ENABLING A NET ZERO
FUTURE WITH COPPER
Corporate Presentation - BofA Securities Global Metals, Mining & Steel Conference
May 2022
LSE & TSX: SOLG
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The Company recognises that the term World Class is subjective and for the purpose of the Company's projects the Company considers the drilling results at the Alpala porphyry copper-gold deposit at its Cascabel project to represent intersections of a World Class deposit on the basis of comparisons with other drilling intersections from World Class deposits, some of which have become, or are becoming, producing mines and on the basis of available independent opinions which may be referenced to define the term "World Class" (or "Tier 1").
The Company considers that World Class deposits are rare, very large, long life, low cost, and are responsible for approximately half of total global metals production. World Class deposits are generally accepted as deposits of a size and quality that create multiple expansion opportunities, and have or are likely to demonstrate robust economics that ensure development irrespective of position within the global commodity cycles, or whether or not the deposit has been fully drilled out, or a feasibility study completed.
Standards drawn from industry experts (1Singer and Menzie, 2010; 2Schodde, 2006; 3Schodde and Hronsky, 2006; 4Singer, 1995; 5Laznicka, 2010) have characterised World Class deposits at prevailing commodity prices. The relevant criteria for World Class deposits, adjusted to current long run commodity prices, are considered to be those holding or likely to hold more than 5 million tonnes of copper and/or more than 6 million ounces of gold with a modelled net present value ("NPV") of greater than US$1billion.
The Company cautions that the Cascabel project remains an early stage project at this time and there is inherent uncertainty relating to any project at prior to the determination of pre-feasibility study and/or defined feasibility study.
On this basis, reference to the Cascabel project as "World Class" (or "Tier 1") is considered to be appropriate.
References cited in the text:
- Singer, D.A. and Menzie, W.D., 2010. Quantitative Mineral Resource Assessments: An Integrated Approach. Oxford University Press Inc.
- Schodde, R., 2006. What do we mean by a world class deposit? And why are they special. Presentation. AMEC Conference, Perth.
- Schodde, R and Hronsky, J.M.A, 2006. The Role of World-Class Mines in Wealth Creation. Special Publications of the Society of Economic Geologists Volume 12.
- Singer, D.A., 1995, World-class base and precious metal deposits-a quantitative analysis: Economic Geology, v. 90, no.1, p. 88-104.
- Laznicka, P., 2010. Giant Metallic Deposits: Future Sources of Industrial Metal, Second Edition. Springer-Verlag Heidelberg.
AN EMERGING COPPER GOLD MAJOR /2
SOLG Presentation - 2022.05.18 (Bank of America Conference)
CASCABEL POSITIONED TO MEET RISING COPPER DEMAND
- SolGold's Alpala deposit at Cascabel is one of the most significant copper-gold discoveries in the past decade
- Cascabel Pre-feasibility study confirms Tier 1 potential:
- Attractive economics and deliverable:
- Pre/Post Tax US$5.2/2.9bn NPV and 25.3/19.3% IRR respectively (US$3.60/lb Cu)1
- Pre/Post Tax US$7.9/4.1bn NPV and 30.5/23.4% IRR respectively (spot prices)2
- Large: 25 Mtpa throughput, >330ktpa CuEq (first 5 years post ramp-up)3
- First decile cash cost: Negative AISC of -US$1.38/lb Cu (first 5 years post
ramp-up)4
- Scalable: 26-year initial project life from just 21% of M&I resource
- SolGold's potential doesn't stop at Cascabel
- Highly prospective pipeline of projects
- One of the largest tenement holders in Ecuador
- Recent Tandayama-Ameríca and Cacharposa deposit discoveries demonstrate this adding >2.5Mt 5 of contained CuEq in the last year
Stage | PEA | DFS | EXP | PFS | PEA | FS | EXP | EXP | EXP | FS | EXP | EXP | EXP | EXP | FS |
25 | Top Copper Discoveries in 2010-20 | |||||||||||||||
Cu (Mt) | Au (Mt Cu eq) | Ag (kt Cu eq) | ||||||||||||||
Mo (Mt Cu eq) | Ni (Mt Cu eq) | Co (Mt Cu eq) | ||||||||||||||
Resourcein | 20 | Pd (Mt Cu eq) | Pt (Mt Cu eq) | |||||||||||||
eq. Metal | 15 | |||||||||||||||
10 | ||||||||||||||||
Mt Cu | ||||||||||||||||
5 | ||||||||||||||||
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- Cascabel is the largest independently owned undeveloped copper asset 6
- Cascabel contains ~13% of total copper and ~17% of total gold in new major deposit discoveries in the last ten years 7
AN EMERGING COPPER MAJOR /3
RECOGNISED ASSET QUALITY AND SUPPORT FROM MAJORS
Discoveries | Measured plus Indicated Categories | ||||||||||
Cut-off | Grade | Contained metal | |||||||||
Deposit | Mt | ||||||||||
grade | CuEq | Cu | Au | Ag | CuEq | Cu | Au | Ag | |||
(%) | (%) | (g/t) | (ppm) | (Mt) | (Mt) | (Moz) | (Moz) | ||||
Alpala1 | 0.21% | 2,663 | 0.53 | 0.37 | 0.25 | 1.08 | 14.0 | 9.9 | 21.7 | 92.2 | |
0.80% | 442 | 1.40 | 0.87 | 0.86 | 2.34 | 6.2 | 3.8 | 12.3 | 33.3 | ||
Tandayama | 0.16% | 233 | 0.33 | 0.23 | 0.16 | - | 0.77 | 0.5 | 1.2 | - | |
-America2 | |||||||||||
Cacharposa | 0.16% | 397 | 0.44 | 0.35 | 0.14 | - | 1.75 | 1.4 | 1.8 | - | |
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Positive & supportive jurisdiction
Endorsed by major miners & institutions
Early mover advantage in Ecuador
11.8Mt Cu
24.7Moz Au
92.2Moz Ag 4
Applying the Cascabel blueprint for further discoveries in Ecuador
ANALYST COVERAGE
HOUSE | ANALYST | TARGET PRICE | |
Hannam & Partners | Roger Bell | 101p | |
BofA Securities | Jason Fairclough | 70p | |
Peel Hunt | Tim Huff | 65p | |
Liberum | Ben Davis | 44p | |
Red Cloud Securities | Timothy Lee | C$1.90 | |
Cantor Fitzgerald | Matt O'Keefe | C$1.10 | |
Cormark Securities | Nic Dion | C$1.00 | |
Highly prospective new mining province
Excellent infrastructure: water, power and deep seaport
Large concession holder in Ecuador
76 concessions across 14 provinces and >3,000km2 area >325,000 metres drilled to date
Investments from BHP, Newcrest and Franco-Nevada total US$275m
TOP REPRESENTED SHAREHOLDERS 5
BHP Billiton Holdings Limited | 13.56% |
Newcrest International Pty Ltd | 13.48% |
DGR Global Ltd | 8.90% |
Cornerstone Capital Resources | 6.85% |
BlackRock | 4.88% |
Tenstar Trading Limited | 4.70% |
Samuel Holdings Group (Mather) | 3.96% |
Norges Bank | 3.79% |
AN EMERGING COPPER GOLD MAJOR /4
INCREASING INDICATORS OF A STRUCTURAL DEFICIT
COPPER A KEY WINNER IN THE GLOBAL ENERGY TRANSITION
- Climate change attributed events will drive escalating copper demand
MINED COPPER SUPPLY SET TO DECLINE IN THE MEDIUM-TERM
- Major copper deposit discovery rate continues to decline
- Scarce project pipeline beyond 2025 - structural shortfall
- Declining ore grades at depth reducing brownfield supply
- Copper mine underperformance skews supply risk to the downside 1
COPPER PRICE SUPPORTED BY WIDENING COPPER MARKET DEFICIT
- High copper price needed to incentivise lower grade options
- Expansionary capital must more than double over next 3-5 years to fill the supply gap to 2030 2
- Forecast mine supply gap of >6Mt 3 in the next decade
'000 tonnes | Copper mine supply falls short of expectations 1 | |||||||||||||
26,000 | ||||||||||||||
24,000 | ||||||||||||||
22,000 | ||||||||||||||
20,000 | Actual production well below | |||||||||||||
18,000 | expectations from previous years | |||||||||||||
16,000 | ||||||||||||||
2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2020 | 2021 |
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Last decade lowest recorded | ||||||||||
14 | copper discoveries 4 | |||||||||
discoveries | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alpala | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
of | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
discovery | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | |
30,000 | Possible Projects (40%) | Possible Projects | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Probable Projects | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Base Case Production | (40%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary Demand (kt) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
25,000 | Probable Projects | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(100%) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
20,000 | Base Case Production | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(incl. committed projects) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
15,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2020 | 2021 | 2022e | 2023e | 2024e | 2025e | 2026e | 2027e | 2028e | 2029e | 2030e | 2031e | ||||||||||||||||||||
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