Element 25 Limited announced the commencement of a water bore drilling programme at the Company's 100% owned Butcherbird manganese project (Project). The programme will complete two production bores for the purposes of conducting pump tests to confirm the potential of the selected area to provide sufficient process water for the beneficiation plant at the Project. A water exploration drilling programme completed in the March 2020 Quarter1 identified a prospective groundwater supply area to the southeast of the mining lease area. Two aquifers were identified, a shallow aquifer in near surface calcretes and a deep aquifer in palaeochannel sands. It is expected they will yield sufficient process water for the current development plans at the Project and the current programme will allow production pump tests to be undertaken to confirm the aquifer capacities.