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SAVANNAH GOLDFIELDS LIMITED AGM Information 2014

Nov 27, 2014

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AGM Presentation November 2014

COM P ET ENT P ERSO NS STAT EM ENT & DI SCL AI MER

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Competent Persons Statement 1

The information in this report that relates to Exploration Results and Mineral Resources is based on information compiled by Mr Scott Hall who is a member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Mr Hall is a full-time employee of Laneway Resources Ltd and has sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity which they are undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2004 Edition of the ‘Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves.’ Mr Hall consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.

This information was prepared and first disclosed under the JORC Code 2004. It has not been updated since to comply with the JORC Code 2012 on the basis that the information has not materially changed since it was last reported.

Competent Person Statement 2

The information in this report that relates to Exploration Results and Mineral Resources is based on information compiled by Mr Phil Bryant who is a member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Mr Bryant is a full-time employee of New Hope Coal (JV Partner) and has sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity which they are undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2004 Edition of the ‘Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves.’ Mr Bryant consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.

This information was prepared and first disclosed under the JORC Code 2004. It has not been updated since to comply with the JORC Code 2012 on the basis that the information has not materially changed since it was last reported.

Forward Looking Statement

Whilst based on information from sources considered reliable, Laneway Resources Ltd, its directors, employees and consultants do not represent, warrant or guarantee, expressly or impliedly, that the information in this document and presentation is complete or accurate. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Laneway Resources Ltd, disclaims any responsibility to inform any recipient of this document and presentation of any matter that subsequently comes to its notice, which may affect any of the information contained in this document and presentation. This material is used for a company presentation only, for more detailed information the reviewer should seek company information as provided in Laneway Resources Ltd’s ASX releases, Quarterly Reports and Annual Reports.

CONT ENTS

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Investment Highlights & Strategy 4.
Company Overview 6.
Board & Management 9.
Projects 10.
Conclusion 29.

I NV EST MENT HI GHL I GHTS

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Agate Creek Gold Project (100%)

  • ✚ Commenced drill program to delineate high grade area to support future mining operations

  • ✚ Successful metallurgical sample mined and processed in January 2014 produced 1,725oz of gold

  • ✚ Higher than expected gold grade of >11g/t gold mined during metallurgical sample

  • ✚ Processing plant improvements identified for future proposed operations

  • ✚ Strategy for additional sampling/production has been implemented

  • ✚ Large JORC resource at Agate Creek of >400,000oz contained gold (refer enclosed resource table) open at depth

  • ✚ 2013 drill program at Agate Creek returned a significant drill intercept of 31m at 5.96g/t gold. Exploration upside from a large surrounding tenement position.

Other Projects

  • ✚ Ashford coking coal project (Laneway 50%) comprises JORC resource of >13Mt

  • ✚ Key New Zealand (NZ) tenure on trend from multi-million ounce epithermal gold and silver deposits

Corporate

  • ✚ Corporate restructure completed in 2013 removing secured debt

  • ✚ Ongoing new project opportunities being pursued

ST RAT EGY

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  • ✚ Laneway’s primary focus is on the exploration, discovery and development of gold deposits

  • ✚ Focused on known producing gold regions

  • ✚ Looking to better define high grade gold areas at Sherwood deposit (Agate Creek) to support a near term high grade open cut mining operation

  • ✚ Increase the global Resource at Agate Creek

  • ✚ Southern Coromandel Project (NZ) has a historic resource with potential to be upgraded to JORC and additional ounces delineated with modern exploration

  • ✚ Laneway is focused on maximising value from existing coal assets and continues to progress strategies to extract this value

  • ✚ Laneway will continue to seek new high growth potential projects as well as where appropriate, JV’s or farmins to help progress existing assets

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Company Overview

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November 2014

CORP O R AT E OV ERV I EW

CAPITAL STRUCTURE Share price (as at 27 Nov 2014) $0.003 Shares on issue (million) 1,471.4 Market capitalisation $4.4m Laneway also has 160 million convertible notes on issue which are to be repaid in cash or converted into shares on a 1 for 1 basis at 0.25 cents per share

DIRECTORS & MANAGEMENT

Chairman Stephen Bizzell Non-Executive Director Rick Anthon Non-Executive Director Mark Baker Exploration Manager Scott Hall Company Secretary Paul Marshall

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HISTORICAL SHARE PRICE (YTD)

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P ROJEC T OV ERV I EW

Key Projects

  • Agate Creek in north Queensland

  • ✚ (100% interest – Epithermal Gold)

  • Ashford in north New South Wales

  • ✚ (50% interest – Coking Coal)

  • Arrawatta in north New South Wales

  • ✚ (100% interest – Coking Coal)

  • Southern Coromandel Project in north New Zealand

  • ✚ (100% interest – Epithermal Gold)

  • Rockland Project in south Queensland

  • ✚ (100% interest – IRGS gold project)

Gold JORC Resources[(1)]

Agate Creek Gold 414,000oz (grade 1.4g/t)

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Laneway Project Location

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Coal JORC Resources[(1)]

Ashford Coal (Indicated & Inferred) 13Mt (100%)

(1) refer competent persons and exploration target statement on slide 2

B OARD & M ANAGEM ENT

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Stephen Bizzell – Chairman

  • ✚ Chairman of boutique corporate advisory and funds management group Bizzell Capital Partners Pty Ltd, and director of a number of ASX listed companies and Queensland Treasury Corporation. Has considerable experience and success in the fields of corporate restructuring, debt and equity financing, and mergers and acquisitions and has over twenty years’ corporate finance and public company management experience. Stephen was an Executive Director of Arrow Energy, a company he co-founded in 1999, and taken over by a JV between Shell and PetroChina in 2010 for $3.5 billion.

Rick Anthon – Non-Executive Director

  • ✚ Rick Anthon is a lawyer with twenty five years experience in corporate and commercial law with particular expertise in the mining exploration, mineral development and energy sectors.

Mark Baker – Non-Executive Director

  • ✚ Mark is the Chief Executive Officer of the Melbourne Press Club and a former senior editor and national editorial executive with Fairfax Media. Mark has extensive experience working across Asia and in government relations at a national and state level. He is a board member of the Defence Reserves Support Council (Victoria), has a Bachelor of Arts degree and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Scott Hall – Exploration Manager

Paul Marshall – Company Secretary

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Agate Creek Epithermal Gold

November 2014

AGAT E CREEK S u mmar y & Proj ec t Locat ion

  • ✚ Agate Creek Project is located approximately 40km south of Forsayth in

  • North Queensland

    • ✚ Sherwood resource area covered by Mineral Development License (MDL) 402

    • ✚ Five highly prospective gold and base metal prospects located in three EPM’s covering over 711km[2]

    • ✚ Forty two additional prospects that require follow up work

  • ✚ Within 60km of the world class Kidston Deposit which historically produced over 3.4Moz Au/Ag

  • ✚ Advanced project with more than $15m already spent, more than 500 historic drill holes and majority of current drilling less than 200m deep

  • ✚ Current JORC Resource[(1)]

    • ✚ 9.5 Mt @ 1.4g/t for 414,000oz Au at 0.5g/t cut-off

    • ✚ 17.0 Mt @ 0.94g/t for 514,000oz Au at 0.3g/t cut-off

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Agate Creek Tenure Map

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(1) refer competent persons and exploration target statement on slide 2

AGAT E CREEK Geolog ical M od el

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Agate Creek Geological Model

  • ✚ Host rocks are Proterozoic metasediments with granite and rhyolite intrusions

  • ✚ Mineralisation occurs along the Agate Creek Fault, Robertson

  • Fault Zone and at the contact between intrusions

  • ✚ Sherwood is a low-sulphidation epithermal gold system

characterised by swarms of narrow veins

  • ✚ Strong alteration surrounding veins

  • ✚ Permian analogy of current Tertiary NZ epithermal deposits

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METAL LURGI CAL SAM P L E Gold Prod u c ed

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  • ✚ In January 2014, a 5,472 tonne high grade sample was mined, hauled and toll-treated through a CIL processing plant at Georgetown

  • ✚ A total of 1,725oz of gold was produced – recovered grade was 9.8g/t gold from a feed grade of 11.2g/t gold

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KEY F I NDI NGS OF METAL LURGI CAL SAM P L E

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  • ✚ Higher than expected gold grade highlights potential for a significant high-grade component of the resource

  • ✚ Basic circuit and reagent improvements have been identified which would likely boost recoveries from 87% to +90% for future processing

  • ✚ This includes the incorporation of gravity separation prior to leaching, changes to the crushing and grinding processes and a full review of the leach kinetics.

  • ✚ Provides support to pursue a near term high grade open cut mining operation

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Cu rrent Wo rkP ro gram

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  • ✚ The current drill program includes 5000m of RC drilling, with the potential for the program to be extended

depending on results and weather. Key outcomes expected from the program include:

  • ✚ Greater definition of near surface (less than 50m) high grade gold zones at Sherwood that may support a near term high grade open cut mining operation

  • ✚ Expansion of the global Resource base at both Sherwood and Sherwood West through step out holes and identified additional targets

  • ✚ Testing of the southern extension of Sherwood West where the target mineralised zone remains open and has been continuously mapped some 700m to the south of current drilling

  • ✚ Drilling of several highly prospective regional targets

  • ✚ An updated JORC Resource (2012) is planned to be released during the first half 2015

  • ✚ Upgrading of MDL 402 to a Mining Lease to permit mining operations

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Agate Creek Gold/Base Metal Prospects

November 2014

EAST ERN BAR CREEK S ig n if icant h istorical interc epts

  • ✚ Located on demagnetised zone within a regional magnetic northwest trending structure

  • ✚ Targeting a 10m wide weathered quartz vein with associated Au, Ag, Pb, Zn and Cu

  • ✚ Soil samples have highlighted a 1,000m by 500m soil geochemical anomaly

  • ✚ Rockchip samples returned results of up to 52g/t Au with associated elevated Ag, Cu and Pb

  • ✚ Drilling in 2010 revealed a mineralised zone over 500m long and up to 12m wide below the surface which is open in all directions

  • ✚ Results included several significant intercepts over 20g/t Ag with associated elevated Cu and Zn ✚ 5m @ 44g/t Ag & 0.13% Cu from 12m ✚ 7m @ 57.7g/t Ag; 0.18% Cu & 0.5% Zn

  • ✚ Accompanying the above structure is a secondary 400m long potentially en-echelon zone to the south with additional rock chips up to 36g/t Au; 643g/t Ag; 2.4% Cu & 22.6% Pb

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Results and Planned Drilling at Eastern Bar Creek
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MOONB EAM Roc kc h ip samp les of u p to 2 5 1 0 g / t A g

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  • ✚ A silver-lead-copper quartz vein up to 30cm wide at surface and traceable over 500m within a magnetic structure that extends for up to

  • 2,000m

  • ✚ A small historical digging sits over the main vein

  • ✚ Surface rockchip samples of up to 2510g/t Ag, 5.6%Cu, 3.4%Pb and

  • 6%Zn

  • ✚ Drilling confirmed the structure is mineralised at depth with intercepts in both holes drilled in 2010

    • ✚ 5m @ 141g/t Ag; 0.21% Cu; 1.58% Pb & 1.64% Zn from 25m

    • ✚ 8m @ 99g/t Ag; 0.22% Cu; 1.19% Pb & 0.47% Zn from surface

  • ✚ Drilling also showed that the structure was significantly wider subsurface and is open in all directions

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Results and Planned Drilling at Moonbeam
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NOT T I NGHAM A d d ition al gold p otential

  • ✚ Located along a parallel structure to the Sherwood deposit within the

  • Robertson Fault Zone

  • ✚ Strike over 2km extent of outcropping epithermal quartz veining and

  • alteration

  • ✚ Rockchip sample results of up to 12g/t Au at surface

  • ✚ Was initially defined by a soil geochemical anomaly

  • ✚ Previous drilling must be reviewed to determine mineralised structures at depth and further surface ground geological mapping is required

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Results and Planned Drilling at Nottingham
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EAGL ES NEST Follow-u p d rillin g p lan n ed

  • ✚ Multiple rhyolite intrusions with individual dykes up to 15m wide with

  • strike extents of over 500m showing epithermal veining

  • ✚ These intrusions show moderate to strong alteration and extend east into the adjacent EPM 17949

  • ✚ Rockchip samples have produced abundant results of between 1-3.5g/t Au associated with up to 144g/t Ag and 10%Pb

  • ✚ Drilling in 2010 resulted in several significant intercepts with the best 3m @ 10g/t Ag and 1%Pb from 11m in ENRC04

  • ✚ Located on a northwest trending regional magnetic structure

  • ✚ Previous work had been hindered by the nearby tenement boundary,

  • the recent granting of EPM 17632 will allow this prospect to be investigated thoroughly along its full extent

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Results and Planned Drilling at Eagles Nest

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DEL ANEY

Hig h g rad e p oly metallic target

  • ✚ Located near an offset of the Delaney Fault, which is a regional scale structure hosting significant mineralisation along its 100km length

  • ✚ Sulphide rich quartz veins within intersecting rhyolite intrusions up to

  • 2m wide and 500m long

  • ✚ Surface rockchip samples with coincident high grade values including

  • 4.8% Pb; 58 g/t Ag; 0.9% Cu 2.3% Zn sulphidic quartz veining sampling

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Results and Planned Drilling at Delaney

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Southern Coromandel NZ Epithermal Gold

November 2014

S o u th ern Co ro m an d e l (NZ ) S u mmar y & Proj ec t Locat ion

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  • ✚ Exploration Permits granted over 2 areas, totalling 102km[2] (Waitekauri 46km[2] , Owharoa 56km[2] ).

  • ✚ Strategic review underway to determine focus target areas within large ground holding. Discussions continue with potential joint venture partners.

  • ✚ Permits overlay epithermal gold system.

  • ✚ Located in the highly prospective Hauraki Goldfields (produced over 45Mt of Au-Ag)

  • within the mineralised corridor that is host to

Martha Mine (Waihi) – Newmont , Golden

Cross – Coeur d’Alene Mines Corporation

and Talisman deposit – Heritage Gold.

  • ✚ Martha Mine at Waihi is currently producing over 300,000oz Au equivalent per annum and

  • has produced 7.6Moz Au & 53Moz Ag over its life.

  • ✚ The recent Favona & Trio gold discoveries are adjacent to the Martha Mine & Talisman deposit which attests to the significant remaining discovery potential of the area.

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Ashford and Arrawatta Coking and Thermal Coal

November 2014

AS HFO RD COKI NG COAL O ver view

  • ✚ Located in the Ashford Basin, northern New South Wales

  • ✚ Indicated Resource of 8.2Mt and Inferred Resource of 5Mt[(1)]

  • ✚ Quality test work has confirmed hard coking coal product equivalent to premium Bowen Basin coals

  • ✚ 50% JV with New Hope Corporation

  • ✚ Prior small scale mining supplied a local power station until 1993

  • ✚ Smaller scale means development time frame could be short

ASHFORD COAL QUALITY

Washing yield % 72.0%
Product Ash % 7.3%
Volatile Matter % 23.6%
Inherent Moisture % 1.1%
Mean Maximum Reflectance 1.14
Crucible Swell Number 6.5
Sulphur % 0.4%
Phosphorous % 0.03%

(1) refer competent persons and exploration target statement on slide 2

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Ashford Resource Map

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ARRAWAT TA COAL O ver view

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Arrawatta Permit Map

  • ✚ Regional exploration project for Permian coking coal

  • ✚ Located 30-60kms south of Ashford Coal Project

  • ✚ Targeting Permian coking and brown coals beneath Tertiary sediments and basalt cover

  • ✚ Arrawatta discovery area targeted due to reports of a single seam of coking coal sampled from a WWII era shallow shaft sunk within the Permian sequence

  • ✚ Exploration has delineated multiple seams from a 12m depth with individual seam thicknesses up to 6.4m open to the north

  • ✚ Maximum cumulative thickness of 28.5m of coal in a sequence of 128m of Permian sediments

  • ✚ Analysis has shown high quality coking coal equivalent to the Ashford

  • seam

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AS HFO RD & AR R AWAT TA Reg ion al Infrast ru c tu re

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Regional Infrastructure Map

  • ✚ Preferred short term road-rail routes available via Moree to Newcastle

  • ✚ Potential to reopen the line to Inverell with sufficient tonnage

  • ✚ Possible road-rail routes to Brisbane

  • ✚ Major push to develop new inland transport routes along east

  • coast and away from Sydney

  • ✚ Federal Government funding a transportation feasibility study

  • ✚ Any additional coal tonnage will add weight to the proposals

  • and affect the routes

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Other Project Early Stage Exploration

November 2014

CONCLUSI ON

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Pathway to Production

  • ✚ Existing gold and coal projects with JORC resources provides solid basis for appraisal and development

  • ✚ Process commenced to lodge a Mining Lease application over existing resource area to facilitate a near term high grade open cut mining operation

  • ✚ Long term strategy for ultimate large scale production has been implemented

Exploration Upside

  • ✚ Sherwood deposits are open at depth with several other advanced regional drill targets within Laneway’s substantial tenement holding

  • ✚ Prospective tenement position in NZ on-trend from multi-million ounce gold and silver deposits

Corporate

  • ✚ Restructure completed. Laneway well positioned to capitalise on progressing existing projects as well as new project opportunities

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Appendix

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November 2013

AP P ENDI X

A gate Creek, S h er wood & Pit S h ells

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0.3 g/t cut-off Sherwood Sherwood South Sherwood West Total
Resource
Classification
Mt
Gold
(g/t)
Gold
(oz)
Mt
Gold
(g/t)
Gold
(oz)
Mt
Gold
(g/t)
Gold
(oz)
Mt
Gold
(g/t)
Gold
(oz)
Indicated
Indferred
5.4
1.0
180,000
2.6
0.9
76,000
0.4
1.1
15,000
5.2
0.9
154,000
3.3
0.8
89,000
10.7
1.0
334,000
6.4
0.9
180,000
Total 8.0
1.0
256,000
0.4
1.1
15,000
8.6
0.9
243,000
17.0
0.9
514,000
0.5 g/t cut-off Sherwood Sherwood South Sherwood West Total
Resource
Classification
Mt
Gold
(g/t)
Gold
(oz)
Mt
Gold
(g/t)
Gold
(oz)
Mt
Gold
(g/t)
Gold
(oz)
Mt
Gold
(g/t)
Gold
(oz)
Indicated
Indferred
3.0
1.5
147,000
1.4
1.4
60,000
0.3
1.3
13,000
2.9
1.3
124,000
1.8
1.2
70,000
6.0
1.4
271,000
3.5
1.3
143,000
Total 4.4
1.5
207,000
0.3
1.3
13,000
4.8
1.3
194,000
9.5
1.4
414,000

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