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FALCON METALS LTD Capital/Financing Update 2024

Mar 26, 2024

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27 March 2024

Stavely Joins with Falcon Metals to Explore in the Emerging West Kimberley Magmatic Nickel Province - Correction -

Stavely Minerals Limited (ASX Code: SVY – “Stavely Minerals”) wishes to correct the terms of the Earnin and Joint Venture Agreement with Falcon Metals (ASX: FAL ; “ Falcon ”) to be:

  • Minimum expenditure equal to two-years’ statutory minimum expenditure on the tenements;

  • Expenditure of $500,000 for Stavely to earn an 80% equity interest in the tenure;

  • Formation of a Joint Venture with Falcon free-carried to a decision to mine; and

  • If not proceeding to mine development with contributions on an equity basis, acquisition of the non-proceeding interest on a fair value basis.

Yours sincerely,

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Chris Cairns Executive Chair and Managing Director

Authorised for lodgement by Chris Cairns, Executive Chair and Managing Director.

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Head Office 168 Stirling Hwy Nedlands, Western Australia 6009 T: +61 8 9287 7630 E: [email protected] W: stavely.com.au

ASX Code: SVY Shares on issue: 382M Market capitalisation: $11.1M Cash: $1.38M (at 31 December 2023) ABN 33 119 826 907

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27 March 2024

ASX ANNOUNCEMENT

Hawkstone Nickel-Copper Project, WA – Update

Stavely Joins with Falcon Metals to Explore in the Emerging West Kimberley Magmatic Nickel Province

Earn-In and Joint Venture Agreement completed to secure an additional two tenements covering key extensions of the prospective host unit, the Ruins Dolerite

  • Stavely Minerals has strategically expanded its exploration footprint at the Hawkstone Nickel Project, located in the emerging West Kimberley magmatic nickel province, through an Earn-in and Joint Venture agreement with Falcon Metals Limited (ASX: FAL).

  • The Company is delighted to partner with Falcon Metals given the previous discovery track record of key members of their management team at the Nova-Bollinger Nickel Mine in WA and deep understanding of the significant opportunity for additional magmatic nickel sulphide discoveries in the West Kimberley.

  • The Merlin nickel-copper-cobalt discovery (IGO/Buxton Resources) is a high-tenor (average 8% Ni tenor for massive sulphide) magmatic nickel style of mineralisation, with individual assays of up to 8.14% Ni, 5.26% Cu and 0.69% Co, hosted by the Ruins Dolerite[1] and located ~1km north-west of Stavely Minerals’ Hawkstone tenement boundary.

  • In November 2023, IGO and Buxton announced high-grade Ni-Cu-Co assays from the initial drill hole into the Dogleg discovery[2] , located some 13km north-west of Merlin, and further high-grade results from a second diamond drill hole last week.

  • The Hawkstone Project includes ~30 kilometres of easterly strike continuation of the Ruins Dolerite, which is highly prospective for nickel-copper-cobalt mineralisation.

  • Additionally, a regionally significant gravity high under the Hawkstone Ni-Cu-Co Project may represent a deeper mafic magma chamber, potentially an analogue to the Eastern Deeps intrusion at the world-class Voisey’s Bay deposit in Canada.

  • The additional tenements cover areas with discrete magnetic features interpreted to be elements of the Ruins Dolerite located at shallow depth under on-lapping Devonian carbonate sequences.

  • The Hawkstone Project represents a relatively under-explored opportunity for a significant discovery in an emerging mineral field where the prospectivity and fertility of the Ruins Dolerite has already been demonstrated by the Merlin and Dogleg discoveries.

1 Buxton Resources website: West Kimberley - Buxton Resources Ltd, ASX:BUX announcement dated 27 November 2015

2 See ASX: BUX announcement dated 6 November 2023

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ASX Code: SVY Head Office Shares on issue: 382M 168 Stirling Hwy Market capitalisation: $11.1M Nedlands, Western Australia 6009 Cash: $1.38M (at 31 December 2023) T: +61 8 9287 7630 ABN 33 119 826 907 E: [email protected] W: stavely.com.au

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Stavely Minerals Limited (ASX Code: SVY – “Stavely Minerals”) is pleased to advise that it has further expanded its strategic exploration footprint at its 100%-owned Hawkstone Nickel-Copper Project in the West Kimberley region of Western Australia (Figure 1) through an Earn-in and Joint Venture Agreement with Falcon Metals (ASX: FAL ; “ Falcon ”).

The terms of the Earn-in and Joint Venture Agreement include:

  • Minimum expenditure equal to two-years’ statutory minimum expenditure on the tenements;

  • Expenditure of $500,000 for Stavely to earn an 80% equity interest in the tenure;

  • Formation of a Joint Venture with Falcon free-carried to a decision to mine; and

  • If not proceeding to mine development with contributions on an equity basis, acquisition of the non-proceeding interest on a fair value basis.

The tenements subject to this agreement include EL(A)04/2883 and EL(A)04/2284 (Figures 2 and 3).

Falcon Metals Limited Managing Director, Tim Markwell, said: "Falcon Metals is pleased to have secured a strategic entry to the emerging West Kimberley magmatic nickel province through this Earnin and Joint Venture Agreement with Stavely Minerals. The IGO/Buxton Dogleg nickel sulphide discovery demonstrates the potential for new nickel discoveries, and we believe there is outstanding potential to discover more high-tenor magmatic nickel sulphide mineralisation across this district.”

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Figure 1. Hawkstone Project location map.

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Figure 2. Stavely Minerals Tenement location map.

Stavely Minerals Executive Chair and Managing Director, Mr Chris Cairns, said: “Our Hawkstone Nickel Project is an exceptional walk-up exploration opportunity in a geological setting that has demonstrated prospectivity and fertility for major new magmatic nickel sulphide discoveries.

“The Merlin nickel-copper-cobalt discovery is a high-tenor nickel discovery (~8% Ni), an attribute which can be very important in terms of economic potential (Appendix 1). Located just 1 kilometre from the Hawkstone Project tenement boundary, the Merlin discovery is significant in several respects.

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“Technically, it demonstrates that the geological processes required to form a magmatic nickel sulphide deposit have occurred within the Ruins Dolerite, and the Hawkstone Project contains some 30 kilometres of strike continuation of this highly prospective yet under-explored unit.

“In November 2023, IGO and Buxton announced high-grade and high-tenor assays from the new Dogleg nickel-copper-cobalt discovery, located a further 13km north-west of Merlin. In February they announced further high-grade assay results from the second diamond drill hole in this high-tenor NiCu-Co discovery.

“Stavely Minerals’ recently completed Falcon gravity gradiometer survey sets a very strong foundation for our forward exploration programs to build upon. Both the gravity and magnetic data clearly show that the nickel-prospective Ruins Dolerite traverses our tenure for meaningful strike lengths of approximately 30 kilometres.

“Importantly, the gravity data from that survey are interpreted to show a large (~20km long) mafic magma chamber at depth beneath the Hawkstone Project. This chamber is considered to be analogous to the Eastern Deeps magma chamber at the world-class Voisey’s Bay nickel mine.

“We are at the advanced stages of planning an ambitious ground geophysical programme in advance of drill testing any robust conductive targets generated.”

Video with Stavely Executive Chair Chris Cairns – Listen to Chris Cairns discuss the Hawkstone Project and the significance of the recent Buxton/IGO discoveries which can be found on the Stavely Minerals website www.stavely.com.au under Investors/Media & Webinars – “Interview with Chris Cairns, Executive Chair & Managing Director of Stavely Minerals.”

The Hawkstone Project

The Hawkstone Project is located in the emerging West Kimberley magmatic nickel province (Figure 1). The West Kimberley is an emerging magmatic-nickel province with two recent discoveries within separate IGO/Buxton JV’s – the Merlin Ni-Cu-Co discovery in 2015 and the very recent Dogleg Ni-CuCo discovery (2023). Both of these discoveries are located directly along strike from Stavely Minerals’ Hawkstone Ni-Cu-Co Project (Figure 3).

The Hawkstone Project comprises ~870km[2] of tenure, held both 100% and with earn-in and/or exploration rights in 13 separate tenements through Stavely Minerals’ 100%-owned subsidiaries, North West Nickel Pty Ltd (NWN) and Strategic Metals Pty Ltd (Figure 2).

Falcon Gravity Gradiometer Survey

In late July 2023, Stavely engaged Xcalibur Aviation (Australia) Pty Ltd to fly a state-of-the-art airborne gravity survey over the Hawkstone Project using its airborne Falcon™ Plus gravity gradiometer system.

The Hawkstone Project is located approximately 1km along strike from the Buxton Resources/IGO Joint Venture at the Double Magic Project, as shown in Figure 3 below.

The recent Dogleg Ni-Cu-Co discovery is located a further 13km north-west of Merlin. Both discoveries are hosted in the Ruins Dolerite, which continues along strike for some 30 kilometres through the Hawkstone Project.

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Figure 3. Hawkstone Project location map relative to IGO-controlled tenure and the Merlin (2015) and Dogleg (2023) nickel-sulphide discoveries overlaid on aeromagnetics.

Of note in the Falcon gravity image is the very large gravity high ridge, interpreted to be an intermediate mafic magma chamber (~20km long), traversing Stavely Minerals’ Hawkstone Project and the location of the Merlin Ni-Cu-Co discovery at one end of that gravity ridge (Figure 4).

The significance of this mafic magma chamber is that the bulk of the nickel-copper-cobalt mineralisation at the Nova Bollinger, Norilsk and Voisey’s Bay magmatic nickel mines is located at or near the base of mafic magma chambers (see Figures 5 and 6).

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Figure 4. Hawkstone gravity image with original tenement outlines and the location of the Merlin Ni-Cu-Co discovery. The gravity high is interpreted to represent a mafic magma chamber at depth.

History of The Merlin and Dogleg Ni-Cu-Co Discoveries

Initial mineral exploration focused on the Jack’s Hill gossan. Two holes were drilled in the 1960s by Pickands Mather, no further work was conducted until 2007. Two RC drill programs and one ground EM survey highlighted widespread low-grade (typically ~0.2-0.4% Ni) sulphide mineralization near the gossan.

In 2013 a helicopter VTEM survey identified eight significant conductors, with five located within a ~1.5km radius and interpreted to be associated with the margins of a deformed intrusion, along strike to the north-west of the gossan. These five VTEM conductors were further followed up with ground EM which resulted in the definition of seven discrete bedrock conductors, A-G (now referred to as the Merlin Prospect).

A four-hole RC drill program was undertaken by Victory Mines Ltd to test these EM targets. Highly encouraging, significant nickel-copper sulphide mineralisation was intersected. All Ni-sulphide occurrences are EM conductors with coincident with gravity highs.

In 2015, Buxton Resources Limited acquired the Double Magic Project and undertook an intensive exploration programme. Buxton confirmed that the Ruins Dolerite unit hosts economic grades and widths of primary ortho-magmatic nickel-copper sulphide mineralisation.

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Drill-hole DMRC0003 intersected 8m at 3.05% Ni, 1.88% Cu & 0.10% Co from 50m drill depth, within a broader 17m zone at 1.78% Ni & 1.16% Cu from 46m drill depth at the Merlin Prospect (Conductor D)[3] .

This nickel exploration focus culminated in the discovery of the Double Magic Merlin Ni-Cu-Co deposit. This establishes the Ruins Dolerite, and the West Kimberley in general, as a de-risked, fertile and underexplored new magmatic nickel-copper-cobalt province. All nickel sulphide drill intercepts at the Merlin prospect have been coincident gravity and EM conductors[4] .

In November 2023, at the Dogleg prospect, IGO drill tested a 12,000 Siemens MLEM conductor and intersected 13.85m @ 4.35% Ni, 0.34% Cu and 0.15% Co from 177.34m, including 5.86m @ 7.47% Ni, 0.31% Cu and 0.25% Co[5] in diamond drill hole 23WKDD003.

A follow-up drill hole, 23WKDD004, drilled 65m down-dip of the initial intercept was reported as having intercepted 2.85m of semi-massive sulphides[6] with assays reported last week[7] including 2.89m at 4.17% Ni, 0.83% Cu and 0.14% Co from 233.63m down-hole.

Of particular note is the high-tenor of the Ni-Cu-Co mineralisation of ~8% Ni in massive sulphide. The tenor of Ni mineralisation can be a key factor in the economics of a magmatic nickel sulphide deposit. Tenor of Ni mineralisation is related to the efficiency of a magmatic process where the immiscible sulphide droplets are exposed to a volume of melt such that nickel, copper and cobalt is sequestered from the melt into the sulphide droplets that, with changes to magma velocity (often on entry to the magma chamber) the denser sulphide droplets settle to the base of the magma chamber.

It is the efficiency of this metals sequestration process that determines the Ni grade of the sulphides and explains the significant differences in tenor between deposits where that process has been efficient (i.e. high-tenor ~8% Ni at Merlin and Dogleg) or less efficient (i.e. lower-tenor ~3% Ni at Savannah[8] ).

Potential Similarities to Voisey’s Bay

The Merlin/Double Magic Ni-Cu-Co discovery and the more recent Dogleg discovery are magmatic nickel style of sulphide mineralisation.

The generalised model for formation of a magmatic Ni-Cu deposit requires (Figure 5):

  1. Emplacement of a deep seated typically mafic magma chamber,

  2. Ascent of magma through a sulphur-rich stratum introducing sulphur to the melt,

  3. Sequestering of Ni and Cu from the melt into immiscible sulphide droplets entrained in the magma flow, and

  4. Flow of the sulphur droplet bearing magma into dykes and intermediate chambers where the velocity of magma travel reduces and allows precipitation of the heavy sulphide droplets to the base of dykes and magma chambers.

3 Buxton Resources ASX announcement dated 2 November 2015 4 Buxton Resources ASX announcement dated 14 June 2018 5 Buxton Resources ASX announcement dated 6 November 2023 6 Buxton Resources ASX announcement dated 19 October 2023 7 Buxton Resources ASX announcement dated 01 February 2024

8 Le Vaillant et al., 2020, Multidisciplinary study of a complex magmatic system: The Savannah Ni-Cu-Co Camp, Western Australia, Ore Geology Reviews, Vol. 117

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Figure 5. Generalised model for formation of a magmatic Ni-Cu deposit (source: The Korelin Economics Report on the Voisey’s Bay Discovery).

Given the proximity of the Merlin/Double Magic Ni-Cu-Co discovery, and now the Dogleg discovery, Stavely Minerals has high confidence that the processes 1-4 described above have occurred in the Ruins Dolerite and that the Hawkstone Project hosts some 30 kilometres of strike of the ruins Dolerite that has been very lightly explored to date.

The large gravity anomaly traversing the Hawkstone Ni-Cu-Co Project could be reflecting a large magma chamber at depth and, if the Merlin/Double Magic Ni-Cu-Co mineralisation were equivalent to the Voisey’s Bay Discovery Zone in a chamber-linking dyke, a model where the large gravity anomaly/potential magma chamber at the Hawkstone Project could host mineralisation in an analogous position to that of the Eastern Deeps at Voisey’s Bay (Figure 6).

The Nova/Bollinger Ni-Cu-Co deposits are likewise associated with a mafic magma chamber[9] evident in the gravity data (Figure 7). This mafic magma chamber/nickel sulphide precipitation hypothesis will be tested by a deep 800m diamond drill-hole that is the subject of a up to $220,000 WA Government EIS co-funding grant[10] .

9 Bennett, M. et. al., 2014, Motive, Means and Opportunity: Key factors in the discovery of the Nova-Bollinger magmatic nickel-copper sulfide deposits in Western Australia

10 SVY ASX announcement 14 November 2023

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Sulphide
precipitation
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Figure 6. Schematic long-section of the Voisey’s Bay Ni-Cu deposit in Labrador, Newfoundland. The Eastern Deeps nickel-sulphide mineralisation is formed by a change of flow velocity as the magma enters the Eastern Deeps magma chamber causing the denser immiscible sulphide droplets to precipitate to the bottom of the magma chamber (image source: The Korelin Economics Report on the Voisey’s Bay Discovery).

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Figure 7. Gravity image showing the gravity high associated with the Nova/Bollinger mafic magma chamber.

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Yours sincerely,

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Chris Cairns Executive Chair and Managing Director

The information in this report that relates to Exploration Targets, Exploration Results, Mineral Resources or Ore Reserves is based on information compiled by Mr Chris Cairns, a Competent Person who is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists and a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Mr Cairns is a full-time employee of the Company. Mr Cairns is Executive Chair and Managing Director of Stavely Minerals Limited and is a shareholder and option holder of the Company. Mr Cairns has sufficient experience that is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity being undertaken 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 Cairns consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.

Authorised for lodgement by Chris Cairns, Executive Chair and Managing Director.

For Further Information, please contact:

Stavely Minerals Limited Media Inquiries: Phone: 08 9287 7630 Nicholas Read – Read Corporate Email: [email protected] Phone: 08 9388 1474

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Appendix 1. Global Nickel Production Cost Curve, Nickel Mine Tenor and Comparative Cash Costs for Select Mines

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%Ni tenor
8%
6.90%
5.30%
3%
MERLIN / NOVA BOLLINGER SAVANNAH
DOGLEG
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Comparative Cash Costs $/lb
$14.00
$12.03
$12.00
$10.15
$9.95
$10.00
Current price
$7.91/lb
$8.00
$6.00
$4.17
$4.00
$2.00
$0.00
Nova (Dec Q 2023) Savannah (Sept Q Forrestania (Dec Q Mincor (H2 2022)
2023) 2023)
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Note: Mincor cash cost derived from production / reported total costs

Note: Forrestania operations are delivering into US$32,000/t hedges

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JORC Code, 2012 Edition – Table 1

Section 1 Sampling Techniques and Data

(Criteria in this section apply to all succeeding sections.)

Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
Sampling
techniques
Nature and quality of
sampling (eg cut channels,
random chips, or specific
specialised industry
standard measurement
tools appropriate to the
minerals under
investigation, such as down
hole gamma sondes, or
handheld XRF instruments,
etc). These examples
should not be taken as
limiting the broad meaning
of sampling.
No sampling reported
Include reference to
measures taken to ensure
sample representivity and
the appropriate calibration
of any measurement tools
or systems used.
Not applicable
Aspects of the
determination of
mineralisation that are
Material to the Public
Report - In cases where
‘industry standard’ work
has been done this would
be relatively simple (eg
‘reverse circulation drilling
was used to obtain 1 m
samples from which 3 kg
was pulverised to produce
a 30 g charge for fire
assay’). In other cases
more explanation may be
required, such as where
there is coarse gold that
has inherent sampling
problems. Unusual
commodities or
mineralisation types (eg
submarine nodules) may
warrant disclosure of
detailed information.
Not applicable

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Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
Drilling
techniques
Drill type (eg core, reverse
circulation, open-hole
hammer, rotary air blast,
auger, Bangka, sonic, etc)
and details (eg core
diameter, triple or standard
tube, depth of diamond
tails, face-sampling bit or
other type, whether core is
oriented and if so, by what
method, etc).
No drilling reported
Drill sample
recovery
Method of recording and
assessing core and chip
sample recoveries and
results assessed.
Not applicable
Measures taken to
maximise sample recovery
and ensure representative
nature of the samples.
Not applicable
Whether a relationship
exists between sample
recovery and grade and
whether sample bias may
have occurred due to
preferential loss/gain of
fine/coarse material.
Not applicable
Logging Whether core and chip
samples have been
geologically and
geotechnically logged to a
level of detail to support
appropriate Mineral
Resource estimation,
mining studies and
metallurgical studies.
Not applicable
Whether logging is
qualitative or quantitative in
nature. Core (or costean,
channel, etc) photography.
Not applicable
The total length and
percentage of the relevant
intersections logged.
Not applicable
Sub-sampling
techniques
and sample
preparation
If core, whether cut or sawn
and whether quarter, half or
all core taken.
Not applicable
If non-core, whether riffled,
tube sampled, rotary split,
etc and whether sampled
wet or dry.
Not applicable

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Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
For all sample types, the
nature, quality and
appropriateness of the
sample preparation
technique.
No analytical data reported
Quality control procedures
adopted for all sub-
sampling stages to
maximise representivity of
samples.
Not applicable
Measures taken to ensure
that the sampling is
representative of the in situ
material collected, including
for instance results for field
duplicate/second-half
sampling.
Not applicable
Whether sample sizes are
appropriate to the grain
size of the material being
sampled.
Not applicable
Quality of
assay data
and laboratory
tests
The nature, quality and
appropriateness of the
assaying and laboratory
procedures used and
whether the technique is
considered partial or total.
Not applicable
For geophysical tools,
spectrometers, handheld
XRF instruments, etc, the
parameters used in
determining the analysis
including instrument make
and model, reading times,
calibrations factors applied
and their derivation, etc.
Falcon Gravity Gradiometer Survey
In late July 2023, Stavely Minerals Limited engaged
Xcalibur Aviation to fly an airborne gravity survey over the
Hawkstone Project using its airborne Falcon™ Plus gravity
gradiometer system as well as magnetic sensors. The
survey, comprising ~ 3,700 line-kilometres, was flown at 80
m height above surface, on flight lines spaced 200 m apart.
The survey specifications were:
Total Kilometres (km)
3,647
Clearance Method
Drape
Minimum Drape Height (m)
80
Traverse Line Direction (deg.)
179.9 / 359.9
Traverse Line Spacing (m)
200
Tie Line Direction (deg.)
089.9 / 269.9
Tie Line Spacing (m)
2000
The following parameters were recorded during the course
of the survey:

FALCON® AGG data: recorded at different
intervals.

Airborne total magnetic field: recorded with a 0.1 s
sampling rate.

Terrain clearance: provided by the radar altimeter
at intervals of 0.1 s.

Airborne GPS positional data (latitude, longitude,
height, time and raw range from each satellite
being tracked): recorded at intervals of 1 s.

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Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary

Time markers: in digital data.

Ground total magnetic field: recorded with a 1 s
sampling rate.

Ground based GPS positional data (latitude,
longitude, height, time and raw range from each
satellite being tracked): recorded at intervals of 1 s.

Ground surface below aircraft: mapped by the laser
scanner system (when within range of the
instrument and in the absence of thick vegetation),
scanning at 36 times per second, recording 276
returns per scan.
GPS Base Station (JAVAD Triumph-2)
Location:
Derby Airport
Date:
March 24th, 2023
Latitude:
17º 22' 07.07396" S
Longitude:
123º 39' 57.59120" E
Height:
30.311 m ellipsoidal
Magnetometer Base Station (CF1)
Location:
Derby Airport
Date:
March 24th, 2023
Used for flights:
All
During the course of the survey, there were no data quality
issues with:

AGG instrumentation

Magnetic and GPS base stations

Airborne magnetometer system

Data acquisition systems

Radar altimeter

Laser scanner
Nature of quality control
procedures adopted (eg
standards, blanks,
duplicates, external
laboratory checks) and
whether acceptable levels
of accuracy (i.e. lack of
bias) and precision have
been established.
Not applicable
Verification of
sampling and
assaying
The verification of
significant intersections by
either independent or
alternative company
personnel.
Not applicable
The use of twinned holes. Not applicable
Documentation of primary
data, data entry
procedures, data
verification, data storage
(physical and electronic)
protocols.
Not applicable

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Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
Discuss any adjustment to
assay data.
Not applicable
Location of
data points
Accuracy and quality of
surveys used to locate drill
holes (collar and down-hole
surveys), trenches, mine
workings and other
locations used in Mineral
Resource estimation.
Not applicable
Specification of the grid
system used.
The grid system used is MGA grid 94, zone 51.
Quality and adequacy of
topographic control.
Not applicable
Data spacing
and
distribution
Data spacing for reporting
of Exploration Results.
Not applicable
Whether the data spacing
and distribution is sufficient
to establish the degree of
geological and grade
continuity appropriate for
the Mineral Resource and
Ore Reserve estimation
procedure(s) and
classifications applied.
Not applicable
Whether sample
compositing has been
applied.
Not applicable
Orientation of
data in
relation to
geological
structure
Whether the orientation of
sampling achieves
unbiased sampling of
possible structures and the
extent to which this is
known, considering the
deposit type.
Not applicable
If the relationship between
the drilling orientation and
the orientation of key
mineralised structures is
considered to have
introduced a sampling bias,
this should be assessed
and reported if material.
Not applicable
Sample
security
The measures taken to
ensure sample security.
Not applicable

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Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
Audits or
reviews
The results of any audits or
reviews of sampling
techniques and data.
Not applicable

Section 2 Reporting of Exploration Results

(Criteria listed in the preceding section also apply to this section.)

Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
Mineral
tenement and
land tenure
status
Type, reference
name/number, location and
ownership including
agreements or material
issues with third parties
such as joint ventures,
partnerships, overriding
royalties, native title
interests, historical sites,
wilderness or national park
and environmental settings.
The Hawkstone Project comprises 2 granted tenements,
E04/2299 & E04/2325 held by Strategic Metals Pty Ltd (a
100% owned subsidiary of North West Nickel Pty Ltd), one
granted
tenement,
E04/2784
and
two
tenement
applications, E04/2877 and E04/2878 held by North West
Nickel Pty Ltd (a 100% owned subsidiary of Stavely
Minerals Pty Ltd) and one granted tenement, E04/2871,
and one tenement application, E04/2872 held by Stavely
Minerals Pty Ltd. The Hawkstone Project also comprises
the hard-rock mineral rights to two granted tenements,
E04/1169 & E04/2563, held by Waterford Bay Pty Ltd (a
100% owned subsidiary of Kimberley Minerals Ltd) and
three granted tenements, E04/2717, E04/2405 &
E04/2623 and one tenement application, E04/2876, held
by Kimberley Alluvials Pty Ltd (a 100% owned subsidiary
of Kimberley Minerals Ltd).
The granted tenements cover an area of 580 square
kilometres and the tenement applications cover 288 square
kilometres.
Part of the project lies within the Yampi Sound Training
Area (YSTA). An agreement with the Department of
Defence has been signed by Stavely for access to
E04/2299 and E04/2325 which fall within the YSTA.
Stakeholders that have been successfully engaged by
Stavely Minerals include the Napier Downs Pastoralists,
Madanaa Nada Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC (MNAC),
Dambimangari Aboriginal Corporation and Wilinggin
Aboriginal Corporation.
The security of the tenure
held at the time of reporting
along with any known
impediments to obtaining a
licence to operate in the
area.
All the exploration licences are in good standing and no
known impediments exist.
E04/2299 and E04/2325 have been recently renewed for 5
years. An application has been lodged with DMIRS for the
renewal of E04/1169.
Exploration
done by other
parties
Acknowledgment and
appraisal of exploration by
other parties.
There has been little modern exploration completed by
other parties on the Hawkstone Project. There are a

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Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
number of historic shallow prospects for Tin and Tungsten
known collectively as the King Sound workings.
An Xcite airborne electro-magnetic (AEM) survey was
completed by North West Nickel over a portion of E04/1169
in 2016. The survey was helicopter supported, and
consisted of 284 line km at 150m line spacing. Results were
processed and interpreted by Southern Geoscience and
identified several late-time anomalies (channel 35). These
AEM anomalies were subsequently followed-up by a field
reconnaissance/mapping
and
surface
sampling
programme.
A moving loop electromagnetic (MLEM) survey was
completed by Khumsup Geophysics in 2019 over four
prospects previously identified from the Excite airborne EM
survey flown in 2016. The MLEM survey comprised a total
of 125 stations across 12 lines with conductors being
identified at the Ephesus, Babylon and Palmyra prospects.
The Ephesus prospect hosted the two plates with the
highest conductance (i.e. 4800 and 5000S). These plates
were not found to be associated with sulphidic sediments
which were observed proximal to the other 4 plates at the
prospect.
Following the MLEM three RC holes for 314m were drilled
on E04/1169 in 2019. No late-time conductors were
identified from the MLEM survey. A moderate Ni-Cu-PGE
intersection was made within HRC010 (11m @ 0.11% Ni,
0.07% Cu, 12.5ppb Au, 5.8ppb Pd, and 5.6ppb Pt from
98m). No anomalous assays were returned for any other
drilling within E04/1169.
In 2021 Chalice Mining Ltd completed 1 helicopter
supported diamond drillhole for 223.6m on E04/1169 to test
a 4800S conductor at the Ephesus prospect. The hole
failed to intersect any anomalous mineralisation.
A SkyTEM airborne electro-magnetic (AEM) survey was
flown over portions of E 04/2299 in 2018 by Chalice Mining
Ltd. The survey identified numerous late time conductors,
many of which were coincident with outcropping Ruins
Dolerite. A moving loop electro-magnetic (MLEM) ground
geophysical survey was completed as follow up to high-
priority, late-time conductors identified by the 2018 – 2019
SkyTEM survey. Multiple conductive plates were defined
and were subsequently followed up by RC drilling in the
2020 – 2021 reporting period.
In 2020 – 2021 Chalice Mining Ltd drilled 8 RC holes for
1,533m on E04/2299. RC drilling results found the
conductive sources to be sulphidic and/or graphitic shales
and some of the EM targets were downgraded. Some of
the surface soil samples collected on E04/2299 returned
elevated Ni, Cu, Pt, Pd and Au results.

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In 2020 – 2012 Chalice Mining Limited drilled 1 RC hole for
196m on E04/2325. RC drill hole HRC001 intersected 6 m
@1.06 g/t Au from 68 m associated with 1% disseminated
pyrite in strongly foliated metasedimentary rocks.
Geology Deposit type, geological
setting and style of
mineralisation.
The project is located within the King Leopold Orogen
(KLO), a Proterozoic orogenic belt which was pushed and
deformed against the Archean Kimberley Craton. The
Kimberley Craton is one of several crustal blocks that
together form the stable continental crust of the Archean to
Proterozoic North Australian Craton (NAC).
The King Leopold province is a Paleoproterozoic terrain
that contains the Ruins Dolerite which comprise a wide
suite of mafic intrusives, considered prospective for nickel,
copper, cobalt and PGE mineralisation. Known deposits
and occurrences in the region include the Savannah mine
(Ni-Cu-Co), Merlin (Ni-Cu-Co) as well as small tin-tungsten
workings.
Stavely Minerals Limited is targeting Nova-style magmatic
Ni-Cu sulphide mineralisation in the Hawkstone Project.
Drill hole
Information
A summary of all
information material to the
understanding of the
exploration results including
a tabulation of the following
information for all Material
drill holes:
easting and northing of the
drill hole collar
elevation or RL (Reduced
Level – elevation above sea
level in metres) of the drill
hole collar
dip and azimuth of the hole
down hole length and
interception depth
hole length.
No drilling reported.
If the exclusion of this
information is justified on
the basis that the
information is not Material
and this exclusion does not
detract from the
understanding of the report,
the Competent Person
should clearly explain why
this is the case.
Not applicable
In reporting Exploration
Results, weighting
Not applicable

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Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
Data
aggregation
methods
averaging techniques,
maximum and/or minimum
grade truncations (eg
cutting of high grades) and
cut-off grades are usually
Material and should be
stated.
Where aggregate intercepts
incorporate short lengths of
high grade results and
longer lengths of low grade
results, the procedure used
for such aggregation should
be stated and some typical
examples of such
aggregations should be
shown in detail.
Not applicable
The assumptions used for
any reporting of metal
equivalent values should be
clearly stated.
Not applicable
Relationship
between
mineralisation
widths and
intercept
lengths
These relationships are
particularly important in the
reporting of Exploration
Results.
If the geometry of the
mineralisation with respect
to the drill hole angle is
known, its nature should be
reported.
Not applicable
If it is not known and only
the down hole lengths are
reported, there should be a
clear statement to this effect
(eg ‘down hole length, true
width not known’).
Not applicable
Diagrams Appropriate maps and
sections (with scales) and
tabulations of intercepts
should be included for any
significant discovery being
reported These should
include, but not be limited to
a plan view of drill hole
collar locations and
appropriate sectional views.
Not applicable
Balanced
reporting
Where comprehensive
reporting of all Exploration
Results is not practicable,
representative reporting of
both low and high grades
Not applicable

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and/or widths should be
practiced to avoid
misleading reporting of
Exploration Results.
Other
substantive
exploration
data
Other exploration data, if
meaningful and material,
should be reported
including (but not limited to):
geological observations;
geophysical survey results;
geochemical survey results;
bulk samples – size and
method of treatment;
metallurgical test results;
bulk density, groundwater,
geotechnical and rock
characteristics; potential
deleterious or
contaminating substances.
Previous exploration programs on the project include:
regional aeromagnetic, radiometrics and gravity surveys,
an airborne Xcite and SkyTM EM surveys, surface
sampling (auger, soil and rock-chip), field mapping, 1
diamond drill hole and 12 RC drill holes.
Further work The nature and scale of
planned further work (eg
tests for lateral extensions
or depth extensions or
large-scale step-out
drilling).
Diagrams clearly
highlighting the areas of
possible extensions,
including the main
geological interpretations
and future drilling areas,
provided this information is
not commercially sensitive.
Follow-up exploration includes reconnaissance field
investigations and rock chip sampling.
Additional detailed ground MLEM surveys have been
planned. Soil auger program will be planned where suitable
to test gravity, magnetic and EM targets.
Follow-up RC and/ or diamond drilling where warranted.

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