SANDFIRE RESOURCES LIMITED — Investor Presentation 2011

Aug 31, 2011

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Competent Person’s Statement

• The information in this public presentation that relates to Exploration Results and Mineral Resources is based on information compiled by Mr John Evans who is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Mr Evans is a permanent employee and Director of Sandfire Resources NL. Mr Evans has sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity which he is undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2004 Edition of the Australasian Code of Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves. Mr Evans consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.

Forward-Looking Statements

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• To develop and operate the 100%-owned premier high-grade DeGrussa VMS copper-gold mine

• To deliver superior returns to our owners

• To discover additional VMS deposits within the emerging Doolgunna mineral field

• To make new discoveries within our existing portfolio of copper-gold, leadzinc, uranium, iron ore and manganese projects in Australia

• To identify and acquire new projects in Australia and overseas

• To maintain the highest standards of safety, integrity and quality at all times

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• DeGrussa Project moving into production:

• Discovery to development in two years (20092011)

• DFS project operating cash flow of_ _A$2.4 billion (pre-tax) on_ _A$4.2 billion* revenue

• DFS does not include oxide copper (44,000 tonnes Cu contained) or further discoveries

• Sandfire well positioned for further success:

• $47M cash at July 2011

• Project funding for DeGrussa on track

• Expertise in exploration, project assessment, mine development & operations

* Definitive Feasibility Study

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• Exploration ramping up targeting additional VMS clusters within 400km[2] Doolgunna Project:

• Extensive bank of information now accumulated within prospective DeGrussa mine corridor

• Prospective corridor extended to 22km, providing outstanding exploration upside

• $25-30M annual exploration budget:

• Principal focus on copper-gold exploration at Doolgunna

• Regional exploration gathering momentum elsewhere including lead-zinc (WA), lead-zinc and copper (NT)

• Targeting new commodity opportunities

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• DeGrussa Definitive Feasibility Study completed and approved

• Development activities well advanced with ~300 personnel on site

• Mining and process plant construction underway

• First copper production on track for Q1 2012 (DSO)

• Key project development and operational appointments finalised

• $75M development funding facility signed

• Full $360M funding package well advanced and on track to be finalised around end Q3 2011

• Oxide copper mineralisation discovered at Borroloola Project

• Cornerstone 17.4% stake in junior explorer Whinnen Resources

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Issued Capital: 149.9M ordinary shares 10.4M options Cash (31 July 2011): A$46.9M Major Shareholders Oz Minerals 18.8% Posco 15.9% Institutions 23.1% Founders/Board 8% Others 34.2% Last Major Funding A$6.60/A$7.00 (November 2010) Current Price A$7.50 Market Capitalisation +A$1.1 Billion

Board

DEREK LA FERLA KARL SIMICH

W. JOHN EVANS JONGHUN JONG

ROBERT SCOTT

Management MARTIN REED

MATT FITZGERALD

– Non-executive Chairman – Managing Director/CEO

– Executive Technical Director

– Non-executive Director – Non-executive Director

• Project Manager

– Chief Financial Officer

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• COPPER-GOLD LEAD-ZINC • Warramana

• • DeGrussa – production and exploration COPPER

• • Greater Doolgunna – exploration • Tawallah 1/2

• GOLD IRON ORE

• • Greater Doolgunna – • Roper Bar

• exploration

• LEAD-ZINC URANIUM • Yannarie MANGANESE

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Discovery to DFS in 2 years	Discovered Maiden Mineral Resource	April 2009 February2010
	Pre-Feasibility Study, Ore Reserve	March 2011
	Mine development commenced	April 2011
	Definitive Feasibility Study	June 2011
Today
	Plant construction underway
	Project funding well advanced
	Key personnel recruited
	Long-lead items ordered and key contracts awarded

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DFS Outcomes
First Production Q1 2012 (DSO), Q3 2012 (Conc.)
10.72Mt @ 5.1% Cu, 1.7g/t Au
Life-of-mine extraction from Ore (541,000t contained copper,
Reserves and Mineral Resources 599,000oz contained gold)
discovered to date 93% Mineral Resource to Ore Reserve
conversion – contained metal
480,000t payable copper
(~77,000tpa in first 3 years)
Production
270,000oz payable gold
(36,000oz pa in first 3years)
C1 cash costs (life-of-mine) US$1.02/lb
Project revenue A$4.2 billion
Pre-tax project operating cash flow A$2.4 billion
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• Early extraction of DSO Ore Reserves:

• 0.14Mt @ 25.6% Cu,

  • 2.5g/t Au

• 37,000t copper, 12,000oz gold (Contained)

• Early sulphide copper ore for plant commissioning

• Oxide copper resources to be stockpiled for proposed processing

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• Life-of-mine extraction of 10.72Mt @ 5% Cu, 1.7g/t Au (541,000t copper, 599,000oz gold – contained)

• Conventional open pit mining operation (~2 years) and long-term underground mine (initial 7+ year mine life)

• Conventional 1.5Mtpa on-site concentrator:

• Crushing, milling, flotation, de-watering and filtration

• Metallurgical recovery 91%

• 15-month construction period from June 2011

• Production of high-grade, high-quality copper concentrate grading 27% Cu:

• 300,000tpa (FY 2013 – 2015) 220,000tpa (FY 2016 onwards)

• 480,000t of payable copper metal

• 270,000oz of payable gold

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Life-of-mine (LOM)
						$ Billion
Project revenue						4.2
Royalties (5% weighted average)						(0.2)
Operating costs and sustaining capital						(1.6)
Project operating cash flow	(pre-tax)					2.4
Pre-production capital expenditure						(0.4)
Project cash flow (pre-tax)						2.0
Project NPV (8% discount rate)						1.3
Project IRR (%)						108
	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Copper price (US$/tonne)	9,136	8,004	7,110	6,576	6,367	6,163	5,879
Copper price (US$/lb)	4.15	3.63	3.23	2.98	2.89	2.80	2.67
Gold price (US$/ounce)	1,294	1,252	1,307	1,273	1,166	1,166	1,166
USD/AUD	0.91	0.87	0.84	0.82	0.81	0.81	0.81

Financial Evaluation

Revenue forecasts were based on a consensus of copper, gold price and foreign exchange forecasts from leading international broking firms, investment banks and leading independent commodity forecasters. The pricing applied in the model is presented in 30 June financial years.

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Capital Cost Breakdown
	A$M
Construction (plant, equipment and infrastructure)	267
Open pit mining to access DSO	44
Underground mine development	56
Other pre-production	17
Total pre-production capital	384
Life-of-Mine Operating Cost Estimates
	Payable Copper (US$/lb)
Mining	0.48
Processing and maintenance	0.35
Administration	0.06
Transport	0.28
Treatment and refining	0.18
By-product credits	(0.33)
Total C1 cash costs	1.02

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• Definitive Feasibility Study

• Higher grades + lower C1

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• Box-cut excavation completed – development of Evans Decline has commenced ~350m advanced

• Pre-strip of open pit commenced April 2011 – two years from discovery

• Bulk earthworks for process plant completed

• ~300 people on site

• All major long-lead time equipment ordered

• Open pit, underground and EPC contracts awarded, majority of infrastructure contracts finalised

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Pre-Feasibility Definitive Feasibility Study Project Financing Infrastructure Construction Major Equipment Concentrator Construction Open Pit Direct Shipping Ore Underground Massive Sulphide Concentrator Ramp-up Shipment

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• Volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) ore deposits are a type of metal sulfide ore deposit (mainly copper, zinc and lead) created by volcanic-associated hydrothermal events in submarine environments

• Predominantly layered accumulations of sulfide minerals that precipitate from hydrothermal fluids on or below the seafloor in a wide range of ancient and modern settings

• In modern oceans, they are synonymous with sulfurous plumes called black smokers

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• Most significant VMS deposits occur in clusters that define major mining camps – major source of global copper, zinc, lead production, eg:

• Bathurst (New Brunswick) – 229.8Mt @ 0.46% Cu, 7.66% Zn, 3.01% Pb, 91g/t Ag, 0.46g/t Au (camp discovered 1952)

• Kidd Creek (Abitibi, Ontario) – 149.3Mt @ 2.89% Cu, 6.36% Zn, 0.22% Pb, 92g/t Ag, 0.05g/t Au (deposit discovered 1963)

• Flin Flon (Manitoba) – 154 Mt contained over 27 deposits, primarily copper, zinc and gold (camp discovered 1922)

• Golden Grove (WA) – 65Mt @ 2% Cu, 3.5% Zn, 35g/t Ag, 0.7g/t Au (discovered 1971)

• DeGrussa (WA) – 14.33Mt @ 4.5% Cu, 1.6g/t Au (deposit discovered 2009)

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• Four lenses of mineralisation typical of VMS deposit cluster

• Classic host sequence of intra-volcanic sediments

• Typical seafloor alteration with regionally extensive litho-geochemical signature

• Classic VMS sulphide textures, including remnant chimney structures, breccias, replacement textures and laminar bedded sulphides

• Sulphide mound structures with abrupt margins from sulphides to barren country rock

• Metal ratios and zonation representative of VMS deposits

• Strong VMS-style structural artefacts

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Volcanic District	No. of Deposits	Million Tonnes Ore	Million Tonnes Metal	Area of District (km²)
Hokuroku, Japan	18	90	6.2	720
Bathurst No1, Canada	12	180	15.1	880
Bathurst No2, Canada	15	98	5.8	1150
Flin Flon, Canada	10	65	4.3	560
Snow Lake, Canada	10	19	1.4	840
Noranda, Canada	20	204	4.7	1550
Matagami, Canada	8	34	3.0	230
Manitouwadge, Canada	4	56	30	-
Average of all Data	12	94	5.4

• D. F. Sangster from the Geological Survey of Canada conducted a study on eight precedent VMS districts ¹ :

• in Canada and Japan. His findings include

• The VMS districts studied contain between 4 and 20 deposits, with an average of 12 deposits

• The average total base metal content per district is 5.4 million tonnes

• In order of size, the largest deposit in each district contains, on average, 65% of the total metal and the second largest about 13%

¹ D. F. Sangster, Quantitative Characteristics of Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide Deposits, Geological Survey of Canada (Ottawa) (1980)

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• 22km long, 1.2km wide prospective corridor which can be explored to +2km vertical depth

• Of this, only 1.2km strike length has been intensively explored to 600m vertical depth

• Minimal drilling has been conducted below 50m depth outside of the central mine corridor campaign

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• Developing regional geology model

• Deep drilling

• Sterilisation & pre-development

• Mapping & geophysical

• Priority VMS corridor extends for 22km

• Lithogeochemistry program underway

• Intensive exploration campaign – A$20-

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• Development of DeGrussa Project underway

• On track to produce first copper next year:

• First DSO ore from open pit due Q1 2012

• First underground ore expected Q2 2012

• High-margin production profile – positioned to take advantage of strong copper, gold and other commodity markets

• Regional exploration objective to establish a VMS coppergold camp

• Strong and supportive major shareholders

• Quality project pipeline

• Experienced Board and Management

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Table 1: DeGrussa Copper-Gold Project – March 2011 JORC Resource Statement	Table 1: DeGrussa Copper-Gold Project – March 2011 JORC Resource Statement	Table 1: DeGrussa Copper-Gold Project – March 2011 JORC Resource Statement	Table 1: DeGrussa Copper-Gold Project – March 2011 JORC Resource Statement	Table 1: DeGrussa Copper-Gold Project – March 2011 JORC Resource Statement
Zone	Resource Category	Location	Tonnes (Mt)	Copper (%)	Gold (g/t)	Contained Copper (t)	Contained Gold (oz)	Competent Person
Gold
Laterite	Measured	Open Pit	0.14	-	1.5	-	7,000	1
Copper	Measured	Open Pit	2.17	1.1	0.5	24,000	37,000	1
Oxides	Indicated	Open Pit	1.41	1.4	0.4	20,000	19,000	1
Supergene	Indicated	Open Pit	0.25	17.6	2.6	43,000	20,000	2
Chalcocite	Inferred	Open Pit	0.19	4.4	1.2	8,000	7,000	1
Primary Massive	Indicated	O/Pit / U/Ground	7.80	5.8	2.0	456,000	502,000	1
Sulphides	Inferred	Underground	2.32	4.3	2.0	100,000	149,000	1
Total			14.33	4.6	1.6	652,000	742,000
Note:Refer to the Competent Person’s Statements – Mineral Resources
1. Competent Person for these zones of		resource was Diederik Speijers of McDonald Spielers
2. Competent Person for these zones of		resource was David Slater of Coffey Mining

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Table 2: DeGrussa Copper-Gold Project – March 2011 Ore Reserve Statement

Deposit	Reserve Category	Mining Method	Tonnes (Mt)	Copper (%)	Gold (g/t)	Contained Copper (t)	Contained Gold (oz)
DeGrussa	Probable	Open Pit - DSO	0.14	25.6	2.5	37,000	12,000
DeGrussa/C1/ Chalcocite	Probable	Open Pit	0.23	6.1	2.4	14,000	17,000
DeGrussa	Probable	Underground	1.50	6.6	1.9	99,000	90,000
Conductor 1	Probable	Underground	5.76	4.9	1.8	283,000	337,000
Conductor 4	Probable	Underground	0.76	4.4	1.2	33,000	30,000
Total	Probable		8.39	5.6	1.80	465,000	485,000

Note 1: An open pit cut-off grade of 8.5% Cu is applied on the Chalcocite to provide a targeted 26% Cu direct sale product (Achieved 25.6% Cu after dilution). All other material within the defined deposit boundaries has been included in the reporting of Ore Reserves with any sub-economic grade material being treated as internal dilutents. These Ore Reserves include an overall assumption of 2.5% mining dilution at nil grade for all grade categories along with an assumed 2.5% mining loss of ore tonnes when mined. Calculations rounded to the nearest 10,000 tonnes; 0.1% Cu grade, 0.1 g/t Au grade; 1,000 tonnes Cu metal and 1,000 ounces Au metal. Errors of rounding may occur. These Ore Reserves occur within an open pit design containing 26Mt of total material, resulting in a waste to ore strip ratio of 70:1.

Note 2: Underground mining recovery factor of 95% applied to diluted stoping blocks, with cut-off grade of 1.5% Cu and minimum stope size of 2,000t. Calculations rounded to the nearest 1,000t, 0.1%, 0.1g/t and 1,000 ounces; errors of rounding may occur; assumes commodity prices of US$7,673/t for copper and US$1,300/oz for gold with a USD/AUD exchange rate of $0.86; assumes 91% metallurgical recovery rate. Note: Refer to the Competent Person’s Statement – Ore Reserves at the end of this release.

Resource zones still to be converted to Ore Reserve status:

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Open pit oxide copper resources of 3.58Mt @ 1.2% Cu and 0.5g/t Au (44kt contained copper, 56koz contained gold)

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2.32Mt of Inferred Massive Sulphide resources @ 4.3% Cu, 2.0g/t Au (100kt contained copper, 149koz contained gold)

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Competent Person’s Statement – Mineral Resources

• The information in this report that relates to Mineral Resources (except the Indicated Resource of Supergene Chalcocite) is based on information compiled by Diederik Speijers who is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Mr Speijers is a permanent employee of McDonald Speijers and has sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity which he is undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2004 Edition of the Australasian Code of Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves. Mr Speijers consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.

Competent Person’s Statement – Mineral Resources

• The information in this report that relates to the Indicated Resource of Supergene Chalcocite is based on information compiled by David Slater who is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Mr Slater is a permanent employee of Coffey Mining and has sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity which he is undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2004 Edition of the Australasian Code of Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves. Mr Slater consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.

Competent Person’s Statement – Ore Reserves

• The information in this report that relates to Ore Reserves is based on information compiled by Shane McLeay of Entech Pty Ltd, who is a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Mr McLeay has sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity which he is undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2004 Edition of the Australasian Code of Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves. Mr McLeay consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.

Competent Person’s Statement – Open Pit Ore Reserves

• The information in this report that relates to Open Pit Ore Reserves is based on information compiled by Quinton de Klerk of Cube Consulting, who is a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Mr de Klerk has sufficient experience which is relevant to the activity which he is undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2004 Edition of the Australasian Code of Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves. Mr de Klerk consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.

Exploration and Resource Targets

• Any discussion in relation to the potential quantity and grade of Exploration Targets for the DeGrussa Project is only conceptual in nature. While Sandfire is confident that it will report additional JORC compliant resources for the DeGrussa Project, there has been insufficient exploration to define mineral resources in addition to the current JORC compliant resource inventory and it is uncertain if further exploration will result in the determination of additional JORC compliant Mineral Resources.

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