High Grade Manganese Up to 48% Mn at White Castles Project, Gascoyne W.A

Reach Resources Limited (ASX: RR1 & RR1O) (“Reach” or “the Company”) is pleased to announce receipt of high-grade manganese results of up to 48% Mn at the Company’s White Castles Project, in the Edmund Basin, approximately 80km north of the Company’s Morrissey Hill Lithium Project.

• High grade manganese mineralisation confirmed with rock chip samples reporting assays of up to 48% Mn, at the Company’s White Castles project in the Gascoyne, W.A.
• Potential for over 50km of continuous strike indicated from sampling results across the project area.
• Neighbours include Fortescue Metals Group to the east, Hastings Technology Metals to the west and Dreadnought Resources to the south-west.

Figure 1: Exploration Manager Steve Vallance sampling a large outcrop at E09/2539.

The receipt of assay results follows the Company’s reconnaissance rock chip sampling program, as announced on 20 September 2023. The White Castles project area comprises three large 100% owned strategically located tenements, and three tenement applications, totalling 665km2 (Figure 2).

Jeremy Bower CEO commented:

“These high-grade assay results are a great start to the assessment of our White Castles manganese project. We have deliberately targeted manganese as part of our battery metal strategy as we see the demand curve steepening in the coming years with the switch to alternative battery chemistries using manganese, over and above the baseload of demand from the steel industry.

Following the recent acquisition of tenement E09/2539 from Firebird Metals, we now have a large contiguous project area with a potential strike length of over 50km and in a commodity that is just starting to get its time in the sun.

Our next step is to perform a geochemical analysis and select the best parts of the project area for further sampling and detailed mapping. This will ensure that when we approach the traditional owners for the necessary approvals, we already have a good idea of our key target areas which will form the focus of early work programs.

The Future is within Reach”.

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