Pure Minerals Limited announced initial drill results from its first phase of drilling at its 100%-owned Battery Hub manganese project, located in Western Australia's Gascoyne region. The initial results come from 42 drill holes located at the Julia Prospect, located at the eastern end of tenement E09/2217. Prior to drilling, Pure Minerals identified the Julia area to have shallow bulk tonnage potential and the recently completed drill program has successfully highlighted this potential. Key statistical highlights of the drilling include: Out of the 42 holes drilled at Julia, Pure Minerals identified 43 significant intercepts of manganese mineralisation. The average intercept thickness was 8.9m with a weighted average intercept grade of 7.4% Mn. The average maximum depth of intercepts was a shallow 20.6m. 39 intercepts exceeding 5.0% Mn had an average intercept thickness of 7.6m and a weighted average grade of 8.3% Mn. 18 significant intercepts exceeded an average of 10% Mn with an average intercept thickness of 6.2m and a weighted average grade of 12.6% Mn. Moreover, the drill program has been successful in classifying different zones of shallow mineralisation at Julia over an approximate 2,500m strike length, including weathered lateritic mineralisation, together with higher-grade cap-rock mineralisation, and thick stratiform manganese mineralisation within the host siltstone formation. Lateritic mineralisation is represented by nodular manganese mineralisation hosted within recemented manganese nodules near surface and at the base of a thick weathering horizon of saprolite clay. Cap rock mineralisation represents a relatively thin (<10m) but high-grade zone occurring mostly at surface but occasionally covered by colluvium and other unconsolidated transported sediments. Within these zones, grades exceeding 30% Mn have been returned. Pure Minerals views this mineralisation to be potentially high-grade starter mineralisation requiring minimal pre-stripping and beneficiation prior to transporting to market. Stratiform mineralisation occurs as manganese-enriched laminae typically over a >25m thickness within the siltstone host-rock. Grade continuity is very high. Mineralisation occurs from surface and dips shallowly to the NNE. Pure Minerals tested down-dip extensions to known surface mineralisation. Pure Minerals anticipated this style of mineralisation to have the bulk-tonnage potential at the Battery Hub prospect, albeit not the primary target at Julia as it is elsewhere at BatteryHub. The 79 hole, 2,880m reverse circulation drilling program, completed in early December 2017, tested for shallow (less than 60m depth) manganese mineralisation with bulk tonnage potential at the Julia, Pools, Isles and Steven Ridge prospects, all located within tenement E09/2217. More than 1,500 samples, comprising 413 composite samples and 1,125 one-metre split samples, were submitted to ALS Global laboratory in Wangara, Western Australia, for assay testwork in December 2017. The Company intends to utilise this drill data, plus the historic database of more than 500 drill holes, in the calculation of a maiden JORC resource.