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RNS Number : 5737Z  Empire Metals Limited  17 September 2025

Empire Metals Limited / LON: EEE, OTCQX:EPMLF / Sector: Natural Resources

 

17 September 2025

Empire Metals Limited

("Empire" or "the Company")

 

Empire Appoints Marketing Manager - Accelerates Product Development and Access
to Market

 

Empire Metals Limited (LON:EEE), the AIM-quoted and OTCQX-traded resource
exploration and development company, is pleased to announce the appointment of
a Marketing Manager, a key role which, along with Empire's partnership with
titanium marketing experts, TiPMC Consulting, strengthens the in-house
marketing and product development team and supports the rapid advancement of
the Pitfield Titanium Project ("Pitfield" or the "Project") in Western
Australia.

 

Key Points

·    Appointment of Marketing Manager, Michael Tamlin, to lead product
strategy and end-user engagement.

·    Partnership with TiPMC Consulting extended, providing strategic
titanium market insights.

·    Bulk metallurgical testwork progressing well, producing concentrate
for downstream processing and larger product samples for end-user evaluation.

 

Appointment of Marketing Manager to Accelerate Product Development

Empire has appointed Mr. Michael Tamlin as Marketing Manager, which is aligned
with the Company's objective to optimise product development, assess
commercial process flowsheet options and progress the Project toward a
feasibility study.

 

Further strengthening the Company's in-house product development capabilities.
Mr. Tamlin is a metallurgist with over 30 years' experience in the resources
sector, including senior roles in marketing and commercialising mineral
products. Most recently, he served as Head of Lithium at Neometals Ltd, where
he was responsible for managing the pilot development and commercialisation of
the ELi™ lithium hydroxide production process in joint venture with Mineral
Resources Ltd. His expertise will be instrumental in building Pitfield's
product strategy and engaging with potential end-users in high-value titanium
markets.

 

Continuing Partnership with TiPMC Consulting:

Empire has extended its consultancy agreement with TiPMC, a highly respected,
US-based titanium industry consultancy. TiPMC will provide oversight of the
titanium pigment and metal markets and provide guidance to the Company's
technical and marketing team  as they continue to develop the processing
flowsheet and optimise the products.

 

 

Commenting on the announcement, Shaun Bunn, Managing Director, said:

"I am delighted to welcome Michael to our team. His extensive marketing
expertise will be invaluable as we move toward defining the economic potential
and product strategy for Pitfield. This appointment marks an important next
step towards building a strong, in-house team, an approach which has been key
to our successful and rapid progress.

 

"We are also very pleased to continue to be working with TiPMC Consulting,
whose reputation and experience in the titanium industry is unparalleled."

 

Product Development Update

Initial results from the large-scale metallurgical testwork programme,
involving mineral separation techniques that required bulk feed samples of
between approximately 0.5 to 1.5 tonnes each, was announced on 28 August
2025.  The bulk testwork programme is progressing well, focusing on ore
scrubbing, desliming and gravity spiral testwork, as well as flotation
testwork on both the fines fraction, separated in the desliming step, and
whole of ore samples. Large scale scrubbing and spiral gravity testwork has
been completed on Thomas and Cosgrove weathered sandstone bulk samples and the
screened fines have been sent for flotation testwork.  As part of this
programme, mineral concentrates will be produced for downstream processing,
testing both hydrometallurgical and product finishing flowsheet concepts.

 

This bulk testwork programme will produce significant volumes of concentrates
which will feed into the product development and optimisation testwork and
result in larger product samples which can be delivered to potential end users
for assessment. The role of Marketing Manager will be fundamental to
identifying these potential end users and for the development of a high value
customer base for a variety of titanium products from Pitfield.

 

The Marketing Manager will also be responsible for conducting market research,
focusing on high value end uses and likely consumers, preparing a Marketing
Strategy and Marketing Presentation for the Project and for identifying key
customers and suitable product suites in advance of sending out marketing
enquiries and product samples.

 

About TiPMC Consulting

TiPMC Consulting provides independent consulting analyses, perspectives and
recommendations for financial as well as industry functions and segments.
Their expertise includes thorough reviews of business data as well as the
operational, technical, and marketing functionalities for mining, metals,
pigments, and chemical industry segments.

 

Their industry clients recognize the value of their incisive focus on the TiO2
value chain as well as associated businesses, including thorough reviews of
fluorochemicals, fluoropolymers, titanium metal and alloys, costings, and
other industries associated with the titanium value chain.

 

The Pitfield Titanium Project

Located within the Mid-West region of Western Australia, near the northern
wheatbelt town of Three Springs, the Pitfield titanium project lies 313km
north of Perth and 156km southeast of Geraldton, the Mid West region's capital
and major port. Western Australia is a Tier 1 mining jurisdiction and has
mining-friendly policies, stable government, transparency, and advanced
technology expertise. Pitfield has existing connections to port (both road
& rail), HV power substations, and is nearby to natural gas pipelines
(refer Figure 2).

 

Figure 2. Pitfield Project Location showing the Mid-West Region Infrastructure
and Services.

 

Competent Person Statement

The scientific and technical information in this report that relates to
process metallurgy is based on information reviewed by Ms Narelle Marriott, an
employee of Empire Metals Australia Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of
Empire. Ms Marriott is a member of the AusIMM and has sufficient experience
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 JORC Code 2012. Ms. Marriott consents to the
inclusion in this announcement of the matters based on their information in
the form and context in which it appears.

 

The technical information in this report that relates to the geology and
exploration of the Pitfield Project has been compiled by Mr Andrew Faragher,
an employee of Empire Metals Australia Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of
Empire. Mr. Faragher is a member of the AusIMM and 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 JORC Code 2012. Mr Faragher consents to the inclusion
in this release of the matters based on his information in the form and
context in which it appears.

 

**ENDS**

 

For further information please visit www.empiremetals.co.uk
(http://www.empiremetals.co.uk) or contact:

 Empire Metals Ltd

 Shaun Bunn / Greg Kuenzel / Arabella Burwell                                            Tel: 020 4583 1440
 S. P. Angel Corporate Finance LLP (Nomad & Broker)                                      Tel: 020 3470 0470

 Ewan Leggat / Adam Cowl
 Shard Capital Partners LLP (Joint Broker)                                               Tel: 020 7186 9950

 Damon Heath
 St Brides Partners Ltd (Financial                                                       Tel: 020 7236 1177
 PR)

 Susie Geliher / Charlotte Page

 

About Empire Metals Limited

Empire Metals is an AIM-listed and OTCQX-traded exploration and resource
development company (LON: EEE, OTCQX: EPMLF) with a primary focus on
developing Pitfield, an emerging giant titanium project in Western Australia.

 

The high-grade titanium discovery at Pitfield is of unprecedented scale, with
airborne surveys identifying a massive, coincident gravity and magnetics
anomaly extending over 40km by 8km by 5km deep. Drill results have indicated
excellent continuity in grades and consistency of the in-situ mineralised beds
and confirm that the sandstone beds hold the higher-grade titanium dioxide
(TiO₂) values within the interbedded succession of sandstones, siltstones
and conglomerates. The Company is focused on two key prospects (Cosgrove and
Thomas), which have been identified as having thick, high-grade, near-surface,
in-situ bedded TiO₂ mineralisation, each being over 7km in strike length.

 

An Exploration Target* for Pitfield was declared in 2024, covering the Thomas
and Cosgrove mineral prospects, and was estimated to contain between 26.4 to
32.2 billion tonnes with a grade range of 4.5 to 5.5% TiO(2).  Included
within the total Exploration Target* is a subset that covers the in-situ
weathered sandstone zone, which extends from surface to an average vertical
depth of 30m to 40m and is estimated to contain between 4.0 to 4.9 billion
tonnes with a grade range of 4.8 to 5.9% TiO(2).

 

The Exploration Target* covers an area less than 20% of the overall mineral
system at Pitfield which demonstrates the potential for significant further
upside.

 

Empire is now accelerating the economic development of Pitfield, with a vision
to produce a high-value titanium metal or pigment quality product at Pitfield,
to realise the full value potential of this exceptional deposit.

 

The Company also has two further exploration projects in Australia; the
Eclipse Project and the Walton Project in Western Australia, in addition to
three precious metals projects located in a historically high-grade gold
producing region of Austria.

 

*The potential quantity and grade of the Exploration Target is conceptual in
nature. There has been insufficient exploration to estimate a Mineral Resource
and it is uncertain if further exploration will result in the estimation of a
Mineral Resource. See RNS dated 12 June 2024 for full details.

 

 

 

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