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Transcript of CONTINENTAL GOLD
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Corporate Presentation
February 2011
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These presentation slides (the “Slides”) do not comprise a prospectus or other form of offering document relating to Continental Gold Limited (“the Company”), and do not constitute an offer or invitation to purchase or subscribe for any securities of the Company or any other company and should not be relied on in connection with a decision to purchase or subscribe for any such securities. The Slides and the accompanying verbal presentation do not constitute a recommendation regarding any decision to sell or purchase securities of the Company or any other company. Your attention is drawn to the risk factors set out below.
The Slides and the accompanying verbal presentation are confidential and are being supplied to you solely for your information and may not be reproduced or distributed to any other person or published, in whole or in part, for any other purpose. No reliance may be placed for any purpose whatsoever on the information contained in the Slides and the accompanying verbal presentation or the completeness or accuracy of such information. No representation or warranty, express or implied, is given by or on behalf of the Company or its shareholders, directors, officers, or employees or any other person as to the accuracy or completeness of the information or opinions contained in the Slides and the accompanying verbal presentation, and no liability is accepted for any such information or opinions (including in the case of negligence, but excluding any liability for fraud).
The Slides contain forward-looking statements, which relate, inter alia, to the Company’s proposed strategy, plans and objectives. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors beyond the control of the Company that could cause the actual performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from such forward-looking statements. Accordingly, you should not rely on any forward-looking statements and the Company accepts no obligation to disseminate any updates or revisions to such forward-looking statements.
The Slides and their contents are directed only at persons who fall within the exemptions from applicable securities laws and persons to whom distribution may otherwise lawfully be made. Any investments, investment activity or controlled activity to which the Slides relate is available only to such persons and will be engaged in only with such persons. Mr Moller, Vice President Exploration for the Company, is a 'qualified person' under National Instrument 43-101 and has reviewed the technical information contained herein.
Important Notice
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Investment Highlights
Colombia: pro-business environment
Focus on high-grade gold
Experienced management team
One of the first to enter Colombia
Stuart Moller, VP of Exploration
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Capital Structure
Shares outstanding 98.5 million
Fully diluted 121.3 million
Cash* C$93 million
Options outstanding 6.4 million
Warrants outstanding 16.9 million
Insider ownership ~30%
* As of Jan 1, 2011
General Terrain in the Buriticá Region
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Management
Stuart Moller, MSc, P.Geo
Vice President Exploration
30 years of Latin American focused experience
9 years as VP, Exploration for PanAmerican Silver Corp.
Greg Hall Technical Advisor
Over 35 years of experience in the mining industry
Chief geologist world-wide of Placer Dome until the Barrick takeover − credited discoveries include Granny Smith Mine (Barrick), Yandi Mine (Rio Tinto)
Mark Moseley-Williams Senior Vice-President of Operations
Mining engineer & MBA with over 16 years’ experience in mine construction, expansion projects and operations in Americas
Agnico Eagle, Kinross, Coeur d'Alene, Fortuna
Elina Chow Director of Investor Relations
10 years of investor relations/public relations experience
Previously with Colossus Minerals and Auryx Gold Corp.
Ari Sussman CEO, President and Director
15 years of experience in the mining industry
Co-founder and CEO of Colossus Minerals, 2006 – present
Raised over C$300 million since 2006
Vic Wall Special Advisor
Geologist with over 30 years of international experience
Co-winner of the Goldcorp challenge in 2001
Chief Geologist MIM Exploration Pty. Ltd (1989−1996)
Co-founder & VP, Exploration for Colossus Minerals Inc.
Gustavo Koch, MA
Executive Vice President
Lawyer with 17 years of experience managing extensive portfolio of mining licenses in Colombia including Continental’s portfolio
Keith McKay, CA
Chief Financial Officer
A chartered accountant; formerly served as CFO with Andina Minerals, Aurelian Resources; controller with Rio Algom, VP Finance with Potash Company of Canada
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Board of Directors
Robert Allen Chairman of the Board
30 years of Colombian experience identifying, financing and developing mineral properties including Continental’s portfolio
Ari Sussman CEO, President and Director
15 years in the mining industry
Co-founder and CEO of Colossus Minerals, 2006 − present
Raised over C$125 million since 2006
Jim Felton Director
8 years of Colombian experience, including Vice President of Business Development for Grupo de Bullet (2006 − present)
Paul J. Murphy Director
Executive VP of Finance and CFO at Guyana Goldfields
Former National Mining Leader and West Cluster Leader in Canada at PriceWaterHouseCoopers LLP
Director of Alamos Gold
Jaime G. Gutiérrez Director
25 years of mining industry experience
General Manager of Colombian gold smelter company CIIGSA
Tim Warman, P.Geo
Director
President and CEO of Malbex Resources
Former Vice President of Corporate Development of Aurelian Resources Inc.
Patrick Anderson Director
CEO of Dalradian Resources
Former president and CEO of Aurelian Resources
Co-credited with discovery of FDN Deposit in Ecuador
The Northern Miner’s Mining Man of the Year (2009)
Director of Colossus Minerals
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Continental’s Projects
Concessions owned: 166,207 ha
Concessions pending application: 145,656 ha
Highly prospective gold regions
Buriticá high-grade flagship gold project
Over 40 years combined Colombian
experience
Joint venture on Dojura property
with AngloGold Ashanti
Santander
Frontino
Berlin Buriticá
Lunareja
Dojura
Dominical
N
COLOMBIA
0 100 200
Kilometres
Continental Gold Projects
Medellin
Bogotá
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Colombia: Gold Belts
Miocene belt in Colombia’s central cordillera
Major gold deposits include La Colosa & Marmato
Countrywide exploration only just beginning
METALLOGENIC BELT AGE
0 75 150
Kilometres
N
VENEZUELA
ECUADOR
COLOMBIA
Jurassic
Late Cretaceous Early Tertiary
Eocene (?)
Miocene
DEPOSIT TYPE
Porphyry Gold
Intermediate Sulfidation
Oxidized Pluton Related
PANAMA
Segovia Belt
Antioquia Batholith
Middle Cauca Belt
Choco Belt
Western edge of the craton
La Colosa
Marmato
Buriticá
California District
General Terrain in the Buriticá Region
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Buriticá: Overview
31,257 hectares (5,551 ha registered; 13,320 ha pending registration; 12,386 ha pending application), 100% owned
Two hour drive from Medellin
Mining license and EIA in place – only amendment required
Excellent infrastructure: road, power and water to site
30 tpd plant processing development ore
High grade, carbonate base metal type vein/breccia system
60,000m drill program for 2010-11 30% complete; over 45,000m drilled since 2008
Multiple untested targets to be drilled
Visible gold in hole Busy-79
Native gold on the gravity table
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Buriticá: Exploration Targets
Significant additional high-
grade vein potential in
several areas
Lower grade disseminated
Au potential on north and
south edges of Buriticá
complex and in the
Guacamaya breccia area
Pajarito
Guacamaya
Breccia
Yaragua
La
Estera
Town of Buritica
Town of El Naranjo
500m
Alluvium
Black siltstones
Tonalite
Basalt (Cretaceous)
Buritica Andesite Fault
Area of soil sampling
N
Yaragua
North
Veta Sur
San
Augustine
La Mano
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Buriticá: Soil Sampling
0 300
metres
0 300
metres
0.15
12 g/t
1500 x 2500 m grid 1560 samples Multi-element ICP 100 x 20-25 m grid
GOLD LEAD
0.2%
150
Yaragua Mine
Veta Sur
La Estera
La Mano
Yaragua North
Yaragua Mine
Veta Sur
La Mano La Estera
Yaragua North
To
nu
sco
Fa
ult
To
nu
sco
Fa
ult
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Buriticá: Soil Sampling
0 300
metres
0 300
metres
5
>45 g/t
SILVER ZINC ZINC
0 300
metres
150
>0.2%
Yaragua Mine
Veta Sur
La Estera
La Mano
Yaragua Mine
Veta Sur
La Estera
La Mano
Yaragua North Yaragua North
To
nu
sco
Fa
ult
To
nu
sco
Fa
ult
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Buriticá: Yaragua Zone
Diatreme Fault
Tonusco Fault
0 100
Metres
E W
View is to the South
Yaragua Mine
Portals
Breccia
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Buriticá: Major Vein Systems
Veta Sur
System
Diatreme
Fault
Tonusco
Fault
Yaragua
System
Yaragua
North
100m
Drill hole
10 – 30g/t Au
Road
Fault
Veta Sur Drill Intersects
>30g/t Au
3 – 10g/t Au
N
FW Vein HW Vein
Sofia
Vein C
Vein B
Mafic volcanics
Breccia Buritica
Breccia Volcanic-Sed
Sediments
Buritica intrusions
Busy-66 8.5m @ 23.67 g/t Au & 149 g/t Ag
Busy-79 14.3 m @ 446 g/t Au & 166 g/t Ag
Busy-131 17.9 m @113.82 g/t Au & 112 g/t Ag
Busy-11 7.0 @ 88.29 Au & 155.2 Ag
Busy-63 1.5m @ 64.82 g/t Au & 20 g/t Ag
Busy-23 5.9m @ 52.42 g/t Au & 20 g/t Ag
D
C
A
B
Buuy-130 9.9 m @ 53.11 g/t Au & 109.9 g/t Ag
Buuy-48 3.5 m @ 76.72 g/t Au & 216.4 g/t Ag
Buuy-51 2.7 m @ 60.53 g/t Au & 55 g/t Ag
Buuy-44 9.8 m @ 13.93 g/t Au & 69.6 g/t Ag
Yaragua
Mine
Portals
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Buriticá: Stage II Gold Mineralization
Cuts Stage I banded gold - base metal mineralization
Free gold - carbonate +/- stibnite, Te, As
Low base metal content
Identified to date in San Antonio, Sofia, B, and Veta Sur veins (ie., high grade veins) and on Diatreme Fault
Program of oriented core drilling to determine structural relationship to Stage I
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Buriticá: Yaragua Zone Cross-section A-B
Murc
iela
gos 2
Level 1
Level 2
Level 0
Level 3
N S
Section Line 1129 540mE
50m
>30
10−30
5−10
3−5
1−3
0.5−1
<0.5
Gold Assay
Results (g/t))
4.0m @ 30.0
8.8m @ 71.1
0.3m @ 117.9
1.5m @ 110.9
1.4m @ 65.3
0.3m @ 11.7
0.6m @ 634.5 0.7m @ 28.2
0.3m @ 11.2
0.2m @ 53.5
Yaragua Breccia
20m @ 3.0
1500 m
1400 m
1300 m
1600 m
A B
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Buriticá: Longitudinal Section of San Antonio Underground Channel Sampling
Drill hole intersect
of San Antonio Vein
(cutoff of 1g/t)
1 – 10
10 – 30
>30
Gold (g/t)
100m
0.4m width @ 23.4 g/t
(38m length)
0.5m width @ 212.8 g/t
(57m length)
0.5m width @ 63.8 g/t
(27m length)
0.3m width @ 35.5g/t
(33m length)
0.1m width
@ 63.9g/t
0.5m width @ 37.1g/t
(108m length)
1.6m width @ 45.0g/t
(50m length) 1.4m width @ 105.2g/t
(55m length)
1.3m width @ 67.4g/t
(200m length)
1.0m width @ 108.1g/t
(115m length)
1700m
1500m
1300m
Channeled interval
with length of
interval, average
grade and thickness
W E
Note: Channeled widths are
less than the vein width in some
areas as sampling is limited by
the width of the tunnels
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1500m
1800m
1300m
1700m
1600m
1400m
50m
3.4m @
12.4
1 – 10
10 – 30
30 - 100
Results
Gold (g/t)
0.7m @ 18.5
1.4m @ 9.4
0.9m @ 27.2
1.4m @ 14.3
2.0m @ 23.3
1.9m @
12.6
2.0m @ 6.5
1.1m @ 7.6
4.3m @ 16.1
3.2m @ 4.6
2.5m @ 9.6
5.1m @ 4.3
1.1m @ 8.6
3.7m @
4.2
1.3m @ 14.2
2.1m @ 4.1
3.2m @ 3.5
2.6m @ 20.9
1.25m @ 23.9
12.1m @ 4.8
Inc
2.05m @ 11.3
2.7m @ 12.2
6.1m @ 8.9
14.3m @ 446g/t
Inc 3.0m @ 2105.1g/t
Drill traces
Previous
results
Awaiting
results
>100
A
[cutoff of 1g/t]
B C
D
0.65m @ 365.3g/t
0.9m @ 428.7g/t
17.9m @ 113.8g/t
Inc 1.2m @ 1432g/t
And 1.8m @ 127.0g/t
A
C
D
Buriticá: Veta Sur Longitudinal Section C-D
C D
E
B E
0.80m @ 121.3g/t
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Buritica: Gold Distribution
All drill traces (Total 45km)
Gold intersect (>30ppm)
Drill traces (Awaiting Assay results)
Gold intersect (>10ppm)
Gold intersect (>5ppm)
Combined Veta Sur – Yaragua longitudinal section looking north. +10 g/t Au intercepts along 900m of strike open below the 600 vertical meters currently drill tested
Yaragua
Veta Sur
1700m
1600m
1500m
1400m
1300m
1200m
1100m
1000m
100m
Crosscut off of tunnel from Naranjo Valley
W E
(scheduled for 2012 – 2013)
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Buritica: Preliminary Ramp Design
Plan View
Section looking West
Buuy-22
1300 m
1500 m
Buuy-46
Preliminary ramp access design accesses large open valley
1km ramp at 1200m level starting Q1 2011
Resource definition drilling below 1500m level ~Q2/Q3 2011
Will become main haulageway for production
Buuy-22 189 g/t Au intersection at 1220m elevation
0 300 metres
0.15
12 g/t
Veta Sur
La Estera
La Mano
Yaragua North
To
nu
sco
Fa
ult
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Buriticá: Aggressive Time Line
Milestone Target
Complete 45,000 m Phase 1 drill program
Complete 1500m of development on vein
Initiate baseline environmental program
Initiate metallurgical & geo-mechanical testing
Amend Mining License & EIA 2011
Commence 60,000m & Phase 2 drill program Q1 2011
Initiate exploration/production ramp Q2 2011
Complete Phase 2 drill program Q4 2011
Underground drilling at Buriticá – June 2010
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Berlin: Overview
100% owned, 27,000 hectare project
Large-scale mesothermal gold vein system
Over 11 kilometres of mineralized strike to test
0 5 10
Kilometres
N
Trend of Mineralization
Known Mines / Prospects
Current Road
Proposed Road
El Rosario Mine
Berlin Mine El Troncal
10 km
Pescadero Ituango Hydroelectric Plant
N Pescadero Ituango power plant:
• US$2.3 billion estimated cost
• 2400 megawatts
• Completion planned for 2018
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Berlin: History
2135 Level
2100 Level
2070 Level
2035 Level
2000 Level
1960 Level
1930 Level
1900 Level
1860
Level
1800 Level
1830 Level
1730 Level
1700 Level
1760 Level
1660 Level
North
Orebody
South
Orebody
Orebody ‘C’’ ‘B’ Orebody
‘D’
Orebody
Orebody ‘A’
Berlin mining operation circa 1942 (photo and left image source: “A Lode Gold Mine in Colombia”, Engineering & Mining Journal, April 1942)
Berlin Mine operated 1930-1946
Produced 413,000 oz Au
Production from 20m thick lens
Production grade @ 16g/t Au
Historical Au recoveries of 94%
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Berlin: Geochemistry
Rosario
Berlin
1km
El Troncal Approximately 5 metres
Non Carbonaceous Pelites
License
Vein
Gneiss
Quartz sericitic schists
Tonalite
Carbonaceous Pelites
Stream Sample Rock Sample Soil Sample
>30 10−30 5−10 3−5 1−3 0.5−1 <0.5
Gold Assay Results (g/t)
Sample Type
Fault
Berlin vein with abundant stringers of host black schist
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Berlin: Large-scale Veins Longitudinal Section
On-going sampling program continues to find gold along +11km of strike
Historical mine levels
Historical mined-out areas
+10g/t Au mineralization
LEGEND
La Lluvia Mine
El Rosario Mine El Pescaito
Berlin Mine
Mined ore bodies
413,000 ounces of gold production
Metres
1000 m
1000 m 0
North South
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Berlin: Initial Exploration Plan
Historical mine levels
Historical mine working LEGEND
3 km length of a 12 km major structure
North South
No drilling North of this point along strike of structure
340m
+1,000 m development level (no historic mining)
1500RL 1600RL
No drilling vertically below this point along entire structure
1860RL
*2km of the structure
undrilled. Last drilling was
pre-1945
135m zone
last 23m 22 samples
Av. grade 16.6 gt Au
Open vertically and
S horizontally
50m zone 28
samples Av.
grade 9 gt Au
Open vertically
and N horizontally
25m zone 24
samples Av. grade
11.7 gt Au Open
vertically and
S horizontally
10m zone 5
samples AV.
grade 223gt Au
Open all directions
500 m
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Dominical
100%-owned, 6,500 hectare project
Rock and stream sediment sampling
Grass roots discovery of epithermal/mesothermal vein systems with strike extents of 400−1,500 metres
Chip samples: 12m @ 1.15g/t Au
24m @ 1.00g/t Au
30m @ 0.86g/t Au
Near-term drill targets
Las Pilas vein discovery
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Dojura: AngloGold Ashanti joint venture
37,235 hectares
Located in Chocó Department
Large area of porphyry-style alteration with significant historical alluvial gold production
Airborne geophysics completed
AngloGold Ashanti can earn up to a 75% interest over 3 years by spending US$6.9 million in combined option payments and on exploration and development
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Other Projects: Santander
100% owned, 6,000 hectares of concessions
Located near Ventana Gold’s La Bodega property
California and Vetas districts host to historical high grade production
LEGEND
Continental Gold
Greystar Resources
Ventana Gold
Galway Resources
Ore Controlling Structure
Major Orebody
Surata
California
La Bodega Angostura
0 2.5 5
Kilometres
N
Vetas District
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Grupo de Bullet Option
First right of refusal to acquire any precious or base metal concessions held by Grupo de Bullet
Option expires January 2013
+60 properties ≈ 4 million hectares
Dr. Vic Wall, Special Advisor & Mauricio Castañeda, Exploration Manager
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Number of Warrants* Exercise Price (Cdn) Expiry Date
74,243 $0.35 Feb 5, 2011
6,242,112 $2.25 Mar 30, 2011
28,750 $1.50 Mar 30, 2011
164,395 $0.35 Apr 21, 2011
90,153 $0.94 July 27, 2011
169,699 $0.94 Aug 5, 2011
3,428,872 US$0.98 Mar 30, 2012
6,000,000 $7.50 Sept 16, 2012
720,000 $5.70 Sept 16, 2012
Total 16,918,224 $67.0 million
Warrants
* As of November 9, 2010
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Number of Options Exercise Price (Cdn) Expiry Date
10,606 $0.94 Sep 22, 2011
10,606 $0.94 Dec 19, 2011
10,606 $1.60 Sep 7, 2012
42,425 $0.84 May 9, 2013
84,849 $0.41 May 4, 2014
2,790,625 $1.50 Mar 30, 2015
565,422 $0.98 Jan 29, 2019
800,000 $2.35 May 10, 2015
350,000 $2.70 May 11, 2015
150,000 $5.80 Sept 1, 2015
50,000 $6.11 Sept 14, 2015
150,000 $6.64 Nov 1, 2015
100,000 $10.42 Dec 1, 2015
Total – 5,667,197 $10.90 million
Options
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A Unique Gold Exploration and Development Opportunity
Elina Chow, Investor Relations Office: +1.416.643.7638
Email: [email protected]