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RIEDEL RESOURCES LIMITED Interim / Quarterly Report 2022

Apr 27, 2022

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Interim / Quarterly Report

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28 April 2022

QUARTERLY ACTIVITIES REPORT FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31 MARCH 2022

OPERATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

  • Riedel commenced RC drilling at the Kingman Gold Project in Arizona, its third drill program in the past 12 months, completing it in April 2022
  • Drilling focussed on Tintic area, where drilling has confirmed a shallow blanket of highgrade gold & silver mineralisation from depths ~10m to ~80m below surface
  • Assay results announced during the March 2022 quarter from the drill program completed in the December 2021 quarter included1 :
    • 3.8m @ 11.64 g/t Au, 55 g/t Ag, 1.5% Pb & 1.1% Zn from 30.5m (2021-CHL-071)
    • 4.6m @ 12.43 g/t Au, 52 g/t Ag, 2.4% Pb & 0.9% Zn from 45m (2021-CHL-075)
    • 2.3m @ 3.35 g/t Au, 40 g/t Ag, 3.1% Pb & 0.8% Zn from 44.2m (2021-CHL-075C)
    • 2.3m @ 5.4 g/t Au & 125 g/t Ag from 77m (hole 2021-CHL-084A)
  • Blanket of shallow high-grade gold mineralisation appears open in several directions
  • Assay results from latest drill program expected in June 2022.

CORPORATE

  • Successfully completed a Share Placement to raise A$1.05M to advance the Kingman Gold Project
  • Cash at bank as of 31 March 2022 approximately $1.7m (Dec 2021: $1.7m).

Riedel Resources Limited (ASX: RIE the Company) is pleased to provide shareholders with its Quarterly Activities Report for the period ended 31 March 2022.

OPERATIONS

Kingman Project – Arizona, USA

As reported during the quarter1 , Riedel commenced a 37-hole (2,286m) RC drilling program on the Tintic zone, focussing on the area where previous RC drilling in 2021 (refer Figure 2) had confirmed shallow mineralisation and returned high-grade gold and silver assay results including2 :

  • 3.8m @ 98.9 g/t gold & 151 g/t silver from 20.6m
  • 1.5m @ 39.3 g/t gold & 323 g/t silver from 37.3m
  • 1.5m @ 15.5 g/t gold & 29 g/t silver from 28.2m
  • 4.6m @ 8.39 g/t gold & 39 g/t silver from 100.6m
  • 5.3m @ 18.1 g/t gold & 24 g/t silver from 23.6m
  • 1.5m @ 35.6 g/t gold & 42 g/t silver from 30.5m.

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1 Refer ASX announcement dated 20 January 2022. The Company confirms it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information included in the announcement.

2 Refer ASX announcement dated 23 March 2021 and 20 January 2022. The Company confirms it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information included in the announcement

During the March 2022 quarter, Riedel reported additional high-grade gold and silver assay results from its December 2021 quarter drill program including3 :

  • 3.8m @ 11.64 g/t Au from 30.5m (hole 2021-CHL-071)
  • 4.6m @ 12.43 g/t Au from 45m (hole 2021-CHL-075A)
  • 6.9m @ 2.84 g/t Au & 82 g/t Ag from 18.3m (hole 2021-CHL-048)
  • 2.3m @ 5.40 g/t Au & 125 g/t Ag from 77m (hole 2021-CHL-084A)
  • 2.3m @ 3.35 g/t Au from 44.2m (hole 2021-CHL-075C)
  • 1.5m @ 4.36 g/t Au, 84 g/t Ag, 2.0% Pb & 3% Zn from 74.7m (2021-CHL-051)
  • 1.5m @ 3.52 g/t Au from 22.1m (hole 2021-CHL-071B)
  • 1.5m @ 1.67 g/t Au, 205 g/t Ag, 3.2% Pb & 2.7% Zn from 48.8m (2021-CHL-066).

As previously stated, the gold and silver mineralisation at Tintic appears to be contained within shallow flat dipping veins (refer Figures 3, 4 & 5) which comprise of varying amounts of quartz, clay and sulphide mineralisation. There is also indication of a potential stacked lode/sill complex.

Riedel expects results from its latest drill program in June 2022.

Figure 1 - Drilling at Tintic - with Mineral Park copper-moly mine to the south-east (Mineral Park owned by others)

3 The Company confirms it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information included in the announcement.

Figure 2 – showing collar locations of 2021 RC drilling over the historic Tintic mine area

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Figure 3 – Tintic Cross Section C-C'

Figure 4 – Tintic Cross Section B-B'

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Figure 5 – Tintic Cross Section A-A'

Figure 6 –Tintic cross section orientations

Kingman Project Background

The Kingman Project is located in north-west Arizona, USA, approximately 90 minutes' drive from downtown Las Vegas and within 5km of a major highway (refer Map 1).

Map 1 – Location of Riedel's Kingman project in Arizona, USA

The project was mined predominantly for high-grade gold and silver from the 1880s until the early 1940s - which coincided with the outbreak of WWII. Following limited drilling near Tintic in the 1990s, 11 diamond holes were drilled on the property in late 2019 which intersected multiple zones of high-grade gold, silver and lead from shallow depths, confirming the extensive mineralisation potential of the area (refer Riedel ASX announcement dated 23 October 2020).

During 2021, Riedel completed 9,420m of RC drilling (104 holes) over several historic mine areas on the property, including at Tintic, Merrimac, Arizona Magma and Jim's. This drilling returned numerous high-grade gold and silver assay results including 3.8m at 98.9g/t gold and 151g/t silver from 20.6m at Tintic (refer ASX announcement dated 23 March 2021). In addition, it confirmed a 1.8km long exploration target associated with the historic Jim's mine to host significant gold, silver, zinc and lead mineralisation as shallow as 1.5m below surface (refer Riedel's ASX announcement dated 19 April 2021).

The Kingman Project has seen minimal modern exploration. Riedel's recent RC drill program completed in April 2022 was its third at Kingman, where it is looking to acquire up to an 80% interest in via its December 2020 Agreement with Flagstaff Minerals Limited and Flagstaff Minerals (USA) Inc (refer Riedel's ASX announcement dated 23 October 2020).

MARYMIA EAST GOLD & BASE METALS PROJECT, WA (RIE 15.7% diluting)

In August 2021, joint venture partner Norwest Minerals Limited (84.3% and manager) announced further base metal intercepts in aircore drilling at Marymia East (refer ASX: NWM announcement date 3 August 2021, 'Marymia East aircore drilling results4 ). The 5,699m drill program intersected near surface lead, zinc, and nickel along a 1km strike near the Jenkins fault; a well-known structure in the region known to host several base metal projects including the DeGrussa copper-gold project ~75kms to the southwest.

Historical exploration drilling at Marymia East has been abundant and dense, particularly over the exposed Baumgarten Greenstone Belts (BGB) with several moderate gold prospects identified including Baumgarten, Baumgarten North, Chardonnay, Champagne. However, much of the historical RAB drilling at Marymia East is very shallow and potentially ineffective as the drill holes may not have penetrated the silcrete cap that is pervasive in areas of Proterozoic cover.

Historical RAB holes drilled across the BGB project area have an average depth of only 25m yet the silcrete has been logged by Norwest at depths of up to 70 m. Also, most RAB drill samples were only analysed for gold. As a result, the many of the prospective areas across the southern BGB remain prospective for base-metals or other commodities due to sampling above the silcrete cap and testing only for gold.

Both tenements are relatively large & prospective for precious & base metal mineralisation. Proposed exploration for the Marymia East tenements involves AC drill testing of targets highly prospective for precious & base metal mineralisation on tenements E52/2395 and E52-2394-I. Refer Figure 7.

Figure 7 – Marymia East tenements showing precious & base metal target zones for upcoming 2022 air-core drilling (transparent yellow)

4 The Company confirms it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information included in the announcement

CORPORATE

Cash at Bank

Cash at bank as of 31 March 2022 was approximately A$1.7M (Dec 2021: ~$1.7m).

During the quarter, the Company successfully completed a Share Placement to raise A$1.05M via the issue 105 million new shares in the Company at an issue price of A$0.01 per New Share. This represented an approximately 3.3% discount to the Company's 5-day VWAP and nil discount to the last traded price before the raising.

FINANCIAL ANALYSIS OF SELECTED ITEMS WITHIN THE APPENDIX 5B

Appendix5Breference ASX description reference Summary
1.2(d) Staff costs Relates to Perth office staff, director costs, and otherfees paid to director related entities with relation to theprovision of financial and company secretarial services.
1.2(e) Administration and corporatecosts This item relates to costs for and associated withoperating the Company's Perth office and includeslisting and compliance costs (ASIC, ASX and shareregistry), audit fees, insurance, travel and marketing,office occupancy and legal costs.
2.1(f) Other non-current assets This item represents exploration expenditure withrelation to the Kingman Project as funded by RiedelResources Limited as a part of the earn in agreementthat it entered into with Flagstaff Minerals (US) Inc(refer ASX Announcement released 23 October 2020).
6.1 Aggregate amount of paymentsto related parties and theirassociates Payments relate to an apportionment of the directors'salaries and superannuation for corporateactivities, technical consulting fees, rent for office spaceand company secretarial services.

Payments to related parties of the entity and their associates: During the quarter $86,000 was paid to Directors and associates for salaries, superannuation and consulting fees.

TENEMENT SCHEDULE

Schedule of Riedel Resources minerals tenements held in Australia as at 31 March 2021:

Area of Interest Tenement reference Nature of interest Interest
Marymia E52/2394 Direct ~16%
Marymia E52/2395 Direct ~16%
West Yandal M36/615 Royalty 0%
Porphyry M31/157 Royalty 0%

This announcement was approved for release by the Board of Directors of Riedel.

-ENDS-

Previously Released Exploration Announcements

For full details of these Exploration results, refer to the said Announcement or Release on the said date. Riedel is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information included in the said announcement.

Competent Person Statement

Information in this release that relates to Exploration Results relating to the Kingman Gold Project, Arizona USA is based on information compiled by Mr Sean Whiteford, who is a qualified geologist, a member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, and a consultant to Flagstaff Minerals Limited. Mr Whiteford has sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity being undertaken 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'. Mr Whiteford consents to the inclusion in this release of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.

The information in this release that relates to Exploration Results relating to the Marymia Project is based on and fairly represents information and supporting documentation prepared by Charles Schaus (CEO of Norwest Minerals Pty Ltd). Mr. Schaus is a member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and has sufficient experience of relevance to the styles of mineralisation and types of deposits under consideration, and to its activities undertaken to qualify as Competent Persons as defined in the 2012 Edition of the Joint Ore Reserves Committee (JORC) Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves. Mr. Schaus consents to the inclusion in this report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which they appear.

Forward Looking Statements

This release includes forward looking statements. Often, but not always, forward looking statements can generally be identified by the use of forward looking words such as "may", "will", "expect", "intend", "plan", "estimate", "anticipate", "continue", and "guidance", or other similar words and may include, without limitation statements regarding plans, strategies and objectives of management, anticipated production or construction commencement dates and expected costs or production output.

Forward looking statements inherently involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the company's actual results, performance and achievements to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements. Relevant factors may include, but are not limited to, changes in commodity prices, foreign exchange fluctuations and general economic conditions, increased costs and demand for production inputs, the speculative nature of exploration and project development, including the risks of obtaining necessary licences and permits and diminishing quantities or grades of resources or reserves, political and social risks, changes to the regulatory framework within which the company operates or may in the future operate, environmental conditions including extreme weather conditions, recruitment and retention of personnel, industrial relations issues and litigation.

Forward looking statements are based on the company and its management's good faith assumptions relating to the financial, market, regulatory and other relevant environments that will exist and affect the company's business and operations in the future. The company does not give any assurance that the assumptions on which forward looking statements are based will prove to be correct, or that the company's business or operations will not be affected in any material manner by these or other factors not foreseen or foreseeable by the company or management or beyond the company's control.

Although the company attempts to identify factors that would cause actual actions, events or results to differ materially from those disclosed in forward looking statements, there may be other factors that could cause actual results, performance, achievements or events not to be anticipated, estimated or intended, and many events are beyond the reasonable control of the company. Accordingly, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward looking statements.

Forward looking statements in this release are given as at the date of issue only. Subject to any continuing obligations under applicable law or any relevant stock exchange listing rules, in providing this information the company does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any of the forward looking statements or to advise of any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.

Riedel Resources Limited

For further information please contact:

Michael Bohm – Chairman Riedel Resources Limited 4/6 Richardson St, West Perth, WA, 6005, Australia Tel: +61 (08) 9226 0866 [email protected]

About Riedel Resources Limited:

Riedel Resources Limited is an ASX-listed exploration company focused on the exploration for gold and base metals in Australia and Arizona, USA.

Further information can be found at the Company's website www.riedelresources.com.au

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