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S2 RESOURCES LTD — Investor Presentation 2019
May 19, 2019
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Exploration update
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May 2019
Competent person and forward looking statement
This presentation is for information purposes only. Neither this presentation nor the information contained in it constitutes an offer, invitation, solicitation or recommendation in relation to the purchase or sale of shares in any jurisdiction. This presentation may not be distributed in any jurisdiction except in accordance with the legal requirements applicable in such jurisdiction. Recipients should inform themselves of the restrictions that apply in their own jurisdiction. A failure to do so may result in a violation of securities laws in such jurisdiction. This presentation does not constitute financial product advice and has been prepared without taking into account the recipient's investment objectives, financial circumstances or particular needs and the opinions and recommendations in this presentation are not intended to represent recommendations of particular investments to particular persons. Recipients should seek professional advice when deciding if an investment is appropriate. All securities transactions involve risks, which include (among others) the risk of adverse or unanticipated market, financial or political developments.
Certain statements contained in this presentation, including information as to the future financial or operating performance of S2 Resources Ltd (S2) and its projects, are forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements: are necessarily based upon a number of estimates and assumptions that, whilst considered reasonable by S2, are inherently subject to significant technical, business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties and contingencies; involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from estimated or anticipated events or results reflected in such forward-looking statements; and may include, among other things, statements regarding targets, estimates and assumptions in respect of metal production and prices, operating costs and results, capital expenditures, ore reserves and mineral resources and anticipated grades and recovery rates, and are or may be based on assumptions and estimates related to future technical, economic, market, political, social and other conditions. S2 disclaims any intent or obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or results or otherwise. The words “believe”, “expect”, “anticipate”, “indicate”, “contemplate”, “target”, “plan”, “intends”, “continue”, “budget”, “estimate”, “may”, “will”, “schedule” and other similar expressions identify forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements made in this presentation are qualified by the foregoing cautionary statements. Investors are cautioned that forwardlooking statements are not guarantees of future performance and accordingly investors are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements due to the inherent uncertainty therein.
The information in this presentation that relates to Exploration Results is based on information compiled by Mr John Bartlett (for Australia and USA), Mr Andy Thompson (for Scandinavia) and Mr Anthony Goddard (for USA) who are employees and shareholders of the Company and which fairly represents this information. Mr Bartlett and Mr Thompson are members of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, and Mr Goddard is a member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists and a Registered Professional Geoscientist (RPGeo). Mr Bartlett, Mr Thompson and Mr Goddard have sufficient experience of relevance to the styles of mineralisation and the types of deposits under consideration, and to the activities undertaken, to qualify as Competent Persons as defined in the 2012 Edition of the Joint Ore Reserves Committee (JORC) Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves. Mr Bartlett, Mr Thompson and Mr Goddard consent to the inclusion in this presentation of the matters based on information in the form and context in which it appears. Exploration results are based on standard industry practices, including sampling, assay methods, and appropriate quality assurance quality control (QAQC) measures. Reverse circulation (RC), aircore (AC) and rotary air blast (RAB) drilling samples are collected as composite samples of 4 or 2 metres and as 1 metre splits (stated in results). Mineralised intersections derived from composite samples are subsequently re-split to 1 metre samples to better define grade distribution. Core samples are taken as half NQ core or quarter HQ core and sampled to geological boundaries where appropriate. The quality of RC drilling samples is optimised by the use of riffle and/or cone splitters, dust collectors, logging of various criteria designed to record sample size, recovery and contamination, and use of field duplicates to measure sample representivity. For soil samples, PGM and gold assays are based on an aqua regia digest with Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) finish and base metal assays may be based on aqua regia or four acid digest with inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICPOES) or atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS) finish. In the case of reconnaissance RAB, AC, RC or rock chip samples, PGM and gold assays are based on lead or nickel sulphide collection fire assay digests with an ICP finish, base metal assays are based on a four acid digest and inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICPOES) and atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS) finish, and where appropriate, oxide metal elements such as Fe, Ti and Cr are based on a lithium borate fusion digest and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) finish. In the case of strongly mineralised samples, base metal assays are based on a special high precision four acid digest (a four acid digest using a larger volume of material) and an AAS finish using a dedicated calibration considered more accurate for higher concentrations. Sample preparation and analysis is undertaken at Minanalytical, Genalysis Intertek, and Bureau Veritas’ laboratories in Perth and Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, ALS laboratories in Loughrea, Ireland, and Bureau Veritas’ laboratory in Elko, Nevada. The quality of analytical results is monitored by the use of internal laboratory procedures and standards together with certified standards, duplicates and blanks and statistical analysis where appropriate to ensure that results are representative and within acceptable ranges of accuracy and precision. Where quoted, nickel-copper intersections are based on a minimum threshold grade of 0.25% Ni and/or Cu, and gold intersections are based on a minimum gold threshold grade of 0.1g/t Au unless otherwise stated. Intersections are length and density weighted where appropriate as per standard industry practice. In Australia, all sample and drill hole co-ordinates are based on the GDA/MGA grid and datum unless otherwise stated. In Finland, all sample and drill hole co-ordinates are based on the ETRS-TM35FIN grid and datum unless otherwise stated. In Sweden, all sample and drill hole co-ordinates are based on the new SWEREF99TM and older RT-90 grids and datums unless otherwise stated. Exploration results obtained by other companies and quoted by S2 have not necessarily been obtained using the same methods or subjected to the same QAQC protocols. These results may not have been independently verified because original samples and/or data may no longer be available.
The information in this presentation that relates to Mineral Resource estimation is based on information compiled by Mr Brian Wolfe, Principal Consultant Geologist – IRS Pty Ltd and Mr Andy Thompson, an employee and shareholder of the Company. Mr Wolfe and Mr Thompson are members of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and have sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2012 Edition of the “Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves” (JORC Code). Mr Wolfe and Mr Thompson consent to the inclusion in this presentation of the matters based on their information in the form and context in which they appear.
In brief…
Corporate
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Well funded with A$13.4 million cash & investments: the capacity to explore
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Favourable capital structure: tuned for success
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Strong share register: big, long term shareholders that get what we do
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Experienced board: track record of delivering exploration, development and financial success
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19.99% strategic stake in Todd River Resources (ASX:TRT): exposure to NT exploration opportunities
Finland
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Hard yards (early recon) completed: positive outcomes and increasing momentum
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New Aarnivalkea gold target drill ready: starting <7,000m diamond drill program in July
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New magmatic copper-nickel target in first EM at Ruopas: to be drilled later this year
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A range of other prospects in the pipeline: more gold and copper-nickel targets to come
Australia
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Three Exploration Licence applications awarded: back in the Fraser Range nickel province
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Polar Bear nickel rights: drill-ready nickel sulphide prospect at Taipan North
Nevada
- Earning 70% interest at Ecru, Nevada: a high risk, high reward play in elephant country
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Corporate
| Well funded & managed: | Cash + investments* | A$13.4m |
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| Debt | Nil | |
| Favourable capital structure: | Shares on issue | 247.9m |
| Options on issue(av. exercise price A$0.35) | 53.4m | |
| Market capitalisation(@ A$0.11/share) | A$27.3m | |
| Enterprise value | A$13.9m | |
| Strong shareholder base: | Top twenty shareholders | 60.9% |
Favourable capital structure:
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Experienced board with proven track record of finding, financing and developing mines:
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* Includes cash plus value of holding in Westgold (ASX:WGX) @ A$1.26/share (currently A$1.50) but excludes value of 19.99% stake in Todd River Resources (ASX:TRT)
Finland
The initial groundwork has been completed and the methodology is working This is now translating into drill testing of the first crop of gold and copper-nickel sulphide targets With a full pipeline of additional opportunities to follow
Why the Central Lapland Greenstone Belt of northern Finland?
Gold potential : all well explored (mature) gold belts show a similar number and size distribution of gold deposits
Magmatic copper-nickel-PGM potential : Kevitsa mine (Boliden) and now the large Sakatti discovery (Anglo American):
Abitibi: 39 deposits, 83.6moz Norseman-Wiluna: 44 deposits, 74.7moz
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Central Lapland: 13 deposits, 9.1moz
So is Kittila a one-off or has the rest just not been found yet?
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Image and table reproduced from Anglo American’s presentation at the Fennoscandia Exploration and Mining conference, Levi, Finland, November 2017
Aarnivalkea: textbook greenfields gold exploration
Magnetic and gravity interpretation : the aim is to define key structural and stratigraphic ingredients considered favourable + for localising mesothermal lode gold mineralisation
Gold in ionic leach geochemical sampling : the aim is to define “live” corridors to define areas for expedited granting of exploration licences in order to move to base of till (BOT) drilling
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Structural interpretation using gravity (colour) and magnetics
(greyscale) has highlighted numerous potential lode gold targets
associated with shear zones, basins and potential hydrothermal
alteration in the concealed bedrock – but which ones are “live”?
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Ionic leach analysis of soil samples has highlighted discrete “live”
corridors of gold and arsenic anomalism in the transported glacial
clay overburden – this is a potential sign of the presence of gold
mineralization in the subjacent bedrock – the “live” structures
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Aarnivalkea: textbook greenfields gold exploration
Base of till (BOT) drilling : the aim is to find the source of the gold in the ionic leach soil anomalies in the glacial cover. BOT holes are drilled through the transported cover (< 5 metres of clay and rubble) to sample the bedrock or rubble eroding from it. The lack of weathering and dispersion necessitates tight grid spacings (initial 400 x 20 metre and infill 100 x 10 metre spacing) for typical lode gold deposits
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Focus of gold anomalous bedrock/rubble
in BOT – focused on a gravity break
(colour) – a sheared/altered contact?
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Focus of gold anomalous bedrock/rubble
in BOT showing displacement from soil
anomalism to the east (ice/water flow?)
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Aarnivalkea: textbook greenfields gold exploration
BOT drilling : has defined a 1.3km long zone of gold anomalous/mineralised rock hidden beneath transported glacial cover in a previously unknown area. The end-of-hole samples are strongly sheared and silica-sericite-albite-pyrite-arsenopyrite altered with up to 3.8g/t gold and are interpreted as in-situ bedrock or close-to-source elluvial rubble along a shear zone. A 7,000m diamond drilling program starts in July, with initial wide-spaced fences to find the line, then closer drilling to define any sweet spots, and finally deeper drilling to chase these down dip
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Mineralised end-of
hole rockchips
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BOT results: strong gold anomalism in end-of-hole samples on a 400x20 and 100x10m grid, over gravity (colour background)
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BOT results: the anomaly forms a coherent N-S zone in bedrock or elluvial rubble beneath glacial cover and recent landforms
Ruopas: searching for the next magmatic Cu-Ni-PGM deposit
The Central Lapland Greenstone Belt is highly prospective for magmatic copper-nickel-PGM mineralization, as evidenced by Boliden’s Kevitsa mine and Anglo American’s giant Sakatti deposit, located 85km to the east in the same belt
S2’s Ruopas licence application area covers a 25km long sector of a major Archaean-Proterozoic crustal boundary (like the Fraser Range in Western Australia)
It contains a gravity ridge (= dense rocks such as ultramafics and mafics – as in the Fraser Range) and coincident copper and palladium anomalism identified in the GTK’s (Geological Survey of Finland’s) glacial till sampling database*
This is a district scale magmatic sulphide exploration target in a district with significant proven endowment and limited effective exploration due to the extensive glacial cover
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Gravity over
magnetics
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*Aeromagnetic, gravity and till geochemistry images based on data purchased from GTK (Geological Survey of Finland)
Ruopas: searching for the next magmatic Cu-Ni-PGM deposit
Ionic leach geochemical soil sampling coverage of the Ruopas licence highlights a number of coincident nickel-copper anomalies. Most of these are also cobalt and palladium anomalies (obvious ones outlined in yellow). Coincident Ni-Cu-Co-Pd anomalism is a signature of magmatic sulphide mineralization
*Aeromagnetic, gravity and till geochemistry images based on data purchased from GTK (Geological Survey of Finland)
Ruopas: searching for the next magmatic Cu-Ni-PGM deposit
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Channel 20 of the VEM survey highlights numerous EM anomalies.
Many of these are strongly conductive, persisting into late time
channels (channel 40). At this scale, any single point EM anomaly
could be an expression of significant massive sulphide mineralization.
Yellow outlines show selected coincident Cu-Ni soil anomalies
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*Aeromagnetic, gravity and till geochemistry images based on data purchased from GTK (Geological Survey of Finland)
Ruopas: searching for the next magmatic Cu-Ni-PGM deposit
Follow-up ground EM of selected VTEM anomalies : has defined a discrete EM conductor located on a gravity ridge, along strike from known ultramafic rocks, concealed beneath a shallow bog, and associated with >4km long copper and nickel anomaly in historic BOT drilling. This is scheduled for drilling as soon as ground and access permits are in place
*Aeromagnetic, gravity and till geochemistry images based on data purchased from GTK (Geological Survey of Finland)
The greenfields pipeline: overview
S2 holds a significant ground position in the Central Lapland Greenstone Belt
First pass ionic leach soil geochemistry has been completed over ~60% of S2’s ground
Follow up ionic leach has been completed over ~10% of this
BOT drilling has been undertaken on a small proportion of the ionic leach anomalies
VTEM has been flown over the Ruopas area (south of the town of Kittila)
Limited ground EM (MLEM & FLEM) has been undertaken on selected VTEM anomalies
S2’s first diamond drill program of one of its targets (Aarnivalkea) will commence in July
Much more ionic leach soil geochemistry, BOT drilling, ground EM and diamond drilling to come
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The greenfields pipeline: Home
Ionic leach geochemical sampling has defined a 4 kilometer long linear gold anomaly on the Home licence The central part of this trend is concealed by bog and therefore not sampled An obvious place for follow up BOT drilling to verify its source
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The greenfields pipeline: Putaanpera/Kerjonen
Ionic leach geochemical sampling has defined a 3 kilometer long linear gold anomaly on the Putaanpera / Kerjonen licence, coincident with the trend of the Sirkka shear zone
The eastern end of this trend is concealed by bog and therefore not sampled, so it may extend further east
An obvious place for follow up BOT drilling to verify its source
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Australia
S2 is back in the Fraser Range, where it all began with Sirius (“S1”) S2 also has the nickel rights at Polar Bear where it intends to follow up its previous nickel intercepts
Fraser Range: back to the future
S2 won 3 ballots for ground releases in the Fraser Range
These ballots were contested by numerous other players
S2 now has sole exploration licence application rights over 170 square kilometres of ground in a district otherwise dominated by Mark Creasy and IGO
Public domain and prior exploration data is being compiled during the pre-grant phase so that exploration can commence immediately upon grant
Much of the area is under cover so the limited previous exploration may be ineffective
S2 is back in the Fraser Range where its personnel discovered Nova in 2012
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Polar Bear nickel: Taipan North
S2 retains the nickel rights on the Polar Bear tenements which were sold to Westgold for A$9 million
The tenements include the Halls Knoll, Taipan and Taipan North nickel sulphide prospects
These were drilled by S2’s forerunner, Sirius Resources, but drilling was curtailed as a result of the takeover of Sirius by IGO, the demerging of these assets into S2, and S2’s subsequent focus on other areas
The Taipan North prospect comprises a thick, south plunging lava channel of high magnesium, low chrome cumulate ultramafics (the best sort) with thick intervals of disseminated and blebby nickel sulphides
Re-evaluation of the previous drilling has shown that the intensity of mineralization (grade x width) appears to be increasing down plunge
Previous drilling was RC and therefore also depth limited, so the mineralized zone is open below a vertical depth of 160 metres
An initial three diamond holes have been planned to test the potential down plunge continuation of this zone
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Polar Bear nickel: Taipan North
Long projection of the Taipan North nickel prospect showing previous drilling by Sirius (S2’s forerunner) and the three diamond holes planned to test down plunge from previous intercepts: geology and grade/width contours show increasing intensity of mineralization down plunge within a steep south plunging lava channel
Basal contact stoped by porphyry intrusion
Nevada
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Why Nevada?
3D model showing position of drill targets Endowment
Demonstrably elephant country – numerous >10Moz gold deposits
Exploration opportunity
Surprisingly under-explored for such a major gold producing region
Accessibility
Exploration friendly infrastructure, topography and climate (counter-seasonal to Finland)
Permitting
Best jurisdiction in USA, being further streamlined by new legislation
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Talent pool
Established mining know-how and labour force S2’s first hole underway
Tax regime
Best in USA (which is why the Tesla giga-factory is near Reno)
Geopolitical risk
Ranks 1st globally in Fraser Institute investment attractiveness index
Why Ecru?
Ecru is located in the heart of elephant country – adjacent to Barrick’s Cortez district 3D model showing position of drill targets landholdngs which contain ~50Moz gold
Barrick’s recent Fourmile discovery reaffirms the potential and the opportunity in this district, comprising thick, extensive, high grade gold mineralization*
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Hilltop
Ecru
Robertson
Pipeline
S2’s first hole underway
Horse Canyon
Cortez Hills
Goldrush &
Fourmile
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- Images on right hand side reproduced from Barrick Gold Corporation’s Second Quarter Results presentation, 26[th] July 2018
Ecru: elephant country
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Robertson Approximate location
of S2’s Ecru project
Trace of Abyss thrust
Pipeline (~20Moz) Horse Canyon
Cortez Hills
(~15Moz)
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Goldrush (~10Moz)
Ecru: location
Ecru is along the projected strike extension of the thrust fault that controls Barrick’s >20 million ounce pipeline gold mine
Detailed AMT and gravity surveys have defined a broad, highly conductive zone measuring 2 kilometres across, open to the south towards Barrick’s Robertson resource
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Ecru: status
S2’s first two drillholes (NECD0001 & 0002) did not reach target depth (lower plate) due to drilling problems, but encountered low level gold in the upper plate rocks above the target zone
Considering moving south towards Barrick’s Robertson resource, which is in upper plate rocks and can be tested with shallower RC drilling
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Summary
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S2 is well funded to realise its exploration opportunities with A$13.4 million and prudent financial management
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In Finland the hard yards have been done (proof of concept and methodology, initial recon) and we are positioned to begin drill testing our first crop of gold and copper-nickel sulphide targets
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In the Fraser Range S2 now has sole application rights to 170 square kilometres of ground in the Nova nickel province – our first foray back into the district where we discovered Nova in 2012
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At Polar Bear we have identified an ultramafic lava channel of the right kind (thick and hot) with significant disseminated nickel sulphide mineralisation which we can chase down plunge relatively quickly and cheaply
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In Nevada we are awaiting “bug dates” to better understand the stratigraphy before the next round of drilling in a world class district
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