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LIONTOWN LIMITED Capital/Financing Update 2016

Feb 3, 2016

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ASX : LTR

ABN 39 118 153 825

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ASX ANNOUNCEMENT

Liontown expands lithium portfolio with acquisition of Bynoe lithium-tantalum project in the Northern Territory

Second lithium-prospective project acquired with extensive pegmatite field, potential for spodumene mineralisation and immediate exploration targets

Highlights

  • ~80km[2 ] Bynoe Lithium-Tantalum Project located close to Darwin, Northern Territory.

  • Historical exploration has identified 50 pegmatites within project area.

  • Previous exploration totally focused on tin and tantalum, with few lithium assays completed.

  • Lithium mineralisation (spodumene/amblygonite) reported at several prospects.

  • Pegmatites show mineral zonation typical of lithium-bearing pegmatites.

  • Exploration work to commence immediately.

Liontown Resources Limited (ASX: LTR) is pleased to advise that it has secured a second, highly prospective lithium-tantalum exploration project (“ the Bynoe Project” ) located near Darwin in the Northern Territory ( Figure 1 ).

The acquisition – which complements its recently secured Mohanga Lithium Project in Tanzania, East Africa, where early trenching has returned high grade lithium-tantalum mineralisation ( see ASX release dated 25[th] January 2016 ) – confirms Liontown’s stated strategy of diversification into the strategic metals sector.

The Bynoe Project comprises two separate exploration licences (ELs 30012 and 30015) covering a total area of 80km[2] and is located ~40km SSW of Darwin, in close proximity to significant transport infrastructure ( Figure 1 ).

The Project lies in the western part of the early Proterozoic Pine Creek Geosyncline, where it comprises a sequence of greenschist metamorphic grade sandstones and siltstones with occasional lenses of conglomerate. Numerous mineralogically zoned pegmatites containing tin and tantalum have intruded the sediments.

Multiple phases of prospecting, exploration and small-scale mining have been undertaken in the Bynoe area since the 1880s ( see Appendix 1 ) with 50 pegmatites identified within the project area ( see Figure 2 ). The pegmatites range in size from narrow fracture fillings to massive bodies >50m thick and >200m long.

Previous work has targeted tin and tantalum mineralisation, either hosted in alluvial deposits or within the strongly weathered, upper 10-20m of the bedrock profile where mining would be free-digging. Very few fresh bedrock samples have been collected or assayed.

Although the previous exploration focus has been on tin and tantalum, lithium minerals (spodumene and amblygonite) have been reported at several prospects in the immediate area including the Picketts prospect within the Option area ( Figure 2 ). No location or assay data has been provided in the report that describes the lithium occurrence.

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The Bynoe Project is considered highly prospective for lithium mineralisation due to:

  • The common association of tin and tantalum with lithium-bearing pegmatites elsewhere in the world (e.g. at the world-class Greenbushes deposit in WA);

  • The presence of mineral zonation typical of lithium-bearing pegmatites;

  • Strong lateritic weathering altering spodumene (lithium pyroxene) to kaolinite, meaning that lithium may not have been detected by previous exploration work; and

  • Reporting of lithium minerals from areas where fresh bedrock has been exposed.

The Company believes that the acquisition offers its shareholders leveraged exposure to lithium exploration at a second, highly prospective greenfields project of similar scale and potential to its recently secured Mohanga Lithium Project in Tanzania. Liontown will commence work immediately on the Bynoe Project with following activities planned:

  • Compilation and digital capture of all previous exploration data;

  • Ranking of pegmatites according to size potential;

  • Geological mapping and prospect assessment;

  • Trenching; and

  • RC drilling to test fresh bedrock for spodumene mineralisation.

Acquisition Terms

Liontown has agreed to terms with private company Orema Pty Ltd whereby it may acquire 100% of the Bynoe Project by:

  • Paying the vendor an initial signing fee of $10,000 cash; and

  • Paying the vendor $100,000 cash at anytime within 19 months of the Agreement’s execution date.

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DAVID RICHARDS Managing Director

4 February 2016

The Information in this report that relates to Exploration Results is based on and fairly represents information and supporting documentation prepared by Mr David Richards, who is a Competent Person and a member of the Australasian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG). Mr Richards is a full-time employee of the company.

Mr Richards has sufficient experience that is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activities 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 Richards consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.

This announcement contains forward-looking statements which involve a number of risks and uncertainties. These forward looking statements are expressed in good faith and believed to have a reasonable basis. These statements reflect current expectations, intentions or strategies regarding the future and assumptions based on currently available information. Should one or more of the risks or uncertainties materialise, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary from the expectations, intentions and strategies described in this announcement. No obligation is assumed to update forward looking statements if these beliefs, opinions and estimates should change or to reflect other future developments.

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Figure 1: Bynoe Project – Location Plan

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Figure 2: Bynoe Project – Tenure, pegmatites and historic mines.

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APPENDIX 1 – BYNOE PROJECT - JORC TABLE 1

Section 1 Sampling Techniques and Data

Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
Sampling
techniques
Nature and quality of sampling (eg cut channels,
random chips, or specific specialised industry standard
measurement tools appropriate to the minerals under
investigation, such as down hole gamma sondes, or
handheld XRF instruments, etc). These examples
should not be taken as limiting the broad meaning of
sampling.
No sampling completed by Liontown to date.
Historic sampling techniques not well documented.
Include reference to measures taken to ensure sample
representivity and the appropriate calibration of any
measurement tools or systems used.
Not applicable.
Aspects of the determination of mineralisation that are
Material to the Public Report.
In cases where ‘industry standard’ work has been done
this would be relatively simple (eg ‘reverse circulation
drilling was used to obtain 1 m samples from which 3
kg was pulverised to produce a 30 g charge for fire
assay’). In other cases more explanation may be
required, such as where there is coarse gold that has
inherent sampling problems. Unusual commodities or
mineralisation types (eg submarine nodules) may
warrant disclosure of detailed information.
Drilling techniques Drill type (eg core, reverse circulation, open-hole
hammer, rotary air blast, auger, Bangka, sonic, etc)
and details (eg core diameter, triple or standard tube,
depth of diamond tails, face-sampling bit or other
type, whether core is oriented and if so, by what
method, etc).
No drilling completed.
Drill sample
recovery
Method of recording and assessing core and chip
sample recoveries and results assessed.
Not applicable.
Measures taken to maximise sample recovery and
ensure representative nature of the samples.
Not applicable.
Whether a relationship exists between sample
recovery and grade and whether sample bias may
have occurred due to preferential loss/gain of
fine/coarse material.
Not applicable.
Logging Whether core and chip samples have been geologically
and geotechnically logged to a level of detail to
support appropriate Mineral Resource estimation,
mining studies and metallurgical studies.
Not applicable.
Whether logging is qualitative or quantitative in
nature. Core (or costean, channel, etc) photography.
Not applicable.
The total length and percentage of the relevant
intersections logged.
Not applicable.
Sub-sampling
techniques and
sample preparation
If core, whether cut or sawn and whether quarter, half
or all core taken.
Not applicable.
If non-core, whether riffled, tube sampled, rotary split,
etc and whether sampled wet or dry.
Not applicable.
For all sample types, the nature, quality and
appropriateness of the sample preparation technique.
Not applicable.
Quality control procedures adopted for all sub-
sampling stages to maximise representivity of samples.
Not applicable.
Measures taken to ensure that the sampling is
representative of the in situ material collected,
including for instance results for field
duplicate/second-half sampling.
Not applicable
Whether sample sizes are appropriate to the grain size
Not applicable

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Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
of the material being sampled.
Quality of assay
data and laboratory
tests
The nature, quality and appropriateness of the
assaying and laboratory procedures used and whether
the technique is considered partial or total.
Not applicable
For geophysical tools, spectrometers, handheld XRF
instruments, etc, the parameters used in determining
the analysis including instrument make and model,
reading times, calibrations factors applied and their
derivation, etc.
None used
Nature of quality control procedures adopted (eg
standards, blanks, duplicates, external laboratory
checks) and whether acceptable levels of accuracy (ie
lack of bias) and precision have been established
Not applicable.
Verification of
sampling and
assaying
The verification of significant intersections by either
independent or alternative company personnel.
Not applicable
The use of twinned holes.
Not applicable
Documentation of primary data, data entry
procedures, data verification, data storage (physical
and electronic) protocols.
Not applicable.
Discuss any adjustment to assay data.
None required
Location of data
points
Accuracy and quality of surveys used to locate drill
holes (collar and down-hole surveys), trenches, mine
workings and other locations used in Mineral Resource
estimation.
Not applicable.
Specification of the grid system used
Not applicable.
Quality and adequacy of topographic control.
Not applicable
Data spacing and
distribution
Data spacing for reporting of Exploration Results.
Not applicable.
Whether the data spacing and distribution is sufficient
to establish the degree of geological and grade
continuity appropriate for the Mineral Resource and
Ore Reserve estimation procedure(s) and classifications
applied.
Not applicable.
Whether sample compositing has been applied.
None undertaken.
Orientation of data
in relation to
geological
structure
Whether the orientation of sampling achieves
unbiased sampling of possible structures and the
extent to which this is known, considering the deposit
type.
Not applicable
If the relationship between the drilling orientation and
the orientation of key mineralised structures is
considered to have introduced a sampling bias, this
should be assessed and reported if material.
Not applicable.
Sample security The measures taken to ensure sample security.
Not applicable
Audits or reviews The results of any audits or reviews of sampling
techniques and data.
None completed.
Section 2 Reporting of Exploration Results
Criteria JORC Code explanation
Commentary
Mineral tenement
and land tenure
status
Type, reference name/number, location and ownership
including agreements or material issues with third
parties such as joint ventures, partnerships, overriding
royalties, native title interests, historical sites,
wilderness or national park and environmental
settings.
The Bynoe Project comprises 2 separate, granted exploration
licences (EL30012 and EL30015) which cover a total area of
~80km2area located ~40km SSW of Darwin in the Northern
Territory.
The tenements are subject to an Option Agreement with private
company Orema Pty Ltd. Liontown may earn 100% equity in the
tenements by:

Paying A$10,000 cash on signing of the Agreement;

PayingA$100,000 anytime within 19months of the

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Criteria

JORC Code explanation Commentary

execution date of the Agreement

There are no other material issues affecting the tenements
The security of the tenure held at the time of reporting
along with any known impediments to obtaining a
licence to operate in the area.
All tenements are in good standing.
Exploration done
by other parties
Acknowledgment and appraisal of exploration by other
parties.
There has been multiple, sporadic but intensive periods of
prospecting, exploration and small scale mining within the Bynoe
Project area since the late 1880s. All known previous work has
focussed on tin and tantalum with no systematic assaying for
lithium.
Modern exploration and/or small scale mining has been carried
out by Greenbushes Tin (1980 -1989/EL4183), North Queensland
Resources (1989-1990), Australian Coal and Gold Holdings (1982-
1987/EL2171), Julia Corporation (2000) Talison Minerals (2004-
2008/EL23912) and Arnhem Resources Pty Ltd (2005-
2008/EL246390).
Exploration work completed included compilation of historical
data; acquisition of landsat imagery, aerial photography and
digital topography; soil and rock chip geochemistry; geological
mapping; trenching; surveying and shallow RAB/auger drilling.
In 1987, Greenbushes constructed a pilot plant to treat Sn/Ta ore
from several sources but this shut down soon after due to
decreasing commodity prices. A number of other parties trialled
small scale mining without success.
Approximately 50 Sn/Ta bearing pegmatites have been defined;
however, it is possible that some of these pegmatites represent
separate outcrops of the same body exposed sporadically along
and across strike.
All previous work has focussed on either alluvial/eluvial material
or the upper, weathered portion of the bedrock which would be
suitable for free digging. Depth of weathering is approximately
20m depth and any spodumene would be totally altered to
kaolinite with the lithium completely depleted.
Historic exploration reports have been reviewed and results
summarised; however, Liontown has not yet completed digital
capture and compilation of data collected by previous explorers
and miners.
Geology Deposit type, geological setting and style of
mineralisation.
The Bynoe Project is located in the western part of the early
Proterozoic Pine Creek Geosyncline where it comprises a sequence
of greenschist metamorphic grade sandstones and siltstones with
occasional lenses of conglomerate. Multiple tin and tantalum-
bearing pegmatites have been emplaced into the sediments within
the contact aureole of the Two Sisters Granite (located to the
south and west), a Paleoproterozoic intrusion which is interpreted
to be the source of the rare metals.
The pegmatites typically comprise a border zone of fine grained
muscovite and quartz followed inward by a wall zone of coarse
grained muscovite and quartz which is in turn followed by an
intermediate zone of quartz-feldspar-muscovite. A core zone of
massive quartz occurs locally. The intermediate zone contains the
bulk of the tin and tantalite mineralisation and is also where the
lithium is expected to be hosted.
The pegmatites are located in a north trending, 15km wide belt.
The pegmatites are strongly weathered to 10-20m depth and
often poorly exposed with feldspar completed altered to
kaolinite.
Dimensions of the pegmatites vary in scale from narrow fracture
fillings to massive bodies up to 50m wide and >200m long.

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Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
Drill hole
Information
A summary of all information material to the
understanding of the exploration results including a
tabulation of the following information for all Material
drill holes:

easting and northing of the drill hole collar

elevation or RL (Reduced Level – elevation above
sea level in metres) of the drill hole collar

dip and azimuth of the hole

down hole length and interception depth

hole length.
Not applicable.
Data aggregation
methods
In reporting Exploration Results, weighting averaging
techniques, maximum and/or minimum grade
truncations (eg cutting of high grades) and cut-off
grades are usually Material and should be stated.
Not applicable.
Where aggregate intercepts incorporate short lengths
of high grade results and longer lengths of low grade
results, the procedure used for such aggregation
should be stated and some typical examples of such
aggregations should be shown in detail.
Not applicable.
The assumptions used for any reporting of metal
equivalent values should be clearly stated.
Not applicable.
Relationship
between
mineralisation
widths and
intercept lengths
These relationships are particularly important in the
reporting of Exploration Results.
If the geometry of the mineralisation with respect to
the drill hole angle is known, its nature should be
reported.
If it is not known and only the down hole lengths are
reported, there should be a clear statement to this
effect (eg ‘down hole length, true width not known’).
Not applicable.
Diagrams Appropriate maps and sections (with scales) and
tabulations of intercepts should be included for any
significant discovery being reported These should
include, but not be limited to a plan view of drill hole
collar locations and appropriate sectional views.
See Figures in body of report
Balanced reporting Where comprehensive reporting of all Exploration
Results is not practicable, representative reporting of
both low and high grades and/or widths should be
practiced to avoid misleading reporting of Exploration
Results.
Not applicable.
Other substantive
exploration data
Other exploration data, if meaningful and material,
should be reported including (but not limited to):
geological observations; geophysical survey results;
geochemical survey results; bulk samples – size and
method of treatment; metallurgical test results; bulk
density, groundwater, geotechnical and rock
characteristics; potential deleterious or contaminating
substances.
All meaningful and material data reported
Further work The nature and scale of planned further work (eg tests
for lateral extensions or depth extensions or large-
scale step-out drilling).

Capture and compilation of historic data into a digital
database;

Ranking of pegmatites according to size potential;

Geological mapping and prospect assessment;

Trenching (if feasible); and

RC drilling to test fresh bedrock for spodumene
mineralisation

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