OREX MINERALS INC.

300 - 1055 West Hastings Street

Vancouver, BC V6E 2E9

Phone: 604-687-8566

Fax: 604-687-6365

INFORMATION CIRCULAR

(As at September 24, 2021 except as otherwise indicated)

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MANAGEMENT SOLICITATION

This information circular (the "Circular") is furnished to you in connection with the solicitation of proxies by management of Orex Minerals Inc. ("we", "us", "Orex" or the "Company") for use at the annual general and special meeting (the "Meeting") of shareholders of the Company ("Orex Shareholders") to be held at 11:00 a.m. (Vancouver time) on Wednesday, October 27, 2021, and at any adjournment of the Meeting. We will conduct the solicitation by mail, and our officers, directors and employees may, without receiving special compensation, contact Orex Shareholders by telephone, electronic means, or other personal contact. We will not specifically engage employees or soliciting agents to solicit proxies. We do not reimburse Orex Shareholders, nominees, or agents for their costs of obtaining authorization from their principals to sign forms of proxy. We will pay the expenses of this solicitation.

While as of the date of this Notice, we are intending to hold the Meeting in physical face to face format, we are continuously monitoring the current coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. In light of the rapidly evolving news and guidelines related to COVID-19, we ask that, in considering whether to attend the Meeting in person, shareholders follow, among other things, the instructions of the Public Health Agency of Canada (https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/coronavirus-disease-covid-19.html)and any applicable additional provincial and local instructions. You should not attend the Meeting in person if you are experiencing any cold or flu-like symptoms, or if you or someone with whom you have been in close contact has travelled to/from outside of Canada within the 14 days prior to the Meeting. Further, in accordance with the most recent Public Heath Order ("PHO") guidance issued by the province of British Columbia, shareholders who wish to attend the Meeting should note the following: (i) masks will be required to be worn by all shareholders who attend the Meeting as the Meeting is being held indoors; and (ii) proof of vaccination may be required by the Company to attend the Meeting. For more information on the PHO and/or to obtain your BC Vaccine Card, please visit https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/covid-19/info/response.

All shareholders are strongly encouraged to vote prior to the Meeting by any of the means described in this Circular.

We reserve the right to take any additional precautionary measures we deem appropriate in relation to the Meeting in response to further developments in respect of the COVID-19 outbreak including, if we consider necessary or advisable, providing a webcast version of the Meeting and/or hosting the Meeting solely by means of remote communication. Changes to the Meeting date and/or means of holding the Meeting may be announced by way of press release. Please monitor our press releases as well as our website at www.orexminerals.comfor updated information. We advise you to check our website one week prior to the Meeting date for the most current information. We do not intend to prepare or mail an amended Circular in the event of changes to the Meeting format.

GENERAL PROXY INFORMATION

Appointment of Proxyholders

The persons named as proxyholders in the enclosed form of proxy are the Company's directors or officers. As an Orex Shareholder, you have the right to appoint a person or company (who need not be a shareholder) in place of the persons named in the form of proxy to attend and act on your behalf at the Meeting. To exercise this right, you must either insert the name of your representative in the blank space provided in the form of proxy and strike out the other names or complete and deliver another appropriate form of proxy.

A proxy will not be valid unless it is dated and signed by you or your attorney duly authorized in writing or, if you are a corporation, by an authorized director, officer, or attorney of the corporation.

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Voting by Proxy

The persons named in the accompanying form of proxy will vote or withhold from voting the shares represented by the proxy in accordance with your instructions, provided your instructions are clear. If you have specified a choice on any matter to be acted on at the Meeting, your shares will be voted or withheld from voting accordingly. If you do not specify a choice or where you specify both choices for any matter to be acted on, your shares will be voted in favour of all matters.

The enclosed form of proxy gives the persons named as proxyholders discretionary authority regarding amendments to or variations of matters identified in the Notice of Meeting and any other matter that may properly come before the Meeting. As of the date of this Circular, our management is not aware of any such amendment, variation or other matter proposed or likely to come before the Meeting. However, if any amendment, variation or other matter properly comes before the Meeting, the persons named in the form of proxy intend to vote on such other business in accordance with their judgment.

You may indicate the manner in which the persons named in the enclosed proxy are to vote on any matter by marking an "X" in the appropriate space. If you wish to give the persons named in the proxy a discretionary authority on any matter described in the proxy, then you should leave the space blank. In that case, the proxyholders nominated by management will vote the shares represented by your proxy in accordance with their judgment.

Completion and Return of Proxy

You must deliver the completed form of proxy to the office of the Company's registrar and transfer agent, Computershare Investor Services Inc. (contact information below), or to the Company's head office at the address listed on the cover page of this Circular, by Monday, October 25, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. (Vancouver time), which is not less than 48 hours (Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays excepted) before the scheduled time of the Meeting (or any adjournment, as applicable).

Mail:

Computershare Investor Services Inc.

Proxy Dept.

100 University Avenue, 9th Floor Toronto, Ontario M5J 2Y1

Fax:

Within North America: 1-866-249-7775

Outside North America: 1-416-263-9524

Non-Registered Holders

Only Orex Shareholders whose names appear on our records or validly appointed proxyholders are permitted to vote at the Meeting. Most Orex Shareholders are "non-registered" Orex Shareholders because their shares are registered in the name of a nominee, such as a brokerage firm, bank, trust company, trustee or administrator of a self-administered RRSP, RRIF, RESP or similar plan or a clearing agency such as CDS Clearing and Depository Services Inc. (a "Nominee"). If you purchased your shares through a broker, you are likely a non-registered Orex Shareholder.

Non-registered Orex Shareholders who have not objected to their Nominee disclosing certain ownership information about themselves to us are referred to as "NOBOs". Those non-registered Orex Shareholders who have objected to their Nominee disclosing ownership information about themselves to us are referred to as "OBOs".

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In accordance with securities regulatory requirements under National Instrument 54-101-Communication with Beneficial Owners of Securities of a Reporting Issuer, we will have distributed copies of the Notice of Meeting, this Circular, and the form of proxy (the "Meeting Materials") directly to NOBOs and to the Nominees for onward distribution to OBOs.

Nominees are required to forward the Meeting Materials to each OBO unless the OBO has waived the right to receive them. Management does not intend to pay for intermediaries to forward to OBOs under NI 54-101 the proxy-related materials, and Form 54-101F7- Request for Voting Instructions Made by Intermediary and that in the case of an OBO, the objecting beneficial owner will not receive these materials unless the OBO's intermediary assumes the cost of delivery.

Shares held by Nominees can only be voted in accordance with the instructions of the non-registered shareholder. Meeting Materials sent to non-registered shareholders who have not waived the right to receive Meeting Materials are accompanied by a request for voting instructions (a "VIF"). This form is instead of a proxy. By returning the VIF in accordance with the instructions noted on it, a non-registered shareholder is able to instruct the registered shareholder (or Nominee) how to vote on behalf of the non-registered shareholder. VIFs, whether provided by the Company or by a Nominee, should be completed and returned in accordance with the specific instructions noted on the VIF.

In either case, the purpose of this procedure is to permit non-registered shareholders to direct the voting of the shares they beneficially own. Should a non-registered holder who receives a VIF wish to attend the Meeting or have someone else attend on his or her behalf, the non-registered holder may request a legal proxy as set forth in the VIF, which will grant the non-registered holder or his/her nominee the right to attend and vote at the Meeting. Non-registered holders should carefully follow the instructions set out in the VIF including those regarding when and where the VIF is to be delivered.

Revocability of Proxy

If you are a registered Orex Shareholder who has returned a proxy, you may revoke your proxy at any time before it is exercised. In addition to revocation in any other manner permitted by law, a registered shareholder who has given a proxy may revoke it by either:

  1. signing a proxy bearing a later date; or
  2. signing a written notice of revocation in the same manner as the form of proxy is required to be signed as set out in the notes to the proxy.

The later proxy or the notice of revocation must be delivered to the office of the Company's registrar and transfer agent or to the Company's head office at any time up to and including the last business day before the scheduled time of the Meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof

If you are a non-registered Orex Shareholder who wishes to revoke a proxy authorization form or VIF or to revoke a waiver of your right to receive Meeting Materials and to give voting instructions, you must give written instructions to your Nominee in accordance with such Nominee's instructions.

Advance notice of the Meeting was posted on the Company's SEDAR profile on August 27, 2021.

INTEREST OF CERTAIN PERSONS OR COMPANIES IN MATTERS TO BE ACTED UPON

Except as set out herein, none of the directors or executive officers of the Company, nor any person who has held such a position since the beginning of the last completed financial year of the Company, nor any proposed nominee for election as a director of the Company, nor any associate or affiliate of the foregoing persons, has any substantial or material interest, direct or indirect, by way of beneficial ownership of securities or otherwise, in any matter to be acted on at the Meeting.

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VOTING SECURITIES AND PRINCIPAL HOLDERS OF VOTING SECURITIES

The Company is authorized to issue an unlimited number of common shares without par value (each, an "Orex Share"), of which 187,398,044 Orex Shares were issued and outstanding as of the record date, being September 22, 2021 (the "Record Date"). The Company has only one class of shares, the Orex Shares.

Persons who are registered Orex Shareholders at the close of business on the Record Date will be entitled to receive notice of, attend, and vote at the Meeting. On a show of hands, every shareholder and proxyholder will have one vote and, on a poll, every shareholder present in person or represented by proxy will have one vote for each Orex Share. In order to approve a motion proposed at the meeting, a majority of more than 50% of the votes cast will be required to pass an ordinary resolution.

To the knowledge of the directors and executive officers of the Company, as of the Record Date, no person or company beneficially owns directly or indirectly, controls, or directs shares carrying 10% or more of the voting rights attached to all outstanding Orex Shares, except Eric Sprott, who indirectly through his holding Company, 2176423 Ontario Ltd. ("217 Ltd."), has control and direction over 36,666,666 Orex Shares, representing approximately 19.6% of the voting rights attached to all of the issued and outstanding Orex Shares as of the Record Date.

EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

Compensation Discussion and Analysis

Compensation, Philosophy and Objectives

The Company has appointed a Compensation Committee and adopted a Compensation Committee Charter in order that the Compensation Committee may guide the compensation program. See Appendix B of this Circular for a full copy of the Compensation Committee Charter. The Orex board of directors (the "Orex Board") meets to discuss and determine management compensation, upon recommendation by the Compensation Committee, without reference to formal objectives, criteria or analysis.

The general objectives of the Company's compensation strategy are to:

  1. compensate management in a manner that encourages and rewards a high level of performance and outstanding results with a view to increasing long-term shareholder value;
  2. align management's interests with the long-term interests of Orex Shareholders;
  3. provide a compensation package that is commensurate with other junior mineral exploration companies to enable the Company to attract and retain talent; and
  4. ensure that the total compensation package is designed in a manner that takes into account the constraints that the Company is under by virtue of the fact that it is a natural resource company without a history of earnings.

The Orex Board, as a whole, ensures that total compensation paid to all Named Executive Officers (as hereinafter defined) is fair and reasonable. The Orex Board relies on the experience of its members as officers and directors with other junior mining companies in assessing compensation levels.

The Orex Board considered the risks associated with the current compensation program but did not note any potential material adverse effects. No director or Named Executive Officer is permitted to purchase financial instruments that are designed to hedge or offset a decrease in the market value of the Company's equity securities held directly or indirectly.

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