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  • Tian Poh Resources Limited (ABN: 46 168 910 978)

    Registered Office: c/- PKF, Level 4, 35-37 Havelock Street, West Perth, WA 6005, Australia

    Tel: +61 8 9426 8999 Fax: +61 8 9426 8900 www.tianpohresources.com

    10th August 2015 ASX ANNOUNCEMENT ASX: TPO Company Announcements Office Australian Securities Exchange Limited

    Acquisition of Nuurst Thermal Coal Project and Capital Raising

    Key Points:

    Tian Poh Resources Limited (ASX: TPO) has signed an agreement to purchase Modun Resources LLC in Mongolia, the 100% owner of the Nuurst Thermal Coal Project (Project) from Modun Resources Limited (ASX: MOU).

    The Project has JORC (2004) Reportable Coal Resource of 478.3 million tonnes (326.1 million tonnes Measured, 103.8 million tonnes Indicated, 48.4 million tonnes Inferred), which was compiled in November 2012 by consultancy CSA Global Pty Ltd.

    The Project is a wholly owned exploration licence located 120 kms south east of

    Ulaanbaatar in an area with a number of operating coal mines and is 6 km from existing rail infrastructure allowing direct access onto the existing Trans-Mongolian Railway line.

    TPO intends to immediately commence planning development of the Project.

    US$100,000 will be paid to purchase the Project

    US$2,110,000 will be paid to acquire debt financing provided to the Project.

    A deposit of US$100,000 has been paid and US$2,110,000 will be paid upon closing in approximately 14 business days.

    TPO is in discussions with a number of prospective investors to participate in a private placement to assist with funding.

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    TIAN POH RESOURCES - THE COMPANY

    Tian Poh Resources Limited is a Singapore based company with highly prospective coal and copper assets in Mongolia. Founded by Mr Poh Kay Ping BBM PBM, a Director of the Poh Group, a Singapore based investment house, Tian Poh has ten mineral concessions within close proximity to the Chinese border and covers over 125,000 ha within world class mineral provinces. The concessions are in the same mineral rich belt that hosts the world class Tavan Tolgoi and Oyu Tolgoi deposits. TPO is also completing due diligence for the acquisition of the Zuun Mod Molybdenum-Copper deposit in Mongolia. The Poh Group Established in 2010, Poh Group Pte Ltd (Poh Group or the Group) was founded by Singaporean businessman Mr Poh Kay Ping BBM PBM. Through a combination of strategic partnerships and joint ventures, Poh Group has grown from its humble beginnings into a dynamic group of companies involved in diverse industries across key developing and emerging markets throughout Asia. The two key areas of focus for Poh Group are Resources and Engineering. Poh Group is one of only a handful of Singaporean companies to invest in the mineral resource industry in Mongolia. The Groups mineral investments in Mongolia are held mainly under Poh Resources and Tian Poh Resources Limited (ASX:TPO). These assets are located mainly in the south and southwest of Mongolia in close proximity to the Chinese border, giving Poh Group easy access to China, one of the largest consumers of copper and coal. Apart from Mongolia, Poh Group has also invested in a 512km2 gold exploration concession in Cambodia. The concessions are surrounded by several known gold deposits controlled by listed companies in Australia and Canada. Poh Group has grown its engineering business segment through establishing successful strategic alliances with large Chinese state-owned companies, including a joint venture named Wengfu International Pte Ltd, that was formed together with Wengfu Group Ltd, one of the largest state-owned companies in China with a turnover US$4 billion in 2014. The joint venture was involved in the successful completion of a US$430 million Phosphate Beneficiation Plants Engineering, Procurement and Construction contract in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In addition, Poh Groups other business activities include aquaculture, power generation, residential and industrial property development; and IT product distribution. Poh Kay Ping BBM PBM is a non-Executive Director of Poh Tiong Choon Logistics Pte Ltd, listed on the main board of the SGX, which is one of the largest logistics companies in Singapore. Poh Kay Ping BBM PBM has been conferred twice by the President of the Republic of Singapore, in 2007 and 2013, and holds the titles of PBM and BBM.

    About the Nuurst Thermal Coal Project The Nuurst Thermal Coal Project is a wholly owned 2,497.04 Ha exploration licence located 120 km south east of Ulaanbaatar in an area with a number of operating coal mines and 6 km from existing rail infrastructure allowing direct access onto the existing Trans-Mongolian Railway line.

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    The Project has JORC (2004) Reportable Coal Resource of 478.3 million tonnes (326.1 Million tonnes Measured 103.8 million tonnes Indicated, 48.4 million tonnes Inferred), which was compiled in November 2012 by consultancy CSA Global Pty Ltd.

    The coal type is considered as a sub-bituminous dominantly A to B coal, according to the U.S. ASTM-ASA classification parameters and a brown to hard coal according to the UN-ECE Classification. Cautionary statement The mineral resource estimates are regarded as a historic estimate and are not reported in accordance with the 2012 Edition of the JORC Code. The competent person has not done sufficient work to classify the historic estimates as Mineral Resources in accordance with the JORC Code 2012. The resources have been classified under the now superseded JORC Code 2004 Edition. No additional exploration has been undertaken on the project since these resource estimates were derived in 2012. It is likely, given access to a full raw dataset, a site visit and additional auditing of the existing resource reporting that the Competent Person will be able to report the Nuurst Project as Mineral Resources in accordance with the JORC Code 2012. Geology The Nuurst project area is located within the Choir-Nyalia Basin where coal seams are hosted in Lower Cretaceous age sediments of the Zuunbayan Group. The coal bearing Khukteeg formation can be up to 450m thick of coal seams, conglomerates, gravel,

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    sandstone, siltstone and mudstone. The area has been subjected to regional tectonic deformation generating a gently folded synclinal structure across the project area. The Nuurst project extends 11.12m along strike and 3.36 km across the axis of the gently folded syncline striking north-south with dips to the west or east from -6 to -52. Several near vertical normal faults perpendicular to the fold axis have been identified. CSA Globals 2012 resource report identified a total of 17 coal seams split into a further 81 subseams and splits at Nuurst from cross section interpretations, correlation of geophysics and geological logs. The seams are split into three groups of which Group A is the most economically significant. Exploration programs in 2011 and 2012 by Modun Resources Ltd consisted of drilling and sampling program with a total of 29 drill holes ranging from 23m to 572m in depth and 1095 samples.

    All holes if possible were geophyscially logged with a typical suite of coal exploration sondes and surveyed for verticality. All ply samples were validated against geophysics. Core recovery was very good with greater than 95% for all holes and being close to 100% for most drill holes. The weighted average coal quality analytical results for all coal seams are listed below:

    Ash (A adb) 18.89%; Volatile Matter (VMadb) 40.51%; Fixed Carbon (FCadb) at 30.62%; Total Sulphur (Sadb) 1.08%; Calorific Value average 4768kcal/kg (CVadb) and 6704kcal/kg on dry ash free

    (CVdaf).

    Recently deposited alluvium of approximately 25m thick covers the majority of the Nuurst project area. A static water table depth of approximately 20m has also been determined from geophysical electric resistivity logging. The depth of oxidation surface has been identified for the area which varies from 16 to 60m. The seams have a large range of average thicknesses from 0.06 to 56.49m with an average coal seam thicknesses were estimated for each seam and total average thicknesses for all seams is approximately 5.3m. The resource modelling utilised Minescape software based on a 3500kcal/kg (adb) lower cut-off, a minimum thickness for coal of 0.5m and partings of 0.1m, and could be reliably interpreted down to a depth of 500m from surface. Coal quality was modelled in a ply by ply basis and combined for seam composites. Relative density and tonnage have been converted to an insitu basis using the Preston Sanders formula. To the extent known, the sampling and analysis programs for exploration activities conducted by Modun Resources Ltd were conducted to best industry practice providing sound and reasonable results. The resulting data has been used to generate a sound and reasonable resource estimate.

    Drill Hole Type

    2011 2012 All

    Core (HQ2)

    23 7,305.6m 4 968.0m 27 8,273.6m

    Rotary 2 106.0m 0 0.0m 2 106.0m All 25 7,411.6m 4 968.0m 29 8,379.6m

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    Notes This resource statement is based on the resource estimate developed by a previous Compentent Person in a report titled Coal Resource Estimate Modun Resources Ltd Nuurst Project Mongolia by Dwiyoko Taruno (MAusIMM MAIG) November 2012.

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    Competent Persons Statement The information in this report that relates to Exploration Targets, Exploration Results, Mineral Resources or Ore Reserves is based on information reviewed by Mr. Kerry Gordon an independent consultant geologist from Ravensgate, New Zealand. Ravensgate were engaged by TPO to review this information, which was first announced by MOU in November 2012. Mr. Kerry Gordon has sufficient experience t