2025 Annual General Meeting - Chair Address
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22 October 2025
ASX: OD6
2025 Annual General Meeting – Chairmans Address
Good morning shareholders,
It is a pleasure to address you today at OD6 Metals’ Annual General Meeting — my first as Chairman.
The past year has been one of strong progress and strategic advancement for OD6, as we continue to
position the Company at the forefront of Australia’s emerging critical minerals industry.
It’s an extremely exciting time to be involved in rare earths with concentrated efforts from global
policy makers to develop new supply chains in the industry. This has recently been evidenced by the
US Government’s direct equity investment in the Mountain Pass, America’s largest rare earth
producer.
At Splinter Rock, near Esperance in Western Australia, OD6 continues to establish itself as a leader in
the emerging clay-hosted rare earths sector. Through a combination of technical innovation and
collaboration with respected research partners, we have made significant progress in developing a
processing pathway that can deliver a high-value, low-impurity Mixed Rare Earth Carbonate product.
This is a major step towards commercialisation, and we are now focused on scaling up testwork with
ANSTO following the recent completion of our metallurgical core drilling program. The advanced
testwork program will look to produce customer samples to enable offtake discussions, along with
other works that will continue to progress the feasibility and financing pathways that will underpin
development.
We were also pleased to expand OD6’s portfolio through the acquisition of the Gulf Creek Copper
Project in New South Wales. This historic high-grade copper project offers an exciting second growth
pillar, complementing our rare earths focus and broadening our exposure to energy transition metals.
Our Second phase drilling program focused on our green field repeat structures next to the old Gulf
Creek Mining areas commenced last week and we look forward to keeping the market updated as the
program progress and assays are received later this year.
Together, Splinter Rock and Gulf Creek provide OD6 with exposure to two essential metals critical to
the clean energy transition.
On behalf of the Board, I would like to thank the dedicated OD6 team for their work throughout the
year. I also extend my sincere appreciation to our shareholders for their continued support and
confidence in OD6 Metals. We look forward to an exciting year ahead.
Thank you …. we will now move to the formal business of the Meeting.
Piers Lewis
Chairman
OD6 Metals Ltd
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Competent Persons Statement
The scientific and technical information that relates to process metallurgy is based on information reviewed by Mr Brett Hazelden
(Managing Director and CEO) of OD6 Metals Limited. Mr Hazelden is a Member of the AusIMM and has sufficient experience
relevant to hydrometallurgical processes to qualify as a Competent Person as defined by the JORC Code. Mr Hazelden owns shares
in the Company and participates in the Company’s employee securities incentive plan. Mr Hazelden consents to the inclusion in this
announcement of the matters based on their information in the form and context in which it appears.
Information in this report relating to Mineral Resource estimation and Exploration Results is based on information reviewed by Mr
Jeremy Peters who is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and a Chartered Professional Geologist and
Mining Engineer of that organisation. Mr Peters is a Director of Burnt Shirt Pty Ltd, consulting to OD6 and has sufficient experience
which is relevant to clay-hosted rare earth mineralisation to qualify as a Competent Person as defined by the 2012 Edition of the
Australasian Code for reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves. Mr Peters consents to the inclusion of
the data in the form and context in which it appears.
Forward Looking Statements
Certain information in this document refers to the intentions of OD6 Metals, however these are not intended to be forecasts,
forward looking statements, or statements about the future matters for the purposes of the Corporations Act or any other applicable
law. Statements regarding plans with respect to OD6 Metals projects are forward looking statements and can generally be identified
by the use of words such as ‘project’, ‘foresee’, ‘plan’, ‘expect’, ‘aim’, ‘intend’, ‘anticipate’, ‘believe’, ‘estimate’, ‘may’, ‘should’, ‘will’ or
similar expressions. There can be no assurance that the OD6 Metals plans for its projects will proceed as expected and there can be
no assurance of future events which are subject to risk, uncertainties and other actions that may cause OD6 Metals actual results,
performance, or achievements to differ from those referred to in this document. While the information contained in this document
has been prepared in good faith, there can be given no assurance or guarantee that the occurrence of these events referred to in
the document will occur as contemplated. Accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted by law, OD6 Metals and any of its affiliates
and their directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors disclaim any liability whether direct or indirect, express or limited,
contractual, tortuous, statutory or otherwise, in respect of, the accuracy, reliability or completeness of the information in this
document, or likelihood of fulfilment of any forward-looking statement or any event or results expressed or implied in any forward-
looking statement; and do not make any representation or warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy, reliability or
completeness of the information in this document, or likelihood of fulfilment of any forward-looking statement or any event or
results expressed or implied in any forward-looking statement; and disclaim all responsibility and liability for these forward-looking
statements (including, without limitation, liability for negligence).
No new information
Except where explicitly stated, this announcement contains references to prior exploration results, all of which have been cross-
referenced to previous market announcements made by the Company. The Company confirms that it is not aware of any new
information or data that materially affects the information included in the relevant market announcements.
The information in this report relating to the Mineral Resource estimate for the Splinter Rock Project is extracted from the
Company’s ASX announcements dated 24 May 2024. OD6 confirms that it is not aware of any new information or data that
materially affects the information included in the original announcement and that all material assumptions and technical parameters
underpinning the Mineral Resource estimate continue to apply
This announcement has been authorised for release by the Board of OD6 Metals Limited
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About OD6 Metals
OD6 Metals is an Australian public company pursuing exploration and development opportunities within the
critical minerals sector, namely rare earths and copper.
Rare Earth Elements
OD6 Metals has successfully identified clay hosted rare earths at its 100% owned Splinter Rock Project which is
located in the Esperance-Goldfields region of Western Australia.
The Company released a Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) for Splinter Rock in May 2024, confirming that the
project hosts one of the largest and highest-grade clay-hosted rare earths deposits in Australia with an
Indicated Resource of 119Mt @ 1,632ppm TREO and an Inferred Resource of 563Mt @ 1,275ppm TREO with an
overall ratio of ~23% high-value Magnetic Rare Earths (MagREE).
OD6 Metals believes that Splinter Rock has all the hallmarks of a world class rare earths project with a
conceptual heap leach development which utilises the large and high-grade Splinter Rock resource to support a
long-life REE operation.
Copper
The Company is advancing the Gulf Creek Copper-Zinc VMS Project located near the town of Barraba in NSW,
Australia.
Gulf Creek was mined at around the turn of the 20th century and was once regarded as the highest-grade
copper mine (2% to 6.5% Cu) in NSW until its closure due to weak copper prices in 1912. Very little exploration
has occurred at the project in over 100 years, with OD6 aiming to apply modern day exploration technologies.
The 2025 maiden drilling program successfully defined high grade copper below the historical mine plus
confirmed the strong relationship between magnetism and massive sulphide mineralisation. Geophysical
modelling has identified multiple, high priority and untested targets ready for drilling providing over >3km of
untested strike in the immediate mine-stratigraphy, and over >10km across the tenement.
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Managing Director
Non-Executive Chairman
Non-Executive Director
Financial Controller/ Joint Company Secretary
Joint Company Secretary
Contact
OD6 Metals Ltd
ACN 654 839 602
www.od6metals.com.au
Mail to: info@od6metals.com.au
Phone: +61 8 6189 8515
Level 1, 1 Alvan Street, Subiaco, WA 6008
Mr Brett Hazelden
Mr Piers Lewis
Dr Mitch Loan
Mr Troy Cavanagh
Mr Joel Ives
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Phone: +61 408 228 889
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