Element 25 Limited confirmed that the delivery of the first stage of a planned multi-stage development at the Company's 100% owned world class Butcherbird Project (Project) continues with completion scheduled for March 2021, in line with the original target of Quarter 1, 2021. The current work plan has dry commissioning scheduled for the first half of March 2021 followed by wet commissioning and first ore processing in the second half of the month. This is the first stage of a multi-stage development strategy for the Project, which will then be expanded to produce high purity manganese sulphate monohydrate (HPMSM) for electric vehicle (EV) batteries to power the global transition away from fossil fuel powered mobility. Manganese is looming as an increasingly important ingredient for EV batteries, with potential supply constraints looming for nickel and cobalt forcing battery manufacturers to look at high manganese cathodes to produce the vast amount of cathode material needed by the EV industry in coming years. The Project is ideally placed to feed this demand, with advanced flowsheet development work in 2019 and 2020 confirming a simple, unique, ambient temperature and atmospheric pressure leach process for the E25 ores which, when combined with offsets, will target the world's first Zero Carbon Manganese™ for EV cathode manufacture.