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• The information contained in this document has been prepared based upon information supplied by Wolf Minerals Limited (the Company).
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The Presentation Team
Humphrey Hale, Executive MD
– 16 years in mining industry
– Previously with AngloGold Ashanti
– Geologist with Exploration and Mining Consultants
– Founding director of a private gold exploration company
Don Newport, NED
– Formerly head of Standard Bank's Global Mining Finance Business.
– Previously led the Barclay's Capital Mining Sector Team
Richard Lucas, CFO and Company Secretary
– Ex CFO of the Geotech Group
– Lihir Gold mine in PNG
– Previously a director at PWC
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Overview of Wolf Minerals
• Emerging low cost tungsten development company with tin credits
• Focused on a significant deposit of strategic metals:
- option to acquire 100% of the Hemerdon Project
• Positive DFS and strong outlook for tungsten and tin prices
supports case for rapid development of Hemerdon
– payback period 2-3 years
• Existing Planning Permission (Mining License) in place. Future strategy
to extend Planning Permission and mine life to 14+ years
• UK provides a politically stable location, valuable support from UK Government
• Financing of project progressing
Offtake agreement with 2 of the largest tungsten manufacturers, Global Tungsten Powders
and Wolfram Bergbau und Hutten confirming saleability of concentrate
£75m of financing secured, comprising £55m senior debt from ING, Unicredit and Cat
Financial and £20m from offtakers
Resource Capital Fund a significant and supportive shareholder (17.8%)
• First production expected in early 2014
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Tungsten
• Dense metal with properties that make it almost
impossible to substitute
• Highest melting point of all non-alloy metals
• Tensile strength at high temperature
• Wear resistant
• Good heat and electrical conductivity
• Lowest coefficient of thermal expansion
• High performance manufacturing, cutting and
drilling tools
• Steel additives for strength and hardness
• Aircraft, space and technology
• Mining, oil and gas and construction
• Superalloys
• Military applications and nuclear
• Light bulbs and electronics
Demand
Properties
Supply
Uses
• Dominated by the Chinese (~85% of supply)
• UK/Europe keen to source non-Chinese supply
of this critical metal
• Tungsten demand correlates closely with
economic output, where tungsten demand in one
year reflects growth in GDP the previous year
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Positive outlook for tungsten
• Ammonium Para Tungstate (APT) is the most
traded of the tungsten products
• APT is published by Metal Pages and Metals
Bulletin
• Tungsten product prices are quoted in metric
tonne units or mtu (1 mtu = 10kg)
Demand
• Global tungsten demand is forecast to grow at
a rate of 6-7% per annum, from 70,051t WO3
in 2010 to 111,602t WO3 in 2015
• The APT price is expected to remain above
US$400 for the foreseeable future due to
shortage of supply.
Supply
• Historically, primary production not sufficient to supply market demand which has been supplement by
sales from stockpiles (largest stockpiles were located in the FSU now thought to be exhausted)
• Focus for Chinese tungsten production is on the domestic market and any increases in production
capacity are likely to supply domestic tungsten demand rather than the export market creating a
significant demand/supply imbalance. There is a focus on preserving domestic resources.
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History of Hemerdon Project
• Tungsten first discovered in 1860’s
• Mined for Tungsten during Wold War I up to the end of World War II for armament production
• Historical feasibility study conducted by AMAX in 1982
AMAX didn’t develop the mine due to the tungsten price crashing in 1986
• Planning approval obtained in June 1986 and valid until 2021
• Option agreement for 40 year lease entered into in by Wolf in December 2007
• Proven and Probable reserve obtained following drill campaign in 2008
• BFS published in May 2011
• £75m financing secured in 2012 (comprising £55m senior debt and £20m loan from offtakers)
• Offtake agreement now in place with Global Tungsten Powders and Wolfram Bergbau und Hutten
confirming saleability of concentrate
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• In an area of operating open pit clay mining
operations of Sibelco and Imerys
• Located close to local necessary infrastructure,
6 miles from Plymouth
• Significantly de-risked with existing Planning
Permission (Mining Permit)
• Thorough public consultation and enquiry
process completed
• Blue outline: approved planning permission
limits
• Red outline: approved pit rim limit
Hemerdon Project (SW England)
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Tungsten at Hemerdon
Item DFS
Throughput 3Mtpa
Open pit strip ratio (LoM) 1.5:1
Tungsten Grade 0.19% WO3
Tin Grade 0.03%
Tungsten Recovery 66%
Tin Recovery 64%
Tungsten Production pa 345,000mtu*
Tin Production pa 462 tonnes
• Open pit mine with gravity separation
• Attractive Metallurgy and Saleable Concentrate
• 65% tungsten and 40% tin marketable
concentrate will be produced for sale
• No significant deleterious elements
• Offtake in place confirming suitability of product
*mtu – metric tonne unit = 10kg
Definitive Feasibility Study May 2011
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Hemerdon Definitive Feasibility Study
• Positive DFS confirms the financial and technical viability of a world class 3Mtpa open pit
tungsten and tin mine in the UK
• Robust economics for ~ 10 year operating period:
• DFS limited only by the existing Planning Permission (Mining License)
• Resource has potential to expand life of mine to 14+ years
Cash surplus £M
NPV £M*
NPV AUD$M*
Payback yrs
IRR
Price Case (US$/mtu)
$300 $350 $400 $450 $500
£250 £324 £397 £471 £545
£34 £67 £101 £134 £167
$54 $107 $162 $214 $267
4.5 3.5 2.8 2.4 2.1
14% 20% 25% 29% 33%
*Ungeared post tax figures at an 8% discount rate
• Strong leverage to the APT
price (currently US$430/mtu)
• C1 Cash Cost of US$105/mtu
• Capex of £104m
• Payback Period of 2.75 to 3.25
years
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DFS Headline Outcomes
* C1 Cash costs are operating costs including mining, processing, site administration and royalties
**Current ATP price is c.$460mtu
Result Units Base Case Upper Case
ATP Price** US$/mtu 360 415
Operating Period Yrs 9.25 9.25
Annual Throughput Mtpa 3 3
Tungsten Production Mtupa 345,000 345,000
Tin Production Tpa 462 462
Average C1 Cash Cost* US$/mtu 105 105
CAPEX £M 104 104
Operating Surplus £M
338 424
Project NPV₈ (post tax ungeared)
£M
£74M £114M
IRR % 21% 26%
Payback Years 3.25 2.75
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Capital Cost
• High % of capital costs expended in GBP. Low exposure to exchange rates
• Working capital is part of the operating expenditure
• 20% discount to the Ammonium Para Tungstate (APT) assumed as a treatment cost
• Tin revenue derived as LME pricing 20% less smelter treatment charges
• 2% royalty to landowners
• 10% contingency included
• Estimated as EPC contract
Item £ 000s
Process plant 65,366
Infrastructure 8,491
Land purchases 10,548
Owners costs 10,403
Contingency 9,314
Total 104,122
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Low Operating Costs
• Cash cost for operating period of US$122 per mtu (C1 cash cost after tin credits of
US$105 per mtu)
• Operating costs reduced by:
– Access to grid power
– 2 stage open pit design with low strip ratio:
• Stage 1 0.7:1
• LOM 1.5:1
– No large scale capital facilities required e.g. airstrip, powerlines, roads, accommodation.
– Ready source of labour familiar with open pit mining
– Gravity milling and processing plant
Cost Area US$ /mtu
Mining 66.99
Processing 53.10
General Administration (inc. marketing & royalties) 15.52
Total (Less tin credits 30.44) 105.18
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Development Timetable
2012 2013 2014
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2
Senior debt secured
Offtake agreed
Earth moving contract tendered
EPC contract awarded
Link Road constructed and adopted
Plant earthworks completed
Major equipment installations
completed
Plant commissioning commences
Plant accepts first ore
Plant operating at design capacity
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Near Term Strategy
Planning Permission
• Updated Jan 2011 in consultation with Devon
County Council and stakeholders
• New link road commenced and due to be
completed July 2012.
• Applied for water abstraction permit and waste
dump licence
Offtake
• Offtake agreement agreed
• Confirms suitability of Hemerdon concentrate
Financing
• £75m of debt secured comprising:
– £55m of senior debt
– £20 million loan from offtakers
• Supportive key existing shareholders
• EPC contract out for tender
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Resource Capital Funds
• Resource Capital Funds (RCF) are specialist resources private equity funds
• Since inception in 1998, RCF has supported over 100 mining companies involving projects in 36
countries and 26 commodities
• RCF V has US$1.02 billion of committed capital, RCF VI expected to be over US$2.0 billion
• RCF made their initial investment in Sept 2009
• Participated in all subsequent offerings in July 2010 and March 2011
• Wolf currently has a $6m loan facility from RCF to fast track the project
• RCF is a strong supportive shareholder holding 17.8%.
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Strategies to Extend Mine Life
Further upside from saleable secondary aggregates – not included in the financial model
Short term
• Extend Planning Permission (Mining Licence) to mine the
Measured and Indicated Resources (currently lie outside the pre-
approved pit design
• Potential to add 2 years to the operating period
Medium term • DFS two-stage pit design provides an opportunity to steepen the
final pit walls
• Potential increase of 3 years to mineable reserves
Longer term • Mineralisation open at depth to 400m and along strike
• Provides opportunities to extend the pit design and mine life by
many years
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Why Wolf?
Mine planning permission in place
Positive DFS with significant leverage to APT price upside
Strong tungsten fundamentals
Hemerdon is an advanced new tungsten project outside of China
Strategic location of assets - politically stable exporter
£75m of finance secured
Offtake agreed
Supportive major shareholder in RCF
Hemerdon provides Wolf with an excellent springboard to develop a
mid-tier specialty metal company offering superior shareholder returns
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Mineral Resources and
Ore Reserves
Ore Reserves Proven Probable Total
Mt WO3 % Sn % Mt WO3 % Sn % Mt WO3 % Sn %
Granite 18.9 0.18 0.03 2.4 0.18 0.03 21.3 0.18 0.03
Soft Granite 4.6 0.19 0.03 0.9 0.21 0.03 5.5 0.21 0.03
Total 23.5 0.19 0.03 3.2 0.19 0.03 26.7 0.19 0.03
Mineral Resources Tonnage (Mt) WO3 grade (%) Sn grade (%)
Measured 76.8 0.15 0.02
Indicated 40.3 0.13 0.02
Measured and Indicated 117.1 0.14 0.02
Inferred 284.2 0.13 0.02
Measured, Indicated and Inferred 401.4 0.13 0.02
Tables reported at a cutoff grade of 0.063% WO3
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2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Project Cashflow GBP '000s
Operating Cashflow (post-tax) Additional Cashflow (US$415/mtu) Capex Land Sales
Project Cashflows
• Base case pre-tax operating cashflow for 9.25 year
operating period of £338 million with upper case £424 million
• Average annual revenue of £65 million to £74 million per
year
• CAPEX of £104 million repaid in 2.75 to 3.25 years
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Process Flowsheet
Conc.
Sizers
Scrubber
Screens Crusher
Deslime DMS 2.7SG
Spirals
Tables
DMS 3.3SGRegrind
Screen
DMS 3.3SG
+9mm
-9mm +0.5mm-0.5mm
+63µm -0.5mm
Reject to tails
-1.7mm +0.5mm
-0.5mm
+1.7mm
Reject
Conc. +0.5mm ,- 9mmConc. -0.5mm
Reject to tails
Conc.
Conc. +0.5mm ,- 1.7mm
Conc.
Regrind
Reject -63µm to tails
Roast
LIMS
Flotation
WHIMS
-0.3mm
Reject Mags Fe3O4
Non Mags
Floats = Reject Arsenic
Sinks
Non Mags Mags
WO3 Conc.Sn Conc.Conc.Conc.
ROM
+0.5mm
Simple Gravity flowsheet to produce tungsten and tin concentrates for sale
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The Wolf Minerals Team
Humphrey Hale, Executive MD
– 16 years in mining industry
– Previously with AngloGold Ashanti
– Geologist with Exploration and Mining Consultants
– Founding director of a private gold exploration company
Richard Lucas, CFO and Company Secretary
Ex CFO of the Geotech Group
Lihir Gold mine in PNG
Previously a director at PWC
Executive Team
Rupert McCracken, Project Manager
Over 25 years’ experience in development, construction and commissioning of mineral processing projects
Previously held project manager positions with Comet Resources, Ticor South Africa, BHP Billiton and Resolute Mining
Jeffery Harrison, UK Operations Manager
Mining Engineer with over 20 years’ experience
Significant experience in large scale open pit operations
Previously General Manager at Queensland Magnesia and Operations Manager for Imerys Minerals
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The Wolf Minerals Team
John Hopkins
Currently Chairman of Midas Resources Ltd, NED Universal Coal Ltd and gas and condensate producer Hawkley Oil and Gas Ltd.
He has recently stepped down from chairing gold producer Adamus Resources Ltd .
Jonathan Downes, NED
Founding director of Hibernia Gold (now Moly Mines Limited) and Siberia Mining Corporation (now owned by Monarch Resources Limited).
Currently NED of Corazon Metals Limited, NED of Sabre Resources and the Managing Director of Ironbark Zinc Limited.
Adrian Byass, NED
Competent Person for reporting to the ASX for certain minerals. A founder of Siberia Mining Corporation and Hibernia Gold
Currently an Executive Director of Ironbark Zinc Limited.
Jim Williams, NED
Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the AusIMM
Founding Head of Mining for Fortescue Metals Group Ltd
Served as Chief Mining Engineer for Bechtel in Australasia, Principal Mining Consultant for Minproc Engineers and CEO for Laverton Gold
Don Newport, NED
Formerly head of Standard Bank's Global Mining Finance Business.
Previously led the Barclay's Capital Mining Sector Team
Chris Corbett, NED
Resource Capital Fund representative
mine development, production and construction experience with contractor Byrnecut Mining and corporate and business development roles with Wesfarmers Limited.
Non-Executive Team
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Current Company Structure
Company overview
Wolf Minerals specialises in tungsten and specialty metal exploration and development
Dual listed
: WLFE : WLF
Issued Shares 86.87M
Unlisted Options 5.95M
ASX Listed Options (exp. 30 Sep ’12, £0.156) 21.44M
Share Price (20 April 2012) £0.24
Market Capitalisation £21M
Significant Shareholders
Resource Capital Fund V 17.77%
Traxys Projects 9.59%
RMB Resources 3.73%
(Top 20 shareholders - 58%)
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Competent Person Statement
• The Information in this report relates to Exploration Results, Mineral Resources or Ore reserves is based on
information compiled by Mr. H. Hale BSc. (Hons), MAIG. Mr. Hale has sufficient experience that is relevant to the
style of deposit under consideration and to the activity which he is undertaking to qualify as Competent Person as
defined in the 2004 Edition of the Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and
Ore reserves. Mr. Hale consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on this information in the form
and context in which it appears.
• “The information in the report to which this statement is attached that relates to Exploration Results and Mineral
Resources is based on information compiled by Phil Jankowski, who is a Member of the Australasian Institute of
Mining and Metallurgy. Phil Jankowski is a full-time employee of SRK Consulting (Australasia) Pty Ltd (“SRK”), and
has sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and
to the activity which he is undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2004 Edition of the
‘Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves’. Phil Jankowski
consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it
appears.”
• The Ore Reserve estimate is based on work completed by Mr Quinton de Klerk, who is a Member of the
Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Mr de Klerk is a full time employee of Cube Consulting and has
sufficient experience which is relevant to the activity which he is undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as
defined in the 2004 edition of the ‘Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and
Ore Reserves’. Mr de Klerk consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on his information in the form
and context in which it appears.
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