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EQUUS MINING LIMITED AND ITS CONTROLLED ENTITIES    |   ABN 44 065 212 679

SHARE REGISTRY
Advanced Share Registry Limited
110 Stirling Highway, Nedlands, 
Western Australia 6009

Telephone: (61 8) 9389 8033

Facsimile: (61 8) 9262 3723

Website: www.advancedshare.com.au

AUDITOR
KPMG
Level 16, Riparian Plaza, 71 Eagle Street, 
Brisbane QLD 4000 Australia

STOCK EXCHANGE LISTING
Australian Securities Exchange 
(Code – EQE)

DIRECTORS
Mark Lochtenberg 
Non-executive Chairman

John Braham 
Managing Director

Damien Koerber 
Executive Director - Chief Operating Officer

Robert Yeates 
Non-Executive Director

David Coupland 
Non-Executive Director

COMPANY SECRETARY
Marcelo Mora

AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS NUMBER
44 065 212 679

PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS 
AND REGISTERED OFFICE
Equus Mining Limited
Level 2, 66 Hunter Street,
Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia

Telephone: +61 2 9300 3366

Facsimile: +61 2 9221 6333

Email: info@equusmining.com

Website: www.equusmining.com

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Contents

Chairman and Managing Director’s Letter 

Review of Operations 

Corporate Governance Statement 

Directors’ Report 

Lead Auditor’s Independence Declaration 

Consolidated Statement of Profit or Loss and Other Comprehensive Income 

Consolidated Statement of Financial Position 

Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity 

Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows 

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 

Directors’ Declaration 

Independent Auditor’s Report 

Additional Stock Exchange Information 

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Chairman and 
Managing Director’s Letter

To date, results from this drilling has provided 
confirmation of potential for discovery of  
high-grade mineralisation to extend along trend 
from these areas. Furthermore, the Company 
believes that compelling exploration potential 
remains throughout the expansive 295km2 mining 
claim package at Cerro Bayo. 

The Company is entering an exciting phase in the 
Company’s strategy towards acquisition of Cerro 
Bayo, and we firmly believe that it represents one 
of the more compelling projects leveraged towards 
near term gold and particularly silver production, 
accompanied by resource and exploration upside, 
on the ASX. The Company is well positioned for the 
future as it looks to establish itself as a significant 
producer in a large, world class, gold-silver 
epithermal district.

We are greatly appreciative of your support 
throughout the period and believe that the 
Company will continue to increase value for 
shareholders over the upcoming year. We especially 
value our in-country staff for their efforts and 
success achieved safely under challenging COVID 
related conditions during the past year.

Yours Sincerely

Mark H. Lochtenberg 
Chairman 

John Braham 
Managing Director

Dear fellow shareholders, 

It gives me great pleasure to present the 2021 
Annual Report for Equus Mining Limited (ASX:EQE) 
(Equus or Company).

In 2019, the Company announced it had executed 
an agreement with Mandalay Resources (Mandalay) 
for a 3-year option to acquire the Cerro Bayo 
Mine and plant infrastructure in Southern Chile. 
Despite the effects of the COVID pandemic 
globally, throughout 2020-2021 the Company is 
proud to have accomplished an aggressive phase 
of exploration, resource and mine restart studies 
which delivered both strong exploration and 
resource definition results across the Cerro Bayo 
Mining District.

In December 2020, the Company announced a 
JORC compliant maiden Inferred Mineral Resource 
of 302,000 gold equivalent ounces situated under 
and peripheral to the historically mined Taitao 
Pit. The Mineral Resource estimate was based 
on significant historical drilling and data and is 
optimally located within 300m to 1500m of the 
Cerro Bayo flotation plant infrastructure.

Importantly, in February 2021, Mandalay 
commenced processing of low-grade stockpiles 
after recommissioning the 0.5Mtpa Cerro Bayo 
flotation plant which continues to deliver consistent 
and strong production results at low costs.

Equus is optimally positioned for a near zero cash 
outlay to seamlessly take control of 100% of the 
Cerro Bayo mine infrastructure and to continue 
production through exercise of the option. 
Expected cashflows from the processing of the 
stockpiles has the potential to assist in funding 
future exploration and resource development 
activities at Cerro Bayo following exercise of  
the option.

Equus continues to aggressively drill test its high 
priority brownfields drill targets, many of which 
are located along trend of several key historic 
producing mines, within 3km from the processing 
plant and infrastructure. 

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Equus Mining Limited 
Review of Operations
Review of Operations 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

REVIEW OF OPERATIONS 

THE CERRO BAYO PROJECT 

In late June 2019, the Company announced it had executed an agreement with Mandalay Resources Corporation (TSX:MND, 
OTCQB:  MNDJF)  for  a  3-year  option  to  acquire  all  the  mining  properties  resources  and  mine  infrastructure  at  Mandalay’s 
Cerro Bayo project in Southern Chile.1  The 3-year option agreement is comprised of an initial 18-month period commencing 
June 2020 to January 2022, with an 18-month extension from January 2022 until June 2023 on agreement with Mandalay.2 

At any time during the option period, the Company can exercise its option to acquire all the mining properties, resources and 
mine  infrastructure  at  Cerro  Bayo  including  the  1,500  tpd  processing  plant,  which  commenced  processing  of  low-grade 
stockpiles in late February 2021. 

The Cerro Bayo Project lies within a premier world class epithermal silver-gold district in southern Chile (Figures 1, 2), centred 
approximately ~10km west of the township of Chile Chico. Throughout the 295km² Cerro Bayo mining property there are 9 
historical mines located within 15km of the Cerro Bayo and a 1,500 tpd flotation processing plant for which historical production 
to date totals approximately 0.65Moz Au and 45Moz Ag between 1995-2017. 3 

Figure 1 – Cerro Bayo Claim Regional Location 

1 ASX Announcement - Equus Executes Agreement to Explore and Option to Acquire Mandalay Resources Corporation’s Cerro Bayo Mining Project 
  https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02117478.pdf  
2 ASX Announcement – BROAD ZONES OF SHALLOW GOLD-SILVER MINERALISATION CONFIRMED BENEATH TAITAO PIT AT CERRO BAYO 
  https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02247975.pdf 
3 ASX Announcement - DRILLING CONFIRMS BROAD ZONES OF SHALLOW MINERALISATION BELOW TAITAO PIT 
  https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02256113.pdf 

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Equus Mining Limited 

Review of Operations 

For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

REVIEW OF OPERATIONS 

THE CERRO BAYO PROJECT 

In late June 2019, the Company announced it had executed an agreement with Mandalay Resources Corporation (TSX:MND, 

OTCQB:  MNDJF)  for  a  3-year  option  to  acquire  all  the  mining  properties  resources  and  mine  infrastructure  at  Mandalay’s 

Cerro Bayo project in Southern Chile.1  The 3-year option agreement is comprised of an initial 18-month period commencing 

June 2020 to January 2022, with an 18-month extension from January 2022 until June 2023 on agreement with Mandalay.2 

At any time during the option period, the Company can exercise its option to acquire all the mining properties, resources and 

mine  infrastructure  at  Cerro  Bayo  including  the  1,500  tpd  processing  plant,  which  commenced  processing  of  low-grade 

stockpiles in late February 2021. 

The Cerro Bayo Project lies within a premier world class epithermal silver-gold district in southern Chile (Figures 1, 2), centred 

approximately ~10km west of the township of Chile Chico. Throughout the 295km² Cerro Bayo mining property there are 9 

historical mines located within 15km of the Cerro Bayo and a 1,500 tpd flotation processing plant for which historical production 

to date totals approximately 0.65Moz Au and 45Moz Ag between 1995-2017. 3 

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Review of Operations
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Figure 1 – Cerro Bayo Claim Regional Location 

Figure 2 – Cerro Bayo Claim Area, with Brownfields/Greenfields targets, historical mines and interpreted geology including  
faults and veins 

Cerro Bayo Processing Optimisation and Growth Strategy  

The Company is executing a dual-track strategy of both brownfields resource evaluation and greenfield target exploration to 
provide resource growth throughout the highly prospective Cerro Bayo Mining District, which is now underpinned by the fully 
operational Cerro Bayo processing plant.   

Mandalay Resources (‘Mandalay’) commenced processing of low-grade stockpiles after recommissioning the 0.5Mtpa Cerro 
Bayo flotation plant in late February 2021. 4 Since that time and up till 30 June 2021 Mandalay have processed 183,029t of ore 
to produce 2,531 oz of gold and 130,761 oz of silver.5 Equus’ option provides a near zero cash outlay to acquire 100% of the 
Cerro  Bayo  Project  including  the  Project´s  mining  properties,  resources  and  mine  infrastructure,  including  the  now  fully 
operational plant from Mandalay Resources Corporation. 6 

Equus is aggressively advancing drill testing of high priority brownfields drill targets, many of which are located along trend of 
several key historic producing mines within 3km from the processing plant and infrastructure.  

Within the expansive 295km2 mining claim package at Cerro Bayo, Equus is evaluating potential for additional feedstock for 
the plant based on the delineation of a JORC 2012 compliant inferred resource at Taitao of 302koz gold equivalent oz at 2.5 
g/t Au equivalent,7 the remnant NI 43.101 resource at the Marcela Mine (21.8KOz gold, 2.74 Moz oz silver with an average 
grade of 2.53 g/t gold, 318 g/t silver)8 and potential extensions to mineralisation adjacent to other historic mines throughout 
the Cerro Bayo Project.  Furthermore, the company is aggressively assessing what it believes to be compelling exploration 
potential at our Pegaso and Droughtmaster targets, as well as >100 historically identified veins throughout the Cerro Bayo 
district that the company considers to remain underexplored. 

Under Equus’ potential re-start scenario, both open pit and underground resources beneath the historic Taitao Open Pit and 
underground Marcela Mine potentially could provide initial supply ‘feeder’ ore to the Cerro Bayo processing plant, which has 
capacity to process 1,500 tonnes per day.  

1 ASX Announcement - Equus Executes Agreement to Explore and Option to Acquire Mandalay Resources Corporation’s Cerro Bayo Mining Project 

  https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02117478.pdf  

2 ASX Announcement – BROAD ZONES OF SHALLOW GOLD-SILVER MINERALISATION CONFIRMED BENEATH TAITAO PIT AT CERRO BAYO 

3 ASX Announcement - DRILLING CONFIRMS BROAD ZONES OF SHALLOW MINERALISATION BELOW TAITAO PIT 

  https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02247975.pdf 

  https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02256113.pdf 

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4 TSX Announcement - Mandalay Resources Corporation Announces Financial Results for the First Quarter of 2021 
5 TSX Announcement - Mandalay Resources Corporation Announces Financial Results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 
6 ASX Announcement - 8 October 2019 Equus Executes Option to Acquire Mandalay Resources Corporation’s Cerro Bayo Mining Project  
7 ASX Announcement – Maiden Inferred Mineral Resource Estimate, Cerro Bayo Project & 
Gold equivalent (AuEq) is based on the formula AuEq g/t = Au g/t + 0.0128 x Ag g/t 
8 ASX Announcement – 26th Oct 2020 Further Shallow High-Grade Gold-Silver Results From Droughtmaster and Project Update  

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Equus Mining Limited Review of Operations For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 4 | PageBROWNFIELDS EXPLORATION & DEVELOPMENT TAITAO PIT Taitao was previously only mined to only shallow depths of ~35-45m throughout an approximate 50m wide by 1,000m long zone and Equus believes that there remains significant potential for additional resources beneath and along strike of the existing mined areas. Exploration During the period, confirmatory drilling was completed in order to delineate a JORC 2012 compliant Mineral Resource centred on the historically mined Taitao Pit. From April to June 2020 the Company completed 11 holes (totalling 1,385m) of resource confirmatory drilling beneath and peripheral to the Taitao Pit to confirm results and interpretations based on the large volume of historical drill data from the Pit area generated from previous operators of the Cerro Bayo Project dating back to 1996.  In mid-July, the Company released results from the drilling (Figures 3, 4), with significant intercepts at both NE Taitao (CBD034 & CBD030) and Central Taitao (CBD033) including: 9 ►Hole CBD034: 28.6m at 1.14 g/t gold and 8.6 g/t silver from 48m including; 7.65m at 2.27 g/t gold and 10.67 g/tsilver from 56.9m;►Hole CBD030: 0.7m at 23.2 g/t gold and 111.0 g/t silver from 15.9m►Hole CBD033: 5.9m at 1.28 g/t gold and 24.4 g/t silver from 50.34mCBD030 and CBD034 confirmed substantial wide and well-mineralised zones identified in historical drilling data below the old pit from NE Taitao, with better historical results including:6 NE Taitao ►22.77m at 2.11 g/t gold, 12.99 g/t silver from 25m, incl. 9m at 3.26 g/t gold, 16.41 g/t silver from 25m;►37.35m at 2.09 g/t gold, 9.58 g/t silver from 38.71m, incl. 13.6m at 3.96 g/t gold, 14.18 g/t silver from 55.4m;►16.96m at 2.2 g/t gold, 18.48 g/t silver from 22m, incl. 5m at 4.49 g/t gold, 35.12 g/t silver from 22m;Central Taitao ►16m at 2.5 g/t gold and 104.3 g/t silver►3.0m at 3.3 g/t gold and 288.0 g/t silver►6.4m at 1.2 g/t gold and 382.9 g/t silverFigure 3 - Cerro Bayo Project - Diamond Drilling within the historic Taitao Pit9ASX Announcement - Drilling Confirms Broad Zones of Shallow Mineralisation Below Taitao Pit – details regarding the reporting of the historical results noted on page 9 https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02256113.pdfEquus Mining Limited 
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Figure 4 - Taitao Pit, with Equus and historical drillhole summary results and location of nearby processing plant 

Taito Pit Mineral Resource Estimate 
In December 2020, the Company announced a maiden Inferred Mineral Resource of 302,000 gold equivalent ounces at 2.5 
g/t Au equivalent10 situated under and peripheral to the historically mined Taitao Pit located within the Company’s Cerro Bayo 
Project, Chile11(Figures 5, 6, 7, 8). 

The Maiden Taitao MRE is reported in Table 1. The Mineral Resource estimate is classified and reported in accordance with 
the 2012 JORC guidelines with relevant details provided in the JORC (2012) Table 1. 

Table 1 – Taitao Inferred Mineral Resource Estimate December 2020 

Cut-off 
grade 
(AuEq g/t) 

0.8 g/t 

2.0 g/t 

Tonnes 
(kt) 

2,915 

901 

3,816 

Au (g/t) 

Ag (g/t) 

1.6 

2.7 

1.9 

38 

77 

48 

AuEq 
(g/t) 

2.1 

3.7 

2.5 

Au (koz) 

Ag (koz) 

148 

79 

227 

3,602 

2,242 

5,844 

AuEq 
(koz) 

194 

108 

302 

Open pit 

Underground 

Total - Inferred 

10 Gold equivalent (AuEq) is based on the formula AuEq g/t = Au g/t + 0.0128 x Ag g/t 
11 ASX Announcement – Maiden Inferred Resource Estimate at Cerro Bayo 
https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02325391.pdf 

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Equus Mining Limited Review of Operations For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 4 | PageBROWNFIELDS EXPLORATION & DEVELOPMENT TAITAO PIT Taitao was previously only mined to only shallow depths of ~35-45m throughout an approximate 50m wide by 1,000m long zone and Equus believes that there remains significant potential for additional resources beneath and along strike of the existing mined areas. Exploration During the period, confirmatory drilling was completed in order to delineate a JORC 2012 compliant Mineral Resource centred on the historically mined Taitao Pit. From April to June 2020 the Company completed 11 holes (totalling 1,385m) of resource confirmatory drilling beneath and peripheral to the Taitao Pit to confirm results and interpretations based on the large volume of historical drill data from the Pit area generated from previous operators of the Cerro Bayo Project dating back to 1996.  In mid-July, the Company released results from the drilling (Figures 3, 4), with significant intercepts at both NE Taitao (CBD034 & CBD030) and Central Taitao (CBD033) including: 9 ►Hole CBD034: 28.6m at 1.14 g/t gold and 8.6 g/t silver from 48m including; 7.65m at 2.27 g/t gold and 10.67 g/tsilver from 56.9m;►Hole CBD030: 0.7m at 23.2 g/t gold and 111.0 g/t silver from 15.9m►Hole CBD033: 5.9m at 1.28 g/t gold and 24.4 g/t silver from 50.34mCBD030 and CBD034 confirmed substantial wide and well-mineralised zones identified in historical drilling data below the old pit from NE Taitao, with better historical results including:6 NE Taitao ►22.77m at 2.11 g/t gold, 12.99 g/t silver from 25m, incl. 9m at 3.26 g/t gold, 16.41 g/t silver from 25m;►37.35m at 2.09 g/t gold, 9.58 g/t silver from 38.71m, incl. 13.6m at 3.96 g/t gold, 14.18 g/t silver from 55.4m;►16.96m at 2.2 g/t gold, 18.48 g/t silver from 22m, incl. 5m at 4.49 g/t gold, 35.12 g/t silver from 22m;Central Taitao ►16m at 2.5 g/t gold and 104.3 g/t silver►3.0m at 3.3 g/t gold and 288.0 g/t silver►6.4m at 1.2 g/t gold and 382.9 g/t silverFigure 3 - Cerro Bayo Project - Diamond Drilling within the historic Taitao Pit9ASX Announcement - Drilling Confirms Broad Zones of Shallow Mineralisation Below Taitao Pit – details regarding the reporting of the historical results noted on page 9 https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02256113.pdf 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Notes: 

1.  Mineral Resources are classified and reported in accordance with the 2012 JORC Code. 
2.  Mineral Resources are defined using a long-term gold price of US$1,850 per ounce and a silver price of US$24 per ounce. 
3.  Open pit Mineral Resources are reported at a cut-off grade of 0.8 g/t AuEq. Pit optimisation shells were used to constrain the resources. 
4. 
5.  Gold Equivalents (AuEq) were calculated as AuEq = Au + 0.0128 x Ag based on a gold and silver price of US$1,850/oz and US$24/oz and 

Underground Mineral Resources are reported at a cut-off of 2.0 g/t AuEq beneath the open pit shells. 

recoveries of gold and silver of 86% and 85% respectively. 
Epithermal vein domains are modelled between hangingwall and footwall contacts. No internal selectivity, minimum mining width or dilution 
has been applied. 
Stockwork domains are modelled using a Selective Mining Unit (SMU) of X=2.5m, Y=5m, Z=2.5m. Dilution has been incorporated into the 
SMU. 
A bulk density of 2.64 g/cm3 has been applied to the epithermal veins.  A bulk density of 2.57 g/cm3 has been applied to the stockwork and 
waste domains. 
Numbers may not add due to rounding 

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8. 

9. 

The MRE was based on significant historical drilling and data undertaken and collected by previous owners including local 
Chilean  subsidiaries  of  Freeport  Mining,  Coeur  Mining  and  Mandalay  Resources,  as  well  as  the  confirmatory  drilling 
undertaken by Equus between April and June 2020. Historical drilling was comprised of Diamond Drilling, Reverse Circulation, 
and Surface and Underground Exploratory tunnel continuous rock channels. Detailed historical data included: 

►  Diamond Drilling – totaling 693 holes for an approximate total of 65,580m.  

►  Reverse Circulation- totaling 487 holes for an approximate total of 46,559m. 

►  Surface and Underground continuous Rock channel – total of 566 channels for an approximate total of 4,293m.  

Furthermore, the confirmatory drilling undertaken by Equus was comprised of diamond drilling totalling 1,385m in 11 holes. 

The database of historical data has been validated and compiled by Equus Mining geologists and reviewed by a Chile based 
Competent Person who have reconciled a representative amount of available hardcopy drill logs and assay results against the 
digital drill hole database. 

Resource comparison 2020 to 2021 

The companys´ maiden resource estimate was first reported on 22 December 2020 after which, to date, no further drilling or 
update to the resource estimate has been made, and hence no material changes have occurred since its´ original publication. 

Governance Arrangements 

Equus management and Board of Directors include individuals with many years’ work experience in the mineral exploration 
and mining industry who monitor all exploration programs and oversee the preparation of reports on behalf of the Company 
by independent consultants. The exploration data is produced by or under the direct supervision of qualified geoscientists. In 
the case of drill hole data half core samples are preserved for future studies and quality assurance and quality control. The 
Company uses only accredited laboratories for analysis of samples and records the information in electronic databases that 
are automatically backed up for storage and retrieval purposes. 

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7. 

8. 

9. 

1.  Mineral Resources are classified and reported in accordance with the 2012 JORC Code. 

2.  Mineral Resources are defined using a long-term gold price of US$1,850 per ounce and a silver price of US$24 per ounce. 

3.  Open pit Mineral Resources are reported at a cut-off grade of 0.8 g/t AuEq. Pit optimisation shells were used to constrain the resources. 

4. 

Underground Mineral Resources are reported at a cut-off of 2.0 g/t AuEq beneath the open pit shells. 

5.  Gold Equivalents (AuEq) were calculated as AuEq = Au + 0.0128 x Ag based on a gold and silver price of US$1,850/oz and US$24/oz and 

recoveries of gold and silver of 86% and 85% respectively. 

Epithermal vein domains are modelled between hangingwall and footwall contacts. No internal selectivity, minimum mining width or dilution 

Stockwork domains are modelled using a Selective Mining Unit (SMU) of X=2.5m, Y=5m, Z=2.5m. Dilution has been incorporated into the 

A bulk density of 2.64 g/cm3 has been applied to the epithermal veins.  A bulk density of 2.57 g/cm3 has been applied to the stockwork and 

has been applied. 

SMU. 

waste domains. 

Numbers may not add due to rounding 

The MRE was based on significant historical drilling and data undertaken and collected by previous owners including local 

Chilean  subsidiaries  of  Freeport  Mining,  Coeur  Mining  and  Mandalay  Resources,  as  well  as  the  confirmatory  drilling 

undertaken by Equus between April and June 2020. Historical drilling was comprised of Diamond Drilling, Reverse Circulation, 

and Surface and Underground Exploratory tunnel continuous rock channels. Detailed historical data included: 

►  Diamond Drilling – totaling 693 holes for an approximate total of 65,580m.  

►  Reverse Circulation- totaling 487 holes for an approximate total of 46,559m. 

►  Surface and Underground continuous Rock channel – total of 566 channels for an approximate total of 4,293m.  

Furthermore, the confirmatory drilling undertaken by Equus was comprised of diamond drilling totalling 1,385m in 11 holes. 

The database of historical data has been validated and compiled by Equus Mining geologists and reviewed by a Chile based 

Competent Person who have reconciled a representative amount of available hardcopy drill logs and assay results against the 

digital drill hole database. 

Resource comparison 2020 to 2021 

The companys´ maiden resource estimate was first reported on 22 December 2020 after which, to date, no further drilling or 

update to the resource estimate has been made, and hence no material changes have occurred since its´ original publication. 

Governance Arrangements 

Equus management and Board of Directors include individuals with many years’ work experience in the mineral exploration 

and mining industry who monitor all exploration programs and oversee the preparation of reports on behalf of the Company 

by independent consultants. The exploration data is produced by or under the direct supervision of qualified geoscientists. In 

the case of drill hole data half core samples are preserved for future studies and quality assurance and quality control. The 

Company uses only accredited laboratories for analysis of samples and records the information in electronic databases that 

are automatically backed up for storage and retrieval purposes. 

Figure 5 – Plan View of US$1850 oz Au and US$24 oz Ag Taitao pit optimisation resource reporting shell 

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Figure 6 – Section 4,841,250N with US$1850 oz Au and US$24 oz Ag Taitao pit optimisation resource reporting shell 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Figure 7 – Section 4,841,950N with US$1850 oz Au and US$24 oz Ag Taitao pit optimisation resource reporting shell 

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Figure 7 – Section 4,841,950N with US$1850 oz Au and US$24 oz Ag Taitao pit optimisation resource reporting shell 

Figure 8 – Isometric view of blocks below US$1850 oz Au and US$24 oz Ag Taitao pit optimisation resource reporting shell 

PEGASO TARGETS 
The Pegaso I-V Targets represent five high-priority brownfields targets with a cumulative strike length of more than 3.5km. 
The  targets  are  located  within  2km  from the  Cerro  Bayo  1,500tpd  flotation  plant  and  geologically  comprise  the  interpreted 
underexplored north-western extensions of major host faults to mineralisation mined historically. Drill testing of the targets is 
focused on the intersection of the host faults and favourable stratigraphy for vein development beneath and along strike of 
relatively shallow high-grade results reported from low density and wide spaced historic drilling. 

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Figure 9 - Pegaso I-V targets located within 2km of the Cerro Bayo Gold-Silver Plant 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Exploration 
During the period, the Company initially completed a detailed mapping and sampling program across the Pegaso II, Pegaso 
III and Pegaso IV Targets as the basis for design of a subsequent Stage 1 25-hole (5,500m) diamond drill program which is 
ongoing.  

Rock-chip Sampling Results  
A total of 112 samples were collected, with results confirming high-grade silver mineralisation across all three targets, including 
a  peak  value  of  4.6  g/t  gold  and  2,810  g/t  silver  (47.83  g/t  Au  equivalent12)    (Figure  10)13-14.  Sample  results  relate  to 
continuous rock chip channel samples of outcropping quartz veins and breccias with widths of between 0.1 to 3m. 

At Pegaso II, 19 samples were collected averaging a grade of 0.8 g/t gold and 408 g/t silver (7.07 g/t Au equivalent12).  
including  the  peak  value  of  4.6  g/t gold  and  2,810  g/t  silver  (47.83  g/t Au  equivalent12).  A further  18  samples  collected 
averaged a grade of 0.2 g/t gold and 49.5 g/t silver (0.96 g/t Au equivalent12)  including a peak value of 0.9 g/t gold and 239.0 
g/t silver (4.58 g/t Au equivalent12).  

Pegaso III initially saw 6 samples collected averaging a grade of 0.5 g/t gold and 71 g/t silver including a peak value of 0.4 g/t 
gold and 149 g/t silver. A further 32 samples collected averaged a grade of 2.9 g/t gold and 506.5 g/t silver (10.69 g/t Au 
equivalent12)  including a peak value of 17.8 g/t gold and 4,350.0 g/t silver (84.7 g/t Au equivalent12).  Importantly, the 
higher-grade samples (generally > 3 g/t Au equivalent) report to outcropping veining along an approximate 300m long strike 
length below which to date only limited drill testing has been conducted. 

Pegaso IV saw 27 samples collected averaging a grade of 0.7 g/t gold and 93.0 g/t silver including a peak value of 4.92 g/t 
gold and 45 g/t silver (5.61 g/t Au equivalent12). A further 7 samples collected averaged a grade of 0.3 g/t gold and 45.5 g/t 
silver including a peak value of 1.0 g/t gold and 96.7 g/t silver.  

Figure 10 – Pegaso Targets, with location of rock-chip samples within the mapped vein hosting trends 

12 Gold equivalent (AuEq) is based on the formula AuEq = Au + (Ag/65) 
13ASX Announcement - Sampling Delivers High Grade Silver Results from Pegaso Brownfield Targets & Upcoming Investor Webinar  
https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02271139.pdf 
14ASX Announcement - Sampling Delivers Further High-Grade Silver Results from Pegaso Targets 
https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02279829.pdf 

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Exploration 

ongoing.  

Rock-chip Sampling Results  

During the period, the Company initially completed a detailed mapping and sampling program across the Pegaso II, Pegaso 

III and Pegaso IV Targets as the basis for design of a subsequent Stage 1 25-hole (5,500m) diamond drill program which is 

A total of 112 samples were collected, with results confirming high-grade silver mineralisation across all three targets, including 

a  peak  value  of  4.6  g/t  gold  and  2,810  g/t  silver  (47.83  g/t  Au  equivalent12)    (Figure  10)13-14.  Sample  results  relate  to 

continuous rock chip channel samples of outcropping quartz veins and breccias with widths of between 0.1 to 3m. 

At Pegaso II, 19 samples were collected averaging a grade of 0.8 g/t gold and 408 g/t silver (7.07 g/t Au equivalent12).  

including  the  peak  value  of  4.6  g/t gold  and  2,810  g/t  silver  (47.83  g/t Au  equivalent12).  A further  18  samples  collected 

averaged a grade of 0.2 g/t gold and 49.5 g/t silver (0.96 g/t Au equivalent12)  including a peak value of 0.9 g/t gold and 239.0 

g/t silver (4.58 g/t Au equivalent12).  

Pegaso III initially saw 6 samples collected averaging a grade of 0.5 g/t gold and 71 g/t silver including a peak value of 0.4 g/t 

gold and 149 g/t silver. A further 32 samples collected averaged a grade of 2.9 g/t gold and 506.5 g/t silver (10.69 g/t Au 

equivalent12)  including a peak value of 17.8 g/t gold and 4,350.0 g/t silver (84.7 g/t Au equivalent12).  Importantly, the 

higher-grade samples (generally > 3 g/t Au equivalent) report to outcropping veining along an approximate 300m long strike 

length below which to date only limited drill testing has been conducted. 

Pegaso IV saw 27 samples collected averaging a grade of 0.7 g/t gold and 93.0 g/t silver including a peak value of 4.92 g/t 

gold and 45 g/t silver (5.61 g/t Au equivalent12). A further 7 samples collected averaged a grade of 0.3 g/t gold and 45.5 g/t 

silver including a peak value of 1.0 g/t gold and 96.7 g/t silver.  

Equus Mining Limited 
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Exploration Drilling  

The  Company  commenced  first  stage  drilling  on  the  Pegaso  II  and  III  targets15  with  the  initial  focus  on  defining  potential 
extensions  to  high-grade  historical  intercepts16  and  beneath  high  Au-Ag  grade  rock  chip  geochemical  results  that  were 
completed at the start of the period17 & 18.  

Key historical drill and surface geochemical results highlighting the good potential of the targets included:  

►  PEGASO II Target:  

►  Historical drill hole: DCO001: 7.04m @ 3.37g/t gold and 153.6 g/t silver from 69.51m including 1.23m @ 

7.57 g/t gold and 304.9 g/t silver (12.3 g/t Au equivalent 12) from 69.51m19 

►  Rockchip geochemical results: peak value of 4.6 g/t gold and 2,810 g/t silver (47.83 g/t Au equivalent 

12) 

►  PEGASO III Target:  

►  Historical drill hole: CGH165: 5.05m at 19.45 g/t gold and 302.69 g/t silver (24.1 g/t Au equivalent12) 

from 87.95m. 

►  Rockchip geochemical results: peak value of 17.8 g/t gold and 4,350.0g/t silver (84.7 g/t Au equivalent12) 

Hole  CBD045  (total  depth  356.8m),  was  drilled  at  a  shallow  inclination  (-27°)  immediately  to  the  southeast  of  the  Mineral 
Resources optimised pit shell based on the maiden Inferred Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) at the Taitao area of 302,000 
gold equivalent ounces at 2.5 g/t Au equivalent 20 and reported multiple significant results including 21: 

►  2.05m @ 6.61 g/t gold and 44.2 g/t silver (7.29 g/t gold equivalent12) from 9.1m including 0.25m @ 46.80 g/t gold, 

287.0 g/t silver gold from 10.9m 

►  0.35m @ 3.44 g/t gold and 75.6 g/t silver (4.6 g/t gold equivalent12) from 81.5m  

►  0.59m @ 4.04 g/t gold and 252.0 g/t silver (7.92 g/t gold equivalent12) from 88.65m 

►  0.34m @ 7.45 g/t gold and 11.3 g/t silver (7.62g/t gold equivalent12) from 148.22m 

►  0.78m @ 8.34 g/t gold and 16.84 g/t silver (8.6 g/t gold equivalent12) from 289.88m including 0.3m @ 16.00 g/t 

gold, 26.1 g/t silver from 289.88m 

Hole  CBD045  provided  confirmation  that  the  high-grade  mineralisation  intersected  through  historical  drilling  extends  and 
continues  along  strike  in  between  the  historical  drilling  and  production  area  and  importantly  marginal  to  the  current Taitao 
provisional pit boundary.22 

Final assay results were received prior to and after the year end for seven holes (CBD051  – CBD057) totalling 1858.65m 
completed over an approximate 500m long central portion of the 1km long Pegaso II target (Figure 11 &12). 

Figure 10 – Pegaso Targets, with location of rock-chip samples within the mapped vein hosting trends 

12 Gold equivalent (AuEq) is based on the formula AuEq = Au + (Ag/65) 

13ASX Announcement - Sampling Delivers High Grade Silver Results from Pegaso Brownfield Targets & Upcoming Investor Webinar  

https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02271139.pdf 

14ASX Announcement - Sampling Delivers Further High-Grade Silver Results from Pegaso Targets 

https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02279829.pdf 

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15 ASX Announcement - Further Shallow High-Grade Gold-Silver Results Extends Footprint Of Mineralised System At Droughtmaster 
https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02316526.pdf 
16 ASX Announcement – Review of Historical Drilling Generates New Gold-Silver Brownfields Targets at Cerro Bayo 
https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02266302.pdf 
17 ASX announcement 25th Aug 2020 Sampling Delivers High Grade Silver Results 
https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02271139.pdf  
18 ASX announcement 11 September 2020  High grade silver rock chip results at Cerro Bayo 
https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02279829.pdf 
19 ASX Announcement – Review of Historical Drilling Generates New Gold-Silver Brownfields Targets at Cerro Bayo 
https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02266302.pdf 
20 ASX Announcement - Maiden Inferred Resource Estimate at Cerro Bayo 
https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02325391.pdf 
21 ASX Announcement - High-Grade Gold-Silver Results at Pegaso And Commencement of Stockpile Processing 
https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02340221.pdf 
22 ASX Announcement - High-Grade Gold-Silver Results at Pegaso And Commencement of Stockpile Processing 
https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02340221.pdf 

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Significant results reported to date include:23 24 

► CBD051

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0.35m @ 3.37 g/t Au and 154 g/t Ag (5.74 g/t Au equivalent120) from 151.45m
0.2m @ 4.49 g/t Au and 182 g/t Ag (7.29 g/t Au equivalent120) from 258.95m

► CBD052



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1.53m @ 1.35 g/t Au and 189.14 g/t Ag (4.26 g/t Au equivalent12) from 96m incl. 0.25m @ 1.6
g/t Au, 269.0 g/t Ag (5.73 g/t Au equivalent12) from 96.47m
1.66m @ 2.88 g/t Au and 152.25 g/t Ag (5.22 g/t Au equivalent12) from 189.02m incl. 0.78m @
5.11 g/t Au, 254.6 g/t Ag (9.03 g/t Au equivalent12) from 189.9m

► CBD053



0.24m @ 7.07 g/t Au and 63.8 g/t Ag (8.05 g/t Au equivalent12) from 187.56m

► CBD054



0.38m @ 5.84 g/t Au and 656 g/t Ag (15.93 g/t Au equivalent12) from 169.27m

► CBD056









14.05m @ 0.48 g/t Au and 139.21 g/t Ag (2.62 g/t Au equivalent12) from 53.15 Incl. 2.77m @
1.09 g/t Au, 263.34 g/t Ag (5.14 g/t Au equivalent12) from 55.95m
0.7m @ 1.35 g/t Au and 324.79 g/t Ag (6.35 g/t Au equivalent12) from 74.85m
0.68m @ 2.25 g/t Au and 201.0 g/t Ag (5.34 g/t Au equivalent12) from 87.47m
0.53m @ 3.17 g/t Au and 297.0 g/t Ag (7.74 g/t Au equivalent12) from 133.27m

► CBD057





0.41m @ 5.62 g/t Au and 159 g/t Ag (8.07 g/t Au equivalent120) from 18.29m
0.65m @ 2.8 g/t Au and 159 g/t Ag (5.25 g/t Au equivalent12) from 229.56m

Post  year  end,  a  further  684.60m  has  been  drilled  at  Pegaso  II  in  three  holes  (CBD061-63)  for  which  results  remain 
outstanding. 

Drilling to date has confirmed the extension of high-grade mineralisation in multiple structures along a significant portion of the 
1km long Pegaso II trend to the northwest and along trend within 250m of the Delia NW mine (Figures 11&12).24  

23 ASX Announcement 18 May 2021 - High Grade Pegaso Drill Results Confirm Potential of Mineralisation Along Trend From Historic Mines &  
24 ASX Announcement 5 August 2021 - Exploration Activity Accelerated As High-Grade Pegaso Results Confirm Extensions To Mineralisation From Historic Mines

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Significant results reported to date include: 23 24 

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► CBD051

► CBD052

► CBD053

► CBD054

► CBD056

► CBD057

























0.35m @ 3.37 g/t Au and 154 g/t Ag (5.74 g/t Au equivalent120) from 151.45m

0.2m @ 4.49 g/t Au and 182 g/t Ag (7.29 g/t Au equivalent120) from 258.95m

1.53m @ 1.35 g/t Au and 189.14 g/t Ag (4.26 g/t Au equivalent12) from 96m incl. 0.25m @ 1.6

g/t Au, 269.0 g/t Ag (5.73 g/t Au equivalent12) from 96.47m

1.66m @ 2.88 g/t Au and 152.25 g/t Ag (5.22 g/t Au equivalent12) from 189.02m incl. 0.78m @

5.11 g/t Au, 254.6 g/t Ag (9.03 g/t Au equivalent12) from 189.9m

0.24m @ 7.07 g/t Au and 63.8 g/t Ag (8.05 g/t Au equivalent12) from 187.56m

0.38m @ 5.84 g/t Au and 656 g/t Ag (15.93 g/t Au equivalent12) from 169.27m

14.05m @ 0.48 g/t Au and 139.21 g/t Ag (2.62 g/t Au equivalent12) from 53.15 Incl. 2.77m @

1.09 g/t Au, 263.34 g/t Ag (5.14 g/t Au equivalent12) from 55.95m

0.7m @ 1.35 g/t Au and 324.79 g/t Ag (6.35 g/t Au equivalent12) from 74.85m

0.68m @ 2.25 g/t Au and 201.0 g/t Ag (5.34 g/t Au equivalent12) from 87.47m

0.53m @ 3.17 g/t Au and 297.0 g/t Ag (7.74 g/t Au equivalent12) from 133.27m

0.41m @ 5.62 g/t Au and 159 g/t Ag (8.07 g/t Au equivalent120) from 18.29m

0.65m @ 2.8 g/t Au and 159 g/t Ag (5.25 g/t Au equivalent12) from 229.56m

Post  year  end,  a  further  684.60m  has  been  drilled  at  Pegaso  II  in  three  holes  (CBD061-63)  for  which  results  remain 

outstanding. 

Drilling to date has confirmed the extension of high-grade mineralisation in multiple structures along a significant portion of the 

1km long Pegaso II trend to the northwest and along trend within 250m of the Delia NW mine (Figures 11&12).24  

Figure 11 – Plan view showing summary drill results and interpreted veining intersections. 

23 ASX Announcement 18 May 2021 - High Grade Pegaso Drill Results Confirm Potential of Mineralisation Along Trend From Historic Mines &  

24 ASX Announcement 5 August 2021 - Exploration Activity Accelerated As High-Grade Pegaso Results Confirm Extensions To Mineralisation From Historic Mines

Figure 12 - Pegaso II Long Section: showing drill hole vein pierce points based on Equus and historical drill results. 

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During  the  period,  the  Company  completed  wide  spaced  drilling  focused  on  interpreted  shallow  portions  of  the  Pegaso  III 
Target  structure  comprising  a  total  of  3  holes  (CBD047-CBD049)  for  689.20m,  which  intersected  encouraging  high-level 
mineralisation for which results include: 

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► CBD047:

► CBD048:

► CBD049:

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





0.28m @ 1.12 g/t Au, 91.9 g/t Ag (2.53 g/t Au equivalent12) from 120.78m

0.68m @ 1.12 g/t Au, 126 g/t Ag (3.06 g/t Au equivalent12) from 122.55m

1.8m @ 1.1 g/t Au, 54.4 g/t Ag (1.92 g/t Au equivalent12) from 72.88m

Further drill testing of the Pegaso III target both along strike and at deeper levels is underway. 

3.3m @ 0.36 g/t Au, 28.91 g/t Ag (0.81 g/t Au equivalent12) from 39.2m

DROUGHTMASTER  

The  Droughtmaster  Prospect  was  identified  by  Equus  from  mapping,  sampling  and  review  of  historical  data  as  a 

underexplored, high priority Greenfields drill target hosting widespread epithermal veining located 12km from the Cerro Bayo 

processing  facility.  The  precious  metal  bearing  zones  of  veining  and  brecciation  intersected  in  drilling  to  date  correspond 

predominantly  to  a  series  of  hanging  wall  splays  to  the  large  scale,  north-west  trending  Percheron  Fault,  which  has  been 

mapped over a strike length of approximately 3km. 

Exploration 

40.35m

During the period, the Company completed 10 diamond holes of its stage 2 program at Droughtmaster totalling 2,029m, which 

targeted multiple gold-silver mineralised vein structures. Significant results include25: 

► CBD042: 0.2m @ 1.64 g/t gold and 16.6 g/t silver from 32.26m and 0.63m @ 0.67 g/t gold and 112 g/t silver from

► CBD043: 0.6m @ 1.06 g/t gold and 99.2 g/t silver from 32.05m

► CBD044: peak individual value of 0.34m @ 2.16 g/t gold and 31.2 g/t silver from 68.24m

Hole  CBD044  is  interpreted  to  represent  the  shallow  levels  of  the  southeastern  extension  of  high-grade  mineralisation 

intercepted in results previously reported in the 2020 period from holes CBD016, CBD020, CBD037 and CBD039A over an 

approximate strike length of 100m, which included (Figure 14).  

► Hole CB01626:

► Hole CB02027:

► Hole CBD03728:















0.64m @ 1.44 g/t gold, 240.0 g/t silver (5.13 g/t gold equivalent12) from 68.10m

0.62m @ 17.28 g/t gold, 271.0 g/t silver (21.45 g/t gold equivalent12) from 73.5m

1.01m @ 5.32 g/t gold, 43.1 g/t silver (5.98 g/t gold equivalent12) from 96.57m

3.81m @ 20.4 g/t gold, 55.5 g/t Ag silver (21.25 g/t gold equivalent12) from 109m, including 1.06m @

62.58 g/t gold, 129.3 g/t Ag silver from 112m.

2.05m @ 2.36 g/t gold, 151.4 g/t silver from 56.40m, including 0.42m @ 9.86 g/t gold, 469.0 g/t silver

(17.07 g/t gold equivalent12) from 58.03m

0.24m @ 7.84 g/t gold, 73.0 g/t silver (8.96 g/t gold equivalent12) from 66.70m

0.21m @ 13.10 g/t gold, 566.0 g/t silver (21.8 g/t gold equivalent12) from 81.6m

25 ASX Announcement – 11 February 2021 High-Grade Gold-Silver Results at Pegaso And Commencement of Stockpile Processing 

26 ASX Announcement – 16 April 2020 Shallow High-Grade Gold-Silver Drill Results from Droughtmaster Prospect and Commencement of Drilling at Taitao Pit  

https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02340221.pdf 

https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02225391.pdf 

27 ASX Announcement - 25 May 2020 Standout Intersection Bolsters Droughtmaster Potential -https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02238028.pdf 

28 ASX Announcement - 26th October 2020 Further Shallow High-Grade Gold-Silver Results from Droughtmaster And Project Update 

https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02298655.pdf 

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Review of Operations

Figure 12 - Pegaso II Long Section: showing drill hole vein pierce points based on Equus and historical drill results. 

During  the  period,  the  Company  completed  wide  spaced  drilling  focused  on  interpreted  shallow  portions  of  the  Pegaso  III 
Target  structure  comprising  a  total  of  3  holes  (CBD047-CBD049)  for  689.20m,  which  intersected  encouraging  high-level 
mineralisation for which results include: 

► CBD047:




0.28m @ 1.12 g/t Au, 91.9 g/t Ag (2.53 g/t Au equivalent12) from 120.78m
0.68m @ 1.12 g/t Au, 126 g/t Ag (3.06 g/t Au equivalent12) from 122.55m

► CBD048:



1.8m @ 1.1 g/t Au, 54.4 g/t Ag (1.92 g/t Au equivalent12) from 72.88m

► CBD049:



3.3m @ 0.36 g/t Au, 28.91 g/t Ag (0.81 g/t Au equivalent12) from 39.2m

Further drill testing of the Pegaso III target both along strike and at deeper levels is underway. 

DROUGHTMASTER  

The  Droughtmaster  Prospect  was  identified  by  Equus  from  mapping,  sampling  and  review  of  historical  data  as  a 
underexplored, high priority Greenfields drill target hosting widespread epithermal veining located 12km from the Cerro Bayo 
processing  facility.  The  precious  metal  bearing  zones  of  veining  and  brecciation  intersected  in  drilling  to  date  correspond 
predominantly  to  a  series  of  hanging  wall  splays  to  the  large  scale,  north-west  trending  Percheron  Fault,  which  has  been 
mapped over a strike length of approximately 3km. 

Exploration 

During the period, the Company completed 10 diamond holes of its stage 2 program at Droughtmaster totalling 2,029m, which 
targeted multiple gold-silver mineralised vein structures. Significant results include25: 

► CBD042: 0.2m @ 1.64 g/t gold and 16.6 g/t silver from 32.26m and 0.63m @ 0.67 g/t gold and 112 g/t silver from

40.35m

► CBD043: 0.6m @ 1.06 g/t gold and 99.2 g/t silver from 32.05m

► CBD044: peak individual value of 0.34m @ 2.16 g/t gold and 31.2 g/t silver from 68.24m

Hole  CBD044  is  interpreted  to  represent  the  shallow  levels  of  the  southeastern  extension  of  high-grade  mineralisation 
intercepted in results previously reported in the 2020 period from holes CBD016, CBD020, CBD037 and CBD039A over an 
approximate strike length of 100m, which included (Figure 14).  

► Hole CB01626:







0.64m @ 1.44 g/t gold, 240.0 g/t silver (5.13 g/t gold equivalent12) from 68.10m

0.62m @ 17.28 g/t gold, 271.0 g/t silver (21.45 g/t gold equivalent12) from 73.5m

1.01m @ 5.32 g/t gold, 43.1 g/t silver (5.98 g/t gold equivalent12) from 96.57m

► Hole CB02027:



3.81m @ 20.4 g/t gold, 55.5 g/t Ag silver (21.25 g/t gold equivalent12) from 109m, including 1.06m @
62.58 g/t gold, 129.3 g/t Ag silver from 112m.

► Hole CBD03728:







2.05m @ 2.36 g/t gold, 151.4 g/t silver from 56.40m, including 0.42m @ 9.86 g/t gold, 469.0 g/t silver
(17.07 g/t gold equivalent12) from 58.03m

0.24m @ 7.84 g/t gold, 73.0 g/t silver (8.96 g/t gold equivalent12) from 66.70m

0.21m @ 13.10 g/t gold, 566.0 g/t silver (21.8 g/t gold equivalent12) from 81.6m

25 ASX Announcement – 11 February 2021 High-Grade Gold-Silver Results at Pegaso And Commencement of Stockpile Processing 
https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02340221.pdf 
26 ASX Announcement – 16 April 2020 Shallow High-Grade Gold-Silver Drill Results from Droughtmaster Prospect and Commencement of Drilling at Taitao Pit  
https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02225391.pdf 
27 ASX Announcement - 25 May 2020 Standout Intersection Bolsters Droughtmaster Potential -https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02238028.pdf 
28 ASX Announcement - 26th October 2020 Further Shallow High-Grade Gold-Silver Results from Droughtmaster And Project Update 
https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02298655.pdf 

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Review of Operations 

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Figure 12 - Pegaso II Long Section: showing drill hole vein pierce points based on Equus and historical drill results. 

During  the  period,  the  Company  completed  wide  spaced  drilling  focused  on  interpreted  shallow  portions  of  the  Pegaso  III 

Target  structure  comprising  a  total  of  3  holes  (CBD047-CBD049)  for  689.20m,  which  intersected  encouraging  high-level 

mineralisation for which results include: 

► CBD047:

► CBD048:

► CBD049:









0.28m @ 1.12 g/t Au, 91.9 g/t Ag (2.53 g/t Au equivalent12) from 120.78m

0.68m @ 1.12 g/t Au, 126 g/t Ag (3.06 g/t Au equivalent12) from 122.55m

1.8m @ 1.1 g/t Au, 54.4 g/t Ag (1.92 g/t Au equivalent12) from 72.88m

Further drill testing of the Pegaso III target both along strike and at deeper levels is underway. 

3.3m @ 0.36 g/t Au, 28.91 g/t Ag (0.81 g/t Au equivalent12) from 39.2m

DROUGHTMASTER  

The  Droughtmaster  Prospect  was  identified  by  Equus  from  mapping,  sampling  and  review  of  historical  data  as  a 

underexplored, high priority Greenfields drill target hosting widespread epithermal veining located 12km from the Cerro Bayo 

processing  facility.  The  precious  metal  bearing  zones  of  veining  and  brecciation  intersected  in  drilling  to  date  correspond 

predominantly  to  a  series  of  hanging  wall  splays  to  the  large  scale,  north-west  trending  Percheron  Fault,  which  has  been 

mapped over a strike length of approximately 3km. 

Exploration 

40.35m

During the period, the Company completed 10 diamond holes of its stage 2 program at Droughtmaster totalling 2,029m, which 

targeted multiple gold-silver mineralised vein structures. Significant results include25: 

► CBD042: 0.2m @ 1.64 g/t gold and 16.6 g/t silver from 32.26m and 0.63m @ 0.67 g/t gold and 112 g/t silver from

► CBD043: 0.6m @ 1.06 g/t gold and 99.2 g/t silver from 32.05m

► CBD044: peak individual value of 0.34m @ 2.16 g/t gold and 31.2 g/t silver from 68.24m

Hole  CBD044  is  interpreted  to  represent  the  shallow  levels  of  the  southeastern  extension  of  high-grade  mineralisation 

intercepted in results previously reported in the 2020 period from holes CBD016, CBD020, CBD037 and CBD039A over an 

approximate strike length of 100m, which included (Figure 14).  

► Hole CB01626:

► Hole CB02027:

► Hole CBD03728:

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







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0.64m @ 1.44 g/t gold, 240.0 g/t silver (5.13 g/t gold equivalent12) from 68.10m

0.62m @ 17.28 g/t gold, 271.0 g/t silver (21.45 g/t gold equivalent12) from 73.5m

1.01m @ 5.32 g/t gold, 43.1 g/t silver (5.98 g/t gold equivalent12) from 96.57m

3.81m @ 20.4 g/t gold, 55.5 g/t Ag silver (21.25 g/t gold equivalent12) from 109m, including 1.06m @

62.58 g/t gold, 129.3 g/t Ag silver from 112m.

2.05m @ 2.36 g/t gold, 151.4 g/t silver from 56.40m, including 0.42m @ 9.86 g/t gold, 469.0 g/t silver

(17.07 g/t gold equivalent12) from 58.03m

0.24m @ 7.84 g/t gold, 73.0 g/t silver (8.96 g/t gold equivalent12) from 66.70m

0.21m @ 13.10 g/t gold, 566.0 g/t silver (21.8 g/t gold equivalent12) from 81.6m

25 ASX Announcement – 11 February 2021 High-Grade Gold-Silver Results at Pegaso And Commencement of Stockpile Processing 

26 ASX Announcement – 16 April 2020 Shallow High-Grade Gold-Silver Drill Results from Droughtmaster Prospect and Commencement of Drilling at Taitao Pit  

https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02340221.pdf 

https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02225391.pdf 

27 ASX Announcement - 25 May 2020 Standout Intersection Bolsters Droughtmaster Potential -https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02238028.pdf 

28 ASX Announcement - 26th October 2020 Further Shallow High-Grade Gold-Silver Results from Droughtmaster And Project Update 

https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02298655.pdf 

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► Hole CBD039A 29:

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3m @ 9.17 g/t gold, 172.9 g/t silver from 68.75m, including 2.09m @ 12.53 g/t gold, 210.09 g/t
silver (15.76 g/t gold equivalent12) from 69.18m

Significant shallow intercepts from historical holes adjacent to and within approximately 150m along trend to the southeast of 
hole CBD044 include30 (Figure 13): 

► MH-24: 4.65m @ 2.59 g/t gold, 185.65 g/t silver (5.45 g/t gold equivalent12) (from 58.60 including 0.76m @ 6.05

g/t gold, 762.6 g/t silver (17.78 g/t gold equivalent12) from 62.49m

► MH-29: 3.04m @ 0.65 g/t gold, 113.2 g/t silver (2.39 g/t gold equivalent12) from 25.13m

► MH-30: 3.45m @1.11 g/t gold, 18.8 g/t silver (1.40 g/t gold equivalent12) from 56.03m

A  follow-up  drill  program  is  being  designed  provisionally  comprising  15-holes  for  a  total  of  approx.  3,000m  that  will  target 
potential high grade extensions along the Percheron Fault corridor. 

Figure 10 – Droughtmaster Prospect – Plan showing vein outcrop and summary drillhole geochemical results 

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29 ASX Announcement – 1 December 2020 Further High Grade Gold Silver Results at Droughtmaster - https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02316526.pdf 
30 ASX Announcement -11 February 2021  High-Grade Gold-Silver Results at Pegaso and Commencement of Stockpile Processing 
https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/EQE/02340221.pdf 

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Review of Operations
Equus Mining Limited 
Review of Operations 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

LOS DOMOS PROJECT 

The Los Domos gold-silver project is located 15km south of the township of Chile Chico and 20km southeast of the Cerro 
Bayo gold-silver mine and treatment plant, which is held under an option for acquisition by Equus from Mandalay Resources, 
Region XI, Chile. The project area´s altitude range of 800-1200m and a dry, moderate climate permits year-round exploration.  

During the year ended 30 June 2020, Equus incorporated a joint venture company “Equus Patagonia SpA” with Patagonia 
Gold  SCM,  the  Chilean  subsidiary  of  Patagonia  Gold  Corp  (TSXV:  PGDC).  This  entity  incorporates  the  Company´s  75% 
interest in the mining concessions owned by Patagonia Gold SCM, which form part of the Los Domos Project. Southern Gold 
SpA can acquire a further 20% interest in the Mining Concessions via sole funding exploration through the Equus Patagonia 
SpA joint venture company at which point Patagonia Gold SCM has the right to retain a 5% free carried interest or convert its 
equity into a 1.5% NSR. 

Only limited surface exploration activities and environmental studies were completed during the reporting period. 

CERRO DIABLO PROJECT 

The  Cerro  Diablo  Project  is  located  approximately  24km  to  the  north-northwest  of  the  Cerro  Bayo  gold-silver  mine  and 
treatment plant. The project is situated in the interpreted northwest limit of the world-class Deseado Massif mineral province, 
where it extends into southern Chile, in a corridor also broadly coincident with the slightly younger Andean-type arc and back-
arc  tectonic  belt  which  host  epithermal,  skarn,  porphyry  and  volcanic-hosted  massive  sulfide  (VHMS)  style  mineral 
occurrences. 

With the focus of exploration efforts during the reporting period targeted towards evaluation and discovery of resources close 
to infrastructure throughout the Cerro Bayo Project, work and expenditure on both the Los Domos and Cerro Diablo Projects 
were limited principally to maintenance of claim tenure.  

Both projects are viewed to host good, underexplored potential for precious and base metals and the Company during the 
course of the 2022 financial year plans to undertake limited work including mapping and sampling. 

CORPORATE  

On  20  July  2020,  the  Company  announced  a  placement  to  institutional  and  sophisticated  investors  to  raise  $3.5M.  The 
placement comprised of 388.89 million shares at $0.009 per share. The placement was issued in two tranches: 

• 
• 

Tranche 1 – 348,886,300 Placement Shares raising $3.14 Million before costs. 
Tranche 2 –   40,002,589 Placement Shares to raise $0.36 million before costs. 

On 21 May 2021, the Company announced a placement to institutional and sophisticated investors to raise $7M and a Share 
Purchase Plan (SPP) to existing eligible shareholders to raise $0.5M. The placement and the SPP were offered at $0.011 per 
share.  

Institutional Placement of $7M 

The placement comprised of 431.4 million shares at $0.011 per share. The placement was issued in two tranches: 

• 
• 

Tranche 1 - 431,390,000 Placement Shares raising $4.745 Million before costs. 
Tranche 2 - 204,973,636 Placement Shares to raise $2.255 Million before costs. Tranche 2 was completed 
subsequent to 30 June 2021. 

Share Purchase Plan of $0.5M 

The  SPP  closed  on  11  June  2021  significantly  oversubscribed  and  it  was  scale-back  in  accordance  with  the  terms  and 
conditions of the SPP. 
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Equus Mining Limited 

Review of Operations 

For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

LOS DOMOS PROJECT 

The Los Domos gold-silver project is located 15km south of the township of Chile Chico and 20km southeast of the Cerro 

Bayo gold-silver mine and treatment plant, which is held under an option for acquisition by Equus from Mandalay Resources, 

Region XI, Chile. The project area´s altitude range of 800-1200m and a dry, moderate climate permits year-round exploration.  

During the year ended 30 June 2020, Equus incorporated a joint venture company “Equus Patagonia SpA” with Patagonia 

Gold  SCM,  the  Chilean  subsidiary  of  Patagonia  Gold  Corp  (TSXV:  PGDC).  This  entity  incorporates  the  Company´s  75% 

interest in the mining concessions owned by Patagonia Gold SCM, which form part of the Los Domos Project. Southern Gold 

SpA can acquire a further 20% interest in the Mining Concessions via sole funding exploration through the Equus Patagonia 

SpA joint venture company at which point Patagonia Gold SCM has the right to retain a 5% free carried interest or convert its 

Only limited surface exploration activities and environmental studies were completed during the reporting period. 

equity into a 1.5% NSR. 

CERRO DIABLO PROJECT 

The  Cerro  Diablo  Project  is  located  approximately  24km  to  the  north-northwest  of  the  Cerro  Bayo  gold-silver  mine  and 

treatment plant. The project is situated in the interpreted northwest limit of the world-class Deseado Massif mineral province, 

where it extends into southern Chile, in a corridor also broadly coincident with the slightly younger Andean-type arc and back-

arc  tectonic  belt  which  host  epithermal,  skarn,  porphyry  and  volcanic-hosted  massive  sulfide  (VHMS)  style  mineral 

occurrences. 

With the focus of exploration efforts during the reporting period targeted towards evaluation and discovery of resources close 

to infrastructure throughout the Cerro Bayo Project, work and expenditure on both the Los Domos and Cerro Diablo Projects 

were limited principally to maintenance of claim tenure.  

Both projects are viewed to host good, underexplored potential for precious and base metals and the Company during the 

course of the 2022 financial year plans to undertake limited work including mapping and sampling. 

On  20  July  2020,  the  Company  announced  a  placement  to  institutional  and  sophisticated  investors  to  raise  $3.5M.  The 

placement comprised of 388.89 million shares at $0.009 per share. The placement was issued in two tranches: 

Tranche 1 – 348,886,300 Placement Shares raising $3.14 Million before costs. 

Tranche 2 –   40,002,589 Placement Shares to raise $0.36 million before costs. 

On 21 May 2021, the Company announced a placement to institutional and sophisticated investors to raise $7M and a Share 

Purchase Plan (SPP) to existing eligible shareholders to raise $0.5M. The placement and the SPP were offered at $0.011 per 

The placement comprised of 431.4 million shares at $0.011 per share. The placement was issued in two tranches: 

Tranche 1 - 431,390,000 Placement Shares raising $4.745 Million before costs. 

Tranche 2 - 204,973,636 Placement Shares to raise $2.255 Million before costs. Tranche 2 was completed 

The  SPP  closed  on  11  June  2021  significantly  oversubscribed  and  it  was  scale-back  in  accordance  with  the  terms  and 

CORPORATE  

• 

• 

• 

• 

share.  

Institutional Placement of $7M 

subsequent to 30 June 2021. 

Share Purchase Plan of $0.5M 

conditions of the SPP. 

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Equus Mining Limited Review of Operations For the Year Ended 30 June 2021  17 | Page   Compliance statement   The information in this report that relates to Exploration Results for the Cerro Bayo Project is based on information compiled by Damien Koerber. Mr Koerber is a fulltime employee to the Company. Mr Koerber is a Member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists and has sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposits under consideration and to the activities which he is undertaking 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’. Mr Koerber has a beneficial interest as shareholder of Equus Mining Limited and consents to the inclusion in this report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.  No Material Changes  Equus Mining Limited confirms that it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information included in this Annual Report and that all information continues to apply.   Yours sincerely      John Braham Executive Director  Dated this 30th day of September 2021    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Equus Mining Limited 
Corporate Governance Statement
Corporate Governance Statement 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE STATEMENT 

The Board is committed to maintaining the highest standards of Corporate Governance. Corporate Governance is about having 
a set of core values and behaviours that underpin the Company's activities and ensure transparency, fair dealing and protection 
of  the  interests  of  stakeholders.  The  Company  has  reviewed  its  corporate  governance  practices  against  the  Corporate 
Governance Principles and Recommendations (4th edition) published by the ASX Corporate Governance Council. 

The  2021  corporate  governance  statement  is  dated  30  September  2021  and  reflects  the  corporate  governance  practices 
throughout the 2021 financial year. The board approved the 2021 corporate governance on 30 September 2021. A description 
of the Company’s current corporate governance practices is set out in the Company’s corporate governance statement, which 
can be viewed at http://www.equusmining.com/corporate-governance/. 

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Equus Mining Limited 

Corporate Governance Statement 

For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE STATEMENT 

The Board is committed to maintaining the highest standards of Corporate Governance. Corporate Governance is about having 

a set of core values and behaviours that underpin the Company's activities and ensure transparency, fair dealing and protection 

of  the  interests  of  stakeholders.  The  Company  has  reviewed  its  corporate  governance  practices  against  the  Corporate 

Governance Principles and Recommendations (4th edition) published by the ASX Corporate Governance Council. 

The  2021  corporate  governance  statement  is  dated  30  September  2021  and  reflects  the  corporate  governance  practices 

throughout the 2021 financial year. The board approved the 2021 corporate governance on 30 September 2021. A description 

of the Company’s current corporate governance practices is set out in the Company’s corporate governance statement, which 

can be viewed at http://www.equusmining.com/corporate-governance/. 

Directors’ Report

Equus Mining Limited 
Directors’ Report 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

The  Directors  present  their  report,  together  with  the  consolidated  financial  statements  of  the  Group,  comprising  of  Equus 
Mining Limited ('Equus' or 'the Company') and its controlled entities for the financial year ended 30 June 2021 and the auditor’s 
report thereon.   

DIRECTORS 

The names and details of the Directors in office during or since the end of the previous financial year are as follows. Directors 
were in office for the entire year unless otherwise stated. 

Mark Hamish Lochtenberg, Non-Executive Chairman  

Director since 10 October 2014 

Mr  Lochtenberg  graduated  with  a  Bachelor  of  Law  (Hons)  degree  from  Liverpool  University,  U.K.  and  has  been  actively 
involved in the coal industry for more than 30 years. 

Mark Lochtenberg is Non Executive Director of public listed Nickel Mines Limited and is the former Executive Chairman and 
founding  Managing  Director  of  ASX-listed  Baralaba  Coal  Company  Limited  (formerly  Cockatoo  Coal  Limited).    He  was  a 
principal  architect  of  Cockatoo’s  inception  and  growth  from  an  early-stage  grassroots  explorer  through  to  an  emerging 
mainstream coal producer. He was also formerly the co-head of Glencore International AG’s worldwide coal division, where 
he spent 13 years overseeing a range of trading activities including the identification, due diligence, negotiation, acquisition 
and aggregation of the coal project portfolio that would become Xstrata Coal. 

Prior to this Mark established a coal “swaps” market for Bain Refco, (Deutsche bank) after having served as a senior coal 
trader for Hansen Neuerburg AG and as coal marketing manager for Peko Wallsend Limited. 

Mr  Lochtenberg  is  currently  Non-Executive  Director  of  public  listed  company  Nickel  Mines  Limited,  Director  of  Australian 
Transport, Energy Corridor Pty Limited and Montem Resources Limited.  

He has not served as a director of any other listed company during the past three years. 

John Richard Braham, Managing Director 

Director since 13 November 2018 

Mr Braham is an experienced Mining Finance and Investment professional with a 24-year career at Macquarie Bank, the last 
11 of which were as an Executive Director within the Mining Finance Division. 

John built and ran a successful mining finance business in New York for Macquarie Bank from 2001 to 2008, providing capital 
to the junior mining industry. This involved providing debt and equity to exploration companies and mine developers in both 
North and South America including companies operating in Argentina, Peru and Chile. 

On returning to Australia, John built a successful bulk commodity finance business for Macquarie Bank which he ran from 
2008 to 2017 based in Sydney. John is a Director of public listed company Castile Resources Limited. 

He has not served as a director of any other listed company during the past three years. 

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Directors’ Report
Directors’ Report 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

Damien John Koerber, Executive Director, Chief Operating Officer 

Director since 27 November 2019 

Mr Koerber commenced with Equus in 2012 as exploration manager at the Naltagua copper project in Chile which brought 
considerable senior management and technical experience in the resources industry, from both in Australia and throughout 
South America. 

Mr Koerber is a geologist with 30 years of exploration experience, mainly throughout and based in Latin America. He has held 
senior  management  and  consulting  exploration  and  business  development  positions  in  companies  including  Billiton  Gold 
(Northern  Territory  and  Western  Australia),  North  (Chile),  Rio  Algom  (Chile),  Newcrest  (Chile,  Argentina  and  Peru),  MIM 
(Argentina and Brazil), Patagonia Gold SA (Chile and Argentina) and Mirasol Resources (Chile and Argentina).  

During  his  career,  he  has  been  directly  involved  in  several  discoveries  including  Cleo-Sunrise  Dam  (Western  Australia), 
Tanami (Northern Territory), Union Reefs (Northern Territory) and Cap Oeste-COSE (Argentina).   

Mr Koerber graduated from the UNSW (BSc. Geology Hons Class 1) in 1989 and is a bilingual,  Australian geologist. 

He has not served as a director of any other listed company during the past three years. 

Robert Ainslie Yeates, Non-Executive Director 

Director since 20 July 2015 

Dr Yeates is a graduate of the University of NSW, completing a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours 1) in 1971 and a PhD in 
1977 and then an MBA in 1986 from Newcastle University.  He began his career with Peko Wallsend working in a variety of 
roles including mining engineering, project management, mine management and marketing.  

He became General Manager Marketing for Oakbridge Pty Limited in 1989 following a merger with the Peko Wallsend coal 
businesses and went on to become Managing Director of Oakbridge, which was the largest coal mining company in NSW at 
that time, operating one open cut and five underground coal mines. 

Dr Yeates also has gained operating, business development and infrastructure experience as a director of Port Waratah Coal 
Services (Newcastle Port), Port Kembla Coal Terminal, Great Northern Mining Corporation NL and Cyprus Australia Coal and 
for  the  past  20  years  has  been  principal  of  his  own  mine  management  consultancy,  providing  a  wide  range  of  technical, 
management  and  strategic  planning  services  to  the  mining  industry.  Until  2014  he  was  also  Project  Director  then  CEO  of 
Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Group, which has developed and is operating coal export facilities in Newcastle. 

Dr  Yeates  was  until  2015  and  for  the  prior  ten  years  a  director  in  ASX-listed  Baralaba  Coal  Company  Limited  (formerly 
Cockatoo Coal Limited), and from 2016 to 2019 he was a director of Watagan Mining Ltd and from 2018 to early 2020 was a 
director of Montem Resources Limited. 

He has not served as a director of any other listed company during the past three years. 

David (Ted) Harcourt Coupland, Non-Executive Director 

Director since 21 June 2021 

Ted Coupland has over 30 years of experience in the mining, exploration and resource finance industry and holds qualifications 
in geology, geostatistics, mineral economics and finance.  Ted has had a comprehensive technical career in the resources 
sector  covering  exploration,  mine  geology,  resource  estimation,  risk  analysis,  resource  consulting  and  business 
management.   Ted  spent  6  years  between  2013  and  2018  working  in  Macquarie  Bank's  Mining  Finance  team  where  he 
specialised in technical due diligence, deal origination, client relationship management, principal equity investing, mezzanine 
finance, structured project finance and commodity derivative structures.  As a professional Geologist and Geostatistician, Ted 
has been involved with many technically challenging resource projects  around the  globe covering a range of commodities 
including gold, silver, copper, base metals, PGM’s, bauxite and coal. 

Ted holds a Bachelor of Science (Geology) from the University of New England, Post-Graduate Degree in Geostatistics from 
the  Paris  School  of  Mines,  Post-Graduate  Diploma  in  Mineral  Economics  from  Macquarie  University  and  a  Post-Graduate 
Diploma  in  Applied  Finance  and  Investment  from  the  Securities  Institute  of  Australia.   Ted  is  a  Corporate  Member  of  the 
Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM). Mr Coupland is currently a Director of public listed company Odin 
Metals Limited.  

He has not served as a director of any other listed company during the past three years. 

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Equus Mining Limited 

Directors’ Report 

For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

Damien John Koerber, Executive Director, Chief Operating Officer 

Director since 27 November 2019 

Mr Koerber commenced with Equus in 2012 as exploration manager at the Naltagua copper project in Chile which brought 

considerable senior management and technical experience in the resources industry, from both in Australia and throughout 

South America. 

Mr Koerber is a geologist with 30 years of exploration experience, mainly throughout and based in Latin America. He has held 

senior  management  and  consulting  exploration  and  business  development  positions  in  companies  including  Billiton  Gold 

(Northern  Territory  and  Western  Australia),  North  (Chile),  Rio  Algom  (Chile),  Newcrest  (Chile,  Argentina  and  Peru),  MIM 

(Argentina and Brazil), Patagonia Gold SA (Chile and Argentina) and Mirasol Resources (Chile and Argentina).  

Mr Koerber graduated from the UNSW (BSc. Geology Hons Class 1) in 1989 and is a bilingual,  Australian geologist. 

He has not served as a director of any other listed company during the past three years. 

Robert Ainslie Yeates, Non-Executive Director 

Director since 20 July 2015 

Dr Yeates is a graduate of the University of NSW, completing a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours 1) in 1971 and a PhD in 

1977 and then an MBA in 1986 from Newcastle University.  He began his career with Peko Wallsend working in a variety of 

roles including mining engineering, project management, mine management and marketing.  

He became General Manager Marketing for Oakbridge Pty Limited in 1989 following a merger with the Peko Wallsend coal 

businesses and went on to become Managing Director of Oakbridge, which was the largest coal mining company in NSW at 

that time, operating one open cut and five underground coal mines. 

Dr Yeates also has gained operating, business development and infrastructure experience as a director of Port Waratah Coal 

Services (Newcastle Port), Port Kembla Coal Terminal, Great Northern Mining Corporation NL and Cyprus Australia Coal and 

for  the  past  20  years  has  been  principal  of  his  own  mine  management  consultancy,  providing  a  wide  range  of  technical, 

management  and  strategic  planning  services  to  the  mining  industry.  Until  2014  he  was  also  Project  Director  then  CEO  of 

Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Group, which has developed and is operating coal export facilities in Newcastle. 

Dr  Yeates  was  until  2015  and  for  the  prior  ten  years  a  director  in  ASX-listed  Baralaba  Coal  Company  Limited  (formerly 

Cockatoo Coal Limited), and from 2016 to 2019 he was a director of Watagan Mining Ltd and from 2018 to early 2020 was a 

director of Montem Resources Limited. 

He has not served as a director of any other listed company during the past three years. 

David (Ted) Harcourt Coupland, Non-Executive Director 

Director since 21 June 2021 

Ted Coupland has over 30 years of experience in the mining, exploration and resource finance industry and holds qualifications 

in geology, geostatistics, mineral economics and finance.  Ted has had a comprehensive technical career in the resources 

sector  covering  exploration,  mine  geology,  resource  estimation,  risk  analysis,  resource  consulting  and  business 

management.   Ted  spent  6  years  between  2013  and  2018  working  in  Macquarie  Bank's  Mining  Finance  team  where  he 

specialised in technical due diligence, deal origination, client relationship management, principal equity investing, mezzanine 

finance, structured project finance and commodity derivative structures.  As a professional Geologist and Geostatistician, Ted 

has been involved with many technically challenging resource projects  around the  globe covering a range of commodities 

including gold, silver, copper, base metals, PGM’s, bauxite and coal. 

Ted holds a Bachelor of Science (Geology) from the University of New England, Post-Graduate Degree in Geostatistics from 

the  Paris  School  of  Mines,  Post-Graduate  Diploma  in  Mineral  Economics  from  Macquarie  University  and  a  Post-Graduate 

Diploma  in  Applied  Finance  and  Investment  from  the  Securities  Institute  of  Australia.   Ted  is  a  Corporate  Member  of  the 

Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM). Mr Coupland is currently a Director of public listed company Odin 

Metals Limited.  

He has not served as a director of any other listed company during the past three years. 

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Equus Mining Limited 
Directors’ Report
Directors’ Report 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

COMPANY SECRETARY 

Marcelo Mora 

Company Secretary since 16 October 2012 

Marcelo Mora holds a Bachelor of Business degree and Graduate Diploma of Applied Corporate Governance. Mr Mora has 
been an accountant for more than 30 years and has experience in resources and mining companies both in Australia and 
internationally, providing financial reporting and company secretarial services to a range of publicly listed companies. 

DIRECTORS’ MEETINGS 

During  his  career,  he  has  been  directly  involved  in  several  discoveries  including  Cleo-Sunrise  Dam  (Western  Australia), 

Tanami (Northern Territory), Union Reefs (Northern Territory) and Cap Oeste-COSE (Argentina).   

The number of Directors’ meetings and number of meetings attended by each of the Directors (while they were a Director) of 
the Company during the year are: 

Director 

Mark H. Lochtenberg 

John R. Braham 

Damien J. Koerber 

Robert A. Yeates 

David (Ted) H. Coupland 

Board Meetings 

Held 
3 

3 

3 

3 

3 

Attended 
3 

3 

3 

3 

- 

DIRECTORS’ INTERESTS 

At the date of this report, the beneficial interests of each director of the Company in the issued share capital of the Company 
and options, each exercisable to acquire one fully paid ordinary share of the Company are: 

Director 

Mark H. Lochtenberg 

Fully Paid 
Ordinary 
Shares 
108,565,307 

Options over 
ordinary shares 

Option Terms 
(Exercise Price and Term) 

11,111,111  $0.015 at any time up to 16 September 2023 

John R. Braham 

14,849,674 

5,555,556  $0.015 at any time up to 16 September 2023 

-

-

-

-

-

- 

- 

- 

5,000,000  $0.050 at any time up to 13 November 2021

5,000,000  $0.070 at any time up to 13 November 2023

6,666,666  $0.027 at any time up to 13 November 2021

6,666,667  $0.030 at any time up to 13 November 2022

6,666,667  $0.035 at any time up to 13 November 2024

6,666,666  $0.022 at any time up to 25 November 2023 

6,666,667  $0.025 at any time up to 25 November 2024 

6,666,667  $0.027 at any time up to 25 November 2025 

Damien J. Koerber 

42,290,938 

2,222,222  $0.015 at any time up to 16 September 2023 

- 

- 

- 

1,666,666  $0.022 at any time up to 25 November 2023 

1,666,667  $0.025 at any time up to 25 November 2024 

1,666,667  $0.027 at any time up to 25 November 2025 

Robert A. Yeates 

David (Ted) H. Coupland 

6,870,767 

15,999,573 

3,333,333  $0.015 at any time up to 16 September 2023 

1,111,111  $0.015 at any time up to 16 September 2023 

During the year ended 30 June 2021 25,000,000 unlisted options were granted as compensation to directors of the Company 
(2020: 35,000,000 unlisted options)  

There were no options over unissued ordinary shares granted as compensation to directors or executives of the Company 
during or since the end of the financial year. 

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Directors’ Report 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

OPTION HOLDINGS 

Options granted to directors' and officers’ 

Since  the  end  of  the  financial  year,  the  Company  did  not  grant  any  options  over  unissued  ordinary  shares  to  directors  or 
officers as part of their remuneration. 

At  the  General  Meeting  held  on  25  November  2020,  the  Company  received  shareholders’  approval  to  issue  20,000,000 
unlisted options to John Braham as remuneration and 5,000,000 unlisted options to Damien Koerber as remuneration. 

UNISSUED SHARES UNDER OPTIONS 

At the date of this report, unissued ordinary shares of the Company under option are: 

Number of Options 

Employee Options 

Attaching Options 

Exercise Price 

Expiry Date 

5,000,000(1) 
5,000,000(1) 
6,666,666(1) 
6,666,667(1) 
6,666,667(1) 
8,333,332(1) 
8,333,334(1) 
8,333,334(1) 
2,500,000(1) 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

401,888,889 

$0.050 

$0.070 

$0.027 

$0.030 

$0.035 

$0.022 

$0.025 

$0.027 

$0.022 

$0.015 

13 November 2021 

13 November 2023 

13 November 2021 

13 November 2022 

13 November 2024 

25 November 2023 

25 November 2024 

25 November 2025 

01 December 2023 

16 September 2023 

(1)In the event that the employment of the option holder is terminated by breach of its obligations to the Company, then the options shall lapse 
upon written notification to the holder. 

All options expire on their expiry date. The persons entitled to exercise the options do not have, by virtue of the options, the 
right to participate in a share issue of the Company or any other body corporate. 

SHARES ISSUED ON EXERCISE OF OPTIONS 

During the financial year ended 30 June 2021, the Company issued 2,000,000 ordinary shares as a result of the exercise of 
options (2020: nil). Since the end of the financial year, the Company has not issued ordinary shares as a result of the exercise 
of options. 

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Equus Mining Limited 

Directors’ Report 

For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

OPTION HOLDINGS 

Options granted to directors' and officers’ 

Since  the  end  of  the  financial  year,  the  Company  did  not  grant  any  options  over  unissued  ordinary  shares  to  directors  or 

officers as part of their remuneration. 

At  the  General  Meeting  held  on  25  November  2020,  the  Company  received  shareholders’  approval  to  issue  20,000,000 

unlisted options to John Braham as remuneration and 5,000,000 unlisted options to Damien Koerber as remuneration. 

UNISSUED SHARES UNDER OPTIONS 

At the date of this report, unissued ordinary shares of the Company under option are: 

Number of Options 

Employee Options 

Attaching Options 

Exercise Price 

Expiry Date 

5,000,000(1) 

5,000,000(1) 

6,666,666(1) 

6,666,667(1) 

6,666,667(1) 

8,333,332(1) 

8,333,334(1) 

8,333,334(1) 

2,500,000(1) 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

401,888,889 

$0.050 

$0.070 

$0.027 

$0.030 

$0.035 

$0.022 

$0.025 

$0.027 

$0.022 

$0.015 

13 November 2021 

13 November 2023 

13 November 2021 

13 November 2022 

13 November 2024 

25 November 2023 

25 November 2024 

25 November 2025 

01 December 2023 

16 September 2023 

(1)In the event that the employment of the option holder is terminated by breach of its obligations to the Company, then the options shall lapse 

upon written notification to the holder. 

All options expire on their expiry date. The persons entitled to exercise the options do not have, by virtue of the options, the 

right to participate in a share issue of the Company or any other body corporate. 

SHARES ISSUED ON EXERCISE OF OPTIONS 

During the financial year ended 30 June 2021, the Company issued 2,000,000 ordinary shares as a result of the exercise of 

options (2020: nil). Since the end of the financial year, the Company has not issued ordinary shares as a result of the exercise 

of options. 

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Equus Mining Limited Directors’ Report For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 23 | PageCORPORATE INFORMATION Corporate Structure Equus Mining Limited is a limited liability company that is incorporated and domiciled in Australia. It has prepared a consolidated financial report incorporating the entities that it controlled during the financial year. The Group’s structure at 30 June 2021 is outlined below. EQUUS MINING LIMITED – GROUP STRUCTURE AT 30 JUNE 2021 The Companies referred above comprise the “Consolidated Entity” for the purposes of the Financial Statements included in this report.  PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES The principal activities of the Group during the course of the financial year was continuing its dual-track strategy of brownfields resource evaluation and Brownfields/Greenfields exploration to define sufficient resources to sustain a potential Cerro Bayo mine restart, and furthermore the maintenance of claims held by Equus for the nearby Los Domos and Cerro Diablo Projects. FINANCIAL RESULTS The consolidated loss after income tax attributable to members of the Company for the year was $1,716,498  (2020: $1,728,160 loss).   REVIEW OF OPERATIONS A review of the Group's operations for the year ended 30 June 2021 is set out on pages 4 to 19 of this Annual Report. DIVIDENDS The Directors do not recommend the payment of a dividend in respect of the financial year ended 30 June 2021. No dividends have been paid or declared during the financial year (2020 - $nil).  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Equus Mining Limited 
Directors’ Report
Directors’ Report 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

CHANGES IN STATE OF AFFAIRS 

In the opinion of the Directors, significant changes in the state of affairs of the Group that occurred during the year ended 30 
June 2021 were as follows: 

On the 7th October 2019, Equus executed an agreement with Mandalay Resources Corporation (TSX:MND, OTCQB: MNDJF) 
for a 3-year option to acquire Mandalay’s Cerro Bayo Project in Region XI, Southern Chile which remains the company’s key 
focus. The Cerro Bayo Project and infrastructure is optimally situated nearby Equus’s Los Domos and Cerro Diablo Projects. 

On  20  February  2021,  Mandalay  Resources  (‘Mandalay’)  commenced  processing  low-grade  stockpiles  via  the  re-
commissioning of the 0.5Mtpa Cerro Bayo flotation plant at the Cerro Bayo Project. Production from the low-grade stockpiles 
is providing important information on plant operational parameters and efficiencies to support Equus’s Cerro Bayo mine restart 
study during 2021. 

During  July  2020,  the  Company  announced  a  placement  to  be  conducted  on  two  tranches  and  the  Company  issued 
388,888,889  new  ordinary  shares  and  388,888,889  unlisted  options  at  an  issue  price  of  $0.009  per  share  for  a  total 
consideration of $3,500,000 before costs. For every one placement share subscribed investors received one attaching option. 
Each option has an exercise price of $0.015 expiring on 16 September 2023 and vests immediately.  

The Company announced on 20 July 2020, pursuant to the share placement to grant 15,000,000 options to brokers of the 
placement under the same terms and conditions as the options issued to investors in the placement. 

On  25  November  2020,  The  Company  issued  20,000,000  unlisted  options  to  Mr  John  Braham  as  part  of  his  employment 
agreement for the 12 month period to November 2020 as follows: 

• 
• 
• 

6,666,666 options exercisable at $0.022 each vesting immediately and expiring on 25 November 2023; 
6,666,667 options exercisable at $0.025 each vesting immediately and expiring on 25 November 2024; 
6,666,667 options exercisable at $0.027 each vesting immediately and expiring on 25 November 2025; 

On 25 November 2020, The Company issued 5,000,000 unlisted options to Mr Damien Koerber as follows: 

• 
• 
• 

1,666,666 options exercisable at $0.022 each vesting immediately and expiring on 25 November 2023; 
1,666,667 options exercisable at $0.025 each vesting immediately and expiring on 25 November 2024; 
1,666,667 options exercisable at $0.027 each vesting immediately and expiring on 25 November 2025; 

On 1 December 2020, The Company issued 2,500,000 unlisted options to the Group’s Exploration Manager. Each option has 
an exercise price of $0.022 expiring on 1 December 2023 and vests immediately. 

On  9  December  2020,  the  Company  issued  3,300,000  new  ordinary  fully  paid  shares  to  a  supplier  as  consideration  for 
Geological Technical Services provided in connection with the Cerro Bayo project in southern Chile. 

On 14 January 2021, the Company issued 11,538,462 new ordinary shares fully paid shares to a supplier as consideration for 
Geological Technical Services provided in connection with the Cerro Bayo project in southern Chile. 

On 3 February 2021, 2,000,000 unlisted options were converted at $0.015 and the Company received $30,000. 

24 February 2021, the Company issued 1,250,000 new ordinary shares fully paid shares to a supplier as consideration for 
Mine Technical Services provided in connection with the Cerro Bayo project in southern Chile. 

12 May  2021,  the Company  issued  750,000 new  ordinary  shares fully paid shares to a  supplier  as consideration for  Mine 
Technical Services provided in connection with the Cerro Bayo project in southern Chile. 

During May 2021, the Company announced a placement to be conducted on two tranches and a Share Purchase Plan (SPP).  

• 

• 

• 

The Placement was conducted under two tranches. Under tranche 1 the Company issued 431,390,000 new ordinary 
shares at an issue price of $0.011 per share for a total consideration of $4,745,290 before costs.  

Tranche  2  of  the  placement  was  completed  subsequent  to  30  June  2021  and  the  company  issued  204,973,636 
ordinary shares raising $2,254,710 before costs.  

The SPP closed on 11 June 2021 and it was fully subscribed the Company issued 45,454,545 ordinary share at an 
issue price of $0.011 per share for a total consideration of $500,000 before costs. 

Other than the matters detailed above, there were no other significant changes in the affairs of the Company during the year.   

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Equus Mining Limited 

Directors’ Report 

For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

CHANGES IN STATE OF AFFAIRS 

June 2021 were as follows: 

In the opinion of the Directors, significant changes in the state of affairs of the Group that occurred during the year ended 30 

On the 7th October 2019, Equus executed an agreement with Mandalay Resources Corporation (TSX:MND, OTCQB: MNDJF) 

for a 3-year option to acquire Mandalay’s Cerro Bayo Project in Region XI, Southern Chile which remains the company’s key 

focus. The Cerro Bayo Project and infrastructure is optimally situated nearby Equus’s Los Domos and Cerro Diablo Projects. 

On  20  February  2021,  Mandalay  Resources  (‘Mandalay’)  commenced  processing  low-grade  stockpiles  via  the  re-

commissioning of the 0.5Mtpa Cerro Bayo flotation plant at the Cerro Bayo Project. Production from the low-grade stockpiles 

is providing important information on plant operational parameters and efficiencies to support Equus’s Cerro Bayo mine restart 

study during 2021. 

During  July  2020,  the  Company  announced  a  placement  to  be  conducted  on  two  tranches  and  the  Company  issued 

388,888,889  new  ordinary  shares  and  388,888,889  unlisted  options  at  an  issue  price  of  $0.009  per  share  for  a  total 

consideration of $3,500,000 before costs. For every one placement share subscribed investors received one attaching option. 

Each option has an exercise price of $0.015 expiring on 16 September 2023 and vests immediately.  

The Company announced on 20 July 2020, pursuant to the share placement to grant 15,000,000 options to brokers of the 

placement under the same terms and conditions as the options issued to investors in the placement. 

On  25  November  2020,  The  Company  issued  20,000,000  unlisted  options  to  Mr  John  Braham  as  part  of  his  employment 

agreement for the 12 month period to November 2020 as follows: 

6,666,666 options exercisable at $0.022 each vesting immediately and expiring on 25 November 2023; 

6,666,667 options exercisable at $0.025 each vesting immediately and expiring on 25 November 2024; 

6,666,667 options exercisable at $0.027 each vesting immediately and expiring on 25 November 2025; 

On 25 November 2020, The Company issued 5,000,000 unlisted options to Mr Damien Koerber as follows: 

1,666,666 options exercisable at $0.022 each vesting immediately and expiring on 25 November 2023; 

1,666,667 options exercisable at $0.025 each vesting immediately and expiring on 25 November 2024; 

1,666,667 options exercisable at $0.027 each vesting immediately and expiring on 25 November 2025; 

On 1 December 2020, The Company issued 2,500,000 unlisted options to the Group’s Exploration Manager. Each option has 

an exercise price of $0.022 expiring on 1 December 2023 and vests immediately. 

On  9  December  2020,  the  Company  issued  3,300,000  new  ordinary  fully  paid  shares  to  a  supplier  as  consideration  for 

Geological Technical Services provided in connection with the Cerro Bayo project in southern Chile. 

On 14 January 2021, the Company issued 11,538,462 new ordinary shares fully paid shares to a supplier as consideration for 

Geological Technical Services provided in connection with the Cerro Bayo project in southern Chile. 

24 February 2021, the Company issued 1,250,000 new ordinary shares fully paid shares to a supplier as consideration for 

Mine Technical Services provided in connection with the Cerro Bayo project in southern Chile. 

12 May  2021,  the Company  issued  750,000 new  ordinary  shares fully paid shares to a  supplier  as consideration for  Mine 

Technical Services provided in connection with the Cerro Bayo project in southern Chile. 

During May 2021, the Company announced a placement to be conducted on two tranches and a Share Purchase Plan (SPP).  

The Placement was conducted under two tranches. Under tranche 1 the Company issued 431,390,000 new ordinary 

shares at an issue price of $0.011 per share for a total consideration of $4,745,290 before costs.  

Tranche  2  of  the  placement  was  completed  subsequent  to  30  June  2021  and  the  company  issued  204,973,636 

ordinary shares raising $2,254,710 before costs.  

The SPP closed on 11 June 2021 and it was fully subscribed the Company issued 45,454,545 ordinary share at an 

issue price of $0.011 per share for a total consideration of $500,000 before costs. 

Other than the matters detailed above, there were no other significant changes in the affairs of the Company during the year.   

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• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

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Directors’ Report
Directors’ Report 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS 

The  Group’s  operations  are  not  subject  to  any  significant  environmental  regulations  under  either  Commonwealth  or  State 
legislation.  

The Group’s exploration activities in Chile are subject to environmental laws, regulations and permit conditions applicable in 
Chile, in the country of operation.  

The company is undertaking a range of mine related baseline and drill permitting environmental studies throughout the Cerro 
Bayo Project pertaining to future potential mining, increasing tailings dam capacity and exploration.  

The Board believes that the Group has adequate systems in place for the management of its environmental requirements and 
is not aware of any breach of those environmental requirements as they apply to the Group.  

LIKELY DEVELOPMENTS 

During  the  course  of  the  2022  financial  year,  the  Company  will  focus  principally  on  advancing  brownfield  and  greenfields 
exploration  drilling  programs,  resource  evaluation  and  optimisation  studies  on  the  current  production  from  the  low  grade 
stockpiles  of  the  Cerro  Bayo  Project  to  support  a  decision  on  the  company’s  option  for  the  acquisition  of  the  Cerro  Bayo 
Project. 

Ongoing  strategic  assessment  will  continue  for  the  nearby  Los  Domos  and  Cerro  Diablo  Projects  and  additional  areas  of 
exploration interest in the vicinity of the Cerro Bayo Mine infrastructure. The Directors expect to execute future exploration 
programs at Cerro Bayo, Los Domos and the Cerro Diablo gold-silver and polymetallic projects, results from which  they will 
make public in accordance with ASX listing rules once the information is received. 

Further information as to likely developments in the operations of the Group and the expected results of those operations in 
subsequent  years  have  not  been  included  in  this  report  because  disclosure  of  this  information  would  be  likely  to  result  in 
unreasonable prejudice to the Group. 

EVENTS SUBSEQUENT TO BALANCE DATE 

On 7 July 2021, the Company obtained approval at a shareholders’ meeting to issued tranche two of the placement announced 
in May 2021 to institutional investors and a Director of the Company by issuing 204,973,636 ordinary shares at an issue price 
of $0.011 raising $2,254,710 before costs.  

On 14 September 2021, the Company issued 1,250,000 new ordinary shares fully paid shares to a supplier as consideration 
for Geological Technical Services provided in connection with the Cerro Bayo project in southern Chile. 

Other than the matters detailed above, no other matters or circumstances have arisen in the interval between the end of the 
financial year and the date of this report any item, transaction or event of a material or unusual nature likely, in the opinion of 
the Directors of the Company, to affect significantly the operations of the Group, the results of those operations, or the state 
of affairs of the Group, in future financial years. 

On 3 February 2021, 2,000,000 unlisted options were converted at $0.015 and the Company received $30,000. 

INDEMNIFICATION AND INSURANCE OF OFFICERS AND AUDITORS 

During or since the end of the financial, the Company has not indemnified or made a relevant agreement to indemnify an 
officer or auditor of the Company against a liability incurred as such by an officer or auditor. The Group has not paid or agreed 
to pay, a premium in respect of a contract insuring against a liability incurred by an officer or auditor. 

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Directors’ Report
Directors’ Report 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

REMUNERATION REPORT - Audited 

Principals of compensation - Audited 

Key management personnel have authority and responsibility for planning, directing and controlling the activities of the Group. 
Key  management  personnel  comprise  the  directors  of  the  Company.  No  other  employees  have  been  deemed  to  be  key 
management personnel. 

The  remuneration  policy  of  Directors  is  to  ensure  the  remuneration  package  properly  reflects  the  persons'  duties  and 
responsibilities, and that remuneration is competitive in attracting, retaining and motivating people of the highest quality. The 
Board is responsible for reviewing its own performance. The evaluation process is designed to assess the Group's business 
performance,  whether  long-term  strategic  objectives  are  being  achieved,  and  the  achievement  of  individual  performance 
objectives. 

The  Constitution  and  ASX  Listing  Rules  specify  that  the  aggregate  remuneration  of  Non-Executive  Directors  shall  be 
determined from time to time by a general meeting. The latest determination was at a shareholders meeting on 29 November 
2005 when the shareholders approved an aggregate remuneration of $200,000 per year. 

Remuneration generally comprises of salary and superannuation. Long-term incentives are able to be provided through the 
Company's share option program, which acts, to align the Director's and senior executive's actions with the interests of the 
shareholders. 

The remuneration disclosed below represents the cost to the Group for services provided under these arrangements. 

John Braham, Mark Lochtenberg and Damien Koerber are paid through the Company's payroll. All other Directors services 
are paid by way of an arrangement with related parties.  

There were no remuneration consultants used by the Company during the year ended 30 June 2021, or in the prior year. 

Consequences of performance on shareholders' wealth - Audited 

In considering the Group’s performance and benefits for shareholders' wealth, the Board has regard to the following indices 
in respect of the current financial year and the previous four financial years. 

Net loss attributable to equity holders of the parent 

Dividends paid 

Change in share price 

2021 
$ 
1,716,498 

2020 
$ 
1,728,160 

- 

- 

- 

- 

2019 
$ 
942,751 

- 

(0.02) 

2018 
$ 
2,142,214 

- 

- 

2017 
$ 
899,548 

- 

0.02 

The  overall  level  of  key  management  personnel’s  compensation  has  been  determined  based  on  market  conditions,  the 
advancement of the Group’s projects and the financial performance of the Group.  

Remuneration Structure - Audited 

In  accordance  with  better  practice  corporate  governance,  the  structure  of  Executive  Director  and  Non-Executive  Director 
remuneration is separate and distinct. 

Service contracts - Audited 

In accordance with better practice corporate governance the company provided each key management personnel with a letter 
detailing the terms of appointment, including their remuneration. Key management personnel may at any time resign by written 
notice.  

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Directors’ Report 

For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

REMUNERATION REPORT - Audited 

Principals of compensation - Audited 

Key management personnel have authority and responsibility for planning, directing and controlling the activities of the Group. 

Key  management  personnel  comprise  the  directors  of  the  Company.  No  other  employees  have  been  deemed  to  be  key 

management personnel. 

The  remuneration  policy  of  Directors  is  to  ensure  the  remuneration  package  properly  reflects  the  persons'  duties  and 

responsibilities, and that remuneration is competitive in attracting, retaining and motivating people of the highest quality. The 

Board is responsible for reviewing its own performance. The evaluation process is designed to assess the Group's business 

performance,  whether  long-term  strategic  objectives  are  being  achieved,  and  the  achievement  of  individual  performance 

objectives. 

shareholders. 

The  Constitution  and  ASX  Listing  Rules  specify  that  the  aggregate  remuneration  of  Non-Executive  Directors  shall  be 

determined from time to time by a general meeting. The latest determination was at a shareholders meeting on 29 November 

2005 when the shareholders approved an aggregate remuneration of $200,000 per year. 

Remuneration generally comprises of salary and superannuation. Long-term incentives are able to be provided through the 

Company's share option program, which acts, to align the Director's and senior executive's actions with the interests of the 

The remuneration disclosed below represents the cost to the Group for services provided under these arrangements. 

John Braham, Mark Lochtenberg and Damien Koerber are paid through the Company's payroll. All other Directors services 

are paid by way of an arrangement with related parties.  

There were no remuneration consultants used by the Company during the year ended 30 June 2021, or in the prior year. 

Consequences of performance on shareholders' wealth - Audited 

In considering the Group’s performance and benefits for shareholders' wealth, the Board has regard to the following indices 

in respect of the current financial year and the previous four financial years. 

Net loss attributable to equity holders of the parent 

1,716,498 

1,728,160 

942,751 

2,142,214 

899,548 

2021 

$ 

2020 

$ 

- 

- 

- 

- 

2019 

$ 

- 

(0.02) 

2018 

$ 

- 

- 

2017 

$ 

- 

0.02 

The  overall  level  of  key  management  personnel’s  compensation  has  been  determined  based  on  market  conditions,  the 

advancement of the Group’s projects and the financial performance of the Group.  

In  accordance  with  better  practice  corporate  governance,  the  structure  of  Executive  Director  and  Non-Executive  Director 

Dividends paid 

Change in share price 

Remuneration Structure - Audited 

remuneration is separate and distinct. 

Service contracts - Audited 

In accordance with better practice corporate governance the company provided each key management personnel with a letter 

detailing the terms of appointment, including their remuneration. Key management personnel may at any time resign by written 

notice.  

Equus Mining Limited 
Directors’ Report
Directors’ Report 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

REMUNERATION REPORT -  Audited (Con’t) 

Details of the nature and amount of each major element of the remuneration of each Director of the Company and other key 
management personnel of the Company and Group are: 

Executive Directors 
John Braham  

Damien Koerber 

Non-Executive Directors 
Robert Yeates 

Juerg Walker (1) 

Mark Lochtenberg 

David (Ted) Coupland (2) 

Total all directors 

Primary 

Salary / Fees  Superannuation 

Share-Based 
Payments 
Options 

 Short Term 
Benefit 

Total 

Year 

$ 

$ 

$ 

$ 

$ 

2021 
2020 
2021 
2020 

2021 
2020 

2021 
2020 

2021 
2020 

2021 
2020 

2021 
2020 

200,000 
182,667 
200,000 
200,000 

31,667 
30,000 

- 
12,500 

33,750 
30,000 

1,644 
- 

467,061 
455,167 

19,000 
17,353 
19,000 
19,000 

- 
- 

- 
- 

3,206 
2,850 

- 
- 

41,206 
39,203 

160,000 
388,833 
40,000 
-

1,469
7,674
16,799
15,385

- 
- 

- 
- 

- 
- 

- 
- 

- 
- 

- 
- 

- 
- 

- 
- 

380,469 
546,527 
275,799 
234,385 

31,667 
30,000 

- 
12,500 

36,956 
32,850 

1,644 
- 

200,000 
338,833 

18,268 
23,059 

726,535 
856,262 

(1) Resigned as Director on 27 November 2019.
(2) Appointed as Director on 21 June 2021.

Executive Directors - Audited 

During the financial year ended 30 June 2021, John Braham and Damien Koerber were considered Executive Directors. Their 
remuneration  for  the  year  ended  30  June  2021  comprised  of  fixed  remuneration  plus  9.5%  statutory  superannuation  paid 
through the Company’s payroll.  During the year, the Company received shareholder approval to issue 20,000,000 unlisted 
options to Mr Braham and 5,000,000 unlisted options to Mr Koerber for no consideration as part of their remuneration. The 
terms and conditions of the options are outlined below.  

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Equus Mining Limited 
Directors’ Report
Directors’ Report 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

REMUNERATION REPORT - Audited (Con’t) 

Options granted as compensation - Audited 

No bonuses were paid during the financial year. Refer below for the Options granted to John Braham and Damien Koerber. 
The Company employed no other key management personnel. 

The options granted to key management personnel were not subject to any performance or service conditions and vested 
immediately.  Details of options granted as compensation to each key management person in the current and prior year: 

Director 

Grant Date 

Number of 
Options 
Granted 

Fair value per 
option at grant 
date 

Fair Value 
at Grant 
Date 

Option Terms 
(Exercise Price and Term) 

John Braham 

14 October 2019 

(1) 5,000,000 

$0.0067 

$33,500 

John Braham 

14 October 2019 

(1) 5,000,000 

$0.0086 

$43,000 

John Braham 

14 October 2019 

(1) 5,000,000 

$0.0118 

$59,000 

John Braham 

29 November 2019 

(2) 6,666,666 

$0.0084 

$56,000 

John Braham 

29 November 2019 

(2) 6,666,667 

$0.0101 

$67,333 

John Braham 

29 November 2019 

(2) 6,666,667 

$0.0120 

$80,000 

John Braham 

25 November 2020 

(3) 6,666,666 

$0.007 

$46,667 

John Braham 

25 November 2020 

(4) 6,666,667 

$0.008 

$53,333 

John Braham 

25 November 2020 

(4) 6,666,667 

$0.009 

$60,000 

Damien Koerber 

25 November 2020 

(3) 1,666,666 

$0.007 

$11,667 

Damien Koerber 

25 November 2020 

(4) 1,666,667 

$0.008 

$13,333 

Damien Koerber 

25 November 2020 

(4) 1,666,667 

$0.009 

$15,000 

$0.030 at any time to 13 
November 2020 

$0.050 at any time to 13 
November 2021 

$0.070 at any time to 13 
November 2023 

$0.027 at any time to 13 
November 2021 

$0.030 at any time to 13 
November 2022 

$0.035 at any time to 13 
November 2024 

$0.022 at any time to 25 
November 2023 

$0.025 at any time to 25 
November 2024 

$0.027 at any time to 25 
November 2025 

$0.022 at any time to 25 
November 2023 

$0.025 at any time to 25 
November 2024 

$0.027 at any time to 25 
November 2025 

•  The fair value of the (1) 10,000,000 options at grant date was determined based on a Black- Scholes formula. The model 
inputs of the options issued, were the Company’s share price of $0.0155 at the grant date, a volatility factor of 152.60% 
based on historic share price performance, a risk free rate of 0.71% based on the 2 year government bond rate and no 
dividends paid. 

The fair value of the (2) 20,000,000 options at grant date was determined based on a Black- Scholes formula. The model 
inputs of the options issued, were the Company’s share price of $0.014 at the grant date, a volatility factor of 149.46% 
based on historic share price performance, a risk free rate of 0.65% based on the 3 year government bond rate and no 
dividends paid. 

•  The fair value of the (3) 8,333,332 options at grant date was determined based on a Black- Scholes formula. The model 
inputs of the options issued, were the Company’s share price of $0.011 at the grant date, a volatility factor of 136.20% 
based on historic share price performance, a risk free rate of 0.11% based on the 3 year government bond rate and no 
dividends paid. 

•  The fair value of the (4) 16,666,668 options at grant date was determined based on a Black- Scholes formula. The model 
inputs of the options issued, were the Company’s share price of $0.011 at the grant date, a volatility factor of 136.20% 
based on historic share price performance, a risk free rate of 0.30% based on the 5 year government bond and no dividends 
paid. 

During the year ended 30 June 2021 5,000,000 unlisted options lapsed (2020: nil) and no options held by key management 
personnel were exercised during the 2021 or 2020 financial years. 

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Equus Mining Limited 

Directors’ Report 

For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

REMUNERATION REPORT - Audited (Con’t) 

Options granted as compensation - Audited 

Equus Mining Limited 
Directors’ Report
Directors’ Report 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

REMUNERATION REPORT - Audited (Con’t) 

No bonuses were paid during the financial year. Refer below for the Options granted to John Braham and Damien Koerber. 

The Company employed no other key management personnel. 

No  terms  of  equity-settled  share-based  payment  transactions  (including  options  granted  as  compensation  to  a  key 
management person) have been altered or modified by the issuing entity during the 2021 and 2020 financial years. 

The options granted to key management personnel were not subject to any performance or service conditions and vested 

immediately.  Details of options granted as compensation to each key management person in the current and prior year: 

Exercise of options granted as compensation - Audited 

Modification of terms of equity-settled share-based payment transactions - Audited 

Director 

Grant Date 

Number of 

Options 

Granted 

Fair value per 

option at grant 

date 

Fair Value 

at Grant 

Date 

Option Terms 

(Exercise Price and Term) 

John Braham 

14 October 2019 

(1) 5,000,000 

$0.0067 

$33,500 

John Braham 

14 October 2019 

(1) 5,000,000 

$0.0086 

$43,000 

John Braham 

14 October 2019 

(1) 5,000,000 

$0.0118 

$59,000 

John Braham 

29 November 2019 

(2) 6,666,666 

$0.0084 

$56,000 

John Braham 

29 November 2019 

(2) 6,666,667 

$0.0101 

$67,333 

John Braham 

29 November 2019 

(2) 6,666,667 

$0.0120 

$80,000 

John Braham 

25 November 2020 

(3) 6,666,666 

$0.007 

$46,667 

John Braham 

25 November 2020 

(4) 6,666,667 

$0.008 

$53,333 

John Braham 

25 November 2020 

(4) 6,666,667 

$0.009 

$60,000 

Damien Koerber 

25 November 2020 

(3) 1,666,666 

$0.007 

$11,667 

Damien Koerber 

25 November 2020 

(4) 1,666,667 

$0.008 

$13,333 

Damien Koerber 

25 November 2020 

(4) 1,666,667 

$0.009 

$15,000 

$0.030 at any time to 13 

November 2020 

$0.050 at any time to 13 

November 2021 

$0.070 at any time to 13 

November 2023 

$0.027 at any time to 13 

November 2021 

$0.030 at any time to 13 

November 2022 

$0.035 at any time to 13 

November 2024 

$0.022 at any time to 25 

November 2023 

$0.025 at any time to 25 

November 2024 

$0.027 at any time to 25 

November 2025 

$0.022 at any time to 25 

November 2023 

$0.025 at any time to 25 

November 2024 

$0.027 at any time to 25 

November 2025 

•  The fair value of the (1) 10,000,000 options at grant date was determined based on a Black- Scholes formula. The model 

inputs of the options issued, were the Company’s share price of $0.0155 at the grant date, a volatility factor of 152.60% 

based on historic share price performance, a risk free rate of 0.71% based on the 2 year government bond rate and no 

The fair value of the (2) 20,000,000 options at grant date was determined based on a Black- Scholes formula. The model 

inputs of the options issued, were the Company’s share price of $0.014 at the grant date, a volatility factor of 149.46% 

based on historic share price performance, a risk free rate of 0.65% based on the 3 year government bond rate and no 

•  The fair value of the (3) 8,333,332 options at grant date was determined based on a Black- Scholes formula. The model 

inputs of the options issued, were the Company’s share price of $0.011 at the grant date, a volatility factor of 136.20% 

based on historic share price performance, a risk free rate of 0.11% based on the 3 year government bond rate and no 

•  The fair value of the (4) 16,666,668 options at grant date was determined based on a Black- Scholes formula. The model 

inputs of the options issued, were the Company’s share price of $0.011 at the grant date, a volatility factor of 136.20% 

based on historic share price performance, a risk free rate of 0.30% based on the 5 year government bond and no dividends 

dividends paid. 

dividends paid. 

dividends paid. 

paid. 

During the year ended 30 June 2021 5,000,000 unlisted options lapsed (2020: nil) and no options held by key management 

personnel were exercised during the 2021 or 2020 financial years. 

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There were no shares issued to Directors on the exercise of options previously granted as compensation during the 2021 and 
2020 financial years. 

Analysis of options and rights over equity instruments granted as compensation - Audited 

All options refer to options over ordinary shares of Equus Mining Limited, which are exercisable on a one-for-one basis. 

Options granted 

Director 

Number 

Date 

% vested 
at year 
end 

Expired 
during the 
year 

Balance at 
year end 

Financial year in 
which grant 
vests 

John Braham 

15,000,000  14 October 2019 

100% 

5,000,000 

10,000,000 

30 June 2020  

John Braham 

20,000,000  29 November 2019 

John Braham 

20,000,000  25 November 2020 

Damien Koerber 

5,000,000  25 November 2020 

100% 

100% 

100% 

-

-

-

20,000,000

30 June 2020 

20,000,000

30 June 2021 

5,000,000

30 June 2021 

The  number  of  options  that  had  vested  as  at  30  June  2021  is  55,000,000  (2020  –  35,000,000).  25,000,000  options  were 
granted as remuneration during the year (2020: 35,000,000). No options were granted as compensation subsequent to year 
end. 

Analysis of movements in options granted as compensation - Audited 

Director 

Granted in the year 

Valuation of options exercised 
in the year 

Lapsed in the year 

John Braham 

Damien Koerber 

$160,000 

$40,000 

- 

-

$33,500 

- 

Options and rights over equity instruments - Audited 

The  movement  during  the  reporting  period  in  the  number  of  options  over  ordinary  shares  in  the  Company  held  directly, 
indirectly or beneficially, by each key management person, including their personally related entities, is as follows: 

Option holdings 2020 - Audited 

Directors 

Held at 
1 July 2020 

Granted/ 
Purchased 

Exercised / 
Sold 

Expired 

Held at 
30 June 2021 

Vested and  
exercisable 
at 30 June 2021 

Mark Lochtenberg 

- 

- 

John Braham 

35,000,000 

20,000,000 

Damien Koerber 

Robert Yeates 

David (Ted) Coupland 

-

-

-

5,000,000

-

-

- 

-

-

-

-

- 

- 

- 

5,000,000

50,000,000 

50,000,000 

-

-

-

5,000,000 

5,000,000 

- 

- 

- 

- 

Loans to key management personnel and their related parties - Audited 

There were no loans made to key management personnel or their related parties during the 2021 and 2020 financial years 
and no amounts were outstanding at 30 June 2021 (2020 - $nil). 

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Equus Mining Limited 
Directors’ Report
Directors’ Report 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

REMUNERATION REPORT - Audited (Con’t) 

Other transactions with key management personnel - Audited 

There were no other transactions with key management personnel or their related parties during 2021. 

At 30 June 2021, the amount outstanding for salaries, superannuation and directors fees were nil (2020: nil). 

Movements in shares - Audited 

The  movement  during  the  reporting  period  in  the  number  of  ordinary  shares  in  the  Company  held  directly,  indirectly  or 
beneficially by each key management personnel, including their related parties, is as follows: 

Fully paid ordinary shareholdings and transactions - 2021 

Key management 
personnel 

Held at 
30 June 2020 

Purchases 

Sales 

Other 

Mark Lochtenberg 

51,999,651 

11,111,111 

John Braham  

Damien Koerber  

Robert Yeates 

David (Ted) Coupland * 

9,294,118 

40,068,716 

3,537,434 

- 

5,555,556 

2,222,222 

3,333,333 

- 

* Number of shares held at date of appointment as a Director

Non-Executive Directors - Audited 

- 

- 

- 

-

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

15,999,573 

Held at 
30 June 2021 

63,110,762 

14,849,674 

42,290,938 

6,870,767 

15,999,573 

During the financial year ended 30 June 2021, the following Directors were considered Non-Executive Directors: 

• Mark Lochtenberg;
•
Robert Yeates;
•
David (Ted) Coupland.

The salary component of Non-Executive Directors was made up of: 

•
•
•

fixed remuneration;
9.5% statutory superannuation for Australian resident directors pay through the Company’s payroll; and
an entitlement to receive options, subject to shareholders’ approval.

The  services  of  non-executive  directors  who  are  not  paid  through  the  Company’s  payroll  system  are  provided  by  way  of 
arrangements with related parties.  

End of remuneration report. 

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Directors’ Report

Equus Mining Limited 

Directors’ Report 

For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

REMUNERATION REPORT - Audited (Con’t) 

Other transactions with key management personnel - Audited 

There were no other transactions with key management personnel or their related parties during 2021. 

At 30 June 2021, the amount outstanding for salaries, superannuation and directors fees were nil (2020: nil). 

Movements in shares - Audited 

The  movement  during  the  reporting  period  in  the  number  of  ordinary  shares  in  the  Company  held  directly,  indirectly  or 

beneficially by each key management personnel, including their related parties, is as follows: 

Fully paid ordinary shareholdings and transactions - 2021 

Key management 

personnel 

Held at 

30 June 2020 

Purchases 

Sales 

Other 

30 June 2021 

- 

- 

- 

-

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

15,999,573 

Held at 

63,110,762 

14,849,674 

42,290,938 

6,870,767 

15,999,573 

Mark Lochtenberg 

51,999,651 

11,111,111 

John Braham  

Damien Koerber  

Robert Yeates 

David (Ted) Coupland * 

9,294,118 

40,068,716 

3,537,434 

- 

5,555,556 

2,222,222 

3,333,333 

- 

* Number of shares held at date of appointment as a Director

Non-Executive Directors - Audited 

During the financial year ended 30 June 2021, the following Directors were considered Non-Executive Directors: 

• Mark Lochtenberg;

Robert Yeates;

David (Ted) Coupland.

fixed remuneration;

•

•

•

•

•

End of remuneration report. 

The salary component of Non-Executive Directors was made up of: 

9.5% statutory superannuation for Australian resident directors pay through the Company’s payroll; and

an entitlement to receive options, subject to shareholders’ approval.

The  services  of  non-executive  directors  who  are  not  paid  through  the  Company’s  payroll  system  are  provided  by  way  of 

arrangements with related parties.  

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Equus Mining Limited Directors’ Report For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 31 | PageNON-AUDIT SERVICES During the year ended 30 June 2021 KPMG, the Group’s auditor, did not perform other services in addition to the audit and review of the financial statements. Details of the amounts paid to the auditor of the Group, KPMG, and its network firms for audit and non-audit services provided during the year are set out below. 2021 2020 $ $ Services other than audit and review of financial statements: Other services - - Audit and review of financial statements 90,750 84,998 90,750 84,998 AUDITOR’S INDEPENDENCE DECLARATION The lead auditor’s independence declaration is set out on page 34 and forms part of the Directors' Report for the financial year ended 30 June 2021. Signed at Sydney this 30th day of September 2021 in accordance with a resolution of the Board of Directors: Mark H. Lochtenberg John R. Braham Chairman Executive Director Lead Auditor’s Independence Declaration

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32 KPMG, an Australian partnership and a member firm of the KPMG global organisation of independent member firms affiliated with KPMG International Limited, a private English company limited by guarantee. All rights reserved. The KPMG name and logo are trademarks used under license by the independent member firms of the KPMG global organisation. Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation.Lead Auditor’s Independence Declaration under Section 307C of the Corporations Act 2001 To the Directors of Equus Mining Limited I declare that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, in relation to the audit of Equus Mining Limited for the financial year ended 30 June 2021 there have been: i.no contraventions of the auditor independence requirements as set out in the Corporations Act2001 in relation to the audit; andii.no contraventions of any applicable code of professional conduct in relation to the audit.KPMG Jason Adams Partner Brisbane 30 September 2021 Consolidated Statement of Profit or Loss and 
Other Comprehensive Income
Equus Mining Limited 
Consolidated Statement of Profit or Loss and Other Comprehensive Income  
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

For the Year Ended 
30 June 2021

CONTINUING OPERATIONS 
Government grant income 
Expenses 
Employee, directors and consultants costs 
Travel expenses 
Other expenses 

Results from operating activities 
Finance income 
Finance costs 

Net finance income 
Loss before tax 
Tax benefit/(expense) 

Loss for the year 

Other comprehensive income for the year 
Items that may be classified subsequently to profit or loss: 
Exchange differences on translation of foreign operations 

Items that will not be classified subsequently to profit or loss 
Net change in fair value of equity instruments at fair value through other 
comprehensive income  

Total other comprehensive gain/(loss) 
Total comprehensive loss for the year  

Loss for the year attributable to: 
Equity holders of the Company 
Non-controlling interest 

Total comprehensive loss attributable to: 
Equity holders of the Company 
Non-controlling interest 

Earnings per share 
Basic and diluted loss per share (cents) 

Notes 

2021 
$ 

2020 
$ 

4 

4 

5 
5 

6 

13 

5 

50,000 

50,000 

(952,285) 
- 
(820,236) 
(1,722,521) 
3,514 
- 
3,514 
(1,719,007) 
- 
(1,719,007) 

(1,036,551) 
(83,600) 
(675,599) 
(1,745,750) 
16,099 
- 
16,099 
(1,729,651) 
- 
(1,729,651) 

252,926 
252,926 

(1,030,039) 
(1,030,039) 

(999) 
251,927 
(1,467,080) 

(343,371) 
(1,373,410) 
(3,103,061) 

(1,716,498) 
(2,509) 
(1,719,007) 

(1,728,160) 
(1,491) 
(1,729,651) 

(1,464,571) 
(2,509) 
(1,467,080) 

(3,101,570) 
(1,491) 
(3,103,061) 

14 

(0.09) 

(0.13) 

The above Consolidated Statement of Profit or Loss and Other Comprehensive Income should be read in conjunction with the 
accompanying notes. 

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Equus Mining Limited 
Consolidated Statement of Financial Position
Consolidated Statement of Financial Position 
As at 30 June 2021 

As at  
 30 June 2021

Current Assets 

Cash and cash equivalents 

Receivables 

Total Current Assets 

Non-Current Assets 

Other financial assets 

Exploration and evaluation expenditure 

Total Non-Current Assets 

Total Assets 

Current Liabilities 

Payables 

Total Current Liabilities 

Total Liabilities 
Net Assets 

Equity 

Share capital 

Reserves 

Accumulated losses 

Parent entity interest 

Non-controlling interest 

Total Equity 

Notes 

2021 

$ 

2020 

$ 

7 

8 

9 

10 

11 

4,724,429 

1,304,130 

51,834 

14,806 

4,776,263 

1,318,936 

13,803 

11,203,674 

11,217,477 

14,802 

6,895,276 

6,910,078 

15,993,740 

8,229,014 

894,025 

894,025 

894,025 

352,742 

352,742 

352,742 

15,099,715 

7,876,272 

12 

13 

129,460,300 

121,182,362 

137,984 

(493,028) 

(114,502,665)  (112,819,667) 
7,869,667 

15,095,619 

4,096 

6,605 

15,099,715 

7,876,272 

The above Consolidated Statement of Financial Position should be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes. 

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Current Assets 

Cash and cash equivalents 

Receivables 

Total Current Assets 

Non-Current Assets 

Other financial assets 

Exploration and evaluation expenditure 

Total Non-Current Assets 

Total Assets 

Current Liabilities 

Payables 

Total Current Liabilities 

Total Liabilities 

Net Assets 

Equity 

Share capital 

Reserves 

Accumulated losses 

Parent entity interest 

Non-controlling interest 

Total Equity 

Notes 

2021 

$ 

2020 

$ 

7 

8 

9 

10 

11 

4,724,429 

1,304,130 

51,834 

14,806 

4,776,263 

1,318,936 

13,803 

11,203,674 

11,217,477 

14,802 

6,895,276 

6,910,078 

15,993,740 

8,229,014 

894,025 

894,025 

894,025 

352,742 

352,742 

352,742 

15,099,715 

7,876,272 

12 

13 

129,460,300 

121,182,362 

137,984 

(493,028) 

(114,502,665)  (112,819,667) 

15,095,619 

7,869,667 

4,096 

6,605 

15,099,715 

7,876,272 

The above Consolidated Statement of Financial Position should be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes. 

Equus Mining Limited 

Consolidated Statement of Financial Position 

As at 30 June 2021 

Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity

Equus Mining Limited 
Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

For the Year Ended 
30 June 2021

Share  
Capital 
$ 

Accumulated 
Losses 
$ 

Option 
Reserve 
$ 

Fair Value 
Reserve 
$ 

Foreign 
Currency 
Translation 
Reserve 
$ 

Non- 
controlling 
Interest 
$ 

Total 
Equity 
$ 

Total 
$ 

Balance at 1 July 
2019 
Profit/(Loss) for the 
year 
Total other 
comprehensive 
income / (loss) 
Total comprehensive 
profit/(loss) for the 
year 
Transactions with 
owners recorded 
directly in equity 
Ordinary shares 
issued 
Transaction costs on 
issue of shares 

Share base payment 

Changes in 
ownership interest in 
subsidiaries 

Acquisition of 
subsidiary with non-
controlling interest 

Balance at 30 June 
2020 

Balance at 1 July 
2020 
Profit/(Loss) for the 
year 
Total other 
comprehensive 
income / (loss) 
Total comprehensive 
profit/(loss) for the 
year 
Transactions with 
owners recorded 
directly in equity 
Ordinary shares 
issued 
Transaction costs on 
issue of shares 

Share base payments 
Transfer of expired 
options 

Balance at 30 June 
2021 

116,371,685 

(111,091,507) 

(1,728,160) 

- 

- 

745,532 

(203,983) 

5,821,727 

- 

5,821,727 

- 

(1,728,160) 

(1,491) 

(1,729,651) 

- 

- 

- 

5,151,859 

(341,182) 

- 

- 

- 

- 

(343,371) 

(1,030,039) 

(1,373,410) 

- 

(1,373,410) 

(1,728,160) 

- 

(343,371) 

(1,030,039) 

(3,101,570) 

(1,491) 

(3,103,061) 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

338,833 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

5,151,859 

(341,182) 

338,833 

- 

- 

- 

5,151,859 

(341,182) 

338,833 

- 

8,096 

8,096 

121,182,362 

(112,819,667) 

338,833 

402,161 

(1,234,022) 

7,869,667 

6,605 

7,876,272 

121,182,362 

(112,819,667) 

338,833 

402,161 

(1,234,022) 

7,869,667 

6,605 

7,876,272 

- 

- 

- 

(1,716,498) 

- 

(1,716,498) 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

412,585 

- 

- 

- 

33,500 

(33,500) 

8,987,340 

(709,402) 

- 

- 

- 

(1,716,498) 

(2,509) 

(1,719,007) 

(999) 

252,926 

251,927 

- 

251,927 

(999) 

252,926 

(1,464,571) 

(2,509) 

(1,467,080) 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

8,987,340 

(709,402) 

412,585 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

8,987,340 

(709,402) 

412,585 

- 

129,460,300 

(114,502,665) 

717,918 

401,162 

(981,096) 

15,095,619 

4,096  15,099,715 

The above Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity should be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes. 

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Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows
Equus Mining Limited  
Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

For the Year Ended 
30 June 2021

Cash flows from operating activities 

Cash receipts in the course of operations 

Cash payments in the course of operations 

Net cash used in operations 

Interest received 

Net cash used in operating activities 

Cash flows from investing activities 

Payments for exploration and development expenditure 

Proceed from sale of financial assets 

Net cash used in investing activities 

Cash flows from financing activities 

Proceeds from share issues 

Share issue expenses 

Net cash provided by financing activities 

Net increase / (decrease) in cash held 

Cash and cash equivalents at 1 July 

Effects of exchange rate fluctuations on cash held 

Notes 

2020 

$ 

2020 

$ 

50,000 

34,149 

(1,296,129) 

(1,337,246) 

(1,246,129) 

(1,303,097) 

3,514 

12,559 

15 

(1,242,615) 

(1,290,538) 

(3,590,646) 

(2,506,325) 

- 

12,006 

(3,590,646) 

(2,494,319) 

8,775,290 

(516,816) 

8,258,474 

5,027,810 

(341,182) 

4,686,628 

3,425,213 

1,304,130 

(4,914) 

901,771 

398,819 

3,540 

Cash and cash equivalents at 30 June 

15 

4,724,429 

1,304,130 

The above Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows should be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes. 

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Equus Mining Limited  

Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows 

For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

Cash flows from operating activities 

Cash receipts in the course of operations 

Cash payments in the course of operations 

Net cash used in operations 

Interest received 

Net cash used in operating activities 

Cash flows from investing activities 

Payments for exploration and development expenditure 

Proceed from sale of financial assets 

Net cash used in investing activities 

Cash flows from financing activities 

Proceeds from share issues 

Share issue expenses 

Net cash provided by financing activities 

Net increase / (decrease) in cash held 

Cash and cash equivalents at 1 July 

Effects of exchange rate fluctuations on cash held 

Notes 

2020 

$ 

2020 

$ 

50,000 

34,149 

(1,296,129) 

(1,337,246) 

(1,246,129) 

(1,303,097) 

3,514 

12,559 

(3,590,646) 

(2,506,325) 

- 

12,006 

(3,590,646) 

(2,494,319) 

8,775,290 

(516,816) 

8,258,474 

5,027,810 

(341,182) 

4,686,628 

3,425,213 

1,304,130 

(4,914) 

901,771 

398,819 

3,540 

Cash and cash equivalents at 30 June 

15 

4,724,429 

1,304,130 

The above Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows should be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes. 

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
Equus Mining Limited  
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

For the Year Ended 
30 June 2021

1. 

REPORTING ENTITY 

Equus Mining Limited (the 'Company') is a company domiciled in Australia. The address of the Company’s registered office is 
Level 2, 66 Hunter Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000. The consolidated financial statements of the Company as at and for the year 
ended 30 June 2021 comprises the Company and its subsidiaries (together referred to as the 'Group'). The Group is a for-
profit  entity  and  is  primarily  engaged  in  identifying  and  evaluating  mineral  resource  opportunities  in  southern  Chile,  South 
America.  

15 

(1,242,615) 

(1,290,538) 

(a) Statement of compliance 

2. 

BASIS OF PREPARATION 

The consolidated financial statements are general purpose financial statements which have been prepared in accordance with 
Australian  Accounting  Standards  ('AASBs')  adopted  by  the  Australian  Accounting  Standards  Board  ('AASB')  and  the 
Corporations  Act  2001.  The  consolidated  financial  statements  comply  with  International  Financial  Reporting  Standards 
('IFRSs') and interpretations adopted by the International Accounting Standards Board ('IASB'). 

The consolidated financial statements were authorised for issue by the Directors on 30 September 2021. 

(b) Basis of measurement 

The consolidated financial statements have been prepared on the historical cost basis except for certain financial assets which 
are measured at fair value. 

(c) Functional and presentation currency 

These consolidated financial statements are presented in Australian dollars, which is the Company’s functional currency. 

(d) Going concern 

The consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, which contemplates the realisation of 
assets and settlement of liabilities in the ordinary course of business.  

During the year, the Company raised $8,227,438 (net of associated costs) through the issue of ordinary shares via placements.  

The Group recorded a loss attributable to equity holders of the Company of $1,716,498 for the year ended 30 June 2021 and 
has accumulated losses of $114,502,665 as at 30 June 2021. The Group has cash on hand of $4,724,429 at 30 June 2021 
and used $4,833,261 of cash in operations, including payments for exploration and evaluation, for the year ended 30 June 
2021.   

Since the end of the financial year, Equus raised $2,254,710 (before costs) through tranche two of a share placement. The 
additional funding will primarily be used by the Group to pursue its plans for the Cerro Bayo project. 

The Directors have prepared cash flow projections that support the ability of the Group to continue as a going concern. The 
cash flow projections assume the Group continues substantial exploration activities in the Cerro Bayo area of interest which 
will require additional funding from shareholders or other parties that is yet to be secured at the date of this report. If such 
funding is not secured, the Group plans to reduce expenditure to the level of funding available.  

These conditions give rise to a material uncertainty that may cast significant doubt upon the Group’s ability to continue as a 
going concern. The ongoing operation of the Group is dependent upon the Group raising additional funding from shareholders 
or other parties and/or the Group reducing expenditure in-line with available funding.  

In the event that the Group does not obtain additional funding and/or reduce expenditure in line with available funding, which 
are uncertain until secured or realised, it may not be able to continue its operations as a going concern and therefore may not 
be able to realise its assets and extinguish its liabilities in the ordinary course of operations and at the amounts stated in the 
consolidated financial statements. 

(e) Use of estimates and judgements 

The preparation of the consolidated financial statements in conformity with AASBs requires management to make judgements, 
estimates and assumptions that affect the application of accounting policies and the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, 
income and expenses. Actual results may differ from these estimates. 

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
Equus Mining Limited  
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

For the Year Ended 
30 June 2021

2. 

BASIS OF PREPARATION (Cont.) 

(e) Use of estimates and judgements (Cont.) 

Estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised 
in the period in which the estimate is revised and in any future periods affected. 

In  particular,  information  about  significant  areas  of  estimation  uncertainty  and  critical  judgements  in  applying  accounting 
policies that have the most significant effect on the amount recognised in the consolidated financial statements are described 
in the following notes: 

•  Note 2(d) - Going concern; 
•  Note 10 - Exploration and evaluation expenditure. 

COVID-19 
The  COVID-19  pandemic  has  continued  having  significant  uncertainty  in  global  economic  conditions  as  well  as  from  the 
impacts of government imposed restrictions implemented in response to the outbreak. The Group has considered the impacts 
of COVID-19 on the key estimates and judgements in the preparation of the financial statements for the year ended 30 June 
2021.   

Subsequent  to  the  end  of  the  reporting  period,  the  COVID-19  pandemic  has  remained  prevalent  and  this  may  impact  the 
results of operations of the Group in future reporting periods. Given the nature and uncertainties associated with the pandemic, 
these impacts are not able to be reliably estimated at the date of issuing this financial report. 

3. 

SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES 

(a) Changes in accounting policies 

The accounting policies set out below have been applied consistently to all periods presented in these consolidated financial 
statements, and have been applied consistently by entities in the Group. 

(b) Finance income and finance costs 

Finance income comprises interest income on funds invested, dividend income. Interest income is recognised as it accrues in 
profit or loss, using the effective interest method. Dividend income is recognised in profit or loss on the date that the Group’s 
right to receive payment is established, which in the case of quoted securities is the ex-dividend date. 

Finance costs comprise interest expense on borrowings. Borrowing costs that are not directly attributable to the acquisition, 
construction or production of a qualifying asset are recognised in profit or loss using the effective interest method. 

Foreign currency gains and losses are reported on a net basis. 

(c) Exploration and evaluation expenditure 

Exploration and evaluation expenditure, including the costs of acquiring licences, are capitalised as intangible exploration and 
evaluation assets on an area of interest basis, less any impairment losses. Costs incurred before the Group has obtained the 
legal rights to explore an area are recognised in profit or loss. 

Exploration and evaluation assets are only recognised if the rights of the area of interest are current and either: 

• 

• 

the  expenditures  are  expected  to  be  recouped  through  successful  development  and  exploitation  of  the  area  of 
interest; or 

activities  in  the  area  of  interest  have  not  at  the  reporting  date,  reached  a  stage  which  permits  a  reasonable 
assessment of the existence or otherwise of economically recoverable reserves and active and significant operations 
in, or in relation to, the area of interest are continuing. 

Exploration and evaluation assets are assessed for impairment if sufficient data exists to determine technical feasibility and 
commercial viability and facts and circumstances suggest that the carrying amount exceeds the recoverable amount. For the 
purposes  of  impairment  testing,  exploration  and  evaluation  assets  are  allocated  to  cash-generating  units  to  which  the 
exploration activity relates. The cash generating unit shall not be larger than the area of interest. 

Once  the  technical  feasibility  and  commercial  viability  of  the  extraction  of  mineral  resources  in  an  area  of  interest  are 
demonstrable, exploration and evaluation assets attributable to that area of interest are first tested for impairment and then 
reclassified to developing mine properties. 

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
Equus Mining Limited  
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

For the Year Ended 
30 June 2021

3. 

SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Cont.) 

(d) Financial instruments 

Non-derivative financial assets 

Recognition and initial measurement 

In  particular,  information  about  significant  areas  of  estimation  uncertainty  and  critical  judgements  in  applying  accounting 

policies that have the most significant effect on the amount recognised in the consolidated financial statements are described 

The Group initially recognises trade receivables on the date that they are originated. All other financial assets are recognised 
initially on the trade date at which the Group becomes a party to the contractual provisions of the instrument. 

The  COVID-19  pandemic  has  continued  having  significant  uncertainty  in  global  economic  conditions  as  well  as  from  the 

impacts of government imposed restrictions implemented in response to the outbreak. The Group has considered the impacts 

of COVID-19 on the key estimates and judgements in the preparation of the financial statements for the year ended 30 June 

Financial assets and liabilities are offset and the net amount presented in the statement of financial position when, and only 
when, the Group has a legal right to offset the amounts and intends either to settle them on a net basis or to realise the asset 
and settle the liability simultaneously. 

The Group derecognises a financial asset when the contractual rights to the cash flows from the asset expire, or it transfers 
the rights to receive the contractual cash flows on the financial asset in a transaction in which substantially all the risks and 
rewards of ownership of the financial asset are transferred. Any interest in such transferred financial assets that is created or 
retained by the Group is recognised as a separate asset or liability. 

Classification and subsequent measurement 

On initial recognition, a financial asset is classified as measured at: 

•  Amortised cost; 
• 
• 

Fair value through other comprehensive income – equity investment; or  
Fair value through profit or loss.  

Financial assets are not reclassified subsequent to their initial recognition unless the Group changes its business model for 
managing financial assets, in which case all affected financial assets are reclassified on the first day of the first reporting period 
following the change in the business model. 

A financial asset is measured at amortised cost if it meets both the following conditions and is not designated as fair value 
through profit or loss: 

• 
• 

It is held within a business model whose objective is to hold assets to collect contractual cash flows; and 
Its contractual terms give rise on specified dates to cash flows that are solely payments of principal and interest on 
the principal amount outstanding. 

On initial recognition of an equity investment that is not held for trading, the Group may irrevocably elect to present subsequent 
changes in the investment’s fair value through OCI. This election is made on an investment-by-investment basis.  

All  financial  assets  not  classified  as  measured  at  amortised  cost  or  fair  value  through  other  comprehensive  income  as 
described  above  are  measured  at  fair  value  through  profit  or  loss.  This  includes  all  derivative  financial  assets.  On  initial 
recognition, the Group may irrevocably designate a financial asset that otherwise meets the requirements to be measured at 
amortised cost or at fair value through other comprehensive income as at fair value through profit or loss if doing so eliminates 
or significantly reduces an accounting mismatch that would otherwise arise. 

Non-derivative financial liabilities 

Financial liabilities are measured at amortised cost. 

The Group initially recognises debt securities issued and subordinated liabilities on the date that they are originated. All other 
financial liabilities are recognised initially on the trade date, which is the date that the Group becomes a party to the contractual 
provisions of the instrument. 

The Group derecognises a financial liability when its contractual obligations are discharged, cancelled or expire. 

Other financial liabilities comprise loans and borrowings and trade and other payables. 

(e) Share Capital 

Ordinary Shares 

Ordinary shares are classified as equity. Incremental costs directly attributable to the issue of ordinary shares are 
recognised as a deduction from equity, net of any tax effects. 

Estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised 

in the period in which the estimate is revised and in any future periods affected. 

Equus Mining Limited  

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 

For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

2. 

BASIS OF PREPARATION (Cont.) 

(e) Use of estimates and judgements (Cont.) 

in the following notes: 

•  Note 2(d) - Going concern; 

•  Note 10 - Exploration and evaluation expenditure. 

COVID-19 

2021.   

Subsequent  to  the  end  of  the  reporting  period,  the  COVID-19  pandemic  has  remained  prevalent  and  this  may  impact  the 

results of operations of the Group in future reporting periods. Given the nature and uncertainties associated with the pandemic, 

these impacts are not able to be reliably estimated at the date of issuing this financial report. 

3. 

SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES 

(a) Changes in accounting policies 

The accounting policies set out below have been applied consistently to all periods presented in these consolidated financial 

statements, and have been applied consistently by entities in the Group. 

(b) Finance income and finance costs 

Finance income comprises interest income on funds invested, dividend income. Interest income is recognised as it accrues in 

profit or loss, using the effective interest method. Dividend income is recognised in profit or loss on the date that the Group’s 

right to receive payment is established, which in the case of quoted securities is the ex-dividend date. 

Finance costs comprise interest expense on borrowings. Borrowing costs that are not directly attributable to the acquisition, 

construction or production of a qualifying asset are recognised in profit or loss using the effective interest method. 

Foreign currency gains and losses are reported on a net basis. 

(c) Exploration and evaluation expenditure 

interest; or 

• 

• 

Exploration and evaluation expenditure, including the costs of acquiring licences, are capitalised as intangible exploration and 

evaluation assets on an area of interest basis, less any impairment losses. Costs incurred before the Group has obtained the 

legal rights to explore an area are recognised in profit or loss. 

Exploration and evaluation assets are only recognised if the rights of the area of interest are current and either: 

the  expenditures  are  expected  to  be  recouped  through  successful  development  and  exploitation  of  the  area  of 

activities  in  the  area  of  interest  have  not  at  the  reporting  date,  reached  a  stage  which  permits  a  reasonable 

assessment of the existence or otherwise of economically recoverable reserves and active and significant operations 

in, or in relation to, the area of interest are continuing. 

Exploration and evaluation assets are assessed for impairment if sufficient data exists to determine technical feasibility and 

commercial viability and facts and circumstances suggest that the carrying amount exceeds the recoverable amount. For the 

purposes  of  impairment  testing,  exploration  and  evaluation  assets  are  allocated  to  cash-generating  units  to  which  the 

exploration activity relates. The cash generating unit shall not be larger than the area of interest. 

Once  the  technical  feasibility  and  commercial  viability  of  the  extraction  of  mineral  resources  in  an  area  of  interest  are 

demonstrable, exploration and evaluation assets attributable to that area of interest are first tested for impairment and then 

reclassified to developing mine properties. 

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
Equus Mining Limited  
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

For the Year Ended 
30 June 2021

3. 

SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Cont.) 

(f) Basis of consolidation 

Subsidiaries 

Subsidiaries are entities controlled by the Group. The Group controls an entity when it is exposed to, or has rights to, variable 
returns from its involvement with the entity and has the ability to affect those returns through its power over the entity. The 
financial statements of subsidiaries are included in the consolidated financial statements from the date that control commences 
until the date that control ceases. 

Non-controlling interests 

NCI are measured initially at their proportionate share of the acquiree’s identifiable net assets at the date of acquisition. 

Changes in the Group’s interest in a subsidiary that do not result in a loss of control are accounted for as equity transactions.  

Loss of control 

When the Group loses control over a subsidiary, it derecognises the assets and liabilities of the subsidiary, and any related 
NCI and  other  components of equity. Any resulting gain or  loss is recognised in  profit or loss. Any interest retained in the 
former subsidiary is measured at fair value when control is lost. 

Transactions eliminated on consolidation 

Intra-group balances and any unrealised gains and losses or income and expenses arising from intragroup transactions are 
eliminated in preparing the consolidated financial statements. 

(g) Trade and other receivables and payables 

Trade receivables and payables are carried at amortised cost. For receivables and payables with a remaining life of less than 
one  year,  the  notional  amount  is  deemed  to  reflect  the  fair  value.  All  other  receivables  and  payables  are  discounted  to 
determine the fair value. 

(h) Impairment 

Non-derivative financial assets 

The Group recognises loss allowances to an amount equal to lifetime expected credit losses (ECLs), except for the following, 
which are measured at 12-month ECLs: 

-  Debt securities that are determined to have a low credit risk at the reporting date; and 
-  Other debt securities and bank balances for which credit risk (i.e the risk of default occurring over the expected life 

of the financial instrument) has not increased significantly since initial recognition.  

Loss allowances for trade receivables and contract assets are always measured at an amount equal to lifetime ECLs.  

Measurement of ECLs 

ECLs  are  a  probability  weighted  estimate  of  credit  losses.  Credit  losses  are  measured  as  the  present  value  of  all  cash 
shortfalls. ECL’s are discounted at the effective interest rate of the financial asset.  

Non-financial assets 

An impairment loss is recognised whenever the carrying amount of an asset or its cash-generating unit (CGU) exceeds its 
recoverable amount. The recoverable amount of an asset or CGU is the greater of their fair value less costs to sell and value 
in use. In assessing value in use, the estimated future cash flows are discounted to their present value using a pre-tax discount 
rate that reflects current market assessments of the time  value of money and the risks specific to the asset or CGU.  For 
impairment testing, assets are grouped together into the smallest group of assets that generates cash inflows from continuing 
use that are largely independent of the cash inflows of other assets or CGUs.  Impairment losses are recognised in profit or 
loss. 

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(f) Basis of consolidation 

Subsidiaries 

until the date that control ceases. 

Non-controlling interests 

Loss of control 

determine the fair value. 

(h) Impairment 

Non-derivative financial assets 

Equus Mining Limited  

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 

For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
Equus Mining Limited  
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

For the Year Ended 
30 June 2021

3. 

SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Cont.) 

3. 

SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Cont.) 

Subsidiaries are entities controlled by the Group. The Group controls an entity when it is exposed to, or has rights to, variable 

returns from its involvement with the entity and has the ability to affect those returns through its power over the entity. The 

financial statements of subsidiaries are included in the consolidated financial statements from the date that control commences 

(h) Impairment (Cont.) 

Reversals of impairment 

An  impairment  loss  in  respect  of  a  financial  asset  carried  at  amortised  cost  is  reversed  if  the  subsequent  increase  in 
recoverable amount can be related objectively to an event occurring after the impairment loss was recognised. 

In respect of non-financial assets, an impairment loss is reversed if there has been a conclusive change in the estimates used 
to determine the recoverable amount. An impairment loss is reversed only to the extent that the asset's carrying amount does 
not exceed the carrying amount that would have been determined, net of depreciation or amortisation, if no impairment loss 
had been recognised. 

NCI are measured initially at their proportionate share of the acquiree’s identifiable net assets at the date of acquisition. 

Changes in the Group’s interest in a subsidiary that do not result in a loss of control are accounted for as equity transactions.  

(i) Cash and cash equivalents 

When the Group loses control over a subsidiary, it derecognises the assets and liabilities of the subsidiary, and any related 

NCI and  other  components of equity. Any resulting gain or  loss is recognised in  profit or loss. Any interest retained in the 

former subsidiary is measured at fair value when control is lost. 

Current tax and deferred tax is recognised in profit or loss except to the extent that it relates to a business combination or 
items recognised directly in equity or in other comprehensive income. 

Transactions eliminated on consolidation 

Current tax 

Intra-group balances and any unrealised gains and losses or income and expenses arising from intragroup transactions are 

eliminated in preparing the consolidated financial statements. 

Current tax is the expected tax payable or receivable on the taxable income or loss for the year, using tax rates enacted or 
substantially enacted at the reporting date, and any adjustment to tax payable in respect of previous years. 

(g) Trade and other receivables and payables 

Deferred tax 

Trade receivables and payables are carried at amortised cost. For receivables and payables with a remaining life of less than 

one  year,  the  notional  amount  is  deemed  to  reflect  the  fair  value.  All  other  receivables  and  payables  are  discounted  to 

Deferred tax is recognised in respect of temporary differences between the carrying amount of assets and liabilities for financial 
reporting purposes and the amounts used for taxation purposes. Deferred tax is not recognised for: 

Cash and cash equivalents comprise cash balances and call deposits with an original maturity of three months or less. 

(j) Income tax 

The Group recognises loss allowances to an amount equal to lifetime expected credit losses (ECLs), except for the following, 

which are measured at 12-month ECLs: 

-  Debt securities that are determined to have a low credit risk at the reporting date; and 

-  Other debt securities and bank balances for which credit risk (i.e the risk of default occurring over the expected life 

of the financial instrument) has not increased significantly since initial recognition.  

Loss allowances for trade receivables and contract assets are always measured at an amount equal to lifetime ECLs.  

Measurement of ECLs 

Non-financial assets 

ECLs  are  a  probability  weighted  estimate  of  credit  losses.  Credit  losses  are  measured  as  the  present  value  of  all  cash 

shortfalls. ECL’s are discounted at the effective interest rate of the financial asset.  

An impairment loss is recognised whenever the carrying amount of an asset or its cash-generating unit (CGU) exceeds its 

recoverable amount. The recoverable amount of an asset or CGU is the greater of their fair value less costs to sell and value 

in use. In assessing value in use, the estimated future cash flows are discounted to their present value using a pre-tax discount 

rate that reflects current market assessments of the time  value of money and the risks specific to the asset or CGU.  For 

impairment testing, assets are grouped together into the smallest group of assets that generates cash inflows from continuing 

use that are largely independent of the cash inflows of other assets or CGUs.  Impairment losses are recognised in profit or 

loss. 

• 

• 

• 

temporary differences on the initial recognition of assets or liabilities in a transaction that is not a business combination 
and that affects neither accounting nor taxable profit or loss; 

temporary differences related to investments in subsidiaries to the extent that the Group is able to control the timing 
of the reversal of the temporary differences and it is probable that they will not reverse in the foreseeable future; or 

taxable temporary differences arising on the initial recognition of goodwill. 

The measurement of deferred tax reflects the tax consequences that would follow the manner in which the Group expects, at 
the end of the reporting period, to recover or settle the carrying amount of its assets and liabilities. 

Deferred tax is measured at the tax rates that are expected to be applied to temporary differences when they reverse, using 
tax rates enacted or substantively enacted at the reporting date. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are offset if there is a legally 
enforceable right to offset current tax liabilities and assets and they relate to taxes levied by the same tax authority on the 
same taxable entity, or on different tax entities, but they intend to settle current tax liabilities and assets on a net basis or their 
tax assets and liabilities will be realised simultaneously. 

A deferred tax asset is recognised for unused tax losses, tax credits and deductible temporary differences to the extent that it 
is probable that future taxable profits will be available against which they can be utilised. Deferred tax assets are reviewed at 
each reporting date and are reduced to the extent that it is no longer probable that the related tax benefit will be realised. 

(k) Foreign currency transactions 

Transactions in foreign currencies are translated at the foreign exchange rate ruling at the date of the transaction. Monetary 
assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies at the reporting date are retranslated to the functional currency at the 
exchange rate at the reporting date. The foreign currency gain or loss on monetary items is the difference between amortised 
cost in the functional currency at the beginning of the period, adjusted for effective interest and payments during the period, 
and the amortised cost in foreign currency translated at the exchange rate at the end of the reporting period. 

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
Equus Mining Limited  
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

For the Year Ended 
30 June 2021

3. 

SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Cont.) 

(k) Foreign currency transactions (Cont.) 

Non-monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies that are measured at fair value are retranslated to the 
functional currency at the exchange rate at the date that the fair value was determined. Foreign currency differences arising 
on retranslation are recognised in profit or loss, except for differences arising on the retranslation of  investments in equity 
securities  designated  as  FVOCI,  a  financial  liability  designated  as  a  hedge  of  the  net  investment  in  a  foreign  operation  or 
qualifying cash flow hedges, which are recognised in other comprehensive income. Non-monetary items that are measured in 
terms of historical cost in a foreign currency are translated using the exchange rate at the date of the transaction. 

(l) Foreign operations 

The  assets  and  liabilities  of  foreign  operations  are  translated  to  Australian  dollars  at  foreign  exchange  rates  ruling  at  the 
reporting date. The income and expenses of foreign operations are translated to Australian dollars at rates approximating the 
foreign  exchange  rates  ruling  at  the  dates  of  the  transactions.    Foreign  exchange  differences  arising  on  retranslation  are 
recognised directly in the foreign currency translation reserve ('FCTR'), a separate component of equity. 

Foreign exchange gains and losses arising from a monetary item receivable or payable to a foreign operation, the settlement 
of which is neither planned nor likely in the foreseeable future, are considered to form part of a net investment in a foreign 
operation and are recognised directly in the FCTR. 

Any  references  to  functional  currency,  unless  otherwise  stated,  are  to  the  functional  currency  of  the  Company,  Australian 
dollars. 

When a foreign operation is disposed of, in part or in full, the relevant amount in the FCTR is transferred to profit or loss as 
part of the profit or loss on disposal. 

When the settlement of a monetary item receivable from or payable to a foreign operation is neither planned nor likely in the 
foreseeable future, foreign exchange gains and losses arising from such a monetary item are considered to form part of a net 
investment in a foreign operation and are recognised in other comprehensive income, and are presented within equity in the 
FCTR. 

(m) Segment reporting 

Determination and presentation of operating segments 

The Group determines and presents operating segments based on the information that is provided internally to the Executive 
Director, who is the Group's chief operating decision maker. 

An operating segment is a component of the Group that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and 
incur expenses, including revenues and expenses that relate to transactions with any of the Group's other components.  All 
operating  segments'  operating  results  are  regularly  reviewed  by  the  Group's  Executive  Director  to  make  decisions  about 
resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and for which discrete financial information is available. 

Segment results that are reported to the Executive Director include items directly attributable to a segment as well as those 
that can be allocated on a reasonable basis. Unallocated items comprise mainly corporate assets (primarily the Company's 
headquarters), head office expenses, and income tax assets and liabilities. 

Segment capital expenditure is the total cost incurred during the period to acquire property, plant and equipment, and intangible 
assets other than goodwill. 

(n) Provisions  

A provision is recognised if, as a result of a past event, the Group has a present legal or constructive obligation that can be 
estimated reliably, and it is probable that an outflow of economic benefits will be required to settle the obligation. Provisions 
are determined by discounting the expected future cash flows at a pre-tax rate that reflects the current market assessments 
of the time value of money and the risks specific to the liability. The unwinding of the discount is recognised as a finance cost. 

(o) Goods and services tax (GST) 

Revenues, expenses and assets are recognised net of the amount of GST, except where the amount of GST incurred is not 
recoverable  from  the  Australian  Taxation  Office.  In  these  circumstances,  the  GST  is  recognised  as  part  of  the  cost  of 
acquisition  of  the  asset  or  as  part  of  an  item  of  the  expense.  Receivables  and  payables  in  the  balance  sheet  are  shown 
inclusive of GST. 

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
Equus Mining Limited  
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

For the Year Ended 
30 June 2021

3. 

SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Cont.) 

(o) Goods and services tax (GST) (Cont.) 

Cash flows are presented in the Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows on a gross basis, except for the GST component of 
investing and financing activities, which are disclosed as operating cash flows. 

(p) Employee benefits 

Short-term employee benefits 

Short-term employee benefits are expensed as the related service is provided. A liability is recognised for the amount expected 
to be paid if the Group has a present legal or constructive obligation to pay this amount as a result of past service provided by 
the employee and the obligation can be estimated reliably. 

Share-based payment transactions 

The grant-date fair value of share-based payment awards granted is recognised as an employee and consultants expense, 
with a corresponding increase in equity, over the period that the employees become unconditionally entitled to the awards. 
The amount recognised as an expense is adjusted to reflect the number of awards for which the related service and non-
market vesting conditions are expected to be met, such that the amount ultimately recognised as an expense is based on the 
number of awards that meet the related service and non-market performance conditions at the vesting date.  For share-based 
payment awards with non-vesting conditions, the grant date fair value of the share-based payment is measured to reflect such 
conditions and there is no true-up for differences between expected and actual outcomes. 

When a foreign operation is disposed of, in part or in full, the relevant amount in the FCTR is transferred to profit or loss as 

part of the profit or loss on disposal. 

(q) Determination of fair values 

When the settlement of a monetary item receivable from or payable to a foreign operation is neither planned nor likely in the 

foreseeable future, foreign exchange gains and losses arising from such a monetary item are considered to form part of a net 

investment in a foreign operation and are recognised in other comprehensive income, and are presented within equity in the 

A number of the Group's accounting policies and disclosures require the determination of fair value for both financial and non-
financial assets and liabilities. Fair values have been determined for measurement and/or disclosure purposes based on the 
following methods. When applicable, further information about the assumptions made in determining fair values is disclosed 
in the notes specific to that asset or liability. 

Investments in equity securities 

The  fair  values  of  investments  in  equity  securities  are  determined  with  reference  to  the  quoted  market  price  that  is  most 
representative of the fair value of the security at the measurement date. 

Share-based payment transactions 

The fair value of the share options is measured using the Black-Scholes formula. Measurement inputs include share price on 
measurement  date,  exercise  price  of  the  instrument,  expected  volatility  (based  on  weighted  average  historic  volatility), 
expected dividends, and the risk-free interest rate (based on government bonds). 

The  grant-date  fair  value  of  share-based  payment  awards  is  recognised  as  an  expense,  with  a  corresponding  increase  in 
equity, over the period that the recipient unconditionally become entitled to the awards. The amount recognised as an expense 
is adjusted to reflect the number of awards for which the related service and non-market vesting conditions are expected to 
be met, such that the amount ultimately recognised as an expense is based on the number of awards that meet the related 
service  and  non-market  performance  conditions  at  the  vesting  date.  For  share-based  payment  awards  with  non-vesting 
conditions, the grant date fair value of the share-based payment is measured to reflect such conditions and there is no true-
up for differences between expected and actual outcomes. Service and non-market performance conditions are not taken into 
account in determining fair value. 

Equus Mining Limited  

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 

For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

3. 

SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Cont.) 

(k) Foreign currency transactions (Cont.) 

Non-monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies that are measured at fair value are retranslated to the 

functional currency at the exchange rate at the date that the fair value was determined. Foreign currency differences arising 

on retranslation are recognised in profit or loss, except for differences arising on the retranslation of  investments in equity 

securities  designated  as  FVOCI,  a  financial  liability  designated  as  a  hedge  of  the  net  investment  in  a  foreign  operation  or 

qualifying cash flow hedges, which are recognised in other comprehensive income. Non-monetary items that are measured in 

terms of historical cost in a foreign currency are translated using the exchange rate at the date of the transaction. 

(l) Foreign operations 

The  assets  and  liabilities  of  foreign  operations  are  translated  to  Australian  dollars  at  foreign  exchange  rates  ruling  at  the 

reporting date. The income and expenses of foreign operations are translated to Australian dollars at rates approximating the 

foreign  exchange  rates  ruling  at  the  dates  of  the  transactions.    Foreign  exchange  differences  arising  on  retranslation  are 

recognised directly in the foreign currency translation reserve ('FCTR'), a separate component of equity. 

Foreign exchange gains and losses arising from a monetary item receivable or payable to a foreign operation, the settlement 

of which is neither planned nor likely in the foreseeable future, are considered to form part of a net investment in a foreign 

operation and are recognised directly in the FCTR. 

Any  references  to  functional  currency,  unless  otherwise  stated,  are  to  the  functional  currency  of  the  Company,  Australian 

dollars. 

FCTR. 

(m) Segment reporting 

Determination and presentation of operating segments 

The Group determines and presents operating segments based on the information that is provided internally to the Executive 

Director, who is the Group's chief operating decision maker. 

An operating segment is a component of the Group that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and 

incur expenses, including revenues and expenses that relate to transactions with any of the Group's other components.  All 

operating  segments'  operating  results  are  regularly  reviewed  by  the  Group's  Executive  Director  to  make  decisions  about 

resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and for which discrete financial information is available. 

Segment results that are reported to the Executive Director include items directly attributable to a segment as well as those 

that can be allocated on a reasonable basis. Unallocated items comprise mainly corporate assets (primarily the Company's 

headquarters), head office expenses, and income tax assets and liabilities. 

Segment capital expenditure is the total cost incurred during the period to acquire property, plant and equipment, and intangible 

assets other than goodwill. 

(n) Provisions  

A provision is recognised if, as a result of a past event, the Group has a present legal or constructive obligation that can be 

estimated reliably, and it is probable that an outflow of economic benefits will be required to settle the obligation. Provisions 

are determined by discounting the expected future cash flows at a pre-tax rate that reflects the current market assessments 

of the time value of money and the risks specific to the liability. The unwinding of the discount is recognised as a finance cost. 

(o) Goods and services tax (GST) 

Revenues, expenses and assets are recognised net of the amount of GST, except where the amount of GST incurred is not 

recoverable  from  the  Australian  Taxation  Office.  In  these  circumstances,  the  GST  is  recognised  as  part  of  the  cost  of 

acquisition  of  the  asset  or  as  part  of  an  item  of  the  expense.  Receivables  and  payables  in  the  balance  sheet  are  shown 

inclusive of GST. 

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
Equus Mining Limited  
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

For the Year Ended 
30 June 2021

4.  LOSS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES 

Other income 
Recognised in profit or loss 
Government grant 

Other expenses 
Administration costs 
Audit and review services – KPMG  
Accounting and secretarial fees 
Legal fees 
Insurance 
ASIC and ASX fees 
Share registry fees 

5.  FINANCE INCOME AND FINANCE COSTS 

Recognised in profit and loss 
Interest income on cash deposits 
Foreign exchange gain / (loss) 
Finance income 
Finance costs 
Net finance income/(costs) recognised in profit or loss   

Recognised in other comprehensive income 
Net change in fair value of equity instruments at fair value  
Finance cost recognised in other comprehensive income, net of tax  

6.    INCOME TAX EXPENSE 

Current tax expense 
Current year  

Overprovision in prior year 

Losses not recognised 

Numerical reconciliation of income tax expense to prima facie tax payable: 

Loss before tax 

Prima facie income tax benefit at the Australian tax rate of 26% (2020: 27.5%) 

Decrease in income tax benefit due to: 

- non-deductible expenses 

- effect of deferred tax asset (DTA) for capital losses not brought to account 

- effect of DTA for tax losses not brought to account 

- effect of DTA for temporary differences not brought to account 

Income tax expense/(benefit) 

2021 
$ 

2020 
$ 

50,000 
50,000 

50,000 
50,000 

243,810 
90,750 
28,300 
237,975 
57,574 
97,775 
64,052 
820,236 

173,869 
84,998 
24,000 
267,729 
43,225 
59,771 
22,007 
675,599 

2021 
$ 

2020 
$ 

3,514 
- 
3,514 
- 
3,514 

12,559 
3,540 
16,099 
- 
16,099 

(999) 
(999) 

(343,371) 
(343,371) 

2021 

$ 

2020 

$ 

(526,520) 

(357,745) 

- 

- 

526,520 

357,745  

- 

- 

1,719,007 

(1,729,651) 

(446,942) 

(475,654) 

76,541 

179,699 

- 

37,876 

332,525 

- 

- 

371,496 

(75,541) 

- 

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Equus Mining Limited  

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 

For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
Equus Mining Limited  
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

6.    INCOME TAX EXPENSE (Cont.) 

Unrecognised deferred tax assets 

Deferred tax assets have not been recognised in respect of the following items: 

Capital losses 

Tax losses 

Net deductible temporary differences 

Potential tax benefit at 26% (2020: 27.5%) 

For the Year Ended 
30 June 2021

2021 

$ 

2020 

$ 

5,574,426 

6,131,868 

4,023,021 

3,985,145 

272,483 

185,268 

9,869,930  10,302,281 

The deductible temporary differences and tax losses do not expire under current tax legislation. Deferred tax assets have not 
been recognised in respect of these items because it is not probable that future taxable profit will be available against which 
the Group can utilise the benefits there-from. 

7.  CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS 

Cash at bank 

Deposits at call 

8.  RECEIVABLES 

Current 
Sundry debtors 

2021 

$ 

2020 

$ 

615,889 

229,412 

4,108,540 

1,074,718 

4,724,429 

1,304,130 

2021 

$ 

2020 

$ 

51,834 

14,806 

Trade and sundry debtors are non-interest bearing and generally on 30-day terms. 

9. 

INVESTMENTS 

At 30 June 2021, the Group holds 1,327,000 shares (30 June 2020: 1,327,000) in Blox Inc., a US over the counter traded 
company at which had a closing share price of US$0.0078 at 30 June 2021 (30 June 2020: US$0.0080). 

The Group recognises its financial assets at fair value and classifies its investments as follows: 

Equity instruments at fair value through other comprehensive income 

Equity securities – Investment in Blox Inc. 

2021 

$ 

2020 

$ 

13,803 

14,802 

Equity instruments at fair value through other comprehensive income are equity instruments which the Group intends to hold 
for  the  foreseeable  future.  Any  dividends  received  are  recognised  as  income  in  profit  or  loss  unless  the  dividend  clearly 
represents a recovery of part of the cost of the investment. Other net gains and losses are recognised in the fair value reserve 
in OCI and are never reclassified to profit or loss. 

Movement of the carrying amount of investment. 

Movement during the period 
Opening balance 

Disposal 

Net change in fair value 

Equity securities – at fair value through other comprehensive income 

2021 

$ 

14,802 

- 

2020 

$ 

370,179 

(12,006) 

(999) 

(343,371) 

13,803 

14,802 

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4.  LOSS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES 

Other income 

Recognised in profit or loss 

Government grant 

Other expenses 

Administration costs 

Audit and review services – KPMG  

Accounting and secretarial fees 

Legal fees 

Insurance 

ASIC and ASX fees 

Share registry fees 

5.  FINANCE INCOME AND FINANCE COSTS 

Recognised in profit and loss 

Interest income on cash deposits 

Foreign exchange gain / (loss) 

Finance income 

Finance costs 

Net finance income/(costs) recognised in profit or loss   

Recognised in other comprehensive income 

Net change in fair value of equity instruments at fair value  

Finance cost recognised in other comprehensive income, net of tax  

6.    INCOME TAX EXPENSE 

Current tax expense 

Current year  

Overprovision in prior year 

Losses not recognised 

Numerical reconciliation of income tax expense to prima facie tax payable: 

Loss before tax 

Prima facie income tax benefit at the Australian tax rate of 26% (2020: 27.5%) 

Decrease in income tax benefit due to: 

- non-deductible expenses 

- effect of deferred tax asset (DTA) for capital losses not brought to account 

- effect of DTA for tax losses not brought to account 

- effect of DTA for temporary differences not brought to account 

Income tax expense/(benefit) 

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2021 

$ 

2020 

$ 

50,000 

50,000 

50,000 

50,000 

243,810 

173,869 

237,975 

267,729 

90,750 

28,300 

57,574 

97,775 

64,052 

84,998 

24,000 

43,225 

59,771 

22,007 

820,236 

675,599 

2021 

$ 

2020 

$ 

3,514 

3,514 

- 

- 

12,559 

3,540 

16,099 

- 

3,514 

16,099 

(999) 

(999) 

(343,371) 

(343,371) 

2021 

$ 

2020 

$ 

(526,520) 

(357,745) 

526,520 

357,745  

1,719,007 

(1,729,651) 

(446,942) 

(475,654) 

76,541 

179,699 

37,876 

332,525 

371,496 

(75,541) 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
Equus Mining Limited  
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

For the Year Ended 
30 June 2021

10.  EXPLORATION AND EVALUATION EXPENDITURE 

Los Domos gold-silver 

Cerro Diablo gold-silver 

Cerro Bayo 

Net Book Value 

Los Domos gold-silver 

Carrying amount at the beginning of the year 

Additions 

Impairment 

Foreign currency translation movement 

Balance carried forward 

Cerro Diablo gold-silver 

Carrying amount at the beginning of the year 

Additions 

Impairment 

Foreign currency translation movement 

Balance carried forward 

Cerro Bayo 

Carrying amount at the beginning of the year 

Additions 

Impairment 

Foreign currency translation movement 

Balance carried forward 

Net book value 

2021 

$ 

2020 

$ 

4,979,807 

4,743,528 

72,404 
6,151,463 

58,423 
2,093,325 

11,203,674 

6,895,276 

4,743,528 

5,173,477 

70,044 

435,360 

- 

- 

166,235 

(865,309) 

4,979,807 

4,743,528 

58,423 

11,751 

- 

2,230 

72,404 

55,082 

13,507 

- 

(10,166) 

58,423 

2,093,325 

- 

3,941,212 

2,292,035 

- 

- 

116,926 

(198,710) 

6,151,463 

2,093,325 

11,203,674 

6,895,276 

The  ultimate  recoupment  of  exploration  and  evaluation  expenditure  is  dependent  on  the  successful  development  and 
commercial exploitation, or alternatively sale of the respective areas of interest. 

11.  TRADE AND OTHER PAYABLES 

Current liabilities 

Trade creditors and accruals 

Employee leave entitlements 

2021 

$ 

2020 

$ 

842,710 

51,315 

894,025 

319,696 

33,046 

352,742 

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Equus Mining Limited  

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 

For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
Equus Mining Limited  
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

For the Year Ended 
30 June 2021

2021 

$ 

2020 

$ 

10.  EXPLORATION AND EVALUATION EXPENDITURE 

12.  ISSUED CAPITAL 

2,296,617,251 (2020: 1,412,045,355) fully paid ordinary shares 

129,460,300  121,182,362 

(a) Fully paid ordinary shares 

Balance at beginning of financial year 

Issued ordinary shares 8 August 2019 for $0.010 

Issued ordinary shares 3 September 2019 for $0.010 

Issued ordinary shares 14 October 2019 for $0.010 
Issued ordinary shares 14 October 2019 – non cash 1 
Issued ordinary shares 12 May 2020 – non cash 2 

2021 

2020 

Nº 

$ 

Nº 

$ 

1,412,045,355 

121,182,362 

897,276,863  116,371,685 

134,591,529 

1,345,915 

52,780,992 

527,809 

315,408,471 

3,154,085 

8,687,500 

104,250 

3,300,000 

19,800 

Issued ordinary shares 20 July 2020 for $0.009 

348,886,300 

3,139,977 

Issued ordinary shares 20 September 2020 for $0.009 
Issued ordinary shares 9 December 2020 – non cash 2 
Issued ordinary shares 14 January 2021 – non cash 2 

Issued ordinary shares 3 February 2021 for $0.015 
Issued ordinary shares 24 February 2021 – non cash 2 
Issued ordinary shares 12 May 2021 – non cash 2 

40,002,589 

3,300,000 

11,538,462 

2,000,000 

1,250,000 

750,000 

360,023 

36,300 

150,000 

30,000 

16,375 

9,375 

Issued ordinary shares 28 May 2021 for $0.011 

431,390,000 

4,745,290 

Issued ordinary shares 18 June 2021 for $0.011 

Less cost of issue 

45,454,545 

- 

500,000 

(709,402) 

- 

(341,182) 

1 Shares issued on 14 October 2019 related to the acquisition of 75% interest in three mining concessions owned by Patagonia Gold Sociedad 

Contractual Minera (‘Patagonia’) which form part of the Los Domos Project. 

2 Shares issued as consideration for Geological Technical Services provided in connection with the Cerro Bayo project in southern Chile. 

2,296,617,251 

129,460,300  1,412,045,355  121,182,362 

Fully paid ordinary shares carry one vote per share and carry the right to dividends. 

Holders of ordinary shares are entitled to receive dividends as declared from time to time and are entitled to one vote per 
share at the shareholders meetings. In the event of winding up of the Company, ordinary shareholders rank after creditors and 
are fully entitled to any proceeds of liquidation. 

(b) Share Options 

• 

• 

The Company announced on 20 July 2020, a share placement of 388,888,889 shares. For every one placement share, 
the  company  issued  one  free  attaching  option.  The  options  are  unlisted  and  have  an  exercise  price  of  $0.015,  vest 
immediately and expire on 16 September 2023.  

The Company has recognised these options as part of the issued share capital amount recorded of $3,500,000 within 
equity and no allocation to reserves has been made in accordance with the Group’s accounting policy. 

The Company announced on 20 July 2020, pursuant to the share placement to grant 15,000,000 unlisted options to the 
brokers of the placement. The options have an exercise price of $0.015, vest immediately and expire on 16 September 
2023.  

The fair value of the options was $192,585. The Black-Scholes formula model inputs were the Company's share price of 
$0.017 at the grant date, a volatility factor of 129.63% based on historical share price performance and a risk-free interest 
rate of 0.24% based on the 3-year government bond rate. 

As the options are not subject to vesting conditions, the total grant date fair value of $192,585 (30 June 2020: $nil) has 
been recognised in equity as cost of the offer in the year ended 30 June 2021. 

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Los Domos gold-silver 

Cerro Diablo gold-silver 

Cerro Bayo 

Net Book Value 

Los Domos gold-silver 

Carrying amount at the beginning of the year 

Additions 

Impairment 

Foreign currency translation movement 

Balance carried forward 

Cerro Diablo gold-silver 

Carrying amount at the beginning of the year 

Foreign currency translation movement 

Balance carried forward 

Carrying amount at the beginning of the year 

Additions 

Impairment 

Cerro Bayo 

Additions 

Impairment 

Foreign currency translation movement 

Balance carried forward 

Net book value 

11.  TRADE AND OTHER PAYABLES 

Current liabilities 

Trade creditors and accruals 

Employee leave entitlements 

The  ultimate  recoupment  of  exploration  and  evaluation  expenditure  is  dependent  on  the  successful  development  and 

commercial exploitation, or alternatively sale of the respective areas of interest. 

2021 

$ 

2020 

$ 

4,979,807 

4,743,528 

72,404 

58,423 

6,151,463 

2,093,325 

11,203,674 

6,895,276 

4,743,528 

5,173,477 

70,044 

435,360 

- 

- 

166,235 

(865,309) 

4,979,807 

4,743,528 

58,423 

11,751 

- 

2,230 

72,404 

55,082 

13,507 

(10,166) 

58,423 

2,093,325 

3,941,212 

2,292,035 

- 

116,926 

(198,710) 

6,151,463 

2,093,325 

11,203,674 

6,895,276 

- 

- 

- 

2021 

$ 

2020 

$ 

842,710 

51,315 

894,025 

319,696 

33,046 

352,742 

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
Equus Mining Limited  
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

For the Year Ended 
30 June 2021

12.  ISSUED CAPITAL (Cont.) 

(b) 

Share Options (Cont.) 

•  During  the  year  ended  30  June  2021,  the  Company  granted  25,000,000  options  to  Directors  of  the  Company  (2020: 

option 35,000,000).  

On 25 November 2020, 20,000,000 unlisted options were granted to the Managing Director (‘MD’) and 5,000,000 unlisted 
options were granted to the Chief Operating Officer (‘COO’) as follows: 

Number of 
options 
8,333,332 
8,333,334 
8,333,334 

Exercise 
price 
$0.022 
$0.025 
$0.027 

Vesting 

Expiry Date 

Immediately  25 November 2023 
Immediately  25 November 2024 
Immediately  25 November 2025 

Fair Value per Option 
at Grant Date 
$0.007 
$0.008 
$0.009 

Fair 
Value 
$58,333 
$66,667 
$75,000 

Tranche 1 
Tranche 2 
Tranche 3 

The fair value of the options granted on 25 November 2020 to the MD and the COO was $200,000. The Black-Scholes 
formula model inputs were the Company's share price of $0.011 at the grant date, a volatility factor of 136.2% based on 
historical share price performance and a risk-free interest rate of 0.11% based on the 3-year government bond rate. 

•  On 1 December 2020, 2,500,000 unlisted options were granted to the Group’s Exploration Manager. The options have 

an exercise price of $0.022, vest immediately and expire on 1 December 2023. 

The fair value of the options granted to the Exploration Manager was $20,000. The Black-Scholes formula model inputs 
were the Company's share price of $0.012 at the grant date, a volatility factor of 137.27% based on historical share price 
performance and a risk-free interest rate of 0.12% based on the 3-year government bond rate.  

• 

The options issued to the MD, COO and the Exploration manager are not subject to vesting conditions, the total grant 
date fair value of $220,000 (30 June 2020: $338,833) has been recognised as an expense in the year ended 30 June 
2021. The expense has been included in “employee, director and consultants costs” in the income statement. 

•  On 14 October 2019, 15,000,000 unlisted options were granted to the Managing Director (‘MD’) as follows: 
Fair Value per Option 
at Grant Date 
$0.0067 
$0.0086 
$0.0118 

Immediately  13 November 2020 
Immediately  13 November 2021 
Immediately  13 November 2023 

Number of 
options 
5,000,000 
5,000,000 
5,000,000 

Exercise 
price 
$0.03 
$0.05 
$0.07 

Tranche 1 
Tranche 2 
Tranche 3 

Expiry Date 

Vesting 

Fair 
Value 
$33,500 
$43,000 
$59,000 

The fair value of the options granted on 14 October 2019 to the MD was $135,500. The Black-Scholes formula model 
inputs were the Company's share  price  of $0.0155 at the  grant date, a volatility factor  of 152.6% based on historical 
share price performance and a risk-free interest rate of 0.71% based on the 2-year government bond rate. 

•  On 29 November 2019, 20,000,000 unlisted options were granted to the Managing Director as follows: 

Number of 
options 
6,666,666 
6,666,667 
6,666,667 

Exercise 
price 
$0.027 
$0.030 
$0.035 

Vesting 

Expiry Date 

Fair Value per Option 
at Grant Date 

Immediately  13 November 2021 
Immediately  13 November 2022 
Immediately  13 November 2024 

$0.0084 
$0.0101 
$0.0120 

Fair 
Value 
$56,000 
$67,333 
$80,000 

Tranche 1 
Tranche 2 
Tranche 3 

The fair value of options granted on 29 November 2019 to the MD was $203,333.  The Black-Scholes formula model 
inputs were the Company's share  price  of $0.014  at the grant date,  a volatility factor of  149.46%  based on  historical 
share price performance and a risk-free interest rate of 0.65% based on the 3-year government bond rate. 

As the options are not subject to vesting conditions, the total grant date fair value of $338,833 has been recognised as 
an expense in the year ended 30 June 2020. The expense has been included in “employee, director and consultants 
costs” in the income statement. 

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•  During  the  year  ended  30  June  2021,  the  Company  granted  25,000,000  options  to  Directors  of  the  Company  (2020: 

The following unlisted options were on issue as at 30 June 2021: 

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
Equus Mining Limited  
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

For the Year Ended 
30 June 2021

12.

ISSUED CAPITAL (Cont.)

(b) Share Options (Cont.)

Opening 
Balance 
1 July 2020 
Number 

5,000,000 

5,000,000 

5,000,000 
6,666,666 

6,666,667 

6,666,667 

-

-

-

-

-

Exercise Price 

Granted 
during the year 

Expired during 
the year 

Exercised during 
the year 

Closing Balance 
30 June 2021 

$ 

0.030 

0.050 

0.070 
0.027 

0.030 

0.035 

0.022

0.025

0.027

0.022

0.015

Number 

5,000,000 

5,000,000 

5,000,000 
6,666,666 

6,666,667 

6,666,667 

8,333,332 

8,333,334 

8,333,334 

2,500,000 

403,888,889 

Number 

Number 

Number 

(5,000,000) 

- 

- 
- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

-

- 
- 

- 
- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

5,000,000 

5,000,000 
6,666,666 

6,666,667 

6,666,667 

8,333,332 

8,333,334 

8,333,334 

2,500,000 

(2,000,000)

401,888,889 

The following unlisted options were on issue as at 30 June 2020: 

Opening Balance 
1 July 2019 

Number 

-
-

-

-

-

-

Exercise Price 

Granted  
during the year 

$ 

0.030
0.050

0.070

0.027

0.030

0.035

Number 

5,000,000 
5,000,000 

5,000,000 

6,666,666 

6,666,667 

6,666,667 

Exercised/
Expired 
during the year 
Number 

Exercised during 
the year 

Closing Balance 
30 June 2020 

Number 

Number 

- 
- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 
- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

5,000,000 
5,000,000 

5,000,000 

6,666,666 

6,666,667 

6,666,667 

Equus Mining Limited  

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 

For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

12.  ISSUED CAPITAL (Cont.) 

(b) 

Share Options (Cont.) 

option 35,000,000).  

On 25 November 2020, 20,000,000 unlisted options were granted to the Managing Director (‘MD’) and 5,000,000 unlisted 

options were granted to the Chief Operating Officer (‘COO’) as follows: 

Exercise 

Vesting 

Expiry Date 

Fair Value per Option 

Number of 

options 

8,333,332 

8,333,334 

8,333,334 

price 

$0.022 

$0.025 

$0.027 

Tranche 1 

Tranche 2 

Tranche 3 

Immediately  25 November 2023 

Immediately  25 November 2024 

Immediately  25 November 2025 

at Grant Date 

$0.007 

$0.008 

$0.009 

Fair 

Value 

$58,333 

$66,667 

$75,000 

The fair value of the options granted on 25 November 2020 to the MD and the COO was $200,000. The Black-Scholes 

formula model inputs were the Company's share price of $0.011 at the grant date, a volatility factor of 136.2% based on 

historical share price performance and a risk-free interest rate of 0.11% based on the 3-year government bond rate. 

•  On 1 December 2020, 2,500,000 unlisted options were granted to the Group’s Exploration Manager. The options have 

an exercise price of $0.022, vest immediately and expire on 1 December 2023. 

The fair value of the options granted to the Exploration Manager was $20,000. The Black-Scholes formula model inputs 

were the Company's share price of $0.012 at the grant date, a volatility factor of 137.27% based on historical share price 

performance and a risk-free interest rate of 0.12% based on the 3-year government bond rate.  

• 

The options issued to the MD, COO and the Exploration manager are not subject to vesting conditions, the total grant 

date fair value of $220,000 (30 June 2020: $338,833) has been recognised as an expense in the year ended 30 June 

2021. The expense has been included in “employee, director and consultants costs” in the income statement. 

•  On 14 October 2019, 15,000,000 unlisted options were granted to the Managing Director (‘MD’) as follows: 

Exercise 

Vesting 

Expiry Date 

Fair Value per Option 

Number of 

options 

5,000,000 

5,000,000 

5,000,000 

price 

$0.03 

$0.05 

$0.07 

Tranche 1 

Tranche 2 

Tranche 3 

Immediately  13 November 2020 

Immediately  13 November 2021 

Immediately  13 November 2023 

at Grant Date 

$0.0067 

$0.0086 

$0.0118 

Fair 

Value 

$33,500 

$43,000 

$59,000 

The fair value of the options granted on 14 October 2019 to the MD was $135,500. The Black-Scholes formula model 

inputs were the Company's share  price  of $0.0155 at the  grant date, a volatility factor  of 152.6% based on historical 

share price performance and a risk-free interest rate of 0.71% based on the 2-year government bond rate. 

•  On 29 November 2019, 20,000,000 unlisted options were granted to the Managing Director as follows: 

Vesting 

Expiry Date 

Fair Value per Option 

Number of 

options 

6,666,666 

6,666,667 

6,666,667 

Exercise 

price 

$0.027 

$0.030 

$0.035 

Tranche 1 

Tranche 2 

Tranche 3 

Immediately  13 November 2021 

Immediately  13 November 2022 

Immediately  13 November 2024 

at Grant Date 

$0.0084 

$0.0101 

$0.0120 

Fair 

Value 

$56,000 

$67,333 

$80,000 

The fair value of options granted on 29 November 2019 to the MD was $203,333.  The Black-Scholes formula model 

inputs were the Company's share  price  of $0.014  at the grant date,  a volatility factor of  149.46%  based on  historical 

share price performance and a risk-free interest rate of 0.65% based on the 3-year government bond rate. 

As the options are not subject to vesting conditions, the total grant date fair value of $338,833 has been recognised as 

an expense in the year ended 30 June 2020. The expense has been included in “employee, director and consultants 

costs” in the income statement. 

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
Equus Mining Limited  
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

For the Year Ended 
30 June 2021

13.  RESERVES 

Fair value reserve (a) 
Foreign currency translation reserves (b) 
Equity based compensation reserve (c)  

Movements during the period: 
(a) Fair value reserve 
Balance at beginning of period 
Net change in fair value 
Balance at end of period 

(b) Foreign currency translation reserves 
Balance at beginning of period 
Currency translation differences 
Balance at end of period  

(c) Equity based compensation reserve 
Balance at beginning of period 
Share based payment – vested share options 
Options expired during the period 
Balance at end of period  

Nature and purpose of reserves 

2021 
$ 

2020 
$ 

401,162 
(981,096) 
717,918 
137,984 

402,161 
(1,234,022) 
338,833 
(493,028) 

402,161 
(999) 
401,162 

745,532 
(343,371) 
402,161 

(1,234,022) 
252,926 
(981,096) 

(203,983) 
(1,030,039) 
(1,234,022) 

338,833 
412,585 
(33,500) 
717,918 

- 
338,833 
- 
338,833 

Fair value reserve: 
The fair value reserve comprises the cumulative net change in the fair value of equity securities designated at fair value through 
other comprehensive income. 

Foreign currency translation reserve: 
The foreign currency translation reserve records the foreign currency differences arising from the translation of the financial 
statements of foreign operations where their functional currency is different to the presentation currency of the reporting entity. 

Equity based compensation reserve: 
The equity based compensation reserve is used to record the options issued to directors and executives of the Company as 
compensation. 

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Equus Mining Limited  

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 

For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
Equus Mining Limited  
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

For the Year Ended 
30 June 2021

13.  RESERVES 

Fair value reserve (a) 

Foreign currency translation reserves (b) 

Equity based compensation reserve (c)  

Movements during the period: 

(a) Fair value reserve 

Balance at beginning of period 

Net change in fair value 

Balance at end of period 

(b) Foreign currency translation reserves 

Balance at beginning of period 

Currency translation differences 

Balance at end of period  

(c) Equity based compensation reserve 

Balance at beginning of period 

Share based payment – vested share options 

Options expired during the period 

Balance at end of period  

Nature and purpose of reserves 

Fair value reserve: 

other comprehensive income. 

Foreign currency translation reserve: 

2021 

$ 

2020 

$ 

401,162 

402,161 

(981,096) 

(1,234,022) 

717,918 

137,984 

338,833 

(493,028) 

402,161 

(999) 

401,162 

745,532 

(343,371) 

402,161 

(1,234,022) 

(203,983) 

252,926 

(1,030,039) 

(981,096) 

(1,234,022) 

338,833 

412,585 

(33,500) 

717,918 

- 

- 

338,833 

338,833 

The fair value reserve comprises the cumulative net change in the fair value of equity securities designated at fair value through 

The foreign currency translation reserve records the foreign currency differences arising from the translation of the financial 

statements of foreign operations where their functional currency is different to the presentation currency of the reporting entity. 

The equity based compensation reserve is used to record the options issued to directors and executives of the Company as 

Equity based compensation reserve: 

compensation. 

14.  LOSS PER SHARE 

Basic and diluted loss per share has been calculated using: 
Net loss for the year attributable to equity holders of the parent 

Weighted average number of ordinary shares (basic and diluted) 

Issued ordinary shares at beginning of year 

Effect of shares issued (Note 12) 

Weighted average ordinary shares at the end of the year 

2021 

$ 

2020 

$ 

(1,716,498) 

(1,728,160) 

1,412,045,355 

897,276,863 

410,859,626 

395,411,400 

1,822,904,981  1,292,688,263 

As the Group is loss making, none of the potentially dilutive securities are currently dilutive in the calculation of total earnings 
per share. 

15.  RECONCILIATION OF CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES 

Cash flows from operating activities 

Loss for the year 

Non-cash items 

Other income 

Provisions for employee entitlements 

Share based payments 

Foreign currency exchange loss/(gain) 

Changes in assets and liabilities 
Decrease/(increase) in receivables 

(Decrease)/Increase in payables 

Net cash used in operating activities 

2021 

$ 

2020 

$ 

(1,719,007) 

(1,729,651) 

- 

18,268 

220,000 

4,914 

(15,851) 

23,059 

338,833 

(3,540) 

(33,728) 

266,938 

(293) 

96,905 

(1,242,615) 

(1,290,538) 

Reconciliation of cash 
For the purposes of the statement of cash flows, cash includes cash on hand and at bank and cash on deposit net of bank 
overdrafts and excluding security deposits.  Cash at the end of the financial year as shown in the statement of cash flows 
is reconciled to the related items in the statement of financial position as follows: 

Cash and cash equivalents 

16. 

RELATED PARTIES 

Parent and ultimate controlling party 

4,724,429 

1,304,130 

Equus Mining Limited is both the parent and ultimate controlling party of the Group. 

Key management personnel and director transactions 

During the year ended 30 June 2021 and 2020, no key management persons, or their related parties, held positions in other 
entities  that  provide  material  professional  services  resulting  in  them  having  control  or  joint  control  over  the  financial  or 
operating policies of those entities. 

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
Equus Mining Limited  
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

For the Year Ended 
30 June 2021

17.  KEY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL DISCLOSURES 

Information  regarding  individual  key  management  personnel’s  compensation  and  some  equity  instruments  disclosures  as 
permitted by Corporations Act and Corporations Regulations 2M.3.03 are provided in the Remuneration Report section of the 
Director’s Report. 

Key management personnel compensation 
Primary fees/salary 
Superannuation 
Share based payment 
Short term benefits 

2021 
$ 

2020 
$ 

467,061 
41,206 
200,000 
18,268 
726,535 

455,167 
39,203 
338,833 
23,059 
856,262 

At 30 June 2021 no fees were outstanding (2020 – $nil). There were no loans made to key management personnel or their 
related parties during the 2021 and 2020 financial years. 

The Board reviews remuneration arrangements annually based on services provided.  Apart from the details disclosed in this 
note, there were no material contracts involving Directors' interest’s existing at year-end. 

18.  SHARE BASED PAYMENT  

During the year the Company granted 20,000,000 unlisted options to the Managing Director and 5,000,000 unlisted options to 
the Chief Operating Officer at the discretion of the Board to acquire options over unissued ordinary shares in the Company 
(2020 – 35,000000 to the Managing Director). The options have no voting or dividend rights. The options vested immediately 
on Grant Date and there are no vesting conditions attached to the options issued. Any options not exercised by the expiry date 
will lapse automatically. 

The  terms  and  conditions  of  the  options  held  by  key  management  personnel  during  the  year  ended  30  June  2021  are  as 
follows: 

Grant 
date 

Expiry 
date 

Vesting 
date 

Exercise 
price 

Fair 
value of 
options 
granted 

Total  
granted 
Number 

Total  
Exercised 
Number 

Balance at 
end of the 
period 
Number 

14 October 2019 

13 November 2021 

14 October 2019 

$0.050  $43,000  5,000,000 

14 October 2019 

13 November 2023 

14 October 2019 

$0.070  $59,000  5,000,000 

29 November 2019  13 November 2021  29 November 2019  $0.027  $56,000  6,666,666 

29 November 2019  13 November 2022  29 November 2019  $0.030  $67,333  6,666,667 
29 November 2019  13 November 2024  29 November 2019  $0.035  $80,000  6,666,667 
25 November 2020  25 November 2023  25 November 2020  $0.022  $58,334  8,333,332 
25 November 2020  25 November 2024  25 November 2020  $0.025  $66,666  8,333,334 
25 November 2020  25 November 2025  25 November 2020  $0.027  $75,000  8,333,334 

- 

- 

- 

- 
- 

- 

- 

- 

5,000,000 

5,000,000 

6,666,666 

6,666,667 
6,666,667 

8,333,332 

8,333,334 

8,333,334 

Weighted average of options in the equity based compensation reserve during the year 

Number of 
options  
2021 

Weighted average 
exercise price 
2021 

Number of 
options  
2020 

Weighted average 
exercise price 
2020 

Outstanding  

55,000,000 

$0.033 

35,000,000 

$0.039 

The equity based compensation reserve is used to record the options issued to directors and executives of the Company as 
compensation. Options are valued using the Black-Scholes option pricing model. 

The  weighted  average  remaining  contractual  life  of  share  options  outstanding  at  the  end  of  the  year  in  the  equity  based 
compensation reserve was 2.42 years (2020 – 2.28). 

During the year, no ordinary shares were issued as a result of the exercise of options granted to Directors (2020 – nil). 

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Equus Mining Limited  

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 

For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
Equus Mining Limited  
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

For the Year Ended 
30 June 2021

17.  KEY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL DISCLOSURES 

19.  FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS DISCLOSURE 

Information  regarding  individual  key  management  personnel’s  compensation  and  some  equity  instruments  disclosures  as 

permitted by Corporations Act and Corporations Regulations 2M.3.03 are provided in the Remuneration Report section of the 

The Group's financial instruments comprise deposits with banks, receivables, trade and other payables and from time to time 
short term loans from related parties. The Group does not trade in derivatives. 

Director’s Report. 

Key management personnel compensation 

Primary fees/salary 

Superannuation 

Share based payment 

Short term benefits 

2021 

$ 

2020 

$ 

467,061 

41,206 

200,000 

18,268 

726,535 

455,167 

39,203 

338,833 

23,059 

856,262 

The main risks arising from the Group's financial instruments are market risk, credit risk and liquidity risks. This note presents 
information  about  the  Group's  exposure  to  each  of  these  risks,  its  objectives,  policies  and  processes  for  measuring  and 
managing risk, and the Group's management of capital. 

Risk management framework 

The  Board  of  Directors  has  overall  responsibility  for  the  establishment  and  oversight  of  the  Group’s  risk  management 
framework. Risk management policies are established to identify and analyse the risks faced by the Group, to set appropriate 
risk limits and controls, and to monitor risks and adherence to limits. These policies are reviewed regularly to reflect changes 
in market conditions and the Group’s activities. The primary responsibility to monitor the financial risks lies with the Managing 
Director and the Company Secretary under the authority of the Board. 

At 30 June 2021 no fees were outstanding (2020 – $nil). There were no loans made to key management personnel or their 

Liquidity risk 

related parties during the 2021 and 2020 financial years. 

Liquidity risk is the risk that the Group will not be able to meet its financial obligation as they fall due.  The Group's approach 
to managing liquidity is to ensure, as far as possible, that it will always have sufficient liquidity to meet its liabilities when due, 
under both normal and stressed conditions, without incurring unacceptable losses or risking damage to the Group's reputation. 

The Group monitors rolling forecasts of liquidity based on expected fund raisings, trade payables and other obligations for the 
ongoing operation of the Group. At balance date, the Group has available funds of $4,776,263 for its immediate use. 

The following are the contractual maturities of financial liabilities: 

Financial liabilities 

Trade and other payables 
30 June 2021 
30 June 2020 

Carrying 
amount 
$ 

Contractual 
cash flows 
$ 

Less than 6 
months 
$ 

6 to 12 
months 
$ 

1 to 5 
years 
$ 

More than 
5 years 
$ 

842,710 
319,696 

(842,710) 
(319,696) 

(842,710) 
(319,696) 

- 
- 

- 
- 

- 
- 

It  is  not  expected  that  the  cash  flows  included  in  the  maturity  analysis  could  occur  significantly  earlier,  or  at  significantly 
different amounts. 

Credit risk 

Credit risk is the risk of financial loss to the Group if a customer or counterparty to a financial instrument fails to meet its 
contractual obligations.  

The carrying amount of the Group's financial assets represents the maximum credit risk exposure as follows: 

Cash and cash equivalents 

Receivables 

Cash and cash equivalents 

2021 

$ 

4,724,429 

51,834 
4,776,263 

2020 

$ 

1,304,130 

14,806 
1,318,936 

At 30 June 2021, the Group held cash and cash equivalents of $4,724,429 (2020: $1,304,130), which represents its maximum 
credit  exposure  on  these  assets.  The  cash  and  cash  equivalents  are  held  with  reputable  banks  and  financial  institution 
counterparties, which are rated AA- to AAA+, based on rating agency ‘Moody’s rating’. 

Receivables 

The  weighted  average  remaining  contractual  life  of  share  options  outstanding  at  the  end  of  the  year  in  the  equity  based 

compensation reserve was 2.42 years (2020 – 2.28). 

For the year ended 30 June 2021, the Group does not hold a significant value of trade receivables, and therefore has minimal 
exposure to credit risk. 

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The Board reviews remuneration arrangements annually based on services provided.  Apart from the details disclosed in this 

note, there were no material contracts involving Directors' interest’s existing at year-end. 

18.  SHARE BASED PAYMENT  

will lapse automatically. 

follows: 

During the year the Company granted 20,000,000 unlisted options to the Managing Director and 5,000,000 unlisted options to 

the Chief Operating Officer at the discretion of the Board to acquire options over unissued ordinary shares in the Company 

(2020 – 35,000000 to the Managing Director). The options have no voting or dividend rights. The options vested immediately 

on Grant Date and there are no vesting conditions attached to the options issued. Any options not exercised by the expiry date 

The  terms  and  conditions  of  the  options  held  by  key  management  personnel  during  the  year  ended  30  June  2021  are  as 

Grant 

date 

Expiry 

date 

Vesting 

date 

Exercise 

options 

granted 

Exercised 

price 

granted 

Number 

Number 

Fair 

value of 

Total  

Total  

14 October 2019 

13 November 2021 

14 October 2019 

$0.050  $43,000  5,000,000 

14 October 2019 

13 November 2023 

14 October 2019 

$0.070  $59,000  5,000,000 

29 November 2019  13 November 2021  29 November 2019  $0.027  $56,000  6,666,666 

29 November 2019  13 November 2022  29 November 2019  $0.030  $67,333  6,666,667 

29 November 2019  13 November 2024  29 November 2019  $0.035  $80,000  6,666,667 

25 November 2020  25 November 2023  25 November 2020  $0.022  $58,334  8,333,332 

25 November 2020  25 November 2024  25 November 2020  $0.025  $66,666  8,333,334 

25 November 2020  25 November 2025  25 November 2020  $0.027  $75,000  8,333,334 

Weighted average of options in the equity based compensation reserve during the year 

Outstanding  

Number of 

options  

2021 

55,000,000 

Weighted average 

exercise price 

2021 

$0.033 

Number of 

options  

2020 

35,000,000 

Weighted average 

exercise price 

2020 

$0.039 

The equity based compensation reserve is used to record the options issued to directors and executives of the Company as 

compensation. Options are valued using the Black-Scholes option pricing model. 

Balance at 

end of the 

period 

Number 

5,000,000 

5,000,000 

6,666,666 

6,666,667 

6,666,667 

8,333,332 

8,333,334 

8,333,334 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

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During the year, no ordinary shares were issued as a result of the exercise of options granted to Directors (2020 – nil). 

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
Equus Mining Limited  
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

For the Year Ended 
30 June 2021

19.   FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS DISCLOSURE (Cont.) 

Market risk 

Market risk is the risk that changes in market prices, such as foreign exchange rates, interest rates and equity prices will affect 
the Group’s income or the value of its holdings of financial instruments. The objective of market risk management is to manage 
and control market risk exposures within acceptable parameters, while optimising the return. 

Interest Rate Risk 

The Group's income statement is affected by changes in interest rates due to the impact of such changes on interest income 
and expenses. 

At year-end, the interest rate risk profile of the Group's interest bearing financial instruments was: 

Cash and cash equivalents 

There are no fixed rate instruments (2020 - $nil). 

2021 

$ 

2020 

$ 

4,724,429 

1,304,130 

The Group does not have interest rate swap contracts. The Group has two interest bearing accounts from where it draws 
cash when required to pay liabilities as they fall due. The Group normally invests its funds in the two interest bearing accounts 
to maximise the available interest rates. The Group analyses its interest rate exposure when considering renewals of existing 
positions including alternative financing arrangements. 

Sensitivity analysis 
A change of 100 basis points in interest rates at the current and prior reporting date would have increased/(decreased) equity 
and loss for the period by an immaterial amount. 

Currency risk 

The  Group  is  exposed  to  currency  risk  on  bank  account  denominated  in  USD  totalling  $15  at  30  June  2021  (2020  – 
US$43,538). 

Sensitivity analysis 
The Company no longer holds USD and is not exposed to fluctuations in the movement of exchange rates.  

Price risk 

The Group is  exposed to equity securities price risk. This arises from investments held by the Group  and classified in the 
balance sheet as other financial assets. 

The Group’s investments are publicly traded on the Over-The-Counter-Market (‘OTC market’) in the USA. 

The table below summarises the impact of increases/decreases of the bid price on the Group’s post-tax profit for the year and 
on equity 

Blox-Inc. - 10% bid price increase 

Blox-Inc. - 10% bid price decrease  

Impact on post-tax profit 

Impact on Total equity 

2021 
$ 

- 

- 

2020 
$ 

- 

- 

2021 
$ 

1,629 

(2,445) 

2020 
$ 

1,472 

(1,339) 

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Equus Mining Limited  

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 

For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
Equus Mining Limited  
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

For the Year Ended 
30 June 2021

19.   FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS DISCLOSURE (Cont.) 

19.  FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS DISCLOSURE (Cont.) 

Market risk is the risk that changes in market prices, such as foreign exchange rates, interest rates and equity prices will affect 

the Group’s income or the value of its holdings of financial instruments. The objective of market risk management is to manage 

and control market risk exposures within acceptable parameters, while optimising the return. 

The Group's income statement is affected by changes in interest rates due to the impact of such changes on interest income 

At year-end, the interest rate risk profile of the Group's interest bearing financial instruments was: 

2021 

$ 

2020 

$ 

4,724,429 

1,304,130 

Cash and cash equivalents 

There are no fixed rate instruments (2020 - $nil). 

The Group does not have interest rate swap contracts. The Group has two interest bearing accounts from where it draws 

cash when required to pay liabilities as they fall due. The Group normally invests its funds in the two interest bearing accounts 

to maximise the available interest rates. The Group analyses its interest rate exposure when considering renewals of existing 

positions including alternative financing arrangements. 

A change of 100 basis points in interest rates at the current and prior reporting date would have increased/(decreased) equity 

and loss for the period by an immaterial amount. 

The  Group  is  exposed  to  currency  risk  on  bank  account  denominated  in  USD  totalling  $15  at  30  June  2021  (2020  – 

Market risk 

Interest Rate Risk 

and expenses. 

Sensitivity analysis 

Currency risk 

US$43,538). 

Sensitivity analysis 

Price risk 

The Company no longer holds USD and is not exposed to fluctuations in the movement of exchange rates.  

The Group is  exposed to equity securities price risk. This arises from investments held by the Group  and classified in the 

balance sheet as other financial assets. 

The Group’s investments are publicly traded on the Over-The-Counter-Market (‘OTC market’) in the USA. 

The table below summarises the impact of increases/decreases of the bid price on the Group’s post-tax profit for the year and 

on equity 

Blox-Inc. - 10% bid price increase 

Blox-Inc. - 10% bid price decrease  

Impact on post-tax profit 

Impact on Total equity 

2021 

2020 

$ 

- 

- 

2021 

$ 

1,629 

(2,445) 

2020 

$ 

1,472 

(1,339) 

$ 

- 

- 

Capital management 

Management  aim  to  control  the  capital  of  the  Group  in  order  to  maintain  an  appropriate  debt  to  equity  ratio,  provide  the 
shareholders with adequate returns and ensure that the Group can fund its operations and continue as a going concern. 

The Group's capital includes ordinary share capital supported by financial assets. There are no externally imposed capital 
requirements on the Group. 

Management  effectively  manages  the  Group's  capital  by  assessing  the  Group's  financial  risks  and  adjusting  its  capital 
structure in response to changes in these risks and in the market. These responses include the management of cash levels, 
distributions to shareholders and share issues. 

There have been no changes in the strategy adopted by management to control the capital of the Group since the prior year. 

Financial instruments carried at fair value 

The carrying amounts of financial assets and financial liabilities included in the balance sheet approximate fair values. 

The table below analyses financial instruments carried at fair value, by valuation method.  The different levels have been 
defined as follows: 

•  Level 1 - fair value measurements are those instruments valued based on quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets 

for identical assets or liabilities. 

•  Level 2 - fair value measurements are those instruments valued based on inputs other than quoted prices included within 
Level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly (i.e. as prices) or indirectly (i.e. derived from prices). 
•  Level 3 - fair value measurements are those instruments valued based on inputs for the asset or liability that are not 

based on observable market data (unobservable inputs). 

Equity instruments at fair value through other comprehensive income 

30 June 2021 

30 June 2020 

Level 1 

Level 2 

Level 3 

Total 

$ 

$ 

$ 

$ 

- 
- 

13,803 
14,802 

- 
- 

13,803 
14,802 

The financial assets held at 30 June 2021 and 30 June 2020 relate to investments held in quoted equity securities and were 
designated as equity instruments at fair value through other comprehensive income. 

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
Equus Mining Limited  
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

For the Year Ended 
30 June 2021

20.  CONTROLLED ENTITIES 

Parent entity 

Equus Mining Limited is an Australian incorporated company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. 

Wholly owned controlled entities 

Hotrock Enterprises Pty Ltd (i) 

Okore Mining Pty Ltd 

Dataloop Pty Ltd 

Equus Resources Pty Ltd (ii) 

(i) Subsidiary of Hotrock Enterprises Pty Ltd 

Derrick Pty Ltd 

Andean Coal Pty Ltd (iii) 

(iii) Subsidiary of Andean Coal Pty Ltd 

Minera Carbones Del Sur Limitada 

(ii) Subsidiary of Equus Resources Pty Ltd 

Equus Resources Chile SpA (iv) 

Minera Equus Chile Ltda 

Southern Gold SpA (v) 

(iv) Subsidiary of Equus Resources Chile SpA 

Minera Equus Chile Ltda 

(v) Subsidiary of Southern Gold SpA 

Equus Patagonia SpA 

21.  COMMITMENTS 

Exploration expenditure commitments 

Country of 
incorporation 

Ownership Interest 

2021 

2020 

% 

% 

Australia 

Australia 

Australia 

Australia 

Australia 

Australia 

Chile 

Chile 

Chile 

Chile 

Chile 

Chile 

100 

100 

100 

100 

100 

100 

100 

100 

100 

100 

100 

100 

99.9 

99.9 

100 

0.1 

100 

100 

0.1 

100 

99.9 

99.9 

75 

- 

The Group does not have any minimum expenditure commitments in relation to its mineral interests in the Los Domos Gold-
Silver  project,  Cerro  Diablo  project  or  under  the  terms  of  the  option  agreement  with  Mandalay  to  acquire  the  Cerro  Bayo 
project at the date of this report.  

22.  SUBSEQUENT EVENTS 

On 7 July 2021, the Company obtained approval at a shareholders’ meeting to issued tranche two of the placement announced 
in May 2021 to institutional investors and a Director of the Company by issuing 204,973,636 ordinary shares at an issue price 
of $0.011 raising $2,254,710 before costs.  

On 14 September 2021, the Company issued 1,250,000 new ordinary shares fully paid shares to a supplier as consideration 
for Geological Technical Services provided in connection with the Cerro Bayo project in southern Chile. 

No other matters or circumstances have arisen in the interval between the end of the financial year and the date of this report 
any item, transaction or event of a material or unusual nature likely, in the opinion of the Directors of the Company, to affect 
significantly the operations of the Group, the results of those operations, or the state of affairs of the Group, in future financial 
years. 

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Equus Mining Limited  

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 

For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

20.  CONTROLLED ENTITIES 

Parent entity 

Equus Mining Limited is an Australian incorporated company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. 

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
Equus Mining Limited  
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

For the Year Ended 
30 June 2021

23.  OPERATING SEGMENTS 

The  Group’s  chief  operating  decision  maker  has  considered  the  requirements  of  AASB  8,  Operating  Segments,  and  has 
concluded that, during the year ended 30 June 2021, the Group operated in the mineral exploration within the geographical 
segments of Chile.  

Wholly owned controlled entities 

Hotrock Enterprises Pty Ltd (i) 

Okore Mining Pty Ltd 

Dataloop Pty Ltd 

Equus Resources Pty Ltd (ii) 

Derrick Pty Ltd 

Andean Coal Pty Ltd (iii) 

(i) Subsidiary of Hotrock Enterprises Pty Ltd 

(iii) Subsidiary of Andean Coal Pty Ltd 

Minera Carbones Del Sur Limitada 

(ii) Subsidiary of Equus Resources Pty Ltd 

Equus Resources Chile SpA (iv) 

Minera Equus Chile Ltda 

Southern Gold SpA (v) 

(iv) Subsidiary of Equus Resources Chile SpA 

Minera Equus Chile Ltda 

(v) Subsidiary of Southern Gold SpA 

Equus Patagonia SpA 

21.  COMMITMENTS 

Exploration expenditure commitments 

project at the date of this report.  

22.  SUBSEQUENT EVENTS 

Country of 

incorporation 

Ownership Interest 

2021 

2020 

% 

% 

Australia 

Australia 

Australia 

Australia 

Australia 

Australia 

Chile 

Chile 

Chile 

Chile 

Chile 

Chile 

100 

100 

100 

100 

100 

100 

100 

0.1 

100 

100 

100 

100 

100 

100 

100 

100 

0.1 

100 

99.9 

99.9 

99.9 

99.9 

75 

- 

30 June 2021 
External revenues 

Reportable segment profit /(loss) before tax 

Interest income 
Interest expense 

Reportable segment assets 
Reportable segment liabilities 

30 June 2020 
External revenues 

Reportable segment profit /(loss) before tax 

Interest income 
Interest expense 

Reportable segment assets 
Reportable segment liabilities 

Mineral 
Exploration 
$ 

- 

(109,502) 

- 
- 

11,339,830 
564,102 

- 

(239,710) 

12 
- 

7,017,624 
220,115 

The Group does not have any minimum expenditure commitments in relation to its mineral interests in the Los Domos Gold-

Silver  project,  Cerro  Diablo  project  or  under  the  terms  of  the  option  agreement  with  Mandalay  to  acquire  the  Cerro  Bayo 

On 7 July 2021, the Company obtained approval at a shareholders’ meeting to issued tranche two of the placement announced 

in May 2021 to institutional investors and a Director of the Company by issuing 204,973,636 ordinary shares at an issue price 

of $0.011 raising $2,254,710 before costs.  

On 14 September 2021, the Company issued 1,250,000 new ordinary shares fully paid shares to a supplier as consideration 

for Geological Technical Services provided in connection with the Cerro Bayo project in southern Chile. 

No other matters or circumstances have arisen in the interval between the end of the financial year and the date of this report 

any item, transaction or event of a material or unusual nature likely, in the opinion of the Directors of the Company, to affect 

significantly the operations of the Group, the results of those operations, or the state of affairs of the Group, in future financial 

years. 

Reconciliations of reportable segment revenues and profit or loss 

Revenues 
Total revenue for reportable segments 
Total revenue unallocated 
Consolidated revenue 

Profit or loss 
Total loss for reportable segments 
Unallocated amounts: 
    Other income 
    Net finance income 
    Net other corporate expenses 
Consolidated loss before tax from continuing operations 

2021 
$ 

2020 
$ 

- 
- 
- 

- 
- 
- 

(109,502) 

(239,710) 

50,000 
3,514 
(1,663,019) 
(1,719,007) 

50,000 
16,087 
(1,556,028) 
(1,729,651) 

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
Equus Mining Limited  
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 
For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

For the Year Ended 
30 June 2021

23. OPERATING SEGMENTS (Cont.)

Reconciliations of reportable segment revenues and profit or loss (Cont.) 
Assets 
Total assets for reportable segments 
Unallocated corporate assets 
Consolidated total assets  

Liabilities 
Total liabilities for reportable segments 
Unallocated corporate liabilities 
Consolidated total liabilities 

Geographical information 

2021 
$ 

2020 
$ 

11,339,830 
4,653,910 
15,993,740 

7,017,624 
1,211,390 
8,229,014 

564,102 
329,923 
894,025 

220,115 
132,627 
352,742 

In presenting information on the basis of geography, segment revenue and segment assets are based on the geographical 
location of the operations. 

Chile 

24. PARENT ENTITY DISCLOSURES

2021 

2020 

Revenue 
$ 

Non-current 
assets 
$ 

Revenues 
$ 

Non-current 
assets 
$ 

-

11,203,674

-

6,895,276

As at, and throughout the financial year ended 30 June 2021 the parent entity of the Group was Equus Mining Limited.

Result of the parent entity 
Net (loss)/profit 
Other comprehensive income 

Total comprehensive profit/(loss) 

Financial position of the parent entity at year end 
Current assets 
Non-current assets 
Total assets 

Current liabilities 
Non-current liabilities 

Total liabilities 
Net assets 

Equity 
Share capital 
Accumulated losses 
Reserve 

Total equity 

Company 

2021 
$ 

2020 
$ 

(13,727,852) 
- 
(13,727,852) 

(1,449,738) 
- 
(1,449,738) 

4,640,107 
11,224,795 
15,864,902 

1,196,588 
19,520,844 
20,717,432 

329,923 
- 
329,923 
15,534,979 

132,625 
- 
132,625 
20,584,807 

129,460,300 

121,182,362 
(115,044,401)  (101,316,549) 
718,994 
20,584,807 

1,119,080 
15,534,979 

The Directors are of the opinion that no commitments or contingent liabilities existed at or subsequent to year end. 

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Directors’ Declaration

In presenting information on the basis of geography, segment revenue and segment assets are based on the geographical 

2021 

2020 

Revenue 

$ 

Non-current 

assets 

Non-current 

Revenues 

assets 

$ 

$ 

$ 

-

11,203,674

-

6,895,276

As at, and throughout the financial year ended 30 June 2021 the parent entity of the Group was Equus Mining Limited.

Equus Mining Limited  

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 

For the Year Ended 30 June 2021 

Reconciliations of reportable segment revenues and profit or loss (Cont.) 

23. OPERATING SEGMENTS (Cont.)

Assets 

Total assets for reportable segments 

Unallocated corporate assets 

Consolidated total assets  

Liabilities 

Total liabilities for reportable segments 

Unallocated corporate liabilities 

Consolidated total liabilities 

Geographical information 

location of the operations. 

Chile 

24. PARENT ENTITY DISCLOSURES

Result of the parent entity 

Net (loss)/profit 

Other comprehensive income 

Total comprehensive profit/(loss) 

Financial position of the parent entity at year end 

Current assets 

Non-current assets 

Total assets 

Current liabilities 

Non-current liabilities 

Total liabilities 

Net assets 

Equity 

Share capital 

Accumulated losses 

Reserve 

Total equity 

2021 

$ 

2020 

$ 

11,339,830 

4,653,910 

15,993,740 

7,017,624 

1,211,390 

8,229,014 

564,102 

329,923 

894,025 

220,115 

132,627 

352,742 

Company 

2021 

$ 

2020 

$ 

(13,727,852) 

(1,449,738) 

- 

- 

(13,727,852) 

(1,449,738) 

4,640,107 

1,196,588 

11,224,795 

19,520,844 

15,864,902 

20,717,432 

329,923 

132,625 

- 

- 

329,923 

132,625 

15,534,979 

20,584,807 

129,460,300 

121,182,362 

(115,044,401)  (101,316,549) 

1,119,080 

718,994 

15,534,979 

20,584,807 

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Equus Mining Limited Directors’ Declaration 59 | Page1.In the opinion of the Directors of Equus Mining Limited (the ‘Company’):(a)the consolidated financial statements and notes there to, set out on pages 35 to 60, and the Remuneration Report as set out on pages 28 to 32 of the Directors’ Report are in accordance with the Corporations Act 2001, including:(i)giving a true and fair view of the Group’s financial position as at 30 June 2021 and of its performance, for the financial year ended on that date;(ii)complying with Australian Accounting Standards and the Corporations Regulations 2001; and(b)there are reasonable grounds to believe that the Company will be able to pay its debts as and when they become due and payable.2.The Directors have been given the declarations required under section 295A of the Corporations Act 2001 for the financial year ended 30 June 2021.3.The Director’s draw attention to Note 2(a) to the consolidated financial statements, which includes a statement of compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards.Signed at Sydney this 30th day of September 2021 in accordance with a resolution of the Board of Directors: Mark H. Lochtenberg John R. Braham Director  Director Independent Auditor’s Report

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60 KPMG, an Australian partnership and a member firm of the KPMG global organisation of independent member firms affiliated with KPMG International Limited, a private English company limited by guarantee. All rights reserved. The KPMG name and logo are trademarks used under license by the independent member firms of the KPMG global organisation. Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation.Independent Auditor’s Report To the shareholders of Equus Mining Limited Report on the audit of the Financial ReportOpinion We have audited the Financial Report of Equus Mining Limited (the Company). In our opinion, the accompanying Financial Report of the Company is in accordance with the Corporations Act 2001, including: •giving a true and fair view of theGroup's financial position as at 30June 2021 and of its financialperformance for the year ended onthat date; and•complying with AustralianAccounting Standards and theCorporations Regulations 2001.The Financial Report comprises: •Consolidated statement of financial position as at 30June 2021;•Consolidated statement of profit or loss and othercomprehensive income, Consolidated statement ofchanges in equity, and Consolidated statement of cashflows for the year then ended;•Notes including a summary of significant accountingpolicies; and•Directors’ Declaration.The Group consists of the Company and the entities it controlled at the year-end or from time to time during the financial year. Basis for opinion We conducted our audit in accordance with Australian Auditing Standards. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the Financial Report section of our report. We are independent of the Group in accordance with the Corporations Act 2001 and the ethical requirements of the Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards Board’s APES 110 Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants (including Independence Standards) (the Code) that are relevant to our audit of the Financial Report in Australia. We have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with the Code. Independent Auditor’s Report

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   61  Material uncertainty related to going concern We draw attention to Note 2(d), “Going Concern” in the financial report. The conditions disclosed in Note 2(d), indicate a material uncertainty exists that may cast significant doubt on the Group’s ability to continue as a going concern and, therefore, whether it will realise its assets and discharge its liabilities in the normal course of business, and at the amounts stated in the financial report.  Our opinion is not modified in respect of this matter. In concluding there is a material uncertainty related to going concern we evaluated the extent of uncertainty regarding events or conditions casting significant doubt in the Group’s assessment of going concern.  This included:  • Analysing the cash flow projections by: - Evaluating the underlying data used to generate the projections for consistency with other information tested by us, our understanding of the Group’s intentions, and past results and practices; - Assessing the planned levels of operating and capital expenditures for consistency of relationships and trends to the Group’s historical results, results since year end, and our understanding of the business, industry and economic conditions of the Group; • Assessing significant non-routine forecast cash inflows and outflows, including the expected impact of planned capital raisings for feasibility, quantum and timing.  We used our knowledge of the client, its industry and current status of those initiatives to assess the level of associated uncertainty. • Reading minutes of Directors’ meetings and relevant correspondence with the Group’s advisors to understand the Group’s ability to raise additional shareholder funds, and assessed the level of associated uncertainty; • Evaluating the Group’s going concern disclosures in the financial report by comparing them to our understanding of the matter, the events or conditions incorporated into the cash flow projections assessment, the Group’s plans to address those events or conditions, and accounting standard requirements.  We specifically focused on the principle matters giving rise to the material uncertainty. Key Audit Matters Key Audit Matters are those matters that, in our professional judgement, were of most significance in our audit of the Financial Report of the current period. These matters were addressed in the context of our audit of the Financial Report as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters. In addition to the matter described in the Material uncertainty related to going concern section, we have determined the matter described below to be the Key Audit Matter.    Independent Auditor’s Report

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   62  Exploration and evaluation expenditure ($11,203,674) Refer to Note 10 to the Financial Report  The key audit matter How the matter was addressed in our audit Capitalised exploration and evaluation (E&E) expenditure is a key audit matter due to: • The significance of the activity to the Group’s business and the balance (being 70% of total assets); and  • The greater level of audit effort to evaluate the Group’s application of the requirements of the industry specific accounting standard AASB 6 Exploration for and Evaluation of Mineral Resources, in particular the conditions allowing capitalisation of relevant expenditure and the presence of impairment indicators. The presence of impairment indicators would necessitate a detailed analysis by the Group of the value of capitalised E&E, therefore given the criticality of this to the scope and depth of our work, we involved senior team members to challenge the Group’s determination that no such indicators existed. In assessing the conditions allowing capitalisation of relevant expenditure, we focused on: • The determination of the areas of interest (areas); • Documentation available regarding rights to tenure, via licensing, and compliance with relevant conditions to maintain current rights to an area of interest; • The Group’s intention and capacity to continue the relevant E&E activities; and • The Group’s determination of whether the capitalised E&E meets the carry forward conditions of AASB 6, including whether it is expected to be recouped through successful development and exploitation of the area of interest, or alternatively, by its sale. In assessing the presence of impairment indicators, we focused on those that may draw into question the commercial continuation of E&E activities for areas of interest where significant capitalised E&E exists. In addition to the Our procedures included: • We evaluated the Group’s accounting policy to recognise exploration and evaluation assets using the criteria in the accounting standard; • We assessed the Group’s determination of its areas of interest for consistency with the definition in the accounting standard. This involved analysing the licenses in which the Group holds an interest and the exploration programmes planned for those for consistency with documentation such as license related technical conditions, contractual agreements, and planned work programmes; • For each area of interest, we assessed the Group’s current rights to tenure by checking the ownership of the relevant license to government registries or government correspondence and evaluating agreements in place with other parties. We also tested licences for compliance with conditions where applicable under the terms of agreements with the other party; • We tested the Group’s additions to capitalised E&E for the year by evaluating a statistical sample of recorded expenditure for consistency to underlying records, the capitalisation requirements of the Group’s accounting policy and the requirements of the accounting standard; • We evaluated Group documents, such as minutes of Directors’ meetings and management’s cash flow projections, for consistency with their stated intentions for continuing E&E activities in certain areas. We corroborated this through interviews with key personnel; • We obtained project and corporate budgets identifying areas with existing funding and those requiring alternate funding sources. We compared this for consistency with areas with capitalised E&E, for evidence of the ability to fund continued activities. We identified those areas relying on alternate funding sources and Independent Auditor’s Report

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   63  assessments above, we paid particular attention to: • The strategic direction of the Group and its intention to continue E&E activities in each area of interest; • The ability of the Group to fund the continuation of activities; and • Results from latest activities regarding the existence or otherwise of economically recoverable reserves for each area of interest. evaluated the capacity of the Group to secure such funding; • We assessed the Group’s evaluation of the carry forward conditions of AASB 6 including the determination of whether the capitalised E&E is expected to be recouped through successful development and exploitation of the area or by its sale. We did this by analysing the Group’s activities in each area of interest and assessing the Group’s documentation of planned future activities including work programmes and corporate budgets.   Other Information Other Information is financial and non-financial information in Equus Mining Limited’s annual reporting which is provided in addition to the Financial Report and the Auditor’s Report. The Directors are responsible for the Other Information.  Our opinion on the Financial Report does not cover the Other Information and, accordingly, we do not express an audit opinion or any form of assurance conclusion thereon, with the exception of the Remuneration Report and our related assurance opinion. In connection with our audit of the Financial Report, our responsibility is to read the Other Information. In doing so, we consider whether the Other Information is materially inconsistent with the Financial Report or our knowledge obtained in the audit, or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. We are required to report if we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this Other Information, and based on the work we have performed on the Other Information that we obtained prior to the date of this Auditor’s Report we have nothing to report. Responsibilities of the Directors for the Financial Report The Directors are responsible for: • preparing the Financial Report that gives a true and fair view in accordance with Australian Accounting Standards and the Corporations Act 2001 • implementing necessary internal control to enable the preparation of a Financial Report that gives a true and fair view and is free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error • assessing the Group and Company's ability to continue as a going concern and whether the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate. This includes disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless they either intend to liquidate the Group and Company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.     Independent Auditor’s Report

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64 Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the Financial Report Our objective is: •to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the Financial Report as a whole is free from materialmisstatement, whether due to fraud or error; and•to issue an Auditor’s Report that includes our opinion.Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with Australian Auditing Standards will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error. They are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of the Financial Report. A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the Financial Report is located at the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board website at: https://www.auasb.gov.au/admin/file/content102/c3/ar1_2020.pdf.  This description forms part of our Auditor’s Report. Report on the Remuneration Report Opinion In our opinion, the Remuneration Report of Equus Mining Limited for the year ended 30 June 2021, complies with Section 300A of the Corporations Act 2001. Directors’ responsibilities The Directors of the Company are responsible for the preparation and presentation of the Remuneration Report in accordance with Section 300A of the Corporations Act 2001. Our responsibilities We have audited the Remuneration Report included in pages 28 to 32 of the Directors’ report for the year ended 30 June 2021.  Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Remuneration Report, based on our audit conducted in accordance with Australian Auditing Standards.KPMG Jason Adams Partner Brisbane 30 September 2021 Additional Stock Exchange Information

EQUUS MINING LIMITED 
ADDITIONAL STOCK EXCHANGE INFORMATION 

Additional  information  as  at  31  August  2021  required  by  the  Australian  Stock  Exchange  Listing  Rules  and  not  disclosed 
elsewhere in this report. 

Home Exchange 

The Company is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.  The Home Exchange is Sydney. 

Audit Committee 

As at the date of the Directors' Report, an audit committee of the Board of Directors is not considered warranted due to the 
composition of the Board and the size, organisational complexity and scope of operations of the Group. 

Class of Shares and Voting Rights 

The voting rights attached to ordinary shares, as set out in the Company’s Constitution, are that every member in person or 
by proxy, attorney or representative, shall have one vote on a show of hands and one vote for each share held on a poll. 

A member holding partly paid shares is entitled to a fraction of a vote equivalent to the proportion, which the amount paid up 
bears to the issue price for the share. 

Distribution of Shareholders 

The total distribution of fully paid shareholders as at 31 August 2021 was as follows: 

Range 

1 - 1,000 

1,001 - 5,000 

5,001 - 10,000 

10,001 - 100,000 

100,001 and over 
Total 

Total 

Shareholders 

273 

285 

254 

1,190 

1,068 

3,070 

Total 

Number of 

Shares 

116,484 

798,490 

2,284,124 

51,170,273 

2,447,221,516 

2,501,590,887 

Less than Marketable Parcels 

On 31 August 2021, 1,570 shareholders held less than marketable parcels of 49,999 shares. 

On Market Buy Back 

There is no current on-market buy-back. 

Substantial Holders 

The name of the substantial shareholders in Equus Mining Limited as advised to the Company are set out below. 

Tribeca Investment Partners Pty Ltd 

Gerard C Toscan Management Pty Limited  

DITM Holdings Pty Ltd 

Number of 
Ordinary Shares 

198,980,909 

145,010,613 

124,288,687 

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Twenty Largest Shareholders 

As at 31 August 2021, the twenty largest quoted shareholders held 47.5% of the fully paid ordinary shares as follows: 

Name 

Number 

% 

1 

2 

3 

4 

5 

6 

7 

8 

9 

10 

11 

12 

13 

14 

15 

16 

17 

18 

19 

20 

Tribeca Investments Partners Pty Ltd 

Gerard C Toscan Management Pty Limited  

DITM Holdings Ltd 

Hodgson Capital Limited 

Rigi Investments Pty Ltd  

Citicorp Nominees Pty Limited 

Ringwood Management Pty Limited  

HSBC Custody Nominees (Australia) Limited A/C 2 

HSBC Custody Nominees (Australia) Limited 

BNP Paribas Nominees Pty Ltd 

Terrane Minerals SpA 

Mark Hamish Lochtenberg & Michael Lochtenberg  

Perrin Legal Pty Ltd  

DRYCA Pty Ltd  

Northcliffe Holdings Pty Ltd < Northcliffe Holdings A/C>  

John Wardman & Associates Pty Ltd  

Simon (Sui Hee) Lee 

Peter Frederick Phillips and Alice Sau Han Phillips 

Calama Holdings Pty Ltd  

Inkese Pty Ltd 

198,980,909 

145,010,613 

124,288,687 

89,220,000 

70,065,656 

69,263,393 

67,503,636 

61,520,851 

59,362,837 

46,961,392 

41,417,075 

38,499,651 

31,909,091 

28,500,059 

21,358,824 

20,000,000 

20,000,000 

18,000,000 

17,775,106 

17,500,000 

8.0 

5.8 

5.0 

3.6 

2.8 

2.8 

2.7 

2.5 

2.4 

1.9 

1.7 

1.5 

1.3 

1.1 

0.9 

0.8 

0.8 

0.7 

0.7 

0.7 

OPTIONHOLDERS IN THE COMPANY 

Total optionholders as at 31 August 2021, 85 holding 459,388,889 unlisted options. 

SUBSTANTIAL OPTIONHOLDERS IN THE COMPANY 

As at 31 August 2021, the twenty largest optionholders that held 20% or more of the unquoted options. 

Name 

1 

USB Nominees Pty Ltd 

Escrow securities 

As at 31 August 2021, there were escrow securities. 

Unlisted Options 

Quantity 

% 

91,825,017 

20 

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Twenty Largest Shareholders 

As at 31 August 2021, the twenty largest quoted shareholders held 47.5% of the fully paid ordinary shares as follows: 

Group Mineral Concession Interests at 31 August 2021 

The Company provides the following information regarding its mining tenements: 

Name 

Number 

% 

PPrroojjeecctt  

LLooccaattiioonn  

TTeenneemmeenntt  NNaammee  

OOwwnneerrsshhiipp  

Gerard C Toscan Management Pty Limited  

Los Domos 

Chile 
Chile 
Chile 
Chile 
Chile 
Chile 
Chile 
Chile 
Chile 
Chile 
Chile 

Electrum 3A 1 - 24 
Electrum 4A 1 - 26 
Electrum 5A 1 - 42 
Electrum 6A 1 - 32 
Electrum 7A 1 - 44 
Electrum 8B 
Electrum 10 1-20 
Electrum 11B 
Pedregoso I 1 - 30 
Pedregoso VII 1 - 30 
Honda 20 1 - 20 

Southern Gold SpA 
Southern Gold SpA 
Southern Gold SpA 
Southern Gold SpA 
Southern Gold SpA 
Southern Gold SpA 
Southern Gold SpA 
Southern Gold SpA 
Equus Patagonia SpA 
Equus Patagonia SpA 
Equus Patagonia SpA 

%%  
IInntteerreesstt  
100 
100 
100 
100 
100 
100 
100 
100 

TTyyppee  ooff  TTeenneemmeenntt  

Mining Concession 
Mining Concession1 
Mining Concession1 
Mining Concession1 
Mining Concession1 
Exploration 
Mining Concession1 
Exploration 

Note 1  Mining Concession2 
Note 1  Mining Concession2 
Note 1  Mining Concession2 

Cerro 
Diablo 

Chile 

Diablo 1 

Minera Equus Chile Limitada 

100 

Exploration 

Chile 
Chile 
Chile 
Chile 
Chile 
Chile 
Chile 
Chile 
Chile 
Chile 
Chile 
Chile 

Diablo 2 
Diablo 3 
Diablo 4 
Diablo 5 
Diablo 6 
Diablo 7 
Diablo 8 
Diablo 9 
Diablo 10 
Diablo 11 
Diablo 12 
Diablo 13 

Minera Equus Chile Limitada 
Minera Equus Chile Limitada 
Minera Equus Chile Limitada 
Minera Equus Chile Limitada 
Minera Equus Chile Limitada 
Minera Equus Chile Limitada 
Minera Equus Chile Limitada 
Minera Equus Chile Limitada 
Minera Equus Chile Limitada 
Minera Equus Chile Limitada 
Minera Equus Chile Limitada 
Minera Equus Chile Limitada 

100 
100 
100 
100 
100 
100 
100 
100 
100 
100 
100 
100 

Exploration 
Exploration 
Exploration 
Exploration  
Exploration 
Exploration 
Exploration 
Exploration 
Exploration  
Exploration 
Exploration 
Exploration 

Notes to Table 1:  
1 Converted  from exploration to mining claim 
2 The Company incorporated effective 12 August 2019 a joint venture company titled Equus Patagonia SpA with Patagonia Gold SCM, the Chilean subsidiary of Patagonia Gold Corp (TSXV: PGDC). This 
entity incorporates the Company ́s 75% interest in mining concessions owned by Patagonia Gold SCM, which form part of the Los Domos Project. Southern Gold SpA can acquire a further 20% interest in 
the Mining Concessions via sole funding exploration through the Equus Patagonia SpA joint venture company at which point Patagonia Gold SCM has the right to retain a 5% free carried interest or convert 
its equity into a 1.5% NSR. 

1 

2 

3 

4 

5 

6 

7 

8 

9 

10 

11 

12 

13 

14 

15 

16 

17 

18 

19 

20 

Tribeca Investments Partners Pty Ltd 

DITM Holdings Ltd 

Hodgson Capital Limited 

Rigi Investments Pty Ltd  

Citicorp Nominees Pty Limited 

Ringwood Management Pty Limited  

HSBC Custody Nominees (Australia) Limited A/C 2 

HSBC Custody Nominees (Australia) Limited 

BNP Paribas Nominees Pty Ltd 

Terrane Minerals SpA 

Mark Hamish Lochtenberg & Michael Lochtenberg  

Perrin Legal Pty Ltd  

DRYCA Pty Ltd  

Northcliffe Holdings Pty Ltd < Northcliffe Holdings A/C>  

John Wardman & Associates Pty Ltd  

Simon (Sui Hee) Lee 

Peter Frederick Phillips and Alice Sau Han Phillips 

Calama Holdings Pty Ltd  

Inkese Pty Ltd 

OPTIONHOLDERS IN THE COMPANY 

Total optionholders as at 31 August 2021, 85 holding 459,388,889 unlisted options. 

SUBSTANTIAL OPTIONHOLDERS IN THE COMPANY 

As at 31 August 2021, the twenty largest optionholders that held 20% or more of the unquoted options. 

Name 

1 

USB Nominees Pty Ltd 

Escrow securities 

As at 31 August 2021, there were escrow securities. 

198,980,909 

145,010,613 

124,288,687 

89,220,000 

70,065,656 

69,263,393 

67,503,636 

61,520,851 

59,362,837 

46,961,392 

41,417,075 

38,499,651 

31,909,091 

28,500,059 

21,358,824 

20,000,000 

20,000,000 

18,000,000 

17,775,106 

17,500,000 

8.0 

5.8 

5.0 

3.6 

2.8 

2.8 

2.7 

2.5 

2.4 

1.9 

1.7 

1.5 

1.3 

1.1 

0.9 

0.8 

0.8 

0.7 

0.7 

0.7 

Unlisted Options 

Quantity 

% 

91,825,017 

20 

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