Summary of the global resource reporting intel for 8 to 15 July 2018

Optiro summary of RSC Mineral Intelligence for 9 to 15 July 2018.

98 new technical reports published – an increase of 29 from last week

• 12 were Resource Estimation
• 4 Maiden Resources
• 73 Exploration / Drilling updates – announced drilling still trending down – whereas drilling updates reached a 5-week high
• 2 Scoping Studies
• 9 PEA
• 2 Pre-feasibility studies
• 1 Feasibility studies
• 1 Supporting acquisition
• 45% reports used JORC Code
• 55% used NI43-101
• 4 NI43-101 technical reports filed
• 5 amended report and 0 clarified report:
  • Lumina Gold Corp – Resource estimation for their Condor project. Share price did not change.
  • Canadian Metals Inc – Pre-feasibility study for their Langis project. Share price change of -10.0%
  • Gold Mountain Ltd – Exploration/Drilling update for their Wabag project. Share price change of -10.5%
  • Firesteel Resources Inc – PEA for their Laiva project. Share price change of +23.1%
  • Marathon Gold Corp – PEA for their Valentine project. Share price change of -1.0%

Share price change is between close of trade the day before the announcement and open of trade the day following the announcement.

Project Locations:

• 37 in North America
• 32 in Oceania
• 14 in Africa
• 9 in South America
• 5 in Europe
• 4 in Asia
• 0 Seabed Resources

The Project Commodities:

Precious Metals

• 78 Gold
• 23 Silver
• 1 Platinum

Base Metals

• 17 Copper
• 10 Zinc
• 7 Lead
• 7 Nickel

Other Metals

• 3 Lithium
• 6 Cobalt
• 2 each for Tantalum and Uranium
• 1 each for Iron, Niobium, Tin and Tungsten

Other

• 2 Coal
• 1 each for Boron, Kaolin, Silica and Tellurium

Global number of Resource Estimations by Report Author since October 2014:

• Optiro ranks 5^th out of the top 24 global consultancy groups, having authored 46 Resource Estimation reports since October 2014.
• Thirteen of the reports were for Maiden Resources.

Global number of Reserve Estimations by Report Author since October 2014:

• Optiro ranks 12^th out of the top 24 global consultancy groups, having authored 10 Reserve Estimation reports since October 2014. 1 of these was a Maiden Reserve Estimation.

Most significant drill intersections of the week:

Most significant drill intersections in July 2018 to date:

Most significant drill intersections in 2018 to date on ASX:

Most significant drill intersections in 2018 to date on TSX:

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