Norwest Minerals Limited announced that it has completed 33 reverse circulation (RC) drillholes for 3,886m at its 100% owned, Bali Copper Project in Western Australia. The Bali Copper Project comprises approximately 8 kilometres of the Bali shear zone; a major structure extending through the region and hosting numerous copper and other base metal prospects. The RC drilling targeted four high priority prospects where previous exploration returned significant copper results in historical drilling and rock chip samples.

The latest RC drill samples are in the lab for analysis of precious and base metals with results expected late November. First pass analysis by portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF) was completed on all 1 metre RC drill samples. Many of the holes returned wide intercepts2 of Copper grading 0.2% with 10 individual metres reading 3% Copper and the high being 7.6% Copper.

See maps and tables below for all significant pXRF results. Maiden RC drilling intersects wide zones of copper mineralisation: Norwest Minerals has completed drilling 33 RC holes totaling 3,886 metres targeting the four high- priority prospects along the Bali Shear structure. These included the Bali Lo and Bali High copper prospect which saw small-scale mining in the 1960s followed by shallow RAB, percussion, and RC drilling in the 1980s.

The historical drilling intersected copper mineralisation including 12m @ 3.6% Cu from surface and 6m @ 7.2% Cu from 17m. There has been no drill testing at the Bali East or Bali South prospects. The latest RC drill samples are currently awaiting lab analysis for base and precious metals with the assay results due next month.

On site, a portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF) analyser was used to detect the presence of copper and other base metals in each 1m RC sample collected. (Note cautionary statement on page 8 regarding the reliability of pXRF results) The pXRF readings indicates broad intervals of significant copper mineralisation at Bali Lo, Bali East and Bali South with Bali High pXRF readings indicating the presence of significant copper-lead and copper-lead-zinc.