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ELEMENT 25 LIMITED Interim / Quarterly Report 2009

Jul 29, 2009

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Interim / Quarterly Report

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QUARTERLY REPORT

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Three Months Ending: 30 June 2009

ASX CODE: MZM ISSUED SHARES: 41.69M 52 WEEK HIGH: $0.20 52 WEEK LOW: $0.02 SHARE PRICE: $0.12 MARKET CAP: $5.0M CASH ON HAND: $2.25M

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CONTACT:

JUSTIN BROWN Managing Director +61 8 9228 4833

BOARD:

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

HIGHLIGHTS

PEAK HILL (100%)

  • RC programme completed comprising 28 holes for 3,721m.

  • Highlights include 4m @ 8.62 g/t Au from 172m including 1m @ 31.6 g/t Au and 5m @ 3.2 g/t Au from 5m.

  • Applications have been lodged which will double the Company’s ground holding in the Peak Hill Project.

  • Drilling highlights by previous workers include;

  • 6m @ 21.2 g/t from 51m,

  • 4m @ 11.0 g/t from 27m;

  • 2m @ 25.7 g/t from 52m and;

  • 8m @ 5.7 g/t from 10m.

  • Resource upgrade process continues on schedule.

BUTCHER BIRD MANGANESE (100% under application)

  • Best rock chip result of 41.1% Mn with only 4.55% Fe .

KEY PROJECTS:

PEAK HILL (100%) Gold

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DURACK (earning 85%) Gold

MT PADBURY (100%) Gold, Manganese, Iron

BUTCHER BIRD (100%) *under application Manganese, Copper

  • Tenement also contains a copper prospect with historical grades of up to 20% Cu with gold and silver credits .

  • Several priority targets identified for drilling once tenement is granted.

MT PADBURY IRON ORE

  • Sinosteel Midwest currently preparing to commence significant RC drilling programme targeting iron mineralisation.

  • $4M cash payable to Montezuma on definition of a JORC Resource in excess of 10Mt grading over 50% Fe.

AUVEX RESOURCES LIMITED (MZM 10M SHARES)

KEY SHARE HOLDINGS:

AUVEX RESOURCES LTD 10,000,000 FPO Shares

  • Auvex in advanced discussions regarding final funding of the development of the Ant Hill and Sunday Hill deposits.

  • ASX listing expected by Q4 2009.

BUXTON RESOURCES LTD 2,000,000 FPO Shares

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  • Production target of 300,000t/year @ 44% Mn commencing in Q1 2010.

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PEAK HILL (100%)

RC Drilling Programme

Montezuma is pleased to announce initial assay results from the recently completed RC drilling programme at its 100% owned Peak Hill project.

The programme included drilling at Jubilee, Harmony, Enigma and Fiveways (Main Pit). The planned drilling at Durack has been postponed until the next drilling programme.

The results have highlighted a number of extensions to existing resources and will provide the basis for the next round of drilling to be commenced in the near term.

The coarse gold issue continues to provide challenges, particularly at Jubilee. Test work is ongoing, however early indications suggest that the current default assay methodology may be underestimating the gold content of the samples by an average of 25%.

Optimising our assay methodology is certainly a priority going forward given the clear impact this issue may have on resource estimation and future commercialisation of the gold resources at Peak Hill.

Montezuma’s strategy is to continue to extend the known gold resources at the Peak Hill project with the goal of recommencing gold production in the medium term.

The current programme continues to confirm the potential of the project to yield significant additional ounces and the company looks forward to rolling out further drilling programmes and updated resource estimates in the near term.

Ground Acquisition

During the Quarter, Montezuma also announced a major increase in the Company’s tenure at Peak Hill, increasing near mine ground holdings by over 100%. Specifically, the Company has lodged two exploration licences covering approximately 40km2 of highly prospective ground adjacent to the main production areas at the Main Pit, Jubilee and Harmony.

The new tenure contains ore-grade drilling intersections ready for follow up, as well as a number of regional targets comprising geochemical, rock chip and drilling anomalies. The area also covers structural positions with significant potential to host extensions and/or repetitions of mineralisation near the known major mineralisation areas.

HoleID Easting Northing **Azimuth ** Dip **From ** To Composite
Au
E09001 664365 7161739 60 -60 47 48 3.9
51 52 1.5
54 55 2.9
55 56 2.4 2m@ 2.7g/t
E09006 664897 7161352 60 -60 107 108 3.5
120 121 2.3
124 125 1.4
E09007 664922 7161313 60 -60 175 176 1.1
176 177 1.8 2m@ 1.5 g/t
181 182 2.5 3m @ 1.5 g/t
182 183 0.8
183 184 1.2
E09008 664764 7161409 60 -60 48 49 1.3
54 55 4.7
115 116 2.0
137 138 1.7
172 173 31.6
173 174 1.8
174 175 0.3
175 176 0.7 4m @ 8.62 g/t
J09003 672470 7165379 130 -60 106 107 2.0
J09004 672426 7165343 90 -60 66 67 2.1
J09005 672394 7165303 130 -60 72 73 2.2
J09006 672362 7165275 130 -60 70 71 1.2
J09007 672427 7165247 290 -60 5 6 4.3
6 7 5.4
7 8 0.4
8 9 2.6
9 10 3.3 5m @ 3.2 g/t
J09008 672544 7165539 180 -60 21 22 1.5
81 82 1.9
88 89 2.5
132 133 1.7
J09009 672539 7165521 180 -60 23 24 2.4
24 25 1.0 2m@ 1.7g/t
118 119 1.5 2m@ 2.4g/t
119 120 3.3
126 127 2.3
127 128 3.1 2m@ 2.7g/t
140 141 1.4
178 179 2.6
231 232 2.2
J09010 672592 7165461 270 -60 17 18 2.5
10m @ 1.3 g/t
18 19 1.4
19 20 1.4
20 21 3.1
21 22 0.7
22 23 1.4
23 24 1.0
24 25 0.2
25 26 0.1
26 27 1.0
114 115 1.1
126 127 1.5
127 128 0.7
128 129 0.0
129 130 2.5 4m @ 1.2 g/t
HoleID Easting Northing Azimuth Dip From To Au Composite
JW09001 671893 7165675 90 -60 38 39 1.6
JW09003 671924 7165625 90 -60 7 8 2.6 4m@ 2.0g/t
8 9 3.9
9 10 0.1
10 11 1.5
52 53 2.1
68 69 2.4
JW09004 671898 7165627 90 -60 34 35 1.3
85 86 1.7
103 104 1.5
M09003 672459 7163701 0 -90 149 150 2.5
150 151 1.8 2m@ 2.1g/t
155 156 7.6
M09004 672575 7163923 270 -60 136 137 1.3

Table 1: Significant Drilling Results

In particular, the Company’s tenure now covers the northern strike extension of the main pit mineralisation (~440,000 oz Au produced) which was not held by the previous operators at Peak Hill and which has been ineffectively tested for extensions to the high grade main pit mineralisation. This is a Tier 1 structural target that will be drill tested as soon as possible.

To the north of the Jubilee Resource, the Company’s extended ground holdings include a number of high grade intersections drilled by previous holders.

The intersections are generally shallow with an average drilling depth of approximately 50m. Highlights include:

  • CHRC 6 6m @ 21.2 g/t from 51m

  • JRC150 2m @ 25.7 g/t from 52m

  • JRC 165 8m @ 5.7 g/t from 10m

  • JRC 303 4m @ 11.0 g/t from 27m

  • JRC 416 12m @ 2.5 g/t from 20m

*True widths of mineralisation cannot be determined with currently available data.

In addition to the priority targets at Jubilee North and the Main Pit North, the ground adds significantly to the Company’s tenure over the highly prospect Enigma Trend, a northwest southeast striking corridor of mineralisation which hosts both the Harmony Mine and the Company’s Enigma Resource. There is potential within this corridor for repetitions and/or extensions to these known gold deposits.

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The ground also includes the Mt Pleasant mine where gold has been successfully produced from a small open cut mining operation by previous holders. Significant untested exploration potential remains for extensions to this deposit.

The acquisition of this additional tenure around the Company’s core holdings at Peak Hill significantly expands the potential of this project by allowing unrestricted access potential for extensions to the known resource areas as well as adding significantly to the brown-fields potential of the project.

In many cases, the targets outside the immediate gold producing areas have been subjected to very limited or at best only shallow exploration. Montezuma intends to leverage off extensive inhouse datasets and geological understanding of the Peak Hill gold mineralisation to aggressively pursue the additional potential provided by this extended holding.

The development of the gold resources at Peak Hill remains 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.

BUTCHER BIRD (MZM 100% under application)

Montezuma is pleased to announce that first pass sampling on EL 52/2350 “Butcher Bird” have returned very strong manganese results providing encouragement for larger scale systematic follow up work.

ID East(GDA) North(GDA) Mn(%) Fe(%) Al2O3(%) SiO2(%) TiO2(%) LOI(%)
BB01 773419 7296380 34.1 10.8 6.21 16.8 0.22 10.1
BB02 773957 7297726 39.2 9.15 5.96 12.2 0.19 10.7
BB03 774128 7297719 40.4 12.1 5.19 8.09 0.15 10.4
BB04 774301 7297712 29.7 15.4 5.6 18.3 0.19 9.96
BB05 774270 7297893 31.6 14.1 5.24 18.6 0.18 9.54
BB06 773515 7297781 36.1 11.3 5.01 15.7 0.17 9.87
BB07 772622 7298559 15.7 24 7.93 24.4 0.42 9.65
BB08 772672 7302715 25.2 17.3 4.91 20.9 0.34 10
BB10 773123 7304219 34.3 10.6 5.45 18.6 0.2 9.78
BB11 773334 7304217 36.3 8.82 5.64 17.7 0.2 9.79
BB12 773258 7304384 32.1 14.8 4.86 17.3 0.18 9.52
BB13 772753 7297635 39.5 6.96 5.28 16.6 0.18 9.8
BB14 772569 7297561 41.1 4.55 5.07 18 0.19 9.42
BB15 772405 7297597 35.5 9.83 5.17 18.7 0.19 9.6
BB16 772340 7297549 20.4 23.2 5.59 21 0.22 9.66
BB17 774537 7297583 38.8 7.94 4.47 17 0.17 9.69

A follow up field programme has resulted in the delineation of a number of priority targets for follow up work. The tenement is currently going through the grant process and, once granted, drill testing of a number of areas will be a priority. Based on the work to date, the tenement shows strong potential for commercial manganese mineralisation and compliments the Company’s other investments in the manganese sector.

Work programmes to follow up these early results are currently being planned, and subject to further success and receipt of necessary approvals, drill testing of priority targets will be scheduled.

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MT PADBURY (100% of rights other than iron ore and manganese)

As previously announced, Sinosteel Midwest (“Sinosteel Midwest”) has purchased the iron ore rights within the Mt Padbury Project pursuant to a sale agreement completed earlier this year. Per the terms of the agreement, Sinosteel Midwest is currently preparing to commence a significant RC drilling programme targeting iron ore mineralisation within approximately 20 strike kilometres of Banded Iron Formation outcropping within the Project area

If Sinosteel Midwest defines a JORC compliant iron ore resource in excess of 10M tonnes grading over 50% Fe, Midwest will make a third payment of $4M cash to Montezuma.

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

This milestone is an important step in providing the Company with working capital to fund ongoing acquisition and exploration strategies at the Peak Hill Gold Project.

AUVEX RESOURCES LIMITED (MZM 10M SHARES)

Montezuma’s investment in Auvex Resources Limited (“Auvex”) continues to mature, with Auvex entering into advanced discussions with a number of parties regarding final funding of the development of the Ant Hill and Sunday Hill manganese deposits. In conjunction with discussions

with major investors, Auvex is also making arrangements to seek listing on the ASX in the fourth quarter of 2009.

The global JORC Resource calculation for the Ant Hill manganese deposit yields a four fold increase to 4.911Mt @ 20.3% Mn and 25.4% Fe using a 10% Mn cutoff.

It is estimated that the revised Resource figure covers approximately 30% of the known deposit at Ant Hill and excludes the Sunday Hill deposit where there is an additional JORC Resource of 4.7Mt @ 18.4% Mn .

Recently completed trial mining has yielded approximately 30,000 tonnes of high grade product at 44.75% Mn and 12.2% Fe and 25,000 tonnes of medium grade material from a parcel of 126,500 tonnes mined. The trial confirms the potential for the production of a high grade product stream through low cost crushing and screening of the primary ore.

Auvex are targeting an initial production rate of 300,000t per annum grading 44% Mn over a minimum of five years commencing in the second half of 2009. It is expected that further exploration drilling will extend the potential mine life out beyond this initial target, with only one third of the deposit drilled to date.

The Project is located approximately 70kms southeast of Nullagine in the Pilbara district of Western Australia. The Project also contains the Sunday Hill deposit, which has the potential to add further significant tonnages of manganese ore to the operation

Figure 1: Manganite - MnO(OH) crystals from Sunday Hill

The Company is very pleased with progress to date at Sunday Hill and Ant Hill and have a high level of confidence that Auvex will succeed in developing a long-term commercial manganese operation.

Successful listing of the Auvex on the ASX in the near term will provide an opportunity to generate tangible returns from Montezuma’s shareholding in the company, with the potential to inject significant capital onto our balance sheet to fund continued work at Peak Hill and Butcher Bird, as well as potential future acquisitions, underpinning Company growth and shareholder returns.

More Information

Justin Brown

Managing Director Phone: +61 (8) 9228 4833 Mobile: 0438 745 675

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.