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PRODIGY GOLD NL Capital/Financing Update 2018

Feb 14, 2018

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ASX ANNOUNCEMENT / MEDIA RELEASE ASX:ABU

15 February 2018

ABM and Thunderbird Metals sign North-Arunta Joint Venture Agreement

ABM Resources NL ("ABM" or "Company) is pleased to announce that the conditions precedent of an exploration agreement with Thunderbird Metals Pty Ltd ("Thunderbird") for the North Arunta Project ("Project") in the Northern Territory are nearing completion. ABM has agreed to extend the period for Thunderbird raising a minimum of $0.5 Million to 31 March 2018.

During the negotiation of the binding Joint Venture Agreement some of the terms of the original exploration agreement (ASX announcement 16 October 2017) were amended.

Highlights of the Joint Venture Agreement:

  • Thunderbird has the right to explore the North Arunta Project for gold and base metals
  • Thunderbird to sole fund $6.5M over 4.5 years to ultimately earn a 70% interest in the project
  • ABM to be free-carried through to completion of a Bankable Feasibility Study and a decision to mine on any of the tenements comprising the North Arunta Project
  • Experience and technical depth being applied to the ongoing exploration of ABM's extensive tenement holding is significantly increased

Matt Briggs, managing director of ABM said, "This joint venture will accelerate the potential for a major discovery at North Arunta, while ABM focusses on its Tanami projects. ABM will maintain exposure to the ongoing exploration and development of the North Arunta Project without additional financial commitment, given that it will be free-carried through to the completion of a bankable feasibility study on any of the tenements".

Kris Butera, chairman of Thunderbird Metals said, "We are very much looking forward to getting on the ground and working with ABM to unlock the potential we believe the North Arunta project holds. Utilising high resolution electrical geophysics along with targeted drilling, we hope to both delineate extensions to Kroda-3 and discover new deposits across the project".

Joint Venture Agreement Terms

Earn-in Period – Thunderbird earning a 51% interest in the Project under the following conditions:

  • Thunderbird spending $2.5 Million on expenditure carrying out exploration on the Project over a period of 2.5 years
  • A minimum annual spend of $0.5 Million to be spent in the first two years and the tenements must be kept in good standing
  • Thunderbird may withdraw after spending $0.5 Million

Joint Venture Commencement – Thunderbird earning a 70% interest in the Project

  • Thunderbird to earn an additional 19% in the Project by spending an additional $4 Million on expenditure carrying out exploration within two years from commencement of the Joint Venture.
  • ABM retains a 30% free-carried interest to completion of a bankable feasibility study and a decision to mine
  • At the point of a decision to mine ABM can elect
    • o to convert its 30% share to a 1.5% net profit royalty and Thunderbird will make a one off payment of $2.5 Million in cash within 12 months of commencement of production, or
    • o co-fund all future exploration and development
  • If and when ABM elects to convert to a net profit royalty, Thunderbird can elect
    • o to buy 0.75% of the net profit royalty for a one off payment of $5 Million in cash within 12 months of the decision to mine, leaving ABM with a 0.75% net profit royalty.

About the North-Arunta Project Area

The Project covers ~4,500 square kilometres of exploration licences 100% owned by ABM and is also known as ABM's Barrow Creek Project. Barrow Creek consists of a 200 kilometre long gravity trend with associated metamorphosed sedimentary rocks, dolerite intrusions and large granite intrusions. The region has several known mineral occurrences including gold, copper, nickel, zinc, tin and tantalum.

The Kroda gold prospect, which is the most advanced prospect in the Project area, is located on EL29896 18 kilometres west of the Stuart Highway, 30 kilometres north of the town of Barrow Creek and 200 kilometres south of Tennant Creek (Figure 1). Kroda consists of 4 individual prospects (Kroda 1 to 4) with a combined anomalous strike length of 14 kilometres. Kroda is well serviced with infrastructure and is located on pastoral land close to the Stuart Highway, the Ghan Rail Line and the Northern Territory Gas Pipeline.

At Kroda 3, high-grade gold is hosted by breccia pipes that are near surface, steeply plunging and are confirmed by drilling to extend beyond 200 metres depth (Figure 3). Significant drill intercepts from Kroda 3 include 57m @ 3.8g/t gold and 29m @ 6.4g/t gold (ASX 27 September 2011).

Thunderbird Metals plans to utilise ultra high resolution induced polarisation (IP) surveys (dipoledipole and/or offset pole-dipole 3D IP) to highlight possible extensions to Kroda-3 mineralisation, and to identify the source of a multi-kilometre major gold-arsenic surface geochemical anomaly at the Tulsa prospect. Drilling will then test any geophysical targets at both prospects together with interpreted open extensions along strike from the high grade gold mineralisation at Kroda-3. Ongoing target generation will provide a pipeline of future regional targets, some of which have already yielded significant gold results in historic drilling or are completely untested multi-kilometre scale high order geochemical anomalies.

Figure 1. North Arunta Exploration Agreement tenements

Signed

Matt Briggs Managing Director

About Thunderbird Metals

Thunderbird is a privately owned discovery focused gold explorer owning projects in the Pine Creek Orogen area of the Northern Territory. Thunderbird has a highly skilled technical team with significant mineral exploration and geoscience experience, including Dr Oliver Kreuzer, Dr Andy Wilde and Dr Kris Butera. Thunderbird's team has developed an award-winning approach to project generation and drill targeting, and is adopting cutting-edge geophysical and prospectivity mapping technologies. The team members have deep knowledge of gold, uranium, base- and strategic-metals mineral systems worldwide.

About ABM Resources

ABM is an established gold exploration company with a successful track record of discovery in one of Australia's premier gold mining districts. The Company owns gold resources and extensive prospective land holdings in the Central Desert Region of the Northern Territory. The Company leadership is implementing a strategy of aggressive cost management initiatives and is developing a disciplined, tightly focused exploration strategy. Activities are currently focused on the Company's under-explored 36,000 km2 Tanami Project area and includes:

  • Drilling of advanced prospects on the Suplejack Project
  • Drilling of early stage targets in the Bluebush Project area
  • Systematic evaluation of high potential early stage targets
  • Exploring opportunities for joint ventures of early stage targets

ABM Resource NL confirms that it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information included in the market announcement and that all material assumptions and technical parameters underpinning the estimates included in referenced previous market announcements continue to apply and have not materially changed.

Project Name Tenement Number Tenement Holder Status
Barrow Creek EL26825 ABM Granted
Barrow Creek EL28515 ABM Granted
Barrow Creek EL28727 ABM Granted
Barrow Creek EL28748 ABM Granted
Barrow Creek EL29723 ABM Granted
Barrow Creek EL29724 ABM Granted
Barrow Creek EL29725 ABM Granted
Barrow Creek EL29896 ABM Granted
Barrow Creek EL30422 ABM Application
Barrow Creek EL30470 ABM Granted
Barrow Creek EL30507 ABM Granted
Barrow Creek EL30637 ABM Granted
Lander River EL23880 ABM Granted
Lander River EL23883 ABM Granted
Lander River EL23884 ABM Granted
Lander River EL23885 ABM Granted
Lander River EL23886 ABM Granted
Lander River EL25030 ABM Vetoed
Lander River EL25031 ABM Granted
Lander River EL25033 ABM Granted
Lander River EL25034 ABM Granted
Lander River EL25035 ABM Granted
Lander River EL25036 ABM Vetoed
Lander River EL25041 ABM Granted
Lander River EL25042 ABM Granted
Lander River EL25044 ABM Granted
Lander River EL29819 ABM Vetoed
Lander River EL29820 ABM Vetoed
Lander River EL8766 ABM Granted

Appendix 1 - Agreement Tenement Schedule

Appendix 2 - Previous Announcement Illustrations

Figure 2. Kroda 3 Prospect. ABM drill results and schematic contour of grade at 0.2g/t, 0.5g/t and 1.0g/t gold cutoff. Only ABM results labelled, refer to previous releases for historic results. (ASX 27 September 2011)

Figure 3. Kroda 3 Prospect. ABM drill results and schematic contour of grade at 0.2g/t, 0.5g/t and 1.0g/t gold cutoff. Only ABM results labelled, refer to previous releases for historic results. (ASX 27 September 2011)