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Power Metal Resources plc (LON:POW) the AIM listed metals exploration and development company is pleased to provide an update in respect of the Haneti Project (“Haneti”) .

BACKGROUND

Previously Power Metal held a 25% ownership interest in Haneti with 75% held by Katoro Gold plc (LON:KAT)(“Katoro”).  As announced on 15 March 2019, the Company also held an option to increase its interest to 35% by payment to Katoro of £25,000 in cash by 31 August 2020.

INCREASE IN PROJECT INTEREST EXECUTED

The Company announces that today it has exercised that option, paid £25,000 to Katoro, and now has a 35% interest in Haneti.  Therefore the ownership structure of Haneti is now Katoro 65% and Power Metal 35%.

Katoro and Power Metal are now working together to make the necessary changes of ownership in the project holding companies and also in underlying joint venture documentation.

Both parties must meet their proportionate expenditure commitments of future costs to maintain their percentage interest or will dilute in accordance with standard industry dilution provisions.

Paul Johnson Chief Executive Officer of Power Metal Resources plc commented:

“Haneti is a considerable opportunity in terms of size and geological potential.  The focus to date has been largely the nickel sulphide potential, which is understandable given the drill ready targets at Mihanza Hill and Mwaka Hill.

“However, alongside the drill ready targets, the full impact of the 80km potential strike length and the polymetallic opportunities across a 5,000 sq km strategic project footprint, mean that Haneti is a project capable of delivering discoveries in nickel sulphide (and laterite), copper, platinum group metals, gold, lithium and rare earths.

“As Katoro has highlighted, there is significant interest in Haneti from larger companies, and with good reason, given the size and diversity of opportunity.

“Taking all factors into account we felt it was important to exercise the option to increase our interest with immediate effect to 35% and so we have done so.”

The information contained within this announcement is considered to be inside information prior to its release, as defined in Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation No.596/2014 and is disclosed in accordance with the Company’s obligations under Article 17 of those Regulations.

For further information please visit https://www.powermetalresources.com/ or contact:

Notes to Editors:

Power Metal Resources plc (LON:POW) is an AIM listed metals exploration and development company seeking a large scale metal discovery.

The Company has a global portfolio of project interests including gold exploration in North America and Australia together with base metal exploration in Africa. Project interests range from early stage greenfield exploration to later stage drill ready prospects.

The Board and its team of advisors have expertise in project generation, exploration and development and have identified an opportunity to utilise the Company’s position to become a leader in the London market for investors wishing to gain exposure to proactive global metals exploration.

Power Metal Resources plc (LON:POW) the AIM listed metals exploration and development company is pleased to  announce details of the planned confirmatory drilling programme targeting nickel sulphides at the Haneti Nickel Project in Tanzania (“Haneti” or the “Project”).

HIGHLIGHTS:

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S STATEMENT

Paul Johnson Chief Executive Officer of Power Metal Resources plc commented: “The Haneti story is one I have been following for many years and it was a great opportunity to take a project interest for Power Metal shareholders in 2019.

We have now moved the Haneti JV forward and prepared a nickel sulphide targeting drill programme, through which we aim to advance our understanding of the geological characteristics of the Project and, potentially, make a new nickel sulphide discovery.

We are being disciplined with a two-stage drill programme using shallow rotary air blast drilling to verify the proposed targets for a follow-on deeper diamond drill programme.

The next step is a practical one, as we make preparations for the launch of the drill programme, and we look forward to announcing mobilisation which will be an exciting point for both JV partners.” 

HANETI PROJECT OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE

Power Metal currently holds a 25% interest in the Project with a 75% interest held by JV partner Katoro Gold plc (LON:KAT).

Power Metal also holds an option to increase its interest in the Project from 25%% to 35% through a payment to Katoro Gold of £25,000 by 31 August 2020.

PROJECT OVERVIEW

The Haneti Nickel Project (“Haneti”) covers an area of approximately 5,000 km² in central Tanzania approximately 88 km north of the capital city Dodoma. It comprises tenements (prospecting licences, offers and applications) prospective for nickel, platinum-group-elements and gold.

One of the key exploration objectives for the JV partners at the Haneti Project is seeking to delineate the potential for economic nickel mineralisation in central Tanzania.

HANETI GEOLOGY AND NICKEL PROSPECTIVITY

The main prospective belt of rocks within the Haneti Project is the, linear dyke-like, Haneti-Itiso Ultramafic Complex (“HIUC”) which sporadically crops out over a strike length of 80 km and mainly comprises serpentinites (metamorphosed ultrabasic rocks such as dunite and peridotite), with metabasic rocks such as metagabbro and metadolerite.

Geologically the Haneti tenements straddle the boundary between the Archaean Dodoman Craton to the south‐west and gneisses of the Palaeo‐Proterozoic Usagaran Orogenic Complex to the northeast.

Bordering the Haneti block to the west, a new greenstone belt, the Londoni Greenstone Belt has been recognised in recent years within the Archaean Dodoman System. This greenstone geology extends southeast into the Haneti project where work on third party mining claims that occur within the Haneti prospecting licence Offer area, PLA 1162, has reported positive results.

HISTORIC EXPLORATION

The Haneti area was first explored in 1931 by a private prospector who collected a Ni‐rich magnetite sample at Mihanza Hill. Later trenching uncovered a few discontinuous green‐stained veins rich in Ni‐silicates and containing several percent nickel.

In the early 1960s the Geological Survey of Tanzania carried out mapping, pitting, soil sampling, trenching and rock chip sampling of ultramafic outcrops on the Zoani, Mindii and Mihanza hills, within the HIUC belt. 

Further geological mapping and sampling was undertaken in 2006, 2007 and in 2013.

An airborne electromagnetic (“AEM”) geophysics survey was completed over the Mihanza and Mwaka Hill anomalies in 2012 with further geophysics flown in 2015.

A study commissioned with a consultant expert in ultramafic geochemistry in 2015 identified the nickel, copper, platinum, palladium anomaly at Mihanza Hill as a drill ready target. This report suggested that the Itiso‐Haneti Ultramafic body may fit the Chonolith-Type Nickel exploration model which would imply that the main ultramafic belt may have small discrete sulphide bodies associated with it.

In 2019 a number of soil samples, collected during the 2013 exploration programme, were sent for analysis and the results confirmed the existing knowledge base and also identified a new ultramafic subcrop.

PROPOSED EXPLORATION DRILL PROGRAMME

Three preliminary target areas have been selected for exploratory diamond drilling; Milhanza Hill; Mwaka Hill; and Igari Hill, based on the recommendations of the 2012 AEM survey, the detailed field programme undertaken in 2013 and further supplementary exploration findings.

In order to maximise the chances of intersecting mineralisation, the diamond drilling will be preceded by a 20 hole programme of confirmatory rotary air-blast (“RAB”) drilling.  This phase will consist of 2,000 metres of RAB drilling consisting of two drill fences, 10 x 100 metre spaced, 100 metre deep holes.

The RAB drilling will seek to verify the existence of near surface mineralisation whilst increasing the geological understanding such that the orientation and the meterage of the follow-up diamond drill holes can be optimised to confirm the scale of potential massive sulphide mineralisation.

All RAB drill samples will be subject to multi element and base metal analysis on three metre composites with select samples analysed for platinum group elements.

The exact number and meterage of diamond drill holes will be refined by the RAB drill studies however the initial plan is for a minimum of three, 300 metre deep diamond holes.

The diamond holes are planned to provide a full intersection through the ultramafic inclusion and to provide fresh rock samples for detailed geochemical, petrographic and isotope analysis.

The aim is to identify nickel sulphide mineralisation.

In addition, an airborne Versatile Time Domain Electromagnetic (“VTEM”)  geophysics surveywith the capability to generate targets at a depth of several hundred metres, is planned, to provide coverage of a greater proportion of the Haneti Nickel Project.

COMPETENT PERSON STATEMENT

The technical information contained in this disclosure has been read and approved by Mr Nick O’Reilly (MSc, DIC, MAusIMM, MIMMM, FGS), who is a qualified geologist and acts as the Competent Person under the AIM Rules – Note for Mining and Oil & Gas Companies. Mr O’Reilly is a Principal consultant working for Mining Analyst Consulting Ltd which has been retained by Power Metal Resources PLC to provide technical support. 

The information contained within this announcement is considered to be inside information prior to its release, as defined in Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation No.596/2014 and is disclosed in accordance with the Company’s obligations under Article 17 of those Regulations.

For further information please visit https://www.powermetalresources.com/ or contact:

Notes to Editors:

Power Metal Resources plc (LON:POW) is an AIM listed metals exploration and development company seeking a large scale metal discovery.

The Company has a global portfolio of project interests including gold exploration in North America and Australia together with base metal exploration in Africa. Project interests range from early stage greenfield exploration to later stage drill ready prospects.

The Board and its team of advisors have expertise in project generation, exploration and development and have identified an opportunity to utilise the Company’s position to become a leader in the London market for investors wishing to gain exposure to proactive global metals exploration.