Thor Mining PLC GRANTING OF ADDITIONAL EXPLORATION LICENCE AREA (0302K)

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RNS Number : 0302K

Thor Mining PLC

04 July 2017

4 July 2017

THOR MINING PLC

MOLYHIL TUNGSTEN PROJECT

GRANTING OF ADDITIONAL EXPLORATION LICENCE AREA

The Board of Thor Mining Plc ("Thor" or the "Company") (AIM, ASX: THR) is pleased to advise that the Company has been granted an additional exploration licence area ("EL31443") which secures additional ground along strike from the Molyhil tungsten deposit in the Northern Territory.

The application was lodged after the Company received highly encouraging results from a shallow drilling campaign in 2016 that was designed to test for satellite deposits in close proximity to the Company's existing Molyhil tungsten deposit. The additional exploration licence area secures prospective ground contiguous with the Gap Track prospect to the south of existing tenements (Figure 1).

The new licence area comprises 68 square kilometres of ground highly prospective for further Molyhil style skarn hosted tungsten deposits.

Mr Mick Billing, Executive Chairman, commented:

"The exploration results from the 2016 drilling program provided all the encouragement required to pick up this extra ground. Even moderate exploration success in this new exploration area is likely to have a dramatically positive effect on the Molyhil mine life and economic outcomes."

Enquiries:

 
Mick Billing       +61 (8) 7324     Thor Mining          Executive 
                    1935             PLC                  Chairman 
Ray Ridge          +61 (8) 7324     Thor Mining          CFO/Company 
                    1935             PLC                  Secretary 
Colin Aaronson/    [phone]  Grant Thornton       Nominated 
 Daniel Bush/       5100             UK LLP               Adviser 
 Richard Tonthat 
Elliot Hance        [phone]  Beaufort Securities  Joint Broker 
                     8300            Limited 
Nick Emerson       +44 (0) 1483     SI Capital Ltd       Joint Broker 
 / Andy Thacker     413 500 
Tim Blythe/        [phone]  Blytheweigh          Financial 
 Camilla Horsfall   3222                                  PR 
 

Updates on the Company's activities are regularly posted on Thor's website www.thormining.com, which includes a facility to register to receive these updates by email, and on the Company's twitter page @ThorMining.

Competent Person's Report

The information in this report that relates to exploration results is based on information compiled by Richard Bradey, who holds a BSc in applied geology and an MSc in natural resource management and who is a Member of The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Mr Bradey is an employee of Thor Mining PLC. He has sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity which he is undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2012 Edition of the 'Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves'. Richard Bradey consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.

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