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Focus Xplore — Katoro Gold — Corporate Update (February 2025)
12 slides from Focus Xplore's corporate update, Feb 10, 2025
Slide 1: Expanding Critical Minerals Portfolio in Ontario
Katoro Gold PLC Expanding Critical Minerals Portfolio in Ontario 10 February 2025
Slide 2: Disclaimer
Disclaimer These presentation materials (the “Presentation Materials”) are being distributed in the UK only to persons having professional experience in matters relating to investments and who are investment professionals as specified in Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (
Slide 3: The 31 Explore Ltd Acquisition
The 31 Explore Ltd Acquisition ▪ Offers Katoro an expanded footprint in Ontario through a cash-free acquisition ▪ Following completion, Katoro will hold a substantial critical minerals exploration portfolio including uranium, lithium and REEs ▪ Detailed extensive research and desktop work completed
Slide 4: Ontario: Unlocking Critical Minerals Potential
Ontario: Unlocking Critical Minerals Potential ▪ The Government of Ontario’s Critical Minerals 2022-2027 roadmap set to position as a global leader in responsibly sourced critical minerals (Ontario.ca) ▪ 41% year-by-year increase in critical mineral production in 2022 ▪ In 2022, Ontario’s mining wor
Slide 5: Project Locations
Project Locations Katoro – 31 Explore Ontario Projects ▪ Projects located near primary and secondary paved roads ▪ Direct access supported via graded logging roads and trails ▪ Helicopter support not required 5
Slide 6: Lithium Case: Demand Fundamentals & Sector Activity
Lithium Case: Demand Fundamentals & Sector Activity Underlying robust demand (IEA 2024, BloombergNEF) ▪ Lithium facing the fastest demand growth in clean energy transitions with BloombergNEF forecasting lithium deficits beginning in 2025 ▪ Global production was 0.19 Mt Li in 2023 with demand estimat
Slide 7: Mapped & Unmapped Opportunity: Pearl
Mapped & Unmapped Opportunity: Pearl ▪ 1960s geology mapping identified multiple pegmatites ▪ Historical surveys did not sample these pegmatites and majority exploration across Ontario did not include lithium analysis ▪ Significant portions of the project remain unmapped, presenting a substantial op
Slide 8: Data-Driven Target: Oba
Data-Driven Target: Oba ▪ Analysis of 1,033 samples by the Ontario Geological Survey indicates that the project area is highly anomalous for lithium. ▪ The histogram below illustrates the distribution of these samples across the region, highlighting those near the project as particularly anomalous,
Slide 9: Uranium Case: Low Carbon Baseload Electricity
Uranium Case: Low Carbon Baseload Electricity Capacity Factor and Baseload Electricity Generation ▪ Compared to other sources of electricity generation, nuclear has by far the highest capacity factor –requires less maintenance and operates for longer stretches before refueling, typically every 1.5 o
Slide 10: White Pine Uranium
White Pine Uranium ▪ Project geology supportive of intrusive- type uranium mineralisation with two granitic rock bodies (batholiths) intruded into an area of Archean felsic gneiss ▪ Statistical analysis completed over a lake sediment sampling study - 4,000 samples and covering approximately 15,000 k
Slide 11: Historic Airborne Radiometric & Magnetic Data
Historic Airborne Radiometric & Magnetic Data Total Magnetic Intensity 1st Vertical Derivative Map ▪ Intense airborne radiometric response (Ternary & Equiv. Uranium as shown) Ternary Radioelement Map across in the vicinity of the anomalous uranium in lake sediments ▪ Magnetic data(TMI & 1ST Vert. De
Slide 12: Contact Us
Contact Us Address: 60 Gracechurch Street, London EC3V 0HR, United Kingdom [email protected] Follow Us X: @KatoroGoldplc 12