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PEEL MINING LIMITED Capital/Financing Update 2012

May 20, 2012

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Capital/Financing Update

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21 MAY 2012

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ASX / MEDIA RELEASE

CBH RESOURCES TO SPEND UP TO $8.33M FARMING IN TO PEEL MINING’S MALLEE BULL DISCOVERY

Heads of Agreement relates to Peel’s EL7461 and ML1361, which includes the Mallee Bull copper-polymetallic discovery in New South Wales

Highlights:

  • CBH has right to earn up to 50% interest over three-year period via staged $8.33 million expenditure on exploration and contribution to past exploration costs.

  • Peel to remain as operator.

  • Stage 1 earn-in sees CBH earn 15% by making $1 million payment to Peel as contribution to past expenditure and $1.5 million of exploration expenditure over 12 month period.

  • Agreement highlights the potential of Mallee Bull as a greenfields, copper-dominant polymetallic discovery.

Emerging Cobar district explorer and developer Peel Mining Limited (ASX: PEX) is pleased to announce that Peel and CBH Resources Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Toho Zinc Co Ltd., have signed a binding Heads of Agreement related to EL7461 and ML1361, which includes the Mallee Bull copper-polymetallic discovery near Cobar.

Under the agreement, CBH has the right to earn an interest of up to 50% over a three-year period through staged expenditure on exploration and a contribution to previous exploration costs incurred by Peel.

CBH Resources is an Australian-based mineral resources company producing zinc, lead and silver from the Endeavour Mine north of Cobar. The company, which is 100%-owned by Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed Toho Zinc, is also commissioning the Rasp underground zinc, lead and silver mine at Broken Hill.

CBH brings a wealth of technical expertise and resources to Mallee Bull, particularly with regards to exploration and development within the Cobar Superbasin, and Peel looks forward to working with CBH at Mallee Bull, which is possibly the most significant mineral discovery in the Cobar District over the past 10 years.

Commenting on the agreement, Peel Managing Director Rob Tyson said:

“Peel welcomes CBH Resources as the company’s partner at Mallee Bull and the wider May DayGilgunnia project area. The recent results we have reported have confirmed the Mallee Bull prospect as a true greenfields copper-dominant discovery, and we believe that attracting a partner of CBH’s calibre is testament to the excellent potential of Mallee Bull. As an established producer in the Cobar region, CBH brings years of local experience to the project, and we look forward to working with CBH as exploration at Mallee Bull progresses.”

Peel Mining Limited ACN 119 343 734

Unit 1, 34 Kings Park Rd, West Perth, WA 6005. Ph: (08) 9382 3955. Fax (08) 9388 1025. E:[email protected] www.peelmining.com.au

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The key terms in the Binding Heads of Agreement between Peel and CBH are:

  • HOA covers all of the May Day-Gilgunnia project assets (ML1361 and EL7461) including Mallee Bull copper-polymetallic discovery.

  • Condition precedent - CBH to obtain any necessary FIRB approval.

  • Peel to be responsible for exploration activities (operator).

  • Stage 1 of the Farm-in sees CBH earn a 15% interest in the project by making a payment of $1 million to Peel (within 14 days of the condition precedent being satisfied) as contribution to past expenditure and by contributing $1.5 million to eligible exploration expenditure within a 12 month period.

  • Stage 2 of the Farm-in sees CBH (at its election) earn an additional 15% interest in the project (30% total interest) by contributing a further $2.5 million to eligible exploration expenditure within a 12 month period.

  • Stage 3 of the Farm-in sees CBH (at its election) earn an additional 20% interest in the project (50% total interest) by contributing a further $3.33 million to eligible exploration expenditure within a 12 month period.

  • CBH may elect to form a joint venture at the end of any stage and the parties can then elect to contribute on pro-rata basis or be diluted according to an industry-standard dilution formula.

Background on Mallee Bull discovery

In March/April 2011, Peel began targeting a newly-recognised coincident EM and magnetic geophysical anomaly located within the historic 4-Mile goldfield. The 4-Mile goldfield comprises up to 60 shafts and workings spread over an area covering about 1,000m by 500m.

Initial drilling resulted in the discovery of significant silver-lead-zinc mineralisation. Follow-up drilling completed in July/August 2011 intersected massive sulphides containing strong copper-lead-zincsilver-gold-cobalt mineralisation within a broad zone of deformation and alteration, confirming the discovery of a Cobar-style mineralised system .

The Mallee Bull prospect is located less than 10 kilometres east of the May Day gold-silver-lead-zinc deposit (ML1361), where drilling in 2010 confirmed the down-dip continuation of mineralisation to more than 200m below surface.

For further information, please contact Rob Tyson on +61 420 234 020.

For media enquiries, please call Dudley White at MAGNUS Investor Relations + Corporate Communication on +61 413 439 883.

The information in this report that relates to Exploration Results is based on information compiled by Mr Robert Tyson, who is a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Mr Tyson has sufficient experience which 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 2004 Edition of the ‘Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves.’ Mr Tyson consents to the inclusion in this report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.

Peel Mining Limited ACN 119 343 734

Unit 1, 34 Kings Park Rd, West Perth, WA 6005. Ph: (08) 9382 3955. Fax (08) 9388 1025. E:[email protected] www.peelmining.com.au