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LYCOPODIUM LIMITED AGM Information 2021

Nov 17, 2021

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Annual General Meeting Financial Year 2021

18 November 2021

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About Lycopodium

Lycopodium is an innovative and value-driven process, engineering and project delivery organisation.

The Company is headquartered in Perth, Western Australia and is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX: LYL).

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Michael (Mick) Caratti Peter De Leo Bruno Ruggiero
Chairman Managing Director Executive Director
Karl Cicanese Rodney (Rod) Leonard Robert (Bob) Osmetti
Executive Director Non-Executive Director Non-Executive Director
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Lawrence (Laurie) Marshall Steven Chadwick Justine Campbell
Non-Executive Director Non-Executive Director Chief Financial Officer
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Corporate Overview

Market Capitalisation ~$178.6m

Share Price (as at 17.11.21) $4.50

Shares on Issue (as at 17.11.21) Capitalisation 39.7m $4.50 ~$178.6m Shareholder Earnings per Total Dividend Breakdown Share per Share Board & Management 41% 35.7 cents 25 cents Institutions 30% Retail 29%

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People First

Delivering projects safely for our clients remains a fundamental metric of success and our excellent safety and environmental performance is a credit to our delivery teams on the ground

FY2021 Current
(rolling 12 months)
Target
Hours 1.9 million 1.6 million
LTIFR 0.01 0.01 0.0
TRIFR 2.1 1.8 ≤2.80
EIFR 0.0 0.0 ≤2.00

1 Against Construction Industry frequency rate of 7.6 (Safe Work Australia, Key WHS Statistics Australia 2020 )

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Core Capabilities

Sectors

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Infrastructure

Resources

  • Railways

  • Gold and Precious Metals

  • Roads

  • Base Metals

  • Ports

  • Battery Metals

  • Non-Process Resource Infrastructure

  • Specialty Metals

    • Asset Management
  • Diamonds and Gemstones

  • Bulk Minerals

  • ₋ Iron Ore

  • ₋ Minerals Sands

  • ₋ Bauxite

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Industrial Processes

  • Pharmaceuticals

  • Biotechnology

  • Chemical and Energy

  • Food and Beverage

  • Manufacturing

  • Research and Development

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Services
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  • Feasibility Studies

  • Process Development and Optimisation

  • Engineering and Design

  • Project Management and Delivery

  • Project Services

  • Construction Management

  • Commissioning and Operations Support

  • Asset Management

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FY2021 Financial Highlights

Profit Revenue EBITDA Before Tax $162.2m $26.5m $21.5m Cash at Return on NPAT Bank Equity $14.2m $76.8m 17%

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  • In spite of the disruptions and uncertainties of FY2021, we continued to win work with existing and new clients across our core operating sectors of Resources, Infrastructure and Industrial Processes

  • This saw revenue remain steady, consistent with the guidance provided at 1H FY2021

  • Full-year NPAT was stronger than predicted at halfyear ($14m vs $12m)

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FY2021 Revenue by Sector

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FY2021
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4%
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FY2021 FY2020
Sector A$’000 A$’000
Resources 140.8 189.5
Infrastructure 14.0 16.2
Industrial Processes 7.4 5.4
162.2 211.1

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FY2020

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FY2021 Revenue by Geography

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FY2021

FY2021 FY2020
Geography* A$’000 A$’000
Australia 42.5 37.8
Africa 100.9 152.3
Americas 6.7 4.6
Other 12.1 16.4
162.2 211.1

* By project location

FY2020

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2%
8% 16%
18%
79%
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FY2021 Balance Sheet

FY2021 FY2020
A$’000 A$’000
Current Assets 128.7 134.3
Total Assets 164.1 155.7
Total Liabilities 76.4 77.8
Equity 87.7 77.8

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  • Strong Balance Sheet provides capacity for investment

  • Minimal debt

  • Net Tangible Assets per Share – $2.04

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FY2021 Operational Highlights

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Resources

  • Worked across most major commodities, including iron ore, gold, copper, nickel, lithium, graphite, diamonds, platinum and mineral sands

  • Projects spread across the globe – predominantly in Africa, Australia, Southeast Asia and North and Central America

  • Successfully completed our largest EP(C) contract to-date, Perseus’ Yaouré Gold Project in Côte d'Ivoire, ahead of schedule and under budget despite the global pandemic

  • Award of a number of significant EPCM contracts – Motheo (Botswana); Bomboré (Burkina Faso); Ahafo North (Ghana); Talison MSA (Western Australia); and the design, supply and project delivery for Séguéla (Côte d’Ivoire)

  • Ongoing delivery of numerous EP and FEED scopes – Boto (Senegal); Cobre (Panama); Sukari (Egypt); Sabodala (Senegal); Los Filos (Mexico); Batu Hijau (Indonesia); Talison CGP3 (Western Australia); Navachab (Namibia); and Lepidico’s Phase 1 Integrated Project (Namibia and UAE), with subsequent award of the full EPCM contract for these last three projects during the first half of FY2022

  • Mondium continued delivery of the EPC scope for Rio Tinto’s Western Turner Syncline Phase 2 iron ore project in the Pilbara, with first ore achieved in October, and the EPC contract for Talison Lithium’s Tailings Retreatment Project in the south-west of Western Australia

  • Studies pipeline has remained strong and continues to deliver subsequent FEED, EP, EPCM and EPC scope opportunities

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FY2021 Operational Highlights

  • Continued to work with some of Australia’s largest rail operators, in both passenger and freight rail systems

  • Servicing greenfield and brownfield rail projects, provided design, engineering, technical advisory and rail infrastructure management (RIM) services to various clients, including Pacific National, Crawford Freightlines, New South Wales’ Country Regional Network (CRN) and the Australian Rail Track Corporation’s (ARTC) Inland Rail initiative

  • Also continued to support Main Roads Western Australia (MRWA) in the provision of Project Management services

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Infrastructure

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FY2021 Operational Highlights

  • Delivered projects and engineering services across key areas of expertise, including specialty chemicals, pharmaceutical, food and beverage production and heat/mass transfer

  • This included providing specialist services to Boeing in their aerospace component manufacturing facilities, Kawasaki in Hydrogen related facilities, Commonwealth Serum Laboratories for plasma and blood products as well as base vaccine component production facilities, Thales in defence and munitions, Lamb Weston in food and beverage production, and Energy Australia in the replacement of its gaseous ammonia facility to an aqueous ammonia facility

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Industrial Processes

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Business Improvement

  • Commitment to improving organisational connectedness to support greater collaboration across the Company:

  • Ongoing embedment of Corporate Shared Services model during FY2021, supporting standardisation across key functions, including Finance, Information Technology and Business Systems, People, Marketing and Communications and Legal

  • Technical Assurance Group (TAG) driving consistency in approach across processes and procedures, enabling effective workshare to fully leverage the specialist expertise of our people, regardless of geographical location

  • Attracting, engaging and retaining a high-performing, professional workforce – focus throughout the year on recruitment, talent management, leadership and succession planning and learning and development

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Innovation

Committed to fostering a culture of enquiry and innovation, we introduced an internal innovation award in 2021 to recognise and reward ideas that inspire us and have the potential to positively impact the business

A number of innovative ideas were progressed during the year:

Dry Mining Unit

  • The DMU represents the radical marriage of underwater track crawler technology with high capacity skid-mounted materials handling and sand pumping systems, into a single 400 ton remotely controlled mobile sand processing machine

  • The technology will be implemented at the Grande Côte mineral sands operation in Senegal, the largest single dredge mineral sands operation in the world

  • Developed by ADP in Cape Town, the DMU was the inaugural winner of our Innovation Award

Digital Twin

• The connected digital twin approach, whereby the plant is engineered as a static digital twin (digital replica of the asset) using augmented reality and virtual reality technology, enables the static digital twin to be the primary interface for operations and plant maintenance, linked to the connected digital twin running in the background

  • The technology, developed collaboratively by ADP and a Tier 1 client, will provide whole-of-life benefits that will lead to better designs and more efficient operations in the future

ATA[TM] Technology

  • ADP has designed and constructed a unit to implement ATA[TM] technology on a mine site to convert mineral waste slurry into two discrete products – a dewatered solid for landfill, construction and/or reclamation, and a clean water stream that can be immediately reused on site

• The unit is containerised and is currently in test phase at the Orapa diamond mine in Botswana and all process data recorded will be used to generate a design envelope for the full system

Orway IQ

FBICRC

OIQ is continuing to roll out • its MillROC (Mill Remote Optimisation Consulting and Coaching) platform

As a key participant in the Future Battery Industries Cooperative Research Centre, we are collaborating with researchers, governments and the community to support the development of Australia’s battery industries value chain

The platform provides customised data analysis and dashboards and is used by OIQ’s specialist metallurgists and advanced process control consultants to deliver • real-time coaching and implementation of continuous improvement • initiatives

    • We are directly participating in five of the FBICRC’s foundation projects
  • The first of these to commence is the flagship Cathode Precursor Production Pilot Plant, for which Lycopodium is providing the FEED services

  • Perseus’ Yaouré mine was the first project to be purpose-built ‘MillROC ready’

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Continuing to Manage COVID-19

  • FY2021 represented the first full year operating under the challenges presented by the global pandemic, with varying degrees of restrictions across our operational jurisdictions

  • Impact on operations has continued to be well managed, with open lines of communication vital, both internally with staff and externally with clients and other stakeholders, particularly given new projects mobilising in Africa

  • Operating protocols are aligned with the advice provided by the various governments and authorities within our operational locations globally

  • Focus remains on the health and wellbeing of our people, clients and partners, and the broader communities in which we operate, working together to maintain business continuity

  • The mental health and wellbeing of our people has been a particular area of focus, with ongoing support provided

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Our Community

Our engagement with the communities within which we live and work is an integral part of how we like to do business and in late FY2021 we established the Lycopodium Foundation, to provide a formal vehicle for the administration of our philanthropic, community engagement and sponsorship activities:

  • A key pillar of our engagement strategy is to support social development and education and therefore our established partnerships with the Murlpirrmarra Connection in Australia and BASICS International in Africa remain ongoing

  • In response to the hardships being felt as a result of the pandemic, we contributed to the Salvation Army and St Vincent de Paul Society to assist families in need in our community and also supported the Child In Need Institute, an NGO which launched a COVID relief campaign to establish assistance centres in metro cities across India

  • Also in response to the pandemic, our electrically operated ventilator, LycoVent, obtained its Export Only Listing for use outside of Australia, and in partnership with Australian Doctors for Africa, we intend to make LycoVent available to African hospitals

  • Throughout the year, the Company also continued to support various charitable initiatives championed by our staff, including Jeans for Genes, Breast Cancer Care WA and the Cancer Council

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FY2021 Major Projects
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Yaouré Gold Project

Sector Resources
Client Perseus Mining Limited
Location Côte d'Ivoire
Commodity Gold
Scope Engineering, Procurement and
Construction (EP(C)) services
Processing
Capacity
3.3 Mtpa

Yaouré was delivered ahead of schedule and under budget, despite the pandemic – construction continued throughout 2020 and the stretch target of first gold in December 2020 was achieved

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Bomboré Gold Project

Sector Resources
Client Orezone
Location Burkina Faso
Commodity Gold
Scope Engineering, Procurement and
Construction Management (EPCM)
services
Processing
Capacity
5.2 Mtpa

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Western Turner Syncline Phase 2

Sector Resources
Client Rio Tinto
Location Pilbara, Western Australia
Commodity Iron Ore
Scope Engineering, design, procurement and
construction of the mineral processing
facilities and associated non-process
infrastructure
Awarded and delivered via Mondium

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Boto Gold Project

Sector Resources
Client IAMGOLD Corporation
Location Senegal
Commodity Gold
Scope Engineering and Procurement (EP)
services
Processing
Capacity
2.7 Mtpa

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Ahafo North Project

Sector Resources
Client Newmont Ghana Gold Limited
Location Ghana
Commodity Gold
Scope Engineering, Procurement and
Construction Management (EPCM)
services
Processing
Capacity
3.4 to 3.7 Mtpa

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Séguéla Gold Project

Sector Resources
Client Fortuna Silver Mines Inc
Location Côte d’Ivoire
Commodity Gold
Scope Design, supply and project delivery
services
Processing
Capacity
1.25 Mtpa

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Tailings Retreatment Project

Sector Resources
Client Talison Lithium
Location Greenbushes, Western Australia
Commodity Lithium
Scope Engineering, Procurement and
Construction (EPC) services
Awarded and delivered via Mondium
Processing
Capacity
2 Mtpa

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Motheo Copper Project

Sector Resources
Client Sandfire Resources Ltd
Location Botswana
Commodity Copper, Silver
Scope Engineering, Procurement and
Construction Management (EPCM)
services
Processing
Capacity
3.2 Mtpa

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Cobre Ball Mill 6 Project

Sector Resources
Client First Quantum Minerals
Location Panama
Commodity Copper, Gold, Silver, Molybdenum
Scope Engineering Design, Procurement Support
(Ep) and construction/commissioning
support services
Processing
Capacity
100 Mtpa

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Navachab Gold Mine Expansion

Sector Resources
Client QKR Namibia Navachab Gold Mine
Pty Ltd
Location Namibia
Commodity Gold
Scope Engineering and Procurement (EP)
services – subsequently awarded CM
scope
Processing
Capacity
2.5 Mtpa

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Recently Awarded New Work
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Recent Awards

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Resources

Project Client Location Commodity Scope
Chemical Grade Processing
Plant #3 (CGP3)
Talison Lithium Western Australia Lithium Engineering, Procurement and Construction
Management (EPCM) services
Phase 1 Integrated Project Lepidico Namibia & UAE Lithium EPCM services
Navachab QKR Namibia Gold EPCM services
Lithium Hydroxide Plant 2
(LHP2)
Tianqi Lithium Western Australia Lithium Professional services for the LHP2
Recommencement Project Phase 1,
including project strategies and engineering

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Recent Awards

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Infrastructure

Project Client Location Scope
Country Regional Network (CRN) Engineering investigation of the current condition of various
25 tonne Axle Load Upgrade John Holland Rail NSW operational lines across the CRN and development of a capital
Assessments – various lines scope of works to increase the axle loading to 25 tonne/axle
Pacific National Yard
Maintenance Delivery
Pacific National
Maintenance
NSW Managing contractor for the delivery of various maintenance
works at Port Kembla and Kooragang Island
Reid/Erindale Grade Separation Main Roads WA WA Project Management services
Kwinana Rail Terminal Expansion Aurizon WA Yard upgrade concept master plan
Picton to Colo Vale Line Track
Upgrade and Extension
Transport Heritage
NSW (THNSW)
NSW Project Management services

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Recent Awards

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Industrial Processes

Project Client Location Scope
CSL Seqirus Flu Cell Culture CSL Seqirus VIC Design Consultancy services
Chlor Alkali Facility Coogee Chemicals WA Design Consultancy services
Synchrotron Biosax Beamline ANSTO Synchrotron VIC Site Construction and Safety Management services
Nitrogen Vaporizer Boeing VIC Design and Construct
Through Air Dryer/Dry
Ingredients Milling
Thales NSW Design Consultancy services
Hydrogen Project JGC/Rio Tinto QLD Documentation Compliance and Consultancy services

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Outlook and Strategy

Outlook

  • Resource sector activity remains strong, supporting new development and sustaining capital opportunities going forward – value of iron ore reached an all-time high in FY2021 and demand for gold continues

  • Surging demand for resources used in new and low emission technologies is driving the development of copper, nickel cobalt, graphite, vanadium and lithium assets

  • Ongoing growth in emerging markets, including waste and recycling, water and wastewater and hydrogen

  • Full year FY2022 guidance – revenue of approximately $250 million and NPAT between $19 and $20 million

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Strategy

  • Development of a more formalised footprint in the renewable energy sector with the establishment of Lycopodium Energy

  • Focus on achieving broader geographical reach – across AsiaPacific and the Americas

  • Balanced project delivery portfolio – mix of EPCM and EPC

  • • Grow recurring revenue streams

  • People Plan – continue to attract, engage, inspire and retain a high performing, global, professional workforce

  • Innovation and emerging technology – digital twinning (ADP and Orway IQ) and Future Battery Industries Cooperative Research Centre (FBICRC)

  • Improved knowledge management – driving increased efficiency and facilitating work sharing across divisions and subsidiaries globally

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Thank You
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