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North American Cobalt Supply Chain: Creating A
North American Cobalt Supply Chain: Creating A
DEVELOP
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CREATING A
NORTH AMERICAN
COBALT SUPPLY CHAIN
First Cobalt’s (FCC) vision is to establish a North American supply chain
of cobalt including exploration, development, refinery and sale of North
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American-sourced cobalt. Located in well-known mining district
centered near Salmon, Idaho. The district is considered to be the largest
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0.74% Co, 1.37% Cu and 1.04 g/t Au (U.S. Geological Survey, 2017). 020
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Claim Outline Challis Volcanic Group
Legend Patents Undivided (Quarternary)
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Fault Inferred
RESOURCE ESTIMATE
Challis Volcanic Group
• Inferred mineral resources of 29.6 million tons grading 0.11% CoEq (0.08%
Undivided (Quarternary) • 62.9 Mlbs (2NAD83
8,528tonnes)
UTM Zone 12ofLemhiCoEq County, Ida
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Co & 0.30% Cu) under a base case scenario pit constrained and deeper
Proterozoic Sedimentary Rocks Sources:
• Preliminary metallurgical USGS Geological Investigatio
Series testing
I-2765 (Sheet 1 of 2)
mineral resource Banded Siltite Unit
yields recoveries of 96% for Co and
Coarse Siltite Unit
Cutoff Tons Tonnes CoEq Cobalt Cobalt Copper Copper 95% for Cu using simple floatation
% CoEq(2) (000s) (000s) (%) (%) (Mlbs) (%) (Mlbs)
0.03/0.18(3) 29,630 26,880 0.11 0.08 45.4
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0.30 175.4
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0.15 6,223 5,645 0.27 0.21 25.5 0.64 79.2 • Drill program ongoing to double
0.18(4) 4,858 4,407 0.30 0.23 22.3 0.68 66.7
the strike length
0.20 4,100 3,719 0.32 0.25 20.2 0.71 58.4
east-west ADIT #1
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• Semi-massive sulphides are
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concentrated within two distinct
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stratabound zones. The No Name and W
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Waite Zones are roughly parallel Zo
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and dip roughly 75° to the north, Geology
2018 Underground Challis Volcanics
remaining open at depth and open Drill Program Hanging Wall Quartzite
Underground Workings Coarse Siltite Unit
along the east and west strike Footwall Quartzite
160 80 0 160
metres
extensions
ȍȍ The No Name Zone and the Waite
• The principal mineral assemblage consists of pyrite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite,
Zone have true widths between
and magnetite with much lesser quantities of native copper and arsenopyrite
10m and 30m. Mineralization also
locally
occurs between the No Name and
ȍȍ Scanning-electron and microprobe tests indicate the cobalt occurs largely
Waite Zones as 1m to 5m pods
or entirely within pyrite and overall there is a distinct lack of cobaltite, a
common cobalt ore mineral containing arsenic
MANAGEMENT TEAM
TRENT MELL PETER CAMPBELL
PRESIDENT & CEO DIRECTOR VP, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
• Global mining & capital markets incl. M&A & • Mining operations, mine design and new mine
$2.5B raised development for Falconbridge (now Glencore)
• Formerly with Falco Resources, AuRico • Former mining analyst & Chairman of Jennings
Gold, Barrick Gold and Sherritt
• Experience in base metal mining camps in • 10 years in corporate finance and mining,
Canada, Australia, Zambia, & the DR Congo including senior positions with Primero Mining,
• Leading exploration programs around the Inmet Mining, Enirgi Group and KPMG
world with Falconbridge (now Glencore)
and First Quantum