4m @ 1.57g/t Au from 16m in LEFA1044
8m @ 0.42g/t Au from 12m in LEFA1199
11m @ 0.75g/t Au from 16m in LEFA1211

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High-Grade Results Extend the Burns Cu Au

onlyprogram that evaluated the eastern extension of the Burns Cu Au corridor beneath Lake Randall in November & December 2021. The results continue to enhance a growing Cu-Au intrusion related mineral system over a 2000m corridor and provide further support to the Company's targeting

System Beneath Lake Randall

Assay results have been received for 128 holes of a maiden 199 hole/8000m aircore (AC) drill

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At Burns, multiple drill holes intersected gold mineralisation in the host Eastern Porphyry up to 240m north of discovery hole LEFR260 which remains open. Further results are pending.

Significant assay results include:

16m @ 3.79g/t Au from 20m in LEFA1088

personal The results demonstrate the expanding continuity of the gold mineralised Eastern Porphyry.

Including 8m at 7.31g/t Au from 20m

24m @ 2.86g/t Au from 16m in LEFA1089

Including 16m at 4.04g/t Au from 20m

Assays are pending for a further four drill traverses to the north of these high-grade intersections over an additional 400m of the Eastern Porphyry, part of which is obscured by deeper cover within the Lefroy Palaeodrainage.

At the Lovejoy magnetic target, 2000m to the northwest of Burns, encouraging results were also returned from the initial wide spaced evaluation of this target which intersected diorite porphyry similar to Burns. Further results are pending. Better results to date include; -

For Assay results are pending for 3,313 samples from an additional 301 AC drill holes drilled in Lake

Randall since December 2021. These results are expected to be reported over the next two months.

The Company has re prioritised its ongoing Lake Randall drill program and immediately mobilised the specialised lake drill rig to Burns to expand on the LEFA 1088 and 1089 results. This drilling is about to commence.

Lefroy Exploration Managing Director, Wade Johnson said "these are two outstanding gold intersections from aircore drilling out beneath Lake Randall that further demonstrates the growing scale of the Burns copper gold system. We are fortunate to have the specialised lake rig on site elsewhere on Lake Randall and immediately mobilising back to Burns to scope out the footprint of this new mineralisation"

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Lefroy Exploration Limited (ASX: LEX) ("Lefroy" or "the Company") is pleased to report results from 128 holes of a 199 hole-8000m aircore (AC) drill program that tested the eastern limits of the Burns Cu Au corridor in Lake Randall in November/December 2021. Drilling on Lake Randall is currently underway. Burns is within the Eastern Lefroy tenement package, which is part of the wholly owned greater Lefroy Gold Project (LGP) located 50km southeast of Kalgoorlie (Figure 1).

The Burns prospect is situated on the eastern margin of a large interpreted felsic intrusion, termed the Burns Intrusion (Figure 2). The intrusion does not outcrop but features a distinctive annular aeromagnetic and gravity geophysical signature (Figure 2). The Company has not yet established the association between the larger Burns intrusion and the diorite porphyry intrusions intersected at Burns, but research is ongoing to source evidence to support a view on the genetic relationship.

Broad high-grade gold mineralisation is hosted within a newly discovered hematite-pyrite-chalcopyrite-magnetite altered diorite porphyry (refer LEX ASX release 23 February 2021) that intrudes high Mg basalt at Burns. This porphyry, termed the Eastern Porphyry, is open to the north and south. The eastern extent of the Eastern Porphyry is now defined, on multiple drill sections, by foliated basalt (footwall basalt). The copper and gold mineralisation hosted by both the diorite porphyry, basalt and massive magnetite veins is considered to be a new and unique style of Au-Cu mineralisation near Kalgoorlie, within a land position dominated by LEX (Figure 1).

Figure 1 Lefroy Gold Project, highlighting Eastern and Western Lefroy, the location of the Burns prospect and extent of the Lefroy Palaeodrainage. Refer to Figure 2 for the Lake Randall drill hole plan.

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Lake Randall AC Drill program-background

A detailed aeromagnetic survey completed over the broader Burns area in August 2021 defined

multiple Burns look alike magnetic anomalies over a 3000m trend (LEX ASX release 28

September 2021), known as the Burns Corridor. The Company interpreted the anomalies to

represent magnetite alteration zones within and surrounding porphyry dioritic intrusions that are

additional, and similar in style, to Burns and which may host similar Au Cu mineralisation.

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The Company developed a sound geological model and commenced a staged drilling program

to assess the broader limits of the Burns mineral system and surrounding geology in October

2021. This staged drilling program aimed to evaluate the multiple magnetic anomalies but also

to place Burns in the geological context of the wider area and, expand the geological framework

to increase the exploration search space. Stage 1 of the program involved drilling land-based

targets using an RC rig, with results reported earlier in 2022 (LEX ASX release 25 January

2022).

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The Stage 2 program used a specialised lake aircore rig to evaluate aeromagnetic targets (e.g.,

Lovejoy, Kenny's Dream) in Lake Randall (offshore) immediately adjacent to and along the

Burns corridor. That work was completed in December 2021, with a total of 7989m of drilling in

128 holes completed on a nominal broad 160m by 80m hole centre pattern. The drill density

was increased where favourable geology was encountered. Assay results have been received

for the 128 holes from that campaign (Figure 2).

The lake AC program was expanded and drilling recommenced in January 2022 (LEX ASX

release 18 January 2022) with a further 301 AC drill holes completed to date. Additional drill

targets were generated in Lake Randall based on geological information derived from the late

2021 campaign and interrogated with geophysical (gravity & aeromagnetic) datasets.

Twelve new drill targets were generated in Lake Randall and extend approximately 15km to the

east over the Company's tenure. This program is well underway and aims to discover new gold

and/or gold copper mineral systems, peripheral and parallel to the Burns corridor beneath Lake

Randall and to infill the geological knowledge gap in this largely unexplored area.

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The key areas of focus are: -

Extension of the Burns diorite complex northwest of Lovejoy and out to Neon

Demagnetised zones within the strike extensions of the Lucky Strike, Havelock and Erinmore sedimentary iron formations

Targets (e.g., Monte Cristo) associated with the convergence of the regional Mt Monger and Randall Faults

Immediate southeast strike extension of the sequence that hosts the gold mineralisation at Lucky Bay

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Figure 2 Satellite image of the location of Burns relative to Lake Randall highlighting the extent of the recent AC drilling and a segment of the Lefroy Palaeodrainage. Grey dots represent holes with pending results. The inset area refers to the area of detailed RC&D drilling at the Burns Au-Cu prospect and the location of LEFA1088 and LEFA1089 (Figure 3).

Results

Assay results have been received and validated for 128 holes from the 199-hole program completed in November-December 2021. Results for the final 71 holes (1,129 samples) from this program are expected by early March.

Significant high-grade results (Table 1) have been returned from two vertical AC holes that are approximately 180m to the north of the Burns discovery hole LEFR260 (LEX ASX release 23 February 2021) located on the baseline section (0N). The holes are 40m apart on the same drill section, both intersecting altered Eastern Porphyry (Figure 4), the key host to Au Cu mineralisation at Burns.

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Encouraging gold mineralisation has been intersected in 3 holes on adjacent 80m spaced drill

16m @ 3.79g/t Au from 20m in LEFA1088

sections. Results are pending for a further four drill sections to the north that cover at least 400m

of strike of the Eastern Porphyry, part of which is covered by transported sediments from the

Lefroy Palaeodrainage (Figure 3).

Significant results from this program include:

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Including 8m at 7.31g/t Au from 20m

24m @ 2.86g/t Au from 16m to EoH in LEFA1089

Including 16m @ 4.04g/t Au from 20m

20m @ 0.47g/t Au from 20m in LEFA1091

Including 4m @ 1.05g/t Au from 24m

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Figure 3 Inset map of Burns highlighting the extent of the recent AC drilling on Lake Randall and

interpreted extent of the Eastern Porphyry. Grey stars represent AC holes with pending results.

Refer to Figure 4 for drill section AA'

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