Pantera Minerals Limited announced that the Company has received manganese rock chip results from newly granted tenement E 52/4071, with Pantera identifying a large coherent manganese target within the tenement at Weelarrana, located 70km south of Newman in West Australia's Pilbara region. 31 rock chip samples taken in mid-December 2022 have been returned 23 out of 31 of the rock chip samples returned manganese grades >10% Mn with an average returned manganese grade of 25.1% Mn. and the 23 samples >10% Mn and shows all the rock chip assay results and location Manganese grades ranged from 11.3% Mn to 39.8% Mn and cover an area of 5km x 3km of outcropping to subcropping Balfour Formation The Balfour Formation hosts the Firebirds Metals Hill 616 manganese deposit (57.5 Mt @ 12.2% Mn) which is 5.5 km to the north-west of E 52/4071.

The Balfour Formation is a manganiferous shale formation. It shows examples of the outcropping manganese mineralisation encountered within the Balfour Formation in E 52/4071. Further rock chip sampling and mapping to define the extents of outcropping mineralisation First pass RC drill program to be planned Cultural and heritage survey to be arranged to allow for first pass RC drilling RC drilling planned for the second half of 2023.

Located within the Proterozoic Collier Basin some 80 km south of Newman, Western Australia, the Weelarrana Project covers 958 km2 of tenure considered prospective for manganese and precious metal mineralisation. All tenements cover either Ilgarari Formation manganiferous shales, Backdoor Formation or Balfour Formation manganiferous shales which are known to host economic manganese mineralisation at Element 25's Butcherbird Deposit and Firebird Metals Hill 616 Deposit. Despite the presence of two significant manganese deposits the area covered by Pantera tenements has been under explored for manganese.

Pantera aims to systematically explore for manganese within the two known stratigraphic hosts as well as assess and explore the tenure for structural hosted precious metal mineralisation.