Mr. Mark McCauley reports

MELIOR RESOURCES INC.: MINERAL COMMISSIONING TO COMMENCE AT THE GOONDICUM ILMENITE MINE

Melior Resources Inc. has started mineral commissioning of the upgraded and expanded site processing facilities at the Goondicum mine.

Highlights:

• Mineral commissioning commenced on April 7, 2015, with ramp-up to target capacity of approximately 200,000 tonnes per annum continuing into the second half of 2015.
• Site components of the restart project completed on budget and ahead of schedule.

Project and operation

The total project has been completed on budget and ahead of the planned eight-month construction period. The total cost for the on-site upgrade and expansion of the process plant was $7.6-million (Australian) (budgeted expenditure $7.74-million (Australian)). The project consisted of an upgrade of the existing processing facilities to enhance product quality, increase plant recovery and availability, as well as expanding the processing capacity by approximately 50 per cent to 2.8 million tonnes per annum. Commissioning is expected to continue for up to six months before target production capacity of approximately 17,000 tonnes per month of ilmenite is expected to be achieved. The operation is quickly building up to its anticipated employment complement of 50 personnel, with around 30 additional personnel working with associated contractors.

Eastern access road

The new mine access road is approximately 25 per cent complete with approximately 4.8 kilometres of the total 19-kilometre length successfully built to date. When complete the road will reduce the haulage distance from the mine to Gladstone port by approximately 100 kilometres. The remainder of the road is currently undergoing final engineering design. Additionally, follow-up environmental documentation and survey work have been requested by the Australian Commonwealth Department of Environment to comply with permitting requirements. Melior is working through these requests; however, completion of the road cannot occur until this work has been completed to the department's satisfaction. For the foreseeable future, product will be hauled to the port through the existing access road, with the first 6,000-tonne ilmenite shipment bound for Japan scheduled for loading in the second half of May. The historically low oil prices significantly mitigate the impact of the use of the existing, longer haul road.

Product marketing

The global market for titanium feedstocks, including ilmenite, remains subdued. Over the last year there has been a significant volume of new supply enter the market through newly commissioned projects and this will likely take some time to be absorbed before any United States-dollar price improvement can be expected. However, the depreciating Australian dollar is partially offsetting this market softness for Australian producers. Melior will continue to monitor the market as the Goondicum operations moves through commissioning into production.

Melior has an exclusive marketing agreement with Sojitz Corp., a major Japanese trading company, for all of its ilmenite sales into Japan and Korea and is now finalizing an exclusive arrangement into China with Sojitz. In addition to this, Melior has letters of intent signed with Chinese pigment producers through Sojitz and it intends to advance these letters of intent to firm sales contracts over the next few months as ilmenite operation production builds up.

The terms of a 5,000-tonne trial cargo of phosphate rock are also in the process of being finalized with an offshore customer, with this shipment expected to occur during third-quarter 2015.

Chief executive officer Mark McCauley commented, "Melior is making the transition to a fully fledged producer and marketer of quality ilmenite and phosphate rock products, which should be reflected in a positive financial outcome for fiscal-year 2016."

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