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ELEMENT 25 LIMITED Interim / Quarterly Report 2008

Apr 28, 2008

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Interim / Quarterly Report

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QUARTERLY REPORT

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Three Months Ending: 31 March 2008

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ASX CODE: MZM ISSUED SHARES: 41.29M 52 WEEK HIGH: $0.36 52 WEEK LOW: $0.10

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CONTACT:

JUSTIN BROWN Managing Director +61 8 9228 4833

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BOARD:

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

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KEY PROJECTS:

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PEAK HILL (100%) Gold

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MT PADBURY (100%) Gold, Manganese, Iron

CALLAWA (100%) Copper, Gold

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TALGA (90%) Gold, VMS

HIGHLIGHTS

PEAK HILL (100%)

  • Resampling on 1m intervals increases gold grades from recent Jubilee RC drilling programme.

  • 1m assay results returns assays up to 158 g/t.

  • Highlights include:

  • JBRC0003 1m @ 47.2 g/t from 116m 3m @ 13.96 g/t from 119m 2m @ 13.29 g/t from 138m 4m @ 1.56 g/t from 143m (EOH)

  • o JBRC0017 6m @ 27.43 g/t from 87m

  • Currently gearing up to commence next campaign of RC drilling at Peak Hill.

MT PADBURY (100%)

  • Further high-grade manganese up to 54.9% in rock chips.

  • Work is ongoing to explore options for commercial exploitation to take advantage of high prices and strong demand.

  • High-grade assays up to 63% iron returned from surface samples.

  • Potential for significant high-grade haematite mineralisation.

  • No drill testing of iron targets completed to date.

  • Dolphin Resources’s remaining 10% free carried interest in the Mt Padbury Project acquired for shares.

  • Currently gearing up for further drilling to test the strike extent of the Wood Creek gold prospect.

KEY APPOINTMENT

ROBINSON RANGE (70%) Uranium, Gold

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  • Dedicated Senior Project Geologist appointed to accelerate work on the Peak Hill Project.

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PEAK HILL (MZM 100%)

During the quarter, Montezuma announced encouraging 1m re-split sample assay results from the successful 20 hole programme drilled in the Jubilee Prospect area within the Peak Hill Project during the previous quarter.

The programme was the Company’s first step in its plans to reactivate the dormant gold producer by building on the existing gold resource base.

Highlights from the programme include:

JBRC0003 1m @ 47.2 g/t from 116m 3m @ 13.96 g/t from 119m 2m @ 13.29 g/t from 138m 4m @ 1.56 g/t from 143m (EOH)

  • JBRC0017 6m @ 27.43 g/t from 87m

The programme was designed to test extensions to known mineralisation as well as deeper structural repetitions. The programme achieved both, particularly in hole JBRC0003, which intersected an overall mineralised zone of 35m down-hole width beneath previous drilling.

Gold at Jubilee occurs within quartz stock-work within the quartz/sericite Peak Hill Schists. The mineralisation occurs spatially alongside the margins of a doleritic dyke which crosscuts the basement lithologies.

Assay results >0.5 g/t from the drilling (1m intervals) are listed below.

Hole ID Northing Easting From To Grade Composite
JBRC001 672539 7165450 31 32 2.230 1m @ 2.23g/t
96 97 1.120
97 98 3.790 2m @ 2.46g/t
116 117 3.800
117 118 1.310
118 119 1.210 3m @ 2.11g/t
JBRC002 672521 7165479 2 3 1.507 1m @ 1.51g/t
4 5 1.880 1m @ 1.88g/t
7 8 1.740 1m @ 1.74g/t
8 9 0.574
9 10 0.995
18 19 0.829
22 23 0.937
JBRC003 672530 7165519 39 40 0.602
43 44 0.517
45 46 0.726
116 117 47.200 1m @ 47.2g/t
119 120 38.100
120 121 2.770
121 122 1.010 3m @ 13.96g/t
130 131 3.120 1m @ 3.12g/t
138 139 25.567
139 140 1.010 2m @ 13.29g/t
141 142 0.906
143 144 2.230
144 145 2.050
145 146 0.300
146 147 1.660 4m @ 1.56g/t
JBRC004 672643 7165408 21 22 2.030 2m @ 2.03g/t
50 51 0.502
JBRC005 672641 7165448 29 30 1.910 1m @ 1.91g/t
39 40 0.874
JBRC006 672643 7165482 97 98 3.890
98 99 2.580 2m @ 3.24g/t
JBRC007 49 50 0.911
50 51 0.572
JBRC008 672624 7165341 50 52 0.668
JBRC009 672600 7165303 38 39 1.680 1m @ 1.68g/t
44 45 0.610
124 125 2.330
125 126 1.510 2m @ 1.92g/t
JBRC010 TBA TBA 76 77 1.597 1m @ 1.6g/t
JBRC015 672345 7165476 4 5 0.608
5 6 0.865
15 16 0.663
19 20 0.998
JBRC016 672390 7165303 142 143 1.490 1m @ 1.49g/t

These encouraging results continue to support Montezuma’s strategy of building on the existing resource base at Peak Hill with the strategic goal of generating sufficient resources to support a stand-alone producing mine within 3 years.

MT PADBURY (100%)

GOLD

The technical team is currently planning follow up drilling at the Wood Creek gold prospect with a view to further testing the strike extension of the mineralisation defined by RC drilling in the previous quarter. At Wood Creek, primary gold mineralisation has been confirmed beneath a strongly mineralised supergene halo. The mineralisation is associated with a prominent regional structure with approximately 10 strike kilometres of untested potential.

MANGANESE

Follow up work has returned further encouraging manganese results from rock chip sampling of several additional zones of manganese mineralisation within the Mt Padbury Project located approximately 30km west of Montezuma’s Peak Hill gold mine.

The follow up sampling was conducted on the back of encouraging high-grade results returned from results released in the previous Quarterly Report. The new results bring the number of confirmed targets within the project to six, with several areas remaining to be assessed.

Sample Zone Mn % Fe % Si % P % Al %
MPRK0007 1 37.2 7.25 8.37 0.062 2.98
MPRK0008 1 33.6 6.57 11.2 0.052 3.19
MPRK0009 1 31.4 14.9 7.34 0.511 1.94
MPRK0010 1 46 4.9 3.53 0.107 2.71
MPRK0011 4 39 8.25 3.77 0.082 4.73
MPRK0012 4 39.5 8.34 3.43 0.1 4.71
MPRK0013 4 30 4.18 17.9 0.037 1.62
MPRK0014 4 25.1 8.92 16.8 0.289 2.37
MPRK0015 4 31.2 10.8 10.1 0.272 2.56
MPRK0016 4 40 11.4 2.84 0.133 2.84
MPRK0017 3 33.3 19.3 2.1 0.277 2.49
MPRK0018 3 42.9 11.8 0.6 0.03 2.8
MPRK0019 5 40.9 13.8 0.81 0.023 2.6
MPRK0020 5 54.9 3.45 0.23 0.021 1.47
MPRK0021 5 42 5.25 4.63 0.179 3.5
MPRK0022 6 35.8 4.57 13.5 0.12 1.2
MPRK0023 6 37.2 7.25 8.37 0.062 2.98

The samples were collected from areas where manganese enrichment could be identified at surface. Work to date has covered approximately 20% of the tenement area, and further surveys will be conducted going forward to determine if additional areas of enrichment occur within the Mt Padbury licence.

Regionally, the area has a history of manganese production, with mining occurring from several centres from the 1940’s through to the late 1960’s. There has been little activity on manganese in the region since that period, however previous workers recorded 9 exploration targets within the Mt Padbury Project, in addition to the known mineralisation. Montezuma is of the view that with the prevailing strong manganese prices and renewed work using modern exploration techniques, the area has good potential to yield economic mineralisation.

The Company has entered into discussions with several parties to investigate opportunities to generate maximum value from the manganese mineralisation both within the Mt Padbury Project and more regionally with a dual strategy of early production supported by good exploration upside.

The Board believes that the manganese mineralisation within the Mt Padbury project, in conjunction with strategic partnerships with holders of other areas of known manganese mineralisation in the region represents a significant opportunity to generate early returns and ongoing revenues to underpin the Company’s exploration activities for gold at the Peak Hill Mine and the surrounding >3000km[2] of regional exploration tenure.

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IRON

Montezuma is pleased to announce that during the quarter, the Company successfully negotiated an agreement with Independence Group NL to acquire their 90% of the iron ore rights over the Mt Padbury licence E52/1529.

The licence contains approximately 23 strike kilometres of the banded iron and chert sediments that make up the Robinson Range. The sequence is known to host significant iron enrichment with sampling by previous workers highlighting elevated surface iron values in excess of 50% over significant strike lengths.

In one occurrence, where surface sampling returned grades of 63% from high grade haematite mineralisation, there is a projected exploration target potential of 5-7 million tonnes of high grade haematite ore grading 60-65%. The target size potential is based on the areal extent of the haematitic outcrop and a projected vertical depth of mineralisation of approximately 60m.

Sampling at this location returned low levels of silica (4.45% SiO2) phosphorous (0.09%), sulphur (0.08%) and aluminium (1.68% Al2O3).

It should be noted that this potential quantity and grade is conceptual in nature, that there has been insufficient exploration to define a Mineral Resource and that it is uncertain if further exploration will result in the determination of a Mineral Resource.

Independence will receive a royalty of $2/DMT of any iron ore successfully mined from within the licence.

The Mt Padbury licence continues to be a major focus, and to generate exploration success, and the latest deal adds to the prospectivity of this overall project area which is part of a >3000 km[2] holding in the region.

Sample # Fe(%) SiO2(%) P(%) S(%) Al2O3 (%) Ti(%) Mn(%)
1168 57.9
1170 41.9
1171 55.6
1172 63.0 4.45 0.09 0.08 1.68 0.05 0.04
1173 54.2
1174 60.4
1175 56.0
1179 30.2
1180 47.9
1181 56.7
1182 42.2

Given the current and forecast ongoing strength in the iron ore markets going forward, Montezuma intends to seek to generate shareholder value by proactively seeking to capitalise on this opportunity.

ACQUISITION OF REMAINING 10% OF E52/1529

Montezuma has successfully negotiated an agreement with Dolphin Resources Pty Ltd to acquire their 10% of the Mt Padbury licence E52/1529.

In consideration for Dolphin’s remaining interest, Montezuma will issue to Dolphin (or nominee) 400,000 fully paid shares and 100,000 options exercisable at $0.20. The shares and options will be subject to voluntary escrow for a period of 12 months.

Montezuma now holds 100% of the highly prospective licence, with royalties payable to Independence Group on any production as previously reported to the market.

CAPITAL RAISING

The Company announced during the quarter that it had successfully negotiated an Underwriting Agreement with Cunningham Securities to raise between $2M and $3M by issuing up to 15 million shares at an issue price of $0.20 per share with a free attaching option exercisable at $0.20 for every four shares issued under the placement, however a subsequent collapse in global equity markets resulted in the underwriter withdrawing from the arrangement without raising any funds.

Consequently, the Company moved to complete a private placement to sophisticated investors of 4,371,667 shares at $0.15 with a 1 for 4 free attaching option exercisable at $0.20 to raise $655,750 before costs.

The funds will be used for working capital to fund ongoing exploration within the Company’s portfolio of tenements.

PERSONEL

The Company is please to announce the appointment of a new geologist dedicated to the Peak Hill Project. John Lamerand has in excess of 6 years experience in open cut and underground mining operations in a variety of terranes and is well equipped to spearhead the Company’s efforts to develop Peak Hill towards recommencement of gold production.

More Information

Media Enquiries

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 Liam Cornelius, who is a member of the Australian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy. Mr Cornelius 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. Liam Cornelius consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.