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EVOLUTION MINING LIMITED Investor Presentation 2019

Apr 3, 2019

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COWAL SITE VISIT

CRAIG FAWCETT – GENERAL MANAGER 4 APRIL 2019

FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENT

These materials prepared by Evolution Mining Limited (or "the Company") include forward looking statements. Often, but not always, forward looking statements can generally be identified by the use of forward looking words such as "may", "will", "expect", "intend", "plan", "estimate", "anticipate", "continue", and "guidance", or other similar words and may include, without limitation, statements regarding plans, strategies and objectives of management, anticipated production or construction commencement dates and expected costs or production outputs.

Forward looking statements inherently involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the Company's actual results, performance and achievements to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements. Relevant factors may include, but are not limited to, changes in commodity prices, foreign exchange fluctuations and general economic conditions, increased costs and demand for production inputs, the speculative nature of exploration and project development, including the risks of obtaining necessary licenses and permits and diminishing quantities or grades of reserves, political and social risks, changes to the regulatory framework within which the Company operates or may in the future operate, environmental conditions including extreme weather conditions, recruitment and retention of personnel, industrial relations issues and litigation.

Forward looking statements are based on the Company and its management's good faith assumptions relating to the financial, market, regulatory and other relevant environments that will exist and affect the Company's business and operations in the future. The Company does not give any assurance that the assumptions on which forward looking statements are based will prove to be correct, or that the Company's business or operations will not be affected in any material manner by these or other factors not foreseen or foreseeable by the Company or management or beyond the Company's control.

Although the Company attempts and has attempted to identify factors that would cause actual actions, events or results to differ materially from those disclosed in forward looking statements, there may be other factors that could cause actual results, performance, achievements or events not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended, and many events are beyond the reasonable control of the Company. Accordingly, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward looking statements. Forward looking statements in these materials speak only at the date of issue. Subject to any continuing obligations under applicable law or any relevant stock exchange listing rules, in providing this information the Company does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any of the forward looking statements or to advise of any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.

A CLEAR AND CONSISTENT STRATEGY

Focused portfolio of 6 – 8 assets

Upgrade the quality of our asset portfolio

Reduce costs and grow free cash flow per share

Extend reserve life

Deliver consistent returns to shareholders

A globally relevant mid-tier gold producer

EVOLUTION SNAPSHOT

ASX
code
EVN
Market capitalisation(1) A\$6.1B
Average daily turnover(2) A\$40M
Net debt(3) A\$41M
Dividend
policy
Payout
of 50% of
after tax earnings
FY19 production guidance 720 –
770koz
FY19 AISC guidance A\$850 –
A\$900/oz
Mineral Resources 14.3Moz
Ore Reserves 7.2Moz
Reserve life ~10 years
Reserve price assumption A\$1,350/oz

(1) Based on share price of A\$3.58 per share on 2 April 2019 (2) Average daily share turnover for one month through to 2 April 2019 (3) As at 31 December 2018

COWAL CONTRIBUTION TO EVOLUTION GROUP

COWALOUR CORNERSTONE ASSET

  • Sustainable, reliable, low-cost production
  • Implementing a pathway to 300kozpa
  • Exploration success delivering transformational, organic growth

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Under-explored region offering immense untapped potential

ASSET OPTIMISATION SINCE ACQUISITION

Gold production1 878koz at an
average AISC A\$852/oz
Net mine cash flow1 A\$468M or A\$533/oz
Mine life extended by 8 years 2024 →
2032
Ore Reserves increased by 2.4Moz2 1.6Moz →
3.0Moz
Plant throughput increased by 800ktpa prior to
any plant expansion capex
7.2Mtpa →
8.0Mtpa
6%3
Recoveries increasing by 4 –
82% →
86% –
88%
Discovery of a new ore body Dalwhinnie
lode

COWALA WORLD CLASS DEPOSIT

Location Approximately 40km north-east of West
Wyalong in New South Wales, Australia
Property Mining Lease (ML 1535 & ML561)
encompasses an area of 2,886 hectares and
lies within Evolution's total property holding
of ~14,200 hectares
Commencement Mining commenced 2005 and processing 2006
Approval Operation currently approved until 2032
Mining method Conventional open pit
Owner-Miner
Minerals Gold
Mineralisation type Structurally hosted epithermal to
mesothermal sheeted veins and shear hosted
lodes
Process method Grinding, gravity, flotation
and cyanide
leaching circuits
Plant capacity 8Mtpa
(Increasing to 8.7Mtpa with
Stage 1 expansion)

FOCUSED ON SAFETY

Total recordable injury frequency (TRIF) of 7.66

Key initiatives to improve safety performance

Safety Superintendent and Sustainability Manager have commenced

  • Contractor competencies tracking system in development
  • Site-wide safety program in development to reinvigorate workforce
  • Roll-out of Safety Mindfulness program
  • Focus on behavior and safety interactions

Cowal TRIF 12 MMA - Comparison Graph

TRIF: Total recordable injury frequency

The frequency of total recordable injuries per million hours worked. Results shown are based on a 12 month moving average (12MMA)

RESPONSIBLE MINING

Meeting strict environmental compliance obligations

  • ISO14001 certified
  • International Cyanide Management Institute certification
  • Annual independent audits and internal compliance reviews
  • Lake Cowal Conservation Centre environmental studies, monitoring and initiatives

Strong local community support

  • Partnership with Wiradjuri Condobolin Corporation
  • Total local procurement spend of ~A\$28M per annum
  • Supporting local charities and sports clubs
  • ~75% of employees are permanent residents
  • ~6% of employees are Indigenous

Cowal Leadership team enjoying Grazing Down the Lachlan – a Shared Value Project to promote regional tourism

Building community resilience

PERMITTING PATHWAY TO 300KOZPA

Mod 12 Approved

▪ Operations permitted to 2024 with plant throughput at 7.5Mtpa

Mod 13 Approved

  • Operations extended to 2032
  • Approval of Stage H open pit cutback
  • Underpins current LOM

Mod 14 Approved

  • Enables plant expansion up to 9.8Mtpa
  • Includes Integrated Waste Landform (IWL) and infrastructure upgrades

Permitting required to unlock further potential

  • Permitting of underground mine not expected to be high risk
  • Major changes such as new pits likely to trigger a major amendment (Part 4A) which requires full Environmental Impact Study (EIS) with approval timelines potentially up to 3 years

PATHWAY TO 300KOZPA

Stage H cutback on track

  • Delivers over 1.3 million ounces from E42 open pit
  • Planned material movement ahead of schedule
  • Capital stripping scheduled for completion in FY21

Float Tails Leach project

  • Commissioned in March 2019 quarter
  • First gold bar poured in January 2019
  • Achieved to date in commissioning phase:
  • 2 3% increase in recoveries
  • Increased throughput (150tpoh oxide = 1,100tpoh total)
  • Circuit optimisation targeting a consistent 4 6% increase in recoveries

PATHWAY TO 300KOZPA

Integrated Waste Landform (IWL)

  • Tailings solution to support plant expansion to 9.8Mtpa
  • Financial savings of ~\$80 million over Life of Mine
  • More robust structure and ability to facilitate future expansions in one final landform
  • Construction work on track
  • Travelling Stock Route relocation work to begin in December 2019 half-year

Plant expansion project

  • On track for completion in December 2019 quarter
  • Targeting increased throughput to 8.7Mtpa incremental step toward increased throughput up to 9.5Mtpa
  • Targeting an increase in processing plant availability from 91.5% to ~95%
  • Mill liner handler, front end loader and pumps ordered

PATHWAY TO 300KOZPA

GRE46 Underground exploration decline organic growth enabler

  • Enables resource definition and exploration drilling of GRE46 and Dalwhinnie
  • Permitted December 2018 quarter
  • Contract awarded to Pybar
  • Development commenced March 2019
  • New equipment (<5,000 hours)
  • AMC geotechnical assessment completed
  • Less than five months from decision to first cut
  • Exploration drilling to commence in June 2019 quarter
  • Initial drill program of 36,000m over 15 months (A\$6 – 7 million)

TRACKING PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT

Key Projects in H1 FY19

  • Mining
  • Reduced blasting explosives consumption
  • Reduced cost of haul truck tyres
  • Processing operations
  • Reduced flocculants cost
  • Reduce Cyanide destruct cost
  • Removed copper sulphate from float circuit reagent scheme
  • North Parkes Xanthate deal
  • Stirred Media Detritor screen cost reduction

Processing maintenance

  • Reduced cost through effective planning and execution
  • Shutdown service provider contracts
  • Commercial
  • Purchase of Slope Monitoring System

INCREASING PLANT THROUGHPUT

INNOVATION

GlyCat™

  • Technology that uses glycine and cyanide during the cyanidation process of gold ore
  • Cost savings through significant reduction in cyanide consumption
  • Fast tracked glycine lab trials involving leach and float test to commence with Mining and Process Solutions (MPS) and Curtin University
  • Testing commencing in April 2019 with results anticipated September 2019 quarter
  • Success of trials to determine scale-up strategy

Gecko Carbon Scout

  • Optimisation and automating carbon management in leach circuits (Curtin University)
  • Unit installed March 2019, commissioning April 2019
  • Commercialised under license by Gekko
  • First on east coast of Australia

DISCOVERY

Driving transformational growth

Since March 2018 site visit:

  • Maiden underground Mineral Resource at GRE46 of 5.9Mt at 3.17g/t Au for 603koz
  • Discovered Dalwhinnie mineralisation
  • Commitment to develop an exploration decline to further delineate underground resources
  • Scope to increase initially planned drill program of A\$6 7 million
  • Accelerated and extended GRE46 UG surface drill program
  • Drill programs extended known mineralisation at GRE46 and E41
  • East Girral early stage aircore drilling returned encouraging results

REGIONAL SETTING

  • World class gold -copper geologic setting
  • Large under -explored landholding in the Junee - Narromine Belt of the Macquarie Arc Volcanics
  • Multiple target styles:
  • Polymetallic epithermal vein deposits (eg E42, GRE46)
  • Porphyry copper -gold deposits (alkalic and calc alkalic styles)
  • Volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits
  • Limited exploration outside of E42 mining environment since 2007
  • E42 and GRE46 key gold deposits
  • Structurally and lithologically controlled
  • Demonstrated the potential to find more

NEAR MINE RESOURCES

E42 Reserves 3.0Moz Resource 4.1Moz Past Production 2.8Moz Total E42 Endowment >6Moz

E41W Resource 295koz

E41E Resource 235koz

December 2017 Resource 5.8Moz Au Reserves 3.0Moz Au

Marsden Reserve: 817koz Au, 371kt Cu Resource: 1.0 Moz, 560kt Cu

E46 Resource 172koz

Galway Regal, E46 Open Pit Resource 486koz

GRE46 UG Resource 604koz

E42 AND GRE46 RESULTS

Drill hole intersections are extracted from the presentation entitled "2018 Investor Day" on 4 September 2018, September Quarterly Report 2018 on 15 October 2018, Cowal plant expansion, discovery success and outlook upgrade on 22 November 2018 and December Quarterly Report on 24 January 2019 released to the ASX and available to view at www.evolutionmining.com.au. The Company confirms that it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information in the original market announcement. Reported intervals are down hole widths as true widths are not currently known. See the Appendix of this presentation for details of Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves

EAST GIRRAL PROSPECT

East Girral (100% EVN)

  • 15km west of E42
  • Large 7km long geochemical gold anomaly identified in aircore drilling
  • Coincident pathfinder results reinforcing target quality
  • Awaiting full results from last phase of aircore drilling
  • New magnetics recently flown
  • Shallow bedrock drilling spaced at 400m x 100m
  • Diamond drilling to commence April 2019
  • Geology believed to be a thin sliver of rocks similar to those hosting mineralisation at Cowal

DISCOVERY OBJECTIVES

  • Discover additional high grade feed to displace lower grade open pit ore
  • Find a standalone operation or a deposit of sufficient size to support a major plant expansion
  • Find a copper-gold porphyry deposit as a standalone or partner for Marsden which could bring Marsden into production sooner
  • Build an exploration team with the capabilities to unlock the significant upside potential of the Cowal district

DELIVERING PATHWAY TO 300KOZPA

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Current Ore Reserves and mine plan to 2032

Development of underground exploration decline commenced

Projects underway to achieve a consistent production rate in excess of 300kozpa for 20+years

EVOLUTION 2017 GOLD ORE RESERVES COWAL DEC 2017 MINERAL RESOURCES AND ORE RESERVES

Cowal
Gold Mineral Resources -
December 2017
Mineral Resource Measured Indicated Inferred Total Resource
Tonnes
Grade
(Mt)
Au (g/t)
Cont. Metal Tonnes Grade Cont. Metal Tonnes Grade Cont. Metal Tonnes Grade Cont.
Metal Au
Au (koz) (Mt) Au (g/t) Au (koz) (Mt) Au (g/t) Au (koz) (Mt) Au (g/t) (koz)
E42 Oxide - - - 0.21 0.65 4 0.02 0.51 0 0.23 0.64 5
E42 Primary - - - 114.40 0.86 3,148 1.65 0.57 30 116.04 0.85 3,179
E42 Stockpile 46.64 0.70 1,049 - - - - - - 46.64 0.70 1,049
E41 Oxide - - - 4.18 1.19 160 0.65 1.73 36 4.83 1.26 196
E41 Primary - - - 11.14 0.89 319 0.98 1.60 50 12.12 0.95 369
E46 Oxide - - - 3.88 1.22 152 - - - 3.88 1.22 152
E46 Primary - - - 0.68 1.06 23 - - - 0.68 1.06 23
GR46 UG - - - - - - 5.90 3.17 603 5.90 3.17 603
GRE46 Oxide - - - 1.28 1.66 68 0.75 1.83 44 2.02 1.73 112
GRE46 Primary - - - 6.23 1.48 298 1.23 2.37 94 7.46 1.63 391
Total 46.64 0.70 1,049 141.99 0.91 4,173 11.17 2.39 858 199.80 0.95 6,079
Cowal
Gold Mine Ore Reserves -
December 2017
Ore Reserve Cut-off (g/t
Au)
Proved Probable Total Reserve
Tonnes
Grade Au
Cont. Metal Tonnes Grade Au Cont. Metal Tonnes Grade Au Cont. Metal
(Mt) (g/t) Au (koz) (Mt) (g/t) Au (koz) (Mt) (g/t) Au (koz)
E42 oxide 0.40 - - - 0.21 0.65 4 0.21 0.65 4
E42 primary 0.40 - - - 69.44 0.89 1,994 69.44 0.89 1,994
Stockpile 0.40 46.64 0.70 1,049 - - - 46.64 0.70 1,049
Total 46.64 0.70 1,049 69.64 0.89 1,998 116.28 0.81 3,046

Data is reported to significant figures and differences may occur due to rounding

Mineral Resources are reported inclusive of Ore Reserves

Mineral Resources have been reported above a cut-off grade of 0.40g/t gold and constrained within an A\$1,800/oz pit optimisation shell

The Cowal Mineral Resource Competent Person is James Biggam and the Ore Reserve Competent Person is Ryan Kare

This information is extracted from the ASX release entitled "Annual Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves Statement" released to the ASX on 19 April 2018. Evolution confirms that that it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information included in that release and that all material assumptions and technical parameters underpinning the estimates continue to apply and have not materially changed

HISTORY OF COWAL

NEAR MINE RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT - MARSDEN

  • Provides additional long term optionality
  • Acquired from Newcrest in August 2016
  • Pre-feasibility Study
  • Core across key sections re-logged
  • Re-estimation of Resource model
  • Key considerations
    • Ore processing
    • Detailed design and scheduling
    • Ore haulage (17km direct line to Cowal)
    • Approvals and permitting

Location plan showing the Marsden copper-gold project and proximity to Cowal

PROCESS EQUIPMENT

  • Power supplied by AGL
  • Crushing
  • Primary crushing: Metso 54-75 Superior MK-II gyratory crusher
  • Grinding
  • FFE 36' x 20.5' SAG mill, FFE 22' x 36.5' ball mill
  • Forged steel 125mm balls (SAG), high chrome 80mm balls (ball mill)
  • Screening
  • Schenck Vibrating screens (SAG discharge), Delkor Linear (COF)
  • Recycle crusher
  • 2 x Sandvik H6800 hydrocone cone crushers

  • Mineral liberation/recovery

  • Method: flotation, regrind, CIL of concentrate and Float tails
  • Equipment: 2 x SK1200 and 10 x OK200TC (flotation), Metso Vertimill (VTM1000WB), 2 x Metso 355kW SMDs, 4,000m3, Pre-Ox, 2 x 4,000m3and 6 x 1,000m3CIL tanks; FTL 7 * tank leach circuit with Kemix inter-stage screens and SMBS Cyanide destruct tanks.
  • Cyanide supply Orica
  • Lime supply Boral
  • Refining
  • 10t AARL elution circuit, Regeneration kiln, 4 Electrowinning cells
  • Gravity Circuit
  • Falcon concentrator / Acacia Reactor

MINING FLEET

Haulage/mine trucks

  • − 16 x Cat 789C Dump Trucks
  • − 2 x Cat 785 Dump Trucks

Drilling equipment

  • − 5 x Atlas Copco D65 (Hired)
  • − 1 x Terex SKF Drill

Dozers

  • − 4 x CAT D10T Tracked Dozers
  • − 1 x CAT834H Wheel Dozer

Shovels/excavators/loaders

  • − 1 x Liebherr 9400 Excavator
  • − 1 x Liebherr 994B Excavator
  • − 1 x Hitachi EX3600 Excavator
  • − 1 x Hitachi EX1200 Excavator
  • − 2 x Cat 992G Loaders

Haul road maintenance equipment

  • − 2 x Cat 16H Graders
  • − 1 x Cat 349 Excavator
  • − 2 x Cat 777D Water Carts

SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELLNESS CULTURE

Project Arrive Alive

  • Fatigue management identified as a major operational risk
  • Industry leading fatigue management policy and practices developed
  • Strong emphasis on education and awareness to enable self-regulation
  • Enhancement of rosters and journey management
  • Supported by fatigue management experts and psychologists
  • Project has evolved into a comprehensive employee health and wellness program

Project Vital

  • An integrated and holistic approach to employee health and wellness centred on education and awareness
  • Utilises expert psychologists (Matecheck) to provide confidential counselling services to employees on abroad range of issues
  • Full time health and wellbeing professionals (HBP Healthy Business) on site – developing personal health plans for employees
  • Corporate gym memberships for employees
  • Impact on workforce has been profound

Cowal – 2017 NSW Mining HSEC award for safety