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  • P A N A U S T R A L I A NR E S O U R C E S L I M I T E D

    Corporate Update May 2007

  • Project Location Map S/E Asia

    Phu BiaContract Area

    PuthepPuthepProjectProject

    CHIANG MAIBELT

    TRUONGSONBELT

    LOEI-PHETCHABUN/ LOUANGPHABANG BELT

    Mae Sot

    Chatree

    LEGEND

    Acid igneousrocks

    Palaeozoic-Mesozoicvolcano sedimentary belt - volcanic arcs

    CHIANG MAI BELT

    TRUONGSON BELT

    LOEI-PHETCHABUN/ LOUANGPHABANG BELT

    SeponSepon

  • Focus & StrategyPhu Kham Phu Bia Gold Mine:Phase I Strategic greenfield “starter” project

    Op’s team, systems, infrastructure established

    Phu Kham Phu Kham Copper-Gold Project:Phase II Brownfield development

    Fully financed June 2006Owner operate mining late 2006 Pre-commissioning from December 2007Concentrate sales from mid-2008

    Exploration & Maintain project pipeline:Acquisitions US$13m exploration & evaluation budget 06/07

  • Phu Bia Mining Ltd

    Ownership Pan Australian 90%, Gov’t of Laos 10%:

    paid for from future free cash flow

    Corporate Tax Rate 25% from first year of profit after realising

    tax losses of US$54M at end 2006

    NSR Royalty Regime Scaled by metal price between 3% and 6%

    Contract Area Retained at 2,637km2 ~1.1% of Laos

    Tenure 30 years, refreshed with each new mine

  • Phu Kham Deposit Schematic Section

  • Phu Kham Copper-Gold Ore Reserve*

    Category Tonnes(Mt)

    Cu Grade(%)

    Au Grade(g/t)

    Copper Metal (000 t)

    Gold Metal (M oz)

    Proved 67 0.63 0.28 420 0.6

    Probable 77 0.51 0.23 390 0.6

    Total 144 0.56 0.25 810 1.2

    • 85% of Measured & Indicated Resources convert to Ore Reserve

    • 9M t of Inferred Resources fall within final pit shell

    • Strip ratio exceptionally low at 0.57:1

    *Refer JORC compliant Mineral Resource announced to the ASX on 3 April 2006

    Price assumptions: Copper US$1.35/lb, Gold US$450/oz, Silver US$8.00/oz

  • Phu Kham Copper-Gold Project

    Mine Life +12 years

    Throughput Rate 12M tpa

    Annual Concentrate 207,000dmt @ 25% Cu, 7g/t Au, 65g/t Ag

    Annual Production 52,000t Cu, 47,000oz Au, 400,000oz Ag

    Development Capital US$241m (Inc US$28m contingency)

    Senior Debt / Equity ~51 / 49

    Mine Site Cash Cost* US¢ 40/lb

    Total Cash Op Cost* US¢ 74/lb* After precious metal credits: US$450/oz gold and US$8.00/oz silver.

    Feasibility study predictions using conventional technology

  • Total Funding Envelope

    US$M

    Capital cost estimate 241.1

    Pre-commissioning costs 11.0

    Financing costs inc. cap interest 20.4

    Refinancing existing facilities 10.0

    Working capital 12.5

    Total uses of funds 295.0

    Fully funded: ~50/50 debt/equity

  • Phu Kham Development: March 2007…

    ... on schedule, within budget

  • ... on schedule, within budget

    Phu Kham Development: March 2007…

  • Phu Kham Process Plant

    Benefits from 3-D Model

  • Development & CommissioningMilestones

    First concrete pour December 2006 Achieved

    Start structural steel work March 2007 Achieved

    Critical concreting & June 2007 On schedule machining of mills complete

    Main mill components on site September 2007 On schedule

    Pre-commissioning start December 2007 On schedule

    First production mid-2008 Ahead of Schedule

  • Points of Difference

    Strip Ratio 0.57:1 one of the lowest strip mines in the world

    Mining down-grade haul from pit to crusher in early years

    Work index 9 to 15 kWhr/t – lowest in early years

    Power Mine 12km from hydro-power line

    Capital Development within US$241M capital budget

    Delivery Ahead of schedule for first concentrate mid-2008

    Resource New resource and reserve prior to start-up

  • Phu Kham Plan View

    • In-fill drilling of north mine area started February 2007

    • Aim is to upgrade indicated and inferred mineralisation

  • Cross Sections

    +1% copper in floor of final pit

    Limited drilling below current

    pit

  • Cash Operating CostsCopper mine cost curve, 2009

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    Phu Kham

    Assumptions:Copper price: US$1.00/lbGold price:US430/ozSilver price:US$6.50/ozMolybdenum oxide price:US$4.56/lbTC:US$55/dmtRC:US5.5/lbProduction:52,312t contained CuBusiness operating cost: US$0.659/lb

    Scenario 2

  • Competitive on Capital Intensity

    Mine & Mill Industry Average

    ~US$5,500/t Cu Equiv in 2003 Dollars

    Phu Kham

    ~US$3,900/t in 2006 Dollars ~US$3,700/t in 2003 Dollars CPI Adjusted ~US$2,700/t in 2003 Dollars Mine Cost Inflation Adjusted 0

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    2003 Dollars cost inflation adjusted

    2003 DollarsCPI adjusted

  • Capital Expenditure 31 March 2007

  • Phu Kham Copper-Gold Economics

    Cu Price Au Price Annual Cash Flow

    CapitalPayback

    US$1.35/lb1 US$450/oz US$50M

  • Concentrate Transport

  • BHP Billiton & Sempra

    BHP Billiton – manager of all concentrate sales

    Exposure to global market presence and expertise

    Optionality on benchmark or spot sales

    Sempra – guaranteed offtake for 50% of production

    US$5M placement at $0.55 per share – 20% premium

    US$10M debt facility on very competitive terms

  • Phu Bia Gold: December 2006

  • Gold Production

  • MiningMining activities integrated from 1Jan 2007

  • Exploration & Evaluation – US$13M in 2007

    Other Exploration,

    US$0.6M

    Other Evaluation, US$1.0M

    Ban Houayxai, US$2.6M

    Northern Exploration

    Area, US$3.7M

    Southern Exploration

    Area, US$1.7M Phu Kham

    Copper-Gold, US$2.6M

    Magnetic & Radiometric

    Survey, US$0.8M

    Drilling at Tharkhek

    Ore Reserve discovery cost to date:

    US$2.5/oz gold equivalent, or

    US¢1.3/lb copper equivalent

  • Exploration & Evaluation Prospects

    14m @ 1.9g/t Au13m @ 0.5% Cu55m @ 164g/t Ag

    18m @ 17.2g/t Au from surface12m @ 9.1g/t Au from 38m22m @ 9.4g/t Au from 24m

    10m @ 14.6g/t Au & 198g/t Ag2m @ 5.9g/t Au & 87g/t Ag

    Soil anomaly 4 x 2kmsoil samples of over 1,600ppm Curock chips grading up to 1.3% Cu Channel samples up to 0.76% Cu over 5m

  • Ban Houayxai Deposit

    East

    300m EOH

    > 0.3 g/t Au

    > 0.3 g/t Au Equiv alent

    SignificantSignificantSignificantSignificantSignificantSignificantSignificantSignificantSignificantInterceptsInterceptsInterceptsInterceptsInterceptsInterceptsInterceptsInterceptsIntercepts

    Cry stal Lithic and Cry stal Tuf f

    249.5m EOH

    300m EOH

    HDD006

    Sericite-SilicaSericite-SilicaSericite-SilicaSericite-SilicaSericite-SilicaSericite-SilicaSericite-SilicaSericite-SilicaSericite-SilicaAlteration EnvelopeAlteration EnvelopeAlteration EnvelopeAlteration EnvelopeAlteration EnvelopeAlteration EnvelopeAlteration EnvelopeAlteration EnvelopeAlteration Envelope

    BOCO

    HDD007

    HDD009

    West

    BOPO

    132m @ 0.9g/t Au Eq from 4m inc. 19m @ 2.7g/t Au Eq from 59m

    196m @ 1.3g/t Au Eq from 2m inc. 68m @ 3.2g/t Au Eq from 60m

    Gold to silver price ratio assumption: 50 to 1

    Crystal Lithic and Crystal Tuff

    EastHDD008

    300.3m EOH

    299.88m EOH

    SignificantSignificantSignificantSignificantSignificantSignificantSignificantSignificantSignificantInterceptsInterceptsInterceptsInterceptsInterceptsInterceptsInterceptsInterceptsIntercepts

    HDD010

    248m EOH

    HDD011

    HDD012

    250.1m EOH

    Sericite-SilicaSericite-SilicaSericite-SilicaSericite-SilicaSericite-SilicaSericite-SilicaSericite-SilicaSericite-SilicaSericite-SilicaAlteration EnvelopeAlteration EnvelopeAlteration EnvelopeAlteration EnvelopeAlteration EnvelopeAlteration EnvelopeAlteration EnvelopeAlteration EnvelopeAlteration Envelope

    West

    BOCO

    BOPO

    >0.30g/t Au >0.30g/t Au Equivalent

    44m @ 0.7g/t Au Eq from 4m and 64m @ 3.4g/t Au Eq from 66m

    36m @ 3.2g/t Au Eq from 54m inc. 10m @ 10.6g/t Au Eq from 54m

    42m @ 1.8g/t Au Eq from 24m and 21m @ 1.6g/t Au Eq from 81m

    94m @ 0.9g/t Au Eq from surface

    98m @ 1.4g/t Au Eq from surface inc. 38m @ 2.0g/t Au Eq from 38m

    North X-Section

    South X-Section

  • Pha Nai Prospect

    20km north of Phu Kham

    High tenor, up to 0.18% copper soil anomaly

    1.5km x up to 1.0km within a 4km x 2km halo

    Elevated molybdenum (70 to 150ppm) and gold zones

    Drilling to start mid-2007

  • Project Location Map S/E Asia

    Phu BiaContract Area

    PuthepPuthepProjectProject

    CHIANG MAIBELT

    TRUONGSONBELT

    LOEI-PHETCHABUN/ LOUANGPHABANG BELT

    Mae Sot

    Chatree

    LEGEND

    Acid igneousrocks

    Palaeozoic-Mesozoicvolcano sedimentary belt - volcanic arcs

    CHIANG MAI BELT

    TRUONGSON BELT

    LOEI-PHETCHABUN/ LOUANGPHABANG BELT

    SeponSepon

  • Puthep Copper Project

    Pan Australian earning 60% interest

    Largest known copper deposit in Thailand

    PUT 1 Mineral Resource*: 85m t @ 0.44% for 370,000t copper

    Thai Government approval for BFS received November 2006

    Infill and extensional resource drilling started March 2007

    Targeting primary copper-gold mineralisation below transitional

    Bulk flotation concept similar to Phu Kham to be evaluated

    BFS envisaged to be completed by end 2008* Refer JORC compliant Mineral Resource presented in 2006 Annual Report

  • Community & Phu Kham

    Socio-economic Survey: March 2007Household income up 385% and 248% since December 2003 in the villages of Nam Gnone and Nam Mo respectively

    Shift from subsistence agriculture to cash based economy

    70% and 14% of households in Nam Mo and Nam Gnone respectively have in house sanitation versus none in 2003

    Distance to village water supplies are now less than 50m

    Population growth of 50% to 80% occurring due to in-migration which is supplementing the labour pool

    A “high level of community satisfaction for Pan Aust’s mining operations”was concluded

  • Community Initiatives

  • Summary - Company Potential

    Total Cu (t) Au (oz)Mineral Resource 1,700,000 2,000,000

  • Capital Structure

    Issued securities 1,411M sh’s, 38M opt’s & rights

    Share price ~55 cents

    Market capitalisation ~A$770 million

    Cash March 2007 US$53 million

    Debt March 2007 None

    Debt facilities un-drawn US$243 million

    Indexation (Current) ASX 300

    ASX Code: PNA

  • This presentation has been prepared by the management of Pan Australian Resources Limited (the 'Company') for the benefit of brokers, analysts and investors and not as specific advice to any particular party or person.

    The information is based on publicly available information, internally developed data and other sources. No independent verification of those sources has been undertaken and where any opinion is expressed in this document it is based on the assumptions and limitations mentioned herein and is an expression of present opinion only. No warranties or representations can be made as to the origin, validity, accuracy, completeness, currency or reliability of the information. The Company disclaims and excludes all liability (to the extent permitted by law), for losses, claims, damages, demands, costs and expenses of whatever nature arising in any way out of or in connection with the information, its accuracy, completeness or by reason of reliance by any person on any of it.

    Where the Company expresses or implies an expectation or belief as to the success of future exploration and the economic viability of future projects, such expectation or belief is expressed in good faith and believed to have a reasonable basis. However, such forecasts are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from future results expressed, projected or implied by such forecasts. Such risks include, but are not limited to, exploration success, gold and copper price volatility, changes to the current mineral resource estimates, changes to assumptions for capital and operating costs as well as political and operational risks and governmental regulation outcomes. For a more detailed discussion of risks and other factors, refer to the Directors' Report in the Company's 2006 Annual Report which has been lodged with the Australian Stock Exchange, as well as the Company's other Australian Stock Exchange announcements and filings. The Company does not have any obligation to advise any person if it becomes aware of any inaccuracy in or omission from any forecast or to update such forecast.

    Disclaimer

  • Joe Walsh

    General Manager Corporate Development

    Website: www.panaustralian.com.auEmail: [email protected]

    P A N A U S T R A L I A NR E S O U R C E S LIMITED

    Slide Number 1Slide Number 2Slide Number 3Focus & StrategyPhu Bia Mining LtdPhu Kham Deposit Schematic SectionPhu Kham Copper-Gold Ore Reserve*Phu Kham Copper-Gold ProjectTotal Funding EnvelopePhu Kham Development: March 2007…Phu Kham Development: March 2007…Phu Kham Process PlantSlide Number 13Points of DifferencePhu Kham Plan ViewCross SectionsCash Operating CostsCompetitive on Capital IntensityCapital Expenditure 31 March 2007Phu Kham Copper-Gold EconomicsConcentrate TransportBHP Billiton & SempraPhu Bia Gold: December 2006Gold ProductionMiningExploration & Evaluation – US$13M in 2007Exploration & Evaluation ProspectsSlide Number 28Pha Nai ProspectSlide Number 30Slide Number 31Slide Number 32Community InitiativesSummary - Company PotentialCapital StructureDisclaimerSlide Number 37