Kestrel Gold Inc. · TSXV:KGC
Kestrel Gold — Investor Presentation (February 2018)
35 slides from Kestrel Gold's investor presentation, Feb 7, 2018
Slide 1: Corporate Presentation
Corporate Presentation February 7th 2018 Focused on Discovery TSX-V: KGC
Slide 2: Disclaimer
Disclaimer www.kestrelgold.com Forward - Looking Caution This Company Overview contains forward-looking statements that are not historical facts. Forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results, performance, prospects and opportunities to dif
Slide 3: Kestrel Gold's Strategy
Strategy www.kestrelgold.com Kestrel Gold’s Strategy Kestrel Gold’s strategy for growth and shareholder value is to define, acquire and systematically explore quality projects where sound geological models exist that suggest there is excellent potential for sizeable mineral exploration targets. Thes
Slide 4: Board of Directors and Management
Board of Directors and Management www.kestrelgold.com • Kevin V. Nephin, Director, President, CEO Kevin V. Nephin has worked in the investment industry for more than 25 years. His experience includes 13 years as an Investment Advisor, primarily focused on mining and exploration companies. Mr. Nephin
Slide 5: Technical Team
Technical Team www.kestrelgold.com • William Taylor, M.Sc, P.Geo, FGS, Consultant to Kestrel, Qualified Person Mr. Taylor has worked as a geoscientist since 1984, employed with major mining and engineering companies, a government mine department and has consulted for a number of junior exploration m
Slide 6: Yukon & B.C. Projects
Yukon & B.C. Projects www.kestrelgold.com TSX-V: KGC 6
Slide 7: Yukon & B.C. Projects
Yukon & B.C. Projects www.kestrelgold.com • Kestrel Gold’s flagship property is the 100% owned King Solomon Dome property which is a 30 minute drive south of Dawson City in the heart of the infamous Klondike Goldfields that have produced an estimated 20 million ounces of placer gold with the motherl
Slide 8: Tintina and the Golden Triangle
Tintina and the Golden Triangle www.kestrelgold.com Concentrated Mineral Wealth • The Tintina Belt has past production and current estimated gold resources at several tens of millions of ounces • Producing mines include Fort Knox, Pogo and at the development stage in the Yukon, Coffee and Eagle • B.
Slide 9: Roads and Power
Roads and Power www.kestrelgold.com Infrastructure • Kestrel’s projects are very well located in relation to the existing and importantly expanding infrastructure in both the Yukon and North Western B.C. • The projects are mostly directly and partially accessible by road • In B.C., the recent constr
Slide 10: Increasing Investment
Increasing Investment www.kestrelgold.com A Positive Outlook for both the Yukon and B.C. • In recent months a trend is developing that major mining companies are increasing their equity share in junior explorers and developers - with Yukon projects in particular, being some of the most sought after
Slide 11: King Solomon Dome Property
King Solomon Dome Property www.kestrelgold.com King Solomon Dome and where the Great Klondike Gold Rush Started • Kestrel’s flagship King Solomon Dome (KSD) property is situated on ridges interpreted to be a potential source of the estimated 20 million ounces of placer gold recovered since the disco
Slide 12: King Solomon Dome Property
King Solomon Dome Property www.kestrelgold.com IP Chargeabilty Survey and Main Gold in Soil Anomaly 0 400 metres 0 400 metres IP Survey Soil Geochemical Survey • Kestrel’s 2011 IP Geophysical survey identified a Gold in Soil 30 to 60 ppb Au large IP anomaly over a distance of 1.2 km open to Gold in
Slide 13: King Solomon Dome Property
King Solomon Dome Property www.kestrelgold.com Ground Magnetic Survey (2012) and Main Zones of Mineralization (from Trenching) NEW Untested Zones Mitchell Trend • Mitchell East : up to 17.1 g/t Au over 0.19 m Mitchell Shaft and 5.40 g/t Au over 2.0 m (Mitchell Shaft: Mitchell East 3.73 g/t Au over 3
Slide 14: King Solomon Dome Property
King Solomon Dome Property www.kestrelgold.com The First ever Diamond Drilling at the “Dome” begins in 2013 • Remarkably, the 1200m (3 hole) preliminary diamond drill hole program, was the first at the Dome since the Klondike Gold Rush, 117 years before • All three holes encounter at least some low
Slide 15: King Solomon Dome Property
King Solomon Dome Property www.kestrelgold.com A conceptual exploration model for how high grade gold may concentrate at KSD • The conceptual model shows the postulated reasons for variations in gold concentrations and grade within the Klondike Schist • Further exploration will focus on factors that
Slide 16: King Solomon Dome Property
King Solomon Dome Property www.kestrelgold.com Near surface elevated gold values in rock are widespread throughout KSD Mitchell Shaft and Trend • Photo shows quartz pile near Mitchell Shaft circa 1913 - samples assayed up to 20.7 g/t Au by MacLean (Dawson Mining Recorder)* • A dozen visible gold loc
Slide 17: King Solomon Dome Property
King Solomon Dome Property www.kestrelgold.com KSD conclusion: Many untested areas for property-wide follow up exploration The image above looking NE from the Dome peak, illustrates the property wide extent of areas to be tested for both high grade and bulk tonnage, near surface gold and silver mine
Slide 18: Val-Jual & Ten Properties
Val - Jual & Ten Properties www.kestrelgold.com Regional Geology and location in relation to White Gold • The project consists of two claim blocks, Val-Jual and Ten totalling approximately 2,650 hectares, located within the White Gold District, 45 km northwest of the Golden Saddle deposit and 75 km
Slide 19: Val-Jual & Ten Properties
Val - Jual & Ten Properties www.kestrelgold.com • Numerous northwesterly trending, quartz veins, stockworks, and fault zones occur with several rock grab sample values in the 8-16 g/t Au range to a peak value of 41.8 g/t Au* • The properties are surrounded by active gold placer claims • Recently the
Slide 20: Val-Jual & Ten Properties
Val - Jual & Ten Properties www.kestrelgold.com • Explored by Teck in 1998 -2000 - five mineralized zones were initially discovered • Limited trenching of “lower order - more accessible areas” returned good gold results including 1.6 g/t Au over 25m which included 11.1 g/t Au over 3m before Teck dis
Slide 21: Val-Jual & Ten Properties
Val - Jual & Ten Properties www.kestrelgold.com Au Soil Geochemistry Airborne K/Th Airborne Magnetics • Gold anomalies may correlate with intrusives, which are postulated to manifest on the airborne Potassium-Thorium (K/Th) map as grey ``lows``. Greater competency of the intrusive rocks may be provi
Slide 22: Val-Jual & Ten Properties
Val - Jual & Ten Properties www.kestrelgold.com 2017 RC Drilling (922 metres total) • All 13 drill holes encounter low grade to anomalous gold mineralization • 0.931 g/t Au across 13.71 m was returned from RC17-01 • 17RC-10 approximately 1.2 km south-west of 17RC-01, assayed 2.024 g/t Au over 1.52 m
Slide 23: Val-Jual & Ten Properties
Val - Jual & Ten Properties www.kestrelgold.com 2017 Fieldwork on 2018 Drill Targets • Work at Cupid East locates a 175m x 200m gold in soil anomaly within which samples average 122 ppb Au with a peak value of 12,400 ppb Au • The Cupid East anomaly is open to the south and occurs where a north-south
Slide 24: Clear Creek Property
Clear Creek Property www.kestrelgold.com • The Clear Creek and Barney properties are road accessible, total approximately 2850 hectares, and are located approximately 60km southwest of Victoria Gold’s Eagle Gold Project and 60km southeast of the Brewery Creek Mine • The Clear Creek drainage is still
Slide 25: Clear Creek Property
Clear Creek Property www.kestrelgold.com • In early 1990’s Hemlo Gold Mines Inc. (operated by Noranda) discovers mineralized shear structure returning 1.09 g/t Au over 35 metres at surface at the Eiger Zone* • RC hole drilled into diorite and ending in mineralization, returned 0.65 g/t Au over 85 me
Slide 26: Barney Ridge Property
Barney Ridge Property www.kestrelgold.com • The road accessible Barney Ridge property is host to 2 main gold in soil anomalies which have yet to be “closed off” • Prospecting of these anomalies has encountered both intrusive as well as sediment hosted mineralization, grab samples of which have return
Slide 27: Dease Porphyry Properties
Dease Porphyry Properties www.kestrelgold.com Kestrel adds Copper exploration with the Dease Porphyry Project in B.C. • The Dease Porphyry project consists of 7,246 ha of mineral titles covering 4 target areas: Hu, Hotai, Lode and Gnat • Kestrel is keen to take advantage of the excellent copper pros
Slide 28: Dease Porphyry Properties
Dease Porphyry Properties www.kestrelgold.com • Hu is host to two targets: Hu and Hu West. Hu West consists of a coincident chargeability and Cu-Mo-Ag soil anomaly along with grab sample values up to 7.07% Cu.* At Hu, grab samples of syenite returned up to 2.01% Cu and 708 ppb Au* • The Lode target
Slide 29: Discovery is our Focus
Discovery is our Focus www.kestrelgold.com Discovery comes with experience, planning, perseverance and boots on the ground Fieldwork defining several targets to be drilled TSX-V: KGC 29
Slide 30: Contact
Contact www.kestrelgold.com KESTREL GOLD INC. Head Office Suite 208 110 12th Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta Canada T2G OR7 Email: info@kestrelgold.com Phone: +1 604-799-2456 Contact: Kevin V. Nephin, Director, President, CEO Stock Exchange TSX - Venture Stock Symbol KGC Further maps and information cov
Slide 31: APPENDIX: Increasing Investment
APPENDIX: Increasing Investment www.kestrelgold.com Positive outlook for both the Yukon and B.C. • Direct investment in TSX-listed shares of junior gold companies is currently the highest it’s been in the last 10 years: $290 million has been invested into juniors in 2017 (to the time of the report -
Slide 32: APPENDIX: Recent Yukon Mining Investment
APPENDIX: Recent Yukon Mining Investment www.kestrelgold.com • May 12, 2016: Goldcorp announces acquisition of Kaminak Gold Corporation for approximately C$520 Million • June 24, 2016: Goldcorp acquires flow-through shares of Independence Gold Corp. for approximately C$1.95 Million representing 19.9
Slide 33: APPENDIX: Recent B.C. Mining Investment
APPENDIX: Recent B.C. Mining Investment www.kestrelgold.com • March 3, 2017: Osisko Gold Royalties Ltd. streaming agreement with Taseko Mines Ltd. for Taseko’s 75% share of payable silver production from the Gibraltar Mine for US$33 Million • March 7, 2017: Osisko Gold Royalties Ltd. private placeme
Slide 34: APPENDIX: B.C. Government and Policy
APPENDIX: B.C. Government and Policy www.kestrelgold.com • Since 2011, seven new mines have been permitted in British Columbia and expansions of nine major mines have been approved • The mining industry in British Columbia recorded its highest net revenue since 2012 last year • Turnaround time for N
Slide 35: APPENDIX: Yukon Government and Policy
APPENDIX: Yukon Government and Policy www.kestrelgold.com • Mining is the most important private industry in the Yukon in terms of GDP (19%) share • First Nations and the Yukon Government have recently championed a “government - to - government relationship” to ensure that industry, the territorial