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MACARTHUR MINERALS COMPLETES GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS TARGETING GOLD AND COPPER AT ITS HILLSIDE PROJECT Macarthur Minerals Limited (TSX-V: MMS) (the �Company� or �Macarthur�) is pleased to announce that it has completed a heliborne SkyTEM electromagnetic survey program targeting gold and copper at its Hillside Gold Project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, to define high priority targets from conductors such as clusters of massive sulphide hosted base metal deposits at depth. Mr Cameron McCall, Executive Chairman of Macarthur Minerals commented: �Following a review of historical data that highlighted several prospective zones, a geophysics program has been completed over key areas to delineate deep massive sulphide structures that have the potential to be hosting gold and copper found at surface. We are in the right area, as the Hillside Project shares similar geology to Calidus Resources Limited�s Warrawoona Gold Project located to the North East. It is now a matter of further exploration to find the source. � Hillside Gold Project The Company has completed a heliborne SkyTEM electromagnetic survey on the Hillside Gold Project (�Hillside Project�) in the Pilbara. The survey was conducted at 150m line spacing across two large prospects covering 125km2. The aim of the survey is to define high priority targets from conductors such as clusters of massive sulphide hosted base metal deposits at depth. The data collected will now be processed and interpreted to identify structures with potential for gold, copper or other sulphide mineral deposits. The area surveyed is shown in Figure 1. The Company�s Hillside Project covers an area of ~400km2 and is highly prospective for gold and copper. Historical rock chip sampling on the Hillside Project has returned results up to 240 grams per tonne gold and 7.8% copper. A rock chip from a recent reconnaissance visit with Artemis Resources Limited to the Hillside Project returned 8.5 grams per tonne (�g/t�) gold. Project Geology The Hillside Project is located south west of Calidus Resources Limited�s (�Calidus Resources�) Warrawoona Gold Project where it recently announced significant gold of 6 meters at 63.31 g/t, 2 meters at 182.57 g/t and broader intervals including 12 meters at 3.73 g/t and 9 meters at 4.45 g/t. Calidus Resources has recently reported a Mineral Resource of 712,000 ounces of gold at 2.11 g/t.1. The Warrawoona Gold Project occupies an area dominated by greenstone terrain of the Warrawoona Group with the main stratigraphic unit being the Apex Basalt. Macarthur Minerals� Tambourah Lithium and Hillside Projects are both situated in areas of highly prospective greenstone terrane that includes the Apex Basalt and other volcanic units of the Warrawoona Group (Figure 2). The Hillside Project also contains substantial volcanic units such as the Euro Basalt of the closely relate

Auroch Minerals Limited (ASX:AOU) (Auroch or the Company) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Aidan Platel as Chief Executive Officer. Mr Platel has worked with Auroch for over 12 months as a consultant evaluating projects and more recently planning the work and drill programmes commencing on the Company�s recently acquired Arden and Bonaventura Projects in the world-class base-metal mining region of South Australia. Mr Platel is a geologist with close to 20 years� experience in the minerals industry, in both mining and exploration roles across a wide range of commodities. Recently, Mr Platel has worked as an independent strategic consultant focusing on project evaluation, prior to which he spent 12 years in South America in mining and exploration. He has a proven track record of exploration success having discovered and developed several major deposits including the world-class Santa Rita Nickel deposit (>1Mt contained Ni metal). Mr Platel�s appointment commenced effective 1 June 2018, with the terms of his appointment detailed in Appendix A. The Company is also pleased to advise that Mr Adam Santa Maria has been appointed to the Board as a Non-Executive Director. Mr Santa Maria is an experienced corporate finance and public company executive and co-founder of Discovery Capital Partners, an emerging boutique investment house and advisory firm focused on identifying and developing potential tier 1 assets and businesses and which has led or advised on over $100 million in transactions since its inception in 2017. Both as a practising lawyer and investment banker, he has advised many of Australia�s leading and emerging companies on a number of significant corporate and commercial transactions throughout all stages of their development. Mr Santa Maria has particular expertise in corporate and commercial law and transaction execution, focussing on equity capital markets, corporate governance and M&A. Auroch Executive Chairman Glenn Whiddon commented: �We are delighted to have Aidan and Adam join Auroch�s management team and board respectively. With Aidan�s successful experience in mining and exploration and Adam�s wide-ranging capital markets and M&A experience, which are both critically important, it ensures that the Arden and Bonaventura Projects are developed and funded successfully as we move to unlock value at these highly prospective projects.� With Auroch focusing on the Arden and Bonaventura Projects, Mr David Lenigas and the Company believe that Mr Santa Maria�s skillset and appointment to the Board will allow Mr Lenigas to focus on other business commitments, particularly the emerging Pilbara gold and base metals company, Artemus Resources Limited, and he has resigned accordingly. The Board will still be able to avail itself of Mr Lenigas� skills as he will remain as an advisor to the Board. Auroch and its Board, on behalf of shareholders,

Positive Progress at Sonora Lithium Project Bacanora Lithium plc, the London listed lithium exploration and development company, is pleased to provide a positive update on the ongoing development of its Sonora Lithium Project in Mexico ('Sonora' or the 'Project') as it prepares to commence construction of a fully integrated lithium carbonate operation, beginning with Stage 1 construction of a 17,500 tpa plant before upgrading to 35,000 tpa via a planned Stage 2 expansion project. Highlights: � State Governor Claudia Pavlovich hosted the official Project Commencement ceremony in Hermosillo, Mexico � Hanwa Corporation ('Hanwa') of Japan has agreed in principle to extend their initial lithium off-take partnership for a further 5 years at a rate of 17,500 tpa of lithium carbonate, on the same commercial terms as the initial 5 year off-take � Front End Engineering Design (FEED) ongoing and scheduled to have final designs, cost estimates and process guarantee scopes substantially completed by end Q2 2018 � Continued pilot plant operations for operator training and production of battery grade lithium samples for delivery to selected customers � Current timetable is to commission the plant within 20 months subject to project financing Bacanora CEO Peter Secker said: "Bacanora is continuing its strategy to become a leading, low cost producer of battery grade lithium carbonate. To maximise these strong value prospects we are focused on fast-tracking the Project into production with preliminary site access developments underway and the chemical processing plant construction due to commence later this year. This will initially focus on building a 17,500 tpa lithium carbonate plant with engineering design and documentation for procurement of long lead items being developed. Following successful project execution, we will look to undertake our Stage 2 expansion plan to increase lithium production to 35,000 tpa. In support of this, we have agreed in principle to extend the initial lithium off-take partnership with Hanwa for a further 5 years at a rate of 17,500 tpa and are expecting to complete formal documentation shortly. In addition, we are progressing well in discussions for additional strategic partners for the extra Stage 2 off-take tonnages. These are exciting times for Bacanora and we look forward to sharing further updates on the road to production in due course." Project Commencement Ceremony Project development took another significant step forward in early April 2018 with an official Project Commencement ceremony held in Hermosillo, Mexico. The ceremony was presided over by Governor Claudia Pavlovich and senior Sonora state government personnel and focussed on the significant economic opportunities that the construction of a fully integrated lithium carbonate facility will create. This includes the new employment opportuniti

Same great news plus some news for the economy of Sonora were received last week, first with a project long caressed by the company Bacanora Minerals that now did get the full funding to give life to lithium mining in the area of Bacadehuachi, Cucurpe and Magdalena. It is an investment of 420 million dollars and a very daring and interesting investment plan that will put Sonora on its head as a global leader in the production of that raw material used for the batteries of electric cars. , laptops and smartphones among other products in high demand. To date the only areas where these reserves are detected are South Africa, Bolivia, Peru and Australia, however none of the reported sites have the scope in terms of reserves of the miner in a polygon of 7 sites reported in the region mountain of Sonora. In fact, the other impact has to do with jobs and value networks, because although the mine itself will occupy 300 people, it is well known that the salaries paid in this sector and the profits are very high, which Doubt will boost the economy of that region of Sonora that currently beyond livestock does not have a productive vocation of high impact. Add the focus to the commercialization and integration of this input to the production of a thriving industry, such as electronic cars, which is currently taking the steps to consolidate itself as the leader in the automotive industry and see how the final Sonora is being placed at the forefront of a technological sector with a mineral that until recently was considered as waste or so-called "rare earths" because at the end of the day its value was so low that it was not worth developing a great project to extract it and take advantage of it commercially. The best in the case of those who fear the environmental impact of mining is that beyond the extraction of huge volumes of material, the environmental impact is zero, since it is an inert mineral, which is not reactive and does not require leaching processes and the application of chemicals to extract their values, literally the material as it comes from the subsoil ends up being baked and packed. So this issue of lithium mining will end up becoming one of the great news in economic matters of our state, and one of the milestones set during the government of Claudia Pavlovich. We must not lose sight of it.

Translates to Hermosillo, Son.- Sonora will become one of the main producers of lithium in the world from the operation of the "Sonora Litium" project, which will be developed in the entity with an investment of 420 million dollars from the Bacanora Minerals holding company . This widely anticipated investment will be developed in at least seven deposits of this mineral, considered until recently as rare earths and that has grown in its price exponentially since it is an essential material in the development of batteries for electric cars, and state-of-the-art devices such as laptops and smartphones. The Sonora Litium project has contracts to supply Tesla Motors with that mineral. Mark Honen, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bacanora Lithium and Pedro Pablo Garc�a Azofra, Director of Operations of ICA Flour, said in a meeting to present the project that it is an investment of 420 million dollars to build the mine, a process that begins in September and is expected to be operational by early 2020. Garc�a Azofra mentioned that for the construction of the Sonora Lithium Mine, the supply and work of Sonoran hand will be privileged. The mine in its main body will be located in Bacadehuachi, however the lithium deposit to be exploited has derivations to Magdalena and Cucurpe, municipalities located in the north central region of Sonora, it is assumed that the reserves reach more than four billion tons of that mineral, which is one of the largest deposits in the world. Claudia Pavlovich, governor of the state, said that this process will mark a new beginning for the mining sector of Sonora, which is currently the leader in copper, gold, wollastonite, molybdenum and coal production at the national level. The president highlighted the fact that world-class companies turn to Sonora, as the Sonora Lithium project will attract an investment of 420 million dollars and generate one thousand 200 jobs in the construction phase of the Lithium Sonora Mine. which will start in September.

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