Share Issue – Notice Under Section 708A(5)(E) Orion Minerals NL Incorporated in the Commonwealth of Australia Australian Company Number 098 939 274 ASX share code: ORN JSE share code: ORN ISIN: AU000000ORN1 SHARE ISSUE – NOTICE UNDER SECTION 708A(5)(E) Orion Minerals NL (ASX/JSE: ORN) announced on 30 October 2017 that it is undertaking a capital raising of $5.5M at an issue price of 2.4 cents per ordinary fully paid share (Share), made up of $3.47M in Tranche 1 and an additional $2.03M in Tranche 2 (subject to shareholder approval, which was obtained at a general meeting 13 December 2017 (Meeting)). Tranche 1 Shares were issued on 3 November 2017. On 18 December 2017, Orion issued 74,166,667 Shares in the Company at 2.4 cents per Share, to raise $1.78M, resulting from a receipt of funds from investors for Tranche 2 commitments. Orion has today issued 10,416,666 Shares in the Company at 2.4 cents per Share, to raise $0.25M, resulting from a receipt of funds from investors, finalising Tranche 2 commitments. In accordance with section 708A(5)(e) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Act), the Company advises as follows: 1. this notice is being given under paragraph 708A(5)(e) of the Act; 2. the Company issued the Shares under the placement without disclosure to investors under Part 6D.2 of the Act; 3. as at the date of this notice, the Company has complied with the provisions of Chapter 2M of the Act as they apply to the Company; 4. as at the date of this notice, the Company has complied with section 674 of the Act; and 5. all information of the kind that would be required to be disclosed to the market for the purposes of section 708A(6)(e) of the Act has been disclosed to ASX Limited. Denis Waddell Chairman 19 December 2017 ENQUIRIES Investors JSE Sponsor Errol Smart – Managing Director & CEO Rick Irving Denis Waddell – Chairman Merchantec Capital T: +61 (0) 3 8080 7170 T: +27 (0) 11 325 6363 E: info@orionminerals.com.au E: rick@merchantec.co.za Media Michael Vaughan Barnaby Hayward Fivemark Partners, Australia Tavistock, UK T: +61 (0) 422 602 720 T: +44 (0) 787 955 1355 E: michael.vaughan@fivemark.com.au E: orion@tavistock.co.uk Suite 617, 530 Little Collins Street Melbourne, VIC, 3000 Date: 19/12/2017 08:55:00 Produced by the JSE SENS Department. The SENS service is an information dissemination service administered by the JSE Limited ('JSE'). The JSE does not, whether expressly, tacitly or implicitly, represent, warrant or in any way guarantee the truth, accuracy or completeness of the information published on SENS. The JSE, their officers, employees and agents accept no liability for (or in respect of) any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential loss or damage of any kind or nature, howsoever arising, from the use of SENS or the use of, or reliance on, information disseminated through SENS.