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ORBMINCO LIMITED Capital/Financing Update 2022

Mar 10, 2022

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Capital/Financing Update

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11 March 2022

ASX ANNOUNCEMENT

Wyloo Dome Farm-in Targets Gold Potential

Highlights

  • Woomera has entered into an Exploration Farm-in and Joint Venture Agreement (FIJVA) with Nanjilgardy Resources over the Wyloo Dome Project

  • Wyloo Dome is located between the Paulsens and Mt Olympus gold mines in the Ashburton region of WA

  • Woomera can earn a 60% interest in the project by funding up to $4 million in exploration within three years

  • The project covers over 40km strike of the highly prospective Mt McGraths Formation which is the favoured host rock for gold mineralisation at Mt Olympus

  • Immediate drill targets include the Golden Marra Mamba prospect where historical exploration has returned high grade rock chips up to 11.7 g/t Au t

Woomera Mining Limited ( ASX: WML ) (“ Woomera ”, “ the Company ”) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an Exploration Farm-in and Joint Venture Agreement (FIJVA) with privately owned Nanjilgardy Resources over the Wyloo Dome Gold Project in Western Australia’s Ashburton region.

Under the terms of the agreement, Woomera can earn a 60% interest in the Project by funding up to $4 million of exploration within three years. Upon Woomera earning 60%, Nanjilgardy has the oneoff option to contribute its 40% or revert to a free-carried 20% interest until a Decision to Mine. The full terms of the FIJVA are set out further down in this announcement.

The Wyloo Dome Project is located 1,000km north of Perth and is accessed via the sealed Nanutarra Road, from the township of Paraburdoo in Western Australia (Figure 1). The tenements lie between Northern Star Resources’ Paulsens gold mine (1.2Moz historical gold endowment) and Kalamazoo Resources’ Mt Olympus gold project (1.6Moz gold Mineral Resource – KZR website).

Woomera believes there is compelling evidence for deeper buried mineralisation between the two plus-million ounce gold deposits in the Ashburton and notes strong comparisons between the geology of the region and that of Nevada’s Carlin Trend, which hosts multiple multi-million ounce gold deposits.

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Figure 1: Location of the Wyloo Dome FIJVA Project – Ashburton region Western Australia

Wyloo Dome Geology and Prospects

The geology of the project comprises Duck Creek Dolomite with lesser exposures of the Mt McGraths Formation which hosts the gold mineralisation at Mt Olympus. Unlike the gold deposits around Kalgoorlie, the Ashburton region has greater affinity to the giant multi-million ounce gold deposits found in Nevada, USA.

Woomera believes there is compelling evidence for deeper buried gold mineralisation in the Ashburton. A regional airborne electromagnetic ( AEM ) survey commissioned by Geoscience Australia ( GA ) in 2013 identifed that the Mt McGraths Formation is conductive providing a direct mapping tool to identify the favourable stratigraphy (Figures 3+4).

At the New Morning prospect (Figure 3), an untested blind AEM conductor lies adjacent to the historical drilling which returned encouraging (near miss) intersections up to 16m at 0.68 g/t Au (1) .

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Figure 2: Wyloo Dome FIJVA Project highlighting the Duck Creek Dolomite (DCD) in blue and Mt McGraths Fm

At the Golden Marra Mamba Prospect (Figure 4) significant rock chip anomalism (up to 11.7 g/t Au (2)) is coincident with a strong AEM conductor.

Woomera intends to refine both targets with ground EM surveys before drill testing in the second half of 2022.

Woomera’s Chairman Ian Gordon commented:

We would like to thank outgoing Managing Director Kevin Seymour for identifying and finalising such a compelling exploration opportunity for the Company to complement its Pilbara lithium exploration activities and add to the significant success the Company is enjoying with its portfolio of Ni-Cu-PGE assets, including Mt Venn in Western Australia and the Musgrave Project in South Australia.

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Figure 3: Geoscience Australia’s (2013) 5km line spaced AEM data imaged and higlighlighting the strong correlation between the AEM conductance and the flat lying Mt McGraths FM, stratigraphically below the DCD

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Figure 4: Golden Marra Mamba Prospect highlighting the coincident untested AEM and magnetic anomaly and historical rock chips upto 11.7 g/t Au suggesting gold leakage along proximal fault zones

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Key Terms of the Farm-in and Joint Venture

The key terms of the FIJVA, whereby Woomera can earn a 60% equity interest in the Wyloo Dome Project, are as follows:

  • A wholly owned subsidiary of Woomera (Woomera Exploration Pty Ltd ( WEX )) has the right to earn a 60% equity interest in the tenements by spending $4M over 3 years

  • The FIJVA will be subject to a condition precedent that WEX becomes bound by the Aboriginal Heritage Agreement covering the area of the tenements

  • Upon WEX earning its 60%, Nanjilgardy Resources Pty Ltd has the one-off election to contribute its 40% going forward, or revert to a 20% Free Carried Interest through to a Decision to Mine ( DTM )

  • Nanjilgardy will receive 5 million Woomera shares once CPs are met after execution of the FIJVA, with a voluntary escrow period of 12 months

  • Nanjilgardy will receive a further 5 million Woomera shares upon WEX spending the $4M

  • WEX agrees to a minimum work programme of $300,000 in Year 1

  • WEX agrees to a minimum annual commitment of $300,000 per annum post Year 1

  • If Nanjilgardy reverts to a 20% Free Carried Interest it will receive an additional 10 million Woomera shares upon any DTM. Nanjilgardy will not receive the additional Woomera shares if it elects to retain its 40% equity

  • Industry standard dilution clauses will apply. If either party dilutes below 10%, they will revert to a 2% Net Smelter Return Royalty

Woomera will fund the initial expenditure on the Wyloo Dome Project out of existing cash reserves and no shareholder approval is required for the FIJVA. It is proposed that the shares to be issued to Nanjilgardy under the FIJVA will come out of the Company’s existing placement capacity under the ASX Listing Rules.

Nanjilgardy and its shareholders are not related parties of the Company nor associates of any Woomera related party.

Wyloo Dome FIJVA Tenement Schedule:

Holder Tenements Grant Date Expiry Date Area
(Blks)
Rents
($)
Rates
($)
Annual
Commit.
($)
Nanjilgardy Resources Pty Ltd EL08/2867 20/10/2017 19/10/2022 13 3,406 4,426.52 30,000
EL08/2959 25/03/2019 24/03/2024 2 524 1,263.00 15,000
EL08/3064 23/09/2019 22/09/2024 18 2,628 2,261.77 20,000
EL08/2833 28/09/2017 27/09/2022 19 4,978 4,177.99 30,000
EL08/2812 23/11/2016 22/11/2021 12 4,296 1,388.66 30,000

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EL08/3065 23/09/2019 22/09/2024 22 3,212 2,764.28 22,000
EL08/3336 Application 34 4,794
TOTAL 120 $23,838 ~ $16,282 $147,000

This ASX announcement has been approved and authorised for release by the Board of Woomera Mining Ltd.

For further information please contact:

Ian Gordon Luke Forrestal (Media Relations) Duncan Gordon (Investor Relations) Chair Director, Financial Communications Executive Director Woomera Mining Limited GRA Partners Adelaide Equity Partners + 61 477 306 669 +61 411 479 144 + 61 404 006 444

  • (1) Goldsworthy J., etal, 2002: Ashburton Project – Southeastern Exploration Area Annual Tecnhical Report for the Period Ending 31 December 2002. DMIRS WAMEX Open File Report Reference A066254

  • (2) Fielding, I., 2010: Metawandy Creek Project, Final Surrender Report for EL08/854 for Intrepid Mines Limited. DMIRS WAMEX Open File Report Reference A086783 etal

About Woomera Mining Limited

Woomera Mining Limited is a focussed mineral explorer. The Company is exploring for battery metals (lithium nickel, copper + PGE’s) and gold in the Yilgarn and Pilbara Cratons of Western Australia plus the Musgrave Province in South Australia along with copper-gold mineralisation in the Gawler Craton of South Australia.

Competent Persons Statement

The exploration results reported herein, insofar as they relate to mineralisation, are based on information compiled by Mr Kevin Seymour. Mr Seymour is a full-time employee of Woomera Mining Limited and is a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy with over thirty years of experience in the field of activity being reported. Mr Seymour has sufficient experience which is relevant to the styles of mineralisation and types of deposit under consideration and to the activity that 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’ relating to the reporting of Exploration Results. Mr Seymour consents to the inclusion in the report of matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.

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Forward Looking Statements

Certain statements in this document are or maybe “forward-looking statements” and represent Woomera’s intentions, projections, expectations or beliefs concerning among other things, future exploration activities. The projections, estimates and beliefs contained in such forward-looking statements necessarily involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond the control of Woomera, and which may cause Woomera’s actual performance in future periods to differ materially from any express or implied estimates or projections. Nothing in this document is a promise or representation as to the future. Statements or assumptions in this document as to future matters may prove to be incorrect and differences may be material. Woomera does not make any representation or warranty as to the accuracy of such statements or assumptions.

Previously Reported Information

Information in the announcement references previously reported exploration results. For the purposes of ASX Listing Rule 5.23 the Company confirms that it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information included in the original announcement and that all material assumptions and technical parameters underpinning the estimates in the original announcements continue to apply and have not materially changed.

Appendix 1: Wyloo Dome FIJVA Project - JORC Table 1

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.
Include reference to measures
taken to ensure sample
representivity and the
appropriate calibration of any
measurement tools or systems
used.
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

No new sampling has been completed over
the Wyloo Dome Farm-in and Joint
Venture (FIJVA) by Woomera Mining at this
stage

Woomera has referenced various historical
WAMEX Open File Reports (see A0
reference number) which are freely
available in the public domain

Woomera has reviewed the sampling
procedures, the fire assay gold assay
analysis technique and QAQC protocols
adopted and has concluded they were
collected using industry best practice
procedures at the time

Woomera intends to validate the historical
drilling and surface sampling results with
additional RC drilling and surface sampling
during its 2022 field season

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Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
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 new drilling is reported in this
announcement
Drill sample
recovery
Method of recording and
assessing core and chip sample
recoveries and results assessed.
Measures taken to maximise
sample recovery and ensure
representative nature of the
samples.
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.
• No new drilling is reported in this
announcement
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.
Whether logging is qualitative or
quantitative in nature. Core (or
costean, channel, etc)
photography.
The total length and percentage
of the relevant intersections
• Newcrest’s diamond drill hole NMD001 is
stored at the GSWA Core Library in
Kalgoorlie where it will be re-logged by
Woomera technical staff during 2022

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Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
logged.
Sub-sampling
techniques
and sample
preparation
If core, whether cut or sawn and
whether quarter, half or all core
taken.
If non-core, whether riffled, tube
sampled, rotary split, etc and
whether sampled wet or dry.
For all sample types, the nature,
quality and appropriateness of
the sample preparation
technique.
Quality control procedures
adopted for all sub-sampling
stages to maximise
representivity of samples.
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.
Whether sample sizes are
appropriate to the grain size of
the material being sampled.
• No new sampling is reported in this
announcement
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.
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.
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.
• No new analyses has been reported in this
announcement
• The report refers to a historical regional
airborne electromagnetic survey flown by
Geoscience Australia (GA) in 2013 – as part
of the Capricorn Regional AEM Survey. The
relevant survey lines of this data was re-
processed by leading industry geophysical
consultants and the sectional data is
presented in this report
• Given the broad spaced (5km) line spacing
of the GA data, Woomera intends to infill
this dataset with 200m line spaced
helicopter borne VTEM and magnetic
geophysical survey data as and when a
suitable air crew become available

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Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
Verification
of sampling
and assaying
The verification of significant
intersections by either
independent or alternative
company personnel.
The use of twinned holes.
Documentation of primary data,
data entry procedures, data
verification, data storage
(physical and electronic)
protocols.
Discuss any adjustment to assay
data.
• Woomera intends to verify the historical
exploration drilling completed by Newcrest
Mining in 2001-2002 during the 2022 field
season after completing fixed loop ground
EM surveys and airborne EM surveys
across the project area
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.
Specification of the grid system
used.
Quality and adequacy of
topographic control.
• Woomera personnel have inspected the
historical drill collars of Newcrest and has
confirmed the accuracy of the original
survey data
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.
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.
• No new sampling has been reported in this
announcement
Sample
security
The measures taken to ensure
_sample security. _
• No new sampling is reported in this
announcement
Audits or
reviews
The results of any audits or
reviews of sampling techniques
and data.
• No new sampling is reported in this
announcement

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Part 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 security of the tenure held at
the time of reporting along with
any known impediments to
obtaining a licence to operate in
the area.
• The Wyloo Dome FIJVA tenements are
located on pastoral leases. Heritage
surveys are completed prior to any ground
disturbing activities in accordance with
Woomera’s responsibilities under the
Aboriginal Heritage Act in Australia.
• Currently all the tenements are in good
standing. There are no known
impediments to obtaining a licences to
operate in either area.
Exploration
done by other
parties
Acknowledgment and appraisal
of exploration by other parties.
• Exploration and mining by other parties
has been extensively reviewed and has
been used as a guide to Woomera’s future
exploration activities. Previous parties
may have completed soils sampling , rock
chip sampling, RC drilling and diamond
drilling over selected parts of the project.
• Woomera has also re-processed
Geoscience Australia’s 2013 airborne EM
(AEM) 5km line spaced survey data to
assist with its exploration targeting
Geology Deposit type, geological setting
and style of mineralisation.
• The targeted mineralisation is typical of
Carlin-type epithermal gold mineralisation
where the mineralization forms very large
tonnage flat lying deposits
• Woomera will also explore for steeper
dipping high grade feeder structures and
low sulphidation epithermal vein arrays
within the land package along with
“Homestake” style sulphide replacement
banded iron formation mineralization at
Golden Marra Mamba
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:
o easting and northing of
the drill hole collar
o elevation or RL(Reduced
• No new drilling is reported in this
announcement
• However all future drill holes reported by
Woomera must have the following
parameters applied. All drill holes
completed, including holes with no
significant results (as defined in the
Attachments) are reported in this

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Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
Level – elevation above
sea level in metres) of
the drill hole collar
o dip and azimuth of the
hole
o down hole length and
interception depth
o hole length.
If the exclusion of this
information is justified on the
basis that the information is not
Material and this exclusion does
not detract from the
understanding of the report, the
Competent Person should clearly
explain why this is the case.
announcement.
• Easting and northing are given in MGA94
coordinates as defined in the Attachments
for Mount Venn.
• RL is AHD
• Dip is the inclination of the hole from the
horizontal. Azimuth is reported in
magnetic degrees as the direction the hole
is drilled. MGA94 and magnetic degrees
vary by <10in the project area. All
reported azimuths are corrected for
magnetic declinations.
• Down hole length is the distance measured
along the drill hole trace. Intersection
length is the thickness of an anomalous
gold intersection measured along the drill
hole trace.
• Hole length is the distance from the
surface to the end of the hole measured
along the drill hole trace.
• No results are currently available from the
exploration drilling included in this report.
• Gold grade (when reported) intersections
will be reported >0.4 g/t Au within 4m
Aircore composites or >0.1 g/t Au within
single metre RC samples (with up to 4m of
internal dilution) are considered significant
in the broader mineralised host rocks.
• Base metal grades will be reported
>1000ppm.
• Diamond core samples are generally cut
along geological contacts or up to 1m
maximum.
• Precious metal grades greater than 0.5 g/t
Au are highlighted where good continuity
of higher-grade mineralization is observed.
0.1 g/t Au cut-offs are used for
reconnaissance explorationprograms.
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.
Where aggregate intercepts
• No new exploration results are reported in
this announcement
• With respect to this historical assays.
Weighted average techniques are applied
to determine the grade of the anomalous
interval when geological intervals less than
1m have been sampled.
• Exploration drillingresults aregenerally

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Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
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.
The assumptions used for any
reporting of metal equivalent
values should be clearly stated.
reported using a 0.5 g/t Au, lower cut-off
for RC and diamond or 0.1 g/t Au for
Aircore drilling (as described above and
reported in the Attachments) and may
include up to 4m of internal dilution.
• All assay results are reported to 3
significant figures in line with the analytical
precision of the laboratory techniques
employed.
• No metal equivalent reporting is used or
applied.
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’). _
• The intersection length is measured down
the length of the hole and is not usually
the true width.
• The interpreted flat lying nature of the
mineralization reported from Newcrest’s
New Morning Prospect assumes true width
of the reported interval
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.
• Detailed drill hole sections and plans for
each prospect must be plotted and
interpreted as part of the internal QAQC
process. Field sections must be compared
with Micromine plots to ensure no errors
or omissions creep into the database.
• The reviewing geologist has
interpretted/plotted his/her geology
observations onto cross sections.
• Errors and/or discrepancies with
lithological logs must be rectified and
forwarded to Perth.
• Final cross sections displaying corrected
geology and assays are to be plotted and
interpreted. Depending on the target 3-D
wireframes may require construction too.
At the very least cross- sectional data must
be translated into plan view and the
relevant scaled (1:2,500 or 1:25,000)
geological interpretation be updated and
integrated in MapInfo. The project
geologist will draft any

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Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
changes/modifications required as
directed by the relevant principal geologist
/EM.
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
• No new exploration results have been
reported in this announcement
Further work The nature and scale of planned
further work (eg tests for lateral
extensions or depth extensions or
large-scale step-out drilling).
Diagrams clearly highlighting the
areas of possible extensions,
including the main geological
interpretations and future drilling
areas, provided this information is
not commercially sensitive.
• Woomera is intending to complete fixed
loop ground EM over New Morning and
Golden Marra Mamba (subject to
satisfactory heritage approvals) followed
by deeper RC drill testing to firstly confirm
the historical drill intersections recorded in
this report and extend the known
mineralization laterally, based upon its
revised Carlin-style geological modelling
• Diagrams in the body of the the report are
used for illustrative purposes to explain
Woomera’s targetingstrategy

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