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Talisker Resources Capital/Financing Update 2020

Aug 14, 2020

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UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

August 13, 2020

Talisker Resources Ltd. 350 Bay Street, Suite 400 Toronto, Ontario M7A 0A7

Attention: Terry Harbort, President and Chief Executive Officer

Dear Sirs:

The undersigned, Sprott Capital Partners LP ("Sprott") and PI Financial Corp. as co-lead underwriters and joint bookrunners, (collectively, the "Underwriters" and each separately, an "Underwriter") hereby offer and agree to purchase, on a "bought deal" basis, or alternatively to arrange, as agent for substituted purchasers (the "Substituted Purchasers") in the Selling Jurisdictions (as defined below) to purchase, from Talisker Resources Ltd. (the "Company") and the Company hereby agrees to issue and sell to the Underwriters or Substituted Purchasers (i) 28,260,870 units of the Company (each, a "Unit"), at a purchase price of $0.46 per Unit (the "Unit Price"); and (ii) 15,625,000 charity flow-through units of the Company (each, a "FT Unit"), at a purchase price of $0.64 per FT Unit (the "FT Unit Price"), for aggregate gross proceeds of $23,000,000, upon and subject to the terms and conditions contained herein (the "Offering").

Each Unit shall be comprised of one common share in the capital of the Company (a "Unit Share") and one-half of one transferable common share purchase warrant of the Company (each whole common share purchase warrant, a "Warrant"). Each Warrant shall entitle the holder thereof to acquire one common share of the Company (a "Warrant Share") at a price of $0.70 for a period of 12 months following the closing of the Offering.

Each FT Unit shall be comprised of one common share in the capital of the Company issued as a "flow-through share" as defined in subsection 66(15) of the Tax Act (as defined below) (the "FT Unit Share") and one-half of one Warrant issued on a non-flow-through basis.

The Units, FT Units, Unit Shares, FT Unit Shares, Warrants and Warrant Shares shall be referred to herein as the "Offered Securities".

The Warrants will be governed by the terms of a warrant indenture (the "Warrant Indenture") to be entered into on the Closing Date between the Company and TSX Trust Company.

The Company agrees that the Underwriters will be permitted to appoint other registered dealers (or other dealers duly licensed or registered in their respective jurisdictions) as their agents to assist in the Offering and that the Underwriters may determine the remuneration payable to such other dealers appointed by them. Such remuneration shall be payable by the Underwriters.

Offers and sales of Offered Securities in the United States (as defined below) may only be made on a private placement basis in the following manner and in compliance with Schedule "A" to this Agreement. The Underwriters may, through their U.S. Affiliates (as defined below) (i) offer and resell the Offered Securities to Qualified Institutional Buyers in the United States on a private placement basis pursuant to the exemption from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act provided by Rule 144A (as defined below), or (ii) offer and sell the Offered Securities to Substituted Purchasers that are U.S. Accredited Investors (as defined below) in the United States on a private placement basis pursuant to the exemption from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act provided by Rule 506(b) of Regulation D, and in each of (i) and (ii) pursuant to Schedule "A" attached hereto.

For each Substituted Purchaser that shall purchase the Offered Securities the obligations of the Underwriters to do so will be reduced by the number of Offered Securities purchased by the Substituted Purchasers directly from the Company.

In consideration of the services to be rendered by the Underwriters in connection with the Offering, the Company will pay the Underwriters, at the Closing Time (as defined below) cash commission (the "Underwriters' Fee") equal to 6.0% of the gross proceeds of the Offering.

This offer is conditional upon and subject to the additional terms and conditions set forth below.

1. Definitions.

In this Agreement, in addition to the terms defined above, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

"Agreement" means this underwriting agreement, being the agreement between the Company and the Underwriters in respect of the Offering;

"Ancillary Documents" means all agreements (including the Subscription Agreements), indentures (including the Warrant Indenture), certificates (including the certificates, if any, representing the Unit Shares, the FT Unit Shares, the Warrants and the Warrant Shares, officer's certificates, notices and other documents executed and delivered, or to be executed and delivered, by the Company in connection with the Offering, whether pursuant to applicable Securities Laws or otherwise;

"BC Flow-Through Mining Expenditure" means an expenditure that meets the criteria set forth in subsection 4.721(1) of the BC Tax Act;

"BC Tax Act" means the Income Tax Act (British Columbia) and all rules and regulations made pursuant thereto and any proposed amendments thereto announced publicly by or on behalf of the Minister of Finance (British Columbia) prior to the date of the Subscription Agreement;

"Business Day" means a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or any other day on which the principal chartered banks located in Vancouver, British Columbia and Toronto, Ontario are not open for business;

"Canadian Exploration Expense" or "CEE" means an expense of the nature described in paragraph (f) of the definition of "Canadian exploration expense" in subsection 66.1(6) of the Tax Act or which would be included in paragraph (h) of such definition if the

reference therein to "paragraphs (a) to (d) and (f) to (g.4)" were read as "paragraph (f)", other than amounts which are (i) prescribed to be "Canadian exploration and development overhead expense" for the purposes of paragraph 66(12.6)(b) of the Tax Act, (ii) Canadian exploration expenses to the extent of the amount of any assistance described in paragraph 66(12.6)(a) of the Tax Act, (iii) the cost of acquiring or obtaining the use of seismic data described in paragraph 66(12.6)(b.1) of the Tax Act, or (iv) any expenses for prepaid services or rent that do not qualify as outlays and expenses for the period as described in the definition of the term "expense" in paragraph 66(15) of the Tax Act;

"Closing" means the closing on the Closing Date of the transaction of purchase and sale in respect of the Offered Securities (excluding the Warrant Shares) as contemplated by this Agreement and the Ancillary Documents;

"Closing Date" means August 13, 2020 or such other date as the Underwriters and the Company may agree upon;

"Closing Time" means 8:30 a.m. (Toronto time) on the Closing Date or such other time on the Closing Date as the Underwriters and the Company may agree upon;

"Commitment Amount" means the amount of $0.63999 per FT Unit Share being that portion of the subscription amount allocated as the subscription price for the FT Unit Share, multiplied by the number of FT Unit Shares subscribed and paid for pursuant to the Subscription Agreement;

"Common Shares" means the common shares in the capital of the Company as constituted on the date hereof;

"Company" shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the first paragraph of this Agreement;

"Company's knowledge" means to the actual knowledge of the following individuals: Terry Harbort, Andres Tinajero and Charlotte May, after having made due inquiry;

"CRA" means the Canada Revenue Agency;

"CSE" means the Canadian Securities Exchange;

"Debt Instrument" means any loan, bond, debenture, promissory note or other instrument evidencing indebtedness (demand or otherwise) for borrowed money or other liability;

"Directed Selling Efforts" means "directed selling efforts" as that term is defined in Regulation S. Without limiting the foregoing, but for greater clarity, it means, subject to the exclusions from the definition of directed selling efforts contained in Regulation S, any activity undertaken for the purpose of, or that could reasonably be expected to have the effect of, conditioning the market in the United States for any of the Offered Securities and includes the placement of any advertisement in a publication with a general circulation in the United States that refers to the offering of any of the Offered Securities;

"Flow-Through Mining Expenditure" means an expense that will, once renounced to the Subscriber, qualify as a "flow-through mining expenditure" (as defined in subsection 127(9) of the Tax Act) of the Subscriber, or where the Subscriber is a partnership, of the members of the Subscriber to the extent of their respective shares of the expenses so renounced;

"Follow-On Transactions" has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 2(e)(i) hereof;

"FT Unit" shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the first paragraph of this Agreement;

"FT Unit Price" shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the first paragraph of this Agreement;

"FT Unit Share" shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the third paragraph of this Agreement;

"Governmental Authority" means any (i) multinational, federal, provincial, territorial, state, regional, municipal, local or other government, governmental or public department, central bank, court, tribunal, arbitral body, commission, board, bureau or agency, domestic or foreign, (ii) subdivision, agent, commission, board, or authority of any of the foregoing, or (iii) quasi-governmental or private body exercising any regulatory, expropriation or taxing authority under, or for the account of, any of the foregoing;

"IFRS" shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in subsection 4(h);

"including" means including without limitation;

"Indemnified Parties" shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 13;

"Material Adverse Effect" means the effect resulting from any event or change which is materially adverse to the business, affairs, capital, operations, prospects, Property rights or assets, liabilities (contingent or otherwise) of the Company and the Subsidiary, taken as a whole, or which event or change would reasonably be expected to have a significant negative effect on the market price or value of the Common Shares;

"Material Agreement" means any joint-venture or earn-in agreement, Debt Instrument, mortgage, indenture, contract, commitment, agreement (written or oral), instrument, lease or other document, to which the Company or the Subsidiary is a party and which is material to the Company;

"misrepresentation", "material fact", "material change", "affiliate", "associate", and "distribution" have the respective meanings ascribed thereto in the Securities Act (British Columbia);

"NI 43-101" shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in subsection 3(zz);

"OBCA" means the Business Corporations Act (Ontario);

"Offered Securities" shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the fourth paragraph of this Agreement;

"Offering" shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the first paragraph of this Agreement;

"person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, association, trust or other legal entity;

"Prescribed Forms" means the forms prescribed from time to time under subsection 66(12.7) of the Tax Act and under the applicable provision of any relevant provincial tax legislation, filed or to be filed by the Company within the prescribed time renouncing to the Subscribers the Resource Expenses incurred pursuant to the Subscription Agreements and all parts or copies of such forms required by the CRA and any applicable provincial tax authority, to be delivered to the Subscribers;

"Principal Business Corporation" means a "principal-business corporation" as defined in subsection 66(15) of the Tax Act;

"Properties" means the Baker Gold / Silver Project including the Shasta Mine and Baker Mill, the Chappelle (Baker and Multinational Mines) Property, the Mets Lease, the Bot Property, the Bluejay Property, the Big Sheep Property, the Blustry Mountain Property, the Lola Property, the Remington Property, the Tulox Project, the Spences Bridge Regional Project, the SC Property, and the Bralorne Gold Complex (including the Bralorne Crown Grant claims, the Congress property including the Levon Crown Grant claims and the Royalle Crown Grant claims);

"Public Disclosure Documents" means, collectively, all of the documents which have been filed by or on behalf of the Company prior to the Closing Time under its profile on SEDAR;

"Purchase Price" means collectively, the FT Unit Price and the Unit Price;

"Qualified Institutional Buyer" means a "qualified institutional buyer" within the meaning of Rule 144A;

"Qualifying Expenditure" means expenditures that are CEE on the date they are incurred to the extent permitted to be renounced to the Subscribers under the Subscription Agreements;

"Regulation D" means Regulation D promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission under the U.S. Securities Act;

"Regulation S" means Regulation S promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission under the U.S. Securities Act;

"Resource Expense" means an expense (1) which qualifies as CEE, (2) which qualifies as a Flow-Through Mining Expenditure, (3) which qualifies as a BC Flow-Through Mining Expenditure and (4) which is incurred (or is deemed to be incurred) on or after the Closing Date and on or before the Termination Date, that will be renounced by the Company pursuant to subsection 66(12.6) of the Tax Act, in conjunction with subsection 66(12.66) of the Tax Act, as necessary, with an effective date not later than December 31, 2020 and in respect of which, but for the renunciation, the Company would be entitled to a deduction from income for income tax purposes;

"Reporting Jurisdictions" means British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario collectively;

"Requirements" means the exemptions from the prospectus requirements of the Canadian Securities Laws which are outlined in National Instrument 45-106 and similar exemptions applicable or such other jurisdictions where the Offered Securities may be offered or sold;

"Rule 144A" means Rule 144A promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission under the U.S. Securities Act;

"Securities Laws" means, as applicable, the securities legislation, regulations, rules, rulings and orders in each of the Selling Jurisdictions in each case having the force of law and the rules of the CSE and U.S. Securities Laws;

"Securities Regulators" means, collectively, the securities regulators or other securities regulatory authorities in the Selling Jurisdictions;

"Selling Jurisdictions" means each of the provinces in Canada and such other jurisdictions as mutually agreed to by the Company and the Underwriters;

"Sprott" shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the first paragraph of this Agreement;

"Subscribers" means the persons who, as purchasers or beneficial purchasers, acquire Offered Securities by duly completing, executing and delivering a Subscription Agreement and any other required documentation;

"Subscription Agreements" means the subscription agreements with respect to the Units and FT Units and the subscription and renunciation agreements with respect to the FT Unit Shares, in each case in the form agreed upon by the Underwriters and the Company, pursuant to which Subscribers agree to subscribe for and purchase the Offered Securities herein contemplated and shall include, for greater certainty, all schedules and appendices thereto;

"Subsidiary" means Bralorne Gold Mines Ltd.;

"Substituted Purchasers" shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the first paragraph of the Agreement;

"Tax Act" means the Income Tax Act (Canada) and any proposed amendments thereto announced publicly by or on behalf of the Minister of Finance (Canada) on or prior to the date of this Agreement;

"Taxes" shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in subsection 4(m);

"Termination Date" means December 31, 2021 or December 31, 2022 if the proposals released on July 10, 2020 by the Department of Finance relating to "flow-through shares" are enacted into law which would allow the Corporation to incur Resource Expenses during 2022 to be renounced back to Subscribers effective December 31, 2020;

"Transfer Agent" means TSX Trust Company, in its capacity as transfer agent and registrar of the Company at its head offices in the cities of Toronto, Ontario;

"Underwriters" shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the first paragraph of the Agreement;

"Underwriters' Fee" shall have the meaning ascribed thereto on the second page of this Agreement;

"Unit" shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the first paragraph of this Agreement;

"Unit Price" shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the first paragraph of this Agreement;

"Unit Share" shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the second paragraph of this Agreement;

"United States" means the United States of America, its territories and possessions, any state of the United States and the District of Columbia;

"U.S. Accredited Investor" means an "accredited investor" within the meaning of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the U.S. Securities Act;

"U.S. Affiliate" means the duly registered United States broker-dealer affiliate of an Underwriter;

"U.S. Exchange Act" means the United States Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended;

"U.S. Person" means "U.S. person" as defined in Rule 902 of Regulation S;

"U.S. Securities Act" means the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended;

"U.S. Securities Laws" means all applicable securities legislation in the United States, including without limitation, the U.S. Securities Act, the U.S. Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, including the rules and policies of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any applicable state securities laws;

"Warrant" shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the second paragraph of this Agreement;

"Warrant Indenture" shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the fifth paragraph of this Agreement; and

"Warrant Share" shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the second paragraph of this Agreement.

2. Terms and Conditions.

  • (a) Sale on Exempt Basis. The Underwriters shall purchase, on a "bought deal" basis, or alternatively arrange, as agent for Substituted Purchasers in the Selling Jurisdictions to purchase the Offered Securities pursuant to the Offering in the Selling Jurisdictions in compliance with all applicable Securities Laws such that each of the offer and sale of the Offered Securities does not obligate the Company to file a prospectus or other offering document or deliver or file an offering memorandum or other offering document with any Securities Regulators under the Securities Laws or subject the Company to any continuous disclosure or other similar reporting requirements under the laws of any jurisdiction outside of the Selling Jurisdictions to which it is not currently subject. In addition, the Underwriters agree that the Offered Securities may only be offered and sold in the United States in accordance with the terms, conditions, representations, warranties and covenants contained in Schedule "A" hereto, the provisions of which are agreed to by the Company, the Underwriters and the U.S. Affiliates, and which are hereby incorporated by reference.
  • (b) Tax Act and BC Tax Act. Any reference to a word or term defined in the Tax Act shall include, for purposes of British Columbia income taxation, a reference to the equivalent word or term, where applicable, defined in the BC Tax Act. Any reference to the Tax Act or a provision thereof shall include, for purposes of British Columbia income taxation, a reference to the BC Tax Act or the equivalent provision thereof, where applicable. Any reference to a filing or similar requirement imposed under the Tax Act shall include, for purposes of British Columbia income taxation, a reference to the equivalent filing or similar requirement, where applicable, under the BC Tax Act; provided that, if no filing or similar requirement is provided under the BC Tax Act, a copy of any material filed under the Tax Act will be filed with the BC Minister of Finance.
  • (c) Filings. The Company undertakes to file, or cause to be filed, all forms or undertakings required to be filed by the Company in connection with the issue and sale of the Offered Securities that the distribution of the Offered Securities to the Subscribers may lawfully occur without the necessity of filing a prospectus or an offering memorandum (but on terms that will permit the Offered Securities acquired by the Subscribers in the Selling Jurisdictions to be sold by such Subscribers at any time in the Selling Jurisdictions subject to applicable hold periods and other restrictions under the Securities Laws), and the Underwriters undertake to use their commercially reasonable best efforts to cause Subscribers

of Offered Securities to complete (and it shall be a condition of closing in favour of the Company that the Subscribers complete and deliver to the Company) any forms or undertakings required by the Securities Laws. All fees payable in connection with such filings shall be at the expense of the Company.

(d) Offering Memorandum. The Underwriters shall not (i) provide to prospective purchasers of Offered Securities any document or other material that would constitute an offering memorandum within the meaning of the Securities Laws of the Selling Jurisdictions or (ii) engage in any form of general solicitation or general advertising in connection with the offer and sale of the Offered Securities, including but not limited to, causing the sale of the Offered Securities to be advertised in any newspaper, magazine, printed public media, printed media or similar medium of general and regular paid circulation, broadcast over radio, television or telecommunications, including electronic display or the Internet, or otherwise, or conduct any seminar or meeting relating to any offer and sale of the Offered Securities whose attendees have been invited by a general solicitation or general advertising.

(e) Follow-On Transactions.

  • (i) The Company understands that following the Closing, some or all of the FT Units may be donated by the Subscribers to one or more "qualified donees", as defined in the Tax Act, and subsequently may be sold to investors by the qualified donee or qualified donees (the "Follow-On Transactions").
  • (ii) The Underwriters will cause or arrange for the purchasers to deliver such documentation respecting the Follow-on Transactions as may be required by the Company, acting reasonably, to determine that such transactions are exempt from applicable Securities Laws and in compliance with the rules and policies of the CSE and to make filings under applicable Securities Laws. Such documentation may include accredited investor certificates or evidence of such other exemption from the charities and subsequent investors and their consents to the disclosure of their acquisitions and or dispositions to the CSE and to the securities commissions under applicable Securities Laws.
  • (iii) The Underwriters acknowledge that the Company has no knowledge of the Follow-On Transactions other than that they may or may not occur and that the Company will have no involvement or participation in any Follow-On Transactions, other than to register any transfer of securities required as a result.
  • (iv) The Underwriters do not act, and will not purport to act, as agent or representative of the Company in connection with any Follow-On Transaction and services or activities, if any, performed by the Underwriters in connection with any Follow-On Transaction are excluded from this Agreement. The consideration payable to the Underwriters

hereunder is for the Underwriters' services in respect of the Offering only. The parties further acknowledge that the Company is not entitled, and will not become entitled, to receive any consideration in respect of any Follow-On Transaction that might occur.

(v) The Underwriters understand the Follow-On Transactions may or may not restrict the ability of a Subscriber to claim deductions for Resource Expenses to be renounced pursuant to a Subscription Agreement. The Follow-On Transactions may or may not affect whether the FT Unit Shares purchased by Subscribers under the Subscription Agreement are "prescribed shares" under subsection 6202.1(1) of the regulations to the Tax Act. Any covenant or representation by the Company that the FT Unit Shares are not "prescribed shares" is made on the basis that the Subscriber will not enter into any agreement or transaction (which would include any Follow-On Transactions) that could cause the shares to be "prescribed shares". The Company shall not be liable or responsible for any breach of any covenant or representation given in this Agreement if the FT Unit Shares are "prescribed shares" under subsection 6202.1(1) of the regulations to the Tax Act as a result of the Follow-On Transactions.

3. Press Releases

Neither the Company, nor the Underwriters, shall make any public announcement in connection with the Offering, except if the other party has consented to such announcement or the announcement is required by Applicable Laws or stock exchange rules. For greater certainty, the Company will promptly provide to the Underwriters drafts of any press releases of the Company relating to the Offering for review and comment by the Underwriters and the Underwriters' counsel prior to issuance, provided that any such review will be completed in a timely manner, and the Company will incorporate in such press releases all reasonable comments of the Underwriters. Any such press release shall contain the following legend: "NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO UNITED STATES NEWS WIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES." In addition, any such press release shall also contain the following disclaimer language: "This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to sell any of securities in the United States. The securities have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "U.S. Securities Act") or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold within the United States or to U.S. Persons unless registered under the U.S. Securities Act and applicable state securities laws or an exemption from such registration is available." For greater clarity, the Underwriters acknowledge that this Section 3 will not apply to public disclosure by the Company of the Offering in its public disclosure documents (such as financial statements, management's discussion and analysis, annual information forms, etc.) after the Closing Date.

4. Representations and Warranties of the Company.

The Company represents and warrants to the Underwriters and the Subscribers, and acknowledges that each of them is relying upon such representations and warranties in connection with the completion of the Offering, that:

  • (a) the Company has been duly organized and is validly existing under the laws of its jurisdiction of existence, is in good standing, has the corporate power and authority and is duly qualified and possesses all material certificates, authority, permits and licences issued by the appropriate provincial, municipal, federal regulatory agencies or bodies necessary (and has not received or is not aware of any modification or revocation to such certificates, authority, permits or licences, except such modifications or amendments as are necessary for the conduct of its business) to carry on its business as now conducted and to own its properties and assets, except for those certificates, authority, permits and licences which the failure to obtain would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect;
  • (b) other than the Subsidiary, the Company has no investment in any person which could be material to the business and affairs of the Company. The Company is the direct or indirect registered and beneficial owner of all of the issued and outstanding shares of or other voting securities in its Subsidiary free and clear of all encumbrances, liens, mortgages, hypothecations, security interests, charges, and no person, firm, corporation or entity has any agreement, option, right or privilege (whether pre-emptive or contractual) capable of becoming an agreement or option, for the purchase from the Company or the Subsidiary of any of the shares or other securities of the Subsidiary;
  • (c) the Subsidiary is existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation and, as described in Public Disclosure Documents, has the corporate power, capacity and authority to own, lease and operate its property and assets, to conduct its business as now conducted and as currently proposed to be conducted and to carry out the provisions hereof; (ii) the Subsidiary, where required, has been duly qualified as an extra-provincial or foreign corporation for the transaction of business and is in good standing under the laws of each other jurisdiction in which it owns or leases property, or conducts any business and is not precluded from carrying on business or owning property in such jurisdictions by any other commitment, agreement or document; and (iii) no proceedings have been instituted or, to the knowledge of the Company, are pending for the dissolution or liquidation or winding-up of the Subsidiary;
  • (d) the Company has the corporate power and authority to enter into this Agreement and the Ancillary Documents and to perform the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and the issuance and sale by the Company of the Unit Shares, FT Unit Shares, Warrants and the issuance and delivery of the Warrant Shares upon exercise of the Warrants have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action of the Company, and this Agreement and the Ancillary

Documents have been duly executed and delivered by the Company and this Agreement and the Ancillary Documents are, and will upon execution and delivery in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof be, a valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with their respective terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, or similar laws affecting creditors' rights generally and except as limited by the application of equitable remedies which may be granted in the discretion of a court of competent jurisdiction and that enforcement of the rights to indemnity and contribution set out in this Agreement and the Ancillary Documents as may be limited by applicable law;

  • (e) the authorized capital of the Company consists of an unlimited number of Common Shares, of which, as of the close of business on August 12, 2020, 168,708,461 Common Shares were issued and outstanding as fully paid and nonassessable and no person other than Avino Silver & Gold Mines Ltd. has any right, agreement or option, present or future, contingent or absolute, or any right capable of becoming such a right, agreement or option, for the issue or allotment of any unissued shares in the capital of the Company or any other security convertible into or exchangeable for any such shares, or to require the Company to purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any of the issued and outstanding shares in its capital other than options to purchase up to 10,043,750 Common Shares, 100,000 restricted share units, warrants to purchase up to 11,263,138 Common Shares, options to be granted to purchase up to 2,000,000 options to be granted to purchase Common Shares and up to 5,000,000 Common Shares issuable in connection with property acquisitions by the Company;
  • (f) all consents, approvals, permits, authorizations or filings as may be required under Canadian Securities Laws necessary for the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the Ancillary Documents and the issuance and sale of the Units, FT Units, Unit Shares, FT Unit Shares, Warrants and the issuance and delivery of the Warrant Shares upon exercise of the Warrants and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been made or obtained, as applicable other than the filings required under National Instrument 45-106 which will be completed on a post-closing basis;
  • (g) each of the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the Ancillary Documents, the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder or thereunder, the issue and sale of the Units, FT Units, Unit Shares, FT Unit Shares, Warrants and the issuance and delivery of the Warrant Shares upon exercise of the Warrants hereunder and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, respectively, do not and will not conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under (whether after notice or lapse of time or both), (A) any statute, rule or regulation applicable to the Company, including Canadian Securities Laws; (B) the constating documents of the Company or any resolutions passed by the board of directors or shareholders of the Company which are in effect at the date hereof; (C) any Material Agreement to which the Company is a party or by

which it is bound; or (D) any judgment, decree or order binding the Company or the property or assets of the Company;

  • (h) the audited annual financial statements of the Company for its fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, and notes thereto (the "Annual Financial Statements"), are true and correct in all material respects and present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position and results of the operations of the Company for the period then ended and such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS") as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board applied on a consistent basis;
  • (i) the unaudited financial statements of the Company for the interim period ended March 31, 2020 and notes thereto (together with the Annual Financial Statements, the "Company's Financial Statements"), are true and correct in all material respects and present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position and results of the operations of the Company for the period then ended and such financial statements will have been prepared in accordance with IFRS applied on a consistent basis;
  • (j) other than as disclosed in the Company's Financial Statements, there has been no change in accounting policies or practices of the Company since January 1, 2017;
  • (k) other than as disclosed in the Public Disclosure Documents, since December 31, 2019 and excluding expenditures in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, there has not been any adverse material change in the financial position or condition of the Company or the Subsidiary, nor any change in circumstances materially affecting its business, affairs, prospects, capital or assets, or the right or capacity of the Company to carry on its business, such business having been carried on in the ordinary course;
  • (l) there are no material liabilities of the Company, whether direct, indirect, contingent or otherwise which are not disclosed or reflected in the Company's Financial Statements except those incurred in the ordinary course of its business since December 31, 2019 and restoration obligations relating to the Subsidiary;
  • (m) all taxes (including income tax, capital tax, payroll taxes, employer health tax, workers' compensation payments, property taxes, customs duties and land transfer taxes), duties, royalties, levies, imposts, assessments, deductions, charges or withholdings and all liabilities with respect thereto including any penalty and interest payable with respect thereto (collectively, "Taxes") due and payable or required to be collected or withheld and remitted, by the Company and the Subsidiary have been paid, collected or withheld and remitted as applicable, except for where the failure to pay such Taxes would not have a Material Adverse Effect. All tax returns, declarations, remittances and filings required to be filed by the Company and the Subsidiary have been filed with all appropriate Governmental Authorities and all such returns, declarations, remittances and filings are complete and accurate in all material respects and no

material fact has been omitted therefrom which would make any of them misleading or result in a Material Adverse Effect. To the knowledge of the Company, no examination of any tax return of the Company or the Subsidiary is currently in progress and there are no issues or disputes outstanding with any Governmental Authority respecting any Taxes that have been paid, or may be payable, by the Company or the Subsidiary. There are no agreements, waivers or other arrangements with any taxation authority providing for an extension of time for any assessment or reassessment of Taxes with respect to the Company and the Subsidiary;

  • (n) the auditors of the Company who audited the Annual Financial Statements and who provided their audit report thereon are independent public accountants as required under applicable Canadian Securities Laws;
  • (o) since December 31, 2019, there has not been a "reportable event" (within the meaning of National Instrument 51-102) with the present or former auditors of the Company;
  • (p) the Company maintains a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with the Company's management's general or specific authorizations, (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit the preparation of financial statements for the Company in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in Canada and to maintain asset accountability, (iii) access to the assets of the Company is permitted only in accordance with the Company's management's general or specific authorization, (iv) the recorded accountability for assets of the Company is compared with the existing assets of the Company at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences;
  • (q) there is not, in the constating documents nor in any Material Agreement, any restriction upon or impediment to, the declaration or payment of cash dividends by the directors of the Company or the payment of cash dividends by the Company to the holders of the Common Shares;
  • (r) the Company and the Subsidiary are not a party to nor bound by or affected by any commitment, agreement or document containing any covenant which expressly limits the freedom of the Company or the Subsidiary to compete in any line of business, transfer or move any of its assets or operations or which has a Material Adverse Effect on the Company or the Subsidiary;
  • (s) except as disclosed to the Underwriters in writing, each of the Company and the Subsidiary has conducted, and is conducting, its business in compliance in all material respects with all applicable laws and regulations of each jurisdiction in which it carries on business (including all applicable federal, provincial, municipal and local environmental, anti-pollution and licensing laws, regulations and other lawful requirements of any governmental or regulatory body, including relevant exploration permits and concessions), and has not received a notice of

non-compliance, and does not know of, nor have reasonable grounds to know of, any facts that could give rise to a notice of material non-compliance with any such laws or regulations;

  • (t) the Company is in compliance in all material respects with corporate laws and its continuous disclosure obligations under Securities Laws and the information and statements in the Public Disclosure Documents were true and correct as of the respective dates of such information and statements and at the time such documents were filed on SEDAR, do not contain any misrepresentations and no material facts have been omitted therefrom which would make such information materially misleading, and the Company has not filed any confidential material change reports which remain confidential as of the date hereof. The Company is not aware of any circumstances presently existing under which liability is or would reasonably be expected to be incurred under Part XXIII.1 – Civil Liability for Secondary Market Disclosure of the Securities Act (Ontario) and analogous provisions under Securities Laws in the other Canadian Selling Jurisdictions;
  • (u) the Company has filed all forms, reports, documents and information required to be filed by it, whether pursuant to applicable securities laws or otherwise, with the CSE (or one of its predecessors) or the applicable securities regulatory authorities. As of the time the Public Disclosure Documents were filed with the applicable securities regulators and on SEDAR (System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval) (or, if amended or superseded by a filing prior to the date of this Agreement, then on the date of such filing): (i) each of the Public Disclosure Documents compiled in all material respects with the requirements of the applicable securities laws; and (ii) none of the Public Disclosure Documents contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;
  • (v) there is no "material fact" or "material change" (as those terms are defined in the applicable securities laws) in the affairs of the Company that has not been generally disclosed to the public;
  • (w) the Company and the Subsidiary are not and except as disclosed to the Underwriters in writing have not been in material violation of, in connection with the ownership, use, maintenance or operation of its Properties and assets, any applicable federal, provincial, state, municipal or local laws, by-laws, regulations, orders, policies, permits, licences, certificates or approvals having the force of law, domestic or foreign, relating to environmental, health or safety matters or hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, pollutants or contaminants (collectively, "environmental laws"). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing:
    • (i) except as disclosed to the Underwriters in writing the Company or the Subsidiary, as applicable, has occupied the Properties and has received, handled, used, stored, treated, shipped and disposed of all pollutants,

contaminants, hazardous or toxic materials, controlled or dangerous substances or wastes in compliance in all material respects with all applicable environmental laws and has received all permits, licences or other approvals required of it under applicable environmental laws to conduct its business; and

  • (ii) there are no orders, rulings or directives and to the Company's knowledge there have been no past unresolved claims, complaints, notices or requests for information issued against the Company or the Properties or, to the knowledge of the Company, there are no orders, rulings or directives pending or threatened against the Company or the Subsidiary under or pursuant to any environmental laws requiring any material work, repairs, construction or capital expenditures with respect to any Properties or assets of the Company;
  • (x) no notice with respect to any of the matters referred to in the immediately preceding paragraph, including any alleged violations by the Company or the Subsidiary with respect thereto has been received by the Company or the Subsidiary and no writ, injunction, order or judgement is outstanding, and no legal proceeding under or pursuant to any environmental laws or relating to the ownership, use, maintenance or operation of the Properties and assets of the Company or the Subsidiary is in progress, threatened or, to the Company's knowledge, pending, which would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company, and, to the Company's knowledge, there are no grounds or conditions which exist, on or under any property now owned, operated or leased by the Company or the Subsidiary, on which any such legal proceeding would reasonably be expected to commence or with the passage of time, or the giving of notice or both, would reasonably be expected to give rise;
  • (y) all significant acquisitions completed by the Company of any securities, business or assets of any other entity have been fully and properly disclosed in the Public Disclosure Documents, were completed in material compliance with all applicable corporate and Securities Laws and all required corporate and regulatory approvals, consents, authorizations, registrations, and filings required in connection therewith were obtained and complied with;
  • (z) to the Company's knowledge, all operations on the Properties of the Company and the Subsidiary have been conducted and are currently conducted in all material respects in accordance with engineering practices consistent with industry standards and any applicable material workers' compensation, and health, safety and workplace laws, regulations and policies;
  • (aa) the Company and the Subsidiary have all material licences, permits, approvals, consents, certificates, registrations and other authorizations (collectively the "Permits") under all applicable laws and regulations necessary for the operation of the businesses carried on by the Company and the Subsidiary and each Permit is valid, subsisting and in good standing and the Company nor the Subsidiary are in default or breach of any Permit, and to the Company's knowledge, no

proceeding is pending or threatened to revoke or limit any Permit, other than as disclosed to the Underwriters in writing;

  • (bb) the title opinion to be delivered by the Company and the Subsidiary pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, covers all of the material claims and mining leases that comprise the Bralorne Gold Complex;

  • (cc) there are no open fractional undersurface rights areas in respect of the Bralorne Gold Complex between the boundaries of the Crown grants owned by the Subsidiary that are not otherwise subject to a mineral claim tenure registered in the name of the Subsidiary as to an undivided 100% interest;

  • (dd) to the best of the Company's knowledge, the Company and the Subsidiary have registered mineral claims over all geographic areas that are required for the exploration plans to be conducted with the gross proceeds of the Offering;

  • (ee) at the Closing Time, all necessary corporate action has been taken by the Company to: (i) validly authorize and issue the Units and FT Units; (ii) validly authorize and issue the Unit Shares and the FT Unit Shares as fully paid and nonassessable Common Shares; (iii) validly create, authorize and issue the Warrants; and (iv) authorize the issuance of Warrant Shares as fully paid and nonassessable Common Shares upon the due exercise of the Warrants in accordance with the terms of the Warrant Indenture;

  • (ff) the Company is a reporting issuer in the Reporting Jurisdictions and on the Closing Date will have been a reporting issuer in such provinces for at least four months. The Company is not included on a list of reporting issuers in default maintained by any of the Securities Regulators of the Reporting Jurisdictions;

  • (gg) the Company and the Subsidiary do not have any loans or other indebtedness outstanding which has been made to any of its shareholders, officers, directors or employees, or any person not dealing at "arm's length" (as such term is defined in the Tax Act) with the Company or the Subsidiary;

  • (hh) the Company and the Subsidiary have not guaranteed or agreed to guarantee any debt, liability or other obligation of any kind whatsoever of any person, firm or corporation whatsoever;

  • (ii) the Company and the Subsidiary maintain insurance against loss of, or damage to, its material assets including property and casualty insurance for all of their operations on a basis consistent with insurance obtained by reasonably prudent participants in a comparable business in comparable circumstances and all of the policies in respect of such insurance are in amounts and on terms that in the view of the Company's management are reasonable for operations such as these and are in good standing in all respects;

  • (jj) the Transfer Agent, at its principal offices in the city of Toronto, Ontario has been duly appointed as transfer agent and registrar in respect of the Common Shares;

  • (kk) other than the Underwriters, there are no persons acting or purporting to act at the request of or on behalf of the Company, that are entitled to any brokerage or finder's fee in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement;

  • (ll) other than the Company and the Subsidiary, there is no person that is or will be directly entitled to the proceeds from the sale of the Offered Securities pursuant to this Offering under the terms of any Debt Instrument or Material Agreement, or other instrument, agreement or document (written or unwritten);

  • (mm) the Company and the Subsidiary are not a party to any agreement, nor is the Company aware of any agreement, which in any manner affects the voting control of any of the securities of the Company;

  • (nn) the Company and the Subsidiary are not a party to any Debt Instrument or any agreement, contract or commitment to create, assume or issue any Debt Instrument other than in the ordinary course of business;

  • (oo) neither the Company, the Subsidiary, nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any other person is in default in the observance or performance of any material term or obligation to be performed by it under any Material Agreement, and no event has occurred which with notice or lapse of time or both would reasonably be expected to constitute such a default;

  • (pp) the minute books and records of the Company which the Company has made available to the Underwriters and their legal counsel in connection with their due diligence investigation of the Company, are all of the minute books and all of the records of the Company and contain copies of all proceedings (or certified copies thereof) of the shareholders, the board of directors and all committees of the board of directors of the Company to the date of review of such corporate records and minute books. All material transactions of the Company have been properly recorded in the minute books in all material respects;

  • (qq) there are no material actions, suits, judgments, investigations or proceedings of any kind whatsoever outstanding or, to the Company's knowledge, pending, threatened against or affecting the Company or the Subsidiary, or to the Company's knowledge, threatened or pending, against the Company or the Subsidiary at law or in equity or before or by any federal, provincial, state, municipal or other governmental department, commission, board, bureau or agency of any kind whatsoever;

  • (rr) there are no judgments against the Company or the Subsidiary which are unsatisfied, nor are there any consent decrees or injunctions to which the Company or the Subsidiary are subject;

  • (ss) except as disclosed to the Underwriters in writing, the Company and the Subsidiary, as applicable, are the absolute legal and beneficial owner of, and has good and marketable title to all of the material property or assets thereof as described in the Public Disclosure Documents, including the Properties, as described in the Public Disclosure Documents, free of all mortgages, liens, charges, pledges, security interests, encumbrances, claims or demands whatsoever, other than those described in the Public Disclosure Documents, and no other rights are necessary for the conduct of the business of the Company or the Subsidiary as currently conducted or contemplated to be conducted other than those described in the Public Disclosure Documents, the Company knows of no claim or basis for any claim that would reasonably be expected to materially adversely affect the right of the Company to use, transfer or otherwise exploit such property rights, other than those described in the Public Disclosure Documents, and the Company and the Subsidiary have no responsibility or obligation to pay any commission, royalty, licence fee or similar payment to any person with respect to the property rights thereof, except as described in the Public Disclosure Documents;

  • (tt) the Company and the Subsidiary, hold either freehold title, mining leases, mining concessions, mining claims or other conventional property, proprietary or contractual interests or rights, including access and surface rights, recognized in the jurisdiction in which the Properties are located in respect of the ore bodies and specified minerals located in the Properties in which the Company or the Subsidiary have an interest as described in the Public Disclosure Documents under valid, subsisting and enforceable title documents or other recognized and enforceable agreements or instruments, sufficient to permit the Company or the Subsidiary to access the Properties and explore and exploit the minerals relating thereto as are appropriate in view of their respective rights and interests therein; all such properties, leases, concessions or claims in which the Company and the Subsidiary have any interests or rights have been validly located and recorded in accordance with all applicable laws and are valid, subsisting and in good standing.

  • (uu) any and all of the agreements and other documents and instruments pursuant to which the Company and the Subsidiary holds their property and assets (including any interest in, or right to earn an interest in, any Property) are valid and subsisting agreements, documents or instruments in full force and effect, enforceable in accordance with the terms thereof, the Company and the Subsidiary are not in default of any of the material provisions of any such agreements, documents or instruments nor has any such default been alleged. None of the Properties (or any interest in, or right to earn an interest in, any Property) of the Company and the Subsidiary are subject to any right of first refusal or purchase or acquisition rights other than as set forth in the Public Disclosure Documents;

  • (vv) the Company and the Subsidiary have disclosed all material information relating to the Properties and any other material mineral properties of the Company and

the Subsidiary in the Public Disclosure Documents in compliance with Canadian Securities Laws and such disclosure remains true, complete and accurate in all material respects as of the date hereof;

  • (ww) to the Company's knowledge there are no environmental audits, evaluations, assessments, studies or tests relating to the Company or the Subsidiary, except for ongoing assessments conducted by or on behalf of the Company in the ordinary course and as disclosed to the Underwriters in writing;
  • (xx) no part of the Properties or the mining rights or permits of the Company or the Subsidiary have been taken, revoked, condemned, or expropriated by any Governmental Authority nor has any written notice or proceedings in respect thereof been given, or to the knowledge of the Company, been commenced, threatened, or is pending, nor does the Company or the Subsidiary have any knowledge of the intent or proposal to give such notice or commence any such proceedings;
  • (yy) there are no claims or actions with respect to indigenous rights currently outstanding, or to the best knowledge of the Company, threatened or pending, with respect to the Properties. No land entitlement claims have been asserted and no legal actions relating to indigenous issues have been instituted with respect to the Properties, and no material dispute in respect of the Properties or any of the material mineral projects of the Company or the Subsidiary with any local or indigenous group or other interest group exists or, to the knowledge of the Company, is threatened or imminent;
  • (zz) the Company is in compliance in all material respects with National Instrument 43-101 ("NI 43-101") and has duly filed all reports required to be filed by the Company pursuant to NI 43-101, and all such reports comply in all material respects with the requirements of NI 43-101;
  • (aaa) the currently issued and outstanding Common Shares are, and at the time of issue of the Offered Securities will be, listed and posted for trading on the CSE and no order ceasing or suspending trading in any securities of the Company or prohibiting the sale or trading of the Company's issued securities has been issued and no proceedings for such purpose are pending or, to the Company's knowledge, threatened;
  • (bbb) the Company has not taken any action which would be reasonably expected to result in the delisting or suspension of the Common Shares on or from the CSE and the Company is currently in compliance with the rules and policies of the CSE in all material respects;
  • (ccc) to the knowledge of the Company, (i) there are no regulatory investigations commenced, pending or threatened against any of the Company's officers or directors and (ii) none of the officers or directors of the Company are now or have ever been, subject to an order or ruling of any securities regulatory authority or stock exchange prohibiting such individual from acting as a director

or officer of a public company or of a company listed on a particular stock exchange;

  • (ddd) the Company and the Subsidiary have established on their books and records reserves which are adequate for the payment of all Taxes not yet due and payable and there are no liens for Taxes on the assets of the Company or the Subsidiary except for Taxes not yet due, and, to the Company's knowledge, there are no audits of any of the tax returns of the Company or the Subsidiary pending, and there are no claims which have been or would reasonably be expected to be asserted relating to any such tax returns which, if determined adversely, would result in the assertion by any governmental agency of any deficiency which would have a Material Adverse Effect;

  • (eee) no proceedings have been taken, instituted or, to the Company's knowledge, are pending for the dissolution or liquidation of the Company or the Subsidiary;

  • (fff) to the knowledge of the Company, neither the Company nor any director, officer, employee, consultant, representative or agent of the Company or the Subsidiary, have (i) violated any anti-bribery or anti-corruption laws applicable to the Company or the Subsidiary, including but not limited to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 (United States) and the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (Canada), or (ii) offered, paid, promised to pay, or authorized the payment of any money, or offered, given, promised to give, or authorized the giving of anything of value, that goes beyond what is reasonable and customary and/or of modest value: (X) to any government official, whether directly or through any other person, for the purpose of influencing any act or decision of a government official in his or her official capacity; inducing a government official to do or omit to do any act in violation of his or her lawful duties; securing any improper advantage; inducing a government official to influence or affect any act or decision of any Governmental Authority; or assisting any representative of the Company or the Subsidiary in obtaining or retaining business for or with, or directing business to, any person; or (Y) to any person in a manner which would constitute or have the purpose or effect of public or commercial bribery, or the acceptance of or acquiescence in extortion, kickbacks, or other unlawful or improper means of obtaining business or any improper advantage. The Company and the Subsidiary have not and, to the knowledge of the Company no director, officer, employee, consultant, representative or agent of foregoing, have (i) conducted or initiated any review, audit, or internal investigation that concluded the Company, the Subsidiary, or any director, officer, employee, consultant, representative or agent of the Company or the Subsidiary violated such laws or committed any material wrongdoing, or (ii) made a voluntary, directed, or involuntary disclosure to any Governmental Authority responsible for enforcing anti-bribery or anti-corruption laws, in each case with respect to any alleged act or omission arising under or relating to non-compliance with any such laws, or received any notice, request, or citation from any person alleging noncompliance with any such laws;

  • (ggg) the operations of the Company and the Subsidiary are and have been conducted at all times in all material respects in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the money laundering statutes of all applicable jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any applicable Governmental Authority (collectively, the "Money Laundering Laws") and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court of Governmental Authority or any arbitrator or non-Governmental Authority involving the Company or the Subsidiary with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is to the knowledge of the Company pending or threatened;

  • (hhh) the expenses to be renounced by the Company to the Subscribers of the FT Unit Shares will constitute Resource Expenses on the effective date of the renunciation and on the date incurred. The expenses to be renounced by the Company to the Subscribers (i) will not include any amount that has previously been renounced by the Company to any of the Subscribers or to any other person; and (ii) would be deductible by the Company in computing its income for the purposes of Part I of the Tax Act but for the renunciation to the Subscribers;

  • (iii) the Company has no reason to believe that it will be unable to incur (or be deemed to incur), on or after the Closing Date and on or before the Termination Date or that it will be unable to renounce to the Subscribers of the FT Unit Shares, effective on or before December 31, 2020, Resource Expenses in an amount equal to the Commitment Amount and the Company has no reason to expect any reduction of such amounts by virtue of subsection 66(12.73) of the Tax Act;

  • (jjj) except as a result of any Follow-On Transaction or any agreement, arrangement, undertaking or understanding to which the Company is not a party and of which it has no knowledge, upon issue and payment therefor the FT Unit Shares will be "flow-through shares" as defined in subsection 66(15) of the Tax Act and will not be "prescribed shares" within the meaning of section 6202.1 of the regulations to the Tax Act;

  • (kkk) if the Company amalgamates with any one or more companies, any shares issued to or held by the Subscriber as a replacement for the FT Unit Shares as a result of such amalgamation will qualify, by virtue of subsection 87(4.4) of the Tax Act or otherwise, as "flow-through shares" as defined in subsection 66(15) of the Tax Act, and in particular will not be "prescribed shares" as defined in section 6202.1 of the regulations to the Tax Act, but for any agreement to which the Company is not a party and of which it has no knowledge;

  • (lll) the Company is and will continue to be a Principal Business Corporation until such time as all of the Resource Expenses required to be renounced under this Agreement and the Resource Expenses have been incurred or have been deemed to be incurred and validly renounced pursuant to the Tax Act;

  • (mmm) the Company is not, and (other than as disclosed to the Underwriters) has never been in default of any of its legal obligations in respect of any "flow-through share" financings previously undertaken by the Company;

  • (nnn) the Company has not breached any flow-through share agreement to which it is or was a party and, in particular, the Company has not failed to incur or renounce expenses which it covenanted to incur or renounce nor has the Minister of National Revenue or the Company reduced pursuant to subsection 66(12.73) of the Tax Act any amount renounced by the Company;

  • (ooo) provided that the Subscriber is not a "control person" of the Company or otherwise subject to any escrow requirements under applicable Securities Laws, the FT Unit Shares will not be subject to a restricted period or statutory hold period under the securities laws of the Reporting Jurisdictions or to any resale restriction under the policies of the Canadian Securities Exchange which extends beyond four months and one day after the Closing Date; and

  • (ppp) the Company or the Subsidiary have not committed an act of bankruptcy or sought protection from the creditors thereof before any court or pursuant to any legislation, proposed a compromise or arrangement to the creditors thereof generally, taken any proceeding with respect to a compromise or arrangement, taken any proceeding to be declared bankrupt or wound up, taken any proceeding to have a receiver appointed of any of the assets thereof, had any person holding any encumbrance, lien, charge, hypothec, pledge, mortgage, title retention agreement or other security interest or receiver take possession of any of the property thereof, had an execution or distress become enforceable or levied upon any portion of the property thereof or had any petition for a receiving order in bankruptcy filed against it.

5. Covenants of the Company.

  • 5.1 The Company hereby covenants to the Underwriters, the Subscribers and their respective permitted assigns and acknowledges that each of them is relying on such covenants in connection with the completion of the Offering that the Company shall:

    • (a) for a period of two years following the Closing Date, use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain its status as a "reporting issuer" or the equivalent not in default in at least one of the Reporting Jurisdictions, provided that this covenant shall not prevent the Company from completing any transaction which would result in the Company ceasing to be a "reporting issuer" so long as the holders of Common Shares receive securities of an entity which is listed on a stock exchange in Canada or cash or the holders of Common Shares have approved the transaction in accordance with the requirements of applicable corporate and Securities Laws and the policies of the CSE (or any securities exchange, market or trading or quotation facility on which the Common Shares are then listed or quoted);
  • (b) for a period of two years following the Closing Date, use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain its listing on the CSE, or on such other recognized stock exchange provided that this covenant shall not prevent the Company from completing any transaction which would result in the Company ceasing to be listed so long as the holders of Common Shares receive securities of an entity which is listed on a stock exchange in Canada or cash or the holders of Common Shares have approved the transaction in accordance with the requirements of applicable corporate and Securities Laws and the policies of the CSE (or any securities exchange, market or trading or quotation facility on which the Common Shares are then listed or quoted);

  • (c) obtain any necessary regulatory approvals from the CSE in connection with the sale of the Offered Securities hereunder on such conditions as are acceptable to the Underwriters and the Company, acting reasonably;

  • (d) immediately send to the Underwriters and their legal counsel copies of all correspondence and filings to and correspondence from the Securities Regulators relating to the Offering;

  • (e) permit the Underwriters and their legal counsel to participate fully in the preparation of any documents regarding the Offering and allow the Underwriters and their legal counsel to conduct such full and comprehensive review of the Company's business, capital and operations as the Underwriters consider necessary, acting reasonably;

  • (f) use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause each of the directors and officers of the Company to execute a lock-up agreement in a form acceptable to the Underwriters, acting reasonably, providing that such individuals shall not sell or agree to sell any Common Shares or securities exchangeable or convertible into Common Shares held as of the Closing Date, for a period of 120 days following the Closing Date, without the prior consent of the Underwriters, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed;

  • (g) other than up to 2,000,000 options to purchase Common Shares and up to 5,000,000 Common Shares issuable in respect of a property acquisition by the Company, the Company agrees not to issue, or announce the intention to issue, without the prior written consent of Sprott (on behalf of the Underwriters), such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned any Common Shares or any securities convertible into or exchangeable for or exercisable to acquire Common Shares for a period of 120 days following the Closing Date except in connection with: (i) the grant or exercise of stock options and other similar issuances pursuant to the stock option plan of the Company and other share compensation arrangements outstanding as of the date hereof; (ii) warrants or other convertible securities outstanding as of the date hereof; (iii) as full or partial consideration for a bona fide, arm's length transaction relating to the business of the Company; (iv) as full or partial payment to bona fide consultants performing services for the Company; and (v) the issuance of Common Shares or securities convertible into or exchangeable for or exercisable to acquire Common

Shares to third parties pursuant to existing rights of participation or other similar arrangements.

  • (h) duly execute and deliver the Ancillary Documents at the Closing Time and shall comply with and satisfy all terms, conditions and covenants therein contained to be complied with or satisfied by the Company;

  • (i) fulfil or cause to be fulfilled, at or prior to the Closing Date, each of the conditions set out in Section 8 hereof;

  • (j) will ensure that the Unit Shares and FT Unit Shares shall be duly and validly authorized and issued as fully paid and non-assessable shares in the capital of the Company;

  • (k) will ensure that the Warrants, upon issuance, shall be duly and validly created, authorized and issued;

  • (l) will ensure that the Warrant Shares, shall be duly and validly authorized and reserved for issuance and, when issued following receipt of the exercise price thereof in accordance with the terms of the Warrant Indenture, shall be issued as fully paid and non-assessable shares in the capital of the Company;

  • (m) provide the Underwriters with draft press releases relating to the Offering and the opportunity to comment and obtain their prior approval, acting reasonably, to the form and content of any such press releases;

  • (n) not take any action so as to require the filing of a prospectus with respect to the Offering;

  • (o) take all such steps as may reasonably be necessary to enable the Offered Securities to be offered for sale and sold on a private placement basis to the Subscriber in accordance with the terms hereof by way of exemption under applicable Securities Laws and on the basis that the "hold period" under applicable Securities Laws applicable to the Unit Shares, FT Unit Shares, Warrants and Warrant Shares issued as contemplated hereunder shall not exceed four months and a day, subject to any "control person" or escrow requirements applicable to the Subscriber;

  • (p) keep proper books, records and accounts of all Qualifying Expenditures and all transactions affecting the Commitment Amount and the Qualifying Expenditures and, in the event the CRA denies or proposes to deny the deduction of Qualifying Expenditures renounced to the Subscriber hereunder, and upon reasonable notice, to make such books, records and accounts available for inspection and audit by or on behalf of the Subscriber during normal business hours at the Subscriber's expense and to provide such other assistance to the Subscriber as may be reasonably required, for the sole purpose of responding to the demand or proposal of the CRA;

  • (q) not enter into transactions or take deductions which would otherwise reduce its cumulative CEE to an extent which would preclude a renunciation of Qualifying Expenditures hereunder in an amount equal to the Commitment Amount effective on or before December 31, 2020;

  • (r) in the event that the Minister of National Revenue determines that the Company cannot renounce to the Subscriber Qualifying Expenditures equal to the Commitment Amount, renounce such lesser amount as is permitted without any prejudice to any other rights the Subscriber may have under this Agreement; and

  • (s) use commercially reasonable efforts to remain, for a period of a least 18 months after the Closing Date, a corporation validly subsisting under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation, licensed, registered or qualified as an extraprovincial or foreign corporation in all jurisdictions where the character of its properties owned or leased or the nature of the activities conducted by it make such licensing, registration or qualification necessary and shall carry on its business in the ordinary course and in compliance in all material respects with all applicable laws, rules and regulations of each such jurisdiction.

  • 5.2 The Company hereby covenants to the Underwriters, the Subscribers and their respective permitted assigns and acknowledges that each of them is relying on such covenants in connection with the completion of sale and purchase of the FT Unit Shares, as follows:

    • (a) Use of Proceeds. The Company shall use the Commitment Amount to fund directly or indirectly Resource Expenses to be incurred on the Company's Properties.
    • (b) Renunciation of Resource Expenses. The Company agrees to incur (or be deemed to have incurred) Resource Expenses in an amount equal to the Commitment Amount on or after the Closing Date and on or before the Termination Date in accordance with this Agreement and the Subscription Agreements and agrees to renounce to the Subscribers of the FT Unit Shares, with an effective date no later than December 31, 2020, pursuant to subsection 66(12.6) of the Tax Act, and in respect of Resource Expenses incurred by the Company after 2020, in conjunction with subsection 66(12.66) of the Tax Act, Resource Expenses incurred (or deemed to be incurred) by the Company on or after the Closing Date and on or before the Termination Date, in an amount equal to the Commitment Amount.
    • (c) No Reduction to Renunciation. Unless required to do so pursuant to subsection 66(12.73) of the Tax Act, the Company shall not reduce the amount renounced to the Subscribers pursuant to subsection 66(12.6) of the Tax Act. If the Company receives, or becomes entitled to receive, or may reasonably be expected to receive, any assistance which is described in the definition of "assistance" in subsection 66(15) of the Tax Act and the receipt of or entitlement or reasonable expectation to receive such assistance has or will have the effect of reducing the amount of Resource Expenses validly renounced to the Subscribers of the FT Unit Shares, the Company will incur (or be deemed to have incurred) additional

Resource Expenses using funds from sources other than the Commitment Amount in an amount equal to such assistance, such that the aggregate Resource Expenses renounced to the applicable Subscribers effective no later than December 31, 2020 pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and the Subscription Agreements will not be less than nor exceed the Commitment Amount.

  • (d) No Impairment to Renounce. The Company shall not be subject to the provisions of subsection 66(12.67) of the Tax Act in a manner which impairs its ability to renounce Resource Expenses to the Subscribers of FT Unit Shares in an amount equal to the Commitment Amount.
  • (e) Indemnification. If the Company does not renounce to the Subscribers of FT Unit Shares effective on or before December 31, 2020 Resource Expenses equal to the Commitment Amount, and provided the Subscriber is not in breach of any of its representations and warranties which would prevent the renunciation of such expenses, the Company shall indemnify and hold harmless the Subscribers and each of the partners thereof if the Subscribers are a partnership or a limited partnership (for the purposes of this paragraph each an "Indemnified Person") as to, and pay to the Indemnified Person on or before the 20th Business Day following the date the amount is definitively determined, an amount equal to the amount of any tax (within the meaning of subparagraph (c) of the definition of "excluded obligation" at subsection 6202.1(5) of the regulations to the Tax Act) payable under the Tax Act (and under the corresponding provincial legislation) by any Indemnified Person as a consequence of such failure. In the event that the amount renounced by the Company to the Subscribers is reduced pursuant to subsection 66(12.73) of the Tax Act, the Company shall indemnify and hold harmless each Indemnified Person as to, and pay to the Indemnified Person on or before the 20th Business Day following the date the amount is definitively determined, an amount equal to the amount of any tax (within the meaning of subparagraph (c) of the definition of "excluded obligation" at subsection 6202.1(5) of the regulations to the Tax Act) payable under the Tax Act (and under the corresponding provincial legislation) by the Indemnified Person as a consequence of such reduction. This indemnity is in addition to and not in derogation of any other recourse, rights or remedies the Subscribers may have against the Company. For certainty, the foregoing indemnity shall have no force or effect and the Subscribers shall not have any recourse or rights of action to the extent that such indemnity would otherwise cause the FT Unit Shares to be "prescribed shares" within the meaning of section 6202.1 of the regulations to the Tax Act.
  • (f) CRA Filings. The Company shall file with the CRA and with any applicable provincial tax authority, within the time prescribed by subsection 66(12.68) of the Tax Act and the applicable provisions of provincial law, the forms prescribed for the purposes of such legislation together with a copy of the Subscription Agreements or any "selling instrument" contemplated by such legislation and shall forthwith following such filing provide to the Subscribers of FT Unit Shares a copy of such form certified by an officer of the Company. The

Company shall timely file with the CRA and with any applicable provincial tax authority any return required to be filed under Part XII.6 of the Tax Act (or any corresponding provision of applicable provincial law) in respect of the particular year, and will pay any tax or other amount owing in respect of that return on a timely basis.

  • (g) Delivery of Prescribed Forms. The Company shall deliver to the Subscribers of FT Unit Shares, within the time prescribed under the Tax Act, the relevant Prescribed Forms (including the T101 forms), fully completed and executed, renouncing to the Subscribers of the FT Unit Shares, Resource Expenses in an amount equal to the Commitment Amount with an effective date of no later than December 31, 2020, and such delivery shall constitute the authorization of the Company to the Subscribers to file such Prescribed Forms with the relevant taxation authorities.
  • (h) Renunciation Priority and Pro Rata Reduction. The Company shall incur and renounce Resource Expenses pursuant to the Subscription Agreements and all other agreements with other persons providing for the issue of FT Unit Shares entered into by the Company on the Closing Date (collectively, the "Other Agreements") before incurring and renouncing Resource Expenses pursuant to any other agreement which the Company may subsequently enter into after the Closing Date with any person with respect to the issue of shares which are "flowthrough shares" as defined in subsection 66(15) of the Tax Act. If the Company is required under the Tax Act or otherwise to reduce Resource Expenses previously renounced to the Subscribers and unless the Subscribers are adversely affected and otherwise agree, the reduction shall be made pro rata by the number of FT Unit Shares purchased only after it has first reduced to the extent possible all Resource Expenses renounced to persons (other than the Subscribers) under any agreements relating to shares which are "flow-through shares" as defined in subsection 66(15) of the Tax Act entered into after the Closing Date.
  • (i) Notification of Excess Amounts Renounced. Upon the Company becoming aware of the fact that an amount purportedly renounced pursuant to the Subscription Agreement exceeds the amount that it is entitled to renounce under the Tax Act, the Company will notify the Subscriber of FT Unit Shares and comply with subsection 66(12.73) of the Tax Act, including the filing with the CRA of the statements contemplated therein, a copy of which will be sent concurrently to the Subscriber.
  • (j) No Other Agreements. The Company shall not enter into any other agreement which would prevent or restrict its ability to renounce Resource Expenses to the Subscribers in the amount of the Commitment Amount.
  • (k) Books and Records. The Company shall maintain proper, complete and accurate accounting books and records relating to the Commitment Amount, the Resource Expenses, the amounts renounced to the Subscribers under this Agreement and the Subscription Agreements and all transactions relating to the Resource Expenses. The Company shall retain all such books and records as may be

required to support the renunciation of Resource Expenses contemplated by this Agreement and the Ancillary Documents and, upon reasonable notice, shall make such books and records available for inspection and audit by or on behalf of the Subscribers, at the Subscriber's sole expense.

(l) Deductibility of CEE. All the CEE renounced to the Subscribers pursuant to the Subscription Agreements will be CEE incurred by the Company that, but for the renunciation to the Subscriber, the Company would be entitled to deduct in computing income for the purposes of Part I of the Tax Act.

6. Representations, Warranties and Covenants of the Underwriters.

Each of the Underwriters hereby severally, and not jointly nor jointly and severally, represents, warrants and covenants to the Company and acknowledges that the Company is relying upon such representations and warranties in completing the Offering, that:

  • (a) in respect of the offer and sale of the Offered Securities, each Underwriter will conduct its activities in connection with the Offering and comply with all applicable Securities Laws and the provisions of this Agreement;
  • (b) the Underwriters shall only sell the Offered Securities in accordance with Securities Laws and to persons who represent themselves as being:
    • (i) persons purchasing as principal or deemed to be purchasing as principal under Securities Laws or purchasing as authorized agents on behalf of a disclosed principal; and
    • (ii) qualified to purchase the Offered Securities under the applicable Requirements in the Selling Jurisdictions or in such other jurisdictions as may be agreed to by the Company and the Underwriters;
  • (c) the Underwriters shall ensure that any dealer who is appointed by an Underwriter pursuant to this Agreement agrees in writing to comply with the covenants and obligations given by the Underwriters herein;
  • (d) notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 6, an Underwriter will not be liable to the Company under this Section 6 with respect to a default under this Section 6 by another Underwriter;
  • (e) at least one of the Underwriters is duly registered in the appropriate category of dealer under the Securities Laws in each of the Selling Jurisdictions, and in Selling Jurisdictions in which no Underwriter is so registered, the Underwriters will, if required by Securities Laws, act only through members of a selling group who are so registered;
  • (f) it has not and will not solicit offer, sell, trade, distribute or otherwise do any act in furtherance of a trade of the Offered Securities so as to require the filing of a prospectus or offering memorandum with respect thereto or the provision of a

contractual right of action (as defined in OSC Rule 14-501) under the laws of any jurisdiction;

  • (g) none of the Underwriters, any of their respective affiliates or any person acting on behalf of the foregoing have made or will make (i) any offer to sell, or any solicitation of an offer to buy, any Offered Securities to a person in the United States or a U.S. Person; or (ii) any sale or facilitate any sale, as applicable, of Offered Securities to any person in the United States or a U.S. Person, except in compliance with Schedule "A" hereto;
  • (h) neither the Underwriters nor their respective affiliates, or any person acting on behalf of the foregoing, have engaged or will engage in any Directed Selling Efforts;
  • (i) no selling or promotional expenses will be paid or incurred in connection with the Offering, except for professional services or for services performed by a registered dealer;
  • (j) it will not make available to prospective Subscribers any document or material that would constitute an offering memorandum, preliminary prospectus or prospectus, as applicable, as defined under the applicable Securities Laws and the United States federal and state securities laws nor will it conduct its activities so as to require the filing of a prospectus or offering memorandum and will cause similar covenants to be contained in any agreement with any selling firms in connection with the Offering;
  • (k) it will not trade in Offered Securities or otherwise do any act in furtherance of a trade of Offered Securities outside of the Selling Jurisdictions, except as contemplated in the Subscription Agreements, this Agreement or otherwise with the prior consent of the Company, not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed;
  • (l) it will not advertise the proposed sale of the Offered Securities in printed media of general and regular paid circulation, or broadcast over radio or television or otherwise conduct any seminar or meeting concerning the offer or sale of the Offered Securities where attendees have been invited by general solicitation or general advertising;
  • (m) it will not solicit subscriptions for Offered Securities except in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement;
  • (n) it will obtain from each Subscriber an executed Subscription Agreement and such forms as may be required by the Governmental Authorities or other similar regulatory authority or the Company as supplied by the Company to such agent; and
  • (o) it will provide or cause to be provided to the Company all necessary information in respect of such agent and the Subscribers to allow the Company to file, with the Governmental Authorities or other similar regulatory authority, if required,

reports of the trades of the Offered Securities in accordance with applicable Securities Law and CSE policies.

7. Closing Deliveries.

The Closing of the transactions contemplated under this Agreement shall be completed electronically, or at such other place and Sprott, on behalf of the Underwriters, and the Company shall agree upon.

At or before the Closing Time, the Underwriters shall have delivered to the Company:

  • (a) a completed and executed Subscription Agreement (including all certifications, forms and other documentation contemplated thereby or as may be required by applicable securities regulatory authorities) in a form acceptable to the Company, from each Subscriber; and
  • (b) an invoice or written direction for the Underwriters' Fee and expenses payable by the Company to the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement; and
  • (c) such further documentation as may be contemplated herein or as the Company may reasonably require.

At or before the Closing Time, the Company shall deliver to the Underwriters:

  • (a) evidence of electronic deposit of the Offered Securities (excluding the Warrant Shares) registered as the Underwriters may direct;
  • (b) payment of the Underwriters' Fee and expenses payable by the Company to the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement;
  • (c) the requisite documentation as contemplated in Section 8 of this Agreement; and
  • (d) such further documentation as may be contemplated herein or as the Underwriters may reasonably require;

against payment by the Underwriters to the Company of the aggregate Purchase Price for the Offered Securities (excluding the Warrant Shares) by wire transfer or certified cheque payable to the Company.

8. Closing Conditions

The Underwriters' obligation to complete the Offering shall be conditional upon the fulfilment at or before the Closing Time of the following conditions:

(a) the Underwriters shall have received a certificate dated as of the Closing Date, signed by the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, or such other officers of the Company as the Underwriters may agree, certifying for and on behalf of the Company, to the best of their knowledge, information and belief after due inquiry, that:

  • (i) no order, ruling or determination having the effect of suspending the sale or ceasing the trading in any securities of the Company (including the Common Shares) has been issued by any regulatory authority and is continuing in effect and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending or, are contemplated or threatened by any regulatory authority;

  • (ii) the Company has duly complied with all the terms, covenants and conditions of this Agreement on its part to be complied with up to the Closing Time; and

  • (iii) the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement are true and correct as of the Closing Time with the same force and effect as if made at and as of the Closing Time after giving effect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement;

  • (b) the Underwriters shall have received a certificate dated as of the Closing Date, signed by the appropriate officer of the Company addressed to the Underwriters and their counsel, with respect to the constating documents of the Company, all resolutions of the Company's board of directors relating to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, the incumbency and specimen signatures of signing officers and such other matters as the Underwriters may reasonably request;

  • (c) the Underwriters have received satisfactory evidence that the CSE policies relating to private placements have been complied with;

  • (d) the Subscription Agreements shall have been executed and delivered by the parties thereto in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters and their counsel, acting reasonably;

  • (e) the Underwriters shall have received a favourable legal opinion addressed to the Underwriters dated the Closing Date from counsel for the Company (it being understood that such counsel may rely to the extent appropriate in the circumstances, (i) as to matters of fact, on certificates of the Company executed on its behalf by a senior officer of the Company; (ii) as to matters of fact not independently established, on certificates of a public official or regulatory body; and (iii) as to matters of law, on consulting counsel in the applicable local jurisdictions) substantially with respect to the following matters:

    • (i) the Company is a "reporting issuer" in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario;
    • (ii) the Company is a corporation continued and existing under the laws of Ontario and has the corporate capacity to carry on its business as now conducted and to own, lease and operate its property and assets;
    • (iii) as to the authorized and outstanding share capital of the Company;
  • (iv) the Company has the corporate capacity and power to execute and deliver this Agreement and the Ancillary Documents and to perform its obligations hereunder and thereunder;

  • (v) the Unit Shares and the FT Unit Shares have been duly and validly created, authorized and issued as fully paid and non-assessable shares in the capital of the Company;

  • (vi) the Warrants have been duly and validly created and issued and the Warrant Shares have been authorized and reserved for issuance to the holders of the Warrants and, upon the due exercise of the Warrants in accordance with the terms of the Warrant Indenture, the Warrant Shares will be validly issued as fully paid and non-assessable Common Shares;

  • (vii) all necessary corporate action has been taken by the Company to authorize the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the Ancillary Documents, as applicable, and the performance of its obligations hereunder and thereunder, and each of the Subscription Agreements, the Warrant Indenture and the certificates representing the Offered Securities (excluding the Warrant Shares), as applicable, has been duly executed and delivered by the Company, and constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable against it by the other parties thereto in accordance with their respective terms;

  • (viii) the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the Subscription Agreements and the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder and thereunder, the issuance, sale and delivery of the Offered Securities to be issued and sold by the Company do not and will not result in a breach of or default under, and do not and will not create a state of facts which, after notice or lapse of time or both, will result in a breach of or default under, and do not and will not violate (i) the provisions of the OBCA; or (ii) the constating documents of the Company;

  • (ix) all necessary corporate action has been taken by the Company to (i) offer, issue and sell the Unit Shares and the FT Unit Shares; (ii) create, issue and sell the Warrants; and (iii) to issue the Warrant Shares upon the due exercise of the Warrants in accordance with the terms of the Warrant Indenture;

  • (x) the form and terms of the certificate(s) representing the Offered Securities have been duly approved by the Company and comply with the provisions of the articles and by-laws of the Company and the requirements of OBCA;

  • (xi) TSX Trust Company at its principal offices in the City of Toronto has been duly appointed as the transfer agent and registrar for the Common Shares;

(xii) the offering, issuance and sale by the Company of the Unit Shares, the FT Unit Shares and the Warrants to the Subscribers is exempt from the prospectus requirements of applicable Securities Laws of the Canadian Selling Jurisdictions and no documents are required to be filed, proceedings taken or approvals, permits, consents or authorizations obtained under the applicable Securities Laws of the Canadian Selling Jurisdictions to permit such offering, issuance and sale; it being noted, however, that the Company is required to file or cause to be filed with the applicable securities commissions, reports on Form 45-106F1, prepared

and executed pursuant to NI 45-106, together with the prescribed filing

  • (xiii) the issuance of the Warrant Shares to the Subscribers upon the due exercise of the Warrants in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Warrant Indenture is exempt from the prospectus requirements and registration requirements under the applicable Securities Laws of the Canadian Selling Jurisdictions;
  • (xiv) the first trade of the Unit Shares, the FT Unit Shares, the Warrants and the Warrant Shares will be a distribution subject to the prospectus requirements under the Securities Laws of the Canadian Selling Jurisdictions, unless otherwise exempt from such prospectus requirement or unless at the time of such trade:
    • (A) the Company is and has been a reporting issuer (as defined under the applicable Securities Laws) in a jurisdiction of Canada for the four months immediately preceding the trade;
    • (B) at least four months have elapsed from the "distribution date" (as defined under National Instrument 45-102) of the Offered Securities;
    • (C) the certificates representing the Offered Securities carry a legend stating "Unless permitted under securities legislation, the holder of this security must not trade the security before December 14, 2020";
    • (D) if the security is entered into a direct registration or other electronic book-entry system, or if the Subscriber did not directly receive a certificate representing the security, the Subscriber received written notice containing the legend restriction notation set out in subparagraph (C) above;
    • (E) such trade is not a "control distribution" (as defined in the National Instrument 45-102);
    • (F) no unusual effort is made to prepare the market or to create a demand for the securities that are the subject of such trade;

fee, within 10 days following the Closing Date;

  • (G) no extraordinary commission or consideration is paid to a person or corporation in respect of such trade; and

  • (H) if the selling securityholder is an insider or officer of the Company, the selling securityholder has no reasonable grounds to believe that the Company is in default of "securities legislation" (as defined in National Instrument 14-101 – Definitions and Interpretation).

  • (xv) upon issue, the FT Unit Shares will be "flow-through shares" as defined in subsection 66(15) of the Tax Act and will not be "prescribed shares" within the meaning of section 6202.1 of the regulations to the Tax Act;

  • (xvi) provided they are fully incurred in the manner and otherwise as covenanted and referenced in the Subscription Agreements and in the relevant officer's certificate, the expenditures to be renounced in respect of the FT Unit Shares pursuant to this Agreement and the Subscription Agreements will be Resource Expenses; and

  • (xvii) the Company qualifies as a Principal Business Corporation;

  • (f) if any Offered Securities are offered and sold in the United States, at the Closing Time, the Company will cause its U.S. counsel, Nauth LPC, to deliver to the Underwriters and the U.S. Affiliates a legal opinion dated the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters, acting reasonably, and subject to such assumptions, qualifications and limitations as are reasonable and customary in legal opinions of this type, to the effect that it is not necessary in connection with the offer and sale of the Offered Securities to the Underwriters or in connection with the initial resale of the Offered Securities by the Underwriters in the United States in the manner contemplated by this Agreement (including Schedule "A" hereto) and the Subscription Agreement, to register the Offered Securities under the U.S. Securities Act, it being understood that such counsel need not express any opinion as to any subsequent resale of any Offered Securities;

  • (g) the Underwriters shall have received a Certificate of Status (or equivalent) for the Company dated within one Business Day (or such earlier or later date as the Underwriters may accept) of the Closing Date;

  • (h) the Underwriters shall have received a title opinion dated as of the Closing Date from counsel satisfactory to the Underwriters, acting reasonably, addressed to the Underwriters, relating to the Bralorne Gold Complex in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters and Underwriters' counsel, acting reasonably;

  • (i) the Underwriters shall not have exercised any rights of termination set forth in this Agreement;

  • (j) the Underwriters shall have received a certificate from the Transfer Agent as to the number of Common Shares issued and outstanding as at a date no more than one Business Day prior to the Closing Date;

  • (k) the Underwriters shall have received from the officers and directors, lock-up agreements pursuant to section 5.1(f) of this Agreement, in favor of the Underwriters; and

  • (l) the Warrant Indenture shall have been accepted, executed and delivered by the Company and TSX Trust Company.

9. All Terms to be Conditions.

The Company agrees that the conditions contained in this Agreement will be complied with insofar as the same relate to acts to be performed or caused to be performed by the Company and each of the Company and the Underwriters will use its respective commercially reasonable efforts to cause all such conditions to be complied with. It is understood that the Underwriters may waive, in whole or in part, or extend the time for compliance with, any of such terms and conditions without prejudice to the rights of the Underwriters in respect of any such terms and conditions or any other subsequent breach or non-compliance, provided that to be binding on the Underwriters any such waiver or extension must be in writing.

10. Rights of Termination.

In addition to any other remedies which may be available to the Underwriters, each of the Underwriters shall have the right, at its sole option, to terminate its obligations under this Agreement (and the obligations of the Subscribers arranged by it to purchase Offered Securities) by written notice to that effect given to the Company at or prior to the Closing Time, if at any time prior to the Closing Time:

(a) any inquiry, action, suit, investigation or other proceeding (whether formal or informal) is instituted, announced or threatened or any order is issued by any Governmental Authority, including, without limitation, the CSE, or otherwise in respect of the Company or any of its directors and officers (other than an inquiry, investigation, proceeding or order based upon the activities or alleged activities of the Underwriters); or there is any change of law, or the interpretation or administration thereof; or any order to cease trading (including communicating with persons in order to obtain expressions of interest) in the securities of the Company is made by a Governmental Authority and that order is still in effect, which in the reasonable opinion of the Underwriters operates such that it may prevent or restrict the trading in the securities of the Company including the Common Shares or the distribution of the Common Shares or which in the reasonable opinion of the Underwriters, acting in good faith, could be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the market price or value of the Common Shares by giving the Company written notice to that effect;

  • (b) there shall exist any material fact or circumstance not disclosed as at the date hereof which, in the opinion of such Underwriters, results or could be expected to have a significant adverse effect on the market price or value of the Offered Securities;
  • (c) there shall have occurred any change in the laws of Canada or of the Selling Jurisdictions, or any inquiry, investigation or other proceeding is made or any order is issued under or pursuant to any law of Canada or of the Selling Jurisdictions or by the CSE in relation to the Company or any of its securities (except for any inquiry, investigation or other proceeding or order based upon activities of the Underwriters and not upon activities of the Company), which, in the opinion of such Underwriter, acting reasonably and in good faith, could reasonably have a significant adverse effect on the ability to market the Offered Securities;
  • (d) there should develop, occur or come into effect or existence any event, action, state, condition or occurrence of national or international consequence, acts of hostilities or escalation thereof or other calamity or crisis or any change or development involving a prospective change in national or international political, financial or economic conditions (including any material adverse development due to the COVID-19 outbreak that materially affects the operations of the Company after July 21, 2020) or any action, law, regulation or inquiry which, in the reasonable opinion of the Underwriters, materially adversely affects or involves, or may materially adversely affect or involve, the financial markets in Canada or the United States, or the business, operations or affairs of the Company or the market price or value of the Offered Securities (including the Common Shares) by giving the Company written notice to that effect;
  • (e) there shall occur any material change or change in a material fact or a new material fact shall arise which, in the opinion of such Underwriter, would be expected to have a significant adverse effect on the business, operations or affairs of the Company or on the market price of the Common Shares or value of the Offered Securities; or
  • (f) there is any material breach or failure by the Company to comply with any terms, conditions or covenants in this Agreement, or in the event that any representation or warranty given by the Company in this Agreement becomes false and is not rectified as at the Closing Time. An Underwriter may waive, in whole or in part, or extend the time for compliance with, any terms and conditions without prejudice to their respective rights in respect of any other of such terms and conditions or any other or subsequent breach or non-compliance, provided that any such waiver or extension shall be binding upon such Underwriter only if the same is in writing and signed by it.

The rights of termination contained in subparagraphs 10(a), (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) above may be exercised by an Underwriter and are in addition to any other rights or remedies an Underwriter may have in respect of any default, act or failure to act or non-compliance by the Company in respect of any of the matters contemplated by the Agreement or

otherwise. In the event of any such termination by an Underwriter, there shall be no further liability on the part of an Underwriter (or the Subscribers arrange by it) to the Company or on the part of the Company to an Underwriter except in respect of any liability which may have arisen or may arise after such termination in respect of Section 11 and Section 13.

The Underwriters shall make reasonable best efforts to give notice to the Company (in writing or by other means) of the occurrence of any of the events referred to in subparagraphs 10(a), (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) provided that neither the giving nor the failure to give such notice shall in any way affect the entitlement of the Underwriters to exercise their rights under subparagraphs 10(a), (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) at any time prior to or at the Closing Time on the Closing Date.

11. Expenses.

Whether or not the Offering is completed, the Company shall pay all expenses of or incidental to the offering and sale of the Offered Securities, including all reasonable "out of pocket" expenses of the Underwriters in relation to the Offering (including HST), including all marketing related expenses, all reasonable fees of the Underwriters' counsel (up to a maximum of $60,000, exclusive of taxes and disbursements). Fees and expenses incurred by the Underwriters or on their behalf shall be payable by the Company in addition to any other fees payable under this Agreement and shall be payable by the Company on Closing and the Underwriters may deduct such amounts from the gross proceeds of the Offering.

12. Survival of Representations and Warranties.

All warranties, representations, covenants and agreements of the Company herein contained or contained in any documents submitted pursuant to this Agreement and in connection with the transactions herein contemplated shall survive the purchase and sale of the Offered Securities and survive for a period of two years following the Closing Date, except with respect to tax matters where the representations and warranties will continue to have full force and effect until expiry of a period of 60 days after the date on which the applicable limitation period expires for action by the applicable taxation authorities, and the Company and the Underwriters will be entitled to rely thereon, regardless of any subsequent disposition of the Offered Securities or any investigation by or on behalf of the Underwriters with respect thereto. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, Section 12 shall survive the purchase and sale of the Offered Securities and the termination of this Agreement and shall continue in full force and effect for the benefit of the Underwriters regardless of any subsequent disposition of the Offered Securities or any investigation by or on behalf of the Underwriters with respect thereto without limitation other than any limitation requirements of applicable law.

13. Indemnity.

The Company (the "Indemnitor") hereby agrees to indemnify and hold the Underwriters and their respective affiliates and the respective directors, officers, employees, agents and shareholders of the Underwriters and their respective affiliates, other than any person who is a Subscriber for Offered Securities (hereinafter referred to as the "Personnel" and, collectively, with the Underwriters, the "Indemnified Parties") harmless from and against any and all expenses, losses (other than loss of profits), claims, actions, damages or liabilities, whether joint or several (including the aggregate amount paid in reasonable settlement of any actions, suits, proceedings or claims) (collectively, the "Claims"), and the reasonable fees and expenses of their counsel that may be incurred in advising with respect to and/or defending any claim that may be made against the Underwriters, to which an Indemnified Party may become subject or otherwise involved in any capacity under any statute or common law or otherwise insofar as such expenses, losses, claims, damages, liabilities or actions arise out of or are based, directly or indirectly, upon the performance of professional services rendered to the Indemnitor by the Underwriters hereunder, provided, however, that this indemnity shall not apply to the extent that a court of competent jurisdiction in a final judgment that has become non-appealable shall determine that:

  • (a) the Indemnified Party has been grossly negligent, engaged in wilful misconduct or has committed any fraudulent act in the course of such performance; and
  • (b) the expenses, losses, claims, damages or liabilities, as to which indemnification is claimed, resulted primarily by the gross negligence, wilful misconduct or fraud referred to in (a) above.

If for any reason (other than the occurrence of any of the events itemized in (a) and (b) above), the foregoing indemnification is unavailable to an Indemnified Party or insufficient to hold it harmless, then the Indemnitor shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such Indemnified Party as a result of such expense, loss, claim, damage or liability in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits received by the Indemnitor on the one hand and the Indemnified Party on the other hand but also the relative fault of the Indemnitor and the Indemnified Party, as well as any relevant equitable considerations, provided that the Indemnitor shall, in any event, contribute to the amount paid or payable by the Indemnified Party as a result of such expense, loss, claim, damage or liability, any excess of such amount over the amount of the fees received by the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement.

The Company agrees to waive any right the Company might have of first requiring the Indemnified Party to proceed against or enforce any other right, power, remedy or security or claim payment from any other person before claiming under this indemnity.

The Indemnitor agrees that in case any legal proceeding shall be brought against the Indemnitor and/or an Indemnified Party by any governmental commission or regulatory authority or any stock exchange or other entity having regulatory authority, either domestic or foreign, shall investigate the Indemnitor and/or an Indemnified Party and any Indemnified Party shall be required to testify in connection therewith or shall be required to respond to procedures designed to discover information regarding, in connection with, or by reason of the performance of professional services rendered to the Indemnitor by the Underwriters, the Indemnified Party shall have the right to employ its own counsel in connection therewith, and the reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel as well as the reasonable costs (including an amount to reimburse the Indemnified Party for time spent by it or its Personnel in connection therewith) and out-of-pocket expenses their per diem by its Personnel in connection therewith shall be paid by the Indemnitor as they occur, provided that in no circumstances will the Indemnitor be required to pay the fees and expenses of more than one legal counsel for all of the Underwriters and the Personnel.

Promptly after receipt of notice of the commencement of any legal proceeding against an Indemnified Party or after receipt of notice of the commencement of any investigation, which is based, directly or indirectly, upon any matter in respect of which indemnification may be sought from the Indemnitor, the Underwriters will notify the Indemnitor in writing of the commencement thereof and the Company will undertake the investigation and defence thereof on behalf of the Indemnified Party, including the prompt employment of counsel acceptable to the Indemnified Parties affected and the payment of all expenses. Failure to so notify the Indemnitor shall not relieve the Indemnitor from liability except and only to the extent that the failure materially prejudices the Indemnitor.

No admission of liability and no settlement, compromise or termination of any Claim will be made without the Company's consent and the consent of the Indemnified Parties affected, such consents not to be unreasonably withheld; provided, however, that no consent of an Indemnified Party will be required if the Company has acknowledged in writing that the Indemnified Parties are entitled to be indemnified in respect of such Claim and such settlement, compromise or termination includes an unconditional release of each Indemnified Party from any liability arising out of such Claim without any admission of negligence, misconduct, liability or responsibility by or on behalf of any Indemnified Party. Notwithstanding that the Company will undertake the investigation and defence of any Claim, an Indemnified Party will have the right to employ separate counsel with respect to any Claim and participate in the defence thereof, but the fees and expenses of such counsel will be at the expense of the Indemnified Party unless:

  • (a) employment of such counsel has been authorized in writing by the Company;
  • (b) the Company has not assumed the defence of the action within a reasonable period of time after receiving notice of the claim;
  • (c) the named parties to any such claim include both the Company and the Indemnified Party and the Indemnified Party will have been advised by counsel to the Indemnified Party that there may be a conflict of interest between the Company and the Indemnified Party; or
  • (d) there are one or more defences available to the Indemnified Party which are different from or in addition to those available to the Company;

in which case such fees and expenses of such counsel to the Indemnified Party will be for the Company's account, provided that the Company shall not be responsible for the fees or expenses of more than one legal firm in any single jurisdiction for all of the Indemnified Parties. The rights accorded to the Indemnified Parties hereunder will be in addition to any rights an Indemnified Party may have at common law or otherwise.

The indemnity and contribution obligations of the Indemnitor shall be in addition to any liability which the Indemnitor may otherwise have, shall extend upon the same terms and conditions to the Personnel of the Underwriters and their respective affiliates and shall be binding upon and enure to the benefit of any successors, assigns, heirs and personal representatives of the Indemnitor, the Underwriters, their respective affiliates and any of the Personnel of the Underwriters. The foregoing provisions shall survive the completion of professional services rendered under this Agreement or any termination thereof.

14. Action by Underwriters.

All steps which must or may be taken by the Underwriters in connection with this Agreement, with the exception of the matters relating to termination contemplated by Section 10 or matters relating to indemnity and contribution contemplated by Section 13, may be taken by Sprott on behalf of itself and the Underwriters and the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the Company and the Underwriters shall constitute the authority of the Company for accepting any notice, request, direction, certificate, consent or other communication from Sprott and for delivery by electronic deposit or otherwise the Offered Securities, to Sprott.

15. Obligation of the Underwriters to be Several.

In performing their respective obligations under this Agreement, the Underwriters shall be acting severally and not jointly and severally. Nothing in this Agreement is intended to create any relationship in the nature of a partnership, or joint venture between the Underwriters. The Underwriters' respective obligations hereunder shall be as to the following percentages:

Name of Underwriters Syndicate Position
Sprott Capital Partners 60%
PI Financial Corp. 40%
100%

16. No Fiduciary Relationship.

The Company: (i) acknowledges and agrees that the Underwriters have certain statutory obligations as registered dealers under the Securities Laws and have relationships with their clients; and (ii) consents to the Underwriters acting hereunder while continuing to act for their clients. To the extent that the Underwriters' statutory obligations as registered dealers under Securities Laws or relationships with their clients conflicts with their obligations hereunder, the Underwriters shall be entitled to fulfil their statutory obligations as registered dealers under Securities Laws and their obligations to their clients. Nothing in this Agreement shall be interpreted to prevent the Underwriters from fulfilling their statutory obligations as registered dealers under Securities Laws or to act for their clients. Nothing in this Agreement or the nature of the Underwriters' involvement in the Offering shall be deemed to create a fiduciary or advisory relationship between the Underwriters and the Company or its shareholders, creditors, employees or any other party. The Underwriters have not provided any legal, accounting, regulatory, or tax advice with respect to the Offering.

17. Notices.

Any notice or other communication to be given under this Agreement (a "notice") shall be in writing addressed as follows.

(a) If to the Company, to:

Talisker Resources Ltd. 350 Bay Street, Suite 400 Toronto, ON M7A 0A7

Attention: Terry Harbort, President and CEO E-mail: [email protected]

with a copy to:

Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP 40 King Street West, Suite 2100 Toronto, ON M5H 3C2

Attention: Jay Goldman E-mail: [email protected]

If to the Underwriters, to:

Sprott Capital Partners LP Royal Bank Plaza, South Tower 200 Bay Street, Suite 2600 Toronto, Ontario, M5J 2J1

Attention: David Wargo, Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking Email: [email protected]

with a copy to:

Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP Bay Adelaide Centre 333 Bay Street, Suite 2400 Toronto, ON M5H 2T6

Attention: Brad Freelan
Email: [email protected]

or to such other address as any of the parties may designate by notice given to the others.

Each notice shall be personally delivered to the addressee or sent by e-mail to the addressee and (i) a notice which is personally delivered shall, if delivered on a Business Day, be deemed to be given and received on that day and, in any other case, be deemed to be given and received on the first Business Day following the day on which it is delivered; and (ii) a notice which is sent by email shall be deemed to be given and received on such Business Day provided it is sent before 4:00 p.m. (in the jurisdiction where the addressee resides).

18. Time of the Essence.

Time shall, in all respects, be of the essence hereof.

19. Canadian Dollars.

All references herein to dollar amounts are to lawful money of Canada.

20. Headings.

The headings contained herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the meaning or interpretation hereof.

21. Singular and Plural, etc.

Where the context so requires, words importing the singular number include the plural and vice versa, and words importing gender shall include the masculine, feminine and neuter genders.

22. Entire Agreement.

This Agreement, together with any other agreements and other documents referred to herein and delivered in connection herewith, constitutes the entire agreement between and among the parties hereto pertaining to the issue and sale of the Offered Securities and supersedes all prior agreements, understandings, negotiations and discussions, whether oral or written, among the parties with respect to the issue and sale of the Offered Securities including, without limitation, the engagement letter between the Company and Sprott dated July 21, 2020 as amended July 22, 2020.

23. Severability.

The invalidity or unenforceability of any particular provision of this Agreement shall not affect or limit the validity or enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement.

24. Governing Law.

This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario and the laws of Canada applicable therein.

25. Successors and Assigns.

The terms and provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and enure to the benefit of the Company, the Underwriters and the Subscribers and their respective executors, heirs, successors and permitted assigns; provided that, except as provided herein or in the Subscription Agreements, this Agreement shall not be assignable by any party without the written consent of the others.

26. Further Assurances.

Each of the parties hereto shall do or cause to be done all such acts and things and shall execute or cause to be executed all such documents, agreements and other instruments as may reasonably be necessary or desirable for the purpose of carrying out the provisions and intent of this Agreement.

27. General.

The forbearance or failure of one of the parties hereto to insist upon strict compliance by the other with any provision of this Agreement, whether continuing or not, shall not be construed as a waiver of any rights or privileges hereunder. No waiver of any right or privilege of a party arising from any default or failure hereunder of performance by the other shall affect such party's rights or privileges in the event of a further default or failure of performance.

28. Counterparts.

This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by e-mail, each of which so executed shall constitute an original and all of which taken together shall form one and the same agreement.

If the Company is in agreement with the foregoing terms and conditions, please so indicate by executing a copy of this Agreement where indicated below and delivering the same to the Underwriters.

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Yours very truly,

SPROTT CAPITAL PARTNERS LP

Per:<David Wargo>

Name: David Wargo Title: Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking

PI FINANCIAL CORP.

Per:<Russell Mills>

Name: Russell Mills Title: Director, Investment Banking The foregoing is hereby accepted and agreed to with effect as of the date provided at the top of the first page of this Agreement.

TALISKER RESOURCES LTD.

Per: <Terence Harbort>

Name: Terence Harbort Title: President and Chief Executive Officer

SCHEDULE "A"

UNITED STATES OFFERS AND SALES

This is Schedule "A" to the Underwriting Agreement dated as of August 13, 2020 between Talisker Resources Inc. and the Underwriters referenced therein.

As used in this Schedule "A" and related appendices, capitalized terms used but not defined herein will have the meanings ascribed to them in the Underwriting Agreement to which this Schedule "A" is annexed and the following terms will have the meanings indicated:

"Affiliate" means "affiliate" as that term is defined in Rule 405 under the U.S. Securities Act.

"Foreign Issuer" means a "foreign issuer" as that term is defined in Rule 902(e) of Regulation S;

"General Solicitation" and "General Advertising" mean "general solicitation" and "general advertising", respectively, as those terms are used under Rule 502(c) of Regulation D promulgated under the U.S. Securities Act, including, without limitation, advertisements, articles, notices or other communications published in any newspaper, magazine or similar media or broadcast over television, radio or the Internet, or any seminar or meeting whose attendees had been invited by general solicitation or general advertising;

"Offshore Transaction" means "offshore transaction" as that term is defined in Rule 902(h) of Regulation S;

"QIB Letter" means the Qualified Institutional Buyer Letter in the form attached as Schedule G to the Subscription Agreement;

"Substantial U.S. Market Interest" means "substantial U.S. market interest" as that term is defined in Rule 902 of Regulation S; and

"U.S. Accredited Investor Certificate" means the U.S. Accredited Investor Certificate in the form attached Schedule F to the Subscription Agreement.

Representations, Warranties and Covenants of the Underwriters

Each of the Underwriters (on its own behalf and on behalf of its U.S. Affiliate) acknowledges that the Offered Securities have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act or applicable state securities laws and may be offered and sold only in transactions exempt from or not subject to the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act and applicable state securities laws. Accordingly, each Underwriter (on its own behalf and on behalf of its U.S. Affiliate) severally and not jointly represents, warrants, covenants and agrees to and with the Company that:

  1. Neither the Underwriter nor its U.S. Affiliate has offered or sold nor will any of them offer or sell any Offered Securities except (a) in an Offshore Transaction, in accordance with Rule 903 of Regulation S or (b) in the United States to a Subscriber that is (i) a Qualified Institutional Buyer in reliance upon the exemption from registration available under Rule 144A or (ii) a U.S. Accredited Investor purchasing as a Substituted Purchaser pursuant to the exemption from registration available under Rule 506(b), and in each case in transactions that are exempt from the registration requirements of applicable state securities laws, as provided in this Schedule "A". Accordingly, none of the Underwriters, the U.S. Affiliates or any of their respective affiliates or any persons acting on their behalf (including any selling firms) (i) have engaged or will engage in any Directed Selling Efforts in the United States with respect to the Offered Securities; or (ii) except as permitted by this Schedule "A", have made or will make (x) any offers to sell Offered Securities in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. Persons or (y) any sale of Offered Securities unless at the time the purchaser made its buy order therefor, the Underwriter, the U.S. Affiliate or other person acting on any of their behalf reasonably believed that such purchaser was outside the United States and not a U.S. Person or acting for the account or benefit of a U.S. Person.
    1. Neither the Underwriter nor its U.S. Affiliate has entered nor will any of them enter into any contractual arrangement with respect to the offer, sale or any distribution of the Offered Securities, except with the prior written consent of the Company.
    1. All offers and sales of Offered Securities in the United States have been and will be made through the Underwriter's U.S. Affiliate which in each case is and at all relevant times was and will be a broker-dealer registered pursuant to Section 15(b) of the U.S. Exchange Act and in good standing with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc., and otherwise in compliance with all applicable U.S. broker-dealer requirements (including those of self-regulatory authorities) and U.S. Securities Laws, and all such offers and sales of Offered Securities have been and will be made only in states of the United States where such U.S. Affiliate is registered or otherwise exempt from registration.
    1. In connection with offers and sales of Offered Securities in the United States no form of General Solicitation or General Advertising has been or will be used. Neither the Underwriter, its U.S. Affiliate, their respective affiliates or any persons acting on their behalf (including any selling firms) have engaged or will engage in any conduct involving a public offering within the meaning of Section 4(a)(2) of the U.S. Securities Act in connection with the offer or sale of the Offered Securities in the United States.
    1. Any offer or solicitation of an offer to buy Offered Securities that has been made or will be made in the United States was or will be made only to Qualified Institutional Buyers or Substituted Purchasers that are U.S. Accredited Investors with whom, in each case, such Underwriter, its U.S. Affiliate or the Company has a pre-existing relationship prior to such offer or solicitation and a reasonable basis for believing to be a Qualified Institutional Buyer or U.S. Accredited Investor, as applicable.
    1. The Underwriter, through its U.S. Affiliate, will inform all purchasers of the Offered Securities in the United States, and all purchasers of Offered Securities that were offered Offered Securities in the United States, that the Offered Securities have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act and the Offered Securities are being offered and sold to such persons in reliance on Rule 144A or Rule 506(b) and similar exemptions under applicable state securities laws. The Underwriters acknowledge that all offers and sales to Qualified Institutional Buyers will be made pursuant to Rule 144A which is a resale exemption and, accordingly, any Offered Securities sold to Qualified Institutional Buyers pursuant to Rule 144A will be sold by the Company to the Underwriters, as principal, and then resold by the Underwriters to the Qualified Institutional Buyers, with the U.S. Affiliate acting as the Underwriter's selling agent for purposes of the Rule 144A resale transaction. For greater certainty, to the extent that the Underwriters arrange for Substituted Purchasers to purchase the Offered Securities, the Underwriters will be acting as the Company's exclusive agents to offer the Offered Securities and to the extent that Substituted Purchasers acquire any of the Offered Securities, the Underwriters shall not be deemed to have acquired (at any time) or have any obligation to acquire any of such Offered Securities.
    1. Each person purchasing Offered Securities in the United States and each purchaser of Offered Securities who was offered Offered Securities in the United States will be, prior to the sale of Offered Securities to such persons, required to execute either a U.S. Accredited Investor Certificate in the form of Schedule F attached to the Subscription Agreement or a QIB Letter in the form of Schedule G attached to the Subscription Agreement. Prior to any offer or sale of Offered Securities to each offeree in the United States, such Underwriter and its U.S. Affiliate each had reasonable grounds to believe and did believe that each such offeree was either a Qualified Institutional Buyer or U.S. Accredited Investor, and at the Closing will continue to have reasonable grounds to believe and will continue to believe that each person purchasing Offered Securities in the United States and each purchaser of Offered Securities who was offered Offered Securities in the United States is a Qualified Institutional Buyer or a U.S. Accredited Investor.
    1. All offers and sales of Offered Securities made outside the United States by the Underwriter, its U.S. Affiliate, their respective affiliates or any persons acting on their behalf (including any selling firms) have been and will be made in Offshore Transactions within the meaning of Regulation S.
    1. If the Underwriters authorize any selling firm to offer and sell Offered Securities in the United States, the Underwriters will cause each such selling firm to acknowledge in writing, for the benefit of the Company, its agreement to be bound by the provisions of this Schedule "B" in connection with all offers and sales of the Offered Securities in the United States. Each Underwriter will cause its U.S. Affiliate to comply with, and will use its best efforts to ensure compliance by the selling firms, with the provisions of this Schedule "B" as though such parties are directly party hereto.
    1. Offers to sell and solicitations of offers to buy the Offered Securities in the United States have been and will be made pursuant to and in accordance with exemptions from the registration or qualification requirements of all applicable state securities ("Blue Sky") laws.
    1. It acknowledges that until 40 days after the closing of the offering of the Offered Securities, an offer or sale of the Offered Securities within the United States, or to or for the account or benefit of, a person in the United States or a U.S. Person, by any dealer (whether or not participating in this offering) may violate the registration requirement of the U.S. Securities Act if such offer or sale is made otherwise than in accordance with an exemption from the registration requirement of the U.S. Securities Act.
    1. Neither the Underwriter nor the U.S. Affiliate has taken or will take any action that would constitute a violation of Regulation M of the U.S. Exchange Act in connection with the offer or sale of the Offered Securities.
    1. As of the Closing Date, with respect to Offered Securities to be offered and sold hereunder to Substituted Purchasers that are U.S. Accredited Investors in reliance on Rule 506(b) of Regulation D (the "Regulation D Securities"), the Underwriter represents that none of (i) the Underwriter or the U.S. Affiliate, (ii) the Underwriter or the U.S. Affiliate's general partners or managing members, (iii) any of the Underwriter's or the U.S. Affiliate's directors, executive officers or other officers participating in the offering of the Regulation D Securities, (iv) any of the Underwriter's or U.S. Affiliate's general partners' or managing members' directors, executive officers or other officers participating in the offering of the Regulation D Securities or (v) any other person associated with any of the above persons, including any Selling Firm and any such persons related to such Selling Firm, that has been or will be paid (directly or indirectly) remuneration for solicitation of purchasers in connection with sale of Regulation D Securities

(each, a "Dealer Covered Person" and, collectively, the "Dealer Covered Persons"), is subject to disqualifications under Rule 506(d) of Regulation D.

    1. At least one Business Day prior to the Closing, the Underwriter and its U.S. Affiliate will provide the Company (a) a list of all purchasers of the Offered Securities in the United States and all purchasers of Offered Securities who were offered Offered Securities in the United States, and (b) all executed QIB Letters in the form attached as Schedule "G" to the Subscription Agreement or U.S. Accredited Investor Certificate in the form attached as Schedule "F" to the Subscription Agreement.
    1. At the Closing, the Underwriter and its U.S. Affiliate will provide a certificate, substantially in the form of Appendix I attached hereto, relating to the manner of the offer of the Offered Securities in the United States, or such persons will be deemed to have represented to the Company that they did not offer or sell any Offered Securities in the United States.

Representations, Warranties and Covenants of the Company

The Company represents, warrants, covenants to the Underwriters and the U.S. Affiliates that:

    1. The Company is a Foreign Issuer and reasonably believes that there is no Substantial U.S. Market Interest in the Offered Securities.
    1. Except with respect to offers and sales in accordance with this Schedule "B" to (i) Qualified Institutional Buyers in reliance upon the exemption from registration available under Rule 144A, or (ii) Substituted Purchasers that are U.S. Accredited Investors pursuant to the exemption from registration available under Rule 506(b) of Regulation D, neither the Company nor any of its affiliates, nor any person acting on its or their behalf (other than the Underwriters, the U.S. Affiliates, selling firms their respective affiliates or any person acting on their behalf, in respect of which no representation is made), has made or will make: (A) any offer to sell, or any solicitation of an offer to buy, any Offered Securities to a person in the United States, or (B) any sale of Offered Securities unless, at the time the buy order was or will, have been originated, the purchaser is (i) outside the United States or (ii) the Company, its affiliates, and any person acting on their behalf reasonably believe that the purchaser is outside the United States and not a U.S. Person or acting for the account or benefit of a U.S. Person.
    1. All offers and sales of Offered Securities made outside the United States by the Company, any of its affiliates or any person acting on its or their behalf (other than the Underwriters, their affiliates (including, without limitation, the U.S. Affiliates, selling firms their respective affiliates or any person acting on their behalf, in respect of which no representation is made), have been and will be made in Offshore Transactions within the meaning of Regulation S. None of the Company, its affiliates, or any person acting on its or their behalf (other than the Underwriters, their affiliates (including, without limitation, the U.S. Affiliates, selling firms their respective affiliates or any person acting on their behalf, in respect of which no representation is made), has made or will make any Directed Selling Efforts in the United States with respect to the Offered Securities.
    1. None of the Company, its affiliates, or any person acting on its or their behalf, has taken or will take any action that would cause the exemption from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act afforded by Rule 144A or Rule 506(b) or the exclusion from registration provided by Rule 903 of Regulation S to be unavailable for offers and sales of the Offered Securities pursuant to this Agreement.
    1. None of the Company, any of its affiliates or any person acting on its or their behalf (other than the Underwriters, their affiliates (including, without limitation, the U.S. Affiliates, selling firms their respective affiliates or any person acting on their behalf, in respect of which no representation is made) has offered or will offer to sell, or has solicited or will solicit offers to buy, Offered Securities in the United States by means of any form of General Solicitation or General Advertising or in any manner involving a public offering within the meaning of Section 4(a)(2) of the U.S. Securities Act.
    1. To the extent that the Underwriters arrange for Substituted Purchasers to purchase the Offered Securities, the Company understands and acknowledges that the Underwriters will be acting as the Company's exclusive agents to offer the Offered Securities and to the extent that Substituted Purchasers acquire any of the Offered Securities, the Underwriters shall not be deemed to have acquired (at any time) or have any obligation to acquire any of such Offered Securities.
    1. For so long as any of the Offered Securities which have been sold to, or for the account or benefit of, persons in the United States or U.S. Persons in reliance upon Rule 144A are outstanding and "restricted securities" within the meaning of Rule 144(a)(3) under the U.S. Securities Act and not eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144(b)(1) under the U.S. Securities Act, at any time when the Company is neither subject to and in compliance with the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, nor exempt from such reporting requirements pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) thereunder, the Company will provide holders and prospective purchasers of Offered Securities designated by such holders, upon request, with the information required to be provided by Rule 144A(d)(4) under the U.S. Securities Act, for so long as the provision of such information is required to permit resales of the Offered Securities pursuant to Rule 144A.
    1. Since the date that is six months prior to start of the offering of the Offered Securities it has not sold, offered for sale or solicited any offer to buy, and it will not sell, offer for sale or solicit any offer to buy, any of its securities in a manner that would be integrated with the offer and sale of the Offered Securities and would cause the exemption from registration set forth in Rule 506(b) of Regulation D or Rule 144A or the exclusion from registration set forth in Rule 903 of Regulation S to become unavailable with respect to the offer and sale of the Offered Securities;
    1. None of the Company or any of its predecessors or affiliates has been subject to any order, judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction temporarily, preliminarily or permanently enjoining such person for failure to comply with Rule 503 of Regulation D.
    1. With respect to Offered Securities offered and sold hereunder to Substituted Purchasers that are U.S. Accredited Investors in reliance on Rule 506(b) of Regulation D (the "Regulation D Securities"), none of the Company, any of its predecessors, any affiliated issuer issuing Regulation D Securities, any director, executive officer or other officer of the Company participating in the offering of Regulation D Securities, any beneficial owner of 20% or more of the Company's outstanding voting equity securities, calculated on the basis of voting power, or any promoter (as that term is defined in Rule 405 under the U.S. Securities Act) connected with the Company in any capacity at the time of sale of the Regulation D Securities (but excluding any Dealer Covered Person (as defined below), as to whom no representation, warranty or covenant is made) (each, an "Issuer Covered Person") is subject to any of the "Bad Actor" disqualifications described in Rule 506(d)(1)(i) to (viii) of Regulation D (a "Disqualification Event"), except for a Disqualification Event covered by Rule 506(d)(2) or (d)(3) under Regulation D. The Company has exercised reasonable care to determine whether any Issuer Covered Person is subject to a Disqualification Event. If applicable, the Company has complied with its disclosure obligations

under Rule 506(e) under Regulation D, and has furnished to the Underwriter and its U.S. Affiliate(s) a copy of any disclosures provided thereunder.

    1. The Company is not aware of any person (other than the Underwriter, its U.S. Affiliate and any selling person that has made in writing, in favour of the Company) that has been or will be paid (directly or indirectly) remuneration for solicitation of purchasers in connection with the sale of any Regulation D Securities.
    1. The Offered Securities are not, and as of the Closing will not be, and no securities of the same class as the Offered Securities are or will be: (i) listed on a national securities exchange in the United States registered under Section 6 of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; (ii) quoted in a "U.S. automated inter-dealer quotation system", as such term is used for purposes of Rule 144A; or (iii) convertible or exchangeable into, or exercisable for, securities so listed or quoted at an effective conversion or exercise premium (calculated as specified in paragraph (a)(6) and (a)(7) of Rule 144A) of less than ten percent for securities so listed or quoted.
    1. The Company will, within the prescribed time periods, prepare and file any forms or notices required under the U.S. Securities Act or any state securities laws in connection with the sale of the Offered Securities.

APPENDIX I

UNDERWRITER'S CERTIFICATE

In connection with the private placement in the United States of Offered Securities of Talisker Resources Ltd. (the "Company"), pursuant to an underwriting agreement (the "Underwriting Agreement") dated as of August 13, 2020, among Sprott Capital Partners LP and PI Financial Corp. (collectively, the "Underwriters") and the Company, the undersigned hereby certify as follows:

    1. [●] (the "U.S. Affiliate") is a duly registered broker or dealer pursuant to Section 15(b) of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and under the laws of each applicable state of the United States (unless exempted from the respective state's broker-dealer registration requirements), and was and is a member of, and in good standing with, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. on the date hereof and on the date of each offer and sale made by it in the United States and all offers and sales of Offered Securities in the United States have been effected by the U.S. Affiliate in accordance with all U.S. federal and state broker-dealer requirements;
    1. all offers of Offered Securities in the United States were made only through the U.S. Affiliate and to Qualified Institutional Buyers or U.S. Accredited Investors and have been effected in accordance with all applicable U.S. broker-dealer requirements and U.S. Securities Laws;
    1. immediately prior to offering or soliciting offers for the Offered Securities in the United we had reasonable grounds to believe and did believe that each offeree was either a Qualified Institutional Buyer or U.S. Accredited Investor, and, on the date hereof, we continue to believe that each such person purchasing Offered Securities from the Company is either a Qualified Institutional Buyer or U.S. Accredited Investor;
    1. we obtained from each person in the United States that is purchased Offered Securities, either an executed (i) U.S. Accredited Investor Certificate in the form of Schedule "F" attached to the Subscription Agreement, or (ii) a QIB Letter in the form of Schedule "G" attached to the Subscription Agreement, and we have delivered copies of the same to the Company;
    1. no form of General Solicitation or General Advertising was used by us, in connection with the offer of the Offered Securities in the United States;
    1. neither we nor any of our U.S. Affiliates have taken or will take any action which would constitute a violation of Regulation M of the U.S. Exchange Act in connection with the offer or sale of the Offered Securities;
    1. no Dealer Covered Person is subject to disqualifications under Rule 506(d) of Regulation D; and
    1. all offers of the Offered Securities in the United States have been conducted by us in accordance with the terms of the Underwriting Agreement, including Schedule "A" thereto.

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Dated this __ day of _________________, 2020.

[●] [●]

Per: Per:

Authorized Signing Officer Authorized Signing Officer