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ELEMENT 25 LIMITED Interim / Quarterly Report 2016

Jul 24, 2016

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Interim / Quarterly Report

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Highlights:

YAMARNA

  • Geochemical blade-refusal aircore programme confirms the extent of the Jatz basement gold anomaly at over 1.5 km in strike .

  • Multiple RC drilling traverses to test for economic gold mineralisation beneath the near surface signature at Jatz to be commenced on receipt of final approvals.

  • Basement anomalies at Ritz, Ryvita and Le Snak extended along strike with a best result of 8m @ 0.38 g/t Au at Le Snak .

HOLLETON

  • Historic data review at the newly acquired Holleton project identifies multiple walk-up drill targets .

  • 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 .

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QUARTERLY OPERATIONS REPORT 30 JUNE 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 in the Yamarna Geenstone Belt, Western Australia and the Butcherbird Manganese Project in the Murchison region of Western Australia

MARKET DATA

ASX code: MZM Share Price: $0.22 Shares on issue: 70,464,350 Market capitalisation: $15.5M

BOARD AND MANAGEMENT

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

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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%)

Geochemical Aircore Drilling

During the quarter, Montezuma Mining Company Ltd (“Montezuma” or “Company”) completed a follow up geochemical aircore drilling programme at the Company’s 100% owned Yamarna Project that confirmed the northern extent of the basement gold anomaly at the Jatz prospect. Strong, basement anomalism now extends over 1.5km in strike. The anomaly is coherent and strikes in a north westerly direction.

In addition to the ongoing exploration at Jatz, regional reconnaissance aircore drilling during the previous quarter successfully identified three new basement targets at the Ritz, Ryvita and Le Snak prospects, where bottom of hole intercepts of 1m @ 1.65 g/t and 7m @ 190ppb Au, respectively, were returned.

Follow up work as part of the most recent programme has identified strike extensions at all three anomalies, upgrading the potential for significant mineralisation at depth. Further drilling is currently being planned to expand all three anomalies.

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
(ppb)
YAAC330 592870 6890805 400 -60 265 81 46 62 16 102
YAAC331 592953 6890814 400 -60 270 73 36 40 4 59
and 58 62 4 120
YAAC332 593028 6890812 400 -60 270 81 70 74 4 53
YAAC334 592706 6890997 400 -60 265 117 93 96 3 138
YAAC338 593169 6891000 400 -60 270 59 36 42 6 67
YAAC339 593229 6890999 400 -60 270 70 36 43 7 185
and 69 70 1 64
YAAC340 593303 6890996 400 -60 270 78 20 24 4 60
and 72 76 4 133
YAAC341 593378 6890997 400 -60 270 63 42 46 4 73
YAAC347 593727 6891002 400 -60 270 21 19 20 1 97
YAAC358 592729 6891203 400 -60 270 114 113 114 1 77
YAAC359 592933 6891200 400 -60 270 120 84 88 4 113
and 112 120 8 77
YAAC360 593128 6891200 400 -60 270 90 24 28 4 51
YAAC362 593482 6891198 400 -60 270 27 12 16 4 65
YAAC363 593584 6891198 400 -60 270 63 26 33 7 81
YAAC373 592164 6891994 400 -60 270 87 56 60 4 58
and 76 87 11 144
YAAC385 592269 6890393 400 -60 270 102 98 102 4 457
Incl. 101 102 1 1648
(1.6g/t)
YAAC386 592471 6890396 400 -60 270 99 24 28 4 68
YAAC388 592858 6890399 400 -60 280 24 15 21 6 59
YAAC408 593367 6888801 400 -90 000 43 36 43 7 192
YAAC417 593845 6891998 400 -60 270 100 88 92 4 51
and 94 100 6 64
YAAC431 592190 6890396 400 -60 270 108 97 101 4 58
YAAC432 592232 6890397 400 -60 270 108 99 103 4 123
YAAC441 592107 6890603 400 -60 270 111 104 105 1 219
YAAC457 591996 6892200 400 -60 270 60 46 50 4 269
and 59 60 1 69
YAAC469 593027 6891197 400 -60 270 84 24 28 4 165
YAAC478 593277 6888978 400 -60 260 51 42 50 8 375
YAAC479 593333 6888985 400 -60 260 51 36 43 7 87
YAAC481 593435 6888998 400 -60 270 30 25 26 1 63
YAAC483 593635 6889005 400 -60 270 45 44 45 1 315
YAAC499 592828 6891202 400 -60 270 108 20 24 4 52
and 96 103 7 64

Table 1: Significant gold assays >50ppb from recently completed aircore drilling at the Yamarna Project. All intersections are quoted as downhole widths.

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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 RC Drill Testing at Jatz

Following the completion of the latest round of geochemical aircore drilling, the Jatz target is now

deemed to be closed off and ready for deeper RC drilling testing to test for economic gold mineralisation beneath the near surface anomalous signature.

Preparations are currently underway and the programme is expected to commence once final approvals

have been received from the Traditional Owners.

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Figure 3: Notional RC Drilling traverses designed to test the 1.5km long Jatz basement gold anomaly.

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6.2 M oz
East
Sth.
CAPTAINS PROSPECT
JATZ PROSPECT
CRUSKIT PROSPECT
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Figure 4: Regional location plan showing the Yamarna Project in context with the Gruyere gold discovery.

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HOLLETON PROJECT: (MZM 100%)

During the quarter, Montezuma announced that it has added the 100% owned Holleton Gold Project to its growing gold portfolio. 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 meta-basalts 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 (see Figure 5) 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 (Figure 6).

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.

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Figure 5: Soil anomalies generated by Independence Group NL exploration between 2008 and 2010[1] .

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

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Figure 6: Detailed view of the Independence Group NL generated Brahma soil geochemical anomaly and selected drill results from systematic geochemcial aircore drilling and reconnaisance RC and DD drilling[1] .

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

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Figure 7: Cross section through the Brahma soil/aircore anomaly showing broad widths of gold mineralisation with associated calc-silicate alteration which may be indicative of a potentially large gold system.

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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
(g/t)
Brahma Prospect
GRDD001 684949 6452866 370 -60 185 105.6 14 87 73 0.3
Incl. 17 18 1 1.8
And 48 52 4 1,6
And 77 78 1 7.6
GRDD002 685155 6452997 372 -60 176 156 30 62 32 0.3
GRDD004 685152 6452820 370 -70 357 138 85 106 21 0.4
Incl. 90 93 3 2.1
GRAC091 684950 6452846 371 -60 180 30 14 26 12 0.4
Incl. 14 16 2 1.4
GRAC092 684950 6452851 371 -60 180 33 15 24 9 0.1
And 31 32 1 1.5
GRAC093 684950 6452861 371 -60 180 28 12 27 15 0.7
Incl. 18 19 1 2.3
And 25 26 1 4.3
GRAC098 684949 6452913 372 -60 180 10 0 10 10 0.2
GRAC102 684949 6452957 373 -60 180 10 0 8 8 0.2
GRAC104 684950 6452979 373 -60 180 10 0 10 10 0.1
GRAC332 685549 6453037 387 -60 000 28 24 28 4 0.8
GRAC064 686157 6453384 383 -60 180 44 13 20 7 0.7
Incl. 13 16 3 1.5
GRAC062 686156 6453346 384 -60 180 40 18 40 22 0.1
Incl. 26 27 1 1.1
Barnevelder Prospect
GRAC176 690949 6451721 430 -60 180 43 38 43 5 1.4
GRAC175 690948 6451680 430 -60 180 38 19 35 16 0.2
GRAC349 691050 6451844 426 -60 180 44 40 44 4 0.4
GRAC184 689356 6451189 436 -60 180 68 62 67 5 0.5
Incl. 62 63 1 1.8
Cochin Prospect
GRAC187 690048 6452771 410 -60 180 61 53 56 3 0.1
GRAC200 689547 6452688 407 -60 000 44 30 39 9 0.1
GRAC215 692147 6452580 433 -60 000 52 12 48 36 0.1
Jersey Giant Prospect
GRAC111 688294 6448014 409 -60 180 32 29 32 3 0.3

Table 2: Significant intersections greater than 0.1 g/t with up to 2m internal waste. All intersections are downhole widths[1] .

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.

1 http://geodocs.dmp.wa.gov.au/common/searchAPI.do?cabinetId=2301&Report_Ref=A78817 http://geodocs.dmp.wa.gov.au/common/searchAPI.do?cabinetId=2301&Report_Ref=A81028 http://geodocs.dmp.wa.gov.au/common/searchAPI.do?cabinetId=2301&Report_Ref=A86123

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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 Geoscientists. 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 an entity related to or controlled by Mr Drabsch holds options over fully paid shares in the Company at the 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.

Montezuma Mining Company Limited

ASX Additional Information for Quarterly Report to 30 June 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% N/A 100%
E20/880 Yallon Well WA 100% N/A 100%
E20/903 Yallon Well WA 0% Acquired 100%
E20/904 Sunday Well WA 0% Acquired 100%
E28/2313 Green Dam WA 100% N/A 100%
E28/2327 Green Dam WA 100% N/A 100%
E28/2630 Judada Rock WA 0% Acquired 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% N/A 100%

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Tenement
reference
Location Interest at
beginning of
quarter
Acquired/
Disposed
Interest at end of
quarter
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% N/A 100%
E52/3337 Butcher Bird North 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%
E58/494 Naluthanna Hill WA 100% N/A 100%
E58/509 Challa WA 0% Acquired 100%
E52/3438 Butcher bird North WA 0% Acquired 100%
E59/2143 Twin Peaks WA 100% N/A 100%
E59/2184 Twin Peaks WA 0% Acquired 100%
E63/1750 Lake Johnston WA 100% N/A 100%
E63/1789 Lake Johnston WA 0% 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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