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GALILEO MINING LTD Investor Presentation 2021

May 25, 2021

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SUSTAINABLE METALS: NICKEL, COPPER, COBALT, & PALLADIUM IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA

121 Mining Investment Online May 2021 ASX:GAL

Disclaimer

This Presentation (“ or the “ has been prepared by Galileo Mining Ltd (ACN 104 114 132 ))(“ and is general background information about the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries activities as at the date of this Presentation This Document is prepared for the benefit and internal use of the recipient (the “ It is provided on a confidential basis and the Recipient cannot reproduce in whole or in part any information provided in this Presentation or communicate the information of this Presentation to any third party without the prior written consent of the Company This Document has been prepared on the basis of publicly available information and certain confidential information The Company has relied upon and assumed, without independent verification, the accuracy and completeness of all such information, including forecasts It contains selected information and does not purport to be all inclusive or to contain all of the information that may be relevant to the Document The Company, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees and agents do not accept responsibility or liability for this Presentation or its contents (except to the extent that such liability cannot be excluded by law) No representation or warranty is made as to the Presentation’s accuracy or completeness and the Company assumes no obligation to update the Presentation’s information contained herein Any requests for information in connection with this Document should be addressed directly to the Company and to no other party

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Investment Opportunity

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Strong cash position with~$6.1M[1]

High value nickel targets, palladium targets and an existing cobalt/nickel resource

Focussed on “green” sustainable metals with future demand growth All assets are in the Tier-1 mining jurisdiction of Western Australia Pre-discovery market valuation and highly leveraged to success Well supported – successful mining investor Mark Creasy and major mining company IGO are the largest shareholders

(1) As at 31[st] March 2021

Sustainable Technology Metals

  • Increasing demand for clean energy metals

  • 12-month price increase in nickel, copper, cobalt & palladium

  • Forecast step change in demand for EV battery technology

  • Limited new mine development for key commodities

  • Exploration required now for the next generation of deposits

LME NICKEL (12 months)

LME COPPER (12 months) LME COBALT (12 months) PALLADIUM (12 months)

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Source: LME website

Corporate Snapshot

Share Price (twelve months)

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JORC Resources(slide 18 for details) JORC Resources(slide 18 for details)
Cobalt 26,600 tonnes
Nickel 122,500 tonnes

Key metrics

Key Metrics Key Metrics
ASX Code GAL
Shares on Issue 143.1m
Share price (@ 24th May 2021) 30.5c
Market Cap $43.6m
Cash (at 31st March 2021) $6.1m
Enterprise Value $37.5m
Options on Issue 12.5m @ $0.20; 2.3m @ $0.44
Debt No debt
Major Shareholders Major Shareholders
Mark Creasy 26.1%
IGO Ltd (ASX:IGO) 8.9%

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Ex erienced Team p

Brad Underwood
Chairman & MD
Over 18 years’ experience in exploration, prospecting and mining.
2010 – 2018 worked for Mark Creasy as General Manager of several private companies.
Played a key role in discovery of Silver Knight nickel-copper-cobalt deposit in the Fraser Range and
Galileo’s Mission Sill resources.
Bachelor of Science in Geology and a Post Graduate Diploma in Geology from the University of
Auckland, Master of Science (Distinction) in Mineral Economics from Curtin University.
Noel O’Brien
Non-Executive Director
A metallurgist with wide international and corporate experience.
Served on the board of a number of ASX listed companies over the past 9 years.
Currently technical advisor to several listed companies.
Metallurgical Engineering degree from the University of Melbourne, an MBA from Witwatersrand
University and a Fellow of the AusIMM.
Mathew Whyte
Non-Exec Director &
Company Secretary
CPA and a Chartered Secretary (FGIA), with over 25 years’ experience.
Held senior executive roles on a broad range of Australian listed entities.
Served as Director and Company Secretary on multiple ASX company boards over the past 10 years.

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Project Portfolio

  • Strategic Commodity & District Focus • Numerous operating mines in the district with access to world-class infrastructure (road, rail, gas , water, Kalgoorlie, Port of Esperance)

**Fraser Range JV Project ***

  • Developing nickel province with two significant deposits so far at Nova and Silver Knight

  • Management with extensive Fraser Range experience

  • Next drilling program at the Delta Blues Prospect

  • Developing targets at the Green Moon Prospect and Lantern Prospects

Norseman Project

  • Nickel, cobalt and palladium exploration

  • Cobalt and nickel laterite resource of 25Mt JORC with 26,600t of contained cobalt & 122,500t of contained nickel[(1)]

  • Improving cobalt price now ~ US$50,000/tonne

  • 67% Galileo Mining/33% Creasy Group JV (1) See slide 18 for details

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Fraser Range Project

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Fraser Range Nickel Belt

Fraser Range: A New Mineral Province

  • Two nickel-copper-cobalt resources discovered since 2012 (Nova mine & Silver Knight deposit)

  • IGO: Nova nickel-copper-cobalt mine

14.4 Mt @ 2.3% Nickel, 0.9% Copper and 0.08 % Cobalt[(1)]

  • Silver Knight deposit, initial publicly disclosed resource

4.2 Mt @ 0.8% Nickel, 0.6% Copper, 0.04% Cobalt[(2)]

  • Legend Mining: Mawson prospect

Multiple zones of massive sulphide mineralisation[(3)]

  • Galileo has 602km[2] of prospective ground in two zones;

  • Lantern and Delta Blues nickel prospects: 15km from the TransAustralia Railway

  • Empire Rose nickel and gold prospect: 10km from the Eyre Highway

1) See IGO ASX Announcement dated 3[rd] November 2015

  • 2) See DMIRS website 3) See Legend Mining ASX Announcement dated 12[th] October 2020

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Drilling Activity

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RC and diamond drilling campaigns

  • First RC and diamond drilling programs intersect sulphides

  • 23m @ 0.19% Ni & 0.14% Cu from 133m in disseminated nickel-copper sulphides from ultramafic host rock at Lantern South (LARC013D)[1]

  • 41m @ 0.19% Ni & 0.14% Cu from 55m (LARC012)[[1]]

  • 108m zone of disseminated pyrrhotite sulphide in gabbronorite host rock at Lantern East (LARC008D)[[1]]

  • Increased confidence in regional

prospectivity

(1) See GAL ASX Announcements dated 29[th] September 2020 and 28[th] October 2020 for details

Delta Blues Prospect

Multiple EM targets within zone of prospective intrusions

  • Two highly significant EM conductors

  • Shallow aircore drilling showed nickel prospective intrusive rock units[1]

  • Weathered sulphides (0.5 – 1%) observed in petrographic samples of cumulate intrusions

  • Prospective area with Legend Mining’s Crean Prospect 4 km along strike

  • S2 Resources identified sulphides in drilling 300m from conductor DB2

  • Conductors likely associated with sulphide minerals

Prospect Conductivity Length Height Depth to Top
DB1 11,000S 800m 40m 255m
DB2 1,500S to 5,000S 350m to 500m 250m to 500m 125m to 185m

1) See GAL ASX Announcements dated 3[rd] December 2019 and 12[th] April 2021

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Delta Blues Prospect

DB1 & DB2 drilling to determine economic value

  • Initial 1,000m diamond drilling program to test highly conductive targets at DB1 and DB2
DB1 Initial drill hole to determine cause of the conductor
and pinpoint best positions for further drilling
DB2 Large scale target with several drill holes required to
test for mineralisation over 300 metres of strike
  • Drilling planned to begin in mid-June and completed within three weeks of commencement

  • EM surveying continues around and along strike of the Lantern Prospect where previous drilling identified nickel-copper sulphides

Initial Proposed Diamond Drill Hole at the Delta Blues DB1 Prospect Initial Proposed Diamond Drill Hole at Delta Blues DB2 Prospect 12

Norseman Project

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Norseman Project

Highly prospective ground next to Norseman

  • 278km[2] of prospective ground at the southern end of the prolific Norseman-Wiluna greenstone belt

  • Premier project location:

  • 10km from Norseman and the historic 5Moz Norseman gold mine

  • • Adjacent to sealed Coolgardie-Esperance Highway

  • • Access to gas, water and rail infrastructure

  • • 180km from the deep-water Port of Esperance

  • Tenements are prospective for komatiite hosted nickel sulphide, palladium, lithium, and nickel-cobalt laterite

  • Current JORC compliant 25Mt nickel-cobalt laterite resource

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Norseman Project

Palladium Targets Identified

  • High palladium & rhodium assay results identified from historical analysis beneath & adjacent to existing cobalt resources[1]

  • 35 RC holes - anomalous palladium >0.4 g/t in regolith, 16 RC holes - anomalous palladium >0.2 g/t in fresh rock

  • Best palladium results from weathered rock;

  • 48m @ 0.89 g/t Pd, 0.45 g/t Pt, 0.1 % Cu & 0.37% Ni from 3m (MTRC112) incl. 5m @ 2.1 g/t Pd, 1.4 g/t Pt, 0.13% Cu & 0.23% Ni from 31m

  • Best palladium results from fresh rock;

  • 27m @ 0.58 g/t Pd, 0.12 g/t Pt, 0.13 % Cu & 0.18% Ni from 123m (MTRC096) incl. 3m @ 1.1 g/t Pd, 0.19 g/t Pt, 0.23% Cu & 0.26% Ni from 135m

  • 2m @ 2.39 g/t Pd, 0.63 g/t Pt, < 0.01 % Cu & 0.11% Ni from 92m (MTRC128) incl. 1m @ 4.3 g/t Pd, 1.1 g/t Pt, < 0.01% Cu & 0.12% Ni from 92m

  • Two drill holes assayed for rhodium - prospective max. grades of 0.36 g/t Rh in weathered rock & 0.18 g/t in fresh rock

  • Multiple drill ready targets with +5km of prospective strike length at Mt Thirsty & +10km of prospective strike length at Mission Sill

  • Refer to ASX announcement dated 17[th] May 2021

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Drill Section with Palladium Mineralisation and Target Zone at the Mt Thirsty Prospect

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Drill Section with Basement Palladium Mineralisation and Target Contact Zone at the Mission Sill Prospect

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Norseman Project

Nickel and Cobalt Deposit

  • 25.1Mt @ 0.11% cobalt and 0.49% nickel[1]

  • 26,600 tonnes of contained cobalt and 122,500 tonnes of contained nickel

  • Shallow, flat lying deposit, 20 -30 metres deep

  • Potential for additional cobalt mineralisation to supplement the existing JORC compliant resources

  • Contiguous high-grade cobalt mineralisation

  • Ongoing metallurgical test work programs

  • Provides exposure to increasing cobalt and nickel demand

1) See slide 18 for details

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Well funded and supported junior exploration company

A Significant Investment Opportunity

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Highly leveraged to discovery success

Fraser Range and Norseman projects with strong potential for new resource discoveries Active explorer with experienced management and team

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Focused on discovery of technology metals – nickel, copper, cobalt & palladium

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Mineral Resource Estimates for the Norseman Cobalt Project (“Estimates”) (refer to ASX “Prospectus” announcement dated May 25[th] 2018 and ASX announcement dated 11[th] December 2018, accessible at

Appendix – JORC Resources

http://www.galileomining.com.au/investors/asxannouncements/). Galileo confirms that all material assumptions and technical parameters underpinning the Estimates continue to apply and have not materially changed).

Cut-off
Cobalt %
Class Tonnes Mt Co Ni
% Tonnes % Tonnes
MT THIRSTY SILL
0.06 % Indicated
Inferred
Total
10.5
2.0
12.5
0.12
0.11
0.11
12,100
2,200
14,300
0.58
0.51
0.57
60,800
10,200
71,100
MISSION SILL
0.06 % Inferred 7.7 0.11 8,200 0.45 35,000
GOBLIN
0.06 % Inferred 4.9 0.08 4,100 0.36 16,400
TOTAL JORC COMPLIANT RESOURCES
0.06 % Total 25.1 0.11 26,600 0.49 122,500

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