Slide 1: Developing U.S. Domestic Copper
Developing U.S. Domestic Copper CORPORATE PRESENTATION August 2023
Slide 2: Cautionary Statement
CAUTIONARY STATEMENT Some of the statements in this presentation, other than statements of historical fact, are “forward-looking statements” and are based on the opinions and estimates of management as of the date such statements are made and are necessarily based on estimates and assumptions that a
Slide 3: Faraday Copper: Highlights
FARADAY COPPER: HIGHLIGHTS Building a Premier North American Copper Company ASSET STRATEGY CATALYSTS ▪ Copper Creek in Arizona is a large ▪ Growing the resource though ▪ Metallurgical program undeveloped project with over 4.2 definition of high-grade zones and commencing (Q3 2023) Blbs of copper M&I
Slide 4: Faraday Copper: Compelling Investment
FARADAY COPPER: COMPELLING INVESTMENT Low Capital Intensity, Long Life U.S. Copper Project Owned by a Developer Initial Capital Intensity vs Mine Life (a, b) Enterprise Value / M&I Mineral Resources (b) 60¢ 37.1¢ 17.6¢ 15.0¢ 10.0¢ Copperwood (US¢/lb CuEq Mine Plan Inventory) Carmacks Copper 50¢ Flat
Slide 5: Bringing a Senior Mining Company Expertise
BRINGING A SENIOR MINING COMPANY EXPERTISE Faraday has Drawn Senior Mining Company Talent Who Know Good Projects with Real Potential Management Board of Directors Graham Richardson Dr. Thomas Bissig Audra Walsh Robert Doyle Paul Harbidge Chief Financial Officer VP Exploration Russell Ball Prev. CEO,
Slide 6: Corporate Overview
CORPORATE OVERVIEW TSX-listed Under the Symbol “FDY” Ownership 41.0% 33.4% Analyst Coverage Strategic Shareholders: 33.4% Institutions: 22.8% Dalton Baretto Insiders: 2.8% Connor Mackay Other / Retail: 41.0% 2.8% 22.8% Roger Bell Top Strategic Shareholders Financial Overview Lundin Family | Murray E
Slide 7: Copper Creek: Top Mining Jurisdiction
COPPER CREEK: TOP MINING JURISDICTION Arizona Ranked Seventh for Investment Attractiveness (Fraser Institute, 2022) Pinto Valley Arizona, USA ARIZONA Globe-Miami ▪ 100% owned property in Pinal County, Resolution Arizona Ray Morenci ▪ Near mining and service hubs with Cactus Copper Creek Safford Lone
Slide 8: Copper Creek: Large Land Package
COPPER CREEK: LARGE LAND PACKAGE ▪ ~65 km2 Property offers strategic benefits ▪ Mineral claims include patented claims, unpatented claims and state prospecting permits ▪ Optionality for infrastructure placement ▪ Solar power generation potential ▪ Ranch includes ~26,000 acres of surface rights throu
Slide 9: Updated Mineral Resource (2023)
UPDATED MINERAL RESOURCE (2023) MRE is Supported by >200,000 m of Drilling, 83% of Resource is M&I ▪ Drillhole database includes Phase I drill Tonnes Cu Mo Ag CuEq2 Cu Mo Ag CuEq2 results (as of Oct 27, 2022) Category (Mt) (%) (%) (g/t) (%) (Mlbs) (Mlbs) (Moz) (Mlbs) ▪ Updated geological model Open
Slide 10: Significant Resource with Upside
SIGNIFICANT RESOURCE WITH UPSIDE Open Pit and Underground Mineral Resource Open Pit Grade Distribution A A Copper Prince Childs Aldwinkle A’ 1,300RL Globe Mammoth N Copper 1,200RL Prince Marsha OPEN PIT 1,100RL Old Childs Reliable Alwinkle 1,000RL Mammoth 100 metres 900RL A’ Bald 500 metres Undergro
Slide 11: PEA Highlights
PEA HIGHLIGHTS Life-of-Mine Average Annual Life-of-Mine Payable Measured and Indicated 51,100 tpa Payable CuEq 1 Production 3.4 Blb CuEq 1 Production 4.2 Blb Copper Mineral Resource a KEY FINANCIAL DATA ANTICIPATED PRODUCTION PROFILE Post-tax NPV(7%) $713 million Mine Life b 32 years Tonnes Milled c
Slide 12: Economic Sensitivity
ECONOMIC SENSITIVITY Well-positioned to Leverage the Copper Price $2,000 40% PEA $1,843 29.6% Post-Tax NPV ($ million) $1,500 $1,576 30% Post-Tax NPV (7%) $ M Post-Tax IRR 21.0% Post-Tax NPV (8%) $ M $1,000 20% 15.6% $1,144 $951 Post-Tax IRR % $713 $500 $566 10% $0 0% $3.80 $4.25 $5.00 Copper Price
Slide 13: Mine Design Overview
MINE DESIGN OVERVIEW Integrated Mine Plan Provides Optionality and Scalability ISOMETRIC VIEW Open Pit Open pit mining enables rapid payback on LOOKING NORTHEAST 154 Mt at 0.39% CuEq 1 initial capital and funds development of bulk underground mine High-grade = 28 Mt at 0.98% CuEq Globe / Marsha Medi
Slide 14: Mine Production Schedule
MINE PRODUCTION SCHEDULE Life-of-Mine Processed Material Total Processed Material by Material Type 18 16 Open Pit Sulphide Transitional 14 Underground Sulphide Oxide Quantity (million tonnes) 12 10 8 6 4 2 - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 Years
Slide 15: Site Infrastructure
SITE INFRASTRUCTURE Configured for scalability In-pit Waste Explosive Rock Dump Facilities Overland Conveyor Materials handling synergies between Low-grade Stockpiles open pit and underground External Open Pits Waste Primary Rock Dump Process Crusher HLF (136 Mt) Plant (20 Mt) SXEW Underground Plant
Slide 16: Environmental & Stakeholder Engagement
ENVIRONMENTAL & STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT Building a Framework for Data Collection and Engagement ENVIRONMENT STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT Baseline environmental monitoring Commitment to open dialogue and systems in place for data collection to support for the local economy and social support permitting proc
Slide 17: Resource Expansion and New Discoveries
RESOURCE EXPANSION AND NEW DISCOVERIES Significant Growth Opportunities Rum ~4,000 metres Globe Copper Childs Marsha Prince Aldwinkle Potential for Old expansion of open Reliable Mammoth Bald pit mineralization, ISOMETRIC VIEW which remains LOOKING NORTHEAST open laterally and at depth American Eagl
Slide 18: Intersected Massive Copper Sulphide
INTERSECTED MASSIVE COPPER SULPHIDE A Copper Prince Breccia N A’ A Glory Hole Copper Giant Holly Copper Copper Prince Knight Copper Historical drill A’ Duchess hole trace Open pit shell Breccia 200 m Drill Hole Assay Results Block Model Copper Grade Copper Grade (%) (%) >2.00 >2.00 1.00 1.00 15.0 m
Slide 19: Continuous Mineralization Outside Open Pit
CONTINUOUS MINERALIZATION OUTSIDE OPEN PIT Copper Giant A’ N Breccia A Glory A’ Hole Copper Giant A Copper Holly Prince Copper Knight Copper Duchess Historical drill hole trace 100.12 m at 0.69% Cu, Open pit shell Drill Hole 1.15 g/t Ag, 0.04 g/t Au, Breccia 200 m Assay Results Block Model from 34.8
Slide 20: Potential for Resource Expansion at Keel
POTENTIAL FOR RESOURCE EXPANSION AT KEEL A A’ Looking Northwest Looking Northeast N Inset section line Keel Underground Drill Hole Assay Results Block Model A Shape in Copper Grade Copper Grade (%) Historical drill (%) section hole trace >2.00 >2.00 Open pit shell 484.81 m at 0.42% Cu, 2.77 1.00 1.0
Slide 21: Resource Expansion and New Discoveries
RESOURCE EXPANSION AND NEW DISCOVERIES Significant Growth Opportunities ▪ Mineral resource open laterally and at depth Holy Joe Fault ▪ Define and expand high-grade zones ▪ Multiple untested breccia and porphyry targets across the property Exploration Mineral Upside Resource Area chrysocolla malachi
Slide 22: Opportunities and Next Steps
OPPORTUNITIES AND NEXT STEPS Phase II drill Gold by-product Asset Phase III drill District program potential scalability program exploration ▪ Recent results ▪ Targeting potential ▪ Potential for ▪ 20,000 m drill ▪ New airborne demonstrate gold inclusion in production rate program geophysical and po
Slide 23: Contact Information
Developing U.S. domestic copper ▪ Scarcity of development-ready copper projects CONTACT INFORMATION Suite 250, 200 Burrard Street Vancouver, BC Canada www.faradaycopper.com ▪ Large undeveloped Mineral Resource STACEY PAVLOVA, CFA VP Investor Relations ▪ Significant exploration upside 778-730-1067 in
Slide 24: Appendix
“’| FARADAY COPPER APPENDIX —
Slide 25: PEA: Geotechnical Assessment
PEA: GEOTECHNICAL ASSESSMENT Data Collected for Open Pit and Underground Mine Design ▪ Geotechnical core logging ▪ Geomechanical data ▪ Fracture orientation ▪ Rock mass classification Pit slope stability assessment Underground caveability assessment ▪ Geologic structure domaining confirmed confirmed
Slide 26: Metallurgical Summary
METALLURGICAL SUMMARY High Metal Recoveries and Clean Concentrate Recovery (%) 2023 Test work was assimilated with the historical test work to Domain Cu Mo Ag form the basis of the process design criteria for the PEA Oxide 75.0% n/a n/a Transitional 74.7% 70.9% 66.9% ▪ High copper recovery from sulp
Slide 27: Open Pit Mine Production Schedule
OPEN PIT MINE PRODUCTION SCHEDULE Mined Material by Period 30 Copper Prince Mammoth Globe Old Reliable 25 Marsha Bald / Jailhouse Rum Underground - Development 20 Underground - Keel Underground - American Eagle Quantity (Mt) Waste 15 10 5 - -1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Slide 28: Underground Mine Production Schedule
UNDERGROUND MINE PRODUCTION SCHEDULE Underground Development Metres and Mill Feed by Period 12 10,000 9,000 10 8,000 Mill Feed (million tonnes) 7,000 Development (metres) 8 6,000 6 5,000 4,000 4 3,000 2,000 2 1,000 0 0 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Year
Slide 29: Processing Flowsheet
PROCESSING FLOWSHEET Grinding Circuit Co–Mo Rougher Flotation and Regrind Co–Mo Cleaner Primary Flotation Open Pit Crusher Sag Mill Ball Mill Sulphide Stockpile Co–Mo Radial Stacker Concentrate 5-Stage Mo Thickener Tailings Thickening Cleaner Flotation & Filtering Mo Dry Stack Tailings Rougher Mo Co
Slide 30: Capital Expenditures
CAPITAL EXPENDITURES Low Initial Capital with a two-year construction period Initial Capital Expenditure Developed using EPCM project development approach with quotes, design driven quantity estimations and first principles Owners Costs and Contingency Process Infrastructure including Crushing and M
Slide 31: Operating Costs
OPERATING COSTS Average Life-of-Mine Production Cash Costs3 of $1.67/lb Copper Open Pit: Contractor-operated conventional truck and shovel Developed from first principles based on quantities generated from ▪ Open pit operating cost applied to mineralized material and waste mine design, production sc
Slide 32: Permitting Pathway
PERMITTING PATHWAY Plan of Operations and 404 Permit Plan of Operations ▪ Ground water National Environmental Update Plan of Operations and ▪ Surface water Environmental Impact bonding ▪ Air, Biological Policy Act Statement ▪ Tribal Record of Applications consultations After National Decision submit
Slide 33: Contact Copper: Exploration Upside
CONTACT COPPER: EXPLORATION UPSIDE ▪ 100% owned, 5,900+ acres of patented and unpatented mining claims in Nevada, US Contact Copper ▪ Excellent access to a major highway, power, water and local mining services Elko ▪ Open pit, heap-leach copper oxide opportunity NEVADA ▪ Deposit open in all directio
Slide 34: Copper Creek: Mineral Resources (2023)
COPPER CREEK: MINERAL RESOURCES (2023) Grade Contained Metal Category Tonnes (Mt) Cu Mo Ag CuEq 2 Cu Mo Ag CuEq 2 (%) (%) (g/t) (%) (Mlbs) (Mlbs) (Moz) (Mlbs) Open Pit (OP) Measured 67.2 0.48 0.008 1.2 0.51 710.5 12.5 2.6 751.1 Indicated 59.9 0.31 0.008 0.6 0.33 412.9 10.1 1.1 440.5 M&I 127.1 0.40 0
Slide 35: Copper Creek: Notes to Mineral Resources
COPPER CREEK: NOTES TO MINERAL RESOURCES ▪ CuEq: Copper equivalent; g/t: Grams per tonne; Mlb: Million pounds; Moz: Million troy ounces; Mt: Million tonnes ▪ The mineral resources in this estimate were prepared in accordance with the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) Stand
Slide 36: Endnotes
ENDNOTES 1. Preliminary Economic Assessment (“PEA”) copper equivalent (“CuEq”) values are calculated using commodity type and price, considering the relevant recovery rate based on domain, applied using a regression formula as a function of grade. Recovery regression formulas are based on the outcom
Slide 37: Contact Information
CONTACT INFORMATION STACEY PAVLOVA, CFA Suite 250, 200 Burrard Street VP Investor Relations Vancouver, BC Canada 778-730-1067 www.faradaycopper.com info@faradaycopper.com