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Power Metal Resources PLC

02 September 2022

2 September 2022

Power Metal Resources PLC

("Power Metal" or the "Company")

Tati Gold Project Botswana - Exploration Update

Power Metal Completes Gold Focused Drilling Programme and Initial Results from Fines Sampling Demonstrate Extensive Residual Gold

Power Metal Resources PLC (LON:POW) the London listed exploration company seeking large-scale metal discoveries across its global project portfolio announces an exploration update from its Tati Gold Project ("Tati" or the "Project") located within the Tati Greenstone Belt near Francistown, Botswana.

The Company announced the commencement of reverse circulation ("RC") drilling on 22 August 2022 and a link to that announcement is provided below:

https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/POW/tati-gold-project-botswana-drilling-commences/15595699

A map highlighting the location of the RC drill programme can be found at the link below:

https://www.powermetalresources.com/tati-project-cherished-hope-mine-rc-drilling/

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

"My thanks to the team in Botswana for the completion of a safe and effective drill programme. The samples have been prepared efficiently and sent to Intertek for assay testing and we look forward to receiving the results. Naturally having intersected the targeted geological structures repeatedly and at shallow depth, we are particularly enthused with progress thus far.

The sampling of the fines dumps has also delivered residual gold from all samples taken across the dumps. The processing potential of this waste mine material is interesting and we are looking at this further based on the results of the sampling. In addition, the fact that the dumps retain material residual gold after previous processing is extremely positive, indicating that higher grade material was originally extracted and processed from the Cherished Hope former working mine.

In summary, we are moving forward at some pace with the Tati Gold Project, and I look forward to reporting further as the assay results are received."

HIGHLIGHTS:

RC Programme

-- RC drilling programme completed with a total 490m drilled across 9 holes for an average drillhole depth of 55m.

-- Drilling was designed to test for potential along-strike and down-dip extensions of the gold-bearing quartz vein structures, or 'quartz reef', worked at the former Cherished Hope mine located, in close proximity to the drilling sites, on the Project.

-- Quartz reef was successfully intersected within all holes drilled, with multiple holes intersecting multiple sub-parallel quartz reef structures. The largest single intersection was from RC hole CHRC00007 which intersected quartz reef from 11-19m (8m intersection).

-- Sulphide mineralisation, including chalcopyrite and arsenopyrite was logged within the quartz reef and in some instances up to 5m into the vein footwall.

-- RC drill chip samples have been prepared and sent to Intertek in Perth, Australia ("Intertek") for accredited laboratory assay testing to determine gold content.

Fines Sampling Update

-- In total 37 samples were collected from across the former mineral processing fines dumps found on the Project. These dumps consist fine grained waste material resulting from historical processing of ore material mined from the Cherished Hope gold mine.

-- The sampling was to test for residual gold in the dumps, which if confirmed, could offer the potential for reprocessing using more efficient modern gold recovery methods and to generate cashflow, subject to local approvals.

-- The 37 samples were sent to the nearby Mupane Gold Mine laboratory for gold assay testing, with received results confirming the presence of residual gold in every sample tested (ranging from 0.35g/t to 2.16 g/t Au with an average grade across all samples of 0.94g/t Au, see Table 1 below). Duplicate samples were also sent to Intertek for independent check analysis, the Company is currently awaiting these assay results.

-- The presence of the residual gold in the fines material, could reflect the high grade nature of the ore originally mined at Cherished Hope or the less efficient gold processing methods previously employed there.

Table 1: Tati Gold Project Fines Dump - Assay Table

 
  Sample ID     Au (g/t) 
 CHD09 67046      0.74 
               --------- 
 CHD09 67048      0.77 
               --------- 
 CHD10 67050      0.77 
               --------- 
 CHD10 67052      1.08 
               --------- 
 CHD11 67054      0.88 
               --------- 
 CHD11 67056      1.24 
               --------- 
 CHD12 67058      1.16 
               --------- 
 CHD12 67060      1.06 
               --------- 
 CHD13 67062      1.37 
               --------- 
 CHD13 67064      1.23 
               --------- 
 CHD14 67066      0.8 
               --------- 
 CHD14 67068      2.16 
               --------- 
 CHD15 67070      0.75 
               --------- 
 CHD15 67072      0.98 
               --------- 
 CHD16 67074      0.35 
               --------- 
 CHD16 67076      1.05 
               --------- 
 CHD17 67078      1.19 
               --------- 
 CHD17 67080      1.36 
               --------- 
 CHD18 67082      0.82 
               --------- 
 CHD18 67084      1.06 
               --------- 
 CHD19 67086      1.58 
               --------- 
 CHD01 67014      0.69 
               --------- 
 CHD01 67016      0.53 
               --------- 
 CHD02 67018      0.66 
               --------- 
 CHD02 67020      0.91 
               --------- 
 CHD03 67022      0.73 
               --------- 
 CHD03 67024      0.66 
               --------- 
 CHD04 67026      0.48 
               --------- 
 CHD04 67028      0.66 
               --------- 
 CHD05 67030      0.94 
               --------- 
 CHD05 67032      0.89 
               --------- 
 CHD06 67034      0.94 
               --------- 
 CHD06 67036      1.04 
               --------- 
 CHD07 67038      0.89 
               --------- 
 CHD07 67040      0.72 
               --------- 
 CHD08 67042      0.75 
               --------- 
 CHD08 67044      0.92 
               --------- 
   Average        0.94 
               --------- 
 

COMPETENT PERSON STATEMENT

The technical information contained in this disclosure has been read and approved by Mr Nick O'Reilly (MSc, DIC, MIMMM, MAusIMM, 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.

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) 596/2014 as it forms part of UK domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 ("MAR"), and is disclosed in accordance with the Company's obligations under Article 17 of MAR.

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

 
Power Metal Resources plc 
Paul Johnson (Chief Executive Officer)                   +44 (0) 7766 465 617 
 
SP Angel Corporate Finance (Nomad and Joint Broker) 
Ewan Leggat/Charlie Bouverat                             +44 (0) 20 3470 0470 
 
SI Capital Limited (Joint Broker) 
Nick Emerson                                             +44 (0) 1483 413 500 
 
First Equity Limited (Joint Broker) 
David Cockbill/Jason Robertson                           +44 (0) 20 7330 1883 
 
 
 

NOTES TO EDITORS

Power Metal Resources plc - Background

Power Metal Resources plc (LON:POW) is an AIM listed metals exploration company which finances and manages global resource projects and is seeking large scale metal discoveries.

The Company has a principal focus on opportunities offering district scale potential across a global portfolio including precious, base and strategic metal exploration in North America, Africa and Australia.

Project interests range from early-stage greenfield exploration to later-stage prospects currently subject to drill programmes.

Power Metal will develop projects internally or through strategic joint ventures until a project becomes ready for disposal through outright sale or separate listing on a recognised stock exchange thereby crystallising the value generated from our internal exploration and development work.

Value generated through disposals will be deployed internally to drive the Company's growth or may be returned to shareholders through share buy backs, dividends or in-specie distributions of assets.

Exploration Work Overview

Power Metal has internal exploration programmes completed or underway, with results awaited, as outlined in the table below.

 
  Project    Location   Current         Work Completed or              Results Awaited 
                           POW               Underway 
                            % 
 
 Athabasca    Canada      100%     Ground exploration             Results from ground 
  Uranium                           programme underway             exploration including 
                                    at 3 properties. Continuing    spectrometer analysis, 
                                    data analysis across           sampling and mapping. 
                                    the property portfolio. 
            ---------  ---------  -----------------------------  -------------------------- 
 Authier      Canada    Earn-in    Property Evaluation            Update covering 
  North                  to 100%    Report completed.              exploration plans 
  Lithium                                                          for target areas 
                                                                   identified during 
                                                                   the Evaluation. 
            ---------  ---------  -----------------------------  -------------------------- 
 Molopo      Botswana    53%(#)    Final preparations             Commencement of 
  Farms                             for the launch of              T1-6 drill programme, 
                                    K1-6 conductor target          and findings therefrom 
                                    drilling and MLEM              and results from 
                                    surveys over T1-6,             MLEM surveys. 
                                    T1-14, T1-3 and T2-3 
                                    targets. 
            ---------  ---------  -----------------------------  -------------------------- 
 Tati        Botswana     100%     RC drilling and sampling       Review of mine dumps 
  Project                           of mine dumps complete.        sampling and results 
                                                                   from RC drill programme. 
            ---------  ---------  -----------------------------  -------------------------- 
 

(#) subject to completion of acquisition announced 18.5.22 interest will increase to 87.71%

Exploration work programmes may also be underway within Power Metal investee companies and planned IPO vehicles where Power Metal has a material interest, the findings from which will be released on their respective websites, with simultaneous updates through Power Metal regulatory announcements where required. These interests are summarised in the table below:

 
      Company                 Status/Operations                                       Link 
 First Class         Investment - POW 28.19%                               www.firstclassmetalsplc.com 
  Metals PLC          Exploration in the Schreiber-Hemlo 
                      region of Ontario, Canada 
                    ------------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------ 
 First Development   Planned IPO - POW 62.12%                           www.firstdevelopmentresources.com 
  Resources PLC       Exploration in Western Australia 
                      and the Northern Territory 
                      of Australia 
                    ------------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------ 
 Golden Metal        Planned IPO - POW 83.13%                             www.goldenmetalresources.com 
  Resources PLC       Exploration and development 
                      in Nevada, USA 
                    ------------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------ 
 Kavango Resources   Investment - POW 14.03%                                www.kavangoresources.com 
  PLC                 (subject to completion of 
                      Kanye Resources disposal 
                      announced 8.7.22) 
                      Exploration in Botswana 
                    ------------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------ 
 New Ballarat        Planned IPO - POW 49.9%               A new website is currently 
  Gold PLC            Exploration in the Victoria          in development which 
                      Goldfields of Australia              will be found at www.newballaratgoldcorp.com 
                                                           . 
                                                           In the interim further 
                                                           information in respect 
                                                           of NBGC can be found 
                                                           at: 
                                                           https://www.powermetalresources.com/project/victoria-goldfi 
                                                           elds/ 
                                                           . 
                    ------------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------ 
 

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