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SUPERIOR RESOURCES LIMITED Interim / Quarterly Report 2013

Oct 29, 2012

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Interim / Quarterly Report

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Superior Resources Limited

ABN 72 112 844 407

Registered Office:

Level 2, 87 Wickham Terrace, Spring Hill, QUEENSLAND, 4000. Postal Address: PO Box 10288, Brisbane Adelaide Street, QUEENSLAND, 4000. Telephone: 07 3839 5099 Facsimile: 07 3832 5300 Email: [email protected]

30 SEPTEMBER 2012

QUARTERLY ACTIVITIES REPORT

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Further drilling at ML6750 "One Mile" is in progress to test the down-plunge extension of the mineralisation in drill hole SPOM023 which was reported last quarter.
  • Compilation and interpretation of historical geochemical data over the One Mile and surrounding area have outlined further target zones for exploration within EPMA 18987.
  • A share purchase plan to existing shareholders to raise funds for further exploration was completed with $222,000 raised.

Superior Resources Limited

ASX:SPQ

Board

David Horton – Non-exec Chairman Ken Harvey – Managing Director Peter Hwang – Non-exec Director Carlos Fernicola – Company Secretary

Securities

Ordinary Shares – 81,693,688 Top 20 hold 60.95% of Shares

Financial

Cash and Shares – $1.1M

Summary

Superior Resources Limited is a Brisbane based ASX listed mineral explorer whose principle aim is the discovery of a large base metal deposit in northern Queensland. Superior holds a number of exploration projects in northwest Queensland for large Mount Isa type copper and lead-zinc-silver deposits and an exploration project in northeast Queensland for massive sulphide copper-gold-zinc-silver deposits. Superior also holds gold, phosphate and uranium tenements.

Share Registry

Link Market Services Level 15, 324 Queens Street Brisbane, QLD, 4000

Web Site

www.superiorresources.com.au

Contact

Ken Harvey (07) 3839 5099

EXPLORATION OVERVIEW

Field work during the quarter was limited to the One Mile Mining Lease in northeast Queensland where the drilling program, which commenced last quarter, was finalized and the drill sites rehabilitated. This work was followed by documentation and interpretation of data from the drilling program and plotting of drill hole sections and plans.

Work continued on compilation and interpretation of historical data on the One Mile and surrounding area. This work identified further target zones within Superior's exploration permit application (EPMA18987) which surrounds the mining lease. Field work on these target zones will not be possible until the surrounding EPMA is granted.

Superior completed a share purchase plan (SPP) to existing shareholders to raise funds for further exploration during the quarter. The raising involved the issue of 3.7M shares at 6c per share with $222,000 raised.

During the quarter, four exploration permits in northwest Queensland were renewed.

EPM Name Area Expiry
EPM15040 Sulieman Creek 75 sub-blocks (225 km2) 27 March 2016
EPM15329 West Smoky 38 sub-blocks (114 km2) 29 January 2017
EPM15670 Hedleys 2 62 sub-blocks (186 km2) 20 March 2016
EPM15732 Inca Creek 2 50 sub-blocks (150 km2) 24 September 2015

Applications to reduce the area of EPM16028 "Victor Creek" to 26 sub-blocks (78 km2 ) and the area of EPM16027 "Buckley River" to 40 sub-blocks (120 km 2 ) were made in accordance with the terms of these exploration permits. At this stage only the reduction of the area of EPM16028 has been formally accepted.

Notification of the renewal of ML6750 "One Mile" for a further five year term to 30 October 2017 was received during the quarter.

Superior's current tenement position, in northeast and northwest Queensland, is shown in Figures 1 and 2 respectively.

Figure 1. Superior Resources Limited - Northeast Queensland project locations.

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Figure 2. Superior Resources Limited - Northwest Queensland project locations.

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EXPLORATION ACTIVITIES

Cockie Project – Northeast Queensland

One Mile Mining Lease

The One Mile Mining Lease (ML6750) is located 210km west-northwest of Townsville in northeast Queensland (Figure 1). The mining lease covers an outcropping gossan horizon which reflects a body of massive and semi-massive sulphides at depth. The area has potential for volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) copper-gold-zinc-silver deposits.

Work on One Mile during the quarter included finalisation of the drilling program which was completed in the previous quarter. This work included rehabilitation of drill sites and accurate surveying of all drill hole collars using modern DGPS equipment. Updated drill hole locations are included in Table 1.

North East RL Depth Dip Azimuth
Hole (MGA Zone 55) (MGA Zone 55) (m) (m) (°) (°Magnetic)
SPOM001 7901699.978 262244.470 559.083 156 -60 105
SPOM002 7901638.479 262286.146 559.823 90 -60 105
SPOM003 7901729.971 262109.865 558.259 378.8 -60 105
SPOM004 7901571.995 261962.686 563.304 447.0 -60 105
SPOM005 7901763.975 262255.134 561.192 90 -60 105
SPOM006 7901791.377 262317.345 573.281 96 -90 0
SPOM007 7901529.580 262082.283 563.371 150 -60 105
SPOM008 7902436.446 262569.284 582.750 146 -60 285
SPOM009 7902473.203 262463.696 573.230 102 -60 105
SPOM010 7901594.296 262112.979 559.430 290 -60 105
SPOM011 7901619.165 262201.810 557.891 156 -60 105
SPOM012 7901664.617 262100.811 558.573 278.3 -60 105
SPOM013 7901540.043 262037.798 564.427 180 -60 105
SPOM014 7901614.718 262054.320 560.931 222 -60 105
SPOM015 7901853.724 262198.043 561.050 141.5 -61 83.5
SPOM016 7901485.348 261915.910 569.707 306.7 -70 110
SPOM017 7901439.571 262028.616 569.901 126 -60 105
SPOM018 7901370.451 261943.944 570.690 126 -60 105
SPOM019 7901573.918 261958.148 563.254 210 -70 105
SPOM020 7901673.385 262281.772 558.821 92 -60 105
SPOM021 7901739.736 262319.462 571.320 102 -75 105
SPOM022 7901794.665 262319.626 573.519 138 -72 105
SPOM023 7901487.769 261910.419 569.222 472.7 -80 105
SPOM024 7901674.763 262278.426 558.723 108 -65 105
SPOM025 7901602.928 262256.318 555.070 72 -67.5 105
SPOM026 7901926.391 262301.575 575.651 114 -60 263.5
SPOMWB01 7901773.296 262257.935 561.669 43 -90 0

Table 1. ML6750 "One Mile" – Drill hole collar locations and other details.

* Hole locations established by Trimble DGPS

This work was followed by documentation and interpretation of data from the drilling program and plotting of a set of drill hole sections and plans and a review of the potential of the area incorporating the new information.

Since acquiring the One Mile Mining Lease in early 2011, Superior has completed two drilling programs involving 26 drill holes (both reverse circulation (RC) and diamond drill holes) largely targeting the sulphide zone beneath the main gossan horizon. The massive and semi-massive sulphide zone lying beneath the gossan has been extended to the south allowing the interpretation of a southerly plunging sulphide zone. The sulphide zone contains copper, gold, zinc and silver values and these values improve at depth to the south with the best intersections within drill holes SPOM004 and SPOM023. Hole SPOM023 on section 1850N is particularly interesting as it not only shows the best copper, gold, zinc and silver values received to date but these values also occur within a much wider strongly pyritic alteration zone with a downhole width of 120m.

The review of the potential of One Mile supports further drilling of the main sulphide zone at the southern end of the Mining Lease and further drill hole sites have been established for this to occur. A diamond drill hole located on section 1750N (local grid) and 100m south of hole SPOM023 has recently commenced to test the down-plunge extension of the mineralization in hole SPOM023 (Figure 3).

One Mile – Cockie Creek Area

Compilation and interpretation of historical soil geochemical data around the One Mile area has also been completed during the quarter. Imaging of the copper geochemical data (Figure 4) shows a relatively weak copper anomaly in the One Mile Mining Lease area where acid generated by weathering of pyrite has extensively leached copper (and zinc) from the near surface zone. In contrast to this a strong soil copper anomaly is associated with the disseminated copper mineralisation in the Cockie Creek area. This image also shows a copper anomaly to the immediate west of the known Cockie Creek mineralization which apparently has not previously been drilled.

Imaged soil nickel (Figure 5) and cobalt (Figure 6) data show anomalies for these elements to the east of Cockie Creek. These anomalies may reflect an areas of serpentinised ultramafic rocks with possible potential for lateritic nickel and cobalt.

The soil geochemical anomalies add to the geophysical anomalies reported last quarter in the area surrounding the One Mile Mining Lease and within EPMA18987 that are prospective areas for followup when the EPMA is granted.

Inca Project – Northwest Queensland

As advised last quarter, Superior and PhosphateCorp reached agreement for PhosphateCorp to acquire Superior's Inca Project in exchange for 40% equity in PhosphateCorp. The assignment of the tenements was subject to approval of the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines. PhosphateCorp have advised that they have been unable to raise sufficient funds for the assignment of the tenements to be effected and the tenements therefore remain in Superior's name. The agreement with PhosphateCorp has been terminated.

Tick Hill Project – Northwest Queensland

Advice was received during the quarter that the three Mining Leases at Tick Hill (MLs 7094, 7096, and 7097) were renewed for further ten year terms to 30 June 2021. The renewal of the Tick Hill Mining Leases satisfies one of the pre-conditions for Superior and Diatreme Resources Limited (DRX) to progress their joint venture arrangements as detailed in an earlier release dated 11 August 2011.

Completion of the transfer of the mining leases to DRX, a further pre-condition of Superior's agreement with DRX, awaits action by the Queensland Government.

Figure 3. One Mile Mining Lease showing the locations of all drill holes, the intersections in hole SPOM023 and the location of drill hole SPOM027 which is currently in progress.

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Figure 4. One Mile – Cockie Creek area showing the imaged soil copper data, the copper anomaly at Cockie Creek, the undrilled copper anomaly to the west of Cockie Creek and the Cockie Creek drill hole copper intersections from previous drilling.

Figure 5. One Mile – Cockie Creek area showing the imaged soil nickel data and the nickel anomaly to the east of Cockie Creek which may reflect serpentinised ultramafic rocks in this area.

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Figure 6. One Mile – Cockie Creek area showing the imaged soil cobalt data and the cobalt anomaly to the east of Cockie Creek which may reflect serpentinised ultramafic rocks in this area.

Ken Harvey Managing Director

The information in this report that relates to Exploration Results is based on information compiled by Mr Ken Harvey, a fulltime employee of the Company, who is a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and a Member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists. Mr Harvey 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 Harvey consents to the inclusion in this report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.