FREEHILL MINING LIMITED. — Board/Management Information 2017

Feb 5, 2017

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Monday 6 February 2017

Appointment of Chief Operating Officer

Peter Hinner

Freehill Mining Limited (Company) is pleased to announce that it has appointed Mr Peter Hinner, as Chief Operating Officer, effective 1 February 2017. Mr Hinner is a mining and mineral processing professional with over 35 years experience in the heavy minerals and gold industry both within Australia and internationally. Mr Hinner has also recently been involved in the development of several iron sands projects around the world as well as Chief Operating Officer for a producing iron sands dredging operation in the Philippines. Mr Hinner will specifically oversee the Company’s geophysics and drilling programs.

Over the past several years he has worked predominantly internationally as a project development consultant on a variety of projects in Africa, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia and South America. His previous roles have included senior management and operational roles in several of the world’s largest mineral operations as well as mine management roles with BP Minerals Indonesia, Operations Manager for the Tiwest Joint Venture mine in Western Australia, Chief Operating Officer of an industrial minerals company and senior consultant for KPMG.

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the Queensland University of Technology with post graduate qualifications in mining, metallurgy and business management. He has significant mining, operating and project management experience in most facets of the industry including exploration, dredging, processing, engineering design, construction, commissioning and feasibility studies.

Mr Hinner will be entitled to participate in the Company’s Equity Incentive Plan and will be issued with 1,250,000 performance rights that vest on attainment of agreed performance milestones, including the establishment and development of both a magnetite resources and an iron sands resource.

For further information please contact Mr Joe Fekete.

Freehill Mining Ltd North Melbourne, VIC 3051

ACN 091 608 025

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Melbourne Australia Mr Stephen Chaplin Chairman

About Freehill Mining Ltd

Freehill Mining Ltd-FHS is an ASX listed company, which is engaged in identifying quality resource opportunities with an identifiable short term horizon to production.

Freehill Mining Ltd is pursuing this strategy in respect of the iron ore tenements owned by two of its Chilean incorporated subsidiaries, Yerbas Buenas SpA (YB SpA) and San Patricio Mineria SpA (SP SpA) , collectively the Yerbas Buenas Project.The operations at the Yerbas Buenas Project involve the mining of magnetite iron ore from hard rock and sands at the surface, and other resources have been identified as potentially present at the Yerbas Buenas Project Area.

The Yerbas Buenas Project Area is located 30 kilometres north of the city of La Serena in the IV Region of Coquimbo, Chile. The Yerbas Buenas Project spans 398 hectares. There is an existing operating mine and established commercial sales relationships with key partners in Chile. In the near future FHS intends to commence a drilling program to prove up its reserves at the Yerbas Buenas project. For further information, please refer to the prospectus located on our website at www.freehillmining.com

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