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Investor Presentation Q1 2024

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Rutile Sands & Related Heavy Minerals

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BWA Group Plc - Introduction

  • BWA is an investment company founded some 90 years ago focussing on mineral exloration
  • The Company has 1,000 + shareholders and is listed on the AQUIS London Stock Market
  • There is an experienced board of directors, comprising economists., investment management and lawyers, with public and private company experience over some 4 decades
  • It owns two mineral exploration subsidiaries consisting of:-
    1. BWA Reources (UK) Ltd (90%), which in turn owns 100% BWA Resources (Cameroon) Ltd and BWA Minerals Cameroon Ltd Ltd with 5 licences in Cameroon, West Africa, for Heavy Mineral Sands, predominently rutile, and;
    2. Kings of the North Inc, which owns 2 licence groups in Canada for Copper, nickel, cobalt and gold
  • BWA Cameroon licences cover significant areas of extensive river systems prospective for heavy mineral sands deposits
  • There have been encouraging results from exploration in Cameroon to date supported by independent JORC CPR with potential for increased land-holding with additional two licences (Song Loulou 1 and 2) in application, for 992 km2
  • BWAR has an experienced local management team with mining and commercial experience
  • Seeking to achieve initial JORC Mineral Resource Estimates and Preliminary Economic Assessments during Q2/Q3 2024

3.

BWA Group Plc Investment Case

Five Granted (1,421 km2) Heavy Mineral Sands licences in Cameroon

  • New supplies required of Rutile sands, Ilmenite and Zircon
  • Rutile price increased by near 25% over 2021/2022, and Zircon price increased by approx. 45% in 2021-2022
  • BWA licences cover significant areas of extensive river systems prospective for heavy mineral sands deposits
  • Numerous explorers within adjacent and upstream/downstream locations containing historic HMS resources
  • Encouraging results from exploration to date supported by independent JORC CPR
  • Recent Dehane 2 Update considered significant from Preliminary Exploration work
  • Potential for increased land-holding with additional two licences (Song Loulou 1 and 2) in application, for 992 km2
  • BWAR has an experienced management team with mining and commercial experience
  • Seeking to raise up to £0.440M, to achieve initial JORC Mineral Resource Estimates and Preliminary Economic Assessments

4.

90% Subsidiary of BWA Group Plc - Rutile Sands & Related Heavy Minerals in Cameroon

5.

Mineral Sands

What are they, and why are they important?

  • Heavy Mineral Sands (HMS), are deposits of sands containing concentration of different types of minerals, such as sources of zircon, titanium, thorium, tungsten, aluminium silicate, rare-earth elements and occasionally precious metals or gemstones
  • Mineral Sands have an increasing industrial use as part of consumer goods as pigment for paint, paper and plastics.
  • Also used in ceramics, tiles, homewares and refractories
  • Wide range of industrial, commercial, electrical and scientific applications
  • Market opportunity in building, construction, electric automotive and aerospace industries (Source: Global Rutile Market (2021 to 2026)
  • US List of Critical Minerals dated 24-2-2022,includes Titanium, of which Rutile and Ilmenite are a main source
  • World Bank-Minerals for Climate Action - World Bank Report shows the production of

minerals could increase by nearly 500% by 2050, to meet the growing demand for clean energy technologies and the World Bank estimates that over 3 Billion tons of minerals & metals will be needed to deploy wind, solar and geothermal power as well as energy storage.

  • For Formation and Processing See Appendix Slide 31 and 32

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Rutile & Zircon - Forecast Supply & Demand

New Supply is Required

GLOBAL MINERAL SANDS MARKET

  • Increasing demand driven by urbanisation, rising living standards, global growth and extensive array of applications
  • 'Critical Minerals', vital to the economic wellbeing of the world's major and emerging economies
  • Supply restricted by mine closures, declining grades and depleting stockpiles
  • Strong long-term market fundamentals - demand growth outpacing supply
  • New projects required to meet future demand
  • See Additional Zircon & Rutile Market and Pricing Slides at Appendix 33, 34, and 35.

↑2.5-3.0%

Forecast structural supply gap, with demand for Zircon increasing 2.5-3%year-on-year and existing production decreasing at an average of 5% pa

Global supply of Rutile continues to remain tight with demand exceeding available supply and potential supply from

"likely new projects"

The graphs in this slide have not been verified for the purpose of this presentation. The Directors confirm that the source of the graphs is TZMI February 2020 Market

Estimates - Market Study - Coburn

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BWA Cameroon Licences

Why Cameroon?

Abundant Natural resources, oil & gas, forestry and agriculture

Investment-friendlyjurisdiction & diversified economy

Availability of well-trained technically competent workforce

Modernisation - On-going projects IMF supported

Stability - Monetary & Political

BWA - High levels of representation - Slide 18,19 and 20.

Nkoteng 2

Nkoteng 1

Song-Loulou 1

Song-Loulou 2

Dehane 1

Dehane 3

Dehane 2

Licence data from Cameroon Cadastral website. http://portals.flexicadastre.com/Cameroon/en/AMS Map, 2022

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Adjacent Properties and Historic Resources

  • 1991*, BRGM defined resources within Akonolinga of 160Mt at >1% Rutile (Fox-Davies, July 2012).
  • Cameroon Rutile re-reported resources for the Akonolinga project in accordance with JORC (2004) of 162.7Mt at 1.15% Rutile (Fox-Davies, July 2012).
  • Between 2014-2015*, Mineralfields, through their own work, defined a non-JORC resource within the NE extension of approximately 40Mt at. 2.45% TiO2 and 0.073% Zr (Mineralfields Group Ltd, 2015).
  • Upstream areas of the Nyong System, Mineralfields state a 'high grade' JORC resource re-defined from the earlier BRGM resource of 31.46Mt at 1.63% Rutile (Mineralfields Group Ltd, 2015).
  • 2020, Eramet completed Conceptual Study on the resources within the Djaa and Yoo rivers. Reporting a 5 year LOM, 50ktpa Rutile production scenario for each resource, combined total ofapproximatley 22.2Mm3 (38-40Mt), at a strip of 3:1 (Mercator Ingenierie, 2020).
  • Archidona Minerals - BRGM outlined two small resources in 1992/1993* along upstream Senaga tributaries (Sele and Tede) of 1Mt at 1.05% TiO2, limited to narrow shallow tributaries rather than

total floodplain, over resistant gneiss as opposed to schists where better thicknesses are typically developed (Gilles & Goodlove, 2019).

*Resources illustrated here are considered historic for the purpose of this presentation and these are not treated as current resources or reserves reported in accordance with JORC 2012, CIM and NI 43-101 reporting standards.

Licence data from Cameroon Cadastral website. http://portals.flexicadastre.com/Cameroon/en/AMS Map, 2022

9.

NKOTENG & DEHANE - BWA work completed

In 2020 and 2021, BWA has completed work in Nkoteng 1 and Dehane 1, as detailed in the following pages:-

  • Pre-explorationwork, including, Licence Boundary Marking, ESIA outline plan
  • Desktop Data Review, Satellite Image Interpretation, Field Mapping and Target Area Identification
  • Continual Village, Community, Stakeholders and Ministry meetings to establish open and good relations and communication channels
  • Reconnaissance Pit Sampling Program, followed by Auger geochemical sampling and logging, with selected sample mineral separation testwork, and selected sample quantitative mineralogy
  • XRD Analysis of Samples
  • Independent JORC 2012 Competent Persons Technical Report (CPR)
  • Completion of 1st pass mechanised auger programme to sytematically test area of interest around high grade pits

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