Excellon Resources Inc. · TSXV:EXN
Excellon Resources — Investor Presentation (November 2021)
33 slides from Excellon Resources's investor presentation, November 2021
Slide 1: Silver City: Re-discovering a World-Class Epithermal Silver Belt in Saxony
SILVER CITY November 2021 RE-DISCOVERING A WORLD-CLASS TSX:EXN | NYSE:EXN | FRA:E4X2 EPITHERMAL SILVER BELT IN SAXONY www.excellonresources.com
Slide 2: Excellon Resources Company overview
EXCELLON RESOURCES Company overview Kilgore & Oakley Idaho | RANKED #5 U.S. AND #7 GLOBAL* GOLD GERMANY UNITED STATES Silver City Saxony SILVER MEXICO Platosa & Evolución COMBINED RESOURCES OF Durango & Zacatecas 72% PRECIOUS METALS SILVER-LEAD-ZINC In production Precious metals Base metals *Fraser
Slide 3: The Silver City Project: World class scale and opportunity
THE SILVER CITY PROJECT World class scale and opportunity Located in the Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains of Saxony), near Freiberg, 40 km west of Dresden SILVER CITY SAXONY SILVER Accessible year-round by road Extensive epithermal Ag-Au, Pb-Zn-Cu system striking over 36 km Four exploration license
Slide 4: Silver City Licenses in Saxony
SILVER CITY LICENSES IN SAXONY Located in strategic locations Four licenses located in strategic locations within the Freiberg district: BRÄUNSDORF: 165 km2 (Optioned from Globex, 2019) MOHORN: 57 km2 (100% Excellon, 2021) OEDERAN: 63 km2 (100% Excellon, 2021) FRAUENSTEIN: 57 km2 (100% Excel
Slide 5: Saxony: An exploration and mining centre with a long history
SAXONY An exploration and mining centre with a long history Over 800 years of mining history Strong business culture Mining has a cultural heritage Mining authority located in Freiberg Saxon raw material strategy promoting mining Picture puzzle highlighting the different faces of mining in
Slide 6: History of the Freiberg Mining District & Silver City
HISTORY OF THE FREIBERG MINING DISTRICT & SILVER CITY 6
Slide 7: Freiberg Mining Heritage
FREIBERG MINING HERITAGE Deep, proud roots in mining and innovation Mines south of Freiberg in 1745 First documentation of mining dates back to 1185, after silver ore was discovered in a road cut near Freiberg Mining for silver continued uninterrupted in the region for 800 years all arround Frei
Slide 8: Freiberg Mining Heritage
FREIBERG MINING HERITAGE Deep, proud roots in mining and innovation In the late 19th century, the decreasing value of silver and technical challenges triggered the economic fall of the silver mining industry Last base metal mine closed in central Freiberg in 1969 Documented production since th
Slide 9: Silver City Project history
SILVER CITY Project history 2017 – Globex Mining Enterprises is granted the Bräunsdorf license area (165 km2) 2019 Initial target generation Excellon options the Silver City Project from Globex 2019 Research collaboration with Helmholtz Institute Freiberg and TU Bergakademie Completion of
Slide 10: Silver City Project Overview
SILVER CITY PROJECT OVERVIEW Drill road in wheat field with Bräunsdorf water tower 10
Slide 11: R&D of Thesis and Potential
R&D OF THESIS AND POTENTIAL Combining data old and new from all sources Compilation from historical archive data & 3D modelling of old workings Sampling of historical waste dumps and surface exposures Soil geochemistry along prospective target trends Mag and IP surveys, reprocessing of histo
Slide 12: Confirming high-grade, district-scale epithermal silver system
SILVER CITY Confirming high-grade, district-scale epithermal silver system Exploration along two major geological Munzig trends: (1) gneiss to schist contact, and (2) schist to mafic volcanic rock contact About 40% of the structure is under cover making these prospective areas for modern explora
Slide 13: Confirming high-grade, district-scale epithermal silver system
SILVER CITY Confirming high-grade, district-scale epithermal silver system 14 of 16 holes (3,700 m) intersected mineralized structures in 2020 drilling SC20MUN015 Hole ID From To Ag ppm Length Ag*m SC20GWO012 96.45 97.75 954 1.30 1,240.4 AGBR05A20 207.75 208.2 911 0.45 409.95 SC20GWO012 SC20GWO012
Slide 14: Mineralization & Textures
MINERALIZATION & TEXTURES Analogous to other world-class districts REICHENBACH - AGBR10-20 Altered mafic tuff hosting a hydrothermal quartz breccia with disseminated silver sulfosalts GRAUER WOLF - SC20GWO12 Polymetallic-quartz composite veins with selvages composed of sphalerite, galena and Freiber
Slide 15: Community Engagement
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Transparency and communication Engage early, be transparent and bring people and stakeholders into and along with the project Engaging local municipal council Engaging local mining associations Building relationships with all stakeholders from local and community levels th
Slide 16: Mineral Concessions in Saxony: Application Process, Royalties
MINERAL CONCESSIONS IN SAXONY Application Process, Royalties LEGAL PERMISSION BASE Federal Mining Act (“Bundesberggesetz – BBergG”) Generally governed by the Federal Mining Act 3 stages for raw material concessions (§§7 – 9 BBergG) Exploration licence (§7 BBergG) – max 5 years, renewable for 3 y
Slide 17: Mineral Concessions in Saxony: Surface rights
MINERAL CONCESSIONS IN SAXONY Surface rights PUBLIC LAND OWNER / LAND USER PRIVATE LAND OWNER / LAND USER Federal Republic of Germany, represented by its Agricultural Companies real estate administration (“Bodenverwertungs- und Verwaltungs GmbH” – BVVG) Forestry Operation Companies Federal R
Slide 18: Mining permission framework
MINERAL CONCESSIONS IN SAXONY Mining permission framework Authorization Mining Authorization Exploration License Mining Permit Mining Proprietorship Project Approval Framework Operation Plan Optional Approval Licensed Mandatory Operation Plan Approval Main Operation Plans Mining Operations Permitted
Slide 19: Geology of the Freiberg Silver District
GEOLOGY OF THE FREIBERG SILVER DISTRICT 19
Slide 20: Regional Geology
REGIONAL GEOLOGY Variscan gneiss dome surrounded by schists Paleozoic mafic volcanic rocks and clastic sediments Carboniferous to permian igneous rocks District with over 1000 NE-SW striking silver - base metal quartz-carbonate veins Peripheral zones are silver dominated (EXN license areas
Slide 21: Freiberg Epithermal Ag-Pb-Zn Mineralization
FREIBERG EPITHERMAL Ag-Pb-Zn MINERALIZATION Intermediate to low sulfidation epithermal deposit Ag-(Au), Pb-Zn-(Cu) analogous to Mexican deposits District and depth zoning in mineralization Silver concentration increases successively toward shallower depths and in distal parts of the district
Slide 22: Genetic Model for Freiberg Mineralization
GENETIC MODEL FOR FREIBERG MINERALIZATION Two productive contacts, twice the potential 4 cm Quartz hematite vein Trinity @ 0.5 ppm Au, 4 ppm Ag, 155 ppm As Productive zone for precious metals precipitation Modified after Swinkels et al. (2019, 2020) Vein float at Trinity represent quartz-hematite
Slide 23: Silver City Central Trend
SILVER CITY CENTRAL TREND Deformation and dilation Most of the historical production was exploited from the major kink along the gneiss - mica schist contact Trinity Fluid flow concentrated in dilation zones opened Grauer along curvilinear N-S striking contacts Wolf The northern schist-mafic c
Slide 24: Silver City Central Trend
SILVER CITY CENTRAL TREND Deformation and dilation Stopes following the plunging ore shoot on Peter vein at the Christbescherung mine (Großvoigtsberg) Christbescherung mine section on paper Christbescherung mine section in Leapfrog Anisotropy in foliation form interpolants Identification of dilati
Slide 25: The Past is the Key to the Present
THE PAST IS THE KEY TO THE PRESENT Historical approach to find new deposits Understand the limits of historical mining and exploration techniques Why did the mines close? Water and/or geotechnical reasons Political and/or economical reasons Ore grade Which areas were difficult to explore
Slide 26: Silver City 2022 Future work plan
SILVER CITY 2022 Future work plan Ground magnetic survey and inversion Soil geochemistry orientation study and sampling Archive data research Drill testing of lateral and vertical continuation of known mines Refinement of target areas by 3D modelling 26 Frauenstein mine trend
Slide 27: Peter & Fortuna C Targets
PETER & FORTUNA C TARGETS Schist-gneiss contact targets Galena and sphalerite & sericitic alteration in NQ drill core Southern continuation of the Peter Vein along the schist mica schist - gneiss contact Mineralization encountered in shallow depths 110m below surface Peter gneiss Precious meta
Slide 28: Bräunsdorf & Siegfried Targets
BRÄUNSDORF & SIEGFRIED TARGETS Schist-gneiss contact targets volcanic rocks Bräunsdorf Major contact between gneiss and mica schist Magnetics indicate an extension of the schist structure SW to the Siegfried target Primary precious metal mineralization and gneiss subordinate base metals Siegfr
Slide 29: New Discoveries on Mafic Trend
NEW DISCOVERIES ON MAFIC TREND Mafic contact has significant potential for new discoveries Trinity SC20GWO012 1.2 m @ 331 g/t AgEq (325 g/t Ag, 0.1 g/t Au) Grauer Wolf SC21REI024 mineralized breccia over 4.5 m Reichenbach AGBR0120 0.35 m @ 319 g/t AgEq (300 g/t Ag, 0.2 g/t Zn , 0.2 g/t Au) Mafic t
Slide 30: Grauer Wolf & Reichenbach Targets
GRAUER WOLF & REICHENBACH TARGETS Mafic-schist contact target Lattice bladed calcite & sericitic alteration Grauer Wolf Pyrargyrite volcanic veinlets rocks schist Mineralization at shallow depth 70 m from surface Silver-rich mineralogy and shallow boiling indicates a distal mineralization with d
Slide 31: Trinity Target
TRINITY TARGET Newly defined 2021 Target Quartz-hematite 1 cm breccia gabbro volcanic N-S strinking contacts represent a prospective rocks structutral setting similar to Kleinvoigtsberg Abundant quartz-hematite float with anomalous Kleinvoigtsberg Ag (up to 12 g/t) and As values. Similar samples
Slide 32: Our Team
OUR TEAM 33
Slide 33: Vision and Mission: To Create Wealth
VISION To Create Wealth MISSION We realize strategic opportunities through discipline and innovation for the benefit of our employees, communities and shareholders.
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