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MARMOTA LIMITED AGM Information 2014

Nov 24, 2014

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Annual General Meeting Managing Director Presentation

25 November 2014

David Williams

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~~Important Information~~

Disclaimer

This presentation has been prepared by Marmota Energy Limited (“MEU”). The information contained in this presentation is a professional opinion only and is given in good faith. Certain information in this document has been derived from third parties and though MEU has no reason to believe that it is not accurate, reliable or complete, it has not been independently audited or verified by MEU. Any forward-looking statements included in this document involve subjective judgement and analysis and are subject to uncertainties, risks and contingencies, many of which are outside the control of, and may be unknown to, MEU. In particular they refer only to the date of this document they assume the success of MEU’s strategies, and they are subject to significant regulatory, business, competitive and economic risks and uncertainties. Actual future events may vary materially from those in the forward looking statements. Recipients of this document are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. MEU makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy, reliability or completeness of information in this document and does not take responsibility for updating any information or correcting any error or omission which may become apparent after this document has been issued. To the extent permitted by law, MEU and its officers, employees, related corporations and agents, disclaim all liability, whether direct, indirect or consequential for any loss or damage arising out of, or in connection with, any use or reliance on this presentation or information.

Cautionary Statement

The estimates of exploration target sizes mentioned above should not be misunderstood or misconstrued as estimates of Mineral Resources. The estimates of exploration target sizes are conceptual in nature and there has been insufficient results received from drilling completed to date to estimate a Mineral Resource compliant with the JORC Code (2004) guidelines. Furthermore, it is uncertain if further exploration will result in the determination of a Mineral Resource.

Forward Looking Statement

This report may contain forward looking statements that are subject to risk factors which are based on MEU’s expectations relating to future events. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are outside the control of MEU, which could cause actual results to differ materially from such statements. MEU makes no undertaking to update or revise the forward-looking statements made in this report to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release.

Competent Persons Statement

Information in this report relating to Exploration Results and Mineral Resources is based on information compiled by Daniel Gray as Senior Project Geologist of MEU, who is a Member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists. He has sufficient experience which is relevant to the styles of mineralisation and types of deposits under consideration and to the activities being undertaken to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2012 Edition of the “ Australasian Code of Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves.” Mr Gray consents to the inclusion in this report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.

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~~Corporate Snapshot~~

Marmota Energy (ASX: MEU) is a diversified mineral exploration and development company with key projects across the Cu-Ni, Cu-Au, uranium and iron spaces.

Capital Structure1 Capital Structure1
Shares on Issue 263M
Options 0.7M
Market Cap (at 1.1cps) $2.9M
Cash (as at 30 Sep 14) $1.12M
  • 1) Current capital structure shown excluding non-renounceable rights issue that has been announced
Board & Management Board & Management
Chairman Bob Kennedy
Managing Director David Williams
Executive Director Neville Alley
Non-Executive Director Glenn Davis
CFO / Company Secretary Virginia Suttell

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~~FY14 Year in Review~~

Broad range of mineral exploration activity conducted throughout FY14.

Project Year in Review Summary
Junction Dam
New analysis increased uranium recovery potential

Moved to 100% of uranium rights over EL 4509
Melton
Infill geochemical sampling and geophysical surveys defined targets on West Melton

2,000 metre maiden drilling program on West Melton produces new copper discovery
“Champion” prospect
Durkin
Assay results from previous drilling reveal higher grades of nickel
Indooroopilly
State PACE funded drilling program intercepted tungsten mineralisation in the “Moonbi”
prospect

Anomalous nickel sulphide in mafic rock was seen in one of the holes
Lake Anthony/Mt Christie
Assays of surface outcrop samples shows high grade iron results

Petrology analysis of those samples shows presence of massive coarse crystalline hematite
Aurora Tank
Marmota is 100% free carried by Apollo Minerals

Apollo identified a “new large-scale IOCG target” from field work

Apollo undertook a ground gravity survey and acquired historic high resolution airborne
magnetic and radiometric data

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~~FY14 Year in Review – Junction Dam~~

Saffron deposit QEMSCAN Results:

  • Direct mineralogical assessment

  • Samples from sonic cored drill holes analysed

  • Uraninite and autinite confirmed as the uranium minerals

  • These two minerals are readily leachable and are the predominant constituent of the other significant in-situ recovery uranium mining operations in South Australia

  • The analysis indicated that up to 98% of the uranium mineralisation is potentially extractable

(ASX Release 17 July 2013)

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Above. QEMSCAN image from mineralised interval in hole SASO007 at 126.5 metre depth, dominate uranium mineral in this sample is uraninite (red).

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~~FY14 Year in Review – Melton~~

Melton copper project:

  • 2,000 metre Phase 1 aircore drilling program at West Melton was designed to give initial broad spaced coverage of this untested area

  • 19 holes intercepted copper mineralisation grading >0.1% Cu

  • 8 holes intercepted significant grades of copper from just below the surface

  • 4 holes ended in copper mineralisation.

  • (see ASX Release 7 May 2014)

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~~FY14 Year in Review – Durkin~~

Durkin nickel project:

  • Assay results of up to 1.38% nickel from targeted individual one metre intervals submitted for assay from first pass RC drilling in the 1[st] half of 2013

  • Best results achieved from the geochemical analysis were 3 metres at 0.9% nickel from 22 metres depth including 1 metre at 1.38% nickel (drill hole DRC013)

(ASX Release 7 August 2013)

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Location of drill holes from Phase 1, with holes containing anomalous nickel and copper denoted by red stars. Intercepts shown are total metres of Ni intercepted in holes along the defined zone of nickel mineralisation .

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~~FY14 Year in Review – Indooroopilly~~

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Indooroopilly project:

  • 14 vertical RC drillholes for a total of 2,100 metres

  • State PACE co-funded project at “Moonbi” prospect

  • assay results containing high grades of tungsten were returned from two drill holes (MRC005 and 006)

  • Best result 2m at 1.27% WO3 from 142m depth (incl. 1m at 1.94% WO3) (hole MRC005)

  • 39 metres of anomalous nickel sulphide in mafic rock was intercepted in drill hole MRC010

Moonbi target, tungsten drill hole locations over processed magnetic image.

(ASX Releases 5 July and 18 September 2013)

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~~FY14 Year in Review – Lake Anthony/Mt Christie~~

Lake Anthony/Mt Christie iron project:

  • Assays of surface outcrop samples provided high grade iron results grading above 58% Fe

  • Subsequent analysis revealed that 70% of the hand specimen shown below consisted of a heterogeneous massive aggregate of large euhedral hematite crystals, about 5mm size, with internal platy cleavages.

  • (ASX Release 5 December 2013)

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Thin section from hematite sample (left). Bright to mid-grey
crystals of hematite with diagnostic cross-hatch fabric.
Orange-reddish internal reflections within ex-Fe-silicates,
oxidised to earthy goethitelimonite .
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~~FY14 Year in Review – Aurora Tank~~

Aurora Tank gold project:

  • Apollo Minerals identified a “new large-scale IOCG target” from field work

  • Apollo undertook a ground gravity survey and acquired historic high resolution airborne magnetic and radiometric data

  • Apollo stated that the IOCG target was situated immediately west of shallow, historic drilling which returned a large number of anomalous IOCG intersections, within and along strike of a discrete magnetic body.

  • A reconnaissance Induced Polarisation (IP) programme was also completed and used to help define IOCG drill targets

Derivative gravity contours on magnetics

(Apollo Minerals ASX Release 12 May 2014)

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~~Actions this year~~

Melton copper project:

  • Geophysics review using drilling results provided a clearer understanding of depth to basement, the structural and geological setting for the mineralisation and highlighted new targets for further exploration (ASX Release 7 July 2014)

Aurora Tank gold project:

  • Apollo Minerals drilled three inclined RC holes totalling 597 metres wells and reported that one of those holes “intersected near surface, high grade gold including drilled thickness intersections of 4m at 5.0 g/t Au from 16m down hole” (Apollo Minerals ASX Release 21 October 2014)

Corporate:

  • David Williams appointed as new Managing Director

Strategic Review:

  • The Board has conducted a strategic review of the Company

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Geological image of the Melton project. Melton Central, shown by the area outlined in black where the ground based magnetic survey is underway, is located on the edge of a regional fault zone (shown here by the red dashed line).

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~~Strategic Review~~

Portfolio Overview

  • Large portfolio covering 5,886 sq km across 26 tenements with multiplicity of targets but with high associated work commitments

  • To ensure exploration expenditure is focused on highest priority targets, Marmota has recently conducted a strategic review

Strategic Review Considerations

  • Commodity – Is the tenement prospective for minerals that are attractive to the market?

  • Resource – Are targets likely to produce a resource of a commercial size and grade?

  • Commercialisation – Is there a realistic path to market?

  • Timing – Can projects be commercialised within a reasonable timeframe?

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~~Strategic Focus~~

Review has resulted in a strategic focus on:

  • 1) Junction Dam Uranium Project

  • 2) Melton Copper Project

  • 3) Aurora Tank Gold Project

  • 4) Durkin Nickel (Pundinya) Project

Rationalisation

  • Market interest (acquisition, farm-in, JV) for non-core projects to be tested

  • Failing market interest, non-core projects are to be relinquished

  • Rudall East exploration applications in WA will not be pursued

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~~Uranium Market~~

 Spot U3O8 price is on the rise as:

  • approval given for the restart of first two reactors in Japan at Sendai

  • steady demand, particularly from traders, for longer dated delivery

  • growing demand with 71 new reactors under construction worldwide, 27 of which are in China

  • supply reduced as long-running U.S.-Russia agreement in which the latter supplied commercial uranium from dismantled nuclear warheads has come to an end

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~~Uranium Market~~

 In the New Policies Scenario of the World Energy Outlook 2014 published by the International Energy Agency on 12 November 2014:

  • nuclear power capacity increases by nearly 60 percent, from 392 GWe in 2013, to 624 GWe in 2040

  • of the growth in nuclear generation to 2040, China accounts for 46%, while India, South Korea, and Russia together comprise another 30%

(see TradeTech Nuclear Market Review, 14 November 2014)

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~~1) Junction Dam Uranium Project~~

Commodity: uranium

  • Uranium prices starting to recover with industry cost curves forecasting commercially sustainable prices in 2-3 years

Resource:

  • Saffron deposit inferred resource of *5.4 million pounds with average grade of 557ppm U3O8 (see ASX Release of 18 July 2012)

  • Overall exploration target (including Saffron deposit and Bridget and Yolanda prospects) of 22-33 million pounds U3O8

(see ASX Release of 9 July 2012)

  • Upward revision of the Saffron deposit inferred resource size as indicated above follows the application of an average positive disequilibrium factor of 1.63. This is an indicative result and further assessment is underway. It is uncertain if further exploration work or feasibility studies will result in the determination of an Ore Reserve

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~~1) Junction Dam Uranium Project~~

Commercialisation:

  • Potential stand alone project

  • Alternatively, located next door to Honeymoon Mine which could provide a route to market

  • Can be extracted through in situ recovery which has low front end capex, quick production lead times and minimal impact to land surface

Objective:

  • Move Saffron deposit to a Retention Lease and develop understanding of potential of the entire Junction Dam project

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~~1) Junction Dam Uranium Project~~

Immediate forward exploration program next 6 months:

  • Drill and install water monitoring wells, undertake pump tests to ascertain permeability and analyse water and flow;

  • Undertake lithological logging and analyse extractability

Next stage exploration program:

  • Complete Saffron Retention Lease work;

  • Drilling to expand size and extent of uranium resource at Junction Dam;

  • Develop commercialisation options

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Example of FLT
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2009 drilling at
Mulyungarie
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~~2) Melton Copper Project~~

Resource:

 High grade copper intersections up to 2.92% (see ASX announcement dated 7 May 2014) at Champion prospect with new target area, Melton Central, identified by the subsequent geophysical review

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Champion Prospect drill holes, with examples of malachite logged in drill hole WMAC007

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~~2) Melton Copper Project~~

Commercialisation:

  • Located adjacent to the Rex Minerals Hillside Project

  • Rex Minerals has a mining lease, approvals to mine and now focusing on developing a mine for its shallow copper resource

Objective:

  • Develop exploration targets for the Melton project to demonstrate a sizeable shallow copper resource

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~~2) Melton Copper Project~~

Immediate forward exploration program next 6 months:

  • Complete ground magnetics over Melton Central

  • Airborne EM over Champion and Central targets

  • Targeted drilling on Champion and Central targets

Next stage exploration program:

  • Further drilling in and around Champion and Central

  • Conduct downhole geophysics as part of that drilling

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Magnetic image
highlighting the
geophysical
anomalies at
Melton Central
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Drilling at
Melton
Project
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~~3) Aurora Tank Gold Project~~

Resource:

  • Apollo Minerals reported initial drilling intersected high grade gold near surface including 5.0 g/t Au over 4 metres

  • (see ASX Release by Apollo Minerals of 21 October 2014)

Commercialisation:

  • Early stage exploration but Marmota is 100% free carried by Apollo Minerals

Objective:

  • Retain whilst free carried by Apollo Minerals

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Drill collar location
plan at the Mars
Aurora Tank JV Project
area
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~~3) Aurora Tank Gold Project~~

Immediate forward exploration program next 6 months:

  • Forward work program to be driven by Apollo Minerals

  • Apollo Minerals have indicated that they will review induced polarisation data to help with targeting of follow-up drill holes designed to test for sulphide associated gold and copper mineralisation within the target zone

(see ASX Release by Apollo Minerals of 21 October 2014)

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Drill chips from 14AT003 drill hole

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~~4) Durkin Nickel (Pundinya) Project~~

Resource:

  • Initial drilling produced significant grades of up to 1.38% nickel. Location provides potential for a reasonable resource

Commercialisation:

  • No similar mines in region, but with a good size resource can develop as in a good logistical location

Objective:

  • Test the nickel indications obtained to date to see if a larger resource exists

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Nickel in calcrete anomaly

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~~4) Durkin Nickel (Pundinya) Project~~

Immediate forward exploration program next 6 months:

  • Geophysics review to take into account the results from drilling

  • Redrill selected holes and conduct downhole EM

Next stage exploration program, if positive results from the above work:

  • Further drilling and geophysics to determine size of resource

  • Could involve testing other anomalies nearby

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Location map of drill holes over magnetic image completed during Phase 1 at Durkin

Schematic illustrating generalised model for Durkin (diagram not to scale). Avebury model proposed as an analogue for Durkin

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~~Investment Proposition~~

: Strategy

  • Reduce focus to 3 core projects with 3 core commodities to ensure maximum value from investment dollar spend

Commodities :

  • Uranium’s star is starting to turn so position key uranium asset to be at the front of the pack for commercialisation

  • Copper and nickel provide good exposure in the meantime

: Management

  • Already had good explorationists, now have experienced commercial management and key uranium mining executives to develop the flagship Junction Dam Project

Goal :

  • Reduce the fragmentation of the spend and look to commercialise key projects

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~~Equity Raising Summary~~

 Marmota announced a non renounceable rights issue capital raising on 7 November 2014 to raise up to $659,398 (approximately) before costs

  • 1 new share for every 4 shares held, issue price $0.01 per new share

  • 1 free option for every 2 new shares subscribed for, exercise price $0.02, expiry date 9 December 2015

  • Funds raised focused on next 6 months’ exploration work on the Junction Dam Project, Melton Copper Project and Durkin Nickel Project

Indicative Timetable1 Indicative Timetable1
Prospectus Lodged with ASIC and ASX 7-Nov-14
“Ex” Date 11-Nov-14
Record Date 13-Nov-14
Prospectus and Entitlement and
Acceptance Forms Dispatched
18-Nov-14
Opening Date 18-Nov-14
Closing Date 3-Dec-14
Shares quoted on a deferred settlement
basis
4-Dec-14
Notification to ASX of under subscriptions 8-Dec-14
Issue date for New Securities 10-Dec-14
Trading of New Securities on ASX
Commences
11-Dec-14

1) This timetable is indicative only and subject to change. The Company reserves the right to vary the dates of the Offer subject to the Corporations Act, ASX Listing Rules and other applicable laws.

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Investor Presentation Focused on the Future Contacts November 2014

David Williams – Managing Director

Marmota Energy Limited

Adelaide Equity Partners

David Williams Managing Director Telephone: (08) 8245 4000 Email: [email protected]

Rohin Muller Telephone: (08) 8232 8800 Email: [email protected]

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