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ELEMENT 25 LIMITED Interim / Quarterly Report 2017

Oct 30, 2016

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Interim / Quarterly Report

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Highlights:

YAMARNA

  • ➤ RC drilling programme comprising multiple 200m line spaced deep RC traverses completed at the priority Jatz Prospect.

  • ➤ Two high grade gold zones identified with assays of up to 17.5 g/t and 15.5 g/t respectively.

  • ➤ One of the gold trends identified by the programme highlighted semi continuous gold mineralisation over 1km of strike.

  • ➤ Programme designed to test for economic basement hosted mineralisation beneath the 1.5km long basement geochemical anomaly defined at Jatz in previous aircore drill programmes.

  • ➤ Approvals for follow up drilling well advanced and drilling expected to recommence as soon as possible.

QUARTERLY OPERATIONS REPORT 31 OCTOBER 2016

ABOUT MONTEZUMA MINING

Listed in 2006, Montezuma Mining Company Ltd (ASX: MZM) is a diversified explorer primarily focused on manganese, copper and gold. The Company’s primary objective is to achieve returns for shareholders through selected strategic acquisitions and targeted exploration.

Montezuma Mining has 100% interests in the Yamarna Gold Project, the Holleton Gold Project and the Butcherbird Manganese Project located in Western Australia.

MARKET DATA

ASX code: MZM Share Price: $0.15 Shares on issue: 83,464,350 Market capitalisation: $12.5M

BOARD AND MANAGEMENT

Chairman Seamus Cornelius Executive Director Justin Brown Non-Executive Director John Ribbons

HOLLETON

  • ➤ Approvals process well advanced with on ground exploration work to commence as soon as access agreements are in place.

  • ➤ Priority target identified at Brahma Prospect, where strong >100ppb gold in soil anomaly extends over 2.5km in strike and remains largely untested by deeper drilling.

  • ➤ Only three deeper holes > 50m over a small part of the anomaly have been drilled. All three holes intersected broad mineralised intervals with grades up to 7.6 g/t Au .

CAPITAL RAISING

  • ➤ $2.21M oversubscribed raising completed to sophisticated investors to fund accelerated exploration programmes.

  • ➤ Blackwood Capital Limited acted as lead broker.

Company information, ASX announcements, investor presentations, corporate videos and other investor material on the Company’s projects can be viewed at http://www.montezuma.com.au

Ground Floor, 31 Ventnor Street, WEST PERTH WA 6005 | Phone +61 8 6315 1400

YAMARNA PROJECT: (MZM 100%)

Jatz RC Drilling Programme

The key work programme during the quarter involved deep RC drill testing of the priority Jatz gold anomaly where multiple phases of geochemical aircore drilling have highlighted a strongly anomalous gold trend over at least 1.5km in strike in prospective archea greenstone sequences.

A total of thirty holes for 3,438m were drilled on nominally 200m spaced lines to test the prospective corridor beneath widespread strong gold anomalism hosted in Archean greenstone basement lithologies.

The programme identified two high grade gold bearing structures within the corridor, one intersected by a single drill hole, the second showing semi continuous gold mineralisation along a strike of approximately 1km, open to the north[1] .

Hole ID Easting
(MGA 94 Z51)
Northing
(MGA 94 Z51)
Nominal RL
(m)
Dip
**(0) **
Azimuth
**(mag0) **
Total
Depth
(m)
Depth
From
(m)
Depth
To
(m)
Intercept
Width (m)
Au
(ppm)
YARC038 593059 6890803 393 -60 270 150 No significant assays
YARC039 593164 6890802 393 -60 270 150 80 84 4 0.7
And 90 94 4 0.2
YARC040 593261 6890803 394 -60 270 150 No significant assays
YARC041 593357 6890797 395 -60 270 150 140 142 2 9.0
including 140 141 1 17.5
YARC042 593459 6890801 396 -60 270 138 No significant assays
YARC043 593227 6890364 395 -60 270 150 32 35 3 0.2
YARC044 593325 6890363 396 -60 270 150 138 139 1 1.8
YARC045 593427 6890361 396 -60 270 150 52 57 5 0.7
YARC046 593530 6890359 397 -60 270 150 No significant assays
YARC047 593563 6890362 398 -60 090 150 No significant assays
YARC048 593677 6890367 399 -60 270 150 No significant assays
YARC049 593340 6890001 399 -60 270 150 No significant assays
YARC050 593439 6890002 399 -60 270 150 No significant assays
YARC051 593540 6889998 499 -60 270 150 No significant assays
YARC052 593638 6889998 400 -60 270 150 No significant assays
YARC053 593738 6889999 400 -60 270 150 56 57 1 0.8
And 64 72 8 0.5
YARC054 593839 6889999 400 -60 270 150 No significant assays
YARC055 593461 6889602 402 -60 090 144 86 88 2 7.9
including 87 88 1 15.5
And 126 138 12 0.9
including 136 138 2 3.5
YARC056 593600 6889601 402 -60 270 150 No significant assays
YARC057 593705 6889603 403 -60 270 150 No significant assays
YARC058 593797 6889599 403 -60 270 150 No significant assays
YARC059 593903 6889598 403 -60 270 150 63 64 1 0.3
87 88 1 0.4
YARC060 593999 6889597 403 -60 270 156 No significant assays

Table 1 : Significant assays from RC drilling at the Yamarna Project. All intercepts are downhole widths.

1 http://www.montezuma.com.au/images/uploads/160926_High_Grade_Gold_Trend_Confirmed_at_Jatz_FINAL.pdf

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Figure 1: Jatz drillhole collar locations and maximum downhole grades contoured over aeromagnetic base map.

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Figure 2: Regional target pipeline developed from reconnaissance aircore geochemical drilling.

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Planned Follow Up RC Drill Testing at Jatz

Follow up RC drilling is currently being planned to infill the high grade trend identified in the current round of work. Preparations are currently underway and the programme is expected to commence once final approvals have been received from the Traditional Owners.

HOLLETON PROJECT: (MZM 100%)

During the quarter, Montezuma announced the addition of the 100% owned Holleton Gold Project to its growing gold portfolio[2] . The Holleton exploration licence application E77/2334 covers approximately 115 km[2] of the Holleton Greenstone Belt, location approximately 400km east of Perth.

Previous exploration by Independence Group NL included a broad regional surface geochemical programme that defined numerous gold anomalies across an area of poorly exposed greenstones comprised mostly of metabasalts with minor schist, pegmatite and granite. Follow-up drilling across these anomalies was typically first-pass in nature with many intersections left open.

The best of the historic results is at the Brahma Prospect (“Brahma”) where a >2.5km long, >50ppb Au in soil anomaly was defined and subsequently followed up with shallow aircore drilling which confirmed a strong basement anomaly. Three diamond drillholes in a confined area of the anomaly represent the only holes drilled to deeper than 50m. The best intersections at Brahma include 73m @ 0.3 g/t Au (including 4m @ 1.6 g/t Au and 1m @ 7.6 g/t Au) however all three diamond holes returned broad mineralised intervals.

Numerous other intersections greater than 100ppb Au remain open along the length of the soil anomaly and Montezuma plans to re-commence exploration at Holleton upon the granting of E77/2334.

Montezuma regards the Brahma prospect as drill ready and intends to undertake drill testing of this target and a number of other more regional target areas as soon as the necessary approvals are received.

BONNEVAL GOLD PROJECT FRANCE (UNDER APPLICATION)

The Bonneval application continues to progress through the approvals process and the market will be advised when any material developments transpire.

CORPORATE

During the Quarter Montezuma completed a capital raising of $2.21M before costs through the issue of 13M fully paid ordinary shares at an issue price of $0.17 per share[3] .

2 http://www.montezuma.com.au/images/uploads/160720_Priority_Gold_Targets_Identified_at_Holleton_Project_.pdf 3 http://www.montezuma.com.au/images/uploads/160805_Capital_Raising_Completed_FINAL.pdf

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The placement was managed by Blackwood Capital Limited. A fee of 6% of the funds raised was paid on completion, in addition to the allotment of 2M options exerciseable within four years of the date of issue at an exercise price of $0.30.

The funds will be used to accelerate exploration at the Company’s 100% owned gold exploration properties at Yamarna and Holleton where previous work has identified the potential for large scale gold sytems and for working capital.

FOR MORE INFORMATION…

Justin Brown

Executive Director Phone: +61 8 6315 1400 Email: [email protected]

Company information, ASX announcements, investor presentations, corporate videos and other investor material on the Company’s projects can be viewed at http://www.montezuma.com.au.

The information in this report that relates to Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves is based on information compiled by Mr Bradley Drabsch who is a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. At the time that the Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves were compiled, Mr Drabsch was a contract employee of Montezuma Mining Company Ltd. Mr Drabsch 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 2012 edition of the ‘Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves’.

Mr Drabsch or anentity related to or controlled by Mr Drabsch holds options over fully paid shares in the Company at thte time of this report. Mr Drabsch consents to the inclusion of this information in the form and context in which it appears in this report.

In accordance with Listing Rule 5.23.2, the Company confirms in the subsequent public report that it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information included in the relevant market announcement and, in the case of estimates of mineral resources or ore reserves, that all material assumptions and technical parameters underpinning the estimates in the relevant market announcement continue to apply and have not materially changed.

Please note with regard to exploration targets, the 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.

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Montezuma Mining Company Limited ASX Additional Information for Quarterly Report to 30 Sept 2016

Tenement
reference
Location Interest at beginning
of quarter
Acquired/
Disposed
Interest at end of
quarter
The mining tenements
held at the end of the
quarter and their
location
E15/1447 Lake Lefroy WA 100% N/A 100%
E20/659 Eelya Hill WA 10% N/A 10%
E20/874 Sunday Well WA 100% Disposed 0%
E20/880 Yallon Well WA 100% N/A 100%
E20/903 Yallon Well WA 100% N/A 100%
E20/904 Sunday Well WA 100% N/A 100%
E28/2313 Green Dam WA 100% N/A 100%
E28/2327 Green Dam WA 100% N/A 100%
E28/2630 Judada Rock WA 100% N/A 100%
E28/2577 Pinnacles WA 100% N/A 100%
E36/843 Leinster WA 100% N/A 100%
E37/1176 Leonora WA 100% N/A 100%
E38/2889 Malle Hen Point WA 100% N/A 100%
E38/2961 Mt Venn WA 100% N/A 100%
E38/2999 Malle Hen Point North WA 100% N/A 100%
E38/3092 Point Sunday 100% N/A 100%
E51/1622 Telegraph Well WA 100% N/A 100%
E51/1693 Mt Maitland WA 100% Disposed 0%
E51/1781 Mt Maitland WA 0% Acquired 100%
E52/1529 Mt Padbury WA 100% (Note 1) N/A 100% (Note 1)
E52/2350 Butcher Bird WA 100% N/A 100%
E52/2831 Millidie Creek WA 100% N/A 100%
E52/3082 Mt Padbury WA 100% N/A 100%
E52/3083 Mt Padbury WA 100% Disposed 0%
E52/3353 Peak Hill WA 100% N/A 100%
E52/3354 Peak Hill WA 100% N/A 100%
E52/3355 Peak Hill WA 100% N/A 100%
E52/3470 Butcher Bird WA 0% Acquired 100%
E58/494 Naluthanna Hill WA 100% N/A 100%
E58/509 Challa WA 100% Disposed 0%
E52/3438 Butcher bird North WA 100% N/A 100%
E59/2143 Twin Peaks WA 100% Disposed 0%
E59/2184 Twin Peaks WA 100% N/A 100%
E63/1750 Lake Johnston WA 100% N/A 100%
E63/1789 Lake Johnston WA 100% N/A 100%
E63/1820 Lake Johnston WA 100% Acquired 100%
E69/3419 Rainbow Well WA 100% N/A 100%
E77/2334 Holleton WA 100% N/A 100%

Notes:

1) 100% interest held in all minerals other than iron ore and manganese.

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