ENCOUNTER RESOURCES LIMITED — Board/Management Information 2019

Oct 8, 2019

ASX Announcement

9 October 2019

Appointment of Philip Crutchfield as non-executive director

• Prominent barrister specialising in commercial law joins Encounter board

• Invaluable financial expertise and extensive commercial law experience

• Highly successful non-executive director of ASX listed companies

The directors of Encounter Resources Ltd (“Encounter / the Company”) are pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Philip Crutchfield as a non-executive director of the Company.

Mr Crutchfield is a prominent and highly respected barrister specialising in commercial law.

Since 2015, Philip has been Non-Executive Chairman of highly successful financial services company Zip Co Limited (ASX:Z1P). Mr Crutchfield is a board member of the Geelong Grammar School Council, Bell Shakespeare Theatre Company and the Victorian Bar Foundation Limited. Philip is also a former partner of Mallesons Stephen Jaques (now King & Wood Mallesons). Philip is a senior barrister practising in commercial law and was admitted to practice in 1988.

Commenting on the appointment, Encounter Chairman Paul Chapman said:

“We are delighted to have Philip join the board of Encounter. Philip is highly respected in corporate and legal circles and brings invaluable financial expertise and extensive commercial law experience to Encounter.

Philip’s strong commercial acumen will further underpin our transactional capabilities as we continue to grow our project generation and exploration business.

Philip was a founding non-executive director of Zip Co Limited and has been instrumental in the resounding success of the fast growing point-of-sale credit and digital payment service company.

We welcome Philip to our team and we look forward to his input into growing Encounter.”

Encounter Resources Limited ABN 47 109 815 796 Level 7, 600 Murray Street West Perth WA 600

P +61 8 9486 9455 F +61 8 9486 8366 E contact@enrl.com.au www.enrl.com.au

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About Encounter

Encounter Resources Limited is one of the most productive project generation and active mineral exploration companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. Encounter’s primary focus is on discovering major gold deposits in Western Australia’s most prospective gold districts: the Tanami, the Paterson Province and the Laverton Tectonic Belt.

The Company is advancing a highly prospective suite of projects in the Tanami and West Arunta regions via joint ventures with Australia’s largest gold miner, Newcrest Mining Limited (ASX:NCM).

Encounter also 100% controls an extensive, underexplored project position covering the southern extension of the +40Moz Laverton Tectonic Zone.

Complementing its expansive gold portfolio, Encounter controls a major ground position in the emerging Proterozoic Paterson Province where it is exploring for copper-cobalt deposits with highly successful mining and exploration company Independence Group NL (ASX:IGO), and intrusive related copper-gold deposits at its 100% owned Lamil Project.

For further information, please contact: Will Robinson Managing Director +61 8 9486 9455 contact@enrl.com.au michael.vaughan@fivemark.com.au

The information in this report that relates to Exploration Results is based on information compiled by Mr. Peter Bewick who is a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Mr. Bewick holds shares and options in and is a full time employee of Encounter Resources Ltd and has sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation under consideration to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2012 Edition of the 'Australian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves'. Mr Bewick consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on the information compiled by him, in the form and context in which it appears.

The Company confirms that it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information in the relevant ASX releases and the form and context of the announcement has not materially changed.

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