dolly varden corp presentation, april 2, 2012
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Dolly Varden
Silver Dolly
Varden
Silver
Corporation
New Silver Company with Eskay Au–Ag Potential
April 2, 2012
Dolly Varden
Silver
FORWARD LOOKING INFORMATION Certain of the statements and information herein constitute “forward-looking statements” or “forward-looking information. Any
statements or information that express or involve discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans,
projections, objectives, assumptions or future events or performance (often, but not always, using words or phrases such as
“expects”, “anticipates”, “believes”, “plans”, “estimates”, “intends”, “targets”, “goals”, “forecasts”, “objectives”, “potential” or
variations thereof or stating that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “might” or “will” be taken, occur or be
achieved, or the negative of any of these terms and similar expressions) are not statements of historical fact and may be
forward-looking statements or information. Forward looking statements or information relate to, among other things: the
Company’s business objectives and plans.
Forward-looking statements or information are subject to a variety of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors
that could cause actual events or results to differ from those reflected in the forward-looking statements or information,
including, without limitation, the need for additional capital by the Company through financings, and the risk that such funds
may not be raised; the speculative nature of exploration and the stages of the Company’s properties; the effect of changes in
commodity prices; regulatory risks that development of the Company’s material properties will not be acceptable for social,
environmental or other reasons and the efforts and abilities of the senior management team. This list is not exhaustive of the
factors that may affect any of the Company’s forward-looking statements or information. Although the Company has attempted
to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, there may be other factors that cause results not
to be as anticipated, estimated, described or intended. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking
statements or information.
The Company’s forward-looking statements and information are based on the assumptions, beliefs, expectations and opinions
of management as of the date hereof, and other than as required by applicable securities laws, the Company does not assume
any obligation to update forward-looking statements and information if circumstances or management’s assumptions, beliefs,
expectations or opinions should change, or changes in any other events affecting such statements or information.
Paul McGuigan, P Geo, V.P. of Exploration has reviewed and approved the content contained in this presentation.
Forward-Looking Statements
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Dolly Varden
Silver
Past-producing silver mine
Precious metal rich Eskay Creek potential
with
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Dolly Varden
Silver Two strategies for creating value
• Confirm & expand historic silver resources
with the goal to re-start the historic Dolly
Varden silver mines, BC
• Explore a major untested Eskay Creek-type
gold & silver target at Dolly Varden
• Management team experienced in both
Eskay Creek-type exploration and re-starting
past producing mines
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Dolly Varden
Silver Dolly Varden – Solid foundation
%
owned • Property acquired in Spring 2011
• 9,400 hectares (94 Km2)
• 2 historically active mines
• 2 deposits with underground
Development
• Native land claims settled 5
Dolly Varden
Silver Dolly Varden – Rich history
M Oz Ag* • Historical production
• Well understood targets
• Region with world-class projects
• Experienced senior management
*Historical production
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Dolly Varden
Silver
surrounded by world-class projects
Dolly Varden
Eskay Creek Major nearby projects:
•Eskay Creek (Barrick) Historic Production
3.6MM oz Au + 180MM oz Ag
• Brucejack (Pretium)
• Silback Premier (Ascot) Historic Production
• Kerr-Sulphurets (Seabridge Gold)
• BC Moly (Avanti)
Located in northwestern BC
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KSM (Kerr)
Brucejack - Snowfields
Silbak Premier
BC Moly
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Snip
Dolly Varden
Silver Located in the Stewart Complex
typical mineralization for the region
Dolly Varden /
North Star
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Brucejack
KSM(Kerr)
Granduc
BC Moly
Big Bulk
Wolf
Torbrit
Eskay Creek
Silbak-Premier
Hazelton Group Arc assemblage (green)
Host to base and precious metal deposits
220M+ oz Ag produced historically
7M+ oz Au produced historically
High sulphidation VMS occurs in the
youngest Hazelton group rocks
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Silver
*Dubé et al, Geological Survey of Canada
Deposit Operator Country Tonnage Grade
(M t) Au(g/t) Ag(g/t) Cu(%) Pb(%) Zn(%)
Canadian VMS Deposits
Eskay Creek Barrick Canada 2.5 44.4 2087.7 — — —
LaRonde Agnico Eagle Canada 43.5 4.2 52.1 0.3 — 2.7
Horne Noranda Mines Canada 54.3 6.1 13.0 2.2 — —
Bousquet Agnico Eagle Canada 29.7 5.3 2.1 — — —
International VMS Deposits
Hassai La Mancha Sudan 6.2 10.0 — — — —
Greens Creek Hecla USA - Alaska 11.2 4.2 560.9 0.0 4.1 10.9
Abyz Kazakhmys Kazakhstan 4.4 6.5 61.0 2.1 — 5.4
Boliden Boliden AB
Sweden 8.3 15.1 48.3 1.4 — —
Mt. Morgan Norton
Goldfields Australia 80.7 3.7 0.7 0.7 — —
World-class gold VMS deposits with at least
30 tonnes gold in production & reserves*
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Dolly Varden
Silver
• 2011 Logistics base and
camp built in the
settlement of Alice Arm
• Property is 30 Km from
tidewater at Alice Arm
• 30 Km from power grid
• Access to rail and
deepwater shipping
• All-weather road access
• 7 Km of existing
underground development
good logistics for rehabilitation, development and exploration
Excellent infrastructure – via Alice Arm
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Silver
extensively mapped by current management
Extensive exploration by
previous owners:
• 631 diamond drill holes
• 44,090 meters of drilling
• 7 km underground
development
• 1980’s Engineering
studies on mine, mill, and
tailings design
$
M+
Spent
since
1980
Foundation for Dolly Varden’s plans
Historical resource estimate*:
5.7M oz. Ag Proven + Probable
8.8M oz. Ag Possible The qualified person has not done sufficient work to
classify the Historical Estimates as current mineral
Resources or Reserves. Furthermore, the issuer is not
treating these Estimates as current Mineral Resources or
Mineral Reserves.
*Derry Michener Booth & Wahl (1986) 11
Dolly Varden
Silver
clear targets
1. Validation and
expansion of historic
silver resource estimates
Targeted
exploration
programs
2. Identification of new,
major Eskay Creek-type
gold & silver deposits
Creating significant additional value
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Dolly Varden
Silver
“the best new mines
near old mines” are often found
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Dolly Varden
Silver
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Dolly Varden
Silver Historic mineral resources* (Dilution at 10 – 16%)
* Derry Michener Booth & Wahl (1986) See Note 4 and additional disclosure on Pg 15
Location Historic
Resource
Classification
Tonnes Silver
Grade
(g/t)
Contained
Silver
(ounces)
Dolly Varden Mine –
(a)
Proven &
Probable (P & P)
42,638 754.3 1,034,000
North Star Mine – (b) P & P 128,437 401.5 1,657,867
Torbrit Mine – (c) Possible 786,531 312.0 7,889,700
Wolf No.1 Zone – (d) P & P 77,932 395.0 989,626
Wolf No.2 Zone – (e) P & P 218,512 285.9 2,008,839
Wolf No.2 Zone – (f) Possible 100,295 279.4 901,031
Total P & P
Possible
5,690,331
8,790,731
All cut off grades 171 g/t silver
Geology and Mineral Exploration of the Dolly Varden Property, British Columbia,
Canada Sept. 5, 2011, as revised. By Terry Garrow - Filed on SEDAR. 15
Dolly Varden
Silver
Comments:
a: Skerl (1964) and Mann (1974) Dolly Varden Mine staff. Remaing resource blocks are in proximity to mined out stopes
and downplunge extensions of mined out areas.
b: Thompson & Pearson (1981) Derry Michener & Booth. Minimum mining width of 5 ft. No prior mining.
c: Leigh & Thompson (1983) Derry Michener & Booth. Comprised of 18 zones. Most zones are in the hanging wall of the
glory hole and mined out stopes of the 1959 operation.
d: Thompson & Pearson (1981) Derry Michener & Booth. No prior mining. Tested by two levels of underground adits.
e: Thompson & Pearson (1981) Derry Michener & Booth. No prior mining. Tested by three levels of undergound adits.
f: Thompson & Pearson (1981) Derry Michener & Booth. No prior mining.
Note 1: This resource estimate was prepared from incomplete old plans and sections, considerable verification drilling
is required prior to placing reliance on this information.
Note 2: Historic Resource Classifications used in mineral resource estimates at the Dolly Varden deposits termed blocks
with closely spaced drilling and bulk sampling data "Proven and Probable Reserves" and made allowances for mining
operations and dilution. However, significant additional technical work is required. In the current terminology these
blocks would be termed Measured and Indicated Mineral Resources, however, for the purposes of this Technical Report
they are to be considered Geological Information only and subject to verification by drilling and sampling, prior to
reclassification.
Note 3: Historic Resource Classifications used in mineral resource estimates at the Dolly Varden deposits termed blocks
with more widely spaced drilling "Possible Reserves". In the case of Torbrit, Thompson and Pearson (1981) reduced the
confidence to Possible because the closely spaced drilling data must be subject to considerable check drilling. In the
current terminology these blocks would be termed Inferred Mineral Resources, however, for the purposes of this
Technical Report they are to be considered Geological Information only and subject to verification by drilling and
sampling, prior to reclassification.
Note 4: The Qualified Person has not done sufficient work to classify the Historical Estimates as current Mineral
Resources or Mineral Reserves. Furthermore, the Issuer is not treating these Historical Estimates as current Mineral
Resources or Mineral Reserves.
*Notes from Geology and Mineral Exploration of the Dolly Varden Property, British Columbia, Canada
Sept. 5, 2011, as revised. By Terry Garrow - Filed on SEDAR
Notes on Historic mineral resource estimates*
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Dolly Varden
Silver
Validation of
historic mineral resources
potential for mineral resource upgrade
Wolf Mine Looking NNW
Dolly Varden Mine
Torbrit Mine North Star Mine
• 4 targets
• Mineralization zones of
5-20m true widths
• Potential for high grade
silver at depth
• Focus on Wolf and
Torbrit zone
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Dolly Varden
Silver
“the Dolly Varden deposits
to the precious metal-rich Eskay Creek deposit”
may be silver-rich analogues
(Dunne and Pinsent (2002) of the BC Geological Survey Branch)
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Dolly Varden
Silver Size comparison to Eskay Creek
Dolly Varden footwall alteration & exhalite deposit footprint much larger 19
Dolly Varden
Silver
DollyVarden
SilverNew VMS exploration target
vertical footwall feeders mineralize horizontal ocean-floor strata
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Eskay Creek Deposit Model
with comparable geological
features at Dolly Varden20
Dolly Varden
Silver Common attributes
• VMS footprint
• Thin exhalite, anomalous
• High sulphidation
• Hazelton group formation
• 3 km strike length
• 180 M oz Ag production
• 3.6 M oz Au production
• VMS footprint
• Thick Ag rich distal exhalite
• High sulphidation
• Hazelton group formation
• 8 km strike length
• 20 M oz Ag production,
120 km
Dolly Varden Trend Eskay Creek Trend
stronger feeder alteration system at Dolly Varden 21
Dolly Varden
Silver Hydrothermal Eruption Breccia Textures
WOLF WOLF
ESKAY ESKAY
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Dolly Varden
Silver VMS deposit identification
potential for new Eskay Creek-type deposit
3D map-red
zone
Dolly Varden Mine
Wolf Mine
• Largest alteration trend
in district: 5km strike
length on property
• Potential for gold-silver
VMS at depth beneath
intense Red Point alteration
zone
Looking NNW
Surprise
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Dolly Varden
Silver 2011 exploration program completed
a basis for further value creation
Dolly Varden
• Surface of Dolly Varden & North Star mapped
• Portals re-opened and surveyed
• Work camp constructed in Alice Arm
Torbrit • BC Land Surveyors verified Torbrit mine grid on surface & U/G
• Rehabilitation of underground workings scoped
Wolf
• Surface of Wolf mapped and historic drill hole collars located
• BC Land Surveyors verified Wolf mine grid
• 4,600 m of diamond drilling in 21 holes
• Step-out and verification diamond drill intersections obtained
Red Point • Surface geological mapping and sampling
• BC Land Surveyors verified 1989-90 trenching and drill collars
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Dolly Varden
Silver Milestones since acquisition
catalysts for value creation
Q2/11 • NI 43-101 Technical Report completed
• Airborne survey completed
• Work camp constructed in Alice Arm
Q3/11 • Completed surface drilling program, 4,600m drilled in 21 holes on
the Wolf deposit.
• Scoped the rehabilitation of underground workings
Q4/11 • Technical reporting
Q1/12 • Trading of shares commenced Feb. 14, 2012 on TSX.V, Tier One
• Planning and permitting for road construction
• Surface drill results reported
• Design of 2012 exploration program
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Dolly Varden
Silver Wolf mine - Helicopter supported diamond drilling
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Dolly Varden
Silver
Wolf Mine:
Plan
• Three mineralized zones
• Vein and Stratibound styles
• Hydrothermal breccias
• 2011 drilling indicates
native silver and silver-
bearing sulphides over large
widths
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Dolly Varden
Silver Wolf longitudinal projection - 2011 Drilling
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Dolly Varden
Silver Experienced Board of Directors
John King Burns
Chairman
• Former CFO of Drexel Burnham Lambert Commodity Group
• Former managing director of Barclays Metals Group
• 30+ years of extensive capital markets and resource sector experience
Allan Marter
Director
• 30+ years experience as a Chartered Accountant and CFO of various mining companies, including 7 years as President of EURO Ressources S.A.
• Former Director of Minera Andes
• Experienced in exploration, development and operational stages.
Ron F. Nichols, P. Eng.
President & CEO
• 30+ years (20 years with Cominco) of exploration and development experience including Valley Copper and Snip Mines in BC
• Recently re-started Ag-Cu-Pb-Zn La Negra Mine, Mexico and silver Shafter Mine, Texas
Paul J. McGuigan, P. Geo.
VP Exploration
• Principal of Cambria Geosciences Inc., formerly with Esso Resources
• 35+ years of experience in mineral exploration and mining operations
• Active in BC exploration since 1975
Allen Ambrose, P. Geo.
Director
• 30+ years of exploration and mining experience
• Co-discoverer of Brisas del Cuyuni gold deposit
• Director/Co-founder of multiple resource companies incl. Minera Andes
Theo Sanidas
Director
• 10+ years of mining industry experience
• Extensive capital markets background
• Experience with M&A, financing and corporate restructuring activities 29
Dolly Varden
Silver Capital structure
Dolly Varden Silver Corporation Upon Listing
Issued Common Shares 80,265,000
Options 6,375,000
Warrants 10,479,400
Fully Diluted Shares O/S 97,119,400
Basic cash* $2.7 MM
Debt Nil
Market Cap (Basic @ $0.25/share) Approx. $20 MM
* Cash position would increase by $3.016 million if all warrants and options
exercised
project potential scope & size will allow company to create significant value
Dolly Varden
Silver Corporate Overview
• Evaluating the re-start of historic Dolly
Varden silver mines, BC
• Exploring a major untested Eskay Creek-
type gold and silver target
• Senior management team experienced in
both Eskay Creek-type exploration and re-
starting old mines
• 2011 diamond drill program of 4,600 m in
21 holes
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Dolly Varden
Silver
Dolly Varden Silver Corporation
Suite 910 – 355 Burrard Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada V6C 2G8
Tel: 778-383-3083
Toll free: 1-855-381-3530
Ron F. Nichols
President, CEO & Director
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