030 -20.7805 120.4458 60 -60 270 9 10 14 1
CAL031 -20.7804 120.4480 43 -60 270 7 6 19 3
CAL032 -20.7824 120.4565 42 -60 270 9 28 38 1
CAL033 -20.7827 120.4585 22 -60 270 9 7 75 1
CAL034 -20.7832 120.4604 31 -60 270 78 19 61 1
CAL035 -20.7833 120.4620 37 -60 270 121 711 341 81
CAL036 -20.6796 120.4371 30 -60 270 85 131 280 4
CAL037 -20.6797 120.4380 31 -60 270 30 24 108 2
CAL038 -20.6797 120.4381 30 -60 270 73 70 128 23
CAL039 -20.6797 120.4388 31 -60 270 54 18 107 3
CAL040 -20.6797 120.4390 20 -60 270 41 5 73 1

Table: Aircore drilling results.

Based on the drilling, the high-grade copper mineralisation is interpreted as a superficial supergene phenomenon with little depth extension.

The geochemistry provides some indication of a possible VMS style anomaly, which strengthens and remains open to the north. There is a magnetic anomaly coincident with the geochemical anomaly which may also be significant.

Further interpretation of the data and appropriate field work will be planned to further explore the potential of the project.

ROBINSON RANGE JV (MZM 70%)

During the Quarter Montezuma and our Joint Venture partners in the Robinson Range Project, Greater Pacific Gold Limited (“GPN”) have agreed to terminate the Joint Venture effective immediately.

Montezuma will retain 100% interest in the project tenements that it held prior to entering into the JV with GPN, and similarly, GPN will retain the ground that they brought into the partnership.

This dissolution fits well with our strategy to rationalise our tenement holdings and maintain a primary focus on the Peak Hill gold mine.

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Justin Brown Sarah Allchurch Managing Director Allchurch Communications Phone: +61 (8) 9228 4833 Phone: +61 (8) 9381 6625 Mobile: 0438 745 675 Mobile: 0412 346 412

The Information in this report that relates to exploration results is based on information compiled by Justin Brown, who is a member of the Australian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy. Mr Brown is a geologist and has sufficient experience which 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 Edition of the “Australian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves. Justin Brown consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.