Element 25 Limited announced that the bulk sample test programme initiated in December 2019 at the Company's 100% owned Butcherbird Manganese Project (Project) has successfully produced a commercial grade lump product through simple beneficiation. The successful flowsheet upgraded the ore by simple crushing, wet scrubbing, screening and ore-sorting to produce a high-grade concentrate. This material is suitable for hydrometallurgical leaching and/or as a concentrate product with favourable impurity levels and excellent recoveries for a potential near-term export business. In December 2019, approximately 40 tonnes of near surface material (1-6m vertical depth) was excavated from the Project site as feed for the upcoming pilot plant programme for the production of Electrolytic Manganese Metal (EMM). The optimization of the beneficiation circuit was targeted at maximizing hydrometallurgical feed grade in order to minimize capital and operating costs. The test results exceeded expectations and the new data will be incorporated into the EMM Pre-Feasibility Study (PFSEMM). The optimized flow-sheet uses crushing, scrubbing, screening and high-speed ore sorting technology to reject waste material and increase the concentrate grade. The success of this approach highlighted an opportunity to produce a bulk manganese concentrate at a suitable manganese grade for direct export to provide early cashflow to fund the overall Project development strategy. The test work utilized two nominal 1 tonne samples A003 and B006 from pits BBS-A and BBS-B respectively. The material is believed to be representative of Yanneri Ridge Measured Resource.