Quarterly Report

Thor Mining PLC 27 July 2007 THOR MINING PLC QUARTERLY REPORT - June 2007 Dated: 27 July 2007 Thor Mining PLC ('the Company' or 'Thor'), AIM, ASX: 'THR' the specialist metals company focused on advancing tungsten-molybdenum and uranium projects in the Northern Territory of Australia, today released its quarterly report for the period to 30 June 2007. HIGHLIGHTS Molyhil Tungsten-Molybdenum Project ('Molyhil') • Thor continued to focus on the development of its key asset Molyhil with detailed layouts and requests for tenders for equipment and long lead items being completed; • Thor has now advanced negotiations for an off-take agreement with a number of interested parties. We anticipate an agreement in principal will be reached during August/September; • Final metallurgical work and concentrate specifications produced with better than expected grades. Primary Molybdenum concentrate assayed 51.4% Mo, with a recovery of 77.8%. The primary Tungsten concentrate assayed 72.9% WO3, with a recovery of 65.4%; • The updated Molyhil resource estimate is due early August, following the success of the reverse circulation drilling which identified extensions of the mineralisation outside of the current mining reserve; and • A number of intersections received from the Yacht Club mineralised zone returned grades in excess of 1% combined MoS2 and WO3, highlights as follows; 14m @ 3.40% Combined MoS2 + WO3 from 9m 19m @ 2.96% Combined MoS2 + WO3 from 53m 19m @ 1.79% Combined MoS2 + WO3 from 34m 11m @ 1.00% Combined MoS2 + WO3 from 29m 2m @ 3.08% Combined MoS2 + WO3 from 22m 2m @ 1.26% Combined MoS2 + WO3 from 39m 8m @ 1.13% Combined MoS2 + WO3 from 46m Uranium projects Reconnaissance air core drilling at Hale River Uranium Project in the Northern Territory ('Hale River') was completed during the quarter, with a total of 28 holes completed for 1,829 metres of drilling. All samples have now been dispatched with results expected shortly. MOLYHIL TUNGSTEN - MOLYBDENUM PROJECT Molyhil development During the quarter Proteus Engineering continued with work on detailed layouts and requests for tenders for equipment and long lead items, particularly for the supply of the grinding mill. Recommendations on the grinding mills and wet screens have been received, along with an assessment of responses from reagent suppliers. To date, Proteus has issued the following long lead packages for tender: Grinding mill, Dryers, Wet screens, Pressure plate filters, Flotation cells, Thickener, Magnetic separators, Spirals, Plant substation and Reagents. Final metallurgical results Final metallurgical test work on the Molyhil deposit has been carried out by independent consultants Nagrom and IMO under the supervision of Proteus Engineering. Primary Molybdenum concentrate assayed 51.4% Mo, with a recovery of 77.8%. The Primary Tungsten concentrate assayed 72.9% WO3, with a recovery of 65.4%. Further cleaning and/or blending of the secondary tungsten product may improve this recovery. Finance and off-take negotiations During the previous quarter, Thor signed a mandate with Hunan Nonferrous Metals (Hunan). Unfortunately in late April Thor was notified that Hunan did not wish to proceed with any participation in the development of Molyhil. Thor has since focused on a strategy of securing an offtake agreement for Molyhil. The exclusive mandate to secure a finance and offtake agreement was terminated with Penfolds Limited. With the receipt of final concentrate specifications and the updated resource due to be completed shortly, information packages have been sent to prospective off-take parties. Due to the delays in the delivery of the updated resource by our consultants, Thor now expects completion of the off-take negotiations could be pushed out to the end of September 2007. Native title During the March quarter a meeting was held on site at Molyhil with the Traditional Owners of the area, in conjunction with the Central Land Council (' CLC'). At this meeting all proposed mining infrastructure was approved by the Traditional Owners. The Native Title Mining Agreement is being finalised. Environmental and notice of intent ('NOI') Keith Lindbeck and Associates ('KLA') have completed the NOI and the environmental studies and this is currently with the Department of Primary Industries, Fisheries and Minerals for review. The department indicated the project will require a Public Environmental Review ('PER'). KLA has completed and submitted the PER document. The public review period of 28 days ends on the 23rd of July. The PER can be viewed at the NRETA website: http://www.nt.gov.au/nreta/environment/assessment/index.html Molyhil exploration The Molyhil reverse circulation ('RC') drilling program was completed in March 2007 with a total of 25 RC holes drilled for 2,586 metres (as previously reported). Drilling was designed to in-fill the up-dip extensions of new zones of Hanging Wall mineralisation discovered last year. In addition, several deeper RC holes were also completed to convert inferred resources to the indicated category. The drilling has indicated that there are some significant tungsten grades over 1% near surface in the Yacht Club lode which adds confidence to the rapid payback time indicated from initial optimisation work on the 60m starter pit. The recent drilling was mainly above the 250m RL and concentrated on the Yacht Club mineralisation. The drilling completed in 2006 focused on down dip extensions of the Southern zone. The results from this program indicated that the mineralised skarn is open both to the south and down plunge. The overall plunge of the Yacht Club and Southern lodes appears to be flatter than originally thought and as a consequence re-interpretation of the ore model had to be completed. The recent drilling has also shown that the shape of the lodes is not tabular and they appear to have a more complex folded shape as is evident in the outcropping portion of Yacht Club lode in the pit area. URANIUM EXPLORATION Hale River Uranium Project Reconnaissance air core drilling at the Hale River was completed during the quarter, with a total of 28 holes completed for 1,829 metres of drilling. Five out of the planned six prospective areas at Hale River have been drilled. Where channel sands are shallow (<50m), geological logging of the drill holes has confirmed the presence of downward coarsening sandy sequences and carbonaceous horizons within the targeted channels. These are complex interbedded units with irregular boundaries noted between oxidised and unoxidised sands. Both air core and mud rotary drilling techniques were used, however drilling coverage of a number of the proposed Hoist EM targets was incomplete due to difficulties with sample recovery at depth. Because the sands are unconsolidated, a number of holes did not reach bedrock and have therefore not fully tested some of the deeper channels. Samples taken mostly from the top of the upper carbonaceous horizon have returned scintillometer readings several times background. All samples have now been dispatched to Adelaide for analysis, with all results expected early August. Plenty Highway Project Hoist EM results A final report and interpretation of the Hoist EM data has been provided by Dave McInnes of Montana GIS. Two highly prospective areas have been identified at junctions within a large palaeo - channel drainage system containing abundant conductive sedimentary units. Orbit Drilling has a booking to complete the reconnaissance air core drilling program over the area pending Central Land Council approvals. The Mine Management Plan has been approved by the Northern Territory mines department. Approximately 5,000m of drilling will be required. Minimal previous exploration has been carried out on the tenement. Other projects During the quarter the Exploration Agreement was signed by the Arrernte peoples the Traditional Owners of the area around the Hatches Creek project. The tenement can now be granted and a final ground clearance needs to be completed before work on the ground can begin. No work was completed this quarter at Harts Range, Curtis Pound or Bundey River Projects. CORPORATE During the quarter Hardman and Co leaders in corporate research in the UK initiated coverage of Thor with a favourable valuation. A copy of this report can be downloaded from our website. Almost 917,000 warrants have been exercised from the beginning of the June quarter to the date of this report, raising, approximately $172K for the Company. On 23 July 2007 the Board approved a placement of 6.8m shares at 11 pence on the AIM market securing $1.75m dollars for short term working capital requirements and continuance of the development of Molyhil. This placement did not incur the normal 5-10% broking fees. The Hatches Creek tenements were transferred from Molyhil Mining Pty Ltd to a new wholly owned subsidiary, Hatches Creek Pty Ltd. Tenements No changes to tenements occurred during the quarter. JORC Compliance The information in this report that relates to exploration results, mineral resources or ore reserves is based on information compiled by John Young, who is a Member of The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. John Young is a director of Thor Mining PLC. John Young has sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity which he is undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2004 Edition of the 'Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves'. John Young consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears. Enquiries: John Young + 61 (0)419 954 020 Thor Mining PLC Chief Executive Officer John Simpson 020 7512 0191 ARM Corporate Finance Ltd Nominated Adviser Leesa Peters 020 7429 6600 Conduit PR Limited Public Relations or Jos Simson 020 7429 6603 Nicholas Read + 61 (0) 8 9388 1474 Read Corporate Public Relations/Australia Updates on the Company's activities are regularly posted on Thor's website www.thormining.com, which includes a facility to register to receive these updates by email. 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