Share Issue – Notice Under Section 708A(5)(E) Orion Minerals Limited 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 Ltd (ASX/JSE: ORN) (Company or Orion) announced on 25 June 2018 an $11M capital raising at an issue price of $0.037 per fully paid ordinary share (Share) via a placement, to be conducted in two tranches. As announced on 29 June 2018, one of the members of Orion’s Black Economic Empowerment Partner in South Africa also subscribed for an additional $0.25M in Shares at an issue price of $0.037 per Share, which was added to Tranche 2 of the placement (together the Placement). The Placement was made up of $3.39M in Tranche 1 and, subject to shareholder approval which was obtained at a general meeting on 3 August 2018 (Meeting) an additional $7.86M in Tranche 2. Tranche 1 Shares were issued on 29 June 2018 and Tranche 2 Shares were issued on 15 August 2018. In addition to the Placement, the Company also obtained shareholder approval at the Meeting pursuant to ASX Listing Rule 10.11 to enable the Chairman, Denis Waddell, to subscribe for 6.8M Shares at the same issue price as the Shares being offered under the Placement to raise $0.25M and for Tembo Capital Mining Fund II LP (or nominee) (Tembo Capital) to subscribe for 172.9M Shares at the same issue price as the Shares being offered under the Placement. The Shares issued to Tembo Capital are issued in consideration for reducing the amount re-payable to Tembo Capital under the Loan Facility between the Company and Tembo, pursuant to which Tembo Capital has advanced $6M in funds to Orion (excluding capitalised interest and fees) (Loan Facility). Refer to Orion's announcement on 18 August 2017 for further details regarding the Loan Facility. Today, Orion has issued: - 6,756,756 Shares at $0.037 per Share to Mr Denis Waddell (or nominee) as approved by shareholders at the Meeting; and - 172,918,918 Shares at a deemed issue price of $0.037 per Share to Tembo Capital as approved by shareholders at the Meeting. 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 the subject of this notice 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. 23 August 2018 Dennis Waddell Chairman 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) 207 920 3150 E: michael.vaughan@fivemark.com.au E: orion@tavistock.co.uk Suite 617, 530 Little Collins Street Melbourne, VIC, 3000 Date: 23/08/2018 09:19:00 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.