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World Mining HotspotsGlen Jones – Exec Director, Intierra Resource Intelligence

DAY 2 - SESSION 5: GLOBAL HOTSPOTS (PART 2)

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September 2010

Presented By: Glen Jones

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The data contained in this presentation is a snapshot from the live Intierra database.

The statistics are obtained mostly from daily stream of data from Stock Exchange feeds around the world, including Canada, United States, Johannesburg, Australia and London,Hong Kong and Philippines

Data base is updated daily.

• >40,000 companies

• >3500 listed companies

• >39,000 global projects

• monitor all size of projects and all commodities

Intierra databaseIntierra Database

• All values in $ US

• Commodities when calculated can be primary or secondary

• Data from Jan/09 to September/10

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Active Gold ProjectsTop Ten Countries

South Africa: 237 projects = 2%

Australia: 3520 projects = 30%

Peru: 414 projects = 3%

Canada:4055 projects = 35%

Mexico:840 projects = 7%

Argentina: 287 projects = 2%

United States:1368 projects = 11%

China:710 projects = 6%

Brazil: 276 projects = 2%

Chile: 216 projects = 2%

Active Gold ProjectsTop Ten Countries

Active Copper ProjectsTop Ten Countries

Active Copper ProjectsTop Ten Countries

Australia: 1633 projects = 29%

Peru: 264 projects = 5%

Canada:2198 projects = 39%

Mexico:336 projects = 6%

Argentina: 103 projects = 2%

United States:411 projects = 7%

Chile:269 projects = 5%

Sweden: 107 projects = 2%

China: 177 projects = 3%

Philippines: 113 projects = 2%

Active Silver ProjectsTop Ten Countries

Mexico: 771 projects = 19%

Sweden: 66 projects = 2%

Canada:1299 projects = 32%

China: 96 projects = 2%

Argentina: 166 projects = 4%

United States:561 projects = 14%

Indonesia: 71 projects = 2%Chile: 82 projects = 2%

Peru: 299 projects = 7%

Active Silver ProjectsTop Ten Countries

Australia:639 projects = 16%

Active Uranium ProjectsTop Ten Countries

Active Uranium ProjectsTop Ten Countries

Kyrgyzstan:38 projects = 1%

Canada:950 projects = 30%

South Africa: 62 projects = 2%Argentina: 57 projects = 2%

United States:517 projects = 16%

Nambia: 43 projects = 1%Tanzania: 47 projects = 1%

Sweden: 70 projects = 2%

Australia:1348 projects = 43%

Mongolia: 65 projects = 2%

Active Lead-Zinc ProjectsTop Ten Countries

Active Lead-Zinc ProjectsTop Ten Countries

Mexico:330 projects = 12%

Sweden: 58 projects = 2%

Canada:1029 projects = 37%

China: 107 projects = 4%

Argentina: 45 projects = 2%

Indonesia:24 projects = 1%

Ireland: 35 projects = 1%

Peru: 147 projects = 5%

Australia: 813 projects = 30%

United States:157 projects = 6%

Active Nickel ProjectsTop Ten Countries

Active Nickel ProjectsTop Ten Countries

Brazil: 50 projects = 2%

Finland: 44 projects = 2%

Canada:784 projects = 39%

China: 45 projects = 2%

Philippines:57 projects = 3%

Indonesia: 39 projects = 2%

Russia: 36 projects = 2%South Africa: 147 projects = 5%

Australia:859 projects = 44%

United States: 40 projects = 2%

Active Coal ProjectsTop Ten Countries

Active Coal ProjectsTop Ten Countries

India: 32 projects = 2%

Mongolia: 52 projects = 3%

Canada:136 projects = 8%

China: 89 projects = 5%

England: 30 projects = 2%

Indonesia:91 projects = 5%

Russia: 36 projects = 2%

South Africa:175 projects = 10%

Australia:564 projects = 33%

United States: 516 projects = 30%

Active Iron ProjectsTop Ten Countries

Active Iron ProjectsTop Ten Countries

India: 58 projects = 4%

Sweden: 40 projects = 3%

Canada:124 projects = 9%

China: 93 projects = 7%

Peru: 20 projects = 1%Russia: 42 projects = 3%

Brazil:117 projects = 8%

Australia:848 projects = 60%

United States: 23 projects = 2%Chile: 40 projects = 3%

South Africa:128 projects = 12%

Australia: 175 projects = 16%

Sierra Leone: 26 projects = 2%

Canada:526 projects = 50%Botswana:

47 projects = 4%

Angola: 31 projects = 3%

Brazil:56 projects = 5%

Congo (DemocraticRepublic of): 41 projects = 4%

Namibia: 23 projects = 2%

Tanzania: 19 projects = 2%

Active Diamonds ProjectsTop Ten Countries

Active Diamonds ProjectsTop Ten Countries

Active Platinum ProjectsTop Ten Countries

Russia: 31 projects = 3% Tanzania: 11 projects = 1%

Canada:503 projects = 49%

Botswana: 12 projects = 1%

China: 27 projects = 3%

United States:50 projects = 5%

Finland: 12 projects = 1%

South Africa:155 projects = 15%

Sweden: 16 projects = 2%

Active Platinum ProjectsTop Ten Countries

Australia: 202 projects = 20%

The Project Pipeline

Global Gold Projects by Status

Grass Roots (no drilling) 6198 38%

Exploration (limited drilling) 4732 30%

Advanced Exploration 2454 16%

Pre-Feasibility/Scoping 524 3%

Feasibility 393 4%

Construction 180 1%

Operating Mines 1211 8%

Total 15,692 100%

Global Gold Projects by Status

Global Copper Projects by Status

Grass Roots (no drilling) 2770 39%

Exploration (limited drilling) 2285 32%

Advanced Exploration 1006 14%

Pre-Feasibility/Scoping 280 4%

Feasibility 193 4%

Construction 80 1%

Operating Mines 571 8%

Total 7,185 100%

Global Copper Projects by Status

Global Silver Projects by Status

Grass Roots (no drilling) 1620 31%

Exploration (limited drilling) 1507 30%

Advanced Exploration 867 17%

Pre-Feasibility/Scoping 249 5%

Feasibility 170 5%

Construction 81 2%

Operating Mines 519 10%

Total 5,013 100%

Global Silver Projects by Status

Global Uranium Projects by Status

Grass Roots (no drilling) 2088 57%

Exploration (limited drilling) 985 26%

Advanced Exploration 340 9%

Pre-Feasibility/Scoping 95 3%

Feasibility 37 2%

Construction 14 1%

Operating Mines 70 2%

Total 3,629 100%

Global Uranium Projects by Status

Global Lead - Zinc Projects by Status

Grass Roots (no drilling) 1141 35%

Exploration (limited drilling) 1068 32%

Advanced Exploration 537 16%

Pre-Feasibility/Scoping 134 4%

Feasibility 83 4%

Construction 40 1%

Operating Mines 299 9%

Total 3,293 100%

Global Lead - Zinc Projects by Status

Global Nickel Projects by Status

Grass Roots (no drilling) 895 38%

Exploration (limited drilling) 699 30%

Advanced Exploration 342 15%

Pre-Feasibility/Scoping 104 4%

Feasibility 66 4%

Construction 28 1%

Operating Mines 213 9%

Total 2,347 100%

Global Nickel Projects by Status

Global Coal Projects by Status

Grass Roots (no drilling) 274 14%

Exploration (limited drilling) 168 9%

Advanced Exploration 366 19%

Pre-Feasibility/Scoping 89 5%

Feasibility 92 7%

Construction 61 3%

Operating Mines 863 44%

Total 1,913 100%

Global Coal Projects by Status

Global Iron Projects by Status

Grass Roots (no drilling) 455 26%

Exploration (limited drilling) 293 17%

Advanced Exploration 330 19%

Pre-Feasibility/Scoping 146 8%

Feasibility 93 8%

Construction 26 1%

Operating Mines 384 21%

Total 1,727 100%

Global Iron Projects by Status

Global Diamonds Projects by Status

Grass Roots (no drilling) 598 48%

Exploration (limited drilling) 378 31%

Advanced Exploration 111 9%

Pre-Feasibility/Scoping 21 2%

Feasibility 18 2%

Construction 8 1%

Operating Mines 80 7%

Total 1,214 100%

Global Diamonds Projects by Status

Global PGE Projects by Status

Grass Roots (no drilling) 417 37%

Exploration (limited drilling) 379 33%

Advanced Exploration 137 12%

Pre-Feasibility/Scoping 44 4%

Feasibility 44 6%

Construction 10 1%

Operating Mines 101 9%

Total 1,132 100%

Global PGE Projects by Status

Early Late

Gold 68% 23%

Copper 71% 22%

Silver 61% 27%

Uranium 83% 14%

Lead-Zinc 67% 24%

Nickel 68% 23%

Coal group 23% 31%

Iron Group 43% 35%

Diamonds 79% 13%

PGE’s 70% 22%

Global Drilling Activity

June 2009 to August 2010

Global Drilling ProjectsGlobal Drilling Projects

Exploration 835Advanced Exploration 582Pre-Feasibility/Scoping 259Operating 190Feasibility 137Construction 51Grass Roots 21Care/Maintenance 3Total 2078

Global Drilling Projects

June 2009 to August 2010

Global DrillingGlobal Drilling

Australia 720Canada 512United States 116Mexico 107Brazil 41Peru 32Ghana 32Chile 31

Total Global ProjectsTotal Global Projects

Global Gold ProjectsGlobal Gold Projects

Global Copper ProjectsGlobal Copper Projects

Global Silver ProjectsGlobal Silver Projects

Global Lead-Zinc ProjectsGlobal Lead-Zinc Projects

Global Uranium ProjectsGlobal Uranium Projects

Global Nickel ProjectsGlobal Nickel Projects

Global Iron ProjectsGlobal Iron Projects

Global Platinum ProjectsGlobal Platinum Projects

Global Moly ProjectsGlobal Moly Projects

Global Rare Earth Metals ProjectsGlobal Rare Earth Metals Projects

Property Transactions

Total: 744

Amount: US$ 38.4B

Global Property TransactionsGlobal Property Transactions

Property Transactions Property Transactions

Global Property Transactions

Number $AmountGold 259 8.7 B

Copper 91 5.5 B

Silver 88 3.8 B

Uranium 20 871.4 M

Lead-Zinc 52 2.1 B

Nickel 20 862.9 M

Coal Group 35 4.9 B

Iron Group 9 2.7 B

Diamonds 10 451.4 M

PGE’s 12 186.2 M

Molybdenum 16 1.1 B

Global Property Transactions

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