Panther Metals Plc

Half Yearly Financial Report

For the six months ended 30 June 2022

Operational Highlights

Key operational milestones achieved during the six-month period to 30 June 2022.

Canada

·      On 18 January 2022 the Company announced the discovery of a volcanogenic massive sulphide ("VMS") mineral system on the Obonga Project. This was a very significant development for Panther.

·      On 24 January 2022 the Company announced drill core assay results from the diamond drill hole PD-DL21-01 at the 100% owned Dotted Lake property in the Hemlo region, of Ontario. Subsequent assay results show widely dispersed gold mineralisation to 172m downhole depth, with subsequent assay results extending this gold dispersal down to 391m.

·      On 22 March 2022 the Company announced the acquisition of thirteen single cell mining claims to provide coverage for the interpreted eastward strike extension side of the Awkward intrusive conduit target at the Awkward Prospect the Obonga greenstone belt.  The Awkward Prospect is an upcoming drill target for Panther.

·      On 7 April 2022 the Company announced the signing of a sale agreement (the "Agreement") for the transfer of 128 mining claims ("Claims"), constituting the Company's Big Bear Project ("Big Bear") located on the Schreiber-Hemlo Greenstone Belt. Under the terms of the agreement the Company's Canadian subsidiary Panther Metals (Canada) Limited has agreed to transfer the Claims and associated information to Fulcrum Metals (Canada) Ltd., the Canadian subsidiary of Fulcrum Metals Limited ("Fulcrum") an Irish registered company which is seeking an initial public offering ("IPO") on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange Group PLC.

o  As consideration for the sale upon Fulcrum IPO Panther will be issued with; 20% of the entire issued share capital in Fulcrum as Consideration Shares; a payment of £200,000 and the grant of a 2% net smelter return ("NSR") royalty. The Agreement is conditional upon, inter alia, Fulcrum being admitted to trading on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange Group PLC. The longstop date of the Agreement completion is 31 October 2022 which was subsequently extended to 30 November 2022. If completion does not occur before the longstop date Panther will be due a payment of 50,000 Euro from Fulcrum.

o  The sale will supplement Panther's Dotted Lake property through indirect exposure to early-stage gold and base metal exploration over a further four properties on the Schreiber-Hemlo Greenstone Belt; with an additional two properties on the Dayohessarah Lake Greenstone and the Michipicoten Greenstone Belt; whilst diversifying commodity exposure through Fulcrum's two uranium exploration properties in the vicinity of the Athabasca Basin in Saskatchewan1.

·      On 7 April 2022 the Company announced that it had entered into an option and sale and purchase agreement with Shear Gold Exploration Corporation ("Shear Gold") to purchase a substantial claim holding (the "Shear Gold Project" or "Project") including the West Limb and Glass Reef gold properties, on the Eagle - Manitou Lakes Greenstone Belt (the "Shear Gold Agreement").The Shear Gold Project covers a total area of approximately 98km² and is located within the gold endowed Kenora Mining District, approximately 300km east of Thunder Bay and equidistant between the towns of Fort Frances and Dryden in north-western Ontario, Canada.  The terms of the Shear Gold Agreement are set out below.

o  A cash consideration of $11,325 Canadian dollars ("CAD$") has been paid to Shear Gold Exploration Corporation in order to secure the option and sale and purchase agreement.

o  Panther has committed to a minimum spend commitment of CAD$325,000 to be expended over years one and two; and a further CAD$400,000 to be expended between the second and fourth annual anniversaries of the Agreement. Any excess spend in years one and two can be offset against expenditure in years three and four.

o  Grant to Shear Gold a NSR royalty of 2% over the 32 multicell mining claims (the "Shear Claims") covered in the Shear Gold Agreement. Panther can elect to purchase 50% of the NSR (reducing the remaining royalty to 1%) for the sum CAD$1M at any time.

o  Panther Metals PLC can elect at any time to purchase the Shear Claims outright through a payment of CAD$250,000 to Shear Gold.

·      On 21 April 2022 the Company announced the receipt of four Exploration Permits for the Big Bear Project ("Big Bear") located in the townships of Priske and Strey on the Schreiber-Hemlo Greenstone Belt in northern Ontario.  The Temporary Hold which had been in place over Exploration Permit Applications had been lifted allowing the permits to be awarded. The Exploration Permits allow activities including diamond drilling, trenching, stripping, ground geophysics, trail cutting, and exploration camp set-up and are effective for a period of three years to 13 April 2025.

·      On 26 April 2022 the Company announced it had submitted an Exploration Permit Application (PR-22-000116) for an additional three drill prospects at the Company's Obonga Project located on the Obonga Greenstone Belt in northern Ontario. The application submitted in collaboration with Broken Rock Resources Ltd ("Broken Rock") concerns planned work within 45 Single Cell Mining Claims ("Claims") in the Puddy Lake administrative area. The grant of Exploration Permit PR-22-000116 was announced, post period on 21 July 2022, permitted activities include diamond core drilling of up to 10 holes and associated down-hole electromagnetic geophysics surveys spread across three named prospects: Silver Rim; Ottertooth and Survey, which are respectively located in the north, centre-east and centre-west of the Obonga Project area.  The three prospects are targeting VMS base metal mineralisation and intrusion related nickel in association with compelling, coincident, geophysical anomalies and historical work results.

Australia

·      On 28 February 2022, the Company announced, with Panther Metals Limited ("Panther Australia"), the first drilling results of a planned 6,000m reverse circulation ("RC") infill drilling programme for the Coglia Nickel-Cobalt Project located approximately 60km southeast of the town of Laverton in Western Australia. The initial results from the first five RC drill holes on the project included high-grade nickel and cobalt intercepts in all holes. A new zone of mineralisation was discovered outside the previous Exploration Target and additional drill holes were added to the programme to test extensions to the new mineralised zone.  Further assay results for drill holes CGRC005 to CGRC005020 and CGRC 031 to CGRC040 were announced 23 March 2022, with the final and highest-grade batch of Coglia results announced 12 May 2022.

·      On 3 May 2022, the Company announced the completion of the Panther Australia 38 hole, 2,500m, RC drilling programme at the Eight Foot Well Gold Prospect and the drill rig was moving to the Burtville East Gold Prospect. The completion of the Burtville East Gold Project drilling programme was subsequently announced 12 May 2022, and post period, on 14 July 2022 the Company announced Panther Australia had published the Burtville East assay results which included a shallow high grade gold zone composite intercept of 15m @ 53.94g/t Au from 27m downhole in RC drillhole BVE006.

·      On 12 May 2022, the Company announced the final batch of assay results from the Coglia drill programme, these included: 19m at 1.19% Ni from 60m, including 8m at 2.10% Ni from 63m, with a new highest peak intercept of 1m at 3.97% Ni from 64m, and 5m at 2,592ppm Co from 62m, including 2m at 5,105ppm Co from 64m, with an extraordinary new highest peak of 1m at 7,900ppm Co from 64m (hole CGRC054); and 24m at 0.92% Ni from 56m, including 1m at 1.20% Ni from 62m, and 24m at 646ppm Co, including 7m at 1,260ppm Co from 59m, with a peak of 1m at 3,090ppm Co from 69m (hole CGRC041).

·      On 27 June 2022, following the completion of the 61-hole RC infill drill programme Panther Australia published a JORC Code (2012) compliant Inferred Mineral Resource estimate ("MRE") (Table 1) and revised Exploration Target (Table 2) for the Coglia Nickel-Cobalt project. The MRE and revised Exploration Target was based on the 2022 RC drilling results and on historical drilling conducted between 2001-2003 and in 2018.

Table 1: Coglia Nickel-Cobalt Inferred Mineral Resource Estimate at a 0.5% Nickel Grade Cut-Off ^#

Table 2: New Coglia Nickel-Cobalt Southern JORC Code (2012) Exploration Target*

Corporate and Financial Highlights

·      The start of 2022 has witnessed several corporate actions by the Company as the business positions itself to exploit the remarkable team and network it has developed.  Panther now moves into a period of development that will see a major upturn in work across its entire portfolio of assets.

·      On 7 March 2022, the Company announced the placing of 4,500,000 ordinary shares raising gross proceeds of approximately £360,000. Admission of the shares took place on 10 March 2022.

·      On 8 March 2022, the Company announced that it has received notice of exercise of a total of 265,242 warrants with an exercise price of 6p per share, raising £15,915 for the Company. Admission of the shares took place on 11 March 2022.

·      On 29 April 2022, the Company published the audited Results for the Year Ended 31 December 2021. A copy of the 2021 Annual Report was submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and is available to the public for inspection at: ttps://www.fca.org.uk/markets/primary-markets/regulatory-disclosures/national-storage-mechanism

·      The Annual General Meeting ("AGM") of the Company was held on 9 June 2022, at which all resolutions were duly passed.

·      Panther Metals Limited commenced trading on the Australian Securities Exchange ('ASX') on 10 December 2021 following the completion of its oversubscribed $5m IPO, which capitalised it at $10.9m. Since listing the share price of Panther Metals Limited has risen by 19% (as at 31 August 2022). The ASX listing has provided the Australian projects with the necessary capital to advance drill-ready targets focused on nickel and gold (within the Tier 1 Mining Districts of Laverton WA and in the NT).Panther Metals Limited Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2021 and post year end trading updates are available on its website at https://www.panthermetals.com.au

·      Post the six-monthly financials, on 18 August 2022, the Company announced the Placing and admission of 20,872,726 ordinary shares at a price of 5.5 pence, raising gross proceeds of £1,148,000.

Nicholas O'Reilly, Chairman, commented:

The first half of 2022 has been an exciting time for Panther.  Following the work and travel restrictions in Canada and Australia imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic a busy last half of 2021 with two drill programmes and the initial public offering ("IPO") on the ASX of Panther's Australian interests culminated in a great start to 2022.

With assay results coming in from the two Canadian diamond drilling programmes at the Wishbone Prospect on the Obonga Project and Dotted Lake Property in early January 2022, the year started with much data analysis and interpretation work.

In a very significant development for the Company, these results confirmed the discovery of a volcanogenic massive sulphide ("VMS") mineral system at Wishbone. Importantly it is well known that VMS type deposits typically occur in clusters, and a geological analysis of the drill programme data in collaboration with academic VMS specialists, confirmed the western part of the Obonga Greenstone belt as a very favourable geological environmental, and permissive tract, for the development of further volcanic associated mineralising systems.  Our partner Broken Rock presented the results from Wishbone at the important Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada ("PDAC") conference in Toronto, generating significant interest from mining industry practitioners.

Also, at Obonga, planning work for drilling the Awkward nickel intrusive conduit prospect to the east of Wishbone saw Panther agree the acquisition of the claims covering the eastward anomaly in March. With five prospects now permitted for drilling at Obonga Panther is confident of exciting times ahead.

Like Wishbone, the drill core assay results from Dotted Lake also proved a significant development for Panther.  The initial objective of the drilling the single 402m deep diamond drill hole was to understand the stratigraphy linked to the airborne geophysics survey and trench sample anomalies. With the core assay results delineating a total five gold intersections above 1g/t Au and gold mineralisation widely dispersed between 47m and 391m, this hole is considered very encouraging for follow-up investigation especially given the structural setting and highly anomalous soil survey results immediately along strike.

On 7 April the Company announced the signing of a sale agreement for the transfer of the Big Bear Project ("Big Bear") to Fulcrum Metals Ltd who are seeking an IPO on London's AIM Market.  Upon successful listing this deal should see Panther hold a 20% share in Fulcrum together with cash and a royalty and will give Panther exposure to a further 6 gold exploration properties and two uranium exploration projects. In a balancing transaction, Panther entered into an option and sale and purchase agreement with Shear Gold Exploration Corporation to purchase a substantial claim holding comprising the Manitou Lakes Project upon the Eagle - Manitou Lakes Greenstone Belt in the gold endowed Kenora Mining District, approximately 300km east of Thunder Bay in Ontario. This underexplored region contains a number of historic gold mines and has been yielding significant discoveries for neighbouring explores.

In Australia, the successful listing of Panther Metals Limited ("Panther Australia") on the ASX in December 2021, allowed the planned 6,000m reverse circulation drilling programme to commence at their Coglia Nickel-Cobalt Project in Western Australia.  Assay results received from the 61 holes through February, March and May culminated in Panther Australia publishing a JORC Code (2012) compliant Inferred Mineral Resource estimate ("MRE") of 70.6Mt @ 0.7% Ni & 460ppm Co, for 476kt Ni and 32.2kt Co and an additional revised Exploration Target on 27 June 2022. Drilling in Australia also targeted gold with programmes Eight Foot Well Gold Prospect and the Burtville East Gold Prospect competed to plan during the period. Panther maintains a 36.61% holding in Panther Australia.

The progress of the Company during the period has been tremendous and with the successful completion of our fund raise, post-period on 18 August, Panther are fully funded to continue to drive through the exciting planned workstreams ahead.

I would like to take this opportunity thank and congratulate our teams and partners in Canada and Australia for their hard work and results and to state that we very much look forward to continuing together.

Operational Review

Canada

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictions on travel into Ontario continued to impact on exploration staffing, permitting and logistics across the sector.  However, with a growing local network of contractors, Panther was able to progress work across the Canadian properties.

Big Bear Gold Project

Overview

The acquisition of various prospects in 2018 and 2019 consolidated previously fragmented areas into the wider Big Bear umbrella project, priming Panther Metals for extensive and comprehensive exploration in the area. A total of 253 geophysical anomalies have been identified, with 39 designated for priority investigation. Gold in soil anomalies have been identified in five areas, ranging up to 0.71g/t Au, extending up to 250m wide and open along strike. Gold bearing quartz veins have been outlined within seven separate areas (two with rock and vein samples grading 1g/t to 5 g/t Au, four with quartz vein sample assays above 5g/t Au, and two quartz samples collected at 50m separation on an east-west trending vein open in both directions returning 105.5g/t Au and 112g/t Au respectively).

The Little Bear Lake and Schreiber prospects are of particular interest to the Company: historic work programmes in 2010 and 2011 targeted an intense magnetic response from both. Assays yielded from the 1.6km long gold trend included 6m at 1.5g/t Au, up to 53.7g/t Au and 19.25 g/t Ag in rock chip and 18.2g/t Au and 1.03g/t Ag in soil. Historical bulk sampling reported 150t averaging 17.6g/t Au, while historical drill intersections include 0.55m at 19.2% Zn and 4.6% Cu from 15.2m depth.

Work conducted in 2022

No fieldwork was undertaken at Big Bear during the first half of 2022. Due to the winter snow cover and the Exploration Permit Applications being put on Temporary Hold by the issuing authorities, only desk based technical work was conducted. The Temporary Hold order had been in place since the last two of Exploration Permit Applications were lodged in May 2021, this order was lifted in April and all four Exploration Permits Applications were subsequently awarded (PR-21-000140, Big Duck Creek Project, PR-20-000052 Big Bear North Project, PR-20-000054 Big Bear West Project, and PR-20-000055 Big Bear East Project), as announced 21 April 2022.

The Exploration Permits allow activities including diamond drilling, trenching, stripping, ground geophysics, trail cutting, and exploration camp and are effective for a period of three years to 13 April 2025 as summarised in .

Table 3: Permitted Activities for Big Bear Project Exploration Permits Awarded April 2022

On 7 April 2022 the Company announced the signing of a sale agreement (the "Agreement") for the transfer of 128 mining claims ("Claims") constituting the Big Bear Project. Under the terms of the agreement the Company's Canadian subsidiary Panther Metals (Canada) Limited has agreed to transfer the Claims and associated information to Fulcrum Metals (Canada) Ltd., the Canadian subsidiary of Fulcrum Metals Limited ("Fulcrum") an Irish registered company which is seeking an initial public offering ("IPO") on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange Group PLC.

As consideration for the sale upon Fulcrum IPO Panther will be issued with; 20% of the entire issued share capital in Fulcrum as Consideration Shares; a payment of £200,000 and the grant of a 2% net smelter return ("NSR") royalty. The Agreement is conditional upon, inter alia, Fulcrum being admitted to trading on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange Group PLC. The longstop date of the Agreement completion is 31 October 2022, which was subsequently extended to 30 November 2022. If completion does not occur before the longstop date Panther will be due a payment of 50,000 Euro from Fulcrum.

The sale will supplement Panther's Dotted Lake property through indirect exposure to early-stage gold and base metal exploration over a further four properties on the Schreiber-Hemlo Greenstone Belt; with an additional two properties on the Dayohessarah Lake Greenstone and the Michipicoten Greenstone Belt; whilst diversifying commodity exposure through Fulcrum's two uranium exploration properties in the vicinity of the Athabasca Basin in Saskatchewan.

Dotted Lake Project

Overview

Panther Metals acquired the Dotted Lake Project in July 2020, it is situated approximately 16km from Barrick Gold's renowned Hemlo Gold Mine. An extensive soil programme conducted in 2021 identified numerous gold and base metal targets, all within the same geological footprint as Hemlo. Following the reopening of a historical trail providing direct access to the target location, an initial drilling programme, consisting a single 402m deep hole drilled in Autumn 2021 confirmed the presence of gold mineralisation within this system with anomalous gold continuing along strike and present within the surrounding area. The initial objective of this drill hole was to build an understanding of the stratigraphy linked to the Company's airborne geophysics survey and trench sample anomalies, finding gold mineralisation widely dispersed in this hole was considered very encouraging, given the context of the wider prospective Hemlo region.

Work conducted in 2022

The first batch of encouraging assay results for the first 174m of core from the Dotted Lake drill hole were announced on 24^th January 2022; showing in total eight separate intervals of gold mineralisation, with four separate gold bearing intervals above 1.0g/t Au intersected between 47m and 158m down hole depth:

o  Four sample intervals > 1g/t Au:

0.9m @ 1.73 g/t Au from 47.3m

1m @ 1.05 g/t Au from 122.2m

1m @ 1.59 g/t Au from 136.2m 

1m @ 1.04 g/t Au from 158.2m

o  Eight Intersections >0.57g/t Au, including two 2m wide composites:

2m @ 0.87 g/t Au from 122.2m ( inc. 1m @ 1.05 g/t Au from 122.2m)

2m @ 0.96 g/t Au from 158.2m ( inc. 1m @ 1.04 g/t Au from 158.2m)

The remaining assay results were received during May 2022, a single intersection of 1.1m @ 1.4 g/t Au from 228.3m (inc. 0.5m @ 2.57 g/t Au from 228.3m) was noted, in addition to seven discrete low level (0.11g/t Au to 0.31g/t Au) 1m wide gold intersections between 200m to 391m downhole depth.

Preliminary analysis of the drill assay results points to an orogenic gold signature with a strong correlation between zones of shearing or strong foliation, alteration and sulphide bearing quartz veinlets. Disseminated sulphides are also noted.  Importantly the results of the drilling tie in well with structures interpreted from Panther's geophysics survey and with the highly anomalous results of the soil geochemical survey to the west of the drill collar.

Obonga Project

Panther Metals acquired the Obonga Greenstone Belt project in July 2021 and have already identified four prospective primary targets: Wishbone, Awkward, Survey and Ottertooth. A successful Phase 1 drilling campaign at Wishbone in Autumn 2021 revealed the presence of significant volcanogenic massive sulphide ("VMS") style mineralised systems on the property - the first such discovery across the entire greenstone belt. Intercepts include 27.3m of massive sulphide in hole one, and 51m of sulphide-dominated mineralisation in hole two. Both drill holes contained multiple lenses. Anomalous high-grade copper in lake sediment close to the target area has also been identified, increasing confidence in the prospectivity of the location.

Awkward is a highly anomalous magnetic target, interpreted to be a layered mafic intrusion and magmatic conduit based on mapped geology and airborne geophysics. Historic sampling in the area returned anomalous platinum and palladium (Pt, Pd) values, while historic drilling on the periphery of the target intersected non-assayed massive sulphide and copper (assumed to be chalcopyrite), non-assayed disseminated pyrite and chalcopyrite in coarse gabbro, and non-assayed 'marble cake' gabbro (matching the description of the Lac des Iles Mine varitexture gabbro ore zone).

Two additional named targets, Survey and Ottertooth, both displays further coincident magnetic and electromagnetic anomalies and are adjacent to the contact between intrusive and extrusive mafic rocks. Historic drilling at Survey intersected several meters of massive sulphides in multiple intersections (main parts of the anomaly remain untested) while Ottertooth remains untested in its entirety.

Work conducted in 2022

The highly successful Wishbone drilling results and the discovery of a VMS mineral system summarised below were announced on 18 January 2022.

Wishbone Phase 1 Technical Summary

Wishbone Phase 1 Drilling Programme results, with the discovery of the first VMS system on the Obonga Greenstone Belt, show proof of concept and validation of the exploration targeting and modelling undertaken by Broken Rock Resources Ltd ("Broken Rock"), Panther's exploration partner at Wishbone.

Two diamond core drill holes, totalling 600m, completed to planned depths of
BBR21_WB_001 ("WB001"): 297m; BBR21_WB_002 ("WB002"): 303m. Core diameter: 42mm.

Wide massive sulphide and semi-massive sulphide mineralisation intersections in both drill holes:

o  WB001: Three wide sulphide intersections:

·      27.3m of massive sulphide from 106.2m ('Upper layer'), with fault at base;

·      2.5m of massive sulphide from 234.8m ('Mid layer'; and

·      1.4m of massive sulphide from 256.6m ('Lower layer')

o  WB002:  Wide zoned sulphide intersection:

·      51m from 174m comprising a wide zone of sulphide dominated mineralisation, including:

·17m from 180m of massive sulphide ('Upper zone') and

·7m from 218m of semi-massive sulphide ('Lower zone')

An important characteristic of VMS deposits is that they typically display a zonation of metals within the massive sulphide body from Fe+Cu at the base to Zn+Fe±Pb±Ba at the top and margins, related to differing temperature and chemical conditions at mineral deposition. The major observed mineral component2 of the Wishbone massive sulphide mineralisation is pyrrhotite with less common pyrite and minor sphalerite and chalcopyrite in distinct zones:

o  WB001:

·    Upper layer: MS intersection includes a 7.5m wide zone of Fe above/ close to 50% Fe upper detection limit, with pyrrhotite, pyrite and magnetite identified in the core logging.

·    Mid layer: Strongest zinc (sphalerite) intersection averages 0.5m @ 1.9% Zn (based on verification sampling) within a 1.5m @ 1.1% Zn with 3.1g/t Ag from 235.5m.

·      Lower layer: geochemical correlation to the Mid layer with lower Zn & Ag.

o  WB002:

·      Upper zone: displays 10x relative enrichment in Ag (1g/t) over the Lower zone and similar mineralogical composition to WB001.

Work is ongoing to follow-up the Phase 1 programme results in combination with geophysical, structural and geological datasets to determine next steps to specifically target the potential for economic base metal zonation within and close to Wishbone.

The Wishbone assay result suite, including rare earth element (REE) analyses, yields important geochemical information allowing the classification of the mineralisation, alteration ratios and the development of exploration vectors towards zones of potential economic interest. 

o  Alteration and REE ratio markers in both drill holes correlate well with established VMS exploration models.

o  Zn+Pb and Cu ratios of the Wishbone massive sulphide layers indicate the mineralisation is most likely a bi-modal type VMS deposit.  The deposits of the Sturgeon Lake/Mattabi VMS Camp (consisting of 6 historic VMS mines) 75km west of Wishbone, has been classified as a bimodal type deposits as have Canada's Kidd Creek (Ontario) and Noranda (Quebec) VMS deposits.

Another important characteristic of VMS type deposits is that they typically occur in clusters. The Company views that the discovery of the Wishbone VMS system bodes very well for the existence of further, as yet undiscovered VMS bodies in the vicinity, as it confirms the western part of the Obonga Greenstone belt as a favourable geological environmental, and permissive tract, for the development of volcanic associated mineralising systems.

Panther have retained the support of a post-doctoral academic from a Canadian VMS centre of excellence and are working towards forging university relationships which will see the Company leverage all available knowledge and expertise to open up the Obonga greenstone belt for further VMS exploration.

On 26 April 2022 the Company announced it had submitted an Exploration Permit Application (PR-22-000116) for an additional three drill prospects at the Company's Obonga Project located on the Obonga Greenstone Belt in northern Ontario. The application submitted in collaboration with Broken Rock concerns planned work within 45 Single Cell Mining Claims in the Puddy Lake administrative area. The subsequent grant of Exploration Permit PR-22-000116 was announced, post period on 21 July 2022, permitted activities include diamond core drilling of up to 10 holes and associated down-hole electromagnetic geophysics surveys spread across three named prospects: Silver Rim; Ottertooth and Survey, which are respectively located in the north, centre-east and centre-west of the Obonga Project area.  The three prospects are targeting VMS base metal mineralisation and intrusion related nickel in association with compelling, coincident, geophysical anomalies and historical work results.  Further diamond core drilling at Obonga is expected to commence during the second half 2022.

Manitou Lakes Project

On 7 April 2022, the Company announced that it had entered into an option and sale and purchase agreement with Shear Gold Exploration Corporation ("Shear Gold") to purchase a substantial claim holding (the "Shear Gold Project") including the West Limb and Glass Reef gold properties, on the Eagle - Manitou Lakes Greenstone Belt. The Shear Gold Project covers a total area of approximately 98km² and is located within the gold endowed Kenora Mining District, approximately 300km east of Thunder Bay and equidistant between the towns of Fort Frances and Dryden in north-western Ontario, Canada. The terms of the Agreement include a cash consideration of CAD$11,325 has been paid to Shear Gold Exploration Corporation in order to secure the option and sale and purchase agreement, under which Panther Metals has committed to a minimum spend commitment of CAD$325,000 to be expended over years one and two and a further CAD$400,000 to be expended between the second and fourth annual anniversaries of the sale and purchase agreement. Any excess spend in years one and two can be offset against expenditure in years three and four; A NSR royalty of 2% over the 32 multicell mining claims is granted to Shear Gold; Panther Metals can elect to purchase 50% of the NSR (reducing the remaining royalty to 1%) for the sum CAD$1M at any time; and Panther Metals can elect at any time to purchase the 32 multicell mining claims outright through a payment of CAD$250,000 to Shear Gold.

The Manitou Lakes Project consists of three prospect areas: Glass Reef , West Limb and Catwill.

·      Glass Reef

o  720ha

o  Hosts the historic Glass Reef Gold Mine.

o  Favourable structure and bedrock geology.

o  Positive results from 2012 sampling programme.

·      West Limb

o  5km+ strike length on multiple gold bearing structures.

o  2000+ha of unexplored ground.

o  Historic exploration focused on high grade visible gold, ignoring low-grade mineralized wall rock.

o  New mineralisation model proposed - Felsic intrusive related in addition to shear zone hosted.

o  Three current mineralisation styles: 1) gold bearing shear zone hosted quartz veins; 2) auriferous shear zones; and 3) Auriferous semi-massive sulphides infilling fissures.

·      Catwill

o  Newly staked ground

o  No exploration undertaken over claim area despite the presence of gold anomalies

o  Exploration work expected to begin in summer 2022.

Financial Review

The Group has reported an unaudited loss for the six months ended 30 June 2022 of £65,793 (six months ended 30 June 2021 - loss £97,599). The basic and diluted loss per share for the period was 0.09p (six months ended 30 June 2021 - loss 0.17p).

The key performance indicators are set out below: