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2 Noricum Gold Ltd | Investor Presentation | Q4 2015
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3 Noricum Gold Ltd | Investor Presentation | Q4 2015
Corporate Snapshot
•Low cost acquisition of a
50% interest in the advanced
861 km2 Bolnisi copper and
gold project in Georgia
propels the Company
significantly, providing it
with large, high-grade and
scalable resources
• Total non-JORC mineral
resources for the overall
project area of:
• 980,000 t of contained
copper
• 6.6 Moz of gold
• 22 Moz of silver
• circa US$35 million
invested to date by
Noricum’s partner
• 30 year exploration and
mining licence
• Exploration licences
surround two fully operating
mines with infrastructure
and processing capacity
• The mines are operated by
Noricum’s partner in the
Bolnisi project
• A third mine is expected to
come into production within
12 months
•Opportunity to rapidly
add value by converting
the resources to JORC
standards
•Early stage production
potential with near
surface high-grade
mineralisation at 3
priority targets - ideally
situated for small, low
cost, low CAPEX open pit
operation
•The resources are
scalable and further
exploration and resource
expansion will be
undertaken
•Recent appointment
of Senior Advisor –
previously Technical
Director for leading
consultancy Wardell
Armstrong
International
•New executive director
Martyn Churchouse -
33 years experience in
exploration, mine
development,
feasibility and as a
mine manager
4 Noricum Gold Ltd | Investor Presentation | Q4 2015
Key Data
Market AIM
EPIC NMG
Share Price0.14p
(as of 19.10.15)
Shares in Issue 2,693.77m
Market Cap £3.77m
52 Week Price Range 0.135 – 0.69
NOMAD/ Broker SP Angel
Michael Hutchinson Chairman
Greg Kuenzel Executive Director
Martyn Churchouse Executive Director
Jeremy Whybrow Executive Director
Marcus Edwards-Jones Non Executive Director
Roderick McIllree Non Executive Director
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Multiple Regional Discoveries
TURKEY
ARMENIA
GEORGIA
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Strategy to Develop Bolnisi
• Achievable objective to prove up a JORC resource of at least 200,000 tonnes of copperand 1.5Moz of gold via confirmation drilling at 2-3 resource sites
• Identify Starter Pits adjacent to the larger resources and commence mining
• Continue to explore and discover new high grade opportunities in the VMS settingwhile expanding existing resources
• Cash Flow - Assess revenue generative opportunities and accordingly, implementstrategy to develop and upgrade existing resources within the portfolio with a view tobringing them into production
• Economic Assessment - Assess opportunities to generate revenues and implementstrategy accordingly either via toll treatment or a new processing plant
• Resource Replacement - Conduct exploration on a wider scale using geophysics,remote sensing and specific in-house knowledge of the geological model for thedistrict
• Long Term - Explore and evaluate known porphyry potential
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Tsitel Sopeli
• Resource - Resource only partially delineated. Depth and strike extension testing has not been completed. 361 drill holes to date.
• Starter Pits - Production opportunity – close proximity to producing Madneuli Mine and a similar style of mineralisation with two potential starter pits
• Drilling - Recent shallow drilling intersected near surface high-grade copper and gold mineralisation throughout with results including 15m @ 2.07g/t Au, 2.39 % Cu and 2.97%Zn all from surface
• Strike Extension - Several recent IP anomalies developed from shallow survey - two anomalies identified related to sulphidation, one running down the valley E-W plus a very
large anomaly situated to the NNE of TS, which potentially extends strike length of the deposit by a further 1,800m
• Geophysics - Targets require deeper 3D IP and drill testing to be initiated before year end with main survey taking place in Q1 2016
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Tsitel SopeliHigh Grade Near Surface Mineralisation – Starter Pit
Hole Width
(metres)
From
(metres)
Au
g/t
TSRC001 13 15 2.12
TSRC004 10 1 1.42
TSDDH004 5 144 4.58
TSDDH004 2 152 3.89
TSDDH005* 15 0 2.07
Hole Width From Au
g/t
Cu
%
TSPDH003 8.0 0 0.49 6.23
TSPDH004 4.6 0 6.41 0.43
TSPDH007 8.1 0 5.67 1.73
TSPDH002 6.6 0 1.06 0.25
In 2012, circa 2,000 metres of drilling was completed to theeast of the previously delineated and Soviet approvedresources. This returned encouraging intercepts including:
A number of short diamond drill holes were completed totest near-surface secondary quartzite mineralisation. Resultsfrom this drill programme include:
Drill core from 10.00-13.00 metres showing high grade copper mineralisation
*TSDDH005 was also assayed for Copper and Zinc and returned grades of 2.39% and 2.97% respectively over 15 metres from surface
• Re-sample quarter core, drill pulps and duplicates, trenching and twin holes from recent diamond RC drilling
• Assaying of drill core, non-visible mineralisation holding vast gold and copper potential
• JORC conversion
• Metallurgical test work
• Mine planning
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Kvemo Bolnisi (East & West)
• 5 km from toll treatment plant.
• 304 drill holes completed, circa 60,000 metres total drilling
• Resource only partially delineated and depth or strike extension testing has not been completed
• A recent shallow IP survey completed over a small area defined large anomalies to N and NE
• Area between East and West Kvemo Bolnisi has never been explored
• One single large gravity and coincident mag anomaly representing one intrusive that includes the KBmineralisation
• Larger more detailed 3D programme will beundertaken later this year to target the entire areato a deeper level
• Drilling to be undertaken to test IP targets, follow-up closer, Au rich starter pit and deeper multielement mineralisation shown in historical drilling
• Includes a Barite (BaS04) resource of 1.5 Mt at 27%,52,000 t lead (Pb) at 1.23% and 52,000 t zinc (Zn) at2.9%
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Production Potential
Black Sea Georgia
Armenia
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•
•
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Additional Opportunities to Add Value
• Data Re-interpretation - 70 years of data contains information that has never been used to its full potential. HistoricSoviet led exploration failed to follow up obvious targets
• Improved Evaluation - Opportunity to refine Soviet approved resources to establish starter pits and higher grademineable JORC Resources within Soviet defined blocks
• Porphyry Potential - Soviet alluvial Au resources relate to porphyry and epithermal targets. Never followed upstreamto source by Soviet expeditions. K alteration symptomatic of porphyry mineralisation (region includes Gartaporphyry located an hour from Bolnisi containing a reported 750Kt Cu @ 0.8%, 2.45Moz Au @ 0.64g/t
• Combine - Satellite imagery, geochemical signatures and targeted geophysics
• New Geological Model - Continue to develop the Bolnisi geological model built around calderas and regionallineaments focusing mineralisation. Scope for VMS discoveries around loci of other regional structures. Potential(Bektakari deposit) for discovery of high-grade gold breccia bodies
• New Geophysics - Preliminary work already completed by consultants Southern Geoscience to refine resistivity andground magnetic survey protocols to better define existing soviet and new targets
• Other Targets - Intersection of NW oriented gravimetric anomalies and NNE-SSW deep-seated basement structuressimilar to the Ceratepe model (4Mt @ 5% Cu, 1.0g/t Au & 28g/t Ag) and could contain very significant mineralisation
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Comparative Global VMS Deposits
Rio Tinto (EMED)Kholodnina
Neves Corvo (Lundin)
Brunswick no 2
Kidd Creek (Xstrata)
Madneuli
Flin Flon
Outokumpu
Tsiteli Sopeli (NMG)
Arctic (Brooks Range)
Roseberry
Garpenberg
Kvemo Bolnisi (NMG)
Bolnisi District
Mt Lyell
0.00
0.50
1.00
1.50
2.00
2.50
3.00
3.50
4.00
4.50
5.00
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400
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JV and Acquisition Terms
• Noricum’s 50% JV partner, CMG, is owned by
Russian entrepreneur Dima Troitsky
• Two Georgian registered companies hold
Troitsky’s mining operations in the country:
• RMG owns producing mining assets in Georgia
including the Madneuli mine which neighbours
Bolnisi
• Caucasian Mining Group (CMG) previously held
the Bolnisi exploration licence
• Noricum Gold will therefore benefit from access to
production infrastructure held by RMG
• RMG and CMG hold rights to various other mining
and exploration assets in the region
• Noricum acquired GMC for £2.6 million in an allshare transaction
• The Vendors hold circa 45% of the enlargedcompany
Noricum Gold
GMC Investments
GCAGOwns 100% of
Bolnisi EL
CMG
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Georgia
Population: 4.5 million
Literacy rate: 99.7%
Unemployment rate: 14.3%
GDP: $27.6bn
GDP per capita: US$6,145
Growth: 3.2%
Growth (5 year): 3.7%
Inflation: 0.5%
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Georgia – Low Country Risk
• Tbilisi – hosts of the 2015 European Youth Olympics
• Georgia to host World Rugby U20 Championships in 2017
• UEFA Super Cup Final 2015 held in Tbilisi
• BP has been operating successfully in Georgia since 1996
• Intercontinental, Starwood, Hilton, all constructing newhotels in Tbilisi, joining the likes of Sheraton, Radisson &Marriot
• All major accounting and law firms have offices in Georgia– Big 4 Accounting, DLA Piper, Dechert etc
• Highly strategic location serving as an entry gate to theCaucasus and Central Asia
• Georgia hosts 2015 EBRD Annual Meeting - €2.3 billioninvested by the EBRD to date
• Georgia – EU co-operation (Association Agreements withthe EU)
• Georgia is a priority country within the EuropeanNeighborhood Policy and the Eastern Partnership
• NATO-Georgia Commission
• Georgia is a member of the World Trade Organisation
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Investment Case
Conversion of non-JORC Resources is a near term priority along with high grade, close to surface near term production opportunities
Close proximity to existing mine with processing infrastructure; 30 year Mining Licence; strong resource inventory
Excellent potential for new discoveries through implementation of modern exploration techniques
Mining friendly jurisdiction and proven production in-country
Management includes proven mine developers and access to technical staff with existing knowledge of the assets in Georgia
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Contacts
Executive Director: Greg Kuenzel
Executive Director: Martyn Churchouse
A: 47 Charles Street, London, W1J 5EL
T: +44 (0) 20 3006 0262
PR: Elisabeth Cowell/ Frank Buhagiar
A: 3 St Michael’s Alley, London, EC3V 9DS
T: +44 (0) 20 7236 1177
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Walchen Gold Project
• Located in an area of Austria proven to host copper, gold and silver mineralisation and historic mining and exploration data highlights excellent prospectivity
of the VMS deposit
• Comprises two main ore horizons with a horizontal extension of 3-4 km and an average thickness of 0.5-4 m
• The average grade of the ore mined from 1942 was 1.71% Cu, 3.23% Zn, 2.48% Pb, 83g/t Ag, 0.5g/t Au
• Noricum mapping and sampling led to discovery of a large limonitic outcrop likely to represent an ore zone within the Project area
• Large anomalous intercept with high grade hanging wall section has been returned from channel sampling of a highly oxidized and weathered Gossan:
• 12m @ 0.6% Cu, 0.33 g/t Au and 7.25g/t Ag including 2m @ 1.14% Cu, 1.08g/t Au, 30.8g/t Ag
• Further local rock and chip sampling returned results up to 1.03% Cu, 5.63% Pb, 12.65% Zn
• Non JORC mining inventory of 423,470 tonnes of ore calculated at completion of exploration in 1945 highlighted in recent literature searches
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Schonberg and Rotgulden
• Exploration target identified consisting of up to eight
sub-parallel veins, approx. 1m wide, generally trending
northeast and steeply dipping to the northwest along a
3km strike
• Spreads across main mining districts within the licence:
• Brunngraben, Weissenbachgraben and
Adlitzgraben (from west to east)
• Former mining district of Tremmelberg is further east and
thought to be a continuation of the ore bearing structures
• Three of the known veins were the main focus of historical
mining and are considered the main ore veins
• Historical copper mines within the Schonberg licence area
produced ore with average grades between 4.94% and
7.38% copper, 37.5g/t gold and 3.5g/t silver
• Multiple new targets identified through aerial EM/Mag
survey over 27 km, ground based mapping and sampling
• 2013 resource drilling (1,335m over 25 holes) focussed on
the previously producing Rotgulden mine target area and
confirmed bonanza grades
• A high level of grade variability confirmed the complex
nature of the mineralised structure - calculating
consistent grades to update the geological model has
proved challenging
• Despite challenges at previously producing mine, value
upside potential remains
• 3 further targets have not previously been tested at
depth
• A drill programme for Altenberg will be undertaken in the
future - approved by the Austrian Mining Authority and
will remain valid for 5 years
• Strategic partner discussions continue