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ASX Announcement

25 November 2021

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SATURN RAISES $8 MILLION TO ADVANCE APOLLO HILL

Funds to be used for accelerating resource growth at the Apollo Hill Gold

Project, pre-development study work and regional exploration.

Highlights

  • $8 million share placement strongly supported by Australian and Overseas institutional and professional investors.
  • Strong backing by current major shareholders including Dundee Corporation.
  • The proceeds of the placement, together with existing cash of approximately $5.8 million (as at 30 September 2021) provide substantial funding to continue drilling geared towards delivering additional upgrades to the Apollo Hill Mineral Resource, which currently stands at 35.9 million tonnes grading 0.8 g/t Au for 944,000 ounces of gold1.
  • A program of 50,000m of drilling and metallurgical test work is planned at Apollo Hill to target further resource expansion where results in the last 9 months have included:
    • 7m @ 11.18g/t Au from 172m including 3m @ 25.67g/t Au from 172m - AHRC0813
    • 54m @ 3.72g/t Au from 43m including 33m @ 5.80g/t Au from 49m - AHRC0618
    • 8m @ 9.47g/t Au from 102m including 3m @ 24.92g/t Au from 102m - AHRC0647
  • Funds will also be deployed at camp and regional scale exploration at Apollo Hill and at the West Wyalong gold joint venture in New South Wales.
  • Work continues across the Apollo Hill project with current activities including:
    • Extensional reverse circulation (RC) drilling at Apollo Hill North (Plate1 and Figure 1);
    • Metallurgical test work geared towards production study outcomes; and
    • Regional aircore (AC) drilling - assays are pending for 60 recently completed holes

Plate 1 - Apollo Hill gold system - current boundary and 3.5km long corridor, November 2021

1 Details of the Mineral Resource which currently stands at 35.9 Mt @ 0.8 g/t Au for 944,000 oz Au and a breakdown by category are presented in Table 1a (page 5 of this document) along with the associated Competent Persons statement and details of the ASX announcement that this information was originally published in.

Saturn Metals Limited

9 Havelock Street, West Perth WA 6005

www.saturnmetals.com.au

ABN: 43 619 488 498

ASX: STN

info@saturnmetals.com.au

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Saturn Metals Limited (ASX:STN) ("Saturn" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has received firm commitments for an $8,000,000 (before costs) share placement ("Placement") to continue resource definition, exploration drilling and metallurgical and other pre-development studies at its 100% owned Apollo Hill Gold Project near Leonora in Western Australia.

The Placement will comprise 16,666,667 new fully paid ordinary shares to be issued pursuant to ASX Listing Rule 7.1. under the Company's placement capacity. The issue price of 48 cents per share represents a discount of 2.3% to the 20-day volume weighted average trading price of the Company's shares on the ASX and a 14.3% discount to the last closing price. The Placement was strongly supported by new and existing overseas and Australian institutional investors, and ensures the Company is well funded to significantly progress its Apollo Hill Project. The Company's largest shareholder, Dundee Corporation (and associates) subscribed for 2,833,333 shares to maintain their position on the register. Dundee's shares will be allotted following receipt of Foreign Investment Review Board approval.

Following completion of the Placement (including shares to be issued to Dundee) the Company will have 129,749,177 shares on issue. Settlement of 13,833,334 shares under the Placement is expected on 2 December 2021 and shares issued on 3 December 2021 (with the balance of 2,833,333 shares conditional on receipt of Foreign Investment Review Board approval).

Petra Capital Pty Ltd and Sprott Capital Partners LP acted as Joint Lead Managers and Joint Bookrunners to the Placement.

At Apollo Hill, drilling is exposing a wide mineralised corridor over a 3.5km strike length (Plate 1). Figure 1 illustrates recent drilling results, including results in the North of the deposit where the current drill program is underway following up on results including 7m @ 11.18g/t Au from 172m including 3m @ 25.67g/t Au from 172m - AHRC0813.

A further resource upgrade is targeted for the March quarter 2022, incorporating results from drilling conducted since January 2021, when the resource estimate was last updated, and incorporating results from the Company's current metallurgical program. Beyond this, the Company is planning a 50,000m drill program to further upgrade the Apollo Hill gold system and ongoing metallurgical and other study work to support the evaluation of project development options.

In addition, funds will be deployed at the camp scale to target satellite prospects such as at Bob's (see ASX Announcement Dated 19/11/2021), and across Saturn's +1,000km2 strategic land package. Saturn has also recently completed an initial drill phase at its West Wyalong Joint venture in NSW with encouraging results and intends to continue to target higher grade gold mineralisation on the historic Mallee Bull and other Reef lines.

Saturn Managing Director Ian Bamborough said:

"Saturn is delighted with the level of support shown in this successful raising. This puts the Company in an excellent position to continue to expand the boundaries of our Apollo Hill gold system. Drilling this year has seen multiple strong intersections extending beyond the previous resource boundary. Higher grades within a lengthening mineralised corridor show the potential for next level discovery and a much bigger opportunity. In addition, this raising enables the Company to fund other exciting activities in our exploration portfolio and step up our production orientated studies.

"With a healthy balance sheet, a strengthened register, and a robust resource and exploration base from which to grow, I look forward to delivering the results flow and an exciting year ahead for Saturn Metals and its shareholders."

This announcement has been approved for release by the Saturn Metals Limited Board of Directors. All dollar amounts are in Australian dollars unless otherwise indicated.

IAN BAMBOROUGH

Managing Director

For further information please contact:

Ian Bamborough

Managing Director Saturn Metals Limited +61 (0)8 6234 1114 info@saturnmetals.com.au

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Figure 1 - Resource extension drilling results relative to the published resource.

  1. This diagram contains exploration results and historic exploration results as originally reported in fuller context in Saturn Metals Limited's ASX Announcements as published on the Company's website. Saturn Metals Limited confirms that it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information on results noted.

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This announcement has been prepared for publication in Australia and may not be released to US wire services or distributed in the United States. This announcement does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, securities in the United States or any other jurisdiction. Any securities described in this announcement have not been, and will not be, registered under the US Securities Act of 1933 and may not be offered or sold in the United States except in transactions exempt from, or not subject to, the registration requirements of the US Securities Act and applicable US state securities laws.

Forward Looking Statements

This announcement may contain certain "forward-looking statements" which may not have been based solely on historical facts, but rather may be based on the Company's current expectations about future events and results. Where the Company expresses or implies an expectation of belief as to future events or results, such expectation or belief is expressed in good faith and believed to have a reasonable basis. The detailed reasons for that conclusion are outlined throughout this announcement and all material assumptions are disclosed.

However, forward looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors, which could cause actual results to differ materially from future results expressed, projected or implied by such forward-looking statements.

Such risks include, but are not limited to resource risk, metals price volatility, currency fluctuations, increased production costs and variances in ore grade or recovery rates from those assumed in mining plans, as well as governmental regulation and judicial outcomes.

For a more detailed discussion of such risks and other factors, see the Company's Annual Reports, as well as the Company's other filings. Readers should not place undue reliance on forward looking information. The Company does not undertake any obligation to release publicly any revisions to any "forward looking statement" to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this announcement, or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.

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Competent Persons Statement - Resource:

1The information for the Mineral Resource included in this report is extracted from the report entitled (Apollo Hill Gold Resource Upgraded To 944,000oz) created on 28 January 2021 and is available to view on the Saturn Metals Limited website. Saturn Metals Limited confirms that it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information included in the original market announcement and, in the case of estimates of Mineral Resources or Ore Reserves, that all material assumptions and technical parameters underpinning the estimates in the relevant market announcement continue to apply and have not materially changed. Saturn Metals Ltd confirms that the form and context in which the Competent Person's findings are presented have not been materially modified from the original market announcement.

Table 1a* January 2021 Mineral Resource Statement; 0.4 g/t Au cut-off by oxidation domain within a 1.4 revenue factor pit shell to represent reasonable prospects for eventual economic extraction.

Preliminary Whittle pit optimizations using approximated regional mining and processing costs for multiple processing scenarios have been run on the resource model using a gold price of US$1,700/oz to generate a range of pit shells and cut-off grades. A pit shell for a combined mill and heap leach scenario representing a revenue factor of 1.4 was selected as a nominal constraint within which to report the Apollo Hill Mineral Resource, thereby satisfying the JORC Code requirement for a Mineral Resource to have reasonable prospects for eventual economic extraction. Other relevant information is described in the JORC Code Table 1 as appropriate. A nominal 0.4 g/t Au lower cut-off grade was selected for all material types. There is no material depletion by mining within the model area. Estimation is by localised multiple indicator kriging for Apollo Hill zone and the Apollo Hill Hanging-wall zone; estimation of Ra and Tefnut zone used restricted ordinary kriging due to limited data. The model assumes a rotated 5 m by 12.5 m by 5 m RL Selective Mining Unit (SMU) for selective open pit mining. The final models are SMU models and incorporate internal dilution to the scale of the SMU. Technically the models do not account for mining related edge dilution and ore loss. These parameters should be considered during the mining study as being dependent on grade control, equipment and mining configurations including drilling and blasting. Classification is according to JORC Code Mineral Resource categories. Totals may vary due to rounded figures.

Competent Persons Statement - Exploration:

The information in this report that relates to exploration targets and exploration results is based on information compiled by Ian Bamborough, a Competent Person who is a Member of The Australian Institute of Geoscientists. Ian Bamborough is a fulltime employee and Director of the Company, in addition to being a shareholder in the Company. Ian Bamborough has sufficient experience that is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity being undertaken to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2012 Edition of the 'Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves'. Ian Bamborough consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.

  1. This document contains exploration results and historic exploration results as originally reported in fuller context in Saturn Metals Limited ASX Announcements, Quarterly Reports and Prospectus - as published on the Company's website. Saturn Metals Limited confirms that it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information on results noted. Announcement dates to refer to and include, but are not limited to 29/10/2021, 28/10/2021, 27/10/2021, 19/08/2021, 12/07/2021, 20/06/2021, 08/06/2021, 26/05/2021,14/04/2021, 30/03/2021, 22/03/2021, 28/01/2021, 25/01/2021, 22/12/2020, 30/10/2020, 31/07/2020, 21/04/2020 and 31/01/2020.

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