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PREDICTIVE DISCOVERY LIMITED Capital/Financing Update 2012

Apr 22, 2012

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23rd April 2012

ASX Announcement

Level 2, 9 Colin Street West Perth WA 6005 ABN 11 127 171 877 p (08) 9216 1000 f (08) 9481 7939 w www.predictivediscovery.com e [email protected] ASX Code: PDI

10m at 18g/t Au from Dave Prospect

HIGHLIGHTS

□ Assays from RC and diamond drilling on Bonsiega Project, Burkina Faso include:

  • Dave Prospect infill and extension drilling:

    • 10m at 18g/t Au from 74m (best intercept on Dave to date)

    • 10m at 2.5g/t Au from 88m

    • 2m at 6.9g/t Au from 12m

  • Laterite Hill Prospect reconnaissance drilling:

    • 14m at 1.8g/t Au from 71m

    • 22m at 1.4g/t Au from 48m

    • 4m at 5.7g/t Au from 76m (new discovery)

  • Tamboana Prospect reconnaissance drilling:

    • 5m at 5.1 g/t Au from 36m
  • Prospect 71 reconnaissance drilling:

    • 24m at 2.1 g/t Au from 26m (new discovery)

    • 6m at 2.3g/t Au from 60m (new discovery)

  • Six gold mineralised structures with over 5km of strike, open in most directions, now identified from RC drilling on Laterite Hill Grid.

Predictive Discovery Limited ( ASX: PDI ) announces that assays have now been received for just under half of the holes completed in a large program of RC, diamond and air core drilling completed in March 2012 on the Laterite Hill Grid, Bonsiega Project in eastern Burkina Faso.

Managing Director’s Assessment of Drill Results

Mr Paul Roberts, PDI’s Managing Director commented: “ Our drilling programs in Burkina Faso this year have two objectives – first to identify the scale of potential gold mineralised systems on our properties and second to infill drill the best prospects in order to advance them towards a JORC resource calculation. The drill results announced today represent a significant advance on both fronts.

Drilling on the Dave and Dave East Prospects within the Laterite Hill Grid has already identified a large mineralised system over a strike length of at least 3.6 km including multiple lodes containing moderate gold grades. Addition of high grade sections within those lodes will increase the bulk gold grade and, with that, the opportunity to expand open pittable resources to greater depths. Some higher grades have previously been reported (e.g. 2m at 15/t Au within 14m at 3.7g/t Au). The new intersection at Dave of 10m at 18g/t Au on an infill drill section provides strong new evidence of that higher grade component at depth.

The drill assays announced today also confirm the scale of the Laterite Hill Grid gold field, of which the Dave and Dave East mineralisation forms only a part. PDI’s power auger drilling has now discovered more than 18km of strong gold bedrock gold anomalies on the Laterite Hill Grid. Another 15km of strike length south‐

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west of this grid remains untested. Our RC drilling has intersected ore grade and width mineralised zones in every Prospect, most of which are open in all directions. Three previously unknown gold mineralised zones have recently been discovered. These results strengthen the potential to make one or more large gold discoveries on the Bonsiega Project.”

Bonsiega Project – Laterite Hill Grid

The Bonsiega Project covers approximately 100 km of strike length in the Samira Hill greenstone belt in eastern Burkina Faso (Figure 1). This belt hosts the 2 million ounce Samira Hill gold mine across the border in Niger and contains numerous active artisanal gold mine sites along its length. The Laterite Hill Grid section covers an area of 70 km[2] within two of the four permits in the Birrimian Joint Venture with ElDore Mining Corporation Limited. PDI’s equity in the Joint Venture currently stands at 72%.

During 2011, auger drilling identified an 18km long zone of strong bedrock gold anomalies in the Laterite Hill Grid area. In mid‐2011 RC drill holes at the Dave and Dave East Prospects located a series of gold‐ bearing mineralised zones containing numerous ore grade and width intercepts over a strike length of 2km. Infill RC drilling and analysis completed in December 2011 identified higher grade sections that are interpreted to lie within a series of north‐east striking zones.

Assays reported in this release are from an RC, diamond and air core drill program carried out in the Laterite Hill Grid area between December 2011 and March this year. The holes were drilled on the Dave, Dave East, Laterite Hill, Tamboana, Prospect 71 and Prospect 71 West Prospects and totalled 17,600m.

This program had two main objectives:

  • at Dave and Dave East, to upgrade understanding of the Prospects’ potential by infilling between previous intersections and testing for extensions over an additional 3km of strike.

  • elsewhere, to test some of the extensive bedrock gold anomalies on the Laterite Hill Grid with wide spaced drill sections.

The gold assay results released today represent 44% of the above drilling program.

Drilling Results

Assays from our programs have been severely delayed because of the large number of PDI samples held in the contracted analytical laboratory in Ouagadougou. Ongoing discussions with the laboratory have highlighted this issue and focused on reducing turnaround time. Assays are now being received more rapidly.

Drill hole locations for the various Prospects are shown in Figures 2 to 5. Holes for which assays have been received are distinguished from those that are still to come. Significant results are highlighted. A complete list of hole coordinates and assays is provided in Table 1 at the end of this release.

Dave and Dave East Prospects (Figure 3)

Assays for all or part of 13 holes out of a total of 137 have been received from the infill and extension drilling. The best results received so far are as follows:

  • 10m at 18g/t Au from 74m, including 2m at 74g/t Au

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  • 10m at 2.5 g/t Au from 77m including 2m at 8.3g/t Au

  • 2m at 6.9g/t Au from 12m

The high grade gold result (10m@18g/t) was from infill drilling of a mineralised zone interpreted between adjacent drill sections 100m to the east and west. Other higher grade intercepts encountered so far at Dave and Dave East are also relatively deep (e.g. 2m at 14.8g/t Au from 74m down‐hole, 2m at 12.4g/t Au from 74m, 2m at 13.7g/t from 54m). This observation may point to potentially higher grades at depth.

The 2m at 6.9g/t Au intersection was obtained from an RC hole 400m west of any previous RC drilling.

Laterite Hill and Tamboana Prospects (Figure 4)

These holes were designed to test the very broad bedrock gold anomalies outlined by earlier power auger drilling. They were drilled on 400m sections and better results include:

  • Tamboana Zone:

  • 5m at 5.1g/t Au from 36m including 1m at 22g/t Au

  • 4m at 2.9g/t Au from 32m

  • Koundi Zone:

  • 4m at 5.7g/t Au from 76m

  • Laterite Hill Shear Zone (includes Laterite Hill artisanal mine site):

  • 26m at 1.2g/t Au from 71m including 14m at 1.8g/t Au

  • 22m at 1.4g/t Au from 48m

  • 4m at 2.9g/t Au from 12m

  • 9m at 1.3g/t Au from 9m

  • 11m at 1.3g/t Au from 34m (a separate zone nearby)

Locations of these intercepts are shown on Figure 4. The Laterite Hill Prospect contains broad, moderate grade intercepts similar to those seen at Dave/Dave East while the Tamboana and Koundi zones are narrower but may be somewhat higher in grade. Such higher grade sections offer the potential of lifting overall resource gold grades.

Prospect 71 and Prospect 71 East (Figure 5)

Holes were drilled on 400m and 800m sections to test very broad bedrock gold anomalies. Some assay results are still pending including a drill section from an area where Emerging African Gold recorded 4m at 15g/t Au in 1997. Better results included:

  • 32m at 1.7g/t Au from 26m including 24m at 2.1g/t Au

  • 18m at 1.0g/t Au from 54m including 6m at 2.3g/t Au

  • 6m at 2.3g/t Au from 6m

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The first and second intercepts are separate new gold discoveries, respectively in the north of Prospect 71 and at the western end of Prospect 71 West. There are no workings in either area and each zone is open in all directions .

Future work program

RC drilling has re‐commenced on the Laterite Hill Grid. The aim of the drilling is to improve PDI’s understanding of continuity between and along strike from known ore grade gold intercepts with particular focus on the higher grade intervals. Drilling will continue to outline the large, moderate grade zones that are already known.

The remaining RC drilling in the current field season will be used to develop a greater understanding of geological continuity as the basis for resource calculation on part of the Laterite Hill Grid gold field. An ensuing focused infill drilling program in October‐November 2012 will form the precursor to a maiden resource calculation. The Company also plans to undertake preliminary metallurgical studies on representative samples of the gold mineralisation identified to date.

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Figure 1: Geological map of eastern Burkina Faso showing PDI’s tenements with the location of the Bonsiega Project and drilled Prospects (yellow) on the Laterite Hill Grid highlighted.

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Figure 2: Laterite Hill Grid showing Prospect and drill locations superimposed on map showing power auger grid and locations of bedrock gold geochemical anomalies greater than 25ppb Au.

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Figure 3: Dave‐Dave East Prospect – drill hole locations and assay highlights.

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Figure 4: Laterite Hill and Tamboana Prospects plus new Koundi Zone – drill locations and assay highlights

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Figure 5: Prospect 71 and Prospect 71 West – drill locations and assay highlights

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TABLE 1 – DRILL ASSAY RESULTS

Hole
Number
Prospect **Easting ** Northing Azimuth
(UTM)

Dip
0.25g/t Au cut‐off
grade
0.25g/t Au cut‐off
grade
0.25g/t Au cut‐off
grade
0.5g/t Au cut‐off
grade
0.5g/t Au cut‐off
grade
0.5g/t Au cut‐off
grade
Comments
From
(m)
Interval
(m)
**Au g/t ** **From ** Interval
(m)
Au
g/t
DAVDD001 Dave East 217005 1420073 320 ‐50 34 2 0.6
41 22 0.3 61 2 1.1
109.5 3.5 0.8 109.5 2.5 0.9
DAVDD002 Dave East 216083 1419604 320 ‐50 76 14 0.7 76 7 1.1
88 1 1.0 88 1 1.0
108 4 0.3
DAVDD003 Dave 214848 1419219 320 ‐50 26 5 0.4
39 2 0.5
73 23.5 0.7 73 3 1.5
81 4 1.6
92 2 1.8
141 2 0.6
DAVDD004 Dave 214649 1419140 320 ‐50 10 1 2.0 10 1 2.0
24 7 1.3 24 7 1.3
39 15 0.4 39 1 1.7
110 3.5 1.8 110 1.5 3.7
117 9 0.7 120 1 3.4
DAVRC102 Dave 214604 1419191 140 ‐50 68 18 0.7 70 16 0.7 Resultspendingfor 0‐62m
DAVRC103 Dave 214691 1419258 140 ‐50 74 10 18 74 8 22 Includes 2m at 74g/t Au
DAVRC104 Dave 214708 1419235 140 ‐50 72 6 0.8 72 4 1.1
88 10 2.5 88 8 3.0 Includes 2m at 8.3g/t Au
DAVRC105 Dave 214795 1419277 140 ‐50 16 6 0.6
DAVRC106 Dave 214533 1419129 140 ‐50 14 8 0.5
38 42 0.4 66 2 2.0
DAVRC107 Dave 214557 1419097 140 ‐50 28 26 0.7 34 4 1.4
46 8 1.1
DAVRC108 Dave 214239 1419016 140 ‐50 42 4 0.8 44 2 1.3
56 4 0.6
DAVRC109 Dave 213896 1418796 140 ‐50 12 2 6.9 12 2 6.9
DAVRC110 Dave 213868 1418835 140 ‐50 No significant results
LATDD001 Laterite
Hill
211071 1415013 140 ‐50 109 3 0.3
LATDD002 Laterite
Hill
212137 1415919 320 ‐50 9 9 1.3 9 7 1.6
39 4 1.1 39 4 1.1
51 6 1.7 51 1 8.4
56 1 1.6
LATRC001 Laterite
Hill
210801 1414709 140 ‐50 34 2 0.5 34 2 0.5
LATRC002 Laterite
Hill
210828 1414679 140 ‐50 No significant results
LATRC003 Laterite
Hill
210856 1414649 140 ‐50 No significant results

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Hole
Number
Prospect **Easting ** Northing Azimuth
(UTM)

Dip
0.25g/t Au cut‐off
grade
0.25g/t Au cut‐off
grade
0.25g/t Au cut‐off
grade
0.5g/t Au cut‐off
grade
0.5g/t Au cut‐off
grade
0.5g/t Au cut‐off
grade
Comments
From
(m)
Interval
(m)
**Au g/t ** From
(m)

Interval
(m)
Au
g/t
LATRC004 Laterite
Hill
210883 1414619 140 ‐50 No significant results
LATRC005 Laterite
Hill
210909 1414590 140 ‐50 No significant results
LATRC006 Laterite
Hill
211005 1415089 140 ‐50 18 2 0.9 18 2 0.9
44 4 0.4
LATRC007 Laterite
Hill
211031 1415059 140 ‐50 No significant results
LATRC008 Laterite
Hill
211059 1415027 140 ‐50 No significant results
LATRC009 Laterite
Hill
211083 1414998 140 ‐50 No significant results
LATRC010 Laterite
Hill
211110 1414966 140 ‐50 36 6 4.3 36 5 5.1 Includes 1m at 22g/t Au
LATRC011 Laterite
Hill
211139 1414935 140 ‐50 37 2 0.7
LATRC012 Laterite
Hill
211162 1414906 140 ‐50 6 2 0.8 6 2 0.8
LATRC012 Laterite
Hill
211162 1414906 140 ‐50 62 2 0.6 62 2 0.6
LATRC013 Laterite
Hill
211187 1414876 140 ‐50 27 6 0.7 30 2 1.5
46 8 1.0 50 4 1.9
72 4 0.4
LATRC014 Laterite
Hill
211212 1414843 140 ‐50 0 4 0.3
24 4 0.5 24 1 1.1
68 4 0.5
LATRC015 Laterite
Hill
211240 1414816 140 ‐50 50 4 1.0 50 2 1.6
LATRC016 Laterite
Hill
211262 1414784 140 ‐50 10 6 0.3
LATRC017 Laterite
Hill
211288 1414751 140 ‐50 18 4 0.3
LATRC018 Laterite
Hill
211317 1414725 140 ‐50 4 4 0.4
12 2 0.6
32 6 1.3 34 4 1.8
42 2 1.2 42 2 1.2
LATRC019 Laterite
Hill
211342 1414692 140 ‐50 50 8 1.1 50 4 1.7
70 6 1.0 72 4 1.4
LATRC020 Laterite
Hill
211370 1414660 140 ‐50 6 8 0.5 6 2 1.1
18 4 0.5
46 2 0.6
LATRC021 Laterite
Hill
210851 1415274 140 ‐50 No significant results

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Hole
Number
Prospect **Easting ** Northing Azimuth
(UTM)
Dip 0.25g/t Au cut‐off
grade
0.25g/t Au cut‐off
grade
0.25g/t Au cut‐off
grade
0.5g/t Au cut‐off
grade
0.5g/t Au cut‐off
grade
0.5g/t Au cut‐off
grade
Comments
From
(m)
Interval
(m)
**Au g/t ** From
(m)

Interval
(m)
Au
g/t
LATRC022 Laterite
Hill
210879 1415236 140 ‐50 25 2 1.3 25 2 1.3
LATRC023 Laterite
Hill
210902 1415214 140 ‐50 7 4 0.5
71 26 1.2 71 14 1.8
LATRC024 Laterite
Hill
210931 1415182 140 ‐50 No significant results
LATRC025 Laterite
Hill
210956 1415149 140 ‐50 No significant results
LATRC026 Laterite
Hill
210982 1415119 140 ‐50 34 11 1.3 34 7 1.5
LATRC027 Laterite
Hill
211331 1415316 140 ‐50 No significant results
LATRC028 Laterite
Hill
211362 1415286 140 ‐50 No significant results
LATRC029 Laterite
Hill
211391 1415254 140 ‐50 32 4 2.9 32 4 2.9
40 2 0.6
LATRC030 Laterite
Hill
211421 1415222 140 ‐50 No significant results
LATRC031 Laterite
Hill
211589 1415631 140 ‐50 12 4 2.9 12 4 2.9
28 4 0.6
52 2 0.9 52 2 0.9
LATRC032 Laterite
Hill
211615 1415604 140 ‐50 4 4 0.5
LATRC033 Laterite
Hill
211645 1415575 140 ‐50 46 4 0.5 46 4 0.5
LATRC034 Laterite
Hill
211672 1415543 140 ‐50 No significant results
LATRC035 Laterite
Hill
211896 1415892 140 ‐50 No significant results
LATRC036 Laterite
Hill
211923 1415861 140 ‐50 40 6 1.3 40 4 1.8
LATRC037 Laterite
Hill
211951 1415828 140 ‐50 No significant results
LATRC038 Laterite
Hill
211978 1415801 140 ‐50 No significant results
LATRC039 Laterite
Hill
212258 1416085 140 ‐50 48 22 1.4 48 22 1.4
LATRC040 Laterite
Hill
212283 1416055 140 ‐50 0 24 0.9 0 24 0.9
LATRC041 Laterite
Hill
212309 1416024 140 ‐50 No significant results
LATRC042 Laterite
Hill
212668 1416221 140 ‐50 76 4 5.7 76 4 5.7
LATRC043 Laterite
Hill
212695 1416188 140 ‐50 No significant results

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Hole
Number
Prospect **Easting ** Northing Azimuth
(UTM)
Dip 0.25g/t Au cut‐off
grade
0.25g/t Au cut‐off
grade
0.25g/t Au cut‐off
grade
0.5g/t Au cut‐off
grade
0.5g/t Au cut‐off
grade
0.5g/t Au cut‐off
grade
Comments
From
(m)
Interval
(m)
**Au g/t ** From
(m)

Interval
(m)
Au
g/t
PSODD001 Prospect
71
208881 1413250 320 ‐50 48 3 1.4 48 3 1.4
136 1 1.0 136 1 1.0
147 6 1.2 147 5 1.3
PSORC001 Prospect
71
208226 1412490 320 ‐50 No significant results
PSORC002 Prospect
71
208199 1412520 320 ‐50 50 4 0.3
62 14 0.6 64 2 1.4
74 2 1.3
PSORC003 Prospect
71
208172 1412548 320 ‐50 No significant results
PSORC004 Prospect
71
208506 1412777 320 ‐50 2 6 2.3 2 6 2.3
28 22 0.4 34 4 0.7
PSORC005 Prospect
71
208480 1412808 320 ‐50 66 10 0.6 70 4 0.8
PSORC006 Prospect
71
208454 1412838 320 ‐50 4 22 0.5 6 2 1.3
PSORC007 Prospect
71
208747 1413086 320 ‐50 No significant results
PSORC008 Prospect
71
208725 1413116 320 ‐50 No significant results
PSORC009 Prospect
71
208696 1413147 320 ‐50 48 6 0.9 48 6 0.9
PSORC010 Prospect
71
209067 1413352 320 ‐50 20 2 1.3 20 2 1.3
36 20 0.4 54 2 2.4
72 6 0.3
PSORC011 Prospect
71
209040 1413381 320 ‐50 2 2 1.2 2 2 1.2
PSORC012 Prospect
71
209016 1413414 320 ‐50 No significant results
PSORC013 Prospect
71
208990 1413444 320 ‐50 No significant results
PSORC016 Prospect
71
207614 1412240 110 ‐50 42 6 0.4 Resultspending0‐40m
PSORC017 Prospect
71
207650 1412229 110 ‐50 8 6 0.4
PSORC018 Prospect
71
207931 1412761 110 ‐50 14 14 0.6 16 6 0.8
PSORC019 Prospect
71
207967 1412749 110 ‐50 56 2 1.2 56 2 1.2
PSORC020 Prospect
71
208008 1412737 110 ‐50 18 4 1.2 18 4 1.2
42 2 1.1 42 2 1.1
PSORC021 Prospect
71
207914 1413412 110 ‐50 No significant results

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Hole
Number
Prospect **Easting ** Northing Azimuth
(UTM)

Dip
0.25g/t Au cut‐off
grade
0.25g/t Au cut‐off
grade
0.25g/t Au cut‐off
grade
0.5g/t Au cut‐off
grade
0.5g/t Au cut‐off
grade
0.5g/t Au cut‐off
grade
Comments
From
(m)
Interval
(m)
**Au g/t ** From
(m)

Interval
(m)
Au
g/t
PSORC022 Prospect
71
207950 1413397 110 ‐50 2 4 0.7 2 4 0.7
14 6 0.3
58 6 0.5
PSORC023 Prospect
71
207986 1413382 110 ‐50 No significant results
PSORC024 Prospect
71
208027 1413372 110 ‐50 No significant results
PSORC025 Prospect
71
208060 1413359 110 ‐50 8 2 1.7 8 2 1.7
PSORC026 Prospect
71
208098 1413342 110 ‐50 No significant results
PSORC040 Prospect
71
208012 1413800 110 ‐50 10 6 0.5
26 10 0.3
50 24 0.4 60 2 1.9
PSORC041 Prospect
71
208051 1413785 110 ‐50 26 32 1.7 26 24 2.1
PSORC042 Prospect
71
208096 1413773 110 ‐50 No significant results
PSORC043 Prospect
71 West
203400 1411087 320 ‐50 54 18 1.0 60 6 2.3
PSORC044 Prospect
71 West
203435 1411045 320 ‐50 18 18 0.6 26 10 0.7
PSORC045 Prospect
71 West
204266 1411298 320 ‐50 No significant results
PSORC046 Prospect
71 West
204236 1411334 320 ‐50 No significant results

Notes regarding the drilling and the assay table:

  1. Down‐hole surveys were performed on all holes.

  2. Analytical standards, blanks and duplicates added to all sample batches for quality control.

  3. Analyses were performed by fire assay at the SGS laboratory in Ouagadougou.

  4. Average assay values are calculated with a maximum of 4m of internal waste.

About Predictive Discovery:

Predictive Discovery Limited (PDI) was established in late 2007 to explore for gold and uranium. The Company is focused principally on exploration for gold in West Africa with one additional gold project in Australia. PDI has a distinctive technological capability, known as Predictore [TM] , which is designed to increase drill targeting efficiency thereby reducing ore discovery cost. The Company’s major focus is in Burkina Faso, West Africa where it has assembled a substantial regional ground position totalling 1,544km[2] and is exploring for large open‐pittable gold ore deposits.

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Competent Persons Statement

The exploration results reported herein, insofar as they relate to mineralisation, are based on information compiled by Mr Paul Roberts (Fellow of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists). Mr Roberts is a full time employee of the company and has sufficient experience relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposits being considered to qualify as a Competent Person as defined by the 2004 Edition of the Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves (the JORC Code, 2004 Edition). Mr Roberts consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.

For further details please contact:

Paul Roberts Fergus Ross Managing Director Six Degrees Investor Relations Tel: +61 8 9216 1020 + 61 420 980 448 Email: [email protected]

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