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Exploring for gold and copper in Australia 1 A PRECIOUS AND BASE METAL EXPLORATION COMPANY

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  • Exploring for gold and copper in Australia

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    A PRECIOUS AND BASE METAL EXPLORATION COMPANY

  • Important Information

    This presentation has been prepared by Rockfire Resources plc (“ROCK” or the

    “Company”). It should not be considered as an offer or invitation to subscribe for, or

    purchase any, securities in the Company or as an inducement to make an offer or invitation

    with respect to those securities. This presentation contains forecasts, projections and

    forward looking information. Such forecasts, projections and information are not a

    guarantee of future performance and involve unknown risks and uncertainties, many of

    which are out of ROCK’s control. Actual results and developments will almost certainly differ

    materially from those expressed or implied. ROCK has not audited or investigated the

    accuracy or completeness of the information, statements and opinions contained in this

    presentation. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable laws, ROCK makes no

    representation and can give no assurance, guarantee or warranty, express or implied, as to,

    and takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for (1) the authenticity, validity,

    accuracy, suitability or completeness of, or any errors in or omission from, any information,

    statement or opinion contained in this presentation and (2) without prejudice to the

    generality of the foregoing, the achievement or accuracy of any forecasts, projections or

    other forward looking information contained or referred to in this presentation. This overview

    of the Company does not purport to be all inclusive or to contain all information which its

    recipients may require in order to make an informed assessment of ROCK’s targeted

    prospects. You should conduct your own investigation and perform your own analysis in

    order to satisfy yourself as to the accuracy and completeness of the information, statements

    and opinions contained in this presentation before making any investment decision.

    DISCLAIMER

    ROCKFIRE 2

  • ✓Exploring amongst multi-million-ounce gold deposits in

    Queensland, Australia;

    ✓Focussed on near-surface gold projects and large-scale

    copper projects;

    ✓An experienced and successful board of directors;

    ✓Low-risk, mining-friendly jurisdiction;

    ✓Early-entry market capitalisation opportunity;

    ✓A substantial portfolio of 100%-owned projects.

    EXPLORING AMONGST GIANTS

    ROCKFIRE 3

  • CORPORATE SNAP-SHOT

    ROCKFIRE 4

    AIM Code: ROCKOrdinary Shares (million) 435,886,277

    Market Cap (£0.0060) £2.61M

    Number of shareholders 146

    Percentage of shares not in public hands 41.50%

    Top 10 Shareholders Shares (M) %Jim Nominees Limited 81,684,825 18.74

    Lynchwood Nominees Limited 46,228,892 10.61

    Hargreaves Landsdowne (HLNOM) 37,741,788 8.66

    Hargreaves Landsdowne (15942) 25,673,458 5.89

    Hargreaves Landsdowne (VRA) 25,644,483 5.88

    Pershing Nominees Limited 16,384,621 3.76

    Barclays Direct Investing Nominees 15,413,985 3.54

    Interactive Investor Services Nominees 13,549,342 3.11

    Vidacos Nominees Limited 13,000,000 2.98

    WB Nominees Limited 11,912,375 2.73

    65.90 * denotes directors and management Top 10 shareholders

    Directors & Management Shares (M) %Nicholas Walley 51,465,800 11.81

    David W Price 13,600,000 3.12

    Edward Fry (Exploration Manager) 13,000,000 2.98

    Gordon Hart 8,823,530 2.02

    Patrick Elliott 2,941,176 0.67

    89,830,506 20.61

  • • David Price - MD & CEO (B.Sc., FAusIMM)

    Geologist, (30 years experience)

    • Gordon Hart - Chairman (GAICD)

    Equities, Finance, Governance

    (+35 years experience)

    • Edward Fry – Exploration Manager

    (B.Sc. (Hons), MAusIMM)

    Geologist, (10 years experience)

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    • Ian Staunton - NED

    Audit, Corporate Finance

    (+40 years experience)

    EXPERIENCE IS KEY

    ROCKFIRE 5

    • Patrick Elliott - NED

    Mergers, Acquisitions, Investor

    (35 years experience)

    • Nicholas Walley - NED

    Business, Investor

    (35 years experience)

  • AUSTRALIA

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  • QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA

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    LIGHTHOUSE TENEMENT

    MARENGO TENEMENT

    COPPERHEAD TENEMENT

    COPPER DOME TENEMENT

    KOOKABURRA TENEMENT

    MONARCH TENEMENT

    NEW LEYSHON TENEMENT

    • Plateau• Double Event• Cardigan Dam• Brigalow• Regional

    • Native Bee• Brigalow Alluvials

    GOLD PROJECTS COPPER PROJECTS

    BASE METAL PROJECTS

    LIGHTHOUSE TENEMENT

    • Rollston River (Zinc, Lead, Silver)• Warrawee (Zinc, Lead, Silver)• Scrubby Dam (Zinc, Lead, Silver)

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    LIGHTHOUSE TENEMENT

    Owned 100% by Rockfire

    Maiden JORC Inferred Resource (July 2019)

    1.35mt @ 1.18g/t Au = 51,000 ounces of gold

  • STRATEGIC LAND ACCUMULATION

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  • Double Event

    Plateau

    Activeprocessing

    plant

    NEARBY GOLD PROCESSING PLANTS

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    Regional

    production

    +20m ozs gold

    Activeprocessingplant

    Activeprocessingplant

    Rockfire has no guarantee that use of these facilities will be made available.

  • Historical drilling:

    • 44m @ 2.4 g/t Au

    • 10m @ 5.0 g/t Au

    • 8m @ 3.0 g/t Au

    • 14m @ 2.4 g/t Au

    • 3m @ 4.9 g/t Au

    December 2017 drilling:

    • 22m @ 1.9 g/t Au + 22.3 g/t Ag

    (39m downhole)

    • 20m @ 0.5 g/t Au + 2.5 g/t Ag

    (16m downhole)

    • 10m @ 1.9 g/t Au + 9.0 g/t Ag

    (18m downhole)

    • 18m @ 1.0 g/t Au + 10.5 g/t Ag

    (119m downhole)

    RC DRILLING DECEMBER 2017

    LIGHTHOUSE - PLATEAU PROSPECTOPEN PIT POTENTIAL

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  • LIGHTHOUSE - PLATEAU PROSPECTOPEN AT DEPTH

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    Plateau South Lode

    Plateau East Lode

  • RC DRILLING JUNE 2018

    June 2018 drilling:

    • 3m @ 2.1 g/t Au and 4 g/t Ag (from 23m)

    • 4m @ 1.2 g/t Au and 4 g/t Ag (from 24m)

    • 1m @ 6.0 g/t Au and 30 g/t Ag (from 25m)

    • 3m @ 1.3g/t Au and 4 g/t Ag (from 10m)

    • 2m @ 2.5g/t Au and 5 g/t Ag (from 41m)

    • 3m @ 2.7 g/t Au and 7 g/t Ag (from 39m)

    LIGHTHOUSE - DOUBLE EVENT PROSPECT EAST VEIN

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  • RC DRILLING NOVEMBER 2018

    November 2018 drilling:

    • 5m @ 6.4 g/t Au (from 27m)

    • 3m @ 2.9 g/t Au (from 15m)

    • 3m @ 1.9 g/t Au (from 31m)

    • 2m @ 3.2 g/t Au (from 13m)

    • 4m @ 1.8 g/t Au (from 16m)

    • 2m @ 1.5 g/t Au (from 21m)

    LIGHTHOUSE - DOUBLE EVENT PROSPECT WEST VEIN

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  • SOIL SAMPLING MAY 2019

    LIGHTHOUSE - DOUBLE EVENT PROSPECT WEST VEIN

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    3.86 ppm Au

    2.34 ppm Au

    +100ppb Au50 - 100ppb Au30 - 50ppb Au

  • Porphyry copper

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    COPPERHEAD TENEMENT

    Owned 100% by Rockfire

  • COPPERHEAD – LARGE-SCALE PROJECT

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    Rockfire Resources

    Copperhead Project

    Historical Stream Sampling

  • Julivon Prospect

    +450ppm Cu

    +450ppm Cu

    • Cu veins discovered in 1970

    • Auger drilling in 1971

    +100ppm copper-in-soil

    3km x 2km

    • Highest copper-in-soil is

    5,520ppm (0.55% Cu)

    • Almost 3% of samples

    returned results +0.1% Cu

    Listed in the USGS ‘Global Mineral Resource Assessment’

    COPPERHEAD – HIGH-GRADE SOILS

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    Rockfire ResourcesCopperhead Project

    Soil auger geochemistry

  • COPPERHEAD – BROAD, SURFACE COPPER ANOMALY

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  • • 5 holes drilled by Carpentaria

    Exploration in 1972.

    • Core only sporadically

    sampled

    • Highest values in core

    include 2.81% Cu and 12g/t

    Ag

    • Average copper equivalent

    (Cu Eq.) grade from drilling is

    0.35%

    • 35 million tonnes** of host

    rock estimated in 1972

    COPPERHEAD – HIGH-GRADE SOILS

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    ** The historical tonnes and grades are conceptual in nature. There has been insufficient exploration to estimate a Mineral Resource and it is uncertain if further exploration will result in the estimation of a Mineral Resource.

  • 300 ppm Cu

    COPPERHEAD – BROAD, SURFACE COPPER ANOMALY

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  • Cox. D.P. Descriptive Model of Porphyry Cu-Au. Modified from Langton

    and Williams (1982) as published in the USGS (Bull5m01)

    COPPERHEAD – BROAD, SURFACE COPPER ANOMALY

    ROCKFIRE

    Project Country Tonnage Grade (Cu %) Cu Content (T)

    Escondida Chile 18,818,000,000 0.77 144,898,600

    El Teniente Chile 20,731,000,000 0.62 128,532,200

    Grasberg Indonesia 5,761,000,000 1.39 80,077,900

    Los Bronces-Rio Blanco Chile 5,000,000,000 1.00 50,000,000

    Chuquicamata Chile 7,521,000,000 0.56 42,117,600

    Morenci USA 6,700,000,000 0.42 28,140,000

    Oyu Tolgoi Mongolia 2,255,000,000 0.94 21,197,000

    Los Pelambres Chile 3,311,000,000 0.63 20,859,300

    Radomiro Tomic Chile 4,976,000,000 0.39 19,406,400

    Sar Cheshmeh Iran 1,200,000,000 1.20 14,400,000

    Cadia Valley Ops Australia 3,240,000,000 0.27 8,748,000

    Elang Indonesia 2,425,000,000 0.31 7,517,500

    Toki Chile 1,500,000,000 0.50 7,500,000

    Batu Hijau Indonesia 1,100,000,000 0.53 5,775,000

    Bingham USA 1,020,000,000 0.56 5,712,000

    Dexing China 1,170,000,000 0.47 5,499,000

    Namosi Fiji Islands 1,600,000,000 0.34 5,440,000

    Kounrad Kazakhstan 800,000,000 0.62 4,960,000

    Bougainville Papua New Guinea 994,000,000 0.48 4,771,200

    Ok Tedi Papua New Guinea 700,000,000 0.63 4,410,000

    Michiquillay Peru 631,000,000 0.69 4,353,900

    Ministro Hales central Chile 343,000,000 0.89 3,052,700

    Mina Sur Chile 171,000,000 1.18 2,017,800

    Panagyurishte district Bulgaria 460,000,000 0.42 1,932,000

    Opache Chile 319,000,000 0.60 1,914,000

    Ministro Hales North Chile 139,000,000 1.17 1,626,300

    Rosia Poieni Romania 350,000,000 0.36 1,260,000

    Similkameen /Ingerbelle Canada 141,000,000 0.47 662,700

    Genoveva Chile 150,000,000 0.35 525,000

    Didipio Philippines 121,000,000 0.39 471,900

    Copper Mountain Canada 31,000,000 0.90 279,000

    Copperhead ** (non-JORC) Australia 35,000,000 0.35 Cu Eq. 122,500 Cu Eq.

    Rockfire Resources plc

    Comparison of Copper Resources as of 2019

    ** Current non-JORC calculation quoted from the 1972 drilling with a Cu Eq. grade of 0.35 %

    Source: www.portergeo.com.au/database/index.asp (May include remnant resources)

    http://www.portergeo.com.au/database/index.asp

  • Porphyry copper

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    COPPER DOME TENEMENT

    Owned 100% by Rockfire

  • • Potentially large-scale mineralised system

    • 50km from Copperhead

    • Outcrops at surface

    • Surface copper anomaly over 2km long and 1km wide;

    • Previous diamond drilling has intersected;

    o 15.24m @ 0.88 % Cu (including 4.58m @ 2.28 % Cu) from 161m downhole deptho 12.20m @ 0.61 % Cu (including 3.05m @ 1.24 % Cu) from 54m downhole deptho 24.38m @ 0.27 % Cu (including 7.4m @ 0.43% Cu) from 225m downhole depth

    • Diamond hole QML004 - 51.20m @ 0.20 g/t Au (from 72m downhole depth)

    COPPER DOME – A SECOND LARGE-SCALE PROJECT

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  • Listed in the USGS ‘Global Mineral Resource Assessment’

    COPPER DOME – UNDER-EXPLORED, HIGH-POTENTIAL

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  • COPPER DOME – HIGH GRADE COPPER, GOLD, SILVER

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    SOIL SAMPLING MAY 2019

    Copper-in-soil results Gold-in-soil results

  • ROCKFIRE – INDICATIVE COPPERHEAD EXPLORATION

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    Drilling at Copperhead

    News flow of results

    3D Induced Polarisation geophysics

    Expansion and deeper drilling at Copperhead

    News flow of results

    Metallurgical test work

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    CONTACT

    www.rockfireresources.com

    [email protected]

    Salisbury House, London Wall

    London EC2M 5PS, United Kingdom

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