BPM Minerals Limited announced that drilling has commenced at the Hawkins Lead-Zinc Project, located in the Earaheedy Super Basin, Western Australia. Acquired in mid-May 2021, Hawkins is the centrepiece of BPM's entry to an emerging lead-zinc-silver Super Basin, with the Project located approximately 40km northwest along strike from the Rumble Resources Limited (‘Rumble') Chinook lead-zinc discovery and a number of further lead-zinc discoveries made by both Rumble and Strickland Metals Limited. Limited historic RC drilling was completed by RGC Limited (‘RGC') across the Earaheedy Basin in 1997, exploring for Pb-Zn-Ag mineralization.

RGC completed limited scout drilling at the Pinnacles prospect located on the East-West Graben fault and returned a best intercept of 2m @ 0.56% Zn+Pb. The presence of mineralization at the Pinnacles prospect highlights the structure as a probable major conduit for mineralized fluids through the basin. In addition, Pb-Zn mineralization is located approximately 40m from surface at the Frere/Yelma unconformable contact a similar litho-structural setting as Rumble Resources Chinook discovery.

Importantly and consistent with large SEDEX style deposits, wherever RGC intersected Pb-Zn mineralization in the sedimentary basin, large-scale discoveries have been made by the current group of Earaheedy explorers.