Approval Received For Two Further Exploration Tenements in Victoria, Australia

Approval Received For Two Further Exploration Tenements in Victoria, Australia

ECR Minerals plc

ECR MINERALS plc

(“ECR Minerals”, “ECR” or the “Company”)

Approval Received For Two Further Exploration Tenements in Victoria, Australia

ECR Minerals plc (LON: ECR), the exploration and development company focused on gold in Australia, is pleased to announce it has received approval for two new exploration tenements in Victoria, Australia.

HIGHLIGHTS

• New tenement EL007296 now completes the total exploration package at Bailieston, Victoria.
• New Creswick tenement EL006713 effectively connects EL006184 and EL006907, creating a continuous land package from ECR’s Springmount property south through to the outskirts of Ballarat.

ECR CEO Andrew Haythorpe commented: “This is a great start to 2023 for our Company. The new Bailieston tenements effectively cover the strike extension of the Bailieston Anticline, providing us with an opportunity to continue with the Blue Moon drill campaign and push further west. The new Creswick tenement means that our land package there now provides almost uninterrupted land access from our Springmount property to the outskirts of Ballarat, which given our field team believe they have identified a new parallel gold system at Davey Road and South Davey (see December 23 2022 announcement here) should now mean we can fully explore these anomalies through to their origin.”

“Our field teams will be on the ground on our new tenements during Q1 2023, and I very much look forward to reporting on progress.”

The location of the new tenements can be found here:

Figure 1: https://www.ecrminerals.com/images/2023/Fig1_New_Tenements_230102.png

EL0007296 and EL006713 have been formally approved by the Victorian Government as of the 28^th December 2022. Initial ground activities such as mapping, soil and rock chip sampling will begin in early 2023.

EL007296 adjoins EL5433 and covers the strike extension of the Bailieston Anticline. Known mineralisation occurring across the Bailieston prospects at HR3, Cherry Tree and Blue Moon are closely related to this anticline, and to date, there is no record of any exploration taking place within these new tenements.

EL006713 is located between ECR’s two other approved tenements EL006184 and EL006907 at Creswick, and effectively creates a continuous land package from ECR’s Brewing Lane property at Springmount south through to the outskirts of Ballarat. The approval of EL006713 means that on-ground exploration activities such as soil sampling and rock chips can now begin, with initial targets focusing on the proposed strike of quartz veins which the Board believe are hosted within the Dimocks Main Shale. In addition, the source of the alluvial gold within the western headwaters of the Madame Berry Deep Lead may reside within this new tenement.

Table 1: ECR Minerals current exploration tenements (granted and applied), Victoria, Australia (as of January 2023)

Tenement	Name	Granted	Expiry	Area (km 2 )
EL5433	Bailieston	28/03/2013	27/03/2023	23
EL006184	Old Creswick	29/12/2016	*Renewal applied	45
EL006907	South Creswick	26/11/2021	25/11/2026	81
EL007484	Boucher Town	26/11/2021	25/11/2026	374
EL006911	Graytown 1	5/12/2022	4/12/2027	10
EL006912	Graytown 2	8/12/2022	7/12/2027	77
EL006713	New Creswick	28/12/2022	27/12/2027	66
EL007296	Wirrate	28/12/2022	27/12/2027	32
EL007486	Ramrod Creek	in application		(322)
EL007537	Ballarat	Competing application		(138)
			TOTAL granted (km 2 )	708

(…) notes exploration area in square kilometres.

REVIEW OF ANNOUNCEMENT BY QUALIFIED PERSON

This announcement has been reviewed by Adam Jones, Technical Director of Exploration at ECR Minerals plc. Adam Jones is a professional geologist and is a Member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists (MAIG). He is a qualified person as that term is defined by the AIM Note for Mining, Oil and Gas Companies.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:

ECR Minerals plc		Tel: [phone]
David Tang, Non-Executive Chairman Andrew Haythorpe, CEO
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Website: www.ecrminerals.com
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Nominated Adviser Katy Mitchell / Andrew de Andrade
SI Capital Ltd		Tel: [phone]
Broker
Nick Emerson
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Broker Jon Belliss
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Public & Investor Relations
Alan Green

ABOUT ECR MINERALS PLC

ECR Minerals is a mineral exploration and development company. ECR’s wholly owned Australian subsidiary Mercator Gold Australia Pty Ltd (“MGA”) has 100% ownership of the Bailieston and Creswick gold projects in central Victoria, Australia, has six licence applications outstanding which includes one licence application lodged in eastern Victoria. (Tambo gold project). MGA is currently drilling at the Bailieston Blue Moon Project (EL5433) and undertaking geochemical exploration on the Creswick (EL6148) project and has an experienced exploration team with significant local knowledge in the Victoria Goldfields and wider region.

ECR also owns 100% of an Australian subsidiary LUX Exploration Pty Ltd (“LUX”) which has three approved exploration permits covering 946 km² over a relatively unexplored area in Queensland, Australia.

Following the sale of the Avoca, Moormbool and Timor gold projects in Victoria, Australia to Fosterville South Exploration Ltd (TSX-V: FSX) and the subsequent spin-out of the Avoca and Timor projects to Leviathan Gold Ltd (TSX-V: LVX), Mercator Gold Australia Pty Limited has the right to receive up to A$2 million in payments subject to future resource estimation or production from projects sold to Fosterville South Exploration Limited.

ECR holds a 70% interest in the Danglay gold project; an advanced exploration project located in a prolific gold and copper mining district in the north of the Philippines, which has a 43-101 compliant resource. ECR also holds a royalty on the SLM gold project in La Rioja Province, Argentina and can potentially receive up to US$2.7 million in aggregate across all licences

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