Niuminco Group Limited announced to elaborate on the uncovering of previously unknown very high grade gold-bearing veins in the Ingopae area of Edie Creek, approximately 200 metres south of the camp compound as reported in announcements on 14 September 2018 and 20 September 2018 and provide an update on production from this area over the period 18 September to 2 October, 2018. The location of these veins is within the Company's current mining area, an area of extensive small pits and other historic workings of the upper Edie Creek valley where small scale mining, including that carried out in recent years by the Company, dates back to the 1930s. They are within 200 metres of the camp/plant site, 100 metres from recent mining to the west of the Ingopae pit and 400 metres from recent mining of the Surmans and Mounts veins as shown on the panoramic view of the gold field. The veins have been exposed by erosion of overburden, which is partly spoil from past excavation within the Ingopae Pit and partly barren scree from upslope. Niuminco's team have continued to mine this narrow, northeast-southwest trending vein in both directions along strike and deeper down-dip and have unearthed a second parallel vein. Two other veins to the west and one further to the east have been previously mined by Niuminco. The continuing strategy is to progressively expose the vein systems by pilot scale mining to produce cash-flow, and to determine their orientation, strike extent and whether they are of large enough scale to warrant drilling to resource standards. If, as in this case, the vein is very narrow (100 -200mm) then the vein material is often mined by hand, rather than by excavator to avoid dilution, and the vein material is transported in tubs or loader bucket to the processing/gold room. The waste/very low grade material is separated from the vein material by excavator and/or bulldozer, stockpiled near the vein and then brought to the ROM pad by truck if, after panning, there is the indication that low grade gold is present and may be economic to process. During the period 18 September to 2 October, 2018 processing of vein and adjacent material took place on 12 of those days with production results as follows: 16.2 tonnes of vein material processed through the barrels (small rod mills) produced 631.3g (20.3 ounces) of gold and 504g (16.2 ounces) of silver from 2,572g of wet amalgam at an average grade of 39.97g/t, and; 279 tonnes of low grade/waste material, mined from immediately adjoining the vein, was separately processed through the ball mill on 7 of the 12 days producing only 75.6g (2.4 ounces) of gold in total The average grade calculations are arrived at after totaling the actual gold produced and sold over this period, and dividing that figure by the actual volumes of vein material or low grade/waste material mined and processed over that same period.