NEOMETALS LTD — Regulatory Filings 2021

Jan 12, 2021

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EXPIRY OF PERFORMANCE RIGHTS

Neometals Ltd (“ the Company ”) has today cancelled 2,490,828 Employee Performance Rights following re-testing at 31 December 2020 under the Company’s Performance Rights Plan. Vesting of these Performance Rights was subject to the satisfaction of certain performance conditions, based on the Company’s total shareholder return performance and percentile ranking relative to comparator companies and overall business plan performance. The vesting conditions were not met.

Jason Carone

COMPANY SECRETARY

Authorised for release to ASX on behalf of Neometals by Jason Carone, Company Secretary.

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About Neometals Ltd

Neometals innovatively develops opportunities in minerals and advanced materials essential for a sustainable future. With a focus on the energy storage megatrend, the strategy focuses on de-risking and developing long life projects with strong partners and integrating down the value chain to increase margins and return value to shareholders.

Neometals has four core projects with large partners that span the battery value chain:

Recycling and Resource Recovery:

• Lithium-ion Battery Recycling – a proprietary process for recovering cobalt and other valuable materials from spent and scrap lithium batteries. Pilot plant testing completed with plans well advanced to conduct demonstration scale trials with 50:50 JV partner SMS group, working towards a development decision in early 2022; and

• Vanadium Recovery – sole funding the evaluation of a potential 50:50 joint venture with Critical Metals Ltd to recover vanadium from processing by-products (“Slag”) from leading Scandinavian Steel maker SSAB. Underpinned by a 10-year Slag supply agreement, a decision to develop sustainable European production of high-purity vanadium pentoxide is targeted for December 2022.

Downstream Advanced Materials:

• Lithium Refinery Project – evaluating the development of India’s first lithium refinery to supply the battery cathode industry with potential 50:50 JV partner Manikaran Power, underpinned by a binding life-of-mine annual offtake option for 57,000 tonnes per annum of Mt Marion 6% spodumene concentrate, working towards a development decision in 2022.

Upstream Industrial Minerals:

• Barrambie Titanium and Vanadium Project - one of the world's highest-grade hard-rock titanium-vanadium deposits, working towards a development decision in mid-2021 with potential 50:50 JV partner IMUMR.

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