Parabellum Resources Limited delivered its maiden JORC Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) for the Khotgor REE Project in Mongolia. As previously announced, Parabellum has entered into an agreement with Temarise Limited (UK) that holds the exclusive option to acquire 80% of Khotgor Project, Mongolia. Parabellum now holds 30% of the fully diluted issued capital in Temerise, after paying AUD 3,900,000 across four tranches, completing in January 2023.

Details of the subscription agreement an be found via the ASX platform announced on 4th August 2022. The results reported from this MRE continue to demonstrate the large scale and attractive grade of the Khotgor project. This marks a very positive development in the company's plans to finalise the initial Scoping study due in Q2, 2023 and subsequently move into the Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS) stage of the project.

Summary: The Khotgor REE Project (Licence MV-015631) is located approximately 530 km south-southwest of Ulaanbaatar and about 65 km north of Dalanzadgad, which is the centre of the South Gobi province of Mongolia. The Project area is relatively flat with a relief of approximately 30­40 m; it is sparsely vegetated with grasses and low shrubs. The Khotgor REE Project is covered by the Khotgor mining licence MV-015631.

The Khotgor REE Project mineralisation is associated with an intrusive event during the Jurassic. Khotgor is located within the Mandalovoo Terrane, which is located south of the Main Mongolian lineament. The Khotgor REE deposit is hosted within nepheline syenites of upper to late Jurassic age (161­136 Ma).

It is a relatively vertical, cylindrical body with a steep plunge to the north. It appears that britholite and apatite contain more than 90% of the contained REE at Khotgor. The minor minerals amount of REE Minerals are bastnaesite, titanite and synchysite.

Apatite and britholite occurs intergrown as a mineral blend. Uranium and thorium can also substitute for calcium in the mineral matrix. Gangue minerals are sulphides (mainly pyrite and pyrrhotite with minor/trace galena, chalcopyrite and sphalerite) and biotite.

Several phases of exploration work were carried out at Khotgor between 2005 and 2012. This work included some targeted ground-based geophysical surveys, the drilling of 59 diamond drill holes over four campaigns comprising 16,588, sampling and analysis for REE's and petrography and the estimation of a MRE prepared to the JORC 2004 (Hellman & Schofield (H&S), 2013). In 2022, Temarise Limited completed an exploration program as part of a project evaluation and Mineral Resource reassessment.

This program comprised 14 diamond PQ diameter holes, for a total of some 2,000.85 metres and 7 surface trenches. Of the 14 holes, 11 holes were submitted for chemical analysis, comprising 1,093 samples covering 1,394.85m of core. SRK used lithological and structural shells generated in LeapfrogTM 3D modelling package to model the domains for constraining the block grade estimation.

SRK observed that mineralisation has a strong lithological and structural control. High grade is associated with lithology types logged as biotite altered syenite, apatite-magnetite-pyrite veins, volcanic porphyry (APM_ASB_VP) and polymictic breccia (PBX). Low grade is associated with K-feldspar altered syenite (ASK).

Results: SRK generated a series of pit shells using Whittle software. The analysis was based on the TREO_Y grade only. The mining and processing assumptions were initially based on an understanding of current Mongolian open pit mining operations and from metallurgy assumptions for Khotgor Resource provided by Krebs (January 2023).

Drillholes in 2022 were downhole surveyed with instruments at 50 m intervals. Tables of all drillhole collars, dip, azimuth and depth information are provided in Parabellum's ASX announcement dated 1 February 2023. The data from the 2022 drilling using a cut-off grade of 0.5% TREO is presented in Parabellum's ASX announcement dated 1 February 2023.

SRK identified a number of potentially useful elements separate to the Khotgor resource estimate which will be followed up in future studies, including some 5.5 million tonnes of P2O5, which will be evaluated as a possible fertiliser product at the DFS stage.