SYSTEMATIC EXPLORATION TO COMMENCE AT QUINN FLUORSPAR
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ASX Announcement
1 April 2026
ASX: OD6
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SYSTEMATIC EXPLORATION PROGRAM TO COMMENCE AT
ULTRA HIGH-GRADE QUINN FLUORSPAR PROJECT, NEVADA
HIGHLIGHTS
OD6 Metals commences the first systematic exploration program at the Quinn Fluorspar
Project in ~60 years.
~320 soil samples targeting known high-grade deposits and regional alteration systems
First known modern exploration over major target areas hosting significant fluorspar
mineralisation systems, including two substantial and previously untested target
systems:
o 70,000m² Lithocap target
o 700,000m² “Dress Circle” alteration zone
Targeting major extensions of historical results across three key targets:
o Horseshoe Deposit: Historic small-scale mining exposed high-grade mineralisation
(>40% CaF₂) within a replacement/breccia-style ore body mapped over 3,000m²
o Mammoth Deposit: Historic channel sampling returned up to 10m @ 44.7% CaF₂ within
a replacement/breccia-style ore body mapped over 9,000m²
o Horseshoe–Jumbo Corridor: Follow-up of a recently identified intense alteration
corridor with significant strike potential
Regional stream sediment sampling (~40 sites) to identify additional mineralised
catchments
Mapping and channel sampling program scheduled for April 2026
Initial assay results due shortly and will be released to the market progressively.
Exploration activities to support a major drill targeting program and ongoing due
diligence activities
Managing Director Brett Hazelden, commented:
“We are pleased to be quickly mobilising and commencing the first modern exploration program at Quinn
in approximately 60 years.
This initial program is focused on building a robust geochemical and geological framework across the
known high-grade deposits and newly identified alteration systems.
The scale of alteration and widespread high-grade fluorspar occurrences highlight the strong potential
for additional discoveries across the project area.
This work will directly inform detailed mapping, channel sampling and drill targeting in the coming
months”
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OD6 Metals Limited (ASX: OD6, “OD6” or “the Company”) is pleased to announce that
on-ground field exploration activities are commencing at the Quinn Fluorspar Project in
Nevada, USA, marking the first systematic exploration program at the project in
approximately 60 years.
About Quinn Fluorspar Project
On 4 March 2026 the Company announced an exclusive option agreement to acquire the Quinn Fluorspar
Project, located approximately 220km north of Las Vegas, Nevada. The project offers very high-grade fluorspar
mineralization (>40% CaF2) identified at the Mammoth and Horseshoe Projects in replacement / breccia
style mineralization mapped out over large 9,000m2
and 3,000m2
areas respectively. In addition, a number
of other fluorspar occurrences are noted in the wider project area with reported historic rock chip results up to
94% CaF2.
The United States is currently 100% reliant on imports of fluorspar. Fluorspar is listed on the Critical Minerals
list with applications in battery technologies, AI chip manufacture, nuclear fuels industry, aerospace and
defence technologies. The project is located ~300km by road from the US Strategic Minerals Reserve at
Hawthorne, Nevada (refer to Company announcements 4 March 2026, 6 March 2026, 16 March 2026 & 25 March
2026).
On-Ground Field Program Commences
OD6, through its wholly owned subsidiary US Fluorspar LLC, has engaged leading contract/consulting company,
Rangefront Mining Services, based in Elko, Nevada, to conduct the first concerted exploration program on the
project in approximately 60 years. Rangefront is mobilising a team of experienced personnel to conduct the
program.
The initial program includes ~320 soil samples, which have been designed to develop knowledge on anomalism
in and around the known deposits and to target key alteration corridors for potential additional fluorspar
discovery. This includes targeting:
1. The Horseshoe Deposit, where previous small scale mining exposed high grade (>40% CaF2) in a
replacement / breccia style ore body mapped out over 3000m2
2. Extensions of Mammoth Deposit, where previous sampling returned up to 10m @ 44.7%CaF2 and a
replacement / breccia style ore body mapped out over 9000m2
3. The Horseshoe-Jumbo corridor to follow up on the recently identified intense alteration corridor
system
4. The 70,000 m2
Lithocap with first ever exploration program to profile background anomalism potentially
bleeding through the lithocap
5. Targeting the area near high-grade vein occurrences at Rocket-Big Jim-Spar
6. Targeting the unexplored 700,000m2
Dress Circle target – a zone of highly altered limestone, with a
series of arcuate, possible collapse epithermal structures related to sub-surface source intrusive activity
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Refer announcements dated 4 March 2026, 25 March 2026 for further information
In addition, regional stream sediment sampling across approximately 40 sites will be conducted to check
catchments for upstream epithermal mineralization.
The Company has sourced two geologists for a mapping and sampling campaign scheduled to commence
in April 2026. This work will include detailed channel sampling of the known deposits at Horseshoe and
Mammoth, as well as reconnaissance work to pin-point and sample the other historic occurrences of fluorspar
recorded throughout the project area. Following completion of this work, the Company will be in a position
to complete the drill hole planning.
The Company continues to advance due diligence activities, compile historic reports and build its geological
dataset across the project area. Initial rock chip and channel sampling assays are currently pending laboratory
analysis, with results to be released progressively.
Figure 1 Regional initial sampling programs over the target corridors
(refer release dated 25 March 2026 for description of geology, mineralization and alteration)
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Figure 2 The Horseshoe-Jumbo alteration corridor programs
(refer release dated 25 March 2026 for description of geology, mineralization and alteration)
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Figure 3 Quinn Fluorspar Location in Nevada.
Due Diligence and Next Steps
As part of its due diligence program in connection with the Quinn Fluorspar Project (see announcement dated 4
March 2026, “OD6 TO ACQUIRE ULTRA HIGH GRADE USA FLUORSPAR PROJECTS”), OD6 intends to collect new
samples from the surface showings to test the veracity of historic reports, including:
Conduct systematic surface rock chip and channel sampling
Verify historic assay grades
Complete detailed geological mapping and structural interpretation
Undertake soil geochemistry sampling and testing
Develop and Prioritisation of drill targets across the district
Commence permitting requirements for the initial drill program
Review metallurgical sampling and testing needs
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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 announcement dated 18 July 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.
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).
Competent Persons Statement
Information in this report relating to geological planning is based on information compiled by Dr Darren Holden
who is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
Dr Holden is an employee of GeoSpy Pty Ltd and is a geological advisor to the Company and has sufficient
experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the
activity which he is undertaking 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. Dr Holden owns
shares in the Company and participates in the Company’s employee securities incentive plan. Dr Holden
consents to the inclusion of the data in the form and context in which it appears.
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, copper and fluorspar.
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).
An innovative Process Flow sheet has been selected utilising Heap Leaching, Nano-filtration and Ion Exchange Technologies
that have achieved ~75% Nd & Pr overall recovery, produced a high-quality Mixed Rare Earth Carbonate or Hydroxide
(MREC/H) of ~56-59% TREO, with low levels of impurities (Al, Fe, P, Si) and extremely low uranium and thorium content.
Fluorspar (Fluorite)
The Company secured an option to acquire the Quinn Fluorspar Project in Nevada, USA. Nevada is regarded as one of the
world’s premier mining jurisdictions and is currently ranked second in the 2025 Fraser Institute’s Mining Attractiveness Index.
Historically a number of the Quinn Fluorspar deposits were mined in the 1950’s for fluorspar. In 1969, the United States
Geological Survey (USGS) conducted a survey and confirmed fluorspar grading up to 72% CaF2 in bulk samples.
The USA currently imports 100% of all Fluorspar consumed domestically with 68% of all global supply sourced from China
(USGS 2024). Fluorspar is listed as a Critical Mineral by the USGS and is essential in the production of hydrofluoric acid, AI
semi-conductor chip etching, advanced battery technologies and nuclear fuel processing with other applications in defence
and aerospace technologies.
Copper
The Company is advancing the Gulf Creek Copper-Zinc VMS Project located near the town of Barraba in NSW.
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 targets ready for drilling, providing over >3km of strike in the immediate mine-stratigraphy, and over >10km
across the tenement.
Corporate Directory
Managing Director
Non-Executive Chairman
Non-Executive Director
Financial Controller/ Joint Company Secretary
Joint Company Secretary
Technical Advisor to the Board
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
Dr Darren Holden
Investor Relations
Lucas Robinson
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lucas@corporatestorytime.com
Phone: +61 408 228 889
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