Reconnaisance Programme Extended at Central Project
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ASX Announcement
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10 July 2025
Reconnaissance programme extended at the Central Rutile
Project
HIGHLIGHTS
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Initial reconnaissance programme has been extended at the Central Rutile Project
to include a further 24-hole hand auger drill programme
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Extended reconnaissance drill programme earmarked for the northern portions of
the Nsimbo and Alamba licences
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Objective is to rapidly assess geological continuity and potential extension of
mineralisation across onto the Central Rutile Project following the high-grade
drilling intercepts announced by Peak Minerals on their Afanloum licence 1
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DY6 strongly believes mineralisation encountered by Peak Minerals at Afanloum
extends onto the Nsimbo and Alamba licences according to regional geological
continuity
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Extension of the reconnaissance programme at Central comes shortly after the
company significantly expanded the project to 4,974km2 (from 2,140km2) with the
acquisition of the Weaver licences 2
DY6 Metals Ltd (ASX: DY6, “DY6” or “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has extended
the initial reconnaissance programme at the Central Rutile Project to include a 24-hole hand
auger drill programme. Drill teams will be mobilised this week for rapid execution of the
programme. The objective of the extended reconnaissance programme is to assess the
geological continuity and potential extension of mineralisation encountered by Peak Minerals
during recent drilling on their Afanloum licence just north of the border with our Nsimbo
licence1.
Peak Minerals (ASX:PUA) recently reported high-grade residual results from Afanloum
including 7m @ 5.1% HM from 0m (MRAU0191), 7m @ 4.5% HM from 0m (MRAU0186), 4.7m
@ 5.2% HM from 0m (MRAU0194) and 3m @ 7% HM from 0m (MRAU0206) – as reported in
their release from 1 July 2025: “Heavy Mineral Significantly Increases at Minta Rutile Project”.
Technical consultant, Cliff Fitzhenry, commented: “Although the next step for the Central Rutile
Project is to launch a project-wide regional soil sampling campaign (and this is still very much
the plan), we have decided to rapidly mobilise our field drilling crews to assess the northern
portions of our Nsimbo and Alamba licences. The high-grade residual mineralisation reported
by Peak Minerals just north of our licence border highlights the rich prospectivity of this area
and, given the homogeneity of this mineralisation style as well as the fact that Nsimbo and
Alamba are underlain by the same geological unit as Afanloum in a garnet-kyanite paragneiss,
we strongly suspect that this mineralisation will extend onto our licences. This quick-fire drill
programme will provide valuable information and we look forward to reporting the results of
this campaign as it progresses. The plan is to still cover the full licence package with a
systematic soil sampling campaign, and this will be kicking off imminently.”
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Refer Peak Minerals ASX Announcement dated 1 July 2025 “Heavy Mineral Zone Significantly Increases at Minta Rutile Project”
2
Refer DY6 Metals ASX Announcement dated 8 July 2025 “DY6 significantly expands size of the Central Rutile Project”
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Figure 1: Regional geological map of Central Cameroon showing DY6’s Central Rutile Project and the
planned hand auger reconnaissance programme on the northern portion of the Nsimbo and Alambo
licences.
Figure 2: Zoomed in map of the above showing the licences in greater detail including the area of highgrade drilling as reported by Peak Minerals, as well as the planned quick-fire drill campaign.
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Background on the Project
Central Rutile Project
The Central Rutile Project consists of 11 exploration licences (Nganda, Bounde, Kombo,
Alamba, Nsimbo, Awae, Ayene II, Assi, Bissoua 2, Soleye and Soleye West) under valid
applications covering 4,974km2 across an area rapidly emerging as a globally significant rutile
province within Central Cameroon. This includes the acquisition of the Weaver Project (6
licences totaling 2,850km2) as announced on 8 July 2025 (“DY6 significantly expands size of
the Central Rutile Project”).
The project area is predominantly underlain by kyanite-bearing mica schist bedrock, which is
considered the primary source of rutile. During in-situ weathering, rutile is liberated from the
bedrock and progressively concentrated and upgraded within the overlying saprolite layer.
This forms an in-situ, eluvial saprolite hosted rutile deposit target type deposit analogous to
Sovereign Metal’s Tier 1 Kasiya deposit in Malawi (the world’s largest primary rutile deposit at
1.8 billion tons at 1.0% rutile).
The exploration model further proposes that subsequent erosion and fluvial transport rework
these materials, concentrating rutile and other valuable heavy minerals into alluvial deposits.
Historical production figures from the area between 1935 and 1955 have recorded some
15,000 tons of high purity (>95 %) rutile being produced from artisanal mining of the alluvial
deposits around Nanga-Eboko. The Central Rutile Project borders Peak Mineral’s Minta Rutile
Project where initial sampling has revealed widespread, high-value mineral assemblages with
valuable heavy minerals (VHM) up to 93% of total heavy minerals (THM) and with the
dominant VHM’s being rutile (up to 69.8%), monazite (up to 35.6%) and zircon (up to 21.5%)
(see PUA Announcement “First systematic exploration programme discovers significant rutile
province in Cameroon” dated 4 February 2025).
Figure 3: Map of Central Cameroon showing DY6’s Central Rutile Project which now encompasses
4,974km2 of prime geological terrain highly prospective for residual, natural rutile mineralisation.
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Figure 4: Map showing DY6’s total landholding in Central Cameroon which includes the Douala Basin
HMS Project and the newly expanded Central Rutile Project, and which now totals 7,554km2.
-ENDSThis announcement has been authorised by the Board of DY6.
More information
Mr Daniel Smith
Mr John Kay
Mr Cliff Fitzhenry
Executive Chairman
Director & Company Secretary
Technical Consultant
dan.smith@dy6metals.com
john.kay@dy6metals.com
Clifford.fitzhenry@dy6metals.com
Competent Person Statement
The information contained in this announcement that relates to geological information and exploration
results at the Central Rutile Project, is based on information compiled by Mr Clifford Fitzhenry, a
Competent Person who is a Registered Professional Natural Scientist with the Council for Natural
Scientific Professionals (SACNASP). Mr Fitzhenry is a consultant to the company and has sufficient
experience which is relevant to the style of mineralization and type of deposit under consideration and
to the activity which he is undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2012 Edition
of the ‘Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves’.
Mr Fitzhenry consents to the inclusion in this announcement of the matters based on his information in
the form and context in which it appears.
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Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement may include forward-looking statements and opinions. Forward-looking
statements, opinions and estimates are only predictions and are subject to risks, uncertainties and
assumptions which are outside the control of DY6 Metals Ltd. Past performance is not necessarily a
guide to future performance and no representation or warranty is made as to the likelihood of
achievement or reasonableness of any forward-looking statements, opinions or estimates. Actual
values, results or events may be materially different to those expressed or implied in this
announcement.
Given these uncertainties, readers are cautioned not to place reliance on forward-looking statements,
opinions or estimates. Any forward-looking statements, opinions or estimates in this announcement
speak only at the date of issue of this announcement. Subject to any continuing obligations under
applicable law and the ASX Listing Rules, DY6 does not undertake any obligation to update or revise
any information or any of the forward-looking statements opinions or estimates in this announcement
or any changes in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such disclosures are based.
Appendix:
Table 1: Licence details of the DY6’s Douala Basin HMS and Central Rutile Projects in Cameroon.
Tenement
Name
Mungo
Mbanga
Maleke
Diwong
Mbongo
Edea Sud
Nganda
Nsimbo
Kombo
Bounde
Alamba
Awae
Ayene II
Assi
Bissoua _II
Soleye
Soleye_W
Project
Name
Douala
Douala
Douala
Douala
Douala
Douala
Central
Central
Central
Central
Central
Central
Central
Central
Central
Central
Central
Holder
Application
Area
Date
Rhino Resources Ltd
Rhino Resources Ltd
Rhino Resources Ltd
Rhino Resources Ltd
Rhino Resources Ltd
Rhino Resources Ltd
Gorilla Mining Ltd
Gorilla Mining Ltd
Gorilla Mining Ltd
Gorilla Mining Ltd
Gorilla Mining Ltd
Weaver Resources Ltd
Weaver Resources Ltd
Weaver Resources Ltd
Weaver Resources Ltd
Weaver Resources Ltd
Weaver Resources Ltd
29/06/2022
29/06/2022
30/01/2024
30/01/2024
30/09/2022
29/06/2022
19/02/2025
19/02/2025
19/02/2025
19/02/2025
19/02/2025
07/07/2025
07/07/2025
07/07/2025
07/07/2025
23/06/2025
23/06/2025
483km2
468km2
491km2
484km2
214km2
440km2
396km2
495km2
460km2
425km2
348km2
462km2
497km2
488km2
441km2
466km2
496km2
Granted
Date
14/12/2022
14/12/2022
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14/12/2022
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