Ceylon Graphite Corp. — Annual Report 2020

Sep 15, 2020

CEYLON GRAPHITE CORP. Yearly Report March 31, 2020

MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS

1.1 Date of Report: September 14, 2020

The following management’s discussion and analysis (“MD&A”) should be read together with the unaudited condensed consolidated interim financial statements and accompanying notes for the year ended March 31, 2020 which are prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”). All amounts are stated in Canadian dollars unless otherwise indicated.

This MD&A includes certain statements that may be deemed “forward-looking statements”. Forwardlooking statements are often, but not always, identified by the use of words such as "anticipate", "plan", "estimate", "expect", "may", "project", "predict", "potential", "could", "might", "should" and other similar expressions. Although the Company believes the expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guaranteeing of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those in the forwardlooking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forwardlooking statements include market prices, continued availability of capital and financing and general economic, market or business conditions. Investors are cautioned that any such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements.

1.2 Nature of Business and Overall Performance

Ceylon Graphite Corp. (the “Company” or “Ceylon”) was incorporated on April 3, 1986 under the Canada Business Corporations Act as NWest Energy Corp. On December 30, 2016, the Company acquired Plumbago Refining Corp. B.V. (“Plumbago”) through a reverse acquisition transaction. Plumbago was a private limited liability company organized under the laws of Curacao.

Concurrent with the closing of the reverse acquisition transaction, the Company changed its name from NWest Energy Corp. to Ceylon Graphite Corp. and effected a change in directors, management and business.

The address of the Company’s corporate office is 1100-1111 Melville Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada and its principal place of business is in Canada with its mining assets being in Sri Lanka. This is done through a wholly owned subsidiary Sarcon Development (Private) Limited (“Sarcon”) and JADS Enterprise (Pvt) Limited (“JADS”)

1.3 Overall Performance

Announcements and highlights during the year:

• The Company announced the discovery of a new, natural crystalline graphite vein over 30 cm in width, 10 feet downhole at its M1site in the Malsiripura area in Sri Lanka. This vein was discovered in the normal course of digging a ventilation shaft at the M1 site and samples from the discovery have been tested by the Sri Lanka Government’s Geological Survey and Mines Bureau’s laboratory.

• The Company announced that further to its report on the 14th of May 2019, the needle type crystalline graphite vein it discovered 10 feet downhole at its M1site in the Malsiripura area in Sri Lanka has increased 2x in size with depth at 20/25ft. The discovery of the widest graphite

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vein found to date was made in the course of driving a new ventilation shaft at the M1 site and has continued to grow in width as the digging progresses deeper into the rock.

• On July 3, 2019, the Company at the request of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada, the Company retracted and corrected certain statements made in its news release dated July 2, 2019.The Company has only received exploration rights for its mineral properties (121) in Sri Lanka, has not yet received any mining permits for such properties, and has not, to date, performed a NI 43-101 compliant preliminary economic assessment, pre-feasibility study, or feasibility study, to support the technical feasibility or economic viability of the project.

• On August 2, 2019, the Company announced that its subsidiary JADs Enterprises (PVT) Ltd has been awarded an IMLB license by the Geological Survey and Mines Bureau (“GSMB”) of the Government of Sri Lanka for its M1 site in Malsiripura, Sri Lanka.

• On August 21, 2019, the Company announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Sarcon Development (Pvt) Ltd has received Environmental Approval for its K1 Graphite Mining Project at Karasnagala, Sri Lanka from the Central Environmental Authority (“CEA”) of the Government of Sri Lanka. This approval is under Regulation 9 (i) of the National Environmental (Procedure for approval of projects) Regulation No 1 of 1993 as amended by Gazette (Extra- Ordinary) No 1159/22 dated 22.11.2000.

• On August 22, 2019, the Company announced that it has received assay results of laboratory testing of graphite samples taken down hole in the shaft at its M1 site in the Malsiripura area in Sri Lanka.

• On August 26, 2019, the Company announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Sarcon Development (Pvt) Ltd has been granted an Industrial Mining License Category A for its K1 Graphite Mining Project at Karasnagla, Sri Lanka from the Geological Survey and Mines Bureau (“GSMB”) under provisions of the Mines and Minerals Act No 33 of 1992 as amended by the Mines and Minerals (Amendment) Act No 66 of 2009, of the Government of Sri Lanka. The GSMB is the Mining Regulator in Sri Lanka and was established by an Act of Parliament.

• On October 17, 2019, the Company announced that it has closed the first tranche of its previously announced non-brokered private placement of units. The Company issued a total of 10,000,000 units (“Units”) at a price of $0.08 per Unit for aggregate gross proceeds of $800,000. Each Unit is comprised of one (1) Ceylon Common Share and one warrant ("Warrant"), with each Warrant entitling the holder thereof to acquire one (1) Ceylon Common Share at a price of $0.15 per share for a period of two (2) years from the date of Closing, subject to acceleration.

• On November 11, 2019, the Company announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Sarcon Development (Pvt) Ltd (“Sarcon”) has been granted an Environmental Protection License (“EPL”) for its K1 Graphite Mining Project at Karasnagla, Sri Lanka from the Central Environmental Authority bearing No 17501 (R0) dated 14th October 2019 under provisions of the National Environmental Act 47 of 1980 and amended by Acts No 56 of 1988 and No 53 of 2000, of the Government of Sri Lanka. The CEA is the Environmental Regulator in Sri Lanka and was established by an Act of Parliament.

• On December 6, 2019, the Company that closed the second tranche of its previously announced non-brokered private placement of units. The Company has issued an additional 2,500,000units (“Units”) at a price of $0.08 per Unit for aggregate gross proceeds of $200,000, which

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combined with the first tranche that closed on October 17, 2019, brings the aggregate gross proceeds to $1,000,000. Each Unit is comprised of one (1) Ceylon Common Share and one warrant ("Warrant"), with each Warrant entitling the holder thereof to acquire one (1) Ceylon Common Share at a price of $0.15per share for a period of two (2)years from the date of Closing, subject to acceleration.

• December 13, 2019, the Company announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Sarcon Development (Pvt) Ltd (“Sarcon”) had started commercial production at its K1 Graphite Mining Project at Karasnagla, Sri Lanka (the “K1 Project”).

• On January 6, 2020, the Company announced that Donald K.D Baxter joined the Board of Directors of the company.

• On February 11, 2020, the Company announced that it has achieved 99.9997% Cg purity utilizing a thermal purification process with vein graphite from our K1 Mine. In addition to these positive, high-purity graphite results, it is important to note that Thermal Purification is environmentally responsible and sustainable and does not utilize acids that are commonly regarded as dangerous and environmentally harmful. (I.e. Hydrofluoric acid - as is a standard used in Chinese graphite purification for spherical graphite for battery grade graphite).The main market driver moving forward for natural graphite will be from lithium ion battery anode requirements that will require a minimum of 99.95% Cg for use in batteries.

• February 26, 2020, the Company announced excellent results of Spheronization test work carried out at an independent facility with vein graphite from our K1 mine. All analyzed parameters of the manufactured spherical graphite product are in the range of typical comparable products. SEM images display well rounded spherical graphite particles similar to products on the market. Spheronization is a sizing and shaping process that micronizes and rounds the vein graphite particles. Spheronization is done to optimize the particle surface area to achieve the highest performance in the anode. The Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) picture below shows smooth, spherical particles. This is significant as presently all-natural spherical graphite is produced from flake graphite.

• On February 26, 2020, the Company announced that Robert Marvin has resigned as a Director of the company. Donald Baxter, P.Eng., Director of Ceylon Graphite Corp., is the new Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 ("N.I. 43-101") guidelines

• Management continued to actively focus on capital raising to support the company’s business, marketing initiatives and general working capital.

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1.4 Results of Operations

Selected Annual Information and Result of Operations

	March 31, 2020 $	March 31, 2019 $	March 31, 2018 $
Net loss	(2,267,364)	(1,397,294)	(981,320)
Basic and diluted loss per share	(0.04)	(0.03)	(0.02)
Cash	1,047	441,640	180,787
Total Assets	4,047,793	3,847,029	3,182,922
Non-Current Liabilities	1,943,872	1,623,966	15,813

The condensed consolidated interim financial statements are presented as a continuance of Plumbago Refining Corp. B.V. (“Plumbago”). The condensed consolidated interim financial statements include the assets and operations of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries Plumbago and Sarcon Development (PVT) Limited, C Y L Lanka (Private) limited and JADS Enterprise (Private) Limited. Sarcon, CYL Lanka and JADS are incorporated in Sri Lanka.

The Company reported a net loss of $2,267,364 for the year ended March 31, 2020, as compared to a net loss of $1,397,294 for the year ended March 31, 2019.

During the year, the Company incurred professional fees in the amount of $754,776 compared to $403,798 during the prior year due to increased third party consulting services and operational activities of the Company. The professional fees include all consulting services and related expenses.

Advertising and promotion decreased to $69,819 from $166,030 in the prior year mainly due to less marketing and promotional efforts as the Company focused more on the mining operation during the year.

Office and administrative expenses incurred were $118,599 compared to the prior year of $127,091 mainly due to more activities during the year compared to the prior year. The decrease of $8,492 in office and administration expenses can be generally attributed to a decrease in office-related costs and costs incurred at new and/or expanded facilities including incremental employment levels to support the growth in the business with operations.

Interest expense increased to $328,634 in 2020 from $245,945 in 2019 mainly due to the interest expense and interest accretion of the convertible debentures. The transfer fees increased to $38,683 from $11,471 during the prior year due to an increased in transfer related transactions.

During the year ended March 31, 2020, the Company incurred travel expense in the amount of $92,573 (year ended March 31, 2019 –$203,909) related to travel to Sri Lanka and other locations. The Company had $225,850 wages and benefits (year ended March 31, 2019 –$156,830) due to an increase in employees and engages consultants on an as needed basis.

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During the year ended March 31, 2020, the Company recorded $1,827 in foreign exchange translation loss to its cumulative translation account due to the changes resulting from the fluctuation of foreign exchange rates.

Summary of Quarterly Results

	March 31,	December 31,	September 30,	June 30,
	2020	2019	2019	2019
	$	$	$	$
Expenses	282,812	767,208	286,409	403,396
Net Loss	(810,433)	(783,608)	(286,409)	(403,314)
Lossper Share	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)

	March 31,	December 31,	September 30,	June 30,
	2019	2018	2018	2018
	$	$	$	$
Expenses	503,262	332,678	339,017	402,071
Net Loss	(323,528)	(332,678)	(339,017)	(402,071)
Lossper Share	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)	(0.01)

1.5 Liquidity

The Company has total assets of $4,047,793 as at March 31, 2020 consisting of cash, amounts receivable, prepaid expenses, equipment and exploration and evaluation assets. The Company has working capital deficiency of $1,478,301 .

At March 31, 2020, the Company had cash of $1,047. The amounts payable in the amount of $1,418,641 (USD $1,000,000) was payable to the former shareholders of Sarcon, which is contingently payable when the Company begins mining activities and receives revenues from the sale of graphite.

During the year ended March 31, 2020, the Company used $1,179,869 in operating activities.

At March 31, 2020, share capital was $6,200,542 comprising of 67,266,181 issued and outstanding Common Shares. During the year ended March 31, 2020, the Company closed two tranches of private placements by issuing 12,500,000 common shares and 12,500,000 warrants, which raised a total of $1,000,000 and incurred share issue costs of $16,000.

At March 31, 2020, the value of exploration and evaluation assets was $3,290,417. The decrease is due to fluctuation of foreign exchange during the quarter.

At present, the Company’s operations do not generate cash inflows and its financial success after March 31, 2020 is dependent on management’s ability to quickly explore its grids and commence mining. To do this management will need to continue to obtain funding to sustain operations through the development stages of the mining process to the point that these operations lead to the Company

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being cash flow positive. The mining development process may take substantial time and is subject to factors that may be beyond the Company’s control.

In order to finance the Company’s future mining and development and to cover administrative and overhead expenses in the coming years the Company may raise money through equity sales. Many factors influence the Company’s ability to raise funds, including the Company’s track record, and the experience and caliber of its management. Actual funding requirements may vary from those planned due to a number of factors, including the progress of operational activities. Management believes it will be able to meet its operational targets and raise capital if and when required through future equity issuance and or borrowings, but recognizes there may be risks involved that may be beyond their control.

1.6 Share Capital

The Company had 67,266,181 common shares issued and outstanding on March 31, 2020 and as of the date of this report.

1.7 Share Purchase Warrants

As at March 31, 2020, the Company had 25,393,500 Special Warrants outstanding and 16,500,000 warrants outstanding.

1.8 Stock Options

During the year ended March 31, 2020, the Company granted 300,000 stock options to an officer and directors at an exercise price of $0.20 per share, expire in 5 years and vested immediately. Sharebased compensation of $38,059 was recorded.

As of March 31, 2020, the Company has 3,007,870 stock options outstanding.

1.9 Capital Resources

The Company is not a party to any off -balance sheet arrangements that have, or are reasonably likely to have, a current or future material effect on the Company’s financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues, expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources.

1.10 Off Balance Sheet Arrangements

There is no off-balance sheet arrangements to which the Company is committed.

1.11 Transactions with Related Parties

Parties are considered to be related if one party has the ability, directly or indirectly, to control the other party or exercise significant influence over the other party in making financial and operating decisions. Related parties may be individuals or corporate entities. A transaction is considered to be a related party transaction when there is a transfer of resources or obligations between related parties.

Key management personnel receive compensation in the form of short-term employee benefits, share-based payments, and post-employment benefits. Key management personnel include the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and directors of the Company. The remuneration of key management is as follows:

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	2020	2019
	$	$
Consulting fees - CEO	84,000	81,000
Consulting fees - CFO	67,595	63,500
Share-basedpayments	38,059	-

The Company has an amounts payable of $1,418,641 (US$1,000,000) (2019 - $1,336,300 or US$1,000,000) due to the former shareholder of Sarcon in connection with the Agreement described in Note 7.The amounts are unsecured and non-interest bearing.

As at March 31, 2020, the Company had amounts payable to officers of the Company for total of $88,730 (2019 – Nil) included in accounts payable and accrued liabilities.

As at March 31, 2020, the Company had loans payable as described in Note 11.

1.12 Commitment

The Company does not have any commitments outside of the normal course of business other than those already disclosed in the audited financial statements.

1.13 Subsequent event

• On June 30, 2020, 25,393,500 special warrants expired unexercised (see Note 9(f)).

• On June 2, 2020, the Company announced its first sale of graphite from its wholly owned subsidiary, Sarcon Development (Pvt) Ltd (“Sarcon Development”), since the commencement of commercial production in December 2019.

• On June 4, 2020, the Company announced its first sale of graphite from its wholly owned subsidiary, Sarcon Development (Pvt) Ltd (“Sarcon Development”), to the Korean market.

• On July 13 2020, the Company announced that due to circumstances created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Company has delayed the release of its annual financial statements for the year March 31, 2020.

• On August 6, 2020, the Company announced its intention to complete a non-brokered private placement of units (“Units”) for gross proceeds of up to C$ 8,100,000 or US$ 6,000,000 (US$1= C$1.35) to a consortium of four international investors (the “Offering”). Upon the closing of the Offering, the consortium will, collectively, own approximately 55% of the issued and outstanding shares of the Company, though individually no one subscriber will hold more than 15% of the issued and outstanding shares. Mr. Paul Selvam Devadoss and Mr. Anuka B.A Soza will join the Board of Directors of the Company upon completion of the transaction.

• On August 13, 2020, the Company announced that due to circumstances created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Company has delayed the release of its interim financial statements for the quarter June 30, 2020.

• On August 26, 2020, the Company announced that pursuant to its press release of August 6, 2020, it has been granted an extension to close its proposed private placement by the TSX Venture Exchange. The extension was granted to permit Ceylon Graphite to obtain the requisite disinterested shareholder approval.

1.14 Critical Accounting Estimates

Critical Estimates and Assumptions

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The preparation of the condensed consolidated interim financial statements in accordance with IFRS requires the Company to make estimates and assumptions concerning the future. The Company’s management reviews the estimates and underlying assumptions on an ongoing basis, based on experience and other factors, including expectations of future events that a rebelieved to be reasonable under the circumstances. Revisions to estimates are adjusted for prospectively in the period in which the estimates are revised.

Estimates and assumptions where there is significant risk of material adjustments to assets and liabilities in future accounting periods include assessment of decommissioning provision, valuation of share-based provisions, valuation of the convertible debentures, assessment of impairment of exploration and evaluation assets and the recoverability and measurement of deferred tax assets.

The most significant judgments in applying the Company’s financial statements is the classification of financial instruments and the going concern assumption.

1.15 Changes in Accounting Policies

Adoption of new or amended accounting standards

The Company has adopted the new and revised standards and interpretations issued by the IASB listed below effective April 1, 2019. The adoption of these standard and amendment did not have a material impact on the condensed interim consolidated financial statements of the Company.

IFRS 16 – Leases

In June 2016, the IASB issued this standard which establishes principles for the recognition, measurement, presentation and disclosure of leases, with the objective of ensuring that lessees and lessors provide relevant information that faithfully represents those transactions. IFRS 16 substantially carries forward the lessor accounting requirements in IAS 17. Accordingly, a lessor continues to classify its leases as operating leases or finance leases, and to account for those two types of leases differently. However, lessees are no longer classifying leases as either operating leases or finance leases as it is required by IAS 17.

1.16 Financial Instruments and Other Instruments

The Company’s financial instruments consist of cash, accounts payable, amounts payable, loan payable and convertible debentures.

The Company’s financial instruments are exposed to the following risks:

(i) Currency risk

The Company is exposed to foreign currency risk on fluctuations related to cash, accounts payable, amounts payable, loan payable and due to related party that are denominated in the United States dollar and Rupees. Management does not hedge its exposure to foreign exchange risk and the Company’s net exposure to foreign currency as at each of the reporting periods is at below:

March 31, 2020 March 31, 2020 March 31, 2019 March 31, 2019 Rupee US$ Rupee US$

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Cash	1,349,799	104	7,082,229	11,534
Advances to affiliates	32,061,200	-	18,550,000	-
Accounts payable	(13,427,738)	(6,881)	(3,913,899)	(6,174)
Amountspayable	-	(1,000,000)	-	(1,000,000)
Total in foreign currency	19,983,261	(1,006,777)	21,718,330	(994,640)
Net exposure	(19,833,387)	(421,537)	(21,553,271)	(334,497)
Canadian dollar equivalents	149,874	(1,428,314)	160,059	(1,329,137)

Based on the net Canadian dollar denominated asset and liability exposures as at March 31, 2020, a 10% fluctuation in the Canadian/US exchange rates would impact the Company’s earnings for the year ended March 31, 2020 by $143,000 (March 31, 2019 - $132,000). The exposure to fluctuations in the Rupee is minimal. The Company has not entered into any foreign currency contracts to mitigate this risk.

Credit risk

Credit risk is the risk of an unexpected loss if a customer or third party to a financial instrument fails to meet its contractual obligations.

The credit risk on cash is limited because the cash are composed of financial instruments issued by ‐ Canadian banks with high credit ratings as assigned by international credit rating agencies. Therefore, the Company is not exposed to significant credit risk.

Interest rate risk

Interest rate risk is the risk the fair value or future cash flows of a financial instrument will fluctuate because of changes in market interest rates. Financial assets and liabilities with variable interest rates expose the Company to cash flow interest rate risk. The Company does not hold any financial liabilities with variable interest rates.

Liquidity risk

In managing of liquidity risk, the Company maintains a balance between continuity of funding and the flexibility through the use of borrowings. Management closely monitors the liquidity position and expects to have adequate sources of funding to finance the Company’s projects and operations. As at March 31, 2020, the Company had working capital deficiency of $1,478,301. As at March 31, 2020, the Company had cash of $1,047 to settle accounts payable, amounts payable, current portion of capital lease obligation and loan payable of $1,866,469 which fall due for payment within twelve months of the financial position date.

	Carrying	Less than	Between 2 – 5	More than
	value	1 year	years	5 years
	$	$	$	$	Total
Capital lease obligations	12,096	3,868	8,228	-	12,096
Convertible loans	1,935,644	-	2,360,000	-	2,360,000

Fair value

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Financial instruments measured at fair value are classified into one of three levels in the fair value hierarchy according to the relative reliability of the inputs used to estimate the fair values. The three levels of the fair value hierarchy are:

• Level 1 – Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities;

• Level 2 – Inputs other than quoted prices that are observable for the asset or liability either directly or indirectly; and

• Level 3 – Inputs that are not based on observable market data.

1.17 Other MD&A Requirements

• A. For more information about the Company, see Ceylon Graphite website at http://www.ceylongraphite.com. The Company has not filed an AIF Annual Information Form.

• B. Information required in the following section of National Instrument 51-102, if applicable:

• i) Section 5.3– Additional Disclosure for Venture Issuers without Significant Revenue

Analysis of material components of the Company’s general and administrative expenses is disclosed in the Statement of Comprehensive Loss forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended March 31, 2020 to which this MD&A relates.

• ii) Section5.4- Disclosureof Outstanding Share Data

• a. Authorized:

Unlimited common shares without par value

• b. Common Shares Issued and Outstanding:

Balance, March 31, 2020	Number 67,266,181

As at March 31, 2020, there were no common shares held in escrow.

(iii)Section5.7– Additional Disclosure for Reporting Issuers with Significant Equity Investees .

Not applicable.

C. Disclosure required by National Instrument 52-109 Certification of Disclosure in Issuers’ Annual and Filings.

Not applicable.

Risk Factors

The Company is focused solely on its mining and exploration efforts in a cost-effective manner. The failure to generate future cash flow could have a significant and adverse effect on the Company.

The Company's success will depend in large measure on certain key personnel. The loss of the services of such key personnel could have a material adverse effect on the Company. In addition, there can be no

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assurance that Company will be able to continue to attract and retinal personnel necessary for the development and operation of its business.

The Company has incurred a net loss for the year ended March 31, 2020 of $2,267,364 and has a deficit of $9,657,850 as at March 31, 2020. Management is continuing its efforts to attract additional equity and capital investors and implement cost control measures to maintain adequate levels of working capital. Nevertheless, there can be no assurance provided with respect to the successful outcome of the seagoing actions. If the Company is unable to obtain additional financing on reasonable terms, the Company may be required to reduce its operations to continue as a going concern.

In addition, the Company’s negative working capital could affect the Company’s ability to seize upon opportunities requiring investment, or to reinvest in its products in a timely manner.