DRILLING UNDERWAY AT ARMIDALE ANTIMONY-GOLD PROJECT
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DRILLING UNDERWAY AT ARMIDALE ANTIMONY-GOLD PROJECT
HIGHLIGHTS:
• Drilling is underway at Red Mountain’s maiden RC drilling program at the Armidale Antimony-
Gold Project in New South Wales.
• 17 holes are planned to test key priority targets defined by the Company’s extensive surface
geochemical sampling program at the Oaky Creek prospect.
• Drilling is expected to take approximately three weeks, with assays expected to be received
early in the next quarter.
• Oaky Creek is Red Mountain’s most advanced target within the 391 km2
Armidale Antimony-
Gold Project, located in the Southern New England Orogen of NSW, considered to be
Australia’s premier antimony mineral province. Previously announced conventional and auger
soil sampling and rock chip results of up to 39.3% Sb and 1.09ppm Au from Oaky Creek
indicate potential for a large-scale orogenic antimony-gold vein system with a strike extent
of ~3km at surface, which is analogous to Larvotto Resources’ (ASX: LRV) Hillgrove project.
• At the Pioneer Tungsten Project in Montana, United States, the Company expects to receive
assay results in early September from the comprehensive sampling program.
Image 1: RC Drilling Rig on site at Red Mountain Mining’s Armidale Antimony-Gold Project in NSW, Australia
ASX Announcement
31 August 2026
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Red Mountain Mining Limited (ASX: RMX, US OTCQB: RMXFF, or “the Company”), a Critical
Minerals exploration and development company with an established portfolio in Tier-1 Mining Districts
in the United States and Australia, is pleased to announce that the maiden drilling program at the
Armidale Antimony-Gold Project has commenced.
The RC drilling program is designed to test key compelling orogenic antimony-gold targets defined
from Red Mountain’s comprehensive surface rock chip, conventional soil and auger soil sampling
program, completed over the past 12 months (Figure 1). The program will drill test the coherent 300m
x 30m Oaky Creek South Main Grid antimony-arsenic auger soil anomaly, which has also returned
rock chip results of up to 39.3% Sb & 1.09ppm Au; historical workings and outcropping quartz-
carbonate-stibnite veins at the Oaky Creek North Workings; and the Sb-bearing Creek exposure to
the north of it. Seventeen holes are expected to be drilled over a period of approximately three weeks.
Assay results for the drilling program are expected to be received next quarter.
Oaky Creek represents a significant 3km long orogenic antimony system with multiple
drill ready targets
The Oaky Creek prospect features quartz-carbonate-stibnite veins and breccias hosted within a tightly
folded and faulted sequence of metamorphosed Carboniferous mudstone, siltstone and fine
sandstone. The mineralisation has been targeted by two groups of shallow historical pits and shafts
at Oaky Creek North and Oaky Creek South.
The Company’s initial sampling program at Oaky Creek comprised a 50m x 100m spaced grid soil
sampling program centered on a major splay of the Namoi Fault, accompanied by rock chip sampling.
As initially reported in June 20251
, the soil sampling defines a coherent, ~1.5km long, 100-200m wide,
NNW-trending >2ppm Sb in soil anomaly extending both north and south of the historical workings
at Oaky Creek North and a similarly-oriented ~1km long >2ppm Sb in soil anomaly extending north
from the Oaky Creek South workings.
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Figure 1: (A) Google Earth image showing auger soil sampling completed over the Oaky Creek antimony prospect relative to contoured
conventional soil antimony values and antimony minerallised (>0.5% Sb) rock chip samples. The two insets show the NSW 5m digital
elevation model over the (B) Oaky Creek North and (C) Oaky Creek South areas, showing auger antimony soil results, mapped quartz-
carbonate-stibnite vein traces and priority drill targets.
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Sampling campaigns at Oaky Creek23
, returned multiple rock chip samples4, 5, 6
with values of over
25% Sb and 0.1g/t Au for five different areas, with mineralised and anomalous rock samples showing
a strong spatial correlation to the antimony soil anomaly (Figure 1). When considered collectively, the
soil and rock chip results indicate a significant orogenic antimony mineral system with a strike extent
of 3km, which is analogous to Larvotto Resources’ (ASX: LRV; Market Cap. ~AU$660 million)
Hillgrove Project, which lies east of Red Mountain’s project area.
Red Mountain’s ~1300 sample infill hand auger soil sampling campaign across the full ~3km strike
extent of the Oaky Creek prospect was completed across late 2025 and early 2026 to tighten the
Company’s existing 100m x 50m spaced soil grid in order to better constrain individual drill targets.
This detailed systematic work has allowed the company to define five high priority orogenic antimony
targets7
for drill testing at Oaky Creek (Figure 1) during the third quarter of 2026.
In July 2026, Red Mountain also reported the results of a trial, four line dipole-dipole induced
polarisation (DDIP) survey over Oaky Creek South8
. Modelling of the data revealed a coherent NNE-
SSW-striking, steeply SE-dipping chargeability anomaly that extends beneath and at least 300m
southwest from outcropping quartz-carbonate-stibnite veins and shallow historical antimony workings
at the Oaky Creek South Workings (Figure 1). The anomaly shows a peak observed chargeability of
over 7.2 mV/V, compared to background values that typically range from 2 to 3 mV/V. The anomaly
significantly increases the size of the Oaky Creek South Workings target and is modelled to extend
from surface to a depth of at least 200m, and over a strike extent of at least 400m, compared to the
~120m strike of surface vein mineralisation. It strengthens to the SSW and remains open in that
direction.
The drilling program is expected to last a period of approximately three weeks. Due to delays in the
rig availability - influenced by prior delays due to wet weather and other unforeseen circumstances,
the drilling program commenced later than was indicated by the contractor.
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RMX ASX Announcement 27 June 2025. https://investorhub.redmountainmining.com.au/announcements/7026204
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RMX ASX Announcement 11 July 2025. https://investorhub.redmountainmining.com.au/announcements/7050680
4RMX ASX Announcement 2 October 2025. https://investorhub.redmountainmining.com.au/announcements/7181513
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RMX ASX Announcement 15 January 2026. https://investorhub.redmountainmining.com.au/announcements/7325282
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RMX ASX Announcement 12 March 2026. https://investorhub.redmountainmining.com.au/announcements/7435807
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RMX ASX Announcement 30 March 2026. https://investorhub.redmountainmining.com.au/announcements/7467812
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RMX ASX Announcement 9 July 2026. https://investorhub.redmountainmining.com.au/announcements/7624811
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Red Mountain Armidale Antimony-Gold Project background
Red Mountain’s 100%-owned Armidale Antimony-Gold Project lies in the Southern New England
Orogen (SNEO) in northeastern New South Wales, west of Australia’s largest known antimony deposit,
Larvotto’s (ASX: LRV) Hillgrove deposit, which is also the 8th
largest antimony deposit globally. The
SNEO is recognised as Australia’s premier Antimony province (Figure 2).
Figure 2: Location of LRV’s Hillgrove Mine and other Known NSW gold and antimony mineral occurrences relative to Red Mountain’s
Armidale Antimony-Gold Project and NSW basement orogenic units. The map clearly demonstrates the prospectivity of the New England
Orogen for antimony and gold. The location of the Peel Fault is also shown.
Red Mountain’s Armidale Antimony-Gold Project has an extensive 85km length along the western
side of the Peel Fault. The geology of the project area is dominated by isoclinally folded Carboniferous
metasediments of the Tamworth Belt, which is a forearc basinal package related to west-dipping
subduction of oceanic crust beneath the Lachlan Orogen. Ultramafic mélanges of the Great
Serpentinite Belt, which outcrop along the Peel Fault, are considered to be remnants of this oceanic
crust. The Peel Fault System has recognised world-class mineral potential, with over 400 known
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orogenic gold and base metal mineral occurrences along its over 400km strike extent, but is
underexplored, with less than 200 mostly shallow drillholes over its length, the majority of which are
focused on discrete prospects. Oaky Creek is the company’s highest priority and most advanced
prospect within the project and is one of several known orogenic gold and antimony mineral
occurrences within the tenement (Figure 3).
Figure 3: Geological Survey of NSW total magnetic intensity reduced to pole (TMI RTP) imagery9 and location of gold and antimony mineral
occurrences within and near to EL9732, summarising highlights of RMX’s exploration to date and the location of the Company’s Oaky Creek
and East Hills antimony prospects, Horsley Station gold prospect and Horsley North magnetic target. The mapped location of the Peel Fault
is also shown.
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Matthews, S.J. 2024. New South Wales Statewide magnetic merge, version 3.0 [Digital Dataset]. Geological Survey of New South Wales,
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Maitland.
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Authorised for and on behalf of the Board,
Mauro Piccini
Company Secretary
Disclaimer
In relying on the above mentioned ASX announcement and pursuant to ASX Listing Rule 5.23.2, the Company confirms that
it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information included in the above-mentioned
announcement.
Forward–Looking Statements
Some of the statements appearing in this announcement may be in the nature of forward-looking statements. You should
be aware that such statements are only predictions and are subject to inherent risks and uncertainties. Those risks and
uncertainties include factors and risks specific to the industries in which Red Mountain operates and proposes to operate
as well as general economic conditions, prevailing exchange rates and interest rates and conditions in the financial markets,
among other things. Actual events or results may differ materially from the events or results expressed or implied in any
forward- looking statement. No forward-looking statement is a guarantee or representation as to future performance or any
other future matters, which will be influenced by a number of factors and subject to various uncertainties and contingencies,
many of which will be outside Red Mountain’s control.
About Red Mountain Mining
Red Mountain Mining Ltd (ASX: RMX, US CODE: RMXFF) is a Critical Minerals exploration and development company
focussed on accelerating development at its United States and Australia based Projects, located in Tier-1 Mining Districts.
Red Mountain is fast-tracking its Critical Minerals projects in the US and Australia, and the Board and Management is
determined to rapidly define a portfolio of advanced projects to assist the United States and other Western countries with
a reliable, high-quality source of commodity supply, including from the Company’s Armidale Antimony-Gold Project located
in NSW, Australia, which has delivered multiple high-grade antimony rock chip samples to date (up to 39.3% Sb); and its US
Critical Minerals Portfolio comprising the Pioneer Tungsten Project in Montana, which encompasses the same geology
and exhibits the same skarn-style mineralisation as the 6.8Mt Gentung tungsten resource (owned by NASDAQ: ALM); the
Utah Antimony Project in the highly prospective Antimony Mining District of Utah, adjacent to the Antimony Canyon Project
(owned by ASX: AT4); the Thompson Falls Antimony Project with initial assay results of up to 36.5% Sb at historical mines
located near the NYSE: UAMY Antimony Smelter, and Idaho Antimony Project.
Competent Person Statement
The information in this announcement that relates to Exploration Results and other technical information complies with the
2012 Edition of the Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves (JORC Code).
It has been compiled and assessed under the supervision of contract geologist Mark Mitchell. Mr Mitchell is a Member of
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the Australian Institute of Geoscientists and has sufficient experience that is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type
of deposit under consideration and to the activity being undertaken to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the
2012 Edition of the JORC Code. Mr Mitchell consents to the inclusion in this announcement of the matters based on his
information in the form and context in which it appears.
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JORC Code, 2012 Edition - Table 1
1.1 Section 1 Sampling Techniques and Data
Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
Sampling
techniques
• Nature and quality of sampling (e.g. cut
channels, random chips, or specific
specialised industry standard measurement
tools appropriate to the minerals under
investigation, such as down hole gamma
sondes, or handheld XRF instruments, etc).
These examples should not be taken as
limiting the broad meaning of sampling.
• Include reference to measures taken to
ensure sample representivity and the
appropriate calibration of any measurement
tools or systems used.
• Aspects of the determination of
mineralisation that are Material to the
Public Report.
• In cases where ‘industry standard’ work has
been done this would be relatively simple
(eg ‘reverse circulation drilling was used to
obtain 1 m samples from which 3 kg was
pulverised to produce a 30 g charge for fire
assay’). In other cases more explanation
may be required, such as where there is
coarse gold that has inherent sampling
problems. Unusual commodities or
mineralisation types (eg submarine nodules)
may warrant disclosure of detailed
information.
• No surface sampling or drilling results
are reported.
Drilling
techniques
• Drill type (e.g. core, reverse circulation,
open-hole hammer, rotary air blast, auger,
Bangka, sonic, etc) and details (e.g. core
diameter, triple or standard tube, depth of
diamond tails, face-sampling bit or other
type, whether core is oriented and if so, by
what method, etc).
• No drilling results are reported.
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Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
Drill
sample
recovery
• Method of recording and assessing core
and chip sample recoveries and results
assessed.
• Measures taken to maximise sample
recovery and ensure representative nature
of the samples.
• Whether a relationship exists between
sample recovery and grade and whether
sample bias may have occurred due to
preferential loss/gain of fine/coarse
material.
• No drilling results are reported.
Logging • Whether core and chip samples have been
geologically and geotechnically logged to a
level of detail to support appropriate
Mineral Resource estimation, mining studies
and metallurgical studies.
• Whether logging is qualitative or
quantitative in nature. Core (or costean,
channel, etc) photography.
• The total length and percentage of the
relevant intersections logged.
• No drilling results are reported.
Sub-
sampling
techniques
and
sample
preparation
• If core, whether cut or sawn and whether
quarter, half or all core taken.
• If non-core, whether riffled, tube sampled,
rotary split, etc and whether sampled wet
or dry.
• For all sample types, the nature, quality and
appropriateness of the sample preparation
technique.
• Quality control procedures adopted for all
sub-sampling stages to maximise
representivity of samples.
• Measures taken to ensure that the
sampling is representative of the in situ
material collected, including for instance
results for field duplicate/second-half
sampling.
• Whether sample sizes are appropriate to
the grain size of the material being
• No surface sampling or drilling results
are reported.
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Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
sampled.
Quality of
assay data
and
laboratory
tests
• The nature, quality and appropriateness of
the assaying and laboratory procedures
used and whether the technique is
considered partial or total.
• For geophysical tools, spectrometers,
handheld XRF instruments, etc, the
parameters used in determining the
analysis including instrument make and
model, reading times, calibrations factors
applied and their derivation, etc.
• Nature of quality control procedures
adopted (e.g. standards, blanks, duplicates,
external laboratory checks) and whether
acceptable levels of accuracy (i.e. lack of
bias) and precision have been established.
• No geochemical results are reported.
• No new geophysical results are reported.
Verification
of
sampling
and
assaying
• The verification of significant intersections
by either independent or alternative
company personnel.
• The use of twinned holes.
• Documentation of primary data, data entry
procedures, data verification, data storage
(physical and electronic) protocols.
• Discuss any adjustment to assay data.
• No drill intersections are reported.
Location of
data points
• Accuracy and quality of surveys used to
locate drill holes (collar and down-hole
surveys), trenches, mine workings and other
locations used in Mineral Resource
estimation.
• Specification of the grid system used.
• Quality and adequacy of topographic
control.
• No drill holes are reported.
Data
spacing
and
distribution
• Data spacing for reporting of Exploration
Results.
• Whether the data spacing and distribution
is sufficient to establish the degree of
geological and grade continuity appropriate
for the Mineral Resource and Ore Reserve
estimation procedure(s) and classifications
• No surface sampling or drilling results
are reported.
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Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
applied.
• Whether sample compositing has been
applied.
Orientation
of data in
relation to
geological
structure
• Whether the orientation of sampling
achieves unbiased sampling of possible
structures and the extent to which this is
known, considering the deposit type.
• If the relationship between the drilling
orientation and the orientation of key
mineralised structures is considered to have
introduced a sampling bias, this should be
assessed and reported if material.
• No new data are reported.
Sample
security
• The measures taken to ensure sample
security.
• No surface sampling or drilling results
are reported.
Audits or
reviews
• The results of any audits or reviews of
sampling techniques and data.
• No new data are reported.
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1.2 Section 2 Reporting of Exploration Results
(Criteria listed in the preceding section also apply to this section.)
Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
Mineral
tenement and
land tenure
status
• Type, reference name/number, location
and ownership including agreements or
material issues with third parties such
as joint ventures, partnerships,
overriding royalties, native title
interests, historical sites, wilderness or
national park and environmental
settings.
• The security of the tenure held at the
time of reporting along with any known
impediments to obtaining a licence to
operate in the area.
• The Exploration licence EL9732 is 100%
wholly held by Red Mountain Mining and
covers 391km2
.
• The licence was granted on 12/12/2024
and its initial three-year term expires on
12/12/2027. The licence covers freehold
land with Land Access agreements struck
with local owners using standard AMEC
terms.
• There are no known material issues with
third parties or other impediments to
obtaining a licence to operate in the area.
Exploration
done by other
parties
• Acknowledgment and appraisal of
exploration by other parties.
• The north-south elongate corridor covered
by the project contains no historical
mineral exploration drilling and has seen
limited previous surface exploration for
Antimony and Gold mineralisation. No soil
sampling for these elements has been
undertaken and rock chip and stream
sediment coverage is limited, leaving the
majority of the tenement untested by
systematic exploration and therefore is
considered having significant potential for
discovery. A number of historical
prospector workings for antimony and
gold have been reported within the
licence.
Geology • Deposit type, geological setting and
style of mineralisation.
• The project is located in the Southern
New England Orogen. The geology of the
tenement is dominated by isoclinally
folded Carboniferous metasediments of
the Tamworth Belt which is a forearc
basinal package related to west-dipping
subduction of oceanic crust beneath the
Lachlan Orogen. Ultramafic melanges of
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Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
the Great Serpentinite Belt, which outcrop
along the Peel Fault, are considered to be
remnants of this oceanic crust.
• The style of mineralisation target is
hydrothermal quartz veins, breccia and
stockworks derived from fluids during
regional compression and resulting
faulting providing the conduits to the
fluids.
Drill hole
Information
• A summary of all information material
to the understanding of the exploration
results including a tabulation of the
following information for all Material
drill holes:
o easting and northing of the drill
hole collar
o elevation or RL (Reduced Level –
elevation above sea level in metres)
of the drill hole collar
o dip and azimuth of the hole
o down hole length and interception
depth
o hole length.
• If the exclusion of this information is
justified on the basis that the
information is not Material and this
exclusion does not detract from the
understanding of the report, the
Competent Person should clearly
explain why this is the case.
• No drilling conducted
Data
aggregation
methods
• In reporting Exploration Results,
weighting averaging techniques,
maximum and/or minimum grade
truncations (e.g. cutting of high grades)
and cut-off grades are usually Material
and should be stated.
• Where aggregate intercepts incorporate
short lengths of high grade results and
longer lengths of low grade results, the
• No aggregated methods are reported
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Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
procedure used for such aggregation
should be stated and some typical
examples of such aggregations should
be shown in detail.
• The assumptions used for any reporting
of metal equivalent values should be
clearly stated.
Relationship
between
mineralisation
widths and
intercept
lengths
• These relationships are particularly
important in the reporting of
Exploration Results.
• If the geometry of the mineralisation
with respect to the drill hole angle is
known, its nature should be reported.
• If it is not known and only the down
hole lengths are reported, there should
be a clear statement to this effect (e.g.
‘down hole length, true width not
known’).
• No relationship is made between
mineralisation width and intercept lengths.
Diagrams • Appropriate maps and sections (with
scales) and tabulations of intercepts
should be included for any significant
discovery being reported These should
include, but not be limited to a plan
view of drill hole collar locations and
appropriate sectional views.
• Appropriate location diagrams are
presented in the text. These diagrams are
illustrative only as no assumptions of
grade, extent or depth are made.
Balanced
reporting
• Where comprehensive reporting of all
Exploration Results is not practicable,
representative reporting of both low
and high grades and/or widths should
be practiced to avoid misleading
reporting of Exploration Results.
• Only pertinent results are given as due to
the relevance of the announcement.
Other
substantive
exploration
data
• Other exploration data, if meaningful
and material, should be reported
including (but not limited to):
geological observations; geophysical
survey results; geochemical survey
results; bulk samples – size and method
of treatment; metallurgical test results;
• Red Mountain has fully reported all
relevant exploration completed by the
company on the tenement in multiple ASX
Announcements as referenced and linked
in the text.
• Red Mountain also previously reported the
results of geochemical and detailed
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Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary
bulk density, groundwater, geotechnical
and rock characteristics; potential
deleterious or contaminating
substances.
mineralogical characterisation and a pilot
crush, grind and flotation study of a
representative 20kg bulk sample of
stibnite vein material from the Oaky Creek
prospect.
• The study produced a high-quality
concentrate at 51.8%, with a very high
85% antimony recovery.
• Relevant details of the metallurgical
testing are provided in RMX’s ASX
Announcement of 25/05/2026, which may
be accessed using this link.
Further work • The nature and scale of planned further
work (e.g. tests for lateral extensions or
depth extensions or large-scale step-
out drilling).
• Diagrams clearly highlighting the areas
of possible extensions, including the
main geological interpretations and
future drilling areas, provided this
information is not commercially
sensitive.
• An RC drilling program, comprising up to
17 drillholes is now underway at Oaky
Creek.
• A diagram showing the five priority drill
targets at Oaky Creek has been provided
in the text.
• Further exploration activity will be
dependent on the outcomes of this
drilling program.
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