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ELEVRA LITHIUM LIMITED — Investor Presentation 2016
May 17, 2016
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Sourcing the raw materials of the future
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Investor Presentation – Advancing a Portfolio of Lithium Projects
MAY 2016
The Green Energy Revolution
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Creating Demand for Graphite & Lithium for Use in Batteries
The Company’s strategy is to change the world and power the future by sourcing and developing the raw materials essential for lithium-ion battery production
Sayona Project Portfolio
Lithium Graphite
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Quebec, Canada A globally significant region for lithium deposits
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Resource – 22Mt @ 01.29% Li20
Resource – 37.2Mt @ 0.94% Li20
Resource – 32.6Mt @ 1.56% Li20
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Quebec has a well developed mining industry Host to a number of large high-grade Lithium deposits
Resource – 14.25Mt @ 1.41% Li20
Resource – 47Mt @ 1.19% Li20
TOP rated mining jurisdiction by Fraser Institute (no. 6 in world) Strong Government Support for Mining
Proposed Acquisition of Authier Well established development infrastructure
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Excellent Infrastructure
Low cost hydro power Road and rail access Experienced local mining workforce
653 ha Excellent tenement package Infrastructure Located in a major mining district
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Authier Resources
Large resource of contained lithium
Authier Global Mineral Resource Estimate* Category Tonnes (Mt) Grades (Li20) Contained Li20 Measured 2.24 0.95% 21,318 Indicated 5.43 0.97% 52,681 Inferred 1.52 0.96% 14,899 Total 9.22 0.96% 88,898
* (0.5% Li20 cut-off grade)
Cautionary Note - National Instrument 43-101 is a national instrument for the Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects within Canada. The Mineral Resources stated are foreign estimates and are not reported in accordance with JORC Code. A competent person has not done sufficient work to classify the foreign estimates as Mineral Resources in accordance with the JORC Code. It is uncertain that following evaluation and/or further exploration work that the foreign estimates will be able to be reported as Mineral Resources in accordance with the JORC Code.
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- See ASX Release, “Proposal to Acquire Advanced Lithium Project in Canada”, 3 May 2016
Authier Lithium Deposit Extensively drilled, simple deposit
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Spodumene Bearing Pegmatite
Authier Deposit
825 m lo ng 25 m average width 200 m deep and still open
m 15,000 drilled 123 holes
2,143 lithium assays
Well studied NI43-101 completed in 2013
Commercial and technical viability confirmed
Authier Lithium Deposit Amenable to low-cost, open-cut mining techniques
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Authier Metallurgy
Extensive metallurgical testing completed
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Conventional Processing Route
Concentrate Pricing
Galaxy selling at US$ 600 /t Significant upside to 2013 NI-43101
Flowsheet Design 85% recovery 5-6 % Li20 concentrate No mica pre-float
Optimisation Options Optical sorting Downstream processing into intermediate products
Authier Acquisition Attractions
More than 15,000 metres – of drilling in 123 holes established resource
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Well studied – proven technical and economic viability – fast track to production
Deposit amendable to simple, open-cut mining techniques
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Located in top-tier mining jurisdiction with stable taxes and royalties
Extensive metallurgical testing - flowsheet designed to produce 5-6% Li20 concentrate
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Well established mining district with excellent infrastructure
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Low Value Attributed to Authier Acquisition
TRANSACTION RATIONALE Sayona market capitalisation pre and post Authier Large sunk cost in acquisition announcement*
Large sunk cost in exploration, drilling, metallurgy and studies Positive price outlook for lithium
30 $ 1 m 20 $23 m $ 24 m
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Near term development and cash flow potential
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Value proposition - low purchase price and large value uplift potential
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- See ASX Release, “Proposal to Acquire Advanced Lithium Project in Canada”, 3 May 2016
Authier Acquisition Attractively Priced Sayona is paying AUD$47/t of contained Li20
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Potential
Authier
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Valuation Upside
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EV @ $700/t = $62m 700
Authier
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Developer Project
EV @ $500/t = $45m 500
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Acquisition cost CAD$ 4 m $ 47/t for 88,860t^ 300
Market Cap Market Cap 200
Existing
$23M $24M
SYA Assets
before Authier Today $ 626 $ 730 $ 1105 100
Acquisition
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Enterprise Value Per Tonne of
Before ASX Release, “Proposal to Acquire Advanced Lithium
Project in Canada”, 3 May 2016. ^ Contained Li20 Contained Li20 ($/tonne)
Developer Developer Producer
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Authier Value Up-lift Potential
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$ 487 M $ 786 M
$ 200 M
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$ 212 M
$ 843 M
$ 58 M
$ 24 M
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*Authier project
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Western Australia
A Globally Significant Region for Production of Lithium
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Resource – 36Mt @ 1.05% Li20
Market cap – A$200m
Resource – 80Mt @ 1.26% Li20
Market cap – A$843m
Resource – 23Mt @ 1.39% Li20
Market cap – A$212m
Resource – 16Mt @ 1.08% Li20
GMM Market cap – A$191m
GXY Market cap – A$487m
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Low-cost entry with km[2] 1,065 tenement holding , including granted tenure
Western Australia
a dominant global producer of Lithium from high-grade, hard-rock PEGMATITES
Simon Attwell – Exploration Manager with 29-years experience including exploring for lithium and tantalum
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Pilbara Lithium Projects Tenement package secured in proven lithium district
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Located in close proximity to large, 986 km[2] high-grade tenement lithium package deposits at unexplored for lithium Pilgangoora
Well tested geological model Albite Spodumene targets
Infrastructure for access to world markets
Pilbara Lithium Portfolio In close proximity to the Pilgangoora deposits
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Resource – 36Mt @ 1.05% Li20
Resource – 80Mt @ 1.26% Li20
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Mount Edon Project A region never explored for its lithium potential
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79 km[2] tenement package historical tantalum mining area Potential for tantalum as a valuable by-product credit
over 70 pegmatites identified to date from radiometrics
Excellent Infrastructure
Mount Edon Project A prospective new pegmatite field
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Mount Edon Pegmatite Targets Defined Next phase exploration includes mapping and sampling
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Western Australian Lithium - Next Steps
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East Kimberley Graphite Project Metallurgical test work program underway
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m 3,000 drilling completed in Dec 2015
6 km of 20 km target zone drilled
Best assay 12 %TGC
Best Intercepts: 16 m @ 5 %TGC 22 m @ 3.4 %TGC Open at depth and along strike Coarse graphite observed
278 km[2]
tenement package
Proven graphite province
World-class Infrastructure
for access to world markets
Itabela Graphite Project Drilling intersects broad zones of graphite
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m 2,440 drilling completed in April 2015
49 holes drilled Best results: 77m @ 2.9% TGC 48m @ 3.65% TGC
Saprolite Advantage
NO drill or blast NO crushing LOW grinding
High proportion of large flake
133 km[2]
tenement package
World’s second largest graphite producing region
Infrastructure
for access to world markets
Corporate Snapshot
TRADING EXCHANGE
ASX: SYA/SYAO
CAPITALISATION Price 4.7¢
*as at close 15 May 2016
SHARES/OPTIONS Million shares 517 110 Million options
SHAREHOLDERS DIRECTORS 44%
$24M Market cap Cash $0.63M As at 31 Mar 2015
TOP 20 74%
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Strong Team With Track Record of Success
Corey Nolan Chief Executive Officer
Dan O’Neill Managing Director
Simon Attwell Exploration Manager
23 years’ of resources industry experience
Corporate and capital markets experience
Previously Managing Director of South American focused explorer, Elementos
Geologist with 35 years’ of resources industry experience Founding director of Orocobre Director of Altura Mining
29 years’ mineral exploration experience - success in generation, exploration and discovery of mineral deposits
Director of Australian Tantalum, which owned Pilgangoora leases and was subsequently acquired by Altura Mining
James Brown Non-Executive Director
35 years’ experience in the resources sector
22 years with New Hope Corporation
Managing Director of ASX lithium company, Altura Mining - $200m market cap.
Allan Buckler Non-Executive Director
40 years’ experience in the resources sector
Built mining operations in Australia and Indonesia as former director and chief operations officer for New Hope Corporation
Paul Crawford Executive Director
35 years’ of resources industry experience
CPA and previously Company Secretary of companies including, Orocobre Ltd (founding director), Elementos and ActivEx
Director of Altura Mining
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Share Price Drivers
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Lithium exploration in Western Australia Completion of the Authier transaction
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Next phase of development at Itabela East Kimberley flake size analysis Active stock promotion
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Additional Information Slides On the Lithium Industry
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Lithium …
Critical in the Energy Revolution
Lithium is now considered a key, strategic energy metal in the clean Energy Storage – technology economy that is The economic “ being fuelled by value of energy “ An What if advances in storage over a Increasingly I Told You….. electric vehicles, 10-year period in Precious Lithium is the energy storage the US could Metal” New Gasoline ” and electronics reach $ 228 Dec 2015 Jan 2016 billion, 21 % of the $ 1 trillion global economic benefit Disruptive Innovations II, 2014
Lithium Consumption – The Future is Electric
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Glass / Ceramics
Manufacturing/ Plastics
35 % 19 %
9 %
29 % 8 %
Other
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Batteries
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Lithium-ion is the battery of choice Super Lighter, Longer life-cycle energy more and more density compact and efficient portable
More environmentally friendly
Source: Stormcrow, 2013 data
Key Demand drivers through to 2025
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Renewable grid storage
30% CAGR
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Transportation – electric and hybrid vehicles
20-30% CAGR
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Consumer electronics
8-10% CAGR
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Source: Credit Suisse, 2014
CAGR = Compound Annual Growth Rate
Batteries are the fastest growing segment
“ The problem with existing lead-acid batteries ” is that they suck Elon Musk 2000 2013 2020 71 kt 171 kt 308 kt LCE LCE LCE
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Battery consumption as a % of total consumption
Source: Citi. LCE = Lithium carbonate equivalent
The Megafactories are Coming
“ Solar power [with] batteries will be the primary means of sustainable energy production ” Elon Musk
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Tesla’s Nevada site
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3 X GROWTH
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Dawn of a New Auto Era
“ Car design will change more in the next 15 years than it has in the past 100 — electrification will kick start the ” biggest change in automotive design in history Ian Callum, head of design for Jaguar, April 2016
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Electric & Hybrid Vehicles
20 MILLION EV & HYBRID CARS BY 2020
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Lithium Sources
LITHIUM IS A SOFT SILVER-GREY METAL:
Low density and atomic mass
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High electrochemical potential
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High specific heat capacity
Salt Lake (brine) CONVERTS TO LITHIUM-HYDROXIDE FOR USE IN LITHIUM–ION BATTERIES
MAJOR SOURCES OF 2 LITHIUM
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SIMPLE PROCESSING
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Hard rock pegmatite
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Spodumene extracted : from pegmatites
Few New Lithium SUPPLY Options Available
5 COMPANIESPRODUCE 90 % OF WORLDSUPPLY
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END USERS SEEKING 4 % NEW SUPPLY OPTIONS USA
14 % China
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Source: Citi
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42 % Chile Argentina (Brine)
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36 % Australia (Hard Rock)
Supply & Demand – A Perfect Storm
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Existing supply Probable New supply Demand
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BEYOND 2020
GAP BETWEEN SUPPLY & DEMAND EMERGES
HIGHER PRICES
SUPPLY DEMAND Existing Producers Growing Demand at Capacity New Applications No New Projects in Creating Demand Construction Phase Pressures
Pricing for Lithium Carbonate has Tripled Since 2003 Trading at RMB160,000/t* in China = US$24,600/t
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Source: Citi and Company estimates * Battery Boom Heats Lithium Gains as Outback Mining Stocks Soar, Bloomberg, 18 Feb 2016
Disclaimer
COMPETENT PERSON STATEMENTS
Simon Atwell for Australian projects - The information in this report that relates to Exploration Results is based on information compiled by Mr Simon Attwell, a Competent Person, and who is a Member of The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Mr Attwell is an employee of Attgold Pty Ltd (“Attgold”) which provides geological services to Sayona. Attgold is a financial beneficiary if Sayona exercises its option to purchase agreement over the East Kimberley Graphite project. Mr Attwell has sufficient experience that is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity being undertaken to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2012 Edition of the ‘Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves’. Mr Attwell consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.
Gustavo Delendatti for Itabela and Authier - The information in this report that relates to Exploration Results is based on information compiled by Dr Gustavo Delendatti, a member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists. Dr Delendatti is an independent consultant, and has sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity which it is undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the JORC Code (2012 Edition) of the “Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves.‟ Dr Delendatti was responsible for the design and conduct of this exploration drilling campaign, supervised the preparation of the technical information in this release and has relevant experience and competence of the subject matter. Dr Delendatti, as competent person for this announcement, has consented to the inclusion of the information in the form and context in which it appears herein.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
This presentation may contain certain forward looking statements. Such statements are only predictions, based on certain assumptions and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond Sayona Limited’s control. Actual events or results may differ materially from the events or results expected or implied in any forward looking statement. The inclusion of such statements should not be regarded as a representation, warranty or prediction with respect to the accuracy of the underlying assumptions or that any forward looking statements will be or are likely to be fulfilled. Sayona Limited undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this presentation (subject to securities exchange disclosure requirements).The information in this presentation does not take into account the objectives, financial situation or particular needs of any person. Nothing contained in this presentation constitutes investment, legal, tax or other advice.
Reference to Previous ASX Releases
This presentation refers to the following previous ASX releases:
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“Proposal to Acquire Advanced Lithium Project in Canada”, 3 May 2016
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“Itabela Drilling Defines Large Zones of Graphite Mineralisation”, 11 May 2016
The Company confirms that it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information included in the original market announcement and all material assumptions and technical parameters continue to apply and have not materially changed. The Company confirms that the form and context in which the Competent Person’s findings are presented have not been materially modified from the original market announcements.
ACN 091 951 978 Suite 68, 283 Given Terrace Paddington, Queensland, 4064 Brisbane, Australia Ph: +61 7 3369 7058 [email protected] www.sayonamining.com.au
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