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FOCUS MINERALS LTD Capital/Financing Update 2021

Apr 15, 2021

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Market Announcement

16 April 2021

Updated Laverton Stage 1 Open Pit PFS Progressive Results

Highlights:

  • Laverton Stage 1 scenario delivers JORC 2012 Probable Ore Reserves of 12.6Mt @ 1.34g/t for 546koz gold

  • Stage 1 scenario based on JORC 2012 Mineral Resource of 16.4Mt @ 1.47g/t for 770koz, just 21% of Laverton’s Total Mineral Resource of 61.3Mt @ 1.85g/t for 3.64Moz

  • Stage 1 scenario using refurbished Barnicoat Mill delivered undiscounted free cash of $223M (using Australian dollar gold price of $2,207/oz) with Pre-Tax NPV of $132M[1] and Pre-Tax IRR of 17.2%

  • Stage 1 PFS produces 513koz of gold at average AISC of $1,497/oz

  • Results increase Board confidence in larger-scale Laverton Gold Project

  • Next-phase PFS work underway, using much greater resource footprint

West Australian gold explorer Focus Minerals ( ASX: FML ) ( Focus or the Company ) is pleased to announce progressive results from the Laverton Gold Project’s ( Laverton ) Stage 1 Open Pit PreFeasibility Study ( PFS ). This first pass PFS scenario uses a selection of five open-pit resources and assumed milling at a refurbished 1.5Mtpa Barnicoat Mill. The assessment delivered positive economic value and a resultant Stage 1 Ore Reserve Statement. Recovered gold, average run of mine ( ROM ) grade, estimated average all-in sustaining costs ( AISC ) and proportioned pre-tax free cash flow, based on the PFS mining schedule, are shown below.

Open Pit* Recovered
Gold (koz)
Diluted
Grade (g/t)

Average AISC
($/ounce)

Pre-tax Free
Cash ($M)
Karridale 183 1.12 1,666 41
Burtville 92 0.93 1,481 40
Beasley Creek 124 2.27 1,353 76
Beasley Creek South 76 2.47 1,300 51
Wedge 38 1.58 1,533 14
Total/Average PFS Schedule 513 1.37 1,497 223
  • PFS Mining Schedule includes Inferred Resources within the pit designs comprising 4% of ore tonnes and 6% of contained gold. There is a low level of geological confidence associated with

1 5% Discount Rate

Focus Minerals Limited ACN 005 470 799 | ABN 56 005 470 799 | ASX: FML Level 2, 159 Adelaide Terrace, East Perth WA 6004 | PO Box 3233, East Perth WA 6892 T +61 (0) 8 9215 7888 | F +61 (0) 8 9215 7889 | E [email protected] | W focusminerals.com.au

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inferred Mineral Resources and there is no certainty that further exploration work will result in the determination of Indicated Mineral Resources or that the production target itself will be realised.

The Laverton Stage 1 PFS has delivered a base case and inputs for the next stage of economic assessment. Focus has successfully increased the size and quality of its Laverton Mineral Resource base over the past 12 months across the project’s 386km[2] tenement position.

Commenting on the progressive results of the Laverton Stage 1 Open Pit PFS, Focus Minerals’ CEO, Mr Zhaoya Wang, said:

“This initial PFS scenario has delivered a positive economic assessment from just 21% of the Laverton Gold Project’s Mineral Resource base and is a further credit to the Focus technical team’s diligent work.

“Yet as positive as the PFS results are, they did not include the discovery by Focus late last year of additional high-grade Beasley Creek mineralisation which remains open along strike with significant shallow ounces growth potential yet to be drill tested. In addition, this first-phase study at Laverton has excluded large fresh-rock resources especially at Karridale because Focus is yet to receive back all outstanding metallurgical test work.

“Furthermore, there are a number of other deposits with grades of 2g/t or greater within our Laverton tenement package that will be updated to JORC 2012 compliance before being included in the second-phase PFS.

“The progressive PFS result is a huge step forward in optimising future production in Laverton. It has also demonstrated to Focus the need to look at increasing the mining and milling capacity to reduce operating costs and increase profitability. Opportunity exists to strategically position a future plant to improve efficiencies and further reduce handling cost.

“We recognise that the PFS process at Laverton is taking longer than shareholders would have expected. However, we believe it is vital to include our continued exploration success at Laverton to deliver the best possible outcome. Our team at Focus will now draw on the results of the first-phase PFS to optimise the scale and economics of the Laverton Gold Project to deliver a long-life and lowcost operation for the benefit of all shareholders.”

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Figure 1: Laverton Gold Project progressive Stage 1 Open Pit PFS Results and location of selected pits with respect to Barnicoat plant site. A strategically located milling operation will be reviewed in the second phase of Laverton’s economic assessment.

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Overview of Stage 1 Resources & Reserves Only five of Laverton’s 20 deposits used in study

The Company’s Laverton Gold Project ( Laverton ) hosts recently updated total Measured, Indicated and Inferred Mineral Resources comprising 61.3Mt @ 1.85g/t for 3.64Moz gold (60% in Measured and Indicated categories).

Classification Tonnage (Mt) Au Grade(g/t) Au Moz
Total Measured 0.9 1.99 0.06
Total Indicated 42.4 1.56 2.12
Total Inferred 17.9 2.52 1.45
Total Mineral Resource 61.3 1.85 3.64

This large and growing resource inventory is spread across more than 20 deposits, the Stage 1 PFS was run on five deposits with resources reported under JORC 2012 compliance.

Fresh-rock resources were generally excluded from this study as metallurgy remains in progress. The only exceptions to this were:

  • Burtville, which already has significant oxide, transitional and fresh rock metallurgy; and

  • • a small amount of fresh-rock mineralisation at the Wedge LF North deposit where metallurgical test work has recently been completed.

The combined subset Indicated Mineral Resources used to inform the Stage 1 pit limit optimisation was 16.3Mt @ 1.47g/t for 770Koz – just 21% of Laverton’s total Measured, Indicated and Inferred Mineral Resource base.

Stage 1 PFS Indicated Resources Tonnage (Mt) Au Grade(g/t) Au koz
Karridale Oxide and Trans Only 6.17 1.24 246
Burtville Oxide,Trans and Fresh 5.09 0.97 159
BeasleyCreek Oxide and Trans Only 3.02 2.2 213
BeasleyCreek South Oxide and Trans 0.75 3.57 86
Wedge Oxide and Trans Only 1.22 1.66 66
Total Mineral Resource 16.26 1.47 770

It is worth noting that:

  • All the deposits considered by this Stage 1 PFS are open for further resource expansion;

  • • Several new very strong intersections were received at Beasley Creek South and not included in the current resource (see ASX announcement dated 20 August 2020);

  • The Karridale fresh-rock Indicated Mineral Resource of 16Mt @ 1.4g/t for 719koz was not included in the economic assessment because metallurgical test work had not been completed;

  • Fresh Mineral Resources have been excluded from analysis in the PFS for all deposits except Burtville and Lancefield, pending further metallurgical test work. Of the 770koz within the Indicated Resources assessed in the PFS, 546koz were converted to a Probable Reserve; and

  • The resource-to-reserve conversion rate is strong for this base case scenario at 71%.

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Ore Reserve cut-off grades were calculated for each deposit and ore type. These were based on a gold price of $2,207 per troy ounce, operating and sustaining capital costs as well as mining and metallurgical modifying factors as estimated in the PFS.

Pit Economic Cut Offs Cut off Oxide
Cut Off Transitional
Cut off Fresh
Karridale 0.48g/t
0.49g/t
Burtville 0.48g/t
0.48g/t
0.50g/t
Beasley Creek 0.47g/t
0.48g/t
Beasley Creek South 0.47g/t
0.48g/t
Wedge LF North Minimal
Fresh
0.47 g/t
0.48 g/t
0.49 g/t
Wedge South and Central 0.47g/t
0.48g/t

Material that is mined and slightly below the reported cut off grades will be stockpiled. This material may be be processed at the conclusion of mining when overhead operating costs reduce. At the end of mining stockpiled sub-grade material may be processed with cut off grade reduced by approximately 0.2 g/t. This sub-grade stockpiled material is included in the PFS schedule and adds 2% to gold scheduling inventory.

Within the Stage 1 PFS Pits and using cut offs by ore type the following Indicated and Inferred resources are reported

PFS Pit
Design
Indicated Mineral
Resource
Indicated Mineral
Resource
Indicated Mineral
Resource
Inferred Mineral
Resource
Inferred Mineral
Resource
Inferred Mineral
Resource
Total PFS Pit Mineral
Resources
Total PFS Pit Mineral
Resources
Total PFS Pit Mineral
Resources
Mt g/t Au Koz Mt g/t Au Koz Mt g/t Au Koz
Karridale 5.7 1.21 223 0.1 1.08 3 5.8 1.21 226
Karridale
M38/73 &
M38/89
2.2 1.16 81 0.0 0.97 2 2.2 1.08 82
Karridale
M38/8 &
M38/1281
3.6 1.24 142 0.0 1.29 1 3.6 1.21 143
Burtville 3.5 0.91 104 0.2 0.97 5 3.7 0.92 109
Beasley
Creek
1.8 2.51 146 0.2 1.64 11 2.0 2.41 158
Beasley
Creek
South
0.8 2.67 72 0.4 1.53 19 1.2 2.31 91
Wedge LF
North
0.8 1.78 44 0.0 0.88 0 0.8 1.77 44
Total 12.7 1.44 589.0 0.9 1.4 39.2 13.6 1.44 628.3

Reported in Pit Mineral Resources are presented on a 100% Project Basis. Tenements M38/073 & M38/089 are 91% owned by Focus. All other tenements are 100% owned by Focus.

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Selective Mining Units (SMU’s) were determined for each pit to support 5m high benches with 2.5m high flitches

Pit SMU (m)
X dimension
Y dimension
Z dimension
Calculated
Ore Loss
Ore
Loss
(g/t)
Calculated
Dilution
Dilution
Grade
Total
Metal
Loss
Calculated
Ore Loss
Ore
Loss
(g/t)
Calculated
Dilution
Dilution
Grade
Total
Metal
Loss
Calculated
Ore Loss
Ore
Loss
(g/t)
Calculated
Dilution
Dilution
Grade
Total
Metal
Loss
Calculated
Ore Loss
Ore
Loss
(g/t)
Calculated
Dilution
Dilution
Grade
Total
Metal
Loss
Calculated
Ore Loss
Ore
Loss
(g/t)
Calculated
Dilution
Dilution
Grade
Total
Metal
Loss
Karridale 2.5 x
5 x
2.5
16% 0.25 15% 0.002 4%
Burtville 5 x
5 x
2.5
LUC Mineral Resource included ore loss and dilution
Beasley Creek 2.5 x
5 x
2.5
13% 1.66 13% 0.1 10%
Beasley Creek
South
2.5 x
5 x
2.5
16% 1.26 6% 0.03 8%
Wedge 3.125 x
3.125 x
2.5
16% 0.9 20% 0.04 10%

Pit limit determination

  • Analysis of: CAPEX, OPEX, sustaining capital, metallurgical recoveries and modifying factors, considered

  • Technical analysis was completed in the PFS to determine the most appropriate mining method

  • Selective open cut mining techniques are considered the preferred method of mining and used to estimate ore loss and dilution

  • Geotechnical IRSA (Inter Ramp Slope Angle) was used for Whittle 4K optimisation using gold price of A$2,163.

  • For the purpose of whittle optimisation any incorporated inferred resources were treated as waste.

  • For the absence of doubt only Indicated status Mineral Resources were used for pit optimisation.

  • Fresh type ores were specifically excluded for pit optimisation for Wedge South/Central/North, and Karridale Deposits as metallurgy testwork is still in process.

  • 4 runs of whittle were completed with pit selection targeting 90% revenue factor to determine pit limits

Pit Design

  • Pit design used geotechnical wall angles with 5m benches and 2.5m flitches

  • Minimum ramp width for pit designs was 20m for two way ramps

  • Positioning of ramps to optimise material movement

  • Minimum mining width was 20m followed by a “good-bye” cut.

  • Minimum cut-back width is 25 m.

PFS pit design quantities by cut off for Measured and Indicated Mineral Resource categories

Pit Total Material
(MT)
Waste
(MT)
Ore
(MT)
Grade
(g/t)
Cont.
Au(Koz)
Strip
Ratio
Karridale 44.99 39.56 5.43 1.14 199 7.3
Burtville 7.17 4.04 3.13 0.96 97 1.3
BeasleyCreek 35.7 33.9 1.81 2.28 132 18.7
BeasleyCreek South 20.94 20.23 0.71 2.82 65 28.5
Wedge 11.79 11 0.79 1.59 41 13.9
Total 120.6 108.73 11.87 1.39 534 9.2

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Reserve determination

  • Economic model was analysed and cut off grade determined for each deposit based on ore related costs, material type, processing recoveries, applied gold price and modifying factors

  • Reserves were determined for the material above cut off grade recovered for each deposit

Ore Reserves calculated from the Stage 1 open pit scenario using refurbished Barnicoat Mill comprised:

**Ore Reserves using ** Tenements Focus
Minerals Ltd.
Probable
Barnicoat Mill Mt
Au g/t
Au Koz
Karridale 5.8
1.10
205
Karridale M38/073, M38/089 91% 2.0
1.07
68
Karridale M38/008, M38/1281 100% 3.8
1.12
137
Burtville M38/261 100% 3.5
0.91
103
Beasley Creek M38/049 100% 1.8
2.26
133
Beasley Creek
South
M38/049 100% 0.7
2.7
64
Wedge M38/159 100% 0.8
1.57
41
Total 12.6
1.34
546

Notes:

Ore Reserve estimates are not precise calculations, being dependent on the interpretation of limited information on the location, shape and continuity of the occurrence and on the available sampling results. The quantities contained in the above table have been rounded to reflect the relative uncertainty of the estimate. Rounding may cause values in the table to appear to have computational errors. Ore Reserves are presented on a 100% Project Basis.

All Ore Reserve estimates are on a dry basis.

Scheduling Inventory including: Measured, Indicated, Inferred Mineral Resource categories plus subgrade stockpiles

Pit Total Material
(MT)
Waste
(MT)
Ore
(MT)
Grade
(g/t)
Cont. Au
(Koz)
Strip
Ratio
Karridale 44.99 39.33 5.66 1.12 204 6.9
Burtville 7.17 3.65 3.53 0.93 106 1
Beasley Creek 35.7 33.89 1.81 2.27 132 18.7
Beasley Creek South 20.94 19.93 1.01 2.47 80 19.7
Wedge 11.79 10.99 0.8 1.58 41 13.7
Total 120.6 107.79 12.81 1.37 564 8.4

Key considerations of the PFS schedule include

  • No pre strip prior to year 1

  • Early mill feed from low strip ratio Burtville open pit

  • Pre strip targets Beasley Creek and Beasley Creek South to provide higher grade feed earlier in the schedule

  • Burtville open pit production phases out in year 3 to prioritise feed from Beasley Creek pits

  • Karridale operated progressively over the LOM

  • Peak material movement of 17Mt in years 1-5 and reducing years 6-9

  • Variable ore grade over LOM between 1 and 1.8 g/t

  • Ore stockpiles built up and depleted over LOM - peak stock of 960Kt @ 0.95g/t Au (year 6)

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The PFS LOM ore schedule includes a small amount of Inferred Mineral Resources above cut off which are included within the open pit designs. Inferred Mineral Resources represent 4% of ore tonnes and 6% of recovered gold of the PFS LOM ore schedule.

PFS Pit Inferred Mineral
Resources
included in LOM
Ore schedule (Kt)
Measured +
Indicated +
Inferred (kt)
Measured +
Indicated
tonnage %
Inferred
Mineral
Resource
tonnage %
Karridale 61 5,659 99% 1%
Burtville 157 3,531 99% 1%
Beasley Creek 1,815 100% 0%
Beasley Creek
South
284 1,010 72% 28%
Wedge LF North
Minimal Fresh
9 814 99% 1%
Wedge South and
Central
510 12,828 96% 4%

Notes

The relatively higher % of of inferred Mineral Resources included within the the Beasley Creek South PFS pit design reflectes the fast growing nature of this high grade deposit. All inferred resources included in the Beasley Creek South pit design are located in the hangingwall lodes that were identified in the later stages of resource drilling at Beasley Creek South. These hangingwall lodes are encountered in shallow parts of the pit design and are easily drilled by relatively cheap and short RC holes. The Indicated Mineral Resource on the the Beasley Creek South main lode was compiled by relatively slower, deeper and more expensive HQ3 diamond drilling Finally it is noted that RC targeting the hanging wall lodes provides an ideal precollar to resource extenion holes targeting the Beasley Creek Main lode.

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Laverton progressive Stage 1 Open Pit PFS Summary Scenario using refurbished, centrally located 1.5Mtpa Barnicoat Mill

The study was completed by independent consultants at RPM Advisory Services Pty Ltd ( RPM ). Key inputs/outputs included:

  • PFS study at +/-25% accuracy

  • Australian dollar gold price of $2,207/oz

  • Discount rate 5% Real

  • CAPEX based on RPM’s estimates

CostCentre Owner Operator
**CAPEX AUD $M **
Contractor Mining
**CAPEX AUD $M **
Major MiningEquipment 59.8 0
Process Plant Equipment 9.3 9.3
Process Plant Engineering 19.1 19.1
Infrastructure 7.5 7.5
Environment 0.3 0.3
First Fill 0.3 0.3
ProcessOperationSpares 0.6 0.6
Process Freight 2.4 2.4
Project Management(EPCM) 2.9 2.9
OwnersCost 9.5 9.5
Contingency 20.4 8.5
Sub - total 132.1 60.3
  • Processing plant and asscociated costs based on KTH engineering with additional costs estimated by RPM for flow sheet modification specified in updated equipment list

  • Power plant and accomodation contracted as Build, Own, Operate

  • EPCM costs building on KTH estimate and 8.5% of installed plant costs

  • Major mining fleet costs based on RPM cost database

  • Minor supporting fleet and facilities not incurred as capital costs and instead applied to OPEX on leased basis

  • Contractor operations assumed for ore haulage

  • AUD to USD Exchange rate of 0.7 applied

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Mining fleet selection to support LOM schedule using 5m high benches with 2.5m high flitches

Equipment Size Units Max Yr 1 **Yr 2-7 ** Yr 8 Yr 9 Yr 10
Hydraulic
Excavator
200t No. 1 1 1 1 0 0
Hydraulic
Excavator
120t No. 2 2 2 1 1 0
777 Dump
Truck
97t No. 12 12 12 10 5 0
Drill Diesel Sandvik
DP1500i
No. 3 2 3 2 2 0
Dozer Track CAT D10R No. 1 1 1 1 0 0
Dozer Track CAT D9R No. 2 2 2 1 1 0
Dozer Rubber
Tyre
CAT 844 No. 2 2 2 1 1 0
Grader 16M No. 1 1 1 1 1 0
Grader 14M No. 1 1 1 1 1 0
Watercart 773D No. 2 2 2 2 2 0
Watercart Generic No. 1 1 1 1 1 0
Front End
Loader
6.4 cu. M No. 2 2 2 2 2 2
Fuel Cart Generic No. 1 1 1 1 1 0
Hydraulic
Excavator
75t No. 1 1 1 1 1 0

Infrastructure

  1. Site offices at each mining area and reuse of Barnicoat, Lancefield and Burtville facilities including in some cases existing water tanks, sewerage systems, wash down pads/building foundations, large sheds, transportable offices and sea containers etc…Remote site power would be supplied from portable generators

  2. Equipment work shops include reuse of large sheds and or foundations at: Burtville, Barnicoat and Lancefield sites

  3. Upgrade 42km of haul roads and building 13.3km of new haul roads with 10m width running surface as detailed in the following table. Benchmark pricing for haul roads will vary between A $145,000 and A$500,000 per kilometre depending on road base quality and amount of cut and fill. It is noted that the majority of new haul roads already fall on current miscellaneous licenses held by Focus Minerals Ltd.

Existing Haul Rd Distance (km) Proposed Haul Rd Distance (km)
Barnicoat Haul Rd 11 Barnicoat Proposed North Haul Rd 6
Wedge Haul Rd 3.5 Northern Haul Rd to Beasley Creek 6
Karridale Haul Rd 27.5 Wedge North to Proposed Haul Rd 1.3
Total 42 13.3
  1. Refurbishment and reuse of Barnicoat bore field water supply including fair condition pipelines. Estimated water budget is 2.63 GL/a. A full water balance has not been completed at this time. It is noted that Laverton has relatively abundant low salinity water available and significant quantities that can meet potable water standards with relatively simple treatment.

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  1. Laverton has an existing airstrip suitable for supporting mining operations in the region and as used previously by Focus Minerals Ltd.

  2. The APA gas pipeline runs just 400m to the north of Barnicoat and already has an offtake node adjacent to the Barnicoat plant. APA have been contacted and have indicated potential to supply gas for power generation at Barnicoat. However, no formal discussions have been held and at this stage the PFS assumes BOO diesel power will be used to supply base load of 4.2MW with peak load estimated at 4.7MW.

  3. Focus Minerals Ltd previously operated a camp in Laverton. There is sufficient land in Laverton for construction of a new 200 – 250 personnel camp facility. The Stage 1 PFS scenario uses a 5 yr BOO/T deal for construction of a 200 man camp in Laverton. The following camp accommodation costs have been estimated for a 5yr BOOT/T arrangement

Description Cost A $
Messing and Accomodation $65/day/person
Monthly Capital Repayment* $146,000/month
Monthly Facility Charge $51,000/month

*Note

Aplicable over 5 yr BOO/T contract Period

Hyrdrogeology

A hydrogeological model was developed for the region encompassing the Wedge and Beasley Creek deposits in 2020. The model has reasonable accuracy in the vicinity of Beasley Creek where historic pumping data is available. Also during 2020 downhole porosity logging was completed at the Beasley Creek deposits as part of works to further refine the hydrogeological model leading to next stage engineering and economic studies.

Future works will include development of monitoring and pumping test bores to further refine the hydrogeological models which will be expanded to Karridale and Burtville. It is noted that Beasley Creek open pit will need to be dewatered ahead of mining and this cost has been estimated in the PFS based on the hydrogeological model. Within Focus’ tenure there are numerous pipeline and historical pit storage options for this fresh water resource.

Finally it is noted that Beasley Creek is located in the south western part of the Laverton Water Reserve and that the Wedge – Lancefield North pits are located in the central part of the water Reserve. Furthermore, Water Corp operates bores around the Wedge North pit that supply potable water to Laverton. Mining operations within the Water Reserve will undergo additional permitting. It is noted open pits have been approved and operated within the Water Reserve in the last 15 years.

It is considered that the location of Beasley Creek in a surface water drainage outflow at the margin of the water reserve will not be a significant barrier to future approvals. However the process will still need to be followed. Mining at Wedge- Lancefield North occurs relatively late in the proposed schedule allowing additional time for permitting these open pits and providing substitute potable water sources.

As previously mentioned this stage 1 PFS only considers 21% of a growing Laverton Mineral Resource Base. It is considered likely that resources included in the next phase of economic assessment may further push back the relatively small amount of mining currently considered in the Wedge -Lancefield North region in this Stage 1 scenario.

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Metallurgy

Beasley Creek and Beasley Creek South ores are highly oxidised including slightly transitional ores. Historic mining at Beasley Creek was completed in three stages and the reconcillaiation for mined vs milled recovery is complicated by blending at Windara and processing of lower grade mineralisation at the Ashton mill. Windara recoveries can be reconcilled to be within a range of 84 to 94%.

Met test work during 2019/2020 confirmed Beasley Creek ores provide high recoveries with fast kinematics and low reagent use. The ores are also soft, fine grained and readily pumpable. A solid database of testwork was used to develop a grade recovery curve for Beasley Creek and Beasley Creek South Ores

Beasley Creek ore

Feed grade g/t Recovery
0.25–0.75 84%
0.75–1.25 88.5%
1.25–2.0 89.5%
+2.0 96%

Beasley Creek South ore

Feed grade g/t Recovery
0.25–0.75 84%
0.75–1.25 91% Oxide, 88.5% Transitional
1.25–2.0 95% Oxide, 89.5% Transitional
+2.0 96%

Wedge and Lancefield North Ore has historically provided excellent mined vs recovered gold for oxide and transitional ores at 96.83%. Limited testwork indicates that oxide behaves like other Laverton Oxide ores and that transitional ores are similar to other Laverton transitional ores. A grade recovery curve was developed for Wege – Lancefield North ores

Wedge ores

Feed grade g/t Recovery
0.25–0.75 84%
0.75–1.25 78% Oxide, 62% Transitional
1.25–2.0 80% Oxide, 83.5% Transitional
+2.0 96%

Lancefield North ores

Feed grade g/t Recovery
0.25–0.75 84% Oxide, 84% Transitional, 82% Fresh
0.75–1.25 88.5% Oxide, 88.5% Transitional, 68% Fresh
1.25–2.0 89.5% Oxide, 89.5% Transitional, 84.5% Fresh
+2.0 96% Oxide/Transitional, 96.5% Fresh

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Karridale has not been mined commercially in a modern plant and does not have historical recovery data. Metallurgy to data has focused on transitional ores and to a lesser degree on oxide ore with data to date indicating similarities to other Laverton oxide and transitional ores. Fresh ore has been excluded at this stage from the PFS as testwork is still in process. A grade recovery curve was developed for karridale ores.

Karridale ore

Feed grade g/t Recovery
0.25–0.75 84% Oxide/Transitional
0.75–1.25 88.5% Oxide, 89.5% Transitional
1.25–2.0 89.5% Oxide, 90.3% Transitional
+2.0 96% Oxide, 95% Transitional

Burtville has a reasonable amount of metallurgical sampling covering oxide, transitional and fresh ores. Of more than 15 leach samples only two had poor recoveries considered to be related to high nugget gold. Average leach recoveries excluding nugget affected samples was more than 94%. A grade recovery curve was developed for burtville ores.

Burtville ore

Feed grade g/t Recovery
0.25–0.75 84% Oxide/Transitional, 80% Fresh
0.75–1.25 78% Oxide, 62% Transitional, 72.6% Fresh
1.25–2.0 80% Oxide, 83.5% Transitional, 75% Fresh
+2.0 96% Oxide/Transitional, 95% Fresh

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Processing

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The Barnicoat Mill is currently missing primary and secondary crushing circuit which will need to be purchased and installed as per KTH engineering estimation based on Metso quote.

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Milling and gold recovery circuit (Hybrid carbon in pulp circuit).

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Key upgrades for the Banicoat plant refurbishment include:

  • Procurement and installation of new two stage Metso crushing circuit with ample capacity to provide additional crushing of fresh ores supporting finer grade comminution circuit feed size

  • Change ball mill motors to soft start variable motors

  • Change to Chemex pump screens and agitators

  • Upgrade hydro cyclones

  • Additional gravity circuit capacity

  • 24hrs leaching residence targeted with solid density of 45% - leaching capacity to be increased by 772m3 by addition of 9m diameter and 12.8m high tank

  • Conversion to a split Anglo American Research Laboratory elution circuit

  • Addition of tailings thickener for reclamation of water and reagents

  • Significant portions of the plant will be rewired and upgraded to current standard along with integration of selected automation

Operating costs based on RPM’s estimates

Cost area Unit Owner
Operator
Mining Costs AUD/Ore t 28.07
ROM Rehandle AUD/Ore t 4.15
Processing AUD/Ore t 15.63
General and Administration AUD/Ore t 6.64
Royalty AUD/Ore t 5
OP Costs Total AUD/Ore t 59.5
OP Costs Total AUD/oz 1,486
AISC AUD/Oz 1,497

Mining costs include all in pit activities up to the pit top ore stockpile or waste dump. On an Owner operator basis the following costs by activities are summarised:

  • Waste mining A$1.93/t

  • Ore mining A$2.57/t

  • Drill ad blast A$0.34/t mined (A$0.79/t blasted)

  • Includes leasing for minor support equipment and infrastructure

  • ROM rehandle includes cost from stockpile to crusher using contractor haulage to ROM pad

  • Processing costs are mainly related to power and labour but also include sustaining costs estimated at A$0.55/t milled . This figure is somewhat lower than average for the industry as the PFS assumes continued storage of tails in mined out Barnicoat trend open pits as per previous operating license. The Barnicoat, Cock of the North and West Pits are potential candidates for future in pit tails facilities. The Barnicoat and Cock of the North pits have been used for tails disposal when the plant was last in use. Estimated available freeboard in the selected mined out pits is just over 14 million cubic metres

  • General and Administration Includes all support functions for general admin, OHS, HR, Flights, Accom, insurances, accounting, environment etc…

  • Straight line depreciation method applied

  • Major royalties including:

  • Government 2.5%

  • Indago 2%

  • Lancefield 2% of Beasley Creek, Beasley Creek South and Wedge – Lancefield North

  • Merolia 3% on M38/073 only

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Major costs elements for the Project using owner operator scenario include:

  • Labour 38%

  • Energy 16% - Diesel estimated at A$0.74/l inclusive of fuel excise and transport

  • Salary oncosts 18.5%

Contractor mining scenario has been modelled with mining activities as per owner operator schedule.

  • Contractor scenario uses whole of life equipment rates based on leasing costs

  • It is assumed the contractor purchases new equipment for life of mine.

  • An operating margin of 15% has been applied to all mining contractor activities

  • Estimated maximum draw down for contractor mining scenario is A$125M during the 3[rd] and 4[th] quarters of year 2

Financial model assumes no loan facility required and hence excludes upfront fees, commissions, and interest payments. Financial metrics prepared as Pre and Post tax with 30% applied for post tax estimate. It is noted that in the 2019 Annual report the Focus Group reported mor than A$130M of income tax losses to offset against future mining earnings.

Metric Units Pre Tax A$ Pre Tax A$ Post Tax* A$ Post Tax* A$
Owner
Operator
Contractor
Mining
Owner
Operator
Contractor
Mining
NPV@ 5% Real Million 132 96 82 59
IRR % 17.2 16.5 13.5 13.1
Discounted Payback Years 6.5 7.5 7.2 7.8

* FML Group reported in 2019 more than A$130M income tax losses that can be applied against future mining Income

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Discounted cumulative Cash flows at 5.0% discount rate

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Project Economics by pit based on estimated AISC with capital assigned weighted by total mined material and ore tonnes comprises

Open Pit* Average
AISC
($/ounce)
Operating
Margin
AUD/Oz

Recovered
Gold (koz)

EBITDA
Contribution
Pre-tax Free
Cash ($M)
Karridale 1,666 541 183 27% 41 (18%)
Burtville 1,481 726 92 18% 40 (18%)
Beasley Creek 1,353 854 124 29% 76 (34%)
Beasley Creek South 1,300 907 76 19% 51 (23%)
Wedge 1,533 674 38 7% 14 (6%)
Total/Average PFS
Schedule
1,497 710 513 100% 223 (100%)
  • LOM 9.25 years

  • Owner-operator mining basis selected as more favourable scenario results in Peak draw down of A$170M between quarter 3 of year 1 and quarter 3 of year 2.

  • Use of mined-out Barnicoat Open Pits for tailings storage as per previous Barnicoat operating license. Tailings discharge pipelines are still in place to most recent in pit tails facilities and considered to be in reasonable condition. It is proposed to add a thickener to the tails disposal system in order to reclaim some water and reagents prior to discharge.

  • Life of Mine operating AISC cost A$60.0/tonne or A$1,497/oz.

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Figure 2: All In Sustaining Capital Costs vs gold production.

**Processing (Dry basis) ** **Units ** **Year 1 ** **Year 2 ** **Year 3 ** **Year 4 ** **Year 5 ** **Year 6 ** **Year 7 ** **Year 8 ** **Year 9 ** Year 10 Total
Direct Feed Grade Ore kt 694 1,485 1,485 1,488 1,486 1,486 1,483 1,488 1,264 0 12,362
Low-Grade Stockpile Ore kt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 220 231 451
Total Processed Ore kt 694 1,485 1,485 1,488 1,486 1,486 1,483 1,488 1,484 231 12,814
Processed Grade g/t 0.87 1.1 1.57 1.91 1.44 1.23 1.33 1.63 1.10 0.52 1.37
Contained Gold k ozt 19 52 75 91 69 59 63 78 53 4 564
Recovered Gold k ozt 17 47 68 84 63 53 58 72 47 3 513
Average Recovery % 89 89 91 93 92 90 91 92 90 83 91

Figure 3: Laverton Stage 1 annual processing schedule using refurbished Barnicoat mill.

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Mining (Dry basis) **Units ** **Year 1 ** **Year 2 ** **Year 3 ** **Year 4 ** **Year 5 ** **Year 6 ** **Year 7 ** **Year 8 ** Year 9 Total
Ore Mined
Karridale kt 18 40 146 683 998 1,449 917 496 910 5,659
Burtville kt 1,166 1,450 825 76 0 0 0 0 0 3,517
Beasley Creek kt 51 306 657 801 0 0 0 0 0 1,815
Beasley Creek South kt 0 0 0 27 317 129 403 134 0 1,010
Wedge kt 0 0 0 0 0 6 109 609 90 814
Total Ore Mined kt 1,235 1,797 1,628 1,587 1,315 1,583 1,429 1,239 1,000 12,814
Waste kt **14,600 ** **15,163 ** **15,049 ** **14,799 ** **15,644 ** **13,102 ** 10,005 7,169 2,276 107,806
SR t:t 11.8 8.4 9.2 9.3 11.9 8.3 7.0 5.8 2.3 8.4
Cum'l SR t:t 11.8 9.8 9.6 9.5 10.0 9.7 9.3 8.9 8.4

Figure 4: Laverton Stage 1 open pit annual mine production schedule using refurbished Barnicoat mill.

Sensitivity analysis indicates that the Stage 1 Laverton scenario is most sensitive to A$ gold price. Break even gold price analysis was completed on a pre-tax basis.

At a 5% discount rate, the break-even price is A$1,856/oz (pre-tax basis) and on an undiscounted cash flow basis is A $1,745/oz (pre-tax basis).

Environment, Heritage and Pemitting

No environment impact statement has been completed to date. The Nyalpa Pirniku claim has been lodged over the Laverton project areas. No claims have been determined at this time

Consultants have reviewed the current stage 1 Laverton scenario for compliance with heritage and environmental obligations. It is estimated to progress from commencement of additional baseline studies to project construction will require approximately 18 to 24 months. No major environmental or permitting risks have been identified at this stage.

All reported reserves are on granted mining tenements with history of open pit mining. Open pit mines have been approved on Focus tenure in the last 15 years.

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Recommendations for phase-two Laverton PFS

Karridale and other resources included; larger mill to be considered

It is noted that this is a progressive study with a base case using a refurbished 1.5Mt Barnicoat mill. Phase 1 of the PFS was limited to an initial five deposits but more prospects will be added for optimisation in the subsequent phases of the PFS studies.

The high-grade Beasley Creek deposits have considerable potential for resource growth. In particular, further infill drilling at shallow near-surface Inferred resource areas may improve confidence levels to the Indicated level. Furthermore, the resource at Beasley Creek South is rapidly growing while the phase-one PFS also did not include some recent very strong intersections (see ASX announcement dated 20 August 2020).

A fresh-rock metallurgical study is in progress for several Laverton deposits. As a result, Indicated Mineral Resources at Karridale comprising 16Mt @ 1.4g/t for 719Koz were excluded from this progressive economic assessment. The Karridale deposit remains open with a large Inferred Mineral Resource envelope yet to be targeted for resource upgrade.

The Burtville open pit resulting from this progressive Stage 1 Open Pit PFS has a strip ratio of only 1:0. Furthermore, the pit terminates at the limit of current drilling. As a result, additional drilling is warranted at depth and along strike of this bulk tonnage system.

It is noted that increased mill capacity at a strategic location closer to the fast-growing bulk tonnage deposits may be warranted. In this base case scenario, 72% of ore tonnes originate in the Burtville– Karridale Mine Corridor. AISC for Karridale-Burtville pits include ~ $112/oz for rehandling and haulage to the Barnicoat Mill.

A larger mill capacity will generally produce a lower OPEX per tonne. However, it will attract higher upfront CAPEX. The next phase of the Laverton PFS will examine the benefits and level of impact from pursuing a larger mining and processing operation.

Phase 2 will also look into the rehandling and haulage of mine tonnes as more fresh ore will be included in the mine plan. Focus will also look to assess the merits of an owner-operated fleet versus contract mining and other mine models during the life of mine to further optimise project economics.

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The release of this ASX announcement was authorised by Mr Zhaoya Wang, CEO of Focus Minerals Ltd.

For further information For media and investor enquiries please contact: please contact: Alex Aaltonen Peter Klinger General Manager Exploration Director, Investor Relations Focus Minerals Ltd. Cannings Purple Phone: +61 8 9215 7888 Phone: +61 411 251 540 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

About Focus Minerals Limited (ASX: FML)

Focus Minerals is a Perth-based, ASX-listed gold exploration company focused on delivering shareholder value from its 100%-owned Laverton Gold Project and Coolgardie Gold Project, in Western Australia’s Goldfields.

The flagship Laverton Gold Project covers 386km[2] area of highly prospective ground that includes the historic Lancefield and Chatterbox Trend mines. Focus’ priority target is to confirm sufficient gold mineralisation at the Beasley Shear Zone, Lancefield-Wedge Thrust, Karridale and Burtville to support a Stage 1 production restart at Laverton. In parallel, Focus is working to advance key Laverton resource growth targets including Sickle, Ida-H and Burtville South. Focus has delivered first results from a progressive Pre-Feasibility Study and is advancing study work utilising Laverton’s expanded mineral resource position.

Focus is also committed to delivering shareholder value from the Coolgardie Gold Project, a 175km[2] tenement holding that includes the 1.4Mtpa processing plant at Three Mile Hill (on care and maintenance), by continuing exploration and value-enhancing activities. An updated PFS in September 2020 highlighted the potential for a low capital cost, fast-tracked return to mining at Coolgardie and delivered an NPV7.5% of $183 million. The Company’s efforts are now focused on increasing production ready Mineral Resources at Coolgardie.

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Competent Person Statement

Resources

The information in this announcement that relates to previously announced Mineral Resource estimates was compiled by Mr Alex Aaltonen, who is a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM). Mr Aaltonen is an employee of Focus Minerals Limited. Mr Aaltonen has sufficient experience that 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.

The Mineral Resource estimates for Beasley Creek South, Wedge, and Karridale were undertaken by Ms Hannah Kosovich, an employee of Focus Minerals. Ms Hannah Kosovich is a member of Australian Institute of Geoscientists and has sufficient experience 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 Aaltonen and Ms Hannah Kosovich consent to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on the information in the form and context in which it appears.

The Mineral Resource estimates for Beasley Creek and Burtville were undertaken by Mr Michael Job, who is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (FAusIMM). Mr Job is an independent consultant employed by Cube Consulting. Mr Job has sufficient experience that is relevant to the style of mineralization 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 Job consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on the information in the form and context in which it appears.

Ore Reserves

The information in this announcement that relates to Ore Reserves is based on an assessment completed by Mr Igor Bojanic who is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and is a full-time employee of RPM Advisory Services Pty Ltd (RPMGlobal).

RPMGlobal and Mr Bojanic were engaged by FML to complete the Preliminary Feasibility Study investigating the technical and financial viability of mining the Karridale, Burtville, Beasley Creek, Beasley Creek South and Wedge Mineral Resources. Mt Bojanic 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 Bojanic consents to the inclusion in any report or public announcement of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.

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JORC Code, 2012 Edition – Table 1

For the purpose of assessing and reporting compliance with the JORC (2012) code, Table 1 of the of the JORC code has been compiled and provided below. Further detail regarding the basis of the Ore Reserve estimates can be found in the 2020 PFS Update and the original 2017 PFS study and relevant Mineral Resource reports.

Section 1 Sampling Techniques and Data

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

  • Section 1 Details for the Karridale Deposit from ASX Announcement “Karridale Mineral Resource increases by 60%” Dated 24/09/2020
Criteria Explanation
Sampling
techniques
RC Sampling

RC percussion drill chips were collected through a cone splitter from the drill rig. The bulk sample
from drilling was placed in neatly rows on the ground with the nominal 2-3kg calico split sub-
sample placed on top of the corresponding sample.

RC chips were passed through a cone splitter to achieve a nominal sample weight of
approximately 3kg. The splitter was levelled at the beginning of each hole. In the 2018 and 2019
drilling geological logging defined whether a sample was to be submitted as a 1m cone split
sample or a 4m spear composite sample. Split samples (1m) were transferred to sample
numbered calico bags for submission to the laboratory. Composite samples were spear sampled
using a spear to obtain a small representative sample and deposited into numbered sample
bags. Previous drill programs from 2017 and earlier have submitted 1m samples for assay taken
from the drill rig for the entire hole length with no compositing of samples.
Diamond Core Sampling
Diamond core was collected into standard plastic core trays. Down hole depths were marked
onto wooden core blocks and stored in the trays.
The diamond core was marked up for sampling by the supervising geologist during the core
logging process, with sample intervals determined by the presence of mineralisation and/or
alteration. Whenever possible the cut-line was drawn parallel to and close to the down hole core
orientation line to ensure the cut-line was consistent over the hole. The core was cut in half using
an automatic core saw, with half-core samples submitted for analysis.
Drilling
techniques

RC drilling was conducted using a 5 3/8inch face sampling hammer for RC drilling.

At hole completion, downhole surveys for RC holes were completed at a 10m interval by using
True North Seeking Gyro tool. Otherwise, a single shot Eastman camera downhole survey was
used either “in-rod” or “open hole”.

Diamond core was drilled at NQ2/HQ size. All drill core was oriented where competent by the
drilling contractor using an Ezy-mark or similar system.

At hole completion diamond holes were survey using a single shot tool at a range of intervals
between 20m and 50m, averaging 30m.
Drill sample
recovery

RC sample recovery was recorded by a visual estimate during the logging process.

DD sample recovery was measured and calculated (core loss) during the logging process. DD
core had generally good to excellent recovery.

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Criteria Explanation
Logging
All RC samples were geologically logged to record weathering, regolith, rock type, alteration,
mineralisation, structure, texture and any other notable features that are present. All data is
entered directly into validating digital software.

All core samples were oriented where possible, marked at metre intervals and compared to the
depth measurements on the core blocks. Any loss of core was noted and recorded in the drilling
database.

All diamond core was logged for structure, geology and geotechnical data using the same system
as that for RC.

Logging was qualitative, however the geologists often recorded quantitative mineral percentage
ranges for the sulphide minerals present.

The logging information was transferred into the company’s drilling database once the log was
complete.

Diamond core was photographed one core tray at a time using a standardised photography jig.
RC chip trays are routinely photographed.

The entire length of all holes is geologically logged, except for rock roller diamond pre-collars
which produce no sample.
Sub-sampling
techniques and
sample
preparation

All samples were collected in a pre-numbered calico bag bearing a unique sample ID.

Core samples were taken from half core, cut using an Almonte automatic core saw. The
remainder of the core was retained in core trays tagged with a hole number and metre mark.

At the assay laboratory, all samples were oven dried, crushed to a nominal 10mm using a jaw
crusher (core samples only) and weighed. Samples in excess of 3kg in weight were riffle split to
achieve a maximum 3kg sample weight. All samples were pulverized to 90% passing 75μm.

Gold analysis was by a 30 to 50g Fire Assay with an ICP-OES or AAS Finish.

Different laboratories have been used over the years. Most recently Jinning Testing & Inspection
completed the assay testing, with sample preparation completed in Kalgoorlie or Perth and
analysis completed in Perth for the 2018/2019 drilling. Previously drill samples were submitted to
Kalgoorlie Assay Laboratories for sample preparation and analysis.

The assay laboratories’ sample preparation procedures follow industry best practice, with
techniques and practices that are appropriate for this style of mineralisation. Pulp duplicates were
taken at the pulverising stage and selective repeats conducted at the laboratories’ discretion.

QAQC checks involved inserting standards 1:20 samples (with minimum 3 standards every
submission). Duplicate samples for RC were achieved by producing 2 samples for each metre one
hole every 20th hole drilled and submitting all produced samples. The remaining bulk sample was
also bagged to plastic bags for retention and further checks. Diamond core field duplicates were
not taken.

Regular reviews of the sampling were carried out by the supervising geologist and senior field
staff, to ensure all procedures were followed and best industry practice carried out.

The sample sizes were appropriate for the type, style and consistency of mineralisation
encountered during thisphase of exploration.
Quality of
assay data and
laboratory tests
The assay method and laboratory procedures were appropriate for this style of mineralisation. The
fire assay technique was designed to measure total gold in the sample.
No geophysical tools, spectrometers or handheld XRF instruments were used for assay
determination.
The QA/QC process described above was sufficient to establish acceptable levels of accuracy and
precision. All results from assay standards and duplicates were scrutinised to ensure they fell within
acceptable tolerances and where they did not further analysis was conducted as appropriate.
Umpire samples are collected on a routine basis will be submitted to independent ISO certified labs
in 2019.
Additional bulk mineralised RC samples have also been collected and retained for follow up QAQC,
metallurgical and sample characterisationpurposes.
Verification of
sampling and
assaying
Significant intervals were visually inspected by company geologists to correlate assay results to
logged mineralisation. Consultants were not used for this process.
Primary logging data is sent in digital format to the company’s Database Administrator (DBA) as
often as was practicable. The DBA imports the data into an acQuire database, with assay results
merged into the database upon receipt from the laboratory. Once loaded, data was extracted for
verification by the geologist in charge of the project.

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Criteria Explanation
Location of
data points
Drill collars are surveyed after completion using a DGPS instrument.
A True North Seeking Gyro for RC end of holes surveys or a Reflex single shot camera for diamond
drilling was used for “single shot” surveys whilst advancing drilling.
All coordinates and bearings use the MGA94 Zone 51 grid system.
FML utilises Landgate sourced regional topographic maps and contours as well as internally
produced survey pick-ups produced by the mining survey teams utilising DGPS base station
instruments.
After completion, the drill hole locations were picked up by DGPS with accuracy of +/-20cm.
Data spacing
and distribution

Drill spacing at Karridale varies from 40m x 40m to 80m x 80m on the wider fringes of the known
deposit.
Orientation of
data in relation
to geological
structure
Drilling was designed based on known/developing geological models, field mapping, verified
historical data, cross-sectional and long-sectional interpretation.
Where achievable, drill holes were oriented at right angles to strike of deposit, with dip optimised
for drill capabilities and the dip of the ore body.
True widths have not been calculated for reported intersections. However, drill orientation was
wherever possible consistently optimised to approximate true width of mineralisation.
Sample
security
All samples were reconciled against the sample submission with any omissions or variations
reported to FML.
All samples were bagged in a tied numbered calico bag. The bags were placed into green plastic
bags with a sample submission sheet secured by cable ties and delivered directly from site to the
Kalgoorlie laboratories by FML personnel at completion of each hole.

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  • Section 1 Details for the Burtville deposit from ASX Announcement “115% Increase to Burtville Mineral Resource” Dated 21/10/2020
Criteria Explanation
Sampling
techniques

Earliest RC drilling at Burtville used in the estimate was by Thames Mining NL (Thames), only 8
RC holes were used, limited information on the Thames drilling is reported by Aberfoyle Resources
Ltd (Aberfoyle). Aberfoyle conducted RC drilling collecting 1m samples that were composited to
4m for analysis. Later programs riffle split the 1m sample into 2 samples, submitting 1 sample for
analysis and retaining the duplicate sample onsite for future QAQC analysis.

Gwalia Consolidated NL (Gwalia) RC drill cuttings were collected at 1m intervals and riffle split
into 3kg samples for analysis.

Sons of Gwalia Ltd (SOG) mined the Burtville deposit during the 1990’s with RC drilling carried
out by the site mining department and not reported to the Department of Mines. In the Crescent
Gold Ltd (Crescent) Bankable Feasibility Study of January 2005 (WAMEX reference A070179
appendix), extensive geological and mining data acquired from SOG were validated against
original records by an independent geologist.

Early Crescent Drilling submitted 1m 3-4kg samples for analysis.

Later drilling by FML collected 1m samples by cone splitter off the drill rig and submitted for
analysis.
Aberfoyle diamond core was sampled at 1m intervals. In areas of poor sample recovery core was
sampled using a knife or hammer and chisel. Competent core was sawn, and one half submitted
for analysis.
Focus Diamond core was sampled at 1m intervals or to geological contacts, half core was
submitted for assay.
Drilling
techniques

Aberfoyle states RC drilling was by a VK600 rig with a 5 ½ inch hole diameter.

Aberfoyle diamond core was drilled from an RC pre-collar for all but 2 holes. Diamond core was
drilled at NQ size.

Gwalia Consolidated NL RC drilling used a Gemco H22A rig and 4 ¼ diameter face sampling
hammer drill.

Crescent and Focus RC drilling was conducted using a 5 3/8inch face sampling hammer for RC
drilling.

At hole completion, Focus and Crescent surveyed RC holes using True North Seeking Gyro tool.
Otherwise, a single shot Eastman camera downhole survey was used either “in-rod” or “open
hole”.

Diamond core was drilled at NQ/HQ size. All drill core was oriented where competent by the
drilling contractor using an Ezy-mark or similar system.
Drill sample
recovery

Historic sample recovery is not well recorded.

Aberfoyle details poor diamond core sample recovery (74% in some cases) above the
clay/granodiorite contact.

SOG recorded recovery as a visual qualitative estimate.

RC sample recovery was recorded by a visual estimate during the logging process.

DD sample recovery was measured and calculated (core loss) during the logging process. DD
core had generally good to excellent recovery.

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Criteria Explanation
Logging
Aberfoyle logged 1m RC and Diamond intervals for colour, weathering, lithology and visual
percentage estimate of sulphur and quartz.

Gwalia logged 1m RC intervals for colour, lithology and quartz.

SOG logging included colour, lithology, weathering, texture, grain size, veining

Crescent and Focus RC samples were geologically logged to record weathering, rock type,
alteration, mineralisation, structure, texture and any other notable features that are present.

All data is entered directly into validating digital software.

All Focus core samples were oriented where possible, marked at metre intervals and compared
to the depth measurements on the core blocks. Any loss of core was noted and recorded in the
drilling database.

All diamond core was logged for structure, geology and geotechnical data using the same system
as that for RC.

Logging was qualitative, however the geologists often recorded quantitative mineral percentage
ranges for the sulphide minerals present.

The logging information was transferred into the company’s drilling database once the log was
complete.

Diamond core was photographed one core tray at a time using a standardised photography jig.
RC chip trays are routinely photographed.

The entire length of all holes isgeologically logged.
Sub-sampling
techniques and
sample
preparation

Early Aberfoyle programs split 1m samples on site before compositing to 4m for analysis. Where
the composited assay returned >0.5g/t Au, the individual 1m samples for that interval were
submitted. Later programs submitted 1m samples. All samples were assayed for Au by Genalysis
Kalgoorlie for a single stage mix and grind sample preparation followed by 50g fire assay analysis
for Au.

Aberfoyle diamond core was also submitted to Genalysis Kalgoorlie for the same sample
preparation and analysis as the RC samples outlined above.

Gwalia submitted 3kg samples for analysis by Leonora Laverton Assay Laboratories.

SOG Mining submitted 3m composites or 1m samples for analysis

Later SOG programs from year 2000 sent 3m composite samples to Ultra Trace Laboratories in
Perth for Au analysis using an aqua regia digest followed by ICP-MS determination.

All Crescent and Focus samples were collected in a pre-numbered calico bag bearing a unique
sample ID.

Core samples were taken from half core, cut using an Almonte automatic core saw. The
remainder of the core was retained in core trays tagged with a hole number and metre mark.

At the assay laboratory, samples were oven dried, crushed to a nominal 10mm using a jaw crusher
(core samples only) and weighed. Samples in excess of 3kg in weight were riffle split to achieve
a maximum 3kg sample weight. All samples were pulverized to 90% passing 75μm.

Gold analysis was by a 30 to 50g Fire Assay with an ICP-OES or AAS Finish.

Different laboratories have been used over the years. Early Crescent Drilling submitted samples
to SGS Leonora, drill samples were also submitted to Kalgoorlie Assay Laboratories and Amdel
for sample preparation and analysis.

The assay laboratories’ sample preparation procedures follow industry best practice, with
techniques and practices that are appropriate for this style of mineralisation. Pulp duplicates were
taken at the pulverising stage and selective repeats conducted at the laboratories’ discretion.

QAQC checks involved inserting standards and field duplicate samples for RC. Diamond core field
duplicates were not taken.

Regular reviews of the sampling were carried out by the supervising geologist and senior field
staff, to ensure all procedures were followed and best industry practice carried out.

The sample sizes were appropriate for the type, style and consistency of mineralisation
encountered during this phase of exploration.

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Criteria Explanation
Quality of assay
data and
laboratory tests
The assay method and laboratory procedures were appropriate for this style of mineralisation. The
fire assay technique was designed to measure total gold in the sample.
No geophysical tools, spectrometers or handheld XRF instruments were used for assay
determination.
Aberfoyle details check sampling between labs for repeatability. They also submitted re-splits of
the Thames RC drillholes and concluded results could be reproduced. Two samples were submitted
for screen fire assay. In later programs they also submitted lab duplicates at approximately 1 in 20,
standards at one per batch, resubmitted pulps with different sample ids as a check and submitted
field duplicates.
The QA/QC process described above was sufficient to establish acceptable levels of accuracy and
precision. All results from assay standards and duplicates were scrutinised to ensure they fell within
acceptable tolerances and where they did not further analysis was conducted as appropriate.
Verification of
sampling and
assaying
Historic logging data is verified against available WAMEX reports.
Crescent Gold Ltd engaged the services of an Independent Geologist to validate the electronic
databases acquired from SOG using original records.
Primary logging data is sent in digital format to the company’s Database Administrator (DBA) as
often as was practicable. The DBA imports the data into an acQuire database, with assay results
merged into the database upon receipt from the laboratory. Once loaded, data was extracted for
verification by the geologist in charge of the project.
Location of
data points
Aberfoyle used a local grid with unknown survey methods.
Gwalia used survey consultants to survey their holes, the Aberfoyle drilling and previous drill
programs. Gwalia also established permanent survey stations.
During mining operations by SOG site surveyors surveyed the drill collars.
Crescent and Focus drilled holes were also surveyed by site based mine survey team.
Crescent/Focus used True North Seeking Gyro for RC downhole surveys. A Reflex single shot
camera was used for “single shot” surveys whilst advancing diamond drill holes.
All coordinates and bearings use the MGA94 Zone 51 grid system.
FML utilises Landgate sourced regional topographic maps and contours as well as internally
produced survey pick-ups produced by the mining survey teams utilising DGPS base station
instruments.
Data spacing
and distribution

Drill spacing at Burtville is variable with 10m x 10m spacing in areas RC grade control drilled, with
a nominal 20m x 20m spacing across most of the east and west existing pit areas. Drilling spacing
is irregular across the saddle and increases out to 40m x 60m along the southern extents of the
deposit. The average depth of the SOG drilling was 50m, more recent Crescent and Focus drilling
was an average of 81 and 89m, respectively.
Orientation of
data in relation
to geological
structure
Drilling was designed based on known/developing geological models, field mapping, verified
historical data, cross-sectional and long-sectional interpretation.
Where achievable, drill holes were oriented at right angles to strike of deposit, with dip optimised
for drill capabilities and the dip of the ore body.
Sample security Historic sample security is unknown.
Crescent and Focus samples were reconciled against the sample submission with any omissions
or variations reported.

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  • Section 1 Details for the Beasley Creek deposit from ASX Announcement “Beasley Creek Mineral Resource Grows by 29%” Dated 20/08/2020
Criteria Explanation
Sampling
techniques
Focus Minerals RC Sampling

RC percussion drill chips were collected through a cone splitter from the drill rig. The bulk
sample from drilling was placed in neat rows directly on the ground (not bagged) with the
nominal 2-3kg calico split sub-sample placed on top of the corresponding pile.

RC chips were passed through a cone splitter to achieve a nominal sample weight of
approximately 3kg. The splitter was levelled at the beginning of each hole. Geological logging
defined whether a sample was to be submitted as a 1m cone split sample or a 4m spear
composite sample. Split samples (1m) were transferred to sample numbered calico bags for
submission to the laboratory. Composite samples were spear sampled using a scoop to obtain a
small representative sample and deposited into numbered sample bags.
Focus Minerals Diamond Sampling

Diamond core was sampled across geologically identified zones of mineralisation, the sample
widths varied between a minimum of 0.2m and a maximum of 1.2m with material on either side
sampled to capture the entire mineralised zone.

The diamond core was marked up for sampling by the supervising geologist during the core
logging process, with sample intervals determined by the presence of lithology, alteration and
where applicable core loss. The core was cut in half using a core saw and the same half of the
core (RHS looking downhole) was routinely sent to the laboratory for analysis. Some soft core
was sampled half by using a bolster, and some fractured quartz core were cut in half by using
manual diamond core saw to ensure half core was sampled.

A small number of whole core samples where routinely collected for bulk density analysis. These
samples were submitted to the same lab for gold analysis after bulk density measurement.
WMC Sampling

RC samples were collected in plastic bags in 1m intervals.

Diamond core was sampled to at 1m intervals or on geological contacts.
Metex Sampling

Diamond core was halved by core saw or hand split when too friable. Individual 1m samples of
_1/2 core were submitted for assay. _
Drilling
techniques
Focus Minerals Drilling

RC drilling was conducted using a 5 3/8inch face sampling hammer for RC drilling.

At hole completion, downhole surveys for RC holes were completed at a 10m interval by using
True North Seeking Gyro tool.

At hole completion diamond holes were survey using a single shot tool at a range of intervals
between 20m and 50m, averaging 30m

Diamond drill holes with dips less than 50 degrees were collared from surface to a
predetermined depth using a rock roller bit.

Where possible on holes with dips more than 50 degrees an RC pre-collar was completed to
improve drilling efficiency.

All pre-collars were cased off and the diamond component of the drill hole completed using HQ3
(producing 63mm core diameter) equipment.

Wherever core conditions and hole orientation would allow, drill core was oriented by the drilling
contractor using the electronic ACT III Tool.
WMC Drilling

It has been reported by Metex that RC holes were drilled with conventional crossover subs.

Some of the later diamond holes had pre-collars, otherwise it was diamond core from surface
and HQ and NQ coring.
Metex

Diamond holes had an RC pre-collar and then cored to end of hole.

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Criteria Explanation
Drill sample
recovery
Focus Minerals Drilling

RC sample recovery was recorded by a visual estimate during the logging process.

DD sample recovery was measured and calculated (core loss) during the logging process. DD
core had generally reasonable recovery <10% core loss in and around mineralisation. Some
holes had more than 30% core loss. Where this core loss was experienced around HG and VHG
it likely had a material impact on reported calculated intersection grade as all core loss in
reported intersections was fully diluted and assigned a grade of 0.0g/t Au.
WMC Drilling

Sample recovery was not recorded
Metex Drilling

_Recorded <10% core loss in diamond core and mostly excellent sample recovery in RC drilling. _
Logging Focus Minerals Drilling
All RC samples were geologically logged to record weathering, regolith, rock type, colour,
alteration, mineralisation, structure, texture and any other notable features that are present. All
data is entered directly into validating digital software directly.
All core samples were oriented where possible, marked into metre intervals and compared to the
depth measurements on the core blocks. Any loss of core was noted and recorded in the drilling
database.
All diamond core was logged for structure, geology and geotechnical data using the same
system as that for RC.
Logging was qualitative, however the geologists often recorded quantitative mineral percentage
ranges for the sulphide minerals present.
The logging information was transferred into the company’s drilling database once the log was
complete.

Diamond core was photographed one core tray at a time using a standardised photography jig.
RC chip trays are routinely photographed.

The entire length of all holes is geologically logged, except for rock roller diamond pre-collars,
which produce no sample.
WMC Drilling

RC samples were logged to record colour, grain size, occasional weathering, structural fabric
and rock type.

Diamond core was logged to lithological boundaries, recording rock type, structure, texture,
alteration and veining. The pre-collar drill cuttings do not appear to have been logged.
Metex Drilling

RC and DD were logged for: Colour, Weathering, structural Fabric, Alteration Veining,
Mineralisation and lithology
Sub-sampling
techniques and
sample
preparation
Focus Minerals Drilling

All samples were collected in a pre-numbered calico bag bearing a unique sample ID.

At the assay laboratory, all samples were oven dried, crushed to a nominal 10mm using a jaw
crusher (core samples only) and weighed. Samples in excess of 3kg in weight were riffle split to
achieve a maximum 3kg sample weight before being pulverized to 90% passing 75μm.
Gold analysis was by 40g Fire Assay with an AAS Finish.
Jinning Testing & Inspection completed the assay testing, with sample preparation completed in
Kalgoorlie or Perth and analysis completed in Perth and Kalgoorlie.
The assay laboratories’ sample preparation procedures follow industry best practice, with
techniques and practices that are appropriate for this style of mineralisation. Pulp duplicates were
taken at the pulverising stage and selective repeats conducted at the laboratories’ discretion.
QAQC checks involved inserting standards 1:20 samples (with minimum 3 standards every
submission). Duplicate samples for RC were achieved by producing 2 samples for each metre
one hole every 20th hole drilled and submitting all produced samples. The remaining bulk sample
was also bagged to plastic bags for retention and further checks. Diamond core field duplicates
were not taken.
Regular reviews of the sampling were carried out by the supervising geologist and senior field
staff, to ensure all procedures were followed and best industry practice carried out.
The sample sizes were appropriate for the type, style and consistency of mineralisation
encountered during this phase of exploration.
WMC Drilling

RC samples were collected as 1m samples and submitted to the WMC Windarra laboratory for
Au analysis by fire assay.

Diamond core was submitted as 1m samples or to geological contact to the Windarra laboratory
for fire assay.

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Criteria Explanation
Metex

RC was collected into plastic bags in 1m intervals. All dry sample were riffle split to return a
representative split sample for analysis. Any wet/Moist samples where 50mm PVC spear
sampled.

Diamond drilling was ½ core sampled to geological intervals and generally 1m intervals.

All Au Analysis was completed at were submitted to Amdel Kalgoorlie for 50g Fire Assay for Au
Quality of assay
data and
laboratory tests
Focus Minerals Drilling
The assay method and laboratory procedures were appropriate for this style of mineralisation.
The fire assay technique was designed to measure total gold in the sample.
No geophysical tools, spectrometers or handheld XRF instruments were used for assay
determination.
The QA/QC process described above was sufficient to establish acceptable levels of accuracy
and precision. All results from assay standards and duplicates were scrutinised to ensure they fell
within acceptable tolerances and where they didn’t further analysis was conducted as
appropriate.
Umpire samples are collected on a routine basis will be submitted to independent ISO certified
labs in 2020
Additional bulk mineralised RC samples have also been collected and retained for follow up
QAQC, metallurgical and sample characterisation purposes.
WMC Drilling

Notwithstanding the lack of information on WMC laboratory techniques, the assay method and
laboratory procedures were appropriate for this style of mineralisation. The fire assay technique
was designed to measure total gold in the sample.
Metex Drilling

An appropriate assay method and laboratory procedures were used for the style of
mineralisation. Metex reported frequent inspections of the drill rig cyclone and splitter whilst
drilling. Duplicates were taken at a frequency of approx. one in thirty. Laboratory replicates were
also reported, and results monitored.
Verification of
sampling and
assaying
Focus Minerals Drilling
Significant intervals were visually inspected by company geologists to correlate assay results to
logged mineralisation. Consultants were not used for this process.
Primary logging data is sent in digital format to the company’s Database Administrator (DBA) as
often as was practicable. The DBA imports the data into an acQuire database, with assay results
merged into the database upon receipt from the laboratory. Once loaded, data was extracted for
verification by the geologist in charge of the project.
Location of data
points
Focus Minerals Drilling
Drill collars are surveyed after completion using a DGPS instrument. Where possible, all drill core
was oriented by the drilling contractor using an ACT III electronic system.
A True North Seeking Gyro for RC end of holes surveys or a Reflex single shot camera for
diamond drilling was used for “single shot” surveys whilst advancing drilling.
All coordinates and bearings use the MGA94 Zone 51 grid system.
Focus Minerals utilises Landgate sourced regional topographic maps and contours as well as
internally produced survey pick-ups produced by the mining survey teams utilising DGPS base
station instruments.
After completion, the drill hole locations were picked up by DGPS with accuracy of +/-20cm.
WMC Drilling

Holes were surveyed by WMC survey staff in local mine grid
Metex Drilling

Holes were surveyed by a consultant survey company. Diamond core holes were downhole
surveyed by an Eastman single shot camera.
Data spacing
and distribution
Beasley Creek drill spacing approximates 40m x 20m
Spacing is deemed to be appropriate for the type of mineralisation

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Criteria Explanation
Orientation of
data in relation
to geological
structure

Drilling was designed based on known/developing geological models, field mapping, verified
historical data, cross-sectional and long-sectional interpretation.

Where achievable, drill holes were oriented at right angles to strike of deposit, with dip optimised
for drill capabilities and the dip of the ore body. Please note this was not always possible in the
NW part of the pit where relatively complex mineralisation has been intersected in the footwall of
the Beasley Creek Shear.

True widths have not been calculated for reported intersections. However, drill orientation was
whereverpossible consistently optimised to approximate true width of mineralisation.
Sample security Focus Minerals Drilling

All samples were reconciled against the sample submission with any omissions or variations
reported to Focus Minerals.

All samples were bagged in a tied numbered calico bag. The bags were placed into green plastic
bags and cable tied before depositing into sample cages. Sample cages were routinely delivered
directly from site to the Kalgoorlie laboratories by Focus Minerals personnel and or freight
contractors.
WMC and Metex sample security is not recorded.

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  • Section 1 Details for the Beasley Creek South deposit from ASX Announcement “Beasley Creek South Delivers High Grade Mineral Resource” Dated 15/07/2020
Criteria Explanation
Sampling
techniques

FML RC Sampling

RC percussion drill chips were collected through a cone splitter from the drill rig. The bulk sample
from drilling was placed in neat rows directly on the ground (not bagged) with the nominal 2-3kg
calico split sub-sample placed on top of the corresponding pile.

RC chips were passed through a cone splitter to achieve a nominal sample weight of
approximately 3kg. The splitter was levelled at the beginning of each hole. Geological logging
defined whether a sample was to be submitted as a 1m cone split sample or a 4m spear composite
sample. Split samples (1m) were transferred to sample numbered calico bags for submission to
the laboratory. Composite samples were spear sampled using a scoop to obtain a small
representative sample and deposited into numbered sample bags.

FML Diamond Sampling

Diamond core was sampled across geologically identified zones of mineralisation, the sample
widths varied between a minimum of 0.2m and a maximum of 1.2m with material on either side
sampled to capture the entire mineralised zone.

The diamond core was marked up for sampling by the supervising geologist during the core
logging process, with sample intervals determined by the presence of lithology, alteration, and
where applicable core loss. The core was cut in half using a core saw and the same half of the
core (RHS looking downhole) was routinely sent to the laboratory for analysis. Some soft core was
sampled half by using a bolster, and some fractured quartz core were cut in half by using manual
diamond core saw to ensure half core was sampled.

A small number of whole core samples where routinely collected for bulk density analysis. These
samples were submitted to the same lab for gold analysis after bulk density measurement.
Drilling
techniques

RC drilling was conducted using a 5 3/8inch face sampling hammer for RC drilling.

At hole completion, downhole surveys for RC holes were completed at a 10m interval by using
True North Seeking Gyro tool.

At hole completion diamond holes were surveyed using a single shot tool at a range of intervals
between 20m and 50m, averaging 30m.

Diamond drill holes with dips less than 50 degrees were collared from surface to a predetermined
depth using a rock roller bit.

Where possible on holes with dips more than 50 degrees an RC pre-collar was completed to
improve drilling efficiency.

All pre-collars were cased off and the diamond component of the drill hole completed using HQ3
(producing 63mm core diameter) equipment.

Wherever core conditions and hole orientation would allow, drill core was oriented by the drilling
contractor using the electronic ACT III Tool.
Drill sample
recovery

RC sample recovery was recorded by a visual estimate during the logging process.

DD sample recovery was measured and calculated (core loss) during the logging process. DD
core had generally reasonable recovery <10% core loss in and around mineralisation. Some holes
had more than 30% core loss. Where this core loss was experienced around HG and VHG it likely
had a material impact on reported calculated intersection grade as all core loss was fully diluted
and assigned a grade of 0.0g/t Au.

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Criteria Explanation
Logging
All RC samples were geologically logged to record weathering, regolith, rock type, colour,
alteration, mineralisation, structure, texture and any other notable features that are present. All
data is entered directly into validating digital software directly.

All core samples were oriented where possible, marked into metre intervals and compared to the
depth measurements on the core blocks. Any loss of core was noted and recorded in the drilling
database.

All diamond core was logged for structure, geology and geotechnical data using the same system
as that for RC.

Logging was qualitative, however the geologists often recorded quantitative mineral percentage
ranges for the sulphide minerals present.

The logging information was transferred into the company’s drilling database once the log was
complete.

Diamond core was photographed one core tray at a time using a standardised photography jig.
RC chip trays are routinely photographed.

The entire length of all holes is geologically logged, except for rock roller diamond pre-collars,
which produce no sample.
Sub-sampling
techniques and
sample
preparation

All samples were collected in a pre-numbered calico bag bearing a unique sample ID.

At the assay laboratory, all samples were oven dried, crushed to a nominal 10mm using a jaw
crusher (core samples only) and weighed. Samples in excess of 3kg in weight were riffle split to
achieve a maximum 3kg sample weight before being pulverized to 90% passing 75μm.

Gold analysis was by 40g Fire Assay with an AAS Finish.

Jinning Testing & Inspection completed the assay testing, with sample preparation completed in
Kalgoorlie or Perth and analysis completed in Perth.

The assay laboratories’ sample preparation procedures follow industry best practice, with
techniques and practices that are appropriate for this style of mineralisation. Pulp duplicates were
taken at the pulverising stage and selective repeats conducted at the laboratories’ discretion.

QAQC checks involved inserting standards 1:20 samples (with minimum 3 standards every
submission). Duplicate samples for RC were achieved by producing 2 samples for each metre
one hole every 20th hole drilled and submitting all produced samples. The remaining bulk sample
was also bagged to plastic bags for retention and further checks. Diamond core field duplicates
were not taken.

Regular reviews of the sampling were carried out by the supervising geologist and senior field
staff, to ensure all procedures were followed and best industry practice carried out.

The sample sizes were appropriate for the type, style and consistency of mineralisation
encountered during this phase of exploration.
Quality of assay
data and
laboratory tests

The assay method and laboratory procedures were appropriate for this style of mineralisation. The
fire assay technique was designed to measure total gold in the sample.

No geophysical tools, spectrometers or handheld XRF instruments were used for assay
determination.

The QA/QC process described above was sufficient to establish acceptable levels of accuracy
and precision. All results from assay standards and duplicates were scrutinised to ensure they fell
within acceptable tolerances and where they didn’t further analysis was conducted as appropriate.

Umpire samples are collected on a routine basis will be submitted to independent ISO certified
labs in 2020.

Additional bulk mineralised RC samples have also been collected and retained for follow up
QAQC, metallurgical and sample characterisation purposes.
Verification of
sampling and
assaying

Significant intervals were visually inspected by company geologists to correlate assay results to
logged mineralisation. Consultants were not used for this process.

Primary logging data is sent in digital format to the company’s Database Administrator (DBA) as
often as was practicable.

The DBA imports the data into an acQuire database, with assay results merged into the database
upon receipt from the laboratory.

Once loaded, data was extracted for verification by the geologist in charge of the project.

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Criteria Explanation
Location of data
points

Drill collars are surveyed after completion using a DGPS instrument. Where possible, all drill core
was oriented by the drilling contractor using an ACT III electronic system.

A True North Seeking Gyro for RC end of holes surveys or a Reflex single shot camera for diamond
drilling was used for “single shot” surveys whilst advancing drilling.

All coordinates and bearings use the MGA94 Zone 51 grid system.

FML utilises Landgate sourced regional topographic maps and contours as well as internally
produced survey pick-ups produced by the mining survey teams utilising DGPS base station
instruments.

After completion, the drill hole locations were picked up by DGPS with accuracy of +/-20cm.
Data spacing
and distribution

Beasley Creek South drill spacing on indicated resource parts of the main lode between surface
and 130m depth approximates 20m x 25m. There are limited holes targeting the main lode beneath
130m depth and these parts of the model are classified as inferred.

Drill spacing on the hanging wall lodes approximates 20m x 40m. however there are sample gaps
and these lodes have been classified as inferred at this stage.

Spacing is deemed to be appropriate for the type of mineralisation.
Orientation of
data in relation
to geological
structure

Drilling was designed based on previous geological models, historical data, cross-sectional and
long-sectional interpretation.

Where achievable, drill holes were oriented at right angles to strike of deposit, with dip optimised
for drill capabilities and the dip of the ore body.

True widths have not been calculated for reported intersections. However, drill orientation was
wherever possible consistently optimised to approximate true width of mineralisation.
Sample security
All samples were reconciled against the sample submission with any omissions or variations
reported to FML.

All samples were bagged in a tied numbered calico bag. The bags were placed into cable tied
numbered green bags and loaded into bulka cages. On an approximately biweekly basis bulka
cages were delivered with a sample submission sheet directly to the Kalgoorlie laboratories by
FML personnel or freight contractor.

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  • Section 1 Details for the Wedge deposit from ASX Announcement “Wedge Open Pit Resource Update” Dated 24/01/2020

Criteria

Commentary
Sampling
techniques

This report relates to results from Reverse Circulation (RC) and diamond core (DDH) drilling.

Wedge has been drilled by various companies over the years and this report contains information
on holes drilled by Focus Minerals Ltd (FML); Teck Explorations Ltd (Teck) and Hillmin Gold Mines
Pty Ltd (Hillmin), which was renamed Ashton Gold Mines Pty Ltd (Ashton) in October 1989. This
was dissolved in December 1990 with all rights and obligations assumed by Ashton Gold (WA)
Ltd. Metex Resources NL (Metex) subsequently acquired the tenement and conducted 2 drill
campaigns.

Teck collected 1m samples in plastic bags from the drill rig cyclone and were split for assay. The
1m splits were combined to form 2m samples which were assayed for gold by AAS methods.
Where anomalous AAS results were returned, 1m samples were submitted for fire assay.

Hillmin/Ashton collected 1m RC samples via a riffle splitter. A spear sample was taken of the
intervals in the form of 2m and 4m composites for subsequent drill programs. Where composite
assays exceeded 0.25 ppm Au, the corresponding 1m sample was submitted.

Ashton recorded duplicate samples in the assay files.

Hillmin reported a comparison check between assay laboratories in a 1988 WAMEX report.

Hillmin diamond core was sampled as either 4m filleted composites or a sawn core sampled to
lithological contacts.

Metex collected 1m samples split from the rig using a cyclone riffle splitter. A 4m composite sample
was taken by spear sampling the 1m interval spoils. Resampling of the composite intervals where
assay results were 0.1 ppm Au or greater was carried out on an individual 1m basis.

The information of sampling techniques below applies to the drill holes drilled by Focus Minerals
(FML) only.

RC percussion drill chips were collected through a cyclone and in-line cone splitter under driller
control.

RC chips were passed through a cone splitter to achieve a sample weight of approximately 3kg.
The splitter was levelled at the beginning of each hole using a bullseye level. The spoils were
collected in green bags or heaped neatly on the ground at 1m intervals. Samples for assay were
collected in pre-numbered calico bags.

Standards of appropriate grade were inserted into the RC and DDH sample runs at a rate of 1 per
20. No blanks were used as many of the primary samples on the project recorded assays below
or close to the detection limit making the role of the blank superfluous. Instead, gold geochemical
standards with low expected values were utilised regularly.

RC samples were collected as either a 4m composite taken from the bulk 1m sample or the 1m
cyclone cone split sample. Where 4m composites returned a grade over 0.2ppm the
corresponding cyclone split sample was collected.

Diamond core was sampled across identified zones of mineralisation by site geologists, the
sample widths varied between a nominal minimum of 0.3 m and a nominal maximum of 1m.

The diamond core was marked up for sampling by the supervising geologist during the core
logging process, with sample intervals determined by the presence of mineralisation and/or
alteration. Sample intervals did not overlap zones of core loss. The core was cut in half using an
automatic core saw. Samples for assay were put into pre-numbered calico bags.

At the assay laboratory all calico bagged assay samples were oven dried, core samples (only)
crushed to a nominal 10mm using a jaw crusher and weighed. Samples in excess of 3kg in weight
were riffle split to achieve a maximum 3kg sample weight before being pulverized to 90% passing
75μm.
Drilling
techniques

Only RC and Diamond drilling methods have been included in the resource estimate.

Ashton reports state drilling was by a face sampling hammer RC rig.

Hillmin used rotary mud pre-collars or existing RC holes for its diamond drilling using a PQ
diameter drill bit.

Metex used a face sampling hammer RC drill rig with 5 3/8” drill bits.

All FML drilling was completed using RC gear with face sampling hammer or HQ-PQ triple tube
diamond drilling

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Criteria

Commentary
Drill sample
recovery

Teck made no attempt to estimate cutting recovery due to wide range of sample weights and wet
samples.

Hillmin early RC drill logs do not document drill recovery, however later drill logs have a percentage
estimate recorded.

Hillmin Diamond core recovery is recorded in the drill logs.

Metex recorded sample recovery in the drill logs.

FML RC sample recovery was recorded by a visual estimate during the logging process. Diamond
core recovery was measured and recorded as a percentage of the core “run”. That is, the
measured length of core recovered against the increase in hole depth.
Logging
Teck logged the entire drill hole for colour, rock type, texture, weathering, structure, alteration and
veining.

Hillmin logged the entire drill hole for colour, weathering, rock type, texture, structure, alteration,
veining and mineralisation.

Ashton logged the entire hole for weathering, rock type, structure, texture, alteration, veining,
mineralisation and colour.

Hillmin diamond core was photographed, geotechnically logged and inspected by Golder
Associates prior to diamond sawing and sampling. Holes were also geologically logged for colour,
weathering, rock type, texture, structure, alteration, veining and mineralisation.

Metex holes were logged for colour, weathering, rock type, texture, structure, alteration, veining
and mineralisation.

The information of logging techniques below applies to the drill holes drilled by FML only.

Core hole samples were oriented where possible and marked into metre intervals with relation to
hole depth. Any loss of core was noted and recorded in the drilling database. Recovery and RQD
measurements were recorded. SG readings were taken using the water displacement method on
competent representative lengths of core. SG samples were collected nominally at 10m intervals
through zones of waste rock and at 1-5m intervals through zones of mineralisation.

All RC and DDH samples were geologically logged to record weathering, grain size, lithology,
texture, alteration, veining, mineralisation and structure.

In addition to parameters logged over RC chips, all diamond core was also logged for structure. If
an orientation line was available, structure orientation measurements were taken and recorded.

The logging information was transferred into the company’s drilling database once the log was
complete.

Logging was qualitative, however the geologists often recorded quantitative mineral percentage
ranges for the sulphide minerals present.

Diamond core was photographed one core tray at a time using a standardised photography jig.

Samples from RC holes were archived in standard 20m plastic chip trays.

The entire length of all holes was logged.
Sub-sampling
techniques and
sample
preparation

Teck submitted 2m composites to Analabs in Kalgoorlie. The composite samples were analysed
by aqua regia digest, with subsequent anomalous values and/or chert intersections were assayed
at 1m intervals by fire assay with an AAS finish.

Hillmin submitted 4m composite samples in numbered bags that corresponded to the 1m intervals
they had composited. Samples were sent to AAS Laboratories in Leonora, RDL or SGS for Fire
Assay. Where the composite sample exceeded 0.25 ppm Au, the pre-numbered individual 1m
samples were submitted for Fire Assay to a lower detection limit of 0.01ppm Au.

Ashton submitted 4m composite samples to SGS Kalgoorlie, samples were dried, jaw crushed,
hammer milled, split and pulverised. Samples were analysed for gold by fire assay on a 50g charge
to a lower limit of detection of 0.01 ppm Au. Where the composite assay exceeded 0.25 ppm, the
relevant 1m interval was submitted to SGS for analysis.

Hillmin diamond core was sampled as either 4m filleted composites or a sawn core sampled to
lithological contacts. Samples were submitted to SGS Kalgoorlie for gold analysis.

Metex submitted 4m composites collected by spear sampling for gold analysis to Amdel
Laboratories Kalgoorlie, for 50g Fire Assay to 0.01 lower detection limit. Resampling of composite
intervals where results exceeded 0.1ppm Au was carried out on an individual 1m basis.

The information of sub-sampling and sample preparation below applies to the drill holes drilled by
FML only.

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Criteria

Commentary

Core samples were taken from half core, cut using an automatic core saw. The remainder of the
core was retained in core trays tagged with a hole number and metre mark.

RC samples were cone split to a nominal 2.5kg to 3kg sample weight. The drilling method was
designed to maximise sample recovery and delivery of a clean, representative sample into the
calico bag.

The samples were collected in a pre-numbered calico bag bearing a unique sample ID. Samples
were crushed to 75μm at the laboratory and riffle split (if required) to a maximum 3kg sample
weight. Gold analysis was a 40g Fire Assay for individual samples with an ICP-OES or AAS Finish.

The assay laboratories’ sample preparation procedures follow industry best practice, with
techniques and practices that are appropriate for this style of mineralisation. Pulp duplicates were
taken at the pulverising stage and selective repeats conducted at the laboratories’ discretion.

Regular reviews of the sampling were carried out by the supervising geologist and senior field
staff, to ensure all procedures were followed and best industry practice carried out.

The sample sizes are considered to be appropriate for the type, style and consistency of
mineralisation encountered during thisphase of exploration.
Quality of assay
data and
laboratory tests

Hillmin ran a laboratory comparison check during the 1987 drill program comparing RDL Assay
results to SGS Assay results for selected drill hole intervals. Overall, 23 drill holes (354 samples)
were submitted for an AAS and Fire Assay check to a 0.001 ppm Au limit of detection. The results
were generally comparable.

The information on quality of assay data and laboratory tests below applies to the drill holes drilled
by FML only.

No geophysical tools, spectrometers or handheld XRF instruments were used.

For RC drilling, every 15th hole was drilled producing 2 duplicate cone split samples. For these
holes both duplicate samples for the entire hole were submitted for analysis. Diamond core field
duplicates were not taken. Standards were inserted every 20th sample number. All sample
despatches had a minimum of 3 standards inserted.

All results from assay standards and duplicates were scrutinised to ensure they fell within
acceptable tolerances.

Focus twinned several historic holes to check the location and accuracy of the historic sampling
data and the results are considered to be acceptable.
Verification of
sampling and
assaying

Significant intervals were visually inspected by company geologists to correlate assay results to
logged mineralisation.

Historic sampling and assaying have been checked against hard copy WAMEX reports.

The Hillmin diamond program from 1986 was designed to twin RC holes drilled in previous years.
The ATR (Annual Technical Report) notes in general diamond intersections were narrower and of
lower grade. This was attributed to narrower sampling intervals and variations in grade along strike
as diamond holes were drilled approx. 5m away from the RC hole they were twinning to avoid any
cavities created in the drilling of the RC hole.

FML primary data is sent in digital format to the company’s Database Administrator (DBA) as often
as was practicable. The DBA imports the data into an acQuire database, with assay results
merged into the database upon receipt from the laboratory. Once loaded, data was extracted for
verification by the geologist in charge of the project.

No adjustments were made to any current or historic data. If data could not be validated to a
reasonable level of certainty it was not used in any resource estimations.

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Criteria

Commentary
Location of data
points

Historical surveying methods are not stated, however later Hillmin WAMEX reports note the use
of registered surveyors to record the drill hole collars in a local grid.

Ashton collar survey methods are unknown and reported in local grid.

Metex spent time re-establishing the mine grids, creating baselines and gridlines. They tied the
previous local and mine grid data into AMG co-ordinates.

Focus personnel confirmed location data of original grid and resurveyed baseline stakes using
DGPS.

FML drill collars were surveyed upon completion, using a DGPS instrument.

Diamond drill core was oriented by the drilling contractor using an electronic system.

For RC, a north-seeking gyroscope tool was used to survey down hole.

For DDH a magnetic single shot survey was completed at 30m intervals during hole advance.

All coordinates and bearings use the MGA94 Zone 51 grid system.

Historic holes have been converted to MGA94 Zone 51 grid system in Acquire.

Historic hole collars were sometimes still visible and re-surveyed to check the accuracy of the grid
conversion. The comparison was considered within acceptable error limits of using a DGPS unit.

FML utilises Landgate sourced regional topographic maps and contours as well as internally
produced survey pick-ups produced by the mining survey teams utilising DGPS base station
instruments.
Data spacing
and distribution

Drill spacing along the Wedge trend is quite regular at a 25x25m spaced pattern along strike.

1m samples were collected by riffle splitter for RC holes and 4m composites were collected by
spear sampling the individual 1m intervals.
Orientation of
data in relation
to geological
structure

Drilling was designed based on known geological models, field mapping, verified historical data
and cross-sectional interpretation.

Drill holes were either vertical or oriented at right angles to strike of deposit, with dip optimised for
drill capabilities and the dip of the ore body.
Sample security
All samples were reconciled against the sample submission with any omissions or variations
reported to FML.

All samples were bagged in a tied pre-numbered calico bag and grouped into green plastic bags.
The bags were placed into bulka bags with a sample submission sheet and kept within the
Laverton yard until ready for transport to Kalgoorlie by transport courier or FML staff.

Historic sample security is not recorded.
Audits or reviews
After Metex Resources acquired the WMC data, a thorough data validation of the WMC Surpac
database against raw data hard copy information and Eastman photographic survey shots was
conducted in the mid 1990’s. Focus Minerals has purchased the Metex validated database and
associated hard copies aspart of the Lancefieldproject acquisition.

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Section 2 Reporting of Exploration Results

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

  • Section 2 Details for the Karridale Deposit from ASX Announcement “Karridale Mineral Resource increases by 60%” Dated 24/09/2020
Criteria Explanation
Mineral tenement
and
land tenure
status

The drilling was conducted on tenements E38/2032, M38/008, M38/089, M38/261 and M38/073
+91% owned by Focus Minerals (Laverton) Pty Ltd. In JV with Goldfields (GSM). Exploration
expenditure by FML is continuing to increase the proportion of the JV tenement held by FML.

All tenements are in good standing.

The Nyalpa Pirniku claim has been lodged over the Laverton project areas. No claims have been
determined at this time
Exploration done
by other parties

Karridale was originally mined by small scale shafts targeting high grade veins. The shallow shafts
and drives are developed throughout the area and an excellent vector within the interpreted
Karridale Footprint.

Karridale has been explored by several parties including Sons of Gwalia and Crescent. Sons of
Gwalia explored for oxide resources and mined an oxide resource at Burtville which was later
followed into hard rock by a Crescent.

Exploration by Focus on Karridale targets the interpreted mineralised footprint which is based on:
historical mining, structural interpretation, geological model, geophysics and continued success
with infill of 2018 320m x 160m and 160m x 80m footprint drilling.
Geology
Karridale mineralisation is hosted in an interpreted half graben on the SE side of a large Gabbro
intrusion. The half graben is composed from northwest to south east by:
o
Gabbro with dolerite chill margin. The south and south east sides of the Gabbro dip to
the south and south east
o
Structurally juxtaposed against the south and south east gabbro contacts are a series of
shallow north east dipping pillow basalt flows. The basalt flows are generally 5-+10m in
thickness and marked by distinct vesicle rich autobreccia tops.
o
Laterally and down dip extensive interflow meta sediments/volcaniclastics are
sandwiched between the flows.
o
The basalt package is overlain and partly structurally interfingered with intermediate
volcanic tuff and interbedded sandstone-black shale sequence. This volcano
sedimentary sequence also hosts stacked shallow NW drilling mineralised shears.
o
The shallow NW dipping shears are predominantly developed in the interflow sediments.
These structures control the location of some limited 1 – 3m thick dolerite sills sourced
from the Karridale gabbro.
o
Gold mineralisation appears to postdate the Karridale gabbro intrusion but, in general is
very tightly focused into the strata bound and stacked interflow meta –
sediments/volcaniclastics. These interflow units preferentially take up the structural
strain, alteration and mineralised veining.
o
Additional higher-grade mineralisation is located in cross faults with north and north west
strikes.

Market Announcement | Page 39 of 78

Criteria Explanation Explanation Explanation Explanation Explanation Explanation Explanation Explanation Explanation
Drill hole
information

Drill holes that have been previously reported see table below for reporting reference:
Drill Hole Number
ASX Release Title
ASX Release Date
18KARC011 – 021, 079
19KARC078
Significant Increase in Karridale
Gold Deposit’s Mineral Resource
28 January 2020
19KARC009 – 076, 079 – 088, 091
– 095, 097 - 102
High-Grade Gold Intersections
from infill drilling at Karridale
30 October 2019
18KARC006, 022,023, 063, 064,
066, 070, 071, 074, 075, 076, 078,
087, 089-093, 101, 102, 108
25% Increase in Karridale Gold
Deposit’s Mineral Resource
27 May 2019
19KARC001 - 008
More High-Grade Intercepts at
Laverton Gold Project
29 April 2019
18KARC065, 068, 077, 080-085,
104-107, 117,119, 128
Focus Advances its Karridale and
Burtville Projects
30 January 2019
18KARC004,007-010
Exploration Progress Update
31 July 2018
KARC129, 135
Maiden Mineral Resource for
Karridale Deposit
23 February 2018
KARC207, 216, 220, 227, 235,
278, 279, 280, 282, 283, 284
KARD202, 281
Operational Update
16 January 2018
KARC242 – 262, 264-277
KARD281
KARC282 – 284
Operational Update
25 July 2017
KARC228, 230 – 240
Drilling Update Karridale RC
Programme
28 April 2017
KARC194 – 201, 203 – 226, 229
Progress Report for Coolgardie
and Laverton
25 January 2017
KARC169 – 193
Focus Minerals Ltd Exploration
Update
28 April 2016
KARD155, 158, 160 - 168
KARC156 – 157, 159
BVRC716, 717, 724, 725 – 727,
732
Evidence Grows for Significant
Gold System at Karridale
27 January 2016
KARD154
Karridale Exploration Update:
Exciting Signs
13 April 2015
KARC138 – 143
KARC145 – 146
KARC152 - 153
Laverton Exploration Update
30 January 2015
KARC123 – 126
KARC130 - 134
Quarterly Activities Report
30 October 2013

Collar details of 5 drill holes that have not beenpreviously reported aregiven below:
Hole ID
Easting
GDA94z51
Northing
GDA94z51
RL
Total
Depth
(m)
Azimuth
(Collar)
Dip
(Collar)
Tenement
(Collar)
18KARC067
466074. 6
6815277
469.6
72
148.7
-59.9
M3800089
18KARC072
466159.3
6815432
471.2
78
151.1
-60.2
M3801281
18KARC073
466139.7
6815467
471.5
108
150
-60
M3801281
18KARC086
466222.58
6815479.6
471.27
96
151.26
-59.2
M3800073
18KARC127
466209.9
6815915.5
470.39
142
146.28
-49.66
M3800073
Drill Hole Number ASX Release Title ASX Release Date
18KARC011 – 021, 079
19KARC078
Significant Increase in Karridale
Gold Deposit’s Mineral Resource
28 January 2020
19KARC009 – 076, 079 – 088, 091
– 095, 097 - 102
High-Grade Gold Intersections
from infill drilling at Karridale
30 October 2019
18KARC006, 022,023, 063, 064,
066, 070, 071, 074, 075, 076, 078,
087, 089-093, 101, 102, 108
25% Increase in Karridale Gold
Deposit’s Mineral Resource
27 May 2019
19KARC001 - 008 More High-Grade Intercepts at
Laverton Gold Project
29 April 2019
18KARC065, 068, 077, 080-085,
104-107, 117,119, 128
Focus Advances its Karridale and
Burtville Projects
30 January 2019
18KARC004,007-010 Exploration Progress Update 31 July 2018
KARC129, 135 Maiden Mineral Resource for
Karridale Deposit
23 February 2018
KARC207, 216, 220, 227, 235,
278, 279, 280, 282, 283, 284
KARD202, 281
Operational Update 16 January 2018
KARC242 – 262, 264-277
KARD281
KARC282 – 284
Operational Update 25 July 2017
KARC228, 230 – 240 Drilling Update Karridale RC
Programme
28 April 2017
KARC194 – 201, 203 – 226, 229 Progress Report for Coolgardie
and Laverton
25 January 2017
KARC169 – 193 Focus Minerals Ltd Exploration
Update
28 April 2016
KARD155, 158, 160 - 168
KARC156 – 157, 159
BVRC716, 717, 724, 725 – 727,
732
Evidence Grows for Significant
Gold System at Karridale
27 January 2016
KARD154 Karridale Exploration Update:
Exciting Signs
13 April 2015
KARC138 – 143
KARC145 – 146
KARC152 - 153
Laverton Exploration Update 30 January 2015
KARC123 – 126
KARC130 - 134
Quarterly Activities Report 30 October 2013

Collar details of 5 drill
Hole ID Easting
GDA94z51
Northing
GDA94z51
RL Total
Depth
(m)
Azimuth
(Collar)
Dip
(Collar)
Tenement
(Collar)
18KARC067 466074. 6 6815277 469.6 72 148.7 -59.9 M3800089
18KARC072 466159.3 6815432 471.2 78 151.1 -60.2 M3801281
18KARC073 466139.7 6815467 471.5 108 150 -60 M3801281
18KARC086 466222.58 6815479.6 471.27 96 151.26 -59.2 M3800073
18KARC127 466209.9 6815915.5 470.39 142 146.28 -49.66 M3800073

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Criteria Explanation
Data aggregation
methods

Mineralised intersections are reported at a 0.5g/t Au cut-off with a minimum reporting width of 1m
and up to 3m internal dilution. The length weighted average grades from diamond core can
include measured intervals of core loss.
Relationship
between
mineralization
widths and
intercept
lengths

Holes were drilled orthogonal to mineralisation as much as possible, however the exact
relationship between intercept width and true width cannot be estimated exactly in all cases.
Diagrams
Accurate plans are included in this announcement. 3D perspective views and schematic cross-
sections are included to illustrate the distribution of grade.
Balanced reporting
Drilling results are reported in a balanced reporting style. The ASX announcement for FML holes
shows actual locations of holes drilled, and representative sections as appropriate.
Other substantive
exploration data

There is no other material exploration data to report at this time.
Further work
FML anticipates additional drilling to follow up on encouraging results in Laverton.

Focus have engaged RPMGlobal to conduct a PFS for Laverton Stage 1 mining

Market Announcement | Page 41 of 78

  • Section 2 Details for the Burtville deposit from ASX Announcement “115% Increase to Burtville Mineral Resource” Dated 21/10/2020
Criteria Explanation
Mineral tenement
and
land tenure
status
The drilling was conducted on tenement M38/261 which is 100% owned by Focus Minerals
(Laverton) Ltd
The tenement is in good standing.
The Burtville Deposit is covered by the 2019 Nyalpa-Pirniku Native Title Claim.
Exploration done
by other parties
Historically Burtville was mined as part of the Burtville Mining Centre from the late 1890’s until 1922
to a depth of 20m – 40m below surface.
From the 1970’s various companies have conducted exploration activities at Burtville. The bulk of
the historical drilling was by SOG who open pit mined the deposit in the 1990’s recovering 64,000
ounces @ 1.4g/t Au.
Crescent Gold and subsequently Focus conducted large scale deeper drilling programs before
recommencing mining in 2012 until May-2013 that recovered 23,635 oz at 1.12 g/t Au.
Geology The Burtville deposit lies within the Burtville Terrane of the Laverton Greenstone Belt.
Basal Basalts/Dolerite overlain by shales, sandstones and felsic/intermediate volcaniclastics have
been intruded by the Karridale Gabbro and Burtville Granodiorite. A swarm of brittle ductile shallow
NNW dipping fault zones/shears over print the package. Furthermore, a network of 200-400m
spaced N-S and NNW striking cross faults extend between Burtville - Karridale and further south to
Mt Lebanon. These cross faults have been the historic focus of hundreds of shallow shafts/drives
exploiting higher grade mineralisation. At Burtville a pervasive west dipping fabric hosts significant
bulk mineralisation as a halo to higher grade steep ~N striking and shallow NNW dipping mineralised
structures.

Market Announcement | Page 42 of 78

Drill hole
information
Historic drilling information has been validated against publicly available WAMEX reports. Not all
drill holes used in the estimate have been reported publicly. However, when Crescent Gold acquired
the tenements a detailed review checking original records against those in the database was
conducted by an independent geologist. These drill holes occur mostly in the oxide layer that has
been mined out. Furthermore, just over 2/3rds of the drilling informing the remnant portion of the
Burtville Mineral Resource was completed by Crescent and later Focus Minerals.
Company
Drill Hole Number
WAMEX
Report A-
Number
Report
Date
Aberfoyle
BTRC001, BTRC002, BTRC003, BTRC004, BTRC005,
BTRC006, BTRC007, BTRC008, BTRC009, BTRC010,
BTRC011, BTRC012, BTRC013, BTRC014, BTRC015,
BTRC016, BTRC017, BTRC018, BTRC019, BTRC020,
BTRC021, BTRC022, BTRC023, BTRC024, BTRC025,
BTRC026, BTRC027, BTRC028, BTRC029, BTRC030,
BTRC031, BTRC032, BTRC033, BTRC034, BTRC035,
BTRC036, BTRC037, BTRC038, BTRC040, BTRC041,
BTRC043
27610
Feb-89
BTRC062, BTRC063, BTRC064, BTRC065, BTRC066,
BTRC067, BTRC068, BTRC069, BTRC070, BTRC071,
BTRC072, BTRC073, BTRC074, BTRC075, BTRC076,
BTRC077, BTRC078, BTRC079, BTRC080, BTRC081,
BTRC082, BTRC083, BTRC084, BTRC085, BTRC086,
BTRC087, BTRC088, BTRC089, BTRC090, BTRC091,
BTRC092, BTRC093, BTRC094, BTRC095, BTRC096,
BTRC097, BTRC098, BTRC099, BTRC100, BTRC101,
BTRC102, BTRC103, BTRC104, BTRC105, BTRC106,
BTRC107, BTRC108, BTRC109, BTRC111, BTRC112,
BTRC113, BTRC114, BTRC115, BTRC116, BTRC117,
BTRC118, BTRC119, BTRC120, BTRC121, BTRC122,
BTRC123, BTRC124, BTRC125, BTRC126, BTRC127,
BTRC128
31876
Sep-89
BTRC044, BTRC045, BTRC047, BTRC049, BTRC050,
BTRC051, BTRC052, BTRC054, BTRC056, BTRC057,
BTRC058,BTRC059
31884
May-89
BTRCDD039, BTRCDD042, BTRCDD046, BTRCDD048,
BTRCDD053,BTRCDD061
BTRCDD143,BTRCDD144
31885
Dec-89
Gwalia
Consolidate
d NL
BTRC150, BTRC151, BTRC152, BTRC153, BTRC154,
BTRC155, BTRC156, BTRC157, BTRC158, BTRC160,
BTRC161, BTRC162, BTRC163, BTRC164, BTRC165,
BTRC166, BTRC167, BTRC168, BTRC169, BTRC170,
BTRC171, BTRC172, BTRC173, BTRC174, BTRC175,
BTRC176, BTRC177, BTRC178, BTRC179, BTRC180,
BTRC181
35752
Jun-91
Sons of
Gwalia
BEC825,BEC826,BEC827,BEC828,BEC830
62685
Mar-01
Historic drilling information has been validated against publicly available WAMEX reports. Not all
drill holes used in the estimate have been reported publicly. However, when Crescent Gold acquired
the tenements a detailed review checking original records against those in the database was
conducted by an independent geologist. These drill holes occur mostly in the oxide layer that has
been mined out. Furthermore, just over 2/3rds of the drilling informing the remnant portion of the
Burtville Mineral Resource was completed by Crescent and later Focus Minerals.
Company
Drill Hole Number
WAMEX
Report A-
Number
Report
Date
Aberfoyle
BTRC001, BTRC002, BTRC003, BTRC004, BTRC005,
BTRC006, BTRC007, BTRC008, BTRC009, BTRC010,
BTRC011, BTRC012, BTRC013, BTRC014, BTRC015,
BTRC016, BTRC017, BTRC018, BTRC019, BTRC020,
BTRC021, BTRC022, BTRC023, BTRC024, BTRC025,
BTRC026, BTRC027, BTRC028, BTRC029, BTRC030,
BTRC031, BTRC032, BTRC033, BTRC034, BTRC035,
BTRC036, BTRC037, BTRC038, BTRC040, BTRC041,
BTRC043
27610
Feb-89
BTRC062, BTRC063, BTRC064, BTRC065, BTRC066,
BTRC067, BTRC068, BTRC069, BTRC070, BTRC071,
BTRC072, BTRC073, BTRC074, BTRC075, BTRC076,
BTRC077, BTRC078, BTRC079, BTRC080, BTRC081,
BTRC082, BTRC083, BTRC084, BTRC085, BTRC086,
BTRC087, BTRC088, BTRC089, BTRC090, BTRC091,
BTRC092, BTRC093, BTRC094, BTRC095, BTRC096,
BTRC097, BTRC098, BTRC099, BTRC100, BTRC101,
BTRC102, BTRC103, BTRC104, BTRC105, BTRC106,
BTRC107, BTRC108, BTRC109, BTRC111, BTRC112,
BTRC113, BTRC114, BTRC115, BTRC116, BTRC117,
BTRC118, BTRC119, BTRC120, BTRC121, BTRC122,
BTRC123, BTRC124, BTRC125, BTRC126, BTRC127,
BTRC128
31876
Sep-89
BTRC044, BTRC045, BTRC047, BTRC049, BTRC050,
BTRC051, BTRC052, BTRC054, BTRC056, BTRC057,
BTRC058,BTRC059
31884
May-89
BTRCDD039, BTRCDD042, BTRCDD046, BTRCDD048,
BTRCDD053,BTRCDD061
BTRCDD143,BTRCDD144
31885
Dec-89
Gwalia
Consolidate
d NL
BTRC150, BTRC151, BTRC152, BTRC153, BTRC154,
BTRC155, BTRC156, BTRC157, BTRC158, BTRC160,
BTRC161, BTRC162, BTRC163, BTRC164, BTRC165,
BTRC166, BTRC167, BTRC168, BTRC169, BTRC170,
BTRC171, BTRC172, BTRC173, BTRC174, BTRC175,
BTRC176, BTRC177, BTRC178, BTRC179, BTRC180,
BTRC181
35752
Jun-91
Sons of
Gwalia
BEC825,BEC826,BEC827,BEC828,BEC830
62685
Mar-01
Historic drilling information has been validated against publicly available WAMEX reports. Not all
drill holes used in the estimate have been reported publicly. However, when Crescent Gold acquired
the tenements a detailed review checking original records against those in the database was
conducted by an independent geologist. These drill holes occur mostly in the oxide layer that has
been mined out. Furthermore, just over 2/3rds of the drilling informing the remnant portion of the
Burtville Mineral Resource was completed by Crescent and later Focus Minerals.
Company
Drill Hole Number
WAMEX
Report A-
Number
Report
Date
Aberfoyle
BTRC001, BTRC002, BTRC003, BTRC004, BTRC005,
BTRC006, BTRC007, BTRC008, BTRC009, BTRC010,
BTRC011, BTRC012, BTRC013, BTRC014, BTRC015,
BTRC016, BTRC017, BTRC018, BTRC019, BTRC020,
BTRC021, BTRC022, BTRC023, BTRC024, BTRC025,
BTRC026, BTRC027, BTRC028, BTRC029, BTRC030,
BTRC031, BTRC032, BTRC033, BTRC034, BTRC035,
BTRC036, BTRC037, BTRC038, BTRC040, BTRC041,
BTRC043
27610
Feb-89
BTRC062, BTRC063, BTRC064, BTRC065, BTRC066,
BTRC067, BTRC068, BTRC069, BTRC070, BTRC071,
BTRC072, BTRC073, BTRC074, BTRC075, BTRC076,
BTRC077, BTRC078, BTRC079, BTRC080, BTRC081,
BTRC082, BTRC083, BTRC084, BTRC085, BTRC086,
BTRC087, BTRC088, BTRC089, BTRC090, BTRC091,
BTRC092, BTRC093, BTRC094, BTRC095, BTRC096,
BTRC097, BTRC098, BTRC099, BTRC100, BTRC101,
BTRC102, BTRC103, BTRC104, BTRC105, BTRC106,
BTRC107, BTRC108, BTRC109, BTRC111, BTRC112,
BTRC113, BTRC114, BTRC115, BTRC116, BTRC117,
BTRC118, BTRC119, BTRC120, BTRC121, BTRC122,
BTRC123, BTRC124, BTRC125, BTRC126, BTRC127,
BTRC128
31876
Sep-89
BTRC044, BTRC045, BTRC047, BTRC049, BTRC050,
BTRC051, BTRC052, BTRC054, BTRC056, BTRC057,
BTRC058,BTRC059
31884
May-89
BTRCDD039, BTRCDD042, BTRCDD046, BTRCDD048,
BTRCDD053,BTRCDD061
BTRCDD143,BTRCDD144
31885
Dec-89
Gwalia
Consolidate
d NL
BTRC150, BTRC151, BTRC152, BTRC153, BTRC154,
BTRC155, BTRC156, BTRC157, BTRC158, BTRC160,
BTRC161, BTRC162, BTRC163, BTRC164, BTRC165,
BTRC166, BTRC167, BTRC168, BTRC169, BTRC170,
BTRC171, BTRC172, BTRC173, BTRC174, BTRC175,
BTRC176, BTRC177, BTRC178, BTRC179, BTRC180,
BTRC181
35752
Jun-91
Sons of
Gwalia
BEC825,BEC826,BEC827,BEC828,BEC830
62685
Mar-01
Historic drilling information has been validated against publicly available WAMEX reports. Not all
drill holes used in the estimate have been reported publicly. However, when Crescent Gold acquired
the tenements a detailed review checking original records against those in the database was
conducted by an independent geologist. These drill holes occur mostly in the oxide layer that has
been mined out. Furthermore, just over 2/3rds of the drilling informing the remnant portion of the
Burtville Mineral Resource was completed by Crescent and later Focus Minerals.
Company
Drill Hole Number
WAMEX
Report A-
Number
Report
Date
Aberfoyle
BTRC001, BTRC002, BTRC003, BTRC004, BTRC005,
BTRC006, BTRC007, BTRC008, BTRC009, BTRC010,
BTRC011, BTRC012, BTRC013, BTRC014, BTRC015,
BTRC016, BTRC017, BTRC018, BTRC019, BTRC020,
BTRC021, BTRC022, BTRC023, BTRC024, BTRC025,
BTRC026, BTRC027, BTRC028, BTRC029, BTRC030,
BTRC031, BTRC032, BTRC033, BTRC034, BTRC035,
BTRC036, BTRC037, BTRC038, BTRC040, BTRC041,
BTRC043
27610
Feb-89
BTRC062, BTRC063, BTRC064, BTRC065, BTRC066,
BTRC067, BTRC068, BTRC069, BTRC070, BTRC071,
BTRC072, BTRC073, BTRC074, BTRC075, BTRC076,
BTRC077, BTRC078, BTRC079, BTRC080, BTRC081,
BTRC082, BTRC083, BTRC084, BTRC085, BTRC086,
BTRC087, BTRC088, BTRC089, BTRC090, BTRC091,
BTRC092, BTRC093, BTRC094, BTRC095, BTRC096,
BTRC097, BTRC098, BTRC099, BTRC100, BTRC101,
BTRC102, BTRC103, BTRC104, BTRC105, BTRC106,
BTRC107, BTRC108, BTRC109, BTRC111, BTRC112,
BTRC113, BTRC114, BTRC115, BTRC116, BTRC117,
BTRC118, BTRC119, BTRC120, BTRC121, BTRC122,
BTRC123, BTRC124, BTRC125, BTRC126, BTRC127,
BTRC128
31876
Sep-89
BTRC044, BTRC045, BTRC047, BTRC049, BTRC050,
BTRC051, BTRC052, BTRC054, BTRC056, BTRC057,
BTRC058,BTRC059
31884
May-89
BTRCDD039, BTRCDD042, BTRCDD046, BTRCDD048,
BTRCDD053,BTRCDD061
BTRCDD143,BTRCDD144
31885
Dec-89
Gwalia
Consolidate
d NL
BTRC150, BTRC151, BTRC152, BTRC153, BTRC154,
BTRC155, BTRC156, BTRC157, BTRC158, BTRC160,
BTRC161, BTRC162, BTRC163, BTRC164, BTRC165,
BTRC166, BTRC167, BTRC168, BTRC169, BTRC170,
BTRC171, BTRC172, BTRC173, BTRC174, BTRC175,
BTRC176, BTRC177, BTRC178, BTRC179, BTRC180,
BTRC181
35752
Jun-91
Sons of
Gwalia
BEC825,BEC826,BEC827,BEC828,BEC830
62685
Mar-01
Company Drill Hole Number WAMEX
Report A-
Number
Report
Date
Aberfoyle BTRC001, BTRC002, BTRC003, BTRC004, BTRC005,
BTRC006, BTRC007, BTRC008, BTRC009, BTRC010,
BTRC011, BTRC012, BTRC013, BTRC014, BTRC015,
BTRC016, BTRC017, BTRC018, BTRC019, BTRC020,
BTRC021, BTRC022, BTRC023, BTRC024, BTRC025,
BTRC026, BTRC027, BTRC028, BTRC029, BTRC030,
BTRC031, BTRC032, BTRC033, BTRC034, BTRC035,
BTRC036, BTRC037, BTRC038, BTRC040, BTRC041,
BTRC043
27610 Feb-89
BTRC062, BTRC063, BTRC064, BTRC065, BTRC066,
BTRC067, BTRC068, BTRC069, BTRC070, BTRC071,
BTRC072, BTRC073, BTRC074, BTRC075, BTRC076,
BTRC077, BTRC078, BTRC079, BTRC080, BTRC081,
BTRC082, BTRC083, BTRC084, BTRC085, BTRC086,
BTRC087, BTRC088, BTRC089, BTRC090, BTRC091,
BTRC092, BTRC093, BTRC094, BTRC095, BTRC096,
BTRC097, BTRC098, BTRC099, BTRC100, BTRC101,
BTRC102, BTRC103, BTRC104, BTRC105, BTRC106,
BTRC107, BTRC108, BTRC109, BTRC111, BTRC112,
BTRC113, BTRC114, BTRC115, BTRC116, BTRC117,
BTRC118, BTRC119, BTRC120, BTRC121, BTRC122,
BTRC123, BTRC124, BTRC125, BTRC126, BTRC127,
BTRC128
31876 Sep-89
BTRC044, BTRC045, BTRC047, BTRC049, BTRC050,
BTRC051, BTRC052, BTRC054, BTRC056, BTRC057,
BTRC058,BTRC059
31884 May-89
BTRCDD039, BTRCDD042, BTRCDD046, BTRCDD048,
BTRCDD053,BTRCDD061
BTRCDD143,BTRCDD144 31885 Dec-89
Gwalia
Consolidate
d NL
BTRC150, BTRC151, BTRC152, BTRC153, BTRC154,
BTRC155, BTRC156, BTRC157, BTRC158, BTRC160,
BTRC161, BTRC162, BTRC163, BTRC164, BTRC165,
BTRC166, BTRC167, BTRC168, BTRC169, BTRC170,
BTRC171, BTRC172, BTRC173, BTRC174, BTRC175,
BTRC176, BTRC177, BTRC178, BTRC179, BTRC180,
BTRC181
35752 Jun-91
Sons of
Gwalia
BEC825,BEC826,BEC827,BEC828,BEC830 62685 Mar-01

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Company
Drill Hole Number
WAMEX
Report A-
Number
Report
Date
Crescent
Gold
BU011,BU012,BU013,BU014,BU016
70629
May-05
BURC001, BURC002, BURC003, BURC004, BURC005,
BURC006,BURC007,BURC009,BURC011,BURC012
81631
Mar-09
BVRC001, BVRC002, BVRC003, BVRC004, BVRC007,
BVRC008,BVRC009,BVRC010
89791
Mar-11
BVRC018, BVRC019, BVRC020, BVRC021, BVRC022,
BVRC023, BVRC024, BVRC025, BVRC026, BVRC027,
BVRC028, BVRC029, BVRC030, BVRC031, BVRC032,
BVRC033, BVRC034, BVRC035, BVRC036, BVRC037,
BVRC038, BVRC039, BVRC040, BVRC041, BVRC042,
BVRC043, BVRC044, BVRC045, BVRC046, BVRC047,
BVRC048, BVRC049, BVRC050, BVRC051, BVRC052,
BVRC053, BVRC054, BVRC055, BVRC056, BVRC057,
BVRC058, BVRC059, BVRC060, BVRC061, BVRC062,
BVRC063, BVRC064, BVRC065, BVRC066, BVRC067,
BVRC046, BVRC047, BVRC048, BVRC049, BVRC050,
BVRC051, BVRC052, BVRC053, BVRC054, BVRC055,
BVRC056, BVRC057, BVRC058, BVRC059, BVRC060,
BVRC061, BVRC062, BVRC063, BVRC064, BVRC065,
BVRC066, BVRC067, BVRC068, BVRC069, BVRC070,
BVRC071, BVRC072, BVRC073, BVRC074, BVRC075,
BVRC076, BVRC077, BVRC079, BVRC080, BVRC081,
BVRC082, BVRC083, BVRC084, BVRC085, BVRC086,
BVRC087, BVRC088, BVRC089, BVRC090, BVRC091,
BVRC093, BVRC094, BVRC095, BVRC096, BVRC097,
BVRC098, BVRC099, BVRC100, BVRC101, BVRC102,
BVRC103, BVRC104, BVRC105, BVRC106, BVRC107,
BVRC108,BVRC109,BVRC110,BVRC111
94269
Mar-12
BVRC112, BVRC113, BVRC114, BVRC115, BVRC116,
BVRC117, BVRC118, BVRC119, BVRC120, BVRC121,
BVRC122, BVRC123, BVRC124, BVRC125, BVRC126,
BVRC127, BVRC128, BVRC129, BVRC130, BVRC131,
BVRC132, BVRC133, BVRC134, BVRC135, BVRC136,
BVRC137, BVRC138, BVRC139, BVRC140, BVRC142,
BVRC143, BVRC144, BVRC145, BVRC146, BVRC147,
BVRC148, BVRC150, BVRC151, BVRC152, BVRC153,
BVRC154, BVRC155, BVRC156, BVRC157, BVRC158,
BVRC159, BVRC160, BVRC161, BVRC162, BVRC163,
BVRC164, BVRC165, BVRC166, BVRC167, BVRC168,
BVRC169, BVRC170, BVRC171, BVRC172, BVRC173,
BVRC174, BVRC175, BVRC176, BVRC177, BVRC178,
BVRC179, BVRC180, BVRC181, BVRC182, BVRC183,
BVRC184, BVRC185, BVRC186, BVRC187, BVRC188,
BVRC189, BVRC190, BVRC191, BVRC192, BVRC193,
BVRC194, BVRC195, BVRC196, BVRC197, BVRC198,
BVRC199, BVRC200, BVRC201, BVRC202, BVRC203,
BVRC204, BVRC205, BVRC206, BVRC207, BVRC208,
BVRC209

98692
Mar-13

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Company
Drill Hole Number
WAMEX
Report A-
Number
Report
Date
Focus
Minerals
Ltd
BVRC210, BVRC211, BVRC212, BVRC213, BVRC214,
BVRC215, BVRC216, BVRC217, BVRC218, BVRC219,
BVRC220, BVRC221, BVRC222, BVRC223, BVRC224,
BVRC225, BVRC226, BVRC227, BVRC228, BVRC229,
BVRC230, BVRC231, BVRC232, BVRC233, BVRC234,
BVRC235, BVRC236, BVRC237, BVRC238, BVRC239,
BVRC244, BVRC245, BVRC252, BVRC254, BVRC257,
BVRC258, BVRC259, BVRC260, BVRC263, BVRC264,
BVRC265, BVRC266, BVRC267, BVRC268, BVRC269,
BVRC270, BVRC271, BVRC272, BVRC273, BVRC274,
BVRC275, BVRC276, BVRC277, BVRC278, BVRC279,
BVRC281, BVRC282, BVRC283, BVRC284, BVRC285,
BVRC286, BVRC287, BVRC288, BVRC289, BVRC290,
BVRC291, BVRC292, BVRC298, BVRC300, BVRC301,
BVRC302, BVRC303, BVRC304, BVRC305, BVRC306,
BVRC307, BVRC308, BVRC309, BVRC310, BVRC311,
BVRC312, BVRC313, BVRC314, BVRC315, BVRC316,
BVRC317, BVRC318, BVRC319, BVRC320, BVRC321,
BVRC322, BVRC323, BVRC324, BVRC325, BVRC326,
BVRC327, BVRC328, BVRC329, BVRC330, BVRC331,
BVRC332, BVRC333, BVRC334, BVRC335, BVRC336,
BVRC337, BVRC338, BVRC339, BVRC341, BVRC342,
BVRC343, BVRC344, BVRC345, BVRC346, BVRC347,
BVRC348, BVRC349, BVRC350, BVRC351, BVRC352,
BVRC353, BVRC354, BVRC355, BVRC356, BVRC358,
BVRC359, BVRC360, BVRC361, BVRC362, BVRC363,
BVRC364, BVRC365, BVRC366, BVRC367, BVRC368,
BVRC369, BVRC370, BVRC371, BVRC372, BVRC373,
BVRC374, BVRC375, BVRC376, BVRC378, BVRC379,
BVRC380, BVRC381, BVRC382, BVRC383, BVRC384,
BVRC385, BVRC386, BVRC387, BVRC390, BVRC391,
BVRC392, BVRC393, BVRC394, BVRC395, BVRC397,
BVRC398, BVRC399, BVRC400, BVRC401, BVRC402,
BVRC403, BVRC404, BVRC405, BVRC406, BVRC407,
BVRC408, BVRC409, BVRC410, BVRC411, BVRC412,
BVRC413, BVRC414, BVRC415, BVRC416, BVRC417,
BVRC418, BVRC419, BVRC420, BVRC421, BVRC422,
BVRC423, BVRC424, BVRC425, BVRC426, BVRC427,
BVRC428, BVRC429, BVRC430, BVRC431, BVRC432,
BVRC433, BVRC434, BVRC435, BVRC436, BVRC437,
BVRC438, BVRC439, BVRC440, BVRC441, BVRC442,
BVRC443, BVRC444, BVRC445, BVRC446, BVRC447,
BVRC448, BVRC449, BVRC450, BVRC451, BVRC452,
BVRC453, BVRC454, BVRC455, BVRC456, BVRC457,
BVRC458, BVRC459, BVRC460, BVRC461, BVRC462,
BVRC463, BVRC464, BVRC465, BVRC466, BVRC467,
BVRC468, BVRC469, BVRC470, BVRC471, BVRC472,
BVRC473, BVRC474, BVRC475, BVRC476, BVRC477,
BVRC478, BVRC479, BVRC480, BVRC481, BVRC482,
BVRC483, BVRC484, BVRC486, BVRC487, BVRC488,
BVRC489, BVRC490, BVRC491, BVRC492, BVRC493,
BVRC494, BVRC495, BVRC496, BVRC497, BVRC524,
BVRC525, BVRC526, BVRC527, BVRC529, BVRC530,
BVRC531, BVRC533, BVRC534, BVRC535, BVRC536,
BVRC537, BVRC538, BVRC539, BVRC540, BVRC541,
BVRC548, BVRC549, BVRC550, BVRC551, BVRC552,
BVRC553, BVRC555, BVRC556, BVRC557, BVRC558,
BVRC561, BVRC562, BVRC576, BVRC581, BVRC583,
BVRC584, BVRC586, BVRC587, BVRC588, BVRC611,
BVRC612, BVRC613, BVRC617, BVRC618, BVRC619,
BVRC620,BVRC621
98692
Mar-13

Market Announcement | Page 45 of 78

BVRC543, BVRC546, BVRC559, BVRC563, BVRC567, BVRC568, BVRC569, BVRC570, BVRC572, BVRC573, BVRC574, BVRC577, BVRC580, BVRC582, BVRC585, BVRC590, BVRC591, BVRC595, BVRC596, BVRC601, BVRC602, BVRC603, BVRC604, BVRC606, BVRC614, BVRC623, BVRC624, BVRC626, BVRC628, BVRC629, 102458 Mar-14 BVRC630, BVRC631, BVRC632, BVRC634, BVRC635, BVRC637, BVRC638, BVRC639, BVRC640, BVRC641, BVRC642, BVRC645, BVRC646, BVRC647, BVRC648, BVRC650, BVRC652, BVRC653, BVRC654, BVRC655, BVRC656, BVRC657, BVRC659, BVRC673, BVRC674, BVRC675, BVRC676, BVRC677, BVRC678, BVRC689, BVRC690, BVRC691, BVRC692, BVRC693, BVRC694, BVRC695, BVRC696, BVRC697, BVRC698, BVRC699

The collar details of 14 holes drilled by Focus but not externally reported are given below.

Hole ID Easting
GDA94z51
Northing
GDA94z51
RL Total
Depth
(m)
Azimuth
(Collar)
Dip
(Collar)
Drill
Type
BUDD0002 465187.88 6817865.2 437.502 75 273.8 -58.9 DD
BUDD0004 465221.28 6817863.6 436.882 93.5 92.8 -60 DD
BVRC241 465517.03 6817777.8 476.071 125 256.1 -59.3 RC
BVRC242 465497.91 6817779.6 476.247 125 259.7 -60.7 RC
BVRC255 465419.79 6817980.2 477.876 125 264.6 -61.4 RC
BVRC256 465399.73 6817980.1 478.012 125 270.2 -61.8 RC
BVRC261 465364.04 6817636.8 476.406 125 88.2 -60.3 RC
BVRC262 465349.72 6817638.8 475.871 125 88.2 -60.8 RC
BVRC280 465446.65 6817680 475.81 110 88.4 -87.6 RC
BVRC564 465365.01 6817891.6 427.378 54 90 -60 RC
BVRC608 465123.4 6817860 435.134 54 90 -60 RC
BVRC609 465144.2 6817861 436.363 48 90 -60 RC
BVRC610 465163.59 6817860 436.916 54 90 -60 RC
BVRC627 465355.01 6817891.7 426.907 54 90 -60 RC

Market Announcement | Page 46 of 78

Criteria Explanation
Data aggregation
methods

Mineralised intersections are reported at a 0.5g/t Au cut-off with a minimum reporting width of 1m
and up to 3m internal dilution. The length weighted average grades from diamond core can
include measured intervals of core loss.
Relationship
between
mineralization
widths and
intercept
lengths

Holes were drilled orthogonal to mineralisation as much as possible, however the exact
relationship between intercept width and true width cannot be estimated exactly in all cases.
Diagrams
Accurate plans are included in this announcement. 3D perspective views and schematic cross-
sections are included to illustrate the distribution of grade.
Balanced reporting
Drilling results are reported in a balanced reporting style. WAMEX references are available for the
bulk of the resource with only 12% of the remnant resource utilising SOG’s drilling conducted by
the mining department and not externally reported.
Other substantive
exploration data

There is no other material exploration data to report at this time.
Further work
Focus have engaged RPMGlobal to conduct a PFS for Laverton Stage 1 mining.

Market Announcement | Page 47 of 78

  • Section 2 Details for the Beasley Creek deposit from ASX Announcement “Beasley Creek Mineral Resource Grows by 29%” Dated 20/08/2020
Criteria Explanation
Mineral tenement
and
land tenure
status

The drilling was conducted on tenements 100% owned by Focus Minerals (Laverton) Pty Ltd.

All tenements are in good standing.

The Beasley Creek mineral resource estimate is contained entirely within Mining Lease M38/049.

The Nyalpa Pirniku claim has been lodged over the Laverton project areas. No claims have been
determined at this time
Exploration done
by other parties

Beasley Creek was formerly mined as an open pit to about 85m depth by WMC from 1987-1994
with production of 88.8Koz.

Later exploration has been performed by Metex/Delta Gold 1996/1997 and then Crescent Gold in
2010.
Geology
Mineralisation at Beasley Creek is located on the Beasley Creek Shear Zone and cross cutting
Fitton and McIntyre FZ’s. The Beasley Creek SZ is deeply weathered to at least 200m depth with
gold mineralisation hosted in:
o
saprolitic clays,
o
saprock of hydrothermally brecciated sediments, conglomerates and minor black
shale,
o
iron stone after gossan,
o
laminated veins and,
o
breccia vein infill.
o
Core loss typically occurs when quartz breccia fragments become partially lodged in
the drill bit. These hard fragments rotate with the bit causing grinding/washing of the
soft highly oxidised shear matrix.

Market Announcement | Page 48 of 78

Criteria Explanation
Drill hole
information
Company Drill Hole Number WAMEX
Report A-
Number
Report
Date
BCP0002, BCP0003, BCP0004, BCP0005,
BCP0007, BCP0008, BCP0009, BCP0010,
BCP0012, BCP0013, BCP0014, BCP0021,
BCP0022, BCP0023, BCP0024, BCP0025,
BCP0026, BCP0033, BCP0034
22647 1987
BCD001
Western
Mining
Corporation
Ltd
BCD005, BCD006, BCD007, BCD009, BCD010,
BCD015, BCD016, BCD017
26696 1988
BCP0035, BCP0036, BCP0037, BCP0039,
BCP0040, BCP0041, BCP0042, BCP0043,
BCP0045, BCP0046, BCP0047, BCP0049,
BCP0051, BCP0052, BCP0054, BCP0058,
BCP0059, BCP0060, BCP0062, BCP0063,
BCP0064, BCP0065, BCP0066, BCP0067,
BCP0068, BCP0069, BCP0070, BCP0071,
BCP0073, BCP0074, BCP0075, BCP0076,
BCP0077, BCP0078, BCP0079, BCP0081,
BCP0082, BCP0098, BCP0099, BCP0100,
BCP0101, BCP0102, BCP0103, BCP0104,
BCP0111, BCP0124, BCP0125, BCP0126,
BCP0127, BCP0128, BCP0129, BCP0130,
BCP0131, BCP0132, BCP0133, BCP0134,
BCP0135, BCP0136, BCP0137, BCP0138,
BCP0140, BCP0142, BCP0144, BCP0148,
BCP0162, BCP0163, BCP0165, BCP0166,
BCP0167, BCP0275, BCP0276, BCP0277,
BCP0278, BCP0279, BCP0280, BCP0281,
BCP0282, BCP0284
BCD008, BCD013, BCD018, BCD019, BCD020,
BCD021,BCD023,BCD024,BCD025,BCD026
31396 1989
BCP0328
Metex
Resources NL
BCD028 48547 1996
Focus Minerals
Ltd
18BSDD001, 18BSDD002, 18BSDD003,
18BSDD004, 18BSDD005, 18BSDD006,
18BSDD007, 18BSDD008, 18BSDD009,
18BSDD010, 18BSDD012, 18BSDD013
18BSDD014, 18BSDD015, 18BSDD016,
18BSDD017,18BSDD019,18BSDD020
120411 2019
18BSRC001,18BSRC002,18BSRC003
18BSRD004,18BSRD011,18BSRD015
19BSDD001, 19BSDD002, 19BSDD003,
19BSDD004,19BSDD005,19BSDD006,
19BSRC001, 19BSRC002, 19BSRC003,
19BSRC004, 19BSRC006, 19BSRC007,
19BSRC010,19BSRC011,19BSRC012,

Market Announcement | Page 49 of 78

Criteria Explanation Explanation
19BSRD001, 19BSRD002, 19BSRD004,
19BSRD005, 19BSRD006, 19BSRD007,
19BSRD008, 19BSRD010, 19BSRD011,
19BSRD012, 19BSRD013, 19BSRD014,
19BSRD016, 19BSRD017, 19BSRD018,
19BSRD019, 19BSRD022, 19BSRD023,
19BSRD026
Focus Minerals’ drilled holes not yet available on WAMEX
Drill Hole Number ASX Release
Title
ASX Release
Date
19BSDD009, 19BSDD011, 19BSDD013, 19BSDD014,
19BSDD015, 19BSDD016, 19BSDD017, 19BSDD018,
19BSDD019, 19BSDD021, 19BSDD022, 19BSDD023,
19BSDD024, 19BSDD025, 19BSDD026, 19BSDD027,
19BSDD028, 19BSDD029, 19BSDD030, 19BSDD031,
19BSDD032, 19BSDD033, 19BSDD034, 19BSDD035,
19BSDD037, 19BSDD038, 19BSDD040, 19BSDD041,
19BSDD042,19BSDD043
High Value
Exploration
Results from
Laverton Gold
Project
22/07/2019
19BSRC015, 19BSRC016, 19BSRC025, 19BSRC026,
19BSRC027, 19BSRC028, 19BSRC035, 19BSRC040,
19BSRC043, 19BSRC044, 19BSRC045, 19BSRC053,
19BSRC054, 19BSRC055
19BSRD027, 19BSRD028, 19BSRD031, 19BSRD032,
19BSRD033, 19BSRD034
20BSDD027, 20BSDD030, 20BSDD032, 20BSDD038,
20BSDD050, 20BSDD051, 20BSDD052, 20BSDD054,
20BSDD055, 20BSDD061, 20BSDD063, 20BSDD065,
20BSDD066
Laverton
Exploration
Update
28/07/2020
20BSRC004,20BSRC005
20BSRD012,20BSRD013,20BSRD014,20BSRD015
Data aggregation
methods
Mineralised intersections are reported at a 0.5g/t Au cut-off with up to 3m internal dilution. The
length weighted average grades from diamond core can include measured intervals of core loss.
Relationship
between
mineralization
widths and
intercept
lengths



Wherever possible holes were drilled orthogonal to mineralisation

Holes targeting the WNW extension McIntyre/BTW FZ structures and Shallow SE dipping footwall
structures in the NW part of the Beasley Creek Project often have sub-optimal orientations due to
limited drilling collar locations. None of these intersections are represented as true widths at this
stage.

True widths can be estimated once geological/mineralisation modelling has been completed.

Furthermore, no intersections are represented as calculated true widths in this report
Diagrams Accurate plans are included in this announcement. 3D perspective views and schematic cross-
sections are included to illustrate the distribution ofgrade
Balanced reporting
Historic drill results are available on WAMEX

Drilling results are reported in a balanced reporting style. The ASX announcement for Focus
Minerals holes shows actual locations of holes drilled, and representative sections as appropriate.
Other substantive
exploration data
There is no other material exploration data to report at this time.
Further work Focus Minerals anticipates additional drilling to follow up on encouraging results in Laverton.

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  • Section 2 Details for the Beasley Creek South deposit from ASX Announcement “Beasley Creek South Delivers High Grade Mineral Resource” Dated 15/07/2020
Criteria Explanation Explanation Explanation Explanation Explanation Explanation
Mineral
tenement and
land tenure
status

The drilling was conducted on tenements 100% owned by Focus Minerals (Laverton) Pty Ltd.

All tenements are in good standing.

The Beasley Creek South mineral resource estimate is contained entirely within Mining Lease
M38/049.

The Nyalpa Pirniku claim has been lodged over the Laverton project areas. No claims have been
determined at this time
Exploration
done by other
parties

Beasley Creek South has been drilled by numerous companies over the years, mainly WMC who
mined the adjacent Beasley Creek open pit, Metex Resources and Crescent Gold NL.

Drill spacing on the main shear approached 20m x 20m and was useful for guiding follow up drill
depths. However, due to RC sample issues within the main shear none of these holes were used
in this resource estimate.
Geology
Mineralisation at Beasley South is located on the moderately east dipping Beasley Shear Zone
(SZ). To date mineralisation is confirmed at Beasley South over 500m strike and to within 400m
of the southern side of Beasley Creek.

The Beasley SZ is deeply weathered to ~80-100% clay and drill intersections to date at 130m
depth are located in completely weathered rock.

The Beasley SZ is sandwiched between hanging-wall (eastern) mafic high magnesium volcanics
and footwall (western) ultramafic intrusions and feldspar-hornblende porphyries.

The weathered rocks within the Beasley SZ include:
o
saprolitic clays,
o
saprock of hydrothermally brecciated sediments, conglomerates and minor black shale,
o
iron stone after gossan,
o
laminated veins and,
o
breccia vein infill.
o
Core loss typically occurs when quartz breccia fragments become partially lodged in the
drill bit. These hard fragments rotate with the bit causing grinding/washing of the soft
highly oxidised shear matrix.
o
Due to the soft nature of the oxidised shear RC sample recovery has proven to be
elusive and regularly is less than 40% within mineralised Beasley Creek SZ
Drill hole
information
Company Drill Hole Number WAMEX
Report A-
Number
Report Date
Focus Minerals Ltd 18BSRC009, 18BSRC010 120411 2018
FML Drilled holes notyet available on WAMEX
Drill Hole Number ASX Release Title ASX Release
Date
19BSDD044, 19BSDD045, 19BSDD048, 19BSDD049,
19BSDD050, 19BSDD058, 19BSDD060, 19BSDD061,
19BSDD062, 19BSDD063, 19BSDD064, 19BSDD065,
19BSDD066, 19BSDD067, 19BSDD068, 19BSDD069,
19BSDD071, 19BSDD072, 19BSDD073, 19BSDD074,
19BSDD075, 19BSDD076, 19BSDD077, 19BSDD078,
19BSDD080, 19BSDD082, 19BSDD083, 19BSDD084,
19BSDD085, 19BSDD086, 19BSDD087, 19BSDD088,
19BSRC066, 19BSRD036
Outstanding Results
Beasley Creek South
at
30/01/2020

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Criteria Explanation Explanation Explanation Explanation Explanation Explanation Explanation Explanation
Drill Hole Number ASX Release Title ASX Release
Date
20BSDD001, 20BSDD002, 20BSDD003, 20BSDD005,
20BSDD007, 20BSDD008, 20BSDD010, 20BSDD011,
20BSDD012, 20BSDD013, 20BSDD014, 20BSDD015,
20BSDD016, 20BSDD017, 20BSDD018
Strong Hits at Beasley
Creek South Boost
Laverton Resource
Upside
28/04/2020
Collar details of FML holes drilled during 2020 and yet to be released
BHID EAST NORTH RL AZIMU
TH
DIP DEPTH Drill Type
20BSDD020 434046.97 6837783.9 432.6 270 -60 162.4 DD
20BSDD021 434041.44 6838041.2 432.5 270 -60 168.3 DD
20BSDD022 433897.77 6838100.1 431.8 270 -60 61.8 DD
20BSDD023 433893.32 6838038.9 431.9 270 -60 50.7 DD
20BSDD024 433887.6 6837973.8 431.8 270 -60 31.8 DD
20BSDD025 433966.06 6837910.5 431.4 270 -60 105 DD
20BSDD026 433984.01 6838185.7 432.1 270 -60 98 DD
20BSDD029 434015.9 6838131.6 432.5 270 -60 128 DD
20BSDD031 434077 6837876.2 432.6 270 -60 136.1 DD
20BSDD033 434001.31 6838049.5 432.4 270 -60 124.9 DD
20BSDD034 433960.39 6838042.6 432.4 265 -60 112.9 DD
20BSDD035 434022.77 6837911.8 432.3 270 -60 151.8 DD
20BSDD036 434041.93 6838114.7 433.8 270 -60 156.6 DD
20BSDD037 434007.12 6837937.2 433.4 270 -60 156.4 DD
20BSDD039 433966.44 6837982.7 431.8 270 -60 107 DD
20BSDD040 433978.19 6837805.8 433.3 270 -60 165.3 DD
20BSDD041 434004.72 6837889.0 432.8 270 -60 142.9 DD
20BSDD042 433936.7 6837958.6 431.7 270 -60 98.1 DD
20BSDD043 433981.66 6837895.8 432.1 270 -60 115.9 DD
20BSDD044 433914.19 6838045.6 431.8 270 -60 64.8 DD
20BSDD045 433965.15 6837962.3 431.7 270 -60 107 DD
20BSDD046 433896.06 6838073.0 431.8 270 -60 46.9 DD
20BSDD048 433919.98 6838100.0 431.8 270 -60 52.9 DD
20BSDD049 434019.65 6838171.8 431.9 270 -60 128 DD
20BSDD053 433978.72 6837860.7 433.4 270 -80 147.4 DD
20BSDD056 434098.45 6837841.5 433.6 270 -60 220.9 DD
20BSDD057 433956.02 6837837.2 433.3 265 -60 107 DD
20BSDD058 434116.06 6837789.8 431.3 270 -60 238.9 DD
20BSDD064 433958.33 6838160.4 430.8 260 -60 65 DD
20BSRC002 433907.3 6838129.7 431.7 269.0 -60 30 RC
20BSRD004 434111.36 6837890.4 432.5 272.1 -60 224 RC/DD
20BSRD006 434084.52 6838114.7 432.5 267.8 -60 195.5 RC/DD
20BSRD009 434110.45 6838035.1 432.3 271.9 -60 222.4 RC/DD
20BSRD010 434092.46 6838078.7 432.4 269.4 -60 198.5 RC/DD
20BSRD011 434090.95 6837965.4 432.1 269.3 -60 207.4 RC/DD

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Criteria Explanation
Data aggregation
methods

Mineralised intersections are reported at a 0.5g/t Au cut-off with a minimum reporting width of 1m
and up to 3m internal dilution. The length weighted average grades from diamond core can include
measured intervals of core loss.
Relationship
between
mineralization
widths and
intercept
lengths

Wherever possible holes were drilled orthogonal to mineralisation

True widths can be estimated once geological/mineralisation modelling has been completed.

Furthermore, no intersections are represented as calculated true widths in this report.
Diagrams
Accurate plans are included in this announcement. 3D perspective views and schematic cross-
sections are included to illustrate the distribution ofgrade.
Balanced
reporting

Drilling results are reported in a balanced reporting style. The ASX announcement for FML holes
shows actual locations of holes drilled, and representative sections as appropriate.
Other substantive
exploration data

There is no other material exploration data to report at this time.
Further work
FML anticipates additional drilling to follow up on encouraging results in Laverton.

Focus have engaged RPMGlobal to conduct a PFS for Laverton Stage 1 mining

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  • Section 2 Details for the Wedge deposit from ASX Announcement “Wedge Open Pit Resource Update” Dated 24/01/2020
Criteria Explanation
Mineral tenement
and
land tenure
status

All exploration was conducted on tenements 100% owned by FML or its subsidiary companies
Focus Operations Pty Ltd. All tenements are in good standing.

Various royalties may be in place as documented in the FML Annual Report 2016

The Nyalpa Pirniku claim has been lodged over the Laverton project areas. No claims have been
determined at this time

The tenements fall within the Laverton Water Reserve and all exploration completed complied with
required regulations.
Exploration done
by other parties

The Wedge deposit has been historically mined as 3 pits by Ashton Gold (WA) Ltd between 1990
and 1992. Production figures state 262,023t @ 2.53g/t Au HG ore was mined from the pits and
260,544t @ 2.51 g/t of HG ore was Milled.

Ashton Gold Mines Pty Ltd formerly Hillmin Gold Mines Pty Ltd conducted various exploration
activities over the Wedge trend since 1984 when it gained 100% management and operation of
Teck Explorations and Morrison Petroleum’s JV interests. This involved geological mapping, ground
magnetic surveys, soil sampling, aeromagnetics, resistivity, gradient array, induced polarisation,
rock chip sampling, RC, Rotary Air Blast (RAB) and Diamond drilling.

Metex acquired the Wedge tenements from Ashton Gold (WA) Ltd in September 1996, conducting
various exploration activities including data validation, geological mapping, aerial photography, soil
sampling, rock chip sampling, aeromagnetic surveys, RAB, Vacuum and RC drilling.

The ground was subsequently acquired by Crescent Gold NL in May 2010 before being taken over
by Focus Minerals Laverton in October 2012.
Geology
Regionally the geology comprises strongly deformed ultramafics, mafic volcanics and intercalated
iron formation and sediments.

The deposit is hosted by an interflow sedimentary unit within a thick Archean mafic volcanic pile.
The interflow sediments consist of chert, shale and minor black shale below the oxidation horizon
and contain pyrite and minor pyrrhotite.

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Criteria Explanation Explanation Explanation Explanation
Drill hole
information

Historic drilling information has been validated against publicly available WAMEX reports. Not all
drill holes can be found referenced in the WAMEX reports. However, cross-checking of original drill
surveys was verified against the database. Most of these holes were drilled in the excavated pit area
and has been depleted from the reported resource.
WAMEX Reference:
Company
Drill Hole Number
WAMEX
Report A-
Number
WAMEX
Report Date
Hillmin Gold
Mines Pty Ltd
LNP027 - LNP032, LNP034, LNP040 -
LNP044, LNP047 - LNP050, LNP052, LNP053,
LNP055, LNP056
16888
February
1985
LNP001, LNP002, LNP007, LNP008, LNP013 -
LNP015, LNP020, LNP024 - LNP026, LNP057
- LNP077, LNP083 - LNP093, LNP095,
LNP096, LNP101, LNP102
Unknown
LNP104 - LNP123, LNP129 - LNP135,
LNP138, LNP139 - LNP143
20646
February
1987
LNP144 - LNP161, LNP163 - LNP215, LNP217
- LNP236, LNP238 - LNP241, LNP243,
LNP245 - LNP268, LNP270, LNP271, LNP273,
LNP274, LNP276, LNP278 - LNP287, LNP289,
LNP291, LNP293, LNP295, LNP298 - LNP328,
LNP330
23398
February
1988
LND001 - LND009
27633
February
1989
LNP331 - LNP347, LNP349, LNP351 - LNP357
Ashton Gold
Mines Pty Ltd
LND010
15929
January 1990
LNP359 - LNP361, LNP365 - LNP385
LNP386 - LNP401, LNP403 - LNP406
33668
March 1991
LNP411 - LNP418, LNP421, LNP424 - LNP432
35688
January 1992
Metex
Resources NL
LNRC001, LNRC002, LNRC007 - LNRC010
48547
January 1996
Western Mining
Corporation Ltd
LFP0817
22647
January 1988
FML holes WAMEX reference:
Company
Drill Hole Number
WAMEX
Report A-
Number
WAMEX
Report Date
Focus Minerals
Ltd
18LNRC001, 18LNRC002, 18LNRC003,
18LNRC004, 18LNRC005, 18LNRC006,
18LNRC007, 18LNRC008, 18LNRC010,
18LNRC011, 18LNRC012, 18LNRC017,
18LNRC018, 18LNRC019, 18LNRC020,
120411
July 2019
Company Drill Hole Number WAMEX
Report A-
Number
WAMEX
Report Date
Hillmin Gold
Mines Pty Ltd
LNP027 - LNP032, LNP034, LNP040 -
LNP044, LNP047 - LNP050, LNP052, LNP053,
LNP055, LNP056
16888 February
1985
LNP001, LNP002, LNP007, LNP008, LNP013 -
LNP015, LNP020, LNP024 - LNP026, LNP057
- LNP077, LNP083 - LNP093, LNP095,
LNP096, LNP101, LNP102
Unknown
LNP104 - LNP123, LNP129 - LNP135,
LNP138, LNP139 - LNP143
20646 February
1987
LNP144 - LNP161, LNP163 - LNP215, LNP217
- LNP236, LNP238 - LNP241, LNP243,
LNP245 - LNP268, LNP270, LNP271, LNP273,
LNP274, LNP276, LNP278 - LNP287, LNP289,
LNP291, LNP293, LNP295, LNP298 - LNP328,
LNP330
23398 February
1988
LND001 - LND009 27633 February
1989
LNP331 - LNP347, LNP349, LNP351 - LNP357
Ashton Gold
Mines Pty Ltd
LND010 15929 January 1990
LNP359 - LNP361, LNP365 - LNP385
LNP386 - LNP401, LNP403 - LNP406 33668 March 1991
LNP411 - LNP418, LNP421, LNP424 - LNP432 35688 January 1992
Metex
Resources NL
LNRC001, LNRC002, LNRC007 - LNRC010 48547 January 1996
Western Mining
Corporation Ltd
LFP0817 22647 January 1988
FML holes WAMEX reference:
Company Drill Hole Number WAMEX
Report A-
Number
WAMEX
Report Date
Focus Minerals
Ltd
18LNRC001, 18LNRC002, 18LNRC003,
18LNRC004, 18LNRC005, 18LNRC006,
18LNRC007, 18LNRC008, 18LNRC010,
18LNRC011, 18LNRC012, 18LNRC017,
18LNRC018, 18LNRC019, 18LNRC020,
120411 July 2019

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Criteria Explanation Explanation Explanation Explanation
18WDRC001, 18WDRC002, 18WDRC003,
18WDRC004, 18WDRC005, 18WDRC006,
18WDRC007, 18WDRC008, 18WDRC009,
18WDRC010, 18WDRC011, 18WDRC012,
18WDRC013, 18WDRC014, 18WDRC015,
18WDRC016, 18WDRC017, 18WDRC018,
18WDRC019, 18WDRC020, 18WDRC021,
18WDRC022, 18WDRC023, 18WDRC024,
18WDRC025, 18WDRC026, 18WDRC027,
18WDRC028, 18WDRC029, 18WDRC030,
18WDRC031, 18WDRC032, 18WDRC033,
18WDRC034, 18WDRC035, 18WDRC036,
18WDRC037, 18WDRC038, 18WDRC039,
18WDRC040, 18WDRC041, 18WDRC042,
18WDRC043, 18WDRC044, 18WDRC045,
18WDRC047
FML Drilled holes notyet available on WAMEX
Drill Hole Number ASX Release Title ASX Release Date
19LNRC019 - 19LNRC045 High Value Exploration
Results from Laverton Gold
Project
22-Jul-19
19WDRC014, 19WDRC016 - 19WDRC024,
19WDRC026, 19WDRC028 - 19WDRC055
19LNRC057 - 19LNRC0061, 19LNRC065,
19LNRC069 - 19LNRC070, 19LNRC074 -
19LNRC079, 19LNRC089, 19LNRC092
Wedge Open Pit Resource
Update
24-Jan-20
19WDDD001-19WDDD002, 19WDRC059 -
19WDRC063
Collar details of FML holes drilled during 2019 are given below:
Hole ID Depth
(m)
Tenement
MGA 94 Zone 51
Easting Northing RL Azimuth Dip
19LNRC063 440997.69 6844326.7 457.35 304.64 -60.14 60 M3800159
19LNRC064 440918.51 6844228.1 456.83 309.92 -52.57 96 M3800159
19LNRC066 440974.68 6844293.2 457.27 281.26 -49.1 78 M3800159
19LNRC067 440919.89 6844178.6 456.47 313.09 -60.66 90 M3800159
19LNRC071 440942.06 6844265.3 456.88 305.64 -70.11 54 M3800159
19LNRC085 441026.11 6844433.2 457.31 299.9 -60.28 30 M3800159
19LNRC086 441010.67 6844398.9 457.61 306.57 -60.32 30 M3800159
19LNRC087 441003.76 6844389.1 457.53 302.52 -60.34 30 M3800159
19WDRC015 440377.35 6843239.7 455.71 320.49 -50.9 54 M3800159
19WDRC025 440374.13 6843274.5 455.68 310.13 -55.75 36 M3800159
19WDRC027 440391.37 6843288.2 455.73 321.87 -54.96 54 M3800159
19WDRC056 439873.36 6842975.9 453.45 323.79 -50.76 30 M3800159
19WDRC057 439861.23 6842964.1 453.52 324.25 -50.21 30 M3800159
19WDRC058 439829.81 6842931.3 453.78 319.51 -59.47 30 M3800159

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Criteria Explanation
Data aggregation
methods

Mineralised intersections are reported at a 0.5g/t Au cut-off, composited to 1m.

A statistical review of the different mineralisation lodes revealed some high-grade outliers to the
sample population and various top cuts were applied on a lode-by-lode basis. A maximum top-cut
of 25g/t was applied to one high grade lode, on average a 10g/t top-cap was applied to higher-grade
outlier samples.
Relationship
between
mineralization
widths and
intercept
lengths

Holes were drilled orthogonal to mineralisation as much as possible, however the exact relationship
between intercept width and true width cannot be estimated exactly in all cases.
Diagrams
Refer to Figures and Tables in body of the release.
Balanced reporting
Historic drill hole results available on WAMEX.

FML drill hole data is available in the previous drill hole information table.
Other substantive
exploration data

There is no other material exploration data to report at this time.
Further work
The company is further reviewing the exploration results.

Focus have engaged RPMGlobal to conduct a PFS for Laverton Stage 1 mining

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Section 3 Estimation and Reporting of Mineral Resources

(Criteria listed in section 1, and where relevant in section 2, also apply to this section)

  • Section 3 Details for the Karridale Deposit from ASX Announcement “Karridale Mineral Resource increases by 60%” Dated 24/09/2020
Criteria Explanation
Database
integrity
Data was geologically logged electronically; collar and downhole surveys were also received
electronically as was the laboratory analysis results. These electronic files were loaded into an
acQuire database by the company in-house Database Administrator. Data was routinely
extracted to Microsoft Access during the drilling program for validation by the geologist in charge
of the project.
FML’s database is a Microsoft SQL Server database (acQuire), which is case sensitive, relational
and normalised to the Third Normal Form. Because of normalisation, the following data integrity
categories exist:
Entity Integrity: no duplicate rows in a table, eliminated redundancy and chance of error.
Domain Integrity: Enforces valid entries for a given column by restricting the type, the format or a
range of values.
Referential Integrity: Rows cannot be deleted which are used by other records.
User-Defined Integrity: business rules enforced by acQuire and validation codes set up by FML.
Additionally, in-house validation scripts are routinely run in acQuire on FML’s database and they
include the following checks:
o
Missing collar information
o
Missing logging, sampling, downhole survey data and hole diameter
o
Overlapping intervals in geological logging, sampling, down hole surveys
o
Checks for character data in numeric fields
Data extracted from the database were validated visually in GEOVIA Surpac software and
ARANZ Geo Leapfrog software. Also, when loading the data any errors regarding missing values
and overlaps are highlighted.
Site visits Alex Aaltonen, the Competent Person for Sections 1 and 2 of Table 1 is FML’s General Manager
- Exploration and conducts regular site visits.
Hannah Kosovich, the Competent Person for Section 3 of Table 1 is FML’s Resource Geologist
and last visited site in September 2019.

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Criteria Explanation
Geological
interpretation
All Focus drill holes, and historic mining data was used to guide the geological interpretation of the
mineralisation specifically adhering to geological and structural controls.
Relogging of Focus diamond core and RC chips was completed to standardise and provide a
coherent data set.
The relogging and additional drilling improved the understanding of geological controls on gold
mineralisation at Karridale. The Karridale mineralisation is hosted in an interpreted half graben on
the SE side of a large Granodiorite intrusion. The mineralisation is hosted primarily by the shallow
NW dipping shears depicted by mylonitic sediment packages with intense carb-sericite alteration
and by some NW-SE subvertical veins.
The logging of sheared to mylonitic zones, quartz veining and/or carbonate-sericitic alteration
guided the primary interpretation so that it was not solely controlled by mineralisation.
The mineralised geological interpretation was completed using Seequent Leapfrog software on a
section-by-section basis. An approximate 0.5g/t Au value was used to guide the interpretation.
Minor deviation only of the lode geometry was noticed between drill holes along strike and down-
dip.
A number of steeply dipping NW striking cross fault features were identified and modelled. An
apparent increase in grade was noted at the intersections of these cross faults and the shallow NW
dipping lodes. The contacts of these intersections were considered a dilatational contacts with
sharing of grades along the contact. Although in the flatter structures a grade dependent search
was used to limit the influence of the high grades.
Dimensions Mineralisation extends over a 900m strike length trending NE and has been modelled from surface
to a depth of 450m below surface. Numerous lodes have been modelled plunging 20 - 30° to the
NW. Six cross-cutting faults plunging 55° to NNW and 30° to the NNE have also been interpreted.
The thickness of the individual quartz veins varies from 0.25m to 6m thick. Average thickness of
mineralised shears is 4m. In addition, an average 2m thick sub-horizontal supergene cover lode
has been modelled covering most of the mineralised deposit area.
Estimation and
modelling
techniques
Only RC and Diamond holes drilled by FML were used in the estimation. In total 301 holes were
used, 271 RC holes for 53,270m and 30 RC pre-collar with diamond tail (RC/DD) holes for
10,934.53m.
The drill hole samples were composited to 1m within each domain, the dominant sampling interval.
With a minimum 0.2m composite length, intervals less than this were added to end of previous
composite interval.
Composited assay values of each lode were exported as text file (.csv) from Leapfrog and imported
into Snowden Supervisor for statistical and geostatistical analysis.
A review of histograms, probability plots and mean/variance plots for each domain revealed some
outlier sample values.
Top capping of higher Au values within each domain was carried out with Au values above the cut-
off grade reset to the cut-off grade.
Different caps were used for the lodes, an average of 10g/t Au was used; the largest cap was 30g/t
Au in the cross-cutting HG fault lodes.
Variograms were modelled in Supervisor for lodes with greater than 200 samples, which was 13
lodes. Lodes with fewer than 200 samples shared the variogram of a similar orientated lode. A
normal scores transformation was applied to the negatively skewed data in each lode. A back-
transformation to original units was applied to the variogram models before being exported in
Surpac readable format.
GEOVIA Surpac Software was used for the estimation. An Ordinary Kriging (OK) technique was
selected using the variograms modelled in Supervisor. Each domain was estimated separately.
After a review of the geology and contact analysis in Supervisor software, it was considered
acceptable for samples along the contact of the cross faults and flat lodes to be shared with limiting
grade searches restricting the distance the higher grades were spread into the flat lodes.
A minimum of 8 and a maximum 14 - 16 samples were used to estimate each block with a
maximum of 6 samples per drill hole. selected based on a Kriging Neighbourhood analysis in
Supervisor.

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Criteria Explanation
An elliptical search was used based on range and rotation directions of the Variograms.
If a block was not estimated with the initial search parameters, the minimum number of samples
was reduced to 4 and the search distance increased by 1.5 times, with the maximum number of
samples per hole reduced to 3. After the second search pass, a third pass was run on un-estimated
blocks, increasing the search distance twice that of the second pass. After the third pass a few
blocks in two lodes that had not estimated were assigned the average grade of the surrounding
estimated blocks.
The block model had 54% blocks estimate in first search pass, 38% in the second search pass
and 8% in the third search pass.
Block sizes for the model were 20m in Y, 20m in X and 5m in Z direction. Sub celling of the parent
blocks was permitted to 5m in the Y direction, 2.5m in the X direction and 1.25m in the Z direction.
Sub-blocking was used to best fill the wireframes and inherit the grade of the parent block. No
rotation was applied to the orientation of the blocks.
Block size is approximately ½ of the average drill hole spacing.
The estimate was validated by several methods. An initial visual review was done by comparing
estimated blocks and raw drill holes.
Tonnage weighted mean grades were compared for all lodes with the raw and top-capped drill
hole values. There were no major differences.
Swath plots of drill hole values and estimated Au grades by northing, easting and RL for the larger
lodes were run in Supervisor and showed that the estimated grades honoured the trend of the
drilling data.
Moisture Tonnages are estimated on a dry basis
Cut-off
parameters
The Resources for Karridale have been reported above a 0.6g/t Au cut-off and above the 230mRL
(235m below surface) for open pit based on previous pit optimisations.
Mining factors or
assumptions
The Karridale deposit would be mined by open pit extraction.
Metallurgical
factors or
assumptions
While no metallurgical test work has been carried out specifically at Karridale, previous production
and processing records for the nearby Burtville Pit exist.
Environmental
factors or
assumptions
Karridale deposit sits near the previously mined Burtville Pit, with numerous historic workings in the
area, including minor underground development at Boomerang.
Bulk density Density values were assigned based on a modelled regolith category. The densities for each
weathering category were calculated using a combination of physical bulk density and specific
gravity measurements obtained from Focus diamond core.
A value of 1.94 was assigned to completely oxidised, 2.12 for completely weathered, 2.30 for
strongly weathered, 2.53 for moderately weathered, 2.72 for partially weathered and 2.86 for fresh.
In total 512 specific gravity and bulk density measurements were used to determine the assigned
densities.
Jinning Testing and Inspections completed the bulk density measurements.
The water immersion technique was used for the specific gravity determinations on selected
competent lengths of core greater than 10cm.
Classification Resources have been classified as Indicated and Inferred based primarily on drilling spacing and
geological confidence in the geometry and continuity of the lodes. In addition, various estimation
output parameters such as number of samples, search pass, kriging variance, and slope of
regression have been used to assist in classification.
Shapes were created in Surpac to constrain the model within 40m x 40m spacing has been
classified as Indicated and the surrounding 40m x 80m spaced drilling for Inferred Resource down
to the 230mRL
Audits or reviews No external audits of the mineral resource have been conducted.
Discussion of
relative
accuracy/
confidence
This is addressed in the relevant paragraph on Classification above.
The Mineral Resource relates to global tonnage and grade estimates.

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  • Section 3 Details for the Burtville deposit from ASX Announcement “115% Increase to Burtville Mineral Resource” Dated 21/10/2020
Criteria Explanation
Database
integrity

Data was geologically logged electronically; collar and downhole surveys were also received
electronically as was the laboratory analysis results. These electronic files were loaded into an
acQuire database by the company in-house Database Administrator. Data was routinely
extracted to Microsoft Access during the drilling program for validation by the geologist in charge
of the project.

FML’s database is a Microsoft SQL Server database (acQuire), which is case sensitive, relational
and normalised to the Third Normal Form. Because of normalisation, the following data integrity
categories exist:

Entity Integrity: no duplicate rows in a table, eliminated redundancy and chance of error.

Domain Integrity: Enforces valid entries for a given column by restricting the type, the format or a
range of values.

Referential Integrity: Rows cannot be deleted which are used by other records.

User-Defined Integrity: business rules enforced by acQuire and validation codes set up by FML.

Additionally, in-house validation scripts are routinely run in acQuire on FML’s database and they
include the following checks:

Missing collar information

Missing logging, sampling, downhole survey data and hole diameter

Overlapping intervals in geological logging, sampling, down hole surveys

Checks for character data in numeric fields

Data extracted from the database were validated visually in GEOVIA Surpac software, ARANZ
Geo Leapfrog software and Datamine software. Also, when loading the data, any errors regarding
missing values and overlaps are highlighted.
Site visits
Alex Aaltonen, the Competent Person for Sections 1 and 2 of Table 1 is FML’s General Manager
- Exploration and conducts regular site visits.

Michael Job, the Competent Person for Section 3 of Table 1 has not visited site.
Geological
interpretation

All Focus and previous operators (Aberfoyle, Sons of Gwalia and Crescent Gold) RC and
diamond drill holes and historic mining data was used to guide the geological interpretation of the
mineralisation.

The gold mineralisation at Burtville is complex and is hosted within a granodiorite intrusive as well
as via an extensive network of structurally controlled quartz veins. The stockwork of narrow
quartz veins (1 mm to 30 cm) which cut the granodiorite, overlying sandstone and mafic units
hosts a higher grade of gold compared with the alteration mineralisation seen in the surrounding
granodiorite.

A geological matrix analysis was conducted to determine what geological characteristics are
important to assist in understanding the gold mineralisation. At Burtville, this study was
inconclusive, with significant Au mineralisation in all rock types/altered zones except for the mafic
volcanics.

Deterministic grade-based wireframes (as used in previous estimates) and running an estimate
using linear methods (such as ordinary kriging (OK) or inverse distance (ID)) is difficult and not
representative of the mineralisation. In particular, trying to tie together mineralised trends in such
a structurally complex deposit is challenging.

Therefore, the economic compositing function in Leapfrog software was used for the
interpretation of the mineralised zone - at a cut-off of 0.05 ppm Au, the minimum ore composite
length was set to 5 m, with maximum included and consecutive internal waste parameters set to
4 m.

An intrusive geological model was constructed in Leapfrog. In the weathered zone (above the
base of complete oxidation, which varies from 20 m to 50 m below topographic surface), a
horizontal global trend was set, and used for interpolation of the geological model. In the
transitional and fresh rock zone, a global trend of 25° towards grid west was set, which is
concordant with the Au mineralisation trend.

The geological model was designed to essentially exclude waste material and were to be used to
constrain a non-linear estimation method.
Dimensions
The deposit extends over a strike length of 700 mN, is about 800 mE wide and extends to 140 m
below the surface. The mineralisation is mainly around the granodiorite contact, which limits the
known depth extent.

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Criteria Explanation
Estimation and
modelling
techniques

Estimation of the mineral resource was by the non-linear method Localized Uniform Conditioning
(LUC) using Isatis software. Test work of the other major non-linear estimation method (Multiple
Indicator Kriging) were not successful, as the indicator variograms above even low thresholds
were essentially nugget effect.

The LUC estimation process was as follows:

Drill hole data selected within mineralized domains and composited to 2m downhole intervals in
Datamine software – 2m was chosen as the best compromise between detailed information and
over-smoothing using longer composites.

Composited data imported into Isatis software for statistical and geostatistical analysis.

Variography was done on data transformed to normal scores, and the variogram models were
back transformed to original units. The Gaussian anamorphosis used for the normal scores
transform was also subsequently used for the discrete Gaussian change of support model
required for Uniform Conditioning. Variography was performed for separate oxidized and
transitional/fresh rock mineralized domains.

The variogram models had very high nugget effects (~80% of total sill), with a range of 200 m in
fresh rock and 35 m in oxidised.

Estimation (via Ordinary Kriging) was into block model that was a non-rotated model in MGA94
grid, with a panel block size of 20 mE x 20 mN x 5 mRL – this is about the average drill spacing in
the deposit. Localization of the grades was later into Selective Mining Units (SMU) block of 5 mE
x 10 mN x 2.5 mRL (16 SMUs per panel).

A ‘distance limited threshold’ technique was used where uncapped data was used within 5 m of
the extreme values, but a capping of 10 ppm was used beyond this This cap was based on
inflections and discontinuities in the histograms and log-probability plots.

The ellipsoid search parameters were based on the variogram ranges, with the search ellipse
dimensions about 90% of the variogram range, with anisotropies retained. A minimum of 10 and
maximum of 60 (2m composite) samples per panel estimate.

If a panel was not estimated with these search parameters, then the ellipse was expanded by a
factor of four, but less than 2% of the panels required this second pass.

The UC process applies a Change of Support correction (discrete Gaussian model) based on the
composite sample distribution and variogram model, conditioned to the Panel grade estimate, to
predict the likely grade tonnage distribution at the SMU selectivity.

The Localizing step was then run, and the resulting SMU models for the fresh and oxidised
material were exported from Isatis to Datamine

Estimates of Au grades were validated against the composited drill hole data by extensive visual
checking in cross-section, plan and on screen in 3D, by global (per shoot) comparisons of input
data and model, and by semi-local statistical methods (swath plots). All methods showed
satisfactory results.
Moisture
Tonnages are estimated on a dry basis.
Cut-off
parameters

The cut-off grade of 0.6 ppm Au was established for the nearby Beasley Creek pit optimisation
work. Given that the mining and processing methods would be the same for both pits, this is a
reasonable assumption. However, pit optimisation work is currently underway for Burtville, and
cut-off grades and other assumptions for limiting the resource should be reviewed when this work
is completed.
Mining factors or
assumptions

The Burtville deposit would be mined by open pit extraction. The previous pit design would have
extended to 120 m below surface (360 mRL). The gold price used for the optimisation/pit design
is unknown, but the spot price in late 2012 was ~AUD$1700/oz.

Further pit optimisation is underway but given the much higher current gold price
(~AUD$2600/oz), then it is probable that the pit shells would be deeper and reach towards the
extent of the modelled mineralisation.

The 340 mRL has therefore been used as the base for reporting the classified resource.
Metallurgical
factors or
assumptions

Historical metallurgical test work and actual open cut mining showed the mineralised material had
very good to excellent recoveries in a standard CIL gold processing plant (>90% for some
transitional material, but generally above 98% in fresh rock.
Environmental
factors or
assumptions

The Burtville deposit has previously been mined by open pit methods in the 2012-2013 by Focus,
and there are existing waste dumps and open cut pits.

Other operations in the area in the last 8 years have been Focus’ Chatterbox – Apollo Pits south
along strike and at Euro South to the SE and is 27 km from Goldfield’s Granny Smith gold mine.

Therefore, there is extensive mining history in the region, and there are no unforeseen
environmental considerations that would preclude conventional open cut mining and waste dump
construction.

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Criteria Explanation
Bulk density
Bulk density test work was gathered throughout the life of the historical open cut pit (mining
ceased in 2013) with the water immersion technique used for these determinations.

Average bulk density values were assigned per modelled lithology/weathering domain (1.8 t/m3
for oxidised, 2.45 t/m3 for transitional and 2.65 t/m3 for fresh rock).
Classification
The Indicated Mineral Resource has a nominal drill spacing of 20 mN x 20 mE or closer (10 mE x
10 mN in grade control drilled areas), is not more than 20m laterally beyond drilling, not more
than 10 m below the base of drilling and blocks estimated using the first search pass.

The Inferred Mineral Resource is material within the mineralised domain, but not meeting the
criteria for Indicated.

The Indicated part of the resource only extends 10 m below the limit of drilling (360 mRL
maximum), and the Inferred resource only to the 340 mRL maximum.

This classification considers the confidence of the resource estimate and the quality of the data
and reflects the view of the Competent Person.
Audits or reviews
No external audits of the mineral resource have conducted, although the independent consultants
used for the resource estimate (Cube Consultants) conduct internal peer review.
Discussion of
relative
accuracy/
confidence

This is addressed in the relevant paragraph on Classification above.

The Mineral Resource relates to global tonnage and grade estimates.

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  • Section 3 Details for the Beasley Creek deposit from ASX Announcement “Beasley Creek Mineral Resource Grows by 29%” Dated 20/08/2020
Criteria Explanation
Database
integrity

Data was geologically logged electronically; collar and downhole surveys were also received
electronically as was the laboratory analysis results. These electronic files were loaded into an
acQuire database by the company in-house Database Administrator. Data was routinely
extracted to Microsoft Access during the drilling program for validation by the geologist in charge
of the project.

Focus Minerals’ database is a Microsoft SQL Server database (acQuire), which is case sensitive,
relational and normalised to the Third Normal Form. Because of normalisation, the following data
integrity categories exist:

Entity Integrity: no duplicate rows in a table, eliminated redundancy/chance of error.

Domain Integrity: Enforces valid entries for a given column by restricting the type, the format or a
range of values.

Referential Integrity: Rows cannot be deleted which are used by other records.

User-Defined Integrity: business rules enforced by acQuire and validation codes set up by Focus
Minerals.

Additionally, in-house validation scripts are routinely run in acQuire on Focus Minerals’ database
and they include the following checks:

Missing collar information

Missing logging, sampling, downhole survey data and hole diameter

Overlapping intervals in geological logging, sampling, down hole surveys

Checks for character data in numeric fields

Data extracted from the database were validated visually in GEOVIA Surpac software, ARANZ
Geo Leapfrog software and Datamine software. Also, when loading the data any errors regarding
missing values and overlaps are highlighted.
Site visits
Alex Aaltonen, the Competent Person for Sections 1 and 2 of Table 1 is Focus Minerals’ General
Manager - Exploration and conducts regular site visits.

Michael Job, the Competent Person for Section 3 of Table 1, has not visited site.
Geological
interpretation

All Focus Minerals drill holes and historic mining data were used to guide the geological
interpretation of the mineralisation.

The mineralised shoot interpretation is based on the Beasley Creek Shear Zone and the
brecciated sediments and veins within the shear. Au grades are used to assist in the
interpretation. The orientation of the shoots in the southern part of the deposit reflects the known
shoot geometry from the previous mining.

In the southern part of the deposit, the south-east plunge of the mineralised shoots is confirmed
by the outcrop and mined mineralisation in the historical WMC pit, and any alternative
interpretation is unlikely. However, for the northern part of the deposit away from the pit, there
may be alternatives to the geometry of the shoots modelled, although the global tonnages are
smaller here and unlikely to be significantly different if an alternative interpretation was adopted.

It is recognised that the WMC RC data in places shows down hole contamination (due to the wet
ground conditions and older cross-over sub RC hammers used). Much of this data is within the
historical pit and has very little influence over the resource estimate below the pit. Where this RC
data is below the pit, it has not been used for the interpretation as it would create incorrect long
intercepts. However, this data has been used for grade interpolation, as studies showed this data
within the interpreted shoots was very similar statistically to the modern RC and DDH drilling
undertaken by Focus Minerals.

Contiguous high-grade zones (>5 ppm Au) were modelled as separate domains.

The weathering/oxidation profiles at Beasley Creek is deep, with clays and saprock extending up
to 250 m below surface in the eastern part of the deposit.

Leapfrog software was used for the interpretation of the mineralised shoots and the regolith
domains. Each mineralised shoot intercept was coded in the database before being imported into
Leapfrog, so the resulting solids honour the data well.
Dimensions
The deposit extends over a strike length of 1100m and extends to at least 280m below the
surface. The deposit is arcuate in shape, striking towards the north-west in the northern part of
the deposit, and to the south-west and then south in the southern part. There are numerous
mineralised lodes, plunging at 30 to 50° to the south-east in the southern part of the deposit, and
dipping at 50 to 60° to the north-east in the northern part.

The individual lodes range from 5 m to 30 m thick (averaging 15 m), from 20 m to 80 m wide
(averaging 30 m) and can extend up to 400 m downplunge.

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Criteria Explanation
Estimation and
modelling
techniques

Estimation of the mineral resource was by ordinary kriging using Datamine software. The
estimation process was as follows:

Drill hole database including coded shoot intercepts imported into Datamine.

Drill hole data composited to 1m downhole intervals, with a minimum allowable composite of 0.25
m at the shoot base.

Composited data imported into Supervisor software for statistical and geostatistical analysis.

Top-capping applied per mineralised shoot – caps ranged between 5 to 10 ppm Au for the main
mineralised shoots, and up to 25 ppm Au for the high-grade shoots. The caps were based on
inflections and discontinuities in the histograms and log-probability plots.

Variography was done on data transformed to normal scores, and the variogram model was back
transformed to original units. Variography was only performed for mineralised shoots with more
than 150 samples (seven shoots), and these were applied to the other shoots that had the closest
statistical similarities.

As the mineralised shoots have different orientations, the applied variogram rotations (for the
smaller shoots) were adjusted (and checked) for each individual shoot.

The variogram models had moderate to high nugget effects (~30 to 50% of total sill), and with a
down-plunge range of 50 to 60 m. The range across dip was small, generally 6 to 8 m.

The ellipsoid search parameters were based on the variogram ranges, with the search ellipse
dimensions about 90% of the variogram range, with anisotropies retained. A minimum of 8 and
maximum of 14 (1m composite) samples per block were used, with a maximum of 4 samples per
drill hole. Estimates were into parent blocks, not sub-blocks.

Search ellipse rotation directions were the same as the variograms, for each shoot.

If a block was not estimated with these search parameters, then the ellipse was expanded by a
factor of two, using the same sample numbers. If a block was not estimated on the second pass,
then a third pass was used – this was an expanded search of a factor of 4 compared to the first
pass, with a minimum of two and maximum of 18 samples.

For the block model, 66% of blocks were estimated on the first pass, 30% on the second and 3%
on the third. No blocks in the mineralised shoots were left unestimated. These search volumes
assisted with later resource classification.

The block model itself was a non-rotated model in MGA94 grid, with a parent block size of 10 mE
x 20 mN x 5 mRL – this is about half of the average drill spacing in the well-mineralised areas.

Sub-blocking was to a minimum of 1.25 mE x 2.5 mN x 1.25 mRL for accurate volume
representation, and the blocks and sub-blocks were coded by mineralised shoot and
lithology/weathering and topography.

Estimates of Au grades were validated against the composited drill hole data by extensive visual
checking in cross-section, plan and on screen in 3D, by global (per shoot) comparisons of input
data and model, and by semi-local statistical methods (swath plots). All methods showed
satisfactory results.
Moisture
There is significant groundwater at Beasley Creek, but bulk density determinations (see below)
were made on dried core. Tonnages are therefore estimated on a dry basis.
Cut-off
parameters

The cut-off grade of 0.8 ppm Au was established from the previous pit optimisation run (see
below) and gave a consistent cash flow. As the Au price is now higher than the price used during
this optimisation study (AUD$2300/oz cf. $1800/oz), then the reporting cut-off grade used is a
conservative approach.
Mining factors or
assumptions

The Beasley Creek deposit would be mined by open pit extraction. Previous pit optimisation runs
have extended to 180 m below surface (250 mRL), using a gold price of AUD$1786/oz.

Further pit optimisation is underway but, given the much higher current gold price
(~AUD$2300/oz), it is probable that the pit shells would be deeper.

The 250 mRL has therefore been used as the base for reporting the classified resource.

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Criteria Explanation
Metallurgical
factors or
assumptions

WMC reported reconciled recovery of blended feed at Windarra between 1991 and 1994,
although this was a blend from a number of sources. WMC mine reconciliation for the period
ranged from 82% - 93%

Test work was completed on samples by Metex/Delta in the late 1990s for heap leach and
column test work and reported 94% recovery in 56 days and 80% in 20 days, which was
considered favourable for heap leach.

Eleven samples were further acquired by Delta Gold and subjected to bottle roll test work,
returning 84-98% recovery after 48 hours. Nine of the 11 samples returned average 94.28%
recovery after 24 hours with very low reagent consumption.

Focus Minerals completed two new samples at ALS in September 2019. The material was
considered in natural state already too fine to require grinding and was simple-sized post-test
work.

Later sizing showed the P80 for one sample was 54 micron and the other 75 microns. As such
some of the insitu material may not need a grind at all.

The leach results for these two Beasley Creek samples were good with 96.74% and 97.74%
recovery after 4 hours and, 94.44% and 92.67% recovery at 2 hours, with low reagent
consumption.

These results confirm earlier results from Beasley Creek and indicate it will run very well in either
a mill or as a heap leach.

Metallurgical test work at Beasley Creek South shows a similar response to samples processed
at ALS in 2019
Environmental
factors or
assumptions

Beasley Creek was mined by open pit methods between 1987-1993 by WMC and there are
existing waste dumps and open cut pits.

Other operations in the area in the past eight years have been Focus Minerals’ Chatterbox–
Apollo Pits 8.5km south along strike and at Euro South, 19km to the south-east.

Therefore, there is extensive mining history in the region, and there are no unforeseen
environmental considerations that would preclude conventional open cut mining and waste dump
construction.

A potential heap leach would have greater environmental management burden than sending to a
CIL plant but would not preclude mining.
Bulk density
Bulk density test work was initially on diamond core samples from different geology domains, with
the water immersion technique used for these determinations. These results were compared with
external lab results in order to develop an accurate database.

Follow up PQ3 holes were drilled for down hole gamma logging of insitu bulk density at 0.2m
downhole spacing. In additional available open HQ3 holes were down hole gamma logged to
build a significant high-resolution dataset at Beasley Creek.

The regolith at Beasley Creek was comprehensively modelled in Leapfrog and used to evaluate
all bulk density results by regolith domain.

The statistics of each domain were analysed to determine refined average bulk density values to
be applied to each regolith domain.
Classification
The mineralised shoots are classified as Indicated where the drilling pattern is 40 m along strike
and 20 m down dip, and within 20m of the lower-most drilling in the shoot

All the rest of the mineralised shoots outside this area are classified as Inferred.

This classification considers the confidence of the geological interpretation and the quality of the
data and reflects the view of the Competent Person.
Audits or reviews
No external audits of the mineral resource have conducted, although the independent consultants
used for the resource estimate (Cube Consultants) have critically reviewed the geological
_interpretationsprovided by Focus and thequality of the WMC RC drilling. _
Discussion of
relative
accuracy/
confidence

This is addressed in the relevant paragraph on Classification above.

The Mineral Resource relates to global tonnage and grade estimates.

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  • Section 3 Details for the Beasley Creek South deposit from ASX Announcement “Beasley Creek South Delivers High Grade Mineral Resource” Dated 15/07/2020
Criteria Explanation
Database
integrity

Data was geologically logged electronically; collar and downhole surveys were also received
electronically as was the laboratory analysis results. These electronic files were loaded into an
acQuire database by the company in-house Database Administrator.

Data was routinely extracted to Microsoft Access during the drilling program for validation by the
geologist in charge of the project.

FML’s database is a Microsoft SQL Server database (acQuire), which is case sensitive, relational
and normalised to the Third Normal Form. Because of normalisation, the following data integrity
categories exist:

Entity Integrity: no duplicate rows in a table, eliminated redundancy and chance of error.

Domain Integrity: Enforces valid entries for a given column by restricting the type, the format or a
range of values.

Referential Integrity: Rows cannot be deleted which are used by other records.

User-Defined Integrity: business rules enforced by acQuire and validation codes set up by FML.

Additionally, in-house validation scripts are routinely run in acQuire on FML’s database and they
include the following checks:
o
Missing collar information
o
Missing logging, sampling, downhole survey data and hole diameter
o
Overlapping intervals in geological logging, sampling, down hole surveys
o
Checks for character data in numeric fields.

Data extracted from the database were validated visually in GEOVIA Surpac software, ARANZ
Geo Leapfrog software and Datamine software. Also, when loading the data any errors regarding
missing values and overlaps are highlighted.
Site visits
Alex Aaltonen, the Competent Person for Sections 1 and 2 of Table 1 is FML’s General Manager -
Exploration and conducts regular site visits.

Hannah Kosovich, the Competent Person for Section 3 visited site in September 2019.
Geological
interpretation

All available drill hole and historic mining data was used to guide the geological interpretation of
the mineralisation. Although percussion drill holes were used with caution due to the poor sample
recovery and quality that is inherent with the drilling method at Beasley Creek South.

The mineralised geological interpretation was generated in Seequent Leapfrog Geo implicit
modelling software. Three larger mineralised lodes were generated by coding mineralised
intervals along strike and down dip of the known trend using logged geology as a guide. An
approximate 0.5g/t cut-off was used, infrequently sub 0.5g/t samples were included for continuity.

Within the larger mineralised lodes, several cores of higher-grade mineralisation were modelled as
separate domains.

Two hanging wall lodes were modelled also with higher-grade cores within each lode.

Minor deviation of the lode geometry was noticed between drill holes down-dip.

A gap in the main lode was modelled corresponding with less altered/weathered coarse calc –
silicate mafic intrusion. Tight spaced infill drilling has been used to better define its location and
extent.
Dimensions
The deposit extends over a strike length of 450 m and extends to approximately 250 m below the
surface. The deposit is striking towards the NNW. There are three main lodes of mineralisation
and two hanging wall lodes. The bulk of the mineralisation has been modelled from surface.

The lodes range from 5 m to 25 m wide (averaging 10 m), with the internal HG shoots ranging
from 1 m to 15m wide (averaging 5 m). The two hanging wall lodes average 3m wide.
Estimation and
modelling
techniques

The drill hole samples were composited to 1m within each domain. This is the dominant sampling
interval.

The boundaries between lodes and also between the HG shoots and surrounding lodes were
considered “hard” boundaries and no drill hole information were used by another domain in the
estimation.

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Criteria Explanation

Composited assay values of each domain were exported to a text file (.csv) and imported into
Snowden Supervisor for geostatistical analysis.

A review of histograms, probability plots and mean/variance plots by domain revealed outlier
sample values in some of the lodes/shoots. A maximum top-cut of 40g/t Au and an average of
25g/t Au was used for the HG shoots; maximum top-cut of 7g/t Au and an average of 4g/t Au was
used for surround lodes. Assays above the top-cut were set to the top-cut value.

Variograms were modelled in Supervisor for the main lode and one of the smaller lodes that had
the largest number of samples. Other minor lodes shared the minor lode variogram.

GEOVIA Surpac Software was used for the estimation and modelling process. The model was
created in GDA 94 grid co-ordinates. Block sizes for the model were 10m in Y, 10m in X and 5m in
Z direction. Sub celling of the parent blocks was permitted to 1.25m in the Y direction, 1.25m in
the X direction and 2.5m in the Z direction. Sub-blocking was used to best fill the wireframes and
inherit the grade of the parent block. No rotation was applied to the orientation of the blocks.

Block size is approximately ½ of the average drill hole spacing along strike and across strike was
selected to best fill the wireframe volumes.

An Ordinary Kriging (OK) estimation technique was selected and used the variograms modelled in
Supervisor.

The main lode was estimated using a minimum (8) and maximum (16) samples were selected
based on a Kriging Neighbourhood analysis in Supervisor.

An elliptical search was used based on range/ratio of the Variograms.

Three search passes were run in order to fill the block model with estimated Au values. After each
search pass the search range was increased and the minimum number of samples was
decreased.

The estimate was validated by several methods. An initial visual review was done by comparing
estimated blocks and raw drill holes.

Tonnage weighted mean grades were compared for the lodes with no major differences.

Swath plots of drill hole values and estimated Au grades by northing and RL were run and showed
that the estimated grades honoured the trend of the drilling data.
Moisture
Tonnages are estimated on a dry basis.
Cut-off
parameters

The open pit cut-off grade of 0.55 g/t Au (Gold Price AUD $1,800/oz) was established from the
2019 Laverton Scoping Study.

For the purposes of reporting this open pit resource a cut-off grade of 0.8 g/t Au has been used
which is in line with the recently reported and nearby Beasley Creek Resource Estimate
(Announced 25/10/2019).
Mining factors or
assumptions

The Beasley Creek South deposit would be mined by open pit extraction. Nearby Beasley Creek
has been optimised in the scoping study down to the 250mRL (approx.180m below surface) for
reasonable open pit extraction the same RL cut off has been applied to the Beasley Creek South
open pit resource.
Metallurgical
factors or
assumptions

Beasley Creek South samples are being compiled for metallurgical test work.

Samples are geologically / mineralogically similar to the nearby Beasley Creek deposit.

As stated in the Beasley Creek release 25 October 2019:
o
Focus sent two samples for test work to ALS in September 2019. The material was
considered in natural state already too fine to require grinding and was simple sized
post-test work.
o
Later sizing showed the P80 for one sample was 54 micron and the other 75
microns. As such some of the insitu material may not need a grind at all.
o
The leach results for these two Beasley Creek samples were good with 96.74% and
97.74% recovery after 4hrs and, 94.44% and 92.67% recovery at 2 hrs, with low
reagent consumption.

These results confirm earlier results from Beasley Creek and indicate it will run very well in either
a mill or as a heap leach.

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Criteria Explanation
Environmental
factors or
assumptions

Beasley Creek South is approximately 400m south of the existing Beasley Creek open pit which
was mined by open pit methods in the 1980s by WMC.

It forms part of the Chatterbox Shear group of deposits which have been historically mined and
there are no unforeseen environmental considerations that would preclude conventional open cut
mining and waste dump construction.
Bulk density
Bulk density test work was routinely completed on FML diamond core samples targeting all
geological/weathering domains. The water immersion technique used for these determinations.

During May 2020, 9 whole or partial Beasley South and 2 further Beasley Creek holes were
downhole logged using a bottom loading gamma ray source sonde to directly measure formation
density.

This logging method delivers bulk high-quality data with sample intervals of 0.2m.

The downhole logging data was categorised by modelled geological/weathering domains. This
allowed direct comparison of various sourced data within each relevant domain using box and
whisker plots.

Analysis of the data showed tight correlation between downhole logging, and laboratory and
company Archimedes immersion method specific gravity determinations in most domains.
However, some oxidised shear zone bulk density samples measured by the water immersion
technique fell below acceptable data ranges. An analysis of samples with very low density
concluded that these samples were affected by noticeable dehydration/shrinkage cracks.

These types of samples can dry to form 0.2 – 0.5m sized sticks of core that can be measured but
should not be measured as they deliver spurious results. These samples with very low densities
(<1.2 SG) were cut out of the data. Equally, anomalously high-density values were examined and
were determined to be spurious were discarded from the dataset.

It is also noted that the immersion method requires sticks of core at least 0.2m long. Unfortunately,
this creates a sample bias towards more clay rich samples that tend to dry into sticks of core.
These samples have lower average densities than more blocky quartz, sulphidic black shale or
gossan units that could not be routinely measured. It is interpreted that this is responsible for the
slightly lower average for oxidised shear samples measured using the immersion technique.

Once the data was compiled and sorted a simple average density was then assigned to each
geological unit/weathering domain.
Classification
The mineralised lodes and internal HG shoots are classified as Indicated above the 300mRL
(130m depth and limit of most drilling) with the bulk of the lodes filling within the first search pass.


Mineralised lodes below the 250mRL are classified as Inferred. The hanging wall lodes which
require further delineation are classified as Inferred.
Audits or reviews
No external audits of the mineral resource have been conducted.
Discussion of
relative
accuracy/
confidence

This is addressed in the relevant paragraph on Classification above.

The Mineral Resource relates to global tonnage and grade estimates.

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  • Section 3 Details for the Wedge deposit from ASX Announcement “Wedge Open Pit Resource Update” Dated 24/01/2020
Criteria Explanation
Database
integrity
Data was geologically logged electronically; collar and downhole surveys were also received
electronically as was the laboratory analysis results. These electronic files were loaded into an
acQuire database by the company in-house Database Administrator. Data was routinely extracted
to Microsoft Access during the drilling program for validation by the geologist in charge of the
project.
FML’s database is a Microsoft SQL Server database (acQuire), which is case sensitive, relational
and normalised to the Third Normal Form. Because of normalisation, the following data integrity
categories exist:
Entity Integrity: no duplicate rows in a table, eliminated redundancy and chance of error.
Domain Integrity: Enforces valid entries for a given column by restricting the type, the format or a
range of values.
Referential Integrity: Rows cannot be deleted which are used by other records.
User-Defined Integrity: business rules enforced by acQuire and validation codes set up by FML.
Additionally, in-house validation scripts are routinely run in acQuire on FML’s database and they
include the following checks:
Missing collar information
Missing logging, sampling, downhole survey data and hole diameter
Overlapping intervals in geological logging, sampling, down hole surveys
Checks for character data in numeric fields.
Data extracted from the database were validated visually in GEOVIA Surpac software and ARANZ
Geo Leapfrog software. Also, when loading the data any errors regarding missing values and
overlaps are highlighted.
Historic data has been validated against WAMEX reports where possible.
Site visits
Alex Aaltonen, the Competent Person for Sections 1 and 2 of Table 1 is FML’s General Manager
- Exploration and conducts regular site visits.

Hannah Kosovich, the Competent Person for Section 3 of Table 1 is FML’s Resource Geologist
and last visited site in September 2019.
Geological
interpretation

All available drill hole and historic mining data was used to guide the geological interpretation of
the mineralisation.

The mineralised geological interpretation was generated in Seequent Leapfrog Geo implicit
modelling software. A larger mineralised trend of the entire Wedge/Lancefield North deposits was
generated by coding mineralised intervals along strike and down dip of the known trend using
logged geology as a guide. An approximate 0.2g/t cut-off was used, infrequently sub 0.2g/t
samples were included for continuity. To the North of Lancefield North deposit an east/west
running cross fault appears to terminate the mineralisation.
Within the larger mineralised trend, small higher-grade shoots were modelled as separate
domains.
Several hanging wall lodes were modelled.
Minor deviation only of the lode geometry was noticed between drill holes down-dip. Along strike
two mineralised lodes have been interpreted that appear to be cross-cutting structures.
Dimensions
The entire Wedge/Lancefield North deposit strikes NE with a total strike length of approx. 2.6km.
Lancefield North sits along the NE strike some 250m from the Wedge trend. The main lode of
mineralisation has been modelled greater than 200m below surface, however only the top 130m
of the estimate is reported. The bulk of the mineralisation has been modelled from surface.
Mineralisation has an average width of 5m.
Estimation and
modelling
techniques
A total of 549 drill holes were used in the Estimation; 11 diamond holes, 1 diamond hole with an
RC pre-collar and 537 RC holes for a total of 37,891.3m.
The drill hole samples were composited to 1m within each domain. This is the dominant sampling
interval.
All domain boundaries were considered “hard” boundaries and no drill hole information were used
by another domain in the estimation.
Composited assay values of each domain were exported to a text file (.csv) and imported into
Snowden Supervisor for geostatistical analysis.
A review of histograms, probability plots and mean/variance plots for the main lode domain
revealed outlier sample values. A maximum top-cut of 25g/t Au and an average of 10g/t Au was
used for the different lodes, with assays above the top-cut set to the top-cut value.
Variograms were modelled in Supervisor for the main lode and one of the smaller lodes that had
the largest number of samples. Other minor lodes shared the minor lode variogram.

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Criteria Explanation
GEOVIA Surpac Software was used for the estimation and modelling process. The model was
created in GDA 94 grid co-ordinates. Block sizes for the model were 12.5m in Y, 12.5m in X and
5m in Z direction. Sub celling of the parent blocks was permitted to 1.562m in the Y direction,
1.562m in the X direction and 1.25m in the Z direction. Sub-blocking was used to best fill the
wireframes and inherit the grade of the parent block. No rotation was applied to the orientation of
the blocks.
Block size is approximately ½ of the average drill hole spacing along strike and across strike was
selected to best fill the wireframe volumes.
An Ordinary Kriging (OK) estimation technique was selected and used the variograms modelled in
Supervisor.
The main lode was estimated using a minimum (6) and maximum (20) samples were selected
based on a Kriging Neighbourhood analysis in Supervisor.
The smaller lodes were estimated using a minimum (6) and maximum (14) samples.
An elliptical search was used based on range/ratio of the Variograms.
Three search passes were run in order to fill the block model with estimated Au values. After each
search pass the search range was increased and the minimum number of samples was
decreased.
The estimate was validated by a number of methods. An initial visual review was done by
comparing estimated blocks and raw drill holes.
Tonnage weighted mean grades were compared for the lodes with no major differences.
Swath plots of drill hole values and estimated Au grades by northing and RL were run and showed
that the estimated grades honoured the trend of the drilling data.
Available production figures for Wedge were used as a comparison with the estimated material
within the pit shells. Production figures state 262,023t @ 2.53g/t Au HG ore was mined from the
pits and 260,544t @ 2.51 g/t of HG ore was Milled.
Moisture
Tonnages are estimated on a dry basis.
Cut-off
parameters

The mineral resource for the Wedge/Lancefield North deposits has been reported above a 0.8g/t
Au cut-off.
Mining factors or
assumptions

The Wedge/Lancefield North deposits would be mined by a cut-back on the existing open pits.
Metallurgical
factors or
assumptions

Metallurgical test work was carried out by AMMTEC on behalf of Hill Minerals NL in August and
September 1988.

An end of mine report by Ashton Gold states mill recoveries were typically in the range of 94% -
95%
Environmental
factors or
assumptions

Wedge has been historically mined by open pit methods.
Bulk density
Density values were assigned based on weathering profile and rock type, using SG test work on
FML diamond core samples and historic figures used in the region. An average SG of 2.06 was
used for the transported and cemented horizon, 2.0 for the highly weathered clay weathering
profile, 2.49 for transitional material and 2.77 for Fresh rock were applied.

The water immersion technique was used for the FML measurements.
Classification
Material has been classified Indicated and Inferred based on a number of criteria such as
geological continuity, drill hole spacing, estimation pass and proximity to existing open pit.
Audits or reviews
No external audits of the mineral resource have conducted.
Discussion of
relative
accuracy/
confidence

This is addressed in the relevant paragraph on Classification above.

The Mineral Resource relates to global tonnage and grade estimates.

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Section 4 Estimation and Reporting of Ore Reserves

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

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Criteria Commentary
Mineral
Resource
Estimate for
conversion to
Ore Reserves
The Mineral Resources used for the estimation of Ore Reserves were previously reported as
summarised in Section 3 of Table 1.
The Mineral Resources has been compiled by:

Ms. Hannah Kosovich is the Competent Person for the Karridale, Beasley Creek South and
Wedge Lancefield Mineral Resources.

Mr. Michael Job is the Competent Person for the Burtville and Beasley Creek Mineral
Resources.
Ms. Hannah Kosovich is an employee of Focus Minerals and a Member of the Australasian
Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM). Mr. Michael Job is an employee of Cube
Consulting and a Fellow of AusIMM.
Ms. Kosovich and Mr. Job have sufficient experience relevant to the style of mineralisation
and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity that they have undertaken to
qualify as a Competent Persons as defined in the JORC Code.

The Mineral Resources are inclusive of these Ore Reserves.

Following the completion of the Pre-Feasibility Study, the cut-off grades applied in the
reporting of the Ore Reserve are lower than those applied to the reporting of the Mineral
Resources.

As similar cut-off grades were applied to the geological interpretation in the Mineral
Resource and the Ore Reserve, the reporting of Mineral Resources at a higher cut-off
**grade does not impact the accuracy of the reported Ore Reserves. **
Site visits
Alex Aaltonen, the Competent Person for Sections 1 and 2 of Table 1 is FML’s General
Manager of Exploration and Geology, conducts regular site visits.

Hannah Kosovich, the Competent Person for Section 3 of Table 1 is FML’s Resource
Geologist and has conducted site visits in the past.

The Ore Reserve for Focus Laverton Gold Mine is based on information compiled and
reviewed by Mr. Igor Bojanic, who is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and
Metallurgy and is a full-time employee of RPM Advisory Services Pty Ltd (RPMGlobal).

No site visit was undertaken due to COVID-19 travel restrictions. Mr. Bojanic is
experienced in gold operations in the Laverton region
Study status
The Mineral Resources have been converted to Ore Reserves by means of a Preliminary
Feasibility Study (PFS) including economic assessment.

The PFS mine plan demonstrates that the Project outcomes are technically achievable,
and the Project is economically viable.
Cut off
parameters

The PFS included analysis of operating costs, sustaining capital, and metallurgical
recoveries.

Applied cut-off gold grades vary by pit and material type due to variations in haulage
costs from pit to the Run of Mine (ROM) pad and metallurgical recoveries.

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  • Technical analysis was completed in the PFS to determine the most appropriate mining method and estimate ore loss and dilution.

  • Selective open cut mining techniques are considered the preferred method of mining.The in situ Mineral Resource models were converted to run-of-mine mining models by regularisation of the sub-blocks to the following sizes:

Pit Block Dimension
Karridale
Burtville
Beasley Creek
Beasley Creek South
Wedge
2.5 x 5 x 2.5 m
5 x 5 x 2.5 m
2.5 x 5 x 2.5 m
2.5 x 5 x 2.5 m
3.125 x 3.125 x 2.5 m
  • Note - the Burtville Resource model was estimated using Localised Uniform Conditioning with minimum sub-blocks dimensions of 5 x 5 x 2.5 m. Given the method of resource estimation and the sub-block dimensions, no further adjustments were applied.

  • Ore loss and dilution is reported relative to in situ Resource quantities and summarised below.

Mining factors or assumptions

Pit Ore Loss
Quantity
(%)
Avg.
Grade of
Ore Loss
(g/t)
Ore
Dilution
Quantity
(%)
Avg.
Grade of
Dilution
(g/t)
Karridale
Beasley Creek
Beasley South
Wedge
16%
13%
16%
16%
0.25
1.66
1.26
0.9
15%
13%
6%
20%
0
0.1
0.03
0.04
  • Minimum mining width was 20m followed by a “good-bye” cut.

  • Minimum cut-back width is 25 m.

  • Geotechnical criteria for the design of the open pits were developed by Green Geotechnical Pty Ltd for the purpose of the PFS. The resultant overall slope angles, following pit design, are summarised below.

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  • The economic pit shell was defined using Whittle 4X pit optimisation software (“Whittle 4X”) with inputs such as geotechnical parameters, run of mine model, metallurgical recoveries and operating and sustaining capital costs. Only Measured and Indicated Resources were used to identify the economic mining limit.

  • In defining the economic pit shell, metallurgical recoveries were not applied to Primary material from Karridale, Beasley Creek, Beasley Creek South and Wedge due to limited metallurgical test work in Primary material from these deposits. Metallurgical recoveries were applied to Primary material from Burtville and Lancefield.

  • Inferred Mineral Resources were assumed to be waste rock for the pit shell selection using Whittle. Inferred Mineral Resources included within the selected pit shells was treated as ore in the mine scheduling and economic analysis. A breakdown of Inferred Material by pit is summarised below.

  • No specialised infrastructure is required to support the proposed mining method.

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The PFS mining schedule strip ratios (inclusive of Inferred Resources described above)
are Karridale 7.0:1, Burtville 1.0:1, Beasley Creek 18.7:1, Beasley Creek South 19.7:1 and
Wedge/Lancefield 13.5:1. Overall strip ratio for the PFS mining schedule is 8.4:1.

Conventional open cut mining is a very common mining method used through the mining
industry and requires no specialist infrastructure.

The required supporting infrastructure has been included in the PFS. Major items include
refurbishment of the haul roads connecting the pits to the Barnicoat mill, workshops and
offices near the Barnicoat area and satellite offices and facilities near the main mining
areas.
Metallurgical
factors or
assumptions

A reasonable quantity of test work has been conducted in several campaigns over many
years. Additional metallurgical test work will provide more confidence in the performance
of the milling circuit and gold recoveries.

The proposed flowsheet and the refurbished Barnicoat processing plant is considered
capable of successfully handling the Laverton oxide and transition ores as well as
selected primary ore types. Primary ores from Karridale, Beasley Creek, Beasley Creek
South and Wedge have been excluded from the PFS and Ore Reserve.

Ores from Burtville, Beasley Creek, Wedge and Lancefield open pits have been
successfully processed in a number of processing operations, including the Barnicoat
mill, providing confidence in the proposed outcomes.

The Barnicoat plant will recover gold via a gravity circuit and by a carbon-in-leach
process. The plant is designed to process 1.5 Mt/a of ore.

No major presence of deleterious material has been identified.

Head grade/recovery relationships have been estimated for each material type by pit. Life
of mine average metallurgical recovery as estimated in the PFS is 91.0%
Environmental
A review of the environmental permitting required was completed as part of the PFS.

No environment impact statement has been completed to date.

Environmental studies relating to the re-commencement of mining and processing
operations are yet to commence.

It is estimated to progress from commencement of additional baseline studies to project
construction will require approximately 18 to 24 months.

The Project is a brown-field operation. New pits are proposed at Beasley Creek South and
Karridale which are nearby previously operated open pits. All other proposed open pits
are extensions of previously mined pits. The Barnicoat mill, already in place, is not
proposed to be relocated.

No major environmental or permitting risks have been identified for the Project.
RPMGlobal considers that following completion of the required baseline studies and
assessments it is likely the Project will receive relevant permits and approvals. These
approvals will outline the conditions under which the Project will need to be operated.

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Infrastructure
The Project is located approximately 8 km East of the town of Laverton.

Site infrastructure requirements have been defined as part of the PFS.

There is existing infrastructure and facilities on-site, including the de-commissioned
Barnicoat mill, buildings, workshops and pit to mill haul roads. These will require
upgrading prior to being re-commissioned.

The PFS proposes the following infrastructure and services for the Project:

Power to be generated via a diesel power station with a Peak Power load of 4.7 MW.

Re-commission of water bores.

Accommodation camp of 200 to 250 persons potentially located in Laverton.

Satellite crib areas, offices, workshops and go-bays to support mining operations at
the Karridale/Burtville area and the Beasley Creek/Beasley Creek South/Wedge area.

Tailings to be stored in previously mined pits adjacent to the Barnicoat mill.

Some additions to the existing haul roads between the pits and mill are required.

Sufficient land is available for the placement of all required. infrastructure, including ore
processing plant, waste rock storage, explosives magazine and accommodation village

Further studies are required to confirm the site water balance and capital and operating
costs associated with water supply to the project.
Costs
The estimating of capital and operating costs was supported by engineering
commensurate with a preliminary feasibility study.

Mobile plant (mining equipment) capital costs for major items were based on recent
quotes from equipment providers.

Fixed plant capital costs were primarily based on in-house data and benchmarking. An
average contingency of 18% was applied to initial capital costs.

Some capital items, such as the diesel power plant and accommodation camp were cost
based on a Build Own Operate Transfer (BOO/T) contract basis. Additionally, mining
facilities, such as satellite facilities, workshop plant, diesel generators were costed on a
life of mine leasing basis.

Capital costs were based on an AUD to USD exchange rate of 0.7.

Mining, processing and G&A operating costs were largely derived from a first principal
engineering basis, with cost inputs, such as operating consumables, based on in-house
data and benchmarking.

Off-site costs such as refining were provided by Focus.

Royalties were assessed on a tenement basis. These included royalties for Government
(2.5%) and tenement specific royalties. Total royalties vary by tenement and range from
6.5 to 7.5% of revenue.
Revenue
factors

Gold is the only revenue generating product considered in the Ore Reserves.

A gold price of AUD 2,207/oz was provided by Focus and confirmed by Mr. Bojanic as
reasonable estimate for a long-term price using published metal price forecasts
Market
Assessment

The demand for gold is considered in the gold price used.

It was considered that gold will be marketable for beyond the processing life of these
Reserves.

The commodity is not an industrial metal.
Economic
An economic model has been prepared from the outcomes of the preliminary engineering
and costing associated with the PFS. The economic modelling demonstrates that the
Project is cash flow positive.

The base case results in a positive economic outcome as assessed by an NPV calculation
(@5.0% DCF). The NPV is most sensitive to the gold price.

Focus has advised the Project carries sufficient tax credits to cover forecast tax payable
from the PFS. RPMGlobal completed economic analysis on both a pre- and post-tax basis.

The project break-even gold price is approximately AUD1,856/ oz (pre-tax) or AUD 1,900 oz
(post-tax).

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Social
There is currently a native title application (Nyalpa Pirniku WC2019/002) over most of the
Project area. The claim has been accepted to be considered for determination but is yet to
be determined (Wood 2020). Traditional owners of the area are the Wongatha people.

Focus holds an Aboriginal Land Access agreement with the Wongatha people, who had a
native title claim over the entire Project Area. The Wongatha claim was dismissed. It is yet
to be determined whether the ongoing heritage interest over the Project area by the
parties to the Wongatha agreement will be influenced by the progression of Nyalpa Pirniku
native title claim.
Other
No naturally occurring material risks have been identified through the PFS.

Mining Leases covering most of the areas to be affected by the proposed operations are in
place.

Parts of existing and proposed haul roads are not covered by Mining Act tenements so
appropriate tenure will need to sought to facilitate their development and use.

The Barnicoat Mill is a prescribed premise (Category 5), licenced under L8490/2010/2,
which permits processing of up to 1.5 Mt of ore per annum.
Classification
The Ore Reserve is classified as Probable in accordance with the JORC Code,
corresponding to the resource classifications of Measured and Indicated Resources.

There are no Measured Resources at the Project.

Indicated Resources have been converted to Probable status.

No Inferred Mineral Resources were included in the Ore Reserve estimate.
Audits and
Reviews

The JORC Code provides guidelines which set out minimum standards, recommendations
and guidelines for the Public Reporting of exploration results, Mineral Resources and Ore
Reserves. Within the JORC Code is a “Checklist of Assessment and Reporting Criteria”
(Table 1 – JORC Code). This checklist has been used as a systematic method to undertake
a review of the underlying Study used to report in accordance with the JORC Code.

RPMGlobal has completed an internal review of the Ore Reserve estimate, deriving results
using two separate methods, and believes the estimate accurate.

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Discussion of
relative
accuracy/
confidence

The proposed gold mine will be employing conventional mining and ore processing
techniques.

The PFS has been supported by engineering and costing to provide a level of service
targeting +/-25% accuracy.

The marginal cut-off grades used to derive the Ore Reserve estimates were calculated
from the final outcomes of the PFS.

The ultimate pit limits were selected based on a Revenue Factor of 85% to provide a 15%
margin at the limit and based on Measured and Indicated Resources.

Pit designs were undertaken based on the preferred pit shells.

Ore Reserve quantities and grades were derived based on the mining model, the cut-off
grade and with the detailed ultimate pit shell.

An internal audit checked the estimation of quantities.

Sensitivity analyses were undertaken on the economic model to test robustness of the
economic outcomes

The Project is most sensitive to gold price. Un-discounted cash-flows are break-even at a
gold price of AUD 1,753/oz (post tax).

The accuracy of the underlying Mineral Resources is defined by the Resource Category
that the Mineral Resources are assigned to. Only Indicated Resources have been used for
estimating Ore Reserves.

Exploration targets have recently been reported in the immediate vicinity of the reported
Ore Reserves at the Karridale, Burtville and Beasley Creek South areas.

Additional metallurgical test work is recommended to increase the confidence in the
performance of the milling circuit and gold recoveries

Primary ores from Karridale, Beasley Creek, Beasley Creek South and Wedge have been
excluded from the PFS and Ore Reserve. The current reserve pit shell at Karridale extends
to the boundary between transitional and fresh material. Further metallurgical testing and
studies are required to determine the potential metallurgical properties and likely capital
and operating costs for the processing of this material.

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