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ORPHEUS URANIUM LIMITED Investor Presentation 2021

Jun 9, 2021

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INVESTOR UPDATE

LUMWANA WEST, ZAMBIA Resource drilling with exploration upside

MURDIE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA Massive iron oxide-copper-gold targets

LINDSAY OWLER, Director/CEO – June 2021

Argonaut Resources NL • ASX:ARE Level 6, 100 Pirie Street, Adelaide, SA, 5000 • argonaut.com.au

INTRODUCING ARGONAUT

Argonaut Resources NL is an ASX-listed company focused on:

  • developing its Lumwana West copper-cobalt project in Northwestern Zambia; and
  • exploring its 100% owned Murdie iron oxide copper-gold (IOCG) targets in South Australia.

Argonaut invests in copper exploration and development. The company holds an impressive portfolio of exploration tenements in:

  • Central African Copperbelt; and
  • South Australia's Olympic Dam Domain.

Additionally, Argonaut is earning-in to a portfolio of gold and nickel licences at Higginsville in the Eastern Goldfields in Western Australia.

Zambia Copper Cobalt Zambia

Murdie Copper South Australia

INVESTMENT HIGHLIGHTS Tier one copper exploration assets

Lumwana West, Zambia

  • Copper-cobalt deposit confirmed by 50+ drill holes.
  • Deposit sits between Barrick and First Quantum copper mines.
  • 1,700m strike-length deposit which is open to the north and south.
  • Exploration upside via surrounding targets.
  • Near-surface copper-cobalt oxide mineralisation requires urgent drilling.
  • Drilling program to commence July 2021.
  • Metallurgical testing well advanced and returning excellent results.
  • Potential for low cap-ex, near-term heap leach production.
  • Argonaut: 90%

Strong potential for resource expansion and commercial production.

Murdie, South Australia

  • Iron oxide copper-gold (IOCG) targets in Olympic Dam geological domain.
  • Targets nearby to OZ Minerals' Carrapateena mine and BHP's Oak Dam discovery.
  • The Olympic Domain has a history of large, high-grade, unambiguous copper discoveries.
  • A drilling program of 4-5 deep holes into large, prospective copper targets commenced in March 2021.
  • The discovery of an IOCG deposit by Argonaut would be a transformative, company-making event.
  • Argonaut: 100%

Argonaut is highly leveraged to a copper discovery at Murdie.

CORPORATE OVERVIEW

ASX Code

ARE

Capital structure

Share price: A$0.01 (7 June 2021) Shares on issue: 2,912,870,000 Market capitalisation: A$29 million (7 June 2021) Liquidity 9.1 million shares/day Cash (31 March 2021) A$2,750,000 Debt Nil

Directors

Lindsay Owler Director and CEO

Pat Elliott Non-Executive Chairman Malcolm Richmond Non-Executive Director Andrew Bursill Non-Executive Director

LUMWANA WEST, ZAMBIA Copper and cobalt

NYUNGU COPPER-COBALT DEPOSIT

  • y Numerous adjacent and regional copper targets.
  • y Surrounded by three major copper mines.
  • y Road, power and smelting infrastructure.

NYUNGU COPPER-COBALT DEPOSIT And surrounding targets

NYUNGU CENTRAL: deposit is defined by over 50 drill holes. A significant mineralised copper deposit with strong potential for extensions.

Demonstrated strike length: 1,700m

  • NYUNGU SOUTH: edge of mineralised body intercepted by Argonaut drilling. Vast, undrilled IP geophysical anomaly warrants urgent testing.
  • NYUNGU WEST and NYUNGU NORTH: drilling to date has not explained IP anomalies. Further testing warranted.

Major copper-cobalt deposit with potential for large extensions and repetitions.

NYUNGU COPPER-COBALT DEPOSIT Exploration target

Commodity TonnageRange GradeRange Contained MetalRange
(Mt) (%) (kt)
Copper* 130 to 180 0.45 to 0.65 580 to 1,150
Cobalt^ 15 to 20 0.08 to 0.12 12 to 24

* Copper Exploration Target estimation announced to the ASX by Argonaut on 9 April 2013.

^ Cobalt Exploration Target estimation announced to the ASX by Argonaut on 28 March 2017.

Exploration Targets have been independently estimated to JORC 2012 standards.

The potential quantity and grade of the Exploration Targets are conceptual in nature. There has been insufficient exploration to estimate a Mineral Resource and it is uncertain if further exploration will result in the estimation of a Mineral Resource.

INVESTOR UPDATE • JUNE 2021 7

NYUNGU COPPER-COBALT DEPOSIT Long section – copper

NYUNGU COPPER-COBALT DEPOSIT Cross sections – copper

NYUNGU COPPER-COBALT DEPOSIT 2021 indicative drilling program

Exploration Drilling

  • y 1,600m of diamond drilling
  • y 5 drill holes
  • y Targeting extensions to Nyungu Central and Nyungu South

Resource Drilling

  • y 1,200m of diamond drilling
  • y 30 drill holes
  • y Targeting near-surface copper oxide mineralisation

Budget AU$2,000,000 Commencing July 2021

NYUNGU COPPER-COBALT DEPOSIT Metallurgical testwork program

Argonaut is testing the metallurgical properties of oxide, transitional zone and fresh (sulphide) ores.

This information is driving process flowsheets and scoping project economics.

  • 9 Mineralogy
  • 9 Comminution
  • Heap leach
  • 9 Flotation
  • 9 Oxidation
    • 9 Roast/leach
    • 9 Albion process
  • SX/EW

Saleable concentrate

NYUNGU COPPER-COBALT DEPOSIT Conceptual processing flowsheets

MURDIE PROJECT, SOUTH AUSTRALIA Copper

  • y Tier-one geological address.
  • y Massive anomalies will multiple deposit-scale target zones.
  • y Confirmed iron oxide copper-gold (IOCG) systems.

MURDIE PROJECT West Lake Torrens anomaly

WEST LAKE TORRENS Residual gravity anomalies and drilling targets

. 2 5

Torrens 60

EL 5945 Murdie

EL 5937 West Lake Torrens

WEST LAKE TORRENS Bouguer gravity anomaly

INVESTOR UPDATE • JUNE 2021 14

MURDIE PROJECT Drilling

  • y The first hole of the current program, WLTD001, at Smith Dam 1 intercepted an IOCG alteration system.
  • y The intensity of alteration indicates that WLTD001 is 300 to 1,000m from possible copper mineralisation.
  • y Critical IOCG prerequisites were confirmed.
  • y Drilling of the second drill target, Smith Dam 2, is in progress. Drilling in June 2021 at the Smith Dam 2 target.

WLTD001, 897-899m, Murdie Project: IOCGstyle hematite alteration and brecciation.

Photo courtesy of Dept. for Energy and Mining INVESTOR UPDATE • JUNE 2021 15

INVESTOR UPDATE – June 2021 APPENDICES

JUNE 2021 • APPENDICES Argonaut Resources NL • ASX:ARE • Level 6, 100 Pirie Street, Adelaide, SA, 5000 www.argonaut.com.au 16

NYUNGU COPPER-COBALT DEPOSIT Drilling concepts – copper

Hole From (m) To (m) Interval (m) Cu (%)
NYU11RD001 63 90 27
and 184 245 61 0.42
and 209 222 13 0.80
and 274 284 10 0.81
NYU11RD002 94 135 41 0.37
including 142 151 9 0.48
NYU11RD004 121 141 20 0.53
including 127 137 10 0.74
NYU11RD005 61 85 24 0.54
including 61 68 7 0.92
NYU11RD006 107 113 6 1.05
NYU11RD008 104 111 7 0.75
NYU11RD009 24 35 11 0.44
NYU11RD010 51 227 176 0.55
including 66 75 9 0.98
and 96.85 112 15.15 0.79
and 166 199 33 1.04
NYU11RD021 49 58 9 0.50
and 70 77 7 0.76
and 91 94 3 1.69
and 115 121 6 0.53
and 147 161 14 0.65
and 173 204 31 1.57
including 174 191 17 2.44
including 174 180 6 5.51
NYU11RD022 12 102 90 0.46
including 64 98 34 0.67
NYU11RD023 8 67 59 0.49
and 20 67 47 0.57
NYRD030 143 164.82 21.82 0.51
Hole From (m) To (m) Interval (m) Cu (%)
NYRD031 26 58 32 0.46
including 40 55 15 0.71
77.00 83.10 6.10 0.66
and 157 162.35 5.35 0.82
and 216.90 295 78.10 0.59
NYRD038 246 295 49 0.40
including 258 289 31 0.54
including 259 267 8 0.95
NYRD039 107 124 17 0.40
NYRD040 27 56 29 0.54
including 47 54 7 1.24
NYRD043 38.65 47.65 9 0.61
NYRD045 29.55 101.00 71.45 0.61
including 63.55 84.79 21.24 1.03
125.66 161.00 35.34 0.54
including 145.31 156.00 10.69 1.00
220.55 285.25 64.70 0.49
including 258.25 269.25 11.00 1.02
NYRD046 69.25 126.75 57.50 0.44
132.75 166.00 33.25 0.44
172 264.88 92.88 0.66
including 183.38 221.50 38.12 1.04
MM296 92 109 17 0.73
227 253 26 0.63
including 227 230 3 1.39
and 240 247 7 0.83
389 403 14 0.73
including 394 402 8 1.16

Exploration results previously announced to the ASX:

• Significant copper intersections at Lumwana West, Zambia – 26 March 2012

• Further broad copper intercepts at Nyungu Central - 12 February 2013

NYUNGU COPPER-COBALT DEPOSIT Drill intercepts – cobalt

Hole From (m) Interval (m) Co (%) Cu (%)
NYU11RD001 37 120.0 0.06 0.34
including 104 26.0 0.13 0.28
NYU11RD010 155 72.0 0.08 0.61
including 167 38.0 0.10 0.91
NYU11RD013 31 1.0 0.56 0.57
NYU11RD022 12 88.2 0.07 0.47
including 42 10.0 0.19 0.61
NYRD031 236 59.9 0.07 0.50
including 237 22.0 0.13 0.58
NYRD038 258 29.0 0.12 0.55
including 259 21.0 0.16 0.57
NYRD044 181.5 12.2 0.10 0.18
including 186.8 6.0 0.16 0.24
NYRD045 38.5 69.0 0.06 0.58
including 93 8.0 0.11 0.29
NYRD046 183.4 81.5 0.12 0.71
including 218.5 23.0 0.21 0.51
MM296 88 53.0 0.05 0.30
including 90 12.0 0.13 0.50 Drilling at Nyungu deposit, 2012.

18 Exploration results previously announced to the ASX: * Large-scale cobalt potential identified at Nyungu - 6 June 2018

PROJECT SENSITIVITY TO ECONOMIC FACTORS NYUNGU COPPER-COBALT DEPOSIT Very low stripping ratio

Whittle Pits Pit shells