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CORPORATE PRESENTATION January 2020
Disclaimer
Forward-Looking Statements
This document contains forward-looking statements and factual information that are current as of the date the document was originally created.
Riverside Resources Inc. (“the Company”) disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as
a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to the
timing and amount of estimated future exploration, success of exploration activities, expenditures, permitting, and requirements for additional
capital and access to data.
Forward looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause the actual results,
performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or
implied by the forward looking statements. Such factors include, among others, risks related to actual results of current exploration activities;
changes in project parameters as plans continue to be refined; the ability to enter into joint ventures or to acquire or dispose of properties; future
prices of mineral resources; accidents, labor disputes and other risks of the mining industry; ability to obtain financing; and delays in obtaining
governmental approvals of financing
Any statements, opinions, projections, forecasts or other material contained in this presentation do not constitute a commitment, representation
or warranty by the company or its directors, officers, agents or employees. The directors, officers, agents and employees of the company shall
in no way be liable to any person or body for any loss, claim, demand, damages, costs or expenses of whatsoever nature arising in any way out
of, or in connection with, the information contained in this presentation. This presentation does not constitute an offer to sell securities and is not
a solicitation of an offer to buy securities. It is not to be distributed to third parties without the consent of the company. An investment in the
company is considered to be speculative in nature. Each individual should rely solely upon its own investigations and inquiries with respect to
the company and agrees it will not in any way rely upon this presentation. The company recommends that you consult your own professional
advisor(s).
Qualified Person
The scientific and technical data contained in this presentation relating Riverside’s mineral properties was reviewed
by Freeman Smith, P.Geo., a non-independent qualified person to Riverside Resources, who acts as a "qualified person"
under National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.
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Investment Highlights
• Highly experienced & focused
exploration team
• 75,000 Location Database
($20M+ in past investment)
• +$2.5M in cash and +$1.5M in
other junior resource equities
• Less than 63M shares
outstanding
• New partnerships in 2020
– Exploration Funding Agreement with
BHP (focus on copper)
• Canadian Project Acquisitions
• Mexico Project Transactions
• Gold-Silver resource
Partner-funded Exploration in Sonora, Mexico
project + new discovery
drilling in 2020
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Experienced and Balanced Management Team
Management
• John-Mark Staude, President & CEO
• Alberto Orozco, VP Corporate
Development
• Freeman Smith, VP Exploration
• Pedro Herrera,
Country Manager (Mexico)
• Robert Scott, CFO
Board of Directors & Advisors
• John-Mark Staude, Director
• Brian Groves, Director
• Carol Ellis, Director
• James Clare, Director
• Walter Henry, Director
Riverside in the Field with Directors
• Ron Burk, Advisor
For full bios please visit Riverside’s
• Joness Lang, Advisor website at www.rivres.com
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Highly Experienced Technical Team
John-Mark Staude, President & CEO
Companies our technical team
Mr. Staude earned a Masters of Science from Harvard
University in 1989 and a Ph.D. in economic geology have formerly worked with
from the University of Arizona in 1995.
Alberto Orozco, VP Corporate Development
Mr. Orozco has 15 years of mining experience
working with Linear Gold Corp., Pediment
Gold and more recently, Argonaut Gold
Freeman Smith, VP Exploration
Mr. Smith has 19 years of professional experience
in the resource industry working with Oro
Gold, BCGold Corp and Goldplay
Explorations.
Pedro Herrera,
Country Manager (Mexico)
Mr. Herrera holds his MSc. and has
more than 20 years of exploration
experience throughout Mexico.
Ron Burk, Advisor
Mr. Burk has 30 years of work experience
in the minerals industry and contributed
in the discovery of the Pitarrilla Project in
Durango, Mexico.
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Share Structure and Key Shareholders
Issued
Major Shareholders own ~70% of
(since IPO in 62,691,188
outstanding shares
2007)
Options 3,941,000
Retail Investors European
Warrants (0.22) 17,488,875 ~5% Investor
Group*
~28%
Fully Diluted 84,121,063 ~35%
~2%
Cash +$2,500,000 ~15%
Trimark ~15%
Capital Ltd.
52 Week Hi-Lo $0.22 - $0.125
Market Cap ~C$10M
*European Investor Group consists of high net worth investors and small resource funds
*These amounts are estimated to the best of our knowledge as of January 1, 2020
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Riverside’s Equity Portfolio
Shares Held by Riverside
+2.5M*
1M*
~15M** Other Private/Non-Public Companies
*+$1.5M CAD deemed value as of January 1, 2020
**Shares held in illiquid private companies/shells
7
Partner Funded Exploration
Partners
For every $1 Riverside spends on
exploration the Company has generated
~$2 in partner-funded exploration.
*since inception
8
Past Strategic Partnerships
Major companies Riverside has had Strategic
Alliances with
USA
MEXICO
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40
26 km
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Exploration Funding Agreement with BHP
• BHP to fund US$1M/year for a
minimum of two-years for
copper generative work
• Focus on the central portion of
the Laramide Copper Belt in
Sonora, Mexico
• Monthly management fees
plus 10% for all work
• Built in success fee payments
to Riverside at each stage of
development
• Three Stages
1. Project Generation Phase (I)
2. Project Operation Phase (II)
3. Joint Venture Stage (III)
Region of Copper Belt of Mexico and Riverside-BHP
Generative program
10Progressing the Portfolio
PROJECT 2020 MILESTONE VALUE CREATION
USA
MEXICO
GOLD SILVER Discovery re-rating of
Drilling Program
PROJECT Project
mk
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PEÑOLES SILVER-GOLD
Expanded drilling Project spin-out
PROJECT
26 km
CANADIAN GOLD Funded drill program with
Conserves RRI capital
PROJECT partner
ARIEL COPPER Expanding RRI’s Copper
Joint Venture Partnership
PROJECT exposure
11Expanding into Canada
Why Canada? Why Ontario?
• Ontario is the leading Gold Production %
mining jurisdiction in
Canada
• Ontario’s mining belts 43%
57%
are within mining
friendly jurisdictions
and host excellent
infrastructure and Ontario
numerous producing Rest of Canada
mines
• Riverside’s projects
are located Northeast
of Thunder bay
Ontario within the
Beardmore-Geraldton
Greenstone Belt
(BGGB)Oakes Gold Project
• Located in Ontario, Canada
• Good access and close to
necessary infrastructure USA
• Historical high-grade gold MEXICO
intercepts
• Riverside’s 1st phase
m
exploration program found
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*high-grade gold samples of
19.7 g/t Au and 31.9 g/t Au
*(see press release July 29, 2019)
• 2nd phase exploration program
26 km
found high-grade gold of up to
7 g/t Au
*(see press release Dec 11, 2019)
• High-grade gold discovery
potential
• Identifying and sampling targets
for a proposed drill program at
the Project
• Available for option
14Diverse High-Quality Mexico Portfolio
15Los Cuarentas Gold-Silver Project
• 100% Riverside owned
• Located in NE Sonora,
Mexico & 17 km NW of USA
MEXICO
SilverCrest Metals’ Las
Chispas mine with
similar geology
• High-grade, low-sulphidation
epithermal gold quartz vein
system
• Good access and close to 26 km
necessary infrastructure
• Drill permits approved
• Identifying and sampling
targets for a proposed drill
program
16Cecilia Gold-Silver Project
• Located in NE Sonora,
Mexico, 40 km east of
Cananea (Mexico’s largest USA
copper city) MEXICO
Agua Prieta
• Good access and close to
necessary infrastructure
mk
• Near-surface gold
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Cananea – World-class
mineralization amenable Porphyry Copper Deposit
to open-pit mining
• Riverside’s 1st phase 26 km
exploration found *high-grade CECILIA
gold and silver assays up to
113 g/t Au & 288 g/t Ag
*(see press release June 6, 2017)
• Drill permit approved
with drill targets identified
• Identifying and sampling targets
for a proposed drill program
17Cecilia Gold-Silver Project
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Riverside located 4 (four) new target areas
29m @ 1.64 g/t Au
19m @ 2.37 g/t Au
at Cecilia and identified gold rich rock
North Breccia Target
19m @ 2.11 gr/t Au intervals at Cerro Magallanes
26m @ 1.96 g/t Au
17m @ 2.88 g/t Au
22m @ 1.46 g/t Au
t
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Ta
ta
3437000
3437000
ie 8m @ 8.27 g/t Au East Target
47m @ 1.12 g/t Au Pr
ua 11m @ 5.38 g/t Au
Aq
16m @ 1.92 g/t Au
20m @ 2.44 g/t Au
12m @ 1.98 g/t Au Central Target
27m @ 1.31 g/t Au
8m @ 8.27 g/t Au
21m @ 2.44 g/t Au 25m @ 3.63 g/t Au
14m @ 2.44 g/t Au
San Jose Target
8m @ 3.11 g/t Au
25m @ 1.32 g/t Au
CECILIA PROJECT
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Central Target Area
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Drilling Au Intercepts
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Surface rock samples
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Au Composites (m @ g/t)
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Au Composites (m @ g/t)
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*Grades are not true widths - Sampling along structures Structural Target Zone
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Cerro Magallanes
Target Zone
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18Peñoles Gold-Silver Project
• 100% Riverside owned
• *500K Oz Au eq
NI 43-101 Resource
• 11,500 metres of
drilling and open PEÑOLES PROJECT
• All reported resources within
150 metres from surface
• Open in multiple directions,
>5 district targets
• Initial Inferred
*43-101 resource
estimate:
– 305,000oz Au
@ 0.46 g/t &
– 15,150,000oz + Ag
@ 62.3 g/t
*The El Capitan gold and Jesus Maria silver Inferred Mineral Resource
estimates were done by Robert Sim, P.Geo of SIM Geological Inc. Mr. Sim is an
Independent Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 Standards of
Disclosure for Mineral Projects and is a co-author of the 43-101 Technical Report on the Peñoles Gold-Silver Project, Durango State, Mexico that was
made public on April 16, 2015. “Inferred Mineral Resources” have a great amount of uncertainty as to their existence and economic viability.
19Peñoles Gold-Silver Project – Jesus Maria Target
• Past partner-funded drilling, underground
sampling and trenching at the historical Jesus Maria
silver mine discovered high-grade Ag.
• Drill highlights included*:
JM DDH 14-10: 4.25 m at
732.24 g/t Ag & 1.2 g/t Au
JM DDH 14-24: 7.15 m at
988.43 g/t Ag & 1.24 g/t Au
Riverside’s President and CEO, John-Mark Staude,
visits historical workings at Jesus Maria JM DDH 14-26: 3.00 m at
573.8 g/t Ag & 0.29 g/t Au
JM DDH 14-27: 18.7 m at
203.92 g/t Ag & 0.65 g/t Au
*All intercepts above reported within first 150m from surface
*See slide 19 for 43-101 mineral resource estimate statement. Updated in 2019
Exploration at Peñoles
20La Silla Gold-Silver Project
• Good access and Oxide Gold in Veins
close to necessary
infrastructure
• 23 km2 land package with
epithermal Au-Ag vein system
• High-grade Au-Ag samples
collected in June 2018*
– 19.9 g/t Au
– 200 g/t Ag
*(see press release June 19, 2018)
• Riverside’s previous
exploration program
expanded previous work
refining targets for potential
future drilling
• Riverside has signed a
Schematic Cross-Section
Definitive Agreement* Looking West at the Ciruelos Vein
with Sinaloa Resources Inc
*(see press release Feb 19,2019)
21Tajitos Gold Project
• Located
in NW
Sonora, Mexico
in the heart of the
Sonora Megashear
Gold Belt
• Large 61 km2 land package
with orogenic gold system
and open pit potential
• High-grade gold previously
mined 100% Riverside owned
• Tajitos Project is surrounded
by two advanced projects: Red Areas = Riverside Concessions
– Fresnillo PLC’s Tajitos Project
– Agnico Eagle’s Pitaya Project
22RRI Copper Portfolio – Available for Partnership
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!Asset Value Drivers
Riverside’s Portfolio & Partnerships
Partner-Funded Projects Funded Exploration
100% Owned Projects USA
Program
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CANADA MEXICO
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Oakes Gold Los Cuarentas La Silla Gold-Silver BHP Exploration
Project Gold-Silver Project Project Partnership Program
26for
kmcopper discovery in
Longrose Cecilia Gold-Silver Sugarloaf Peak Sonora, Mexico
Gold Project Project Gold Project
Pichette Peñoles Gold-Silver
Gold Project Project
Tajitos Gold Project
Ariel Copper Project
24• Riverside commences Exploration
Funding Agreement with BHP
• Lead generation à Copper Discovery
• Riverside expects to deliver partner-funded
drill program at Oakes Gold Project
• Continued exploration at Riverside
owned projects:
• Cecilia Project: Targets identified & permitted
for drilling Upcoming
• Los Cuarentas Project: Drill
permitted 2020 Catalysts
• New strategic partnerships to & Value Drivers
advance existing 100%-owned
Riverside projects
• New project acquisitions
and portfolio growth:
• Mexico Expansion (Advancing the Los Cuarentas
Project)
• Canadian Acquisitions (Sampling programs and
working up targets)
25• Riverside has more than $2.5M in the treasury, no
debt & a strong shareholder base with less than
63M shares outstanding
• The Company has a strong portfolio
of gold-silver and copper
assets in stable jurisdictions
and is actively adding
new quality projects to Summary &
the portfolio
Key Takeaways
• Partners consistently de-risking
the portfolio and advancing
projects towards discovery and
resource development with valuation
catalysts of new deals, exploration
results and upcoming drill programs
26Riverside Resources Inc.
+1 778.327.6671 x 312
Suite 550 – 800 West Pender Street
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