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Gold exploration in Russia
March 2011
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DisclaimerDisclaimer
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Listing symbol OVG.L (AIM), OVX.IR (Irish SE)
Shares outstanding 88.5mn
Warrants/options 6.6mn
Management ownership 45%
Net cash and equivalents (at 03.12.10) $55.4mn
Market capitalization (at 28.02.11) $47.5mn
Deferred performance-based consideration to $18.0mnMagadan asset vendors
Company snapshot
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Ovoca Gold is a well-funded gold explorer and mine developer with a proven track record of creating value.
The Company’s business strategy is:
•Focus – Russia, gold
•Expertise/experience – professional staff with high success rate
•Long-term regional experience – Russia business savvy, proven ability
•Partnership – local government, community, strategic outreach
View from Olcha gold deposit, Magadan Region, Russia, looking north
Introduction
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Ovoca Gold is:
Unique exposure to Russian gold industryAlmost complete absence of juniors in RussiaRussia major gold producer and massive resource potentialRussia again on agenda of major companies (PepsiCo, BP, Ford, Kinross)
Strong financial and capital market positionCash and investments worth +$50mnShare buy-back programNo debt (vendor payment contingent on successful exploration-development)
Zero value given for attractive exploration/development assetsStakhanovsky project – easy to executeRassoshinskaya – multiple high quality targetsCompany track record for successful asset development
Investment case
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Share price performance
Strong share price performance, up 109% in 2010
Trading liquidity improved in 2010 due to roll up and new investor outreach effortDaily share volume up 86%, value volume up 111% (4Q09 vs. 4Q10 on AIM)
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Russia is the world’s 5th largest gold miner with one of the fastest rates of production growth
Russia hosts some of the world’s most promising exploration potential
However, Russia is:
Underexplored
Undermined
Underrepresented in asset portfolios of world’s gold mining companies
Ovoca looking for gold, all alone…
Why Russia?
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Russia has the world’s 3rd largest gold reserves, 5th largest producer
Source: USGS
Country Reserves (mn ounces) % of global total Production 2010 (mn ounces)
South Africa 192.9 7.6% 6.1
Australia 186.5 10.2% 8.2
Russia 160.8 7.6% 6.1
US 96.5 9.2% 7.4
Indonesia 96.5 4.9% 3.9
China 61.1 13.8% 11.1
Uzbekistan 54.7 3.5% 2.8
Ghana 51.4 4.0% 3.2
Peru 45.0 6.8% 5.5
Canada 32.2 3.6% 2.9
All others 533.7 28.9% 23.2
Russia – Last frontier for gold
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Russian production as a percentage of total 2010 production of top global gold mining companies:Company Direct or indirect attributable production from
Russia in 2010 (ounces) % of total company production
Barrick 40,806 0.5%
Anglogold Ashanti 0 0%
Newmont 0 0%
Gold Fields 0 0%
Goldcorp 0 0%
Harmony 0 0%
Newcrest 0 0%
Kinross 554,008 23.7%
Eldorado 0 0%
Agnico Eagle 0 0%
Source: Company data
Russian footprint (lack of)
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Despite Russia’s poor “risk” image in many mining circles, there are numerous positive examples of foreign gold companies working successfully in Russia
Kinross – Developed, built, operated, closed and sold Kubaka. Completed Kupol construction and currently operates. Acquired and sold Julietta
High River Gold – Acquired and currently operates Buryatzoloto. Developed, built and currently operates Berezitoviy
Bema Gold – Developed, built, and operated Julietta. Developed, began construction of Kupol
Silver Bear Resources – Acquired, developed and sold Avlayakan
Ovoca Gold – Acquired, developed and sold Goltsovoye
Celtic Resources – Acquired by Severstal, shareholders see share price appreciation of 118% from start to finish of hostile takeover
Petropavlovsk – Very successful UK gold miner with long track record operating in Russia
Foreigners in Russia
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Ovoca Gold has a top-tier team that collectively has decades of experience in mining asset development in Russia. The team’s core competency is exploration and development in the Far East region of Russia.
Projects which have had major Ovoca Gold team involvement include:
Unifying factor: gold/silver, Far East Russia, successful
Expertise/experience
Name Ownership history Peak production
Kubaka (Kinross – Polymetal) 500,000 oz - Au
Julietta (Bema – Kinross – Northern) 110,000 oz – Au
Goltsovoye (Ajax – Ovoca – Polymetal) 7,000,000 oz – Ag* (planned)
Karalveem (LL Gold) 60,000 oz – Au
Lunnoye + Arylakh (Polymetal) 5,000,000 oz – Ag
Dukat (Pan American Silver – Polymetal) 15,000,000 oz – Ag
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Goltsovoye silver project
Location: Magadan, RussiaProduction started: 2010Peak output: estimated 7mn oz AgOwnership: Ovoca – PolymetalResource: 69.0mn oz silver @ 895.3 g/t*
Ovoca involvement:
Ovoca Gold acquired Goltsovoye in 2006. From 2006 to 2008 the Ovoca team upgraded the resource base to JORC standards, completed a Bankable Feasibility Study, secured an LOI on mine financing from a commercial bank, and then sold the project to Polymetal for $47.7mn in cash and securities (a 194% premium to Ovoca’s market capitalization at the time of closing).
* Wardell Armstrong International, press release 08.02.2007, JORC measured, indicated and inferred resources
Goltsovoye experience
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Ovoca Gold core projects:
Rassoshinskaya: 2 year exploration license, extendable and convertible to 25 year exploitation license Multiple targets – Olcha, Podgorniy, Zet, Vist Gold-silver, low sulphidation epithermal deposits, similar to successful mines in region
Stakhanovsky: Full exploitation license, valid to 2027, extendable Gold bearing quartz dykes, course - free gold, very simple metallurgy Significant infrastructure already in place
Rassoshinskaya
Stakhanovsky
Projects
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Stakhanovsky
Exploitation license valid until 07.05.2027, total size is 73 km2 in Northwestern part of the Magadan region
Bulldozer clearing drill platform at Berezitoviy
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Stakhanovsky
Berezitoviy
Zabolocheniy 1 – 2
Burovaya
Albitoviy
Tainstvennay 1 - 3
N
Diorite quartz dykes parallel to each other and perpendicular to Zabolocheniy river bed.
Ore exposed in trench from Berezitovy (bottle for scale)
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Stakhanovsky – Maiden resource
Maiden JORC resource announced 02/2011: 350,000 oz Au inferred category
“SRK’s Mineral Resource Statement given in the table below is reported using the terminology and guidelines given in the JORC Code. The resource is given above a 0.5 g/t cut off grade and comprises 7 areas from the Berezitoviy, Zabolocheniy 1 and Tainstvennaya 1 areas.
Generally, SRK considers the drilling to have covered only a quarter of the immediate area in which the geological mapping and grab sampling results have returned encouraging results; therefore exploration potential is considered to be good.”
View from Berezitoviy looking Southeast
Million tons Grade (g/t) Gold (t) Gold (oz)
9.1 1.2 10.9 350,000
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2001 - 2008
State-owned license area. OOO Magsel acquired the property at
auction in May 2007.
1940 - 2000 2009 - 2010 2011 -
State mining run by local Artel (Communal placer
mining groups)
Ovoca acquires Magsel in January 2010.
Initial exploration work conducted by Magadangeologia
Geophysics, geochem, trenching and drilling done
Uneven course-grain mineralization in diorite quartz
dykes. Initial Russian-code resource (P1) of 1.2mn oz gold
Rich placer deposits discovered in the Stakhanovsky and
Zabolocheniy river beds – alluvial mining
To date approximately 2mn oz gold has been
extracted from the license area
2009: 260 ton bulk sample taken from two dykes – grade determined 2 g/t with +60%
recovery via gravitation.
2010: 7,100m RC drilling and 1,000 DD completed. Results
given to SRK for resource calculation.
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l 2011: Initial JORC resource from SRK.
Large-scale bulk sampling and DD drilling. Commence
pre-feasibility study, register end-year resource with State as first step to full
feasibility and mine construction.*
Stakhanovsky – History
*Subject to successful exploration
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Stakhanovsky – Drilling
Significant 2010 RC drilling results include:Bore hole
ID number
Target Interval, m True thickness, m
Gold grade g/ton
from to length
RCZ1-3 Zabolocheniy-1 125 143 18 18 4.48RCZ1-6 Zabolocheniy-1 118 121 3 3 2.87RCZ1-8 Zabolocheniy-1 86 89 3 3 12.78RCZ1-9 Zabolocheniy-1 88 110 22 22 0.64RCZ1-23 Zabolocheniy-1 39 51 12 12 0.82RCZ1-27A Zabolocheniy-1 58 71 13 12 3.09
RCBU-8 Burovaya 17 22 5 5 16.27RCBU-9 Burovaya 26 31 5 5 3.82RCBU-11 Burovaya 65 73 8 8 0.69RCBU-12 Burovaya 88 94 6 6 1.54RCBU-15 Burovaya 65 70 5 5 0.56
RCBR-15 Berezitoviy 24 32 8 8 0.76RCBR- 20 Berezitoviy 29 37 8 8 1.74RCBR-27 Berezitoviy 3 11 8 8 0.61RCBR-30 Berezitoviy 12 14 2 2 0.95
RC rig drilling at Stakhanovsky
Total work done in 2010 included approximately 7,100m RC drilling and 1,000 meters of DD.
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View from Zabolocheniy 1 looking East
Stakhanovsky – Infrastructure in place
Village Udarnik, on license area, pop. seasonal, buildings in place to house miners, drill crew
Power substation
Year-round road to Susuman, town pop. 7,500. Distance to license area 40km
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Simple project with clear development path
•Significant infrastructure in place at site
•Initial test work show gold recoveries in excess of 60% via gravitation alone
•Multiple observations of large gold particles > 1mm in size
•Opportunity for scalable start-up with off-the-shelf modular production lines
•Initial estimate of low capital expenditures
Picture of gold particles taken from 2009 bulk sample, Russian coin (for scale) approximately size of US dime
Stakhanovsky – Summary
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Rassoshinskaya
Exploration license valid until 15.02.2013, term is extendable and can be converted to 25 year exploitation license, total size is 2,460 km2 in Northeastern part of the Magadan region
Staging camp for Olcha
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Significant gold-silver deposits (+1mn oz Au equivalent) mined or under development
Mayskoye
Dvoinoye
Kupol
Kubaka
AmetistovoyeJulietta
Dukat
NatalkaKhakanja
Nezhdaninskoye
Rassoshinskaya
Karalveem
Lunnoye
Excerpt from SRK report, June 2009
Rassoshinskaya regional context
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Podgorniy: Large gold-silver anomaly. Geophysics, geochemistry and grab samples. Trenching and drilling scheduled for 2011 season.
Vist: Gold-silver target. Placer mining in neighboring area.
Zet: Gold-silver bearing epithermal quartz vein system over 7 km long. Geophysics, geochemistry, grab samples and trenching done. Drilling scheduled for 2011 season.
Olcha: Gold-silver bearing epithermal quartz vein system. Extensive exploration work done.
Rassoshinskaya – Multiple targets
Excerpt from SRK report, June 2009
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Podgorniy – Strong geochem anomaly
Halo grade (g/ton)
Au Ag
>0.20 >0.30
0.05-0.20
0.15-.030
0.01-0.05
0.10-0.15
0.00-0.01
0.04-0.10
2km 2km
Geochemical results show strong presence of gold and silver, geophysics also confirm structural anomaly at site. Trenching and drilling planned for 2011.
Silver Gold
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Maiden JORC resource announced 06/2010: 344,000 oz Au inferred category
The metallurgical characteristics of the ore are amenable to conventional gravitation, flotation and direct cyanidation processing techniques. Metal recoveries from initial test work reached over 97% for gold and 74% for silver
Olcha – Maiden resource
Zond
Zone 2
Zone 1
2.7km
N
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Olcha: Structural model developed, new results being added
NW
NW
Zone 2
Zone 1
Olcha
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Bore hole C-35. Epithermal quartz veining. Similar veining in neighboring gold mines (Kubaka, Kupol)
Olcha
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Significant historical drilling and trenching results include:Bore hole ID number
Target Interval, m Gold grade g/ton
Silver grade g/tonfrom to length
C-47 Centralny, Zone 1 29.6 30.4 4.4 7.1 20.9C-63 Centralny, Zone 1 10.4 18.4 8.0 15.9 49.6C-85 Centralny, Zone 1 16.3 24.5 8.2 6.1 18.9C-88 Centralny, Zone 1 65.2 70.5 5.2 9.4 15.7C-121 Centralny, Zone 1 93.4 121.3 27.9 4.7 21.4
including 105.1 107.1 2.0 25.1 77.8114.6 118.6 4.0 6.9 43.5
C-33 Centralny, Zone 2 152.0 157.5 5.5 8.4 20.0C-40 Centralny, Zone 2 38.8 40.3 1.5 35.2 103.1C-42 Centralny, Zone 2 51.5 53.0 1.5 24.6 54.5C-42 Centralny, Zone 2 151.2 153.8 2.6 8.0 14.6C-59 Centralny, Zone 2 106.6 108.0 1.4 7.9 10.0C-136 Centralny, Zone 2 180.1 181.0 0.9 15.4 97.8C-136 Centralny, Zone 2 203.6 204.6 1.0 14.0 TR
Trench ID number
Target Width, m Gold grade g/ton
Silver grade g/ton
K-22 Centralny Zone 1 2.6 8.1 33.9K-67 Centralny Zone 1 7.5 17.3 38.5K-68 Centralny Zone 1 3.4 10.2 40.8K-105 Centralny Zone 1 10.5 6.5 16.0K-172 Centralny Zone 1 2.8 12.3 43.5K-102 Centralny Zone 2 1.3 42.0 75.2K-353 Centralny Zone 2 1.5 18.5 30.5K-355 Centralny Zone 2 3.5 14.3 16.8K-354 Centralny Zone 2 9.4 10.7 89.7K-370 Zond 9.2 45.6 102.5
Olcha
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Bore hole ID number Interval, m Au grade g/ton Ag grade g/tonfrom to length
C-33 152.0 157.5 5.5 8.4 20.0C-40 38.8 40.3 1.5 35.2 103.1C-42 51.5 53.0 1.5 24.6 54.5C-42 151.2 153.8 2.6 8.0 14.6C-59 106.6 108.0 1.4 7.9 10.0
C-136 180.1 181.0 0.9 15.4 97.8C-136 203.6 204.6 1.0 14.0 TR
C-168* 95.9 110.0 14.1 11.3 30.1including 105.2 110.0 4.8 30.9 70.6C-168* 168.6 171.6 4.0 5.4 37.0including 169.6 170.6 1.0 15.2 110.4C-169* 197.5 207.5 10.0 14.6 13.0including 197.5 199.3 1.8 14.1 10.3including 204.8 206.5 1.7 44.5 40.8C-190* 195.1 202.6 6.5 6.5 28.1including 199.1 200.9 1.8 19.2 68.8C-194* 144.7 146.7 2.0 10.4 29.5C-195* 259.9 273.6 13.7 4.0 16.5including 266.4 268.0 1.6 9.7 49.9including 270.8 271.6 0.8 13.6 20.8
Trench ID numberK353 1.5 18.5 30.5K354 9.4 10.7 89.7K355 3.5 14.3 16.8
* denotes data from 2010 drilling season
Olcha – Zone 2
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Overburden cleared, ore outcrop (white veins) visible
View looking West, camp, drill rig in background
Trench heading South
Olcha – Photo highlights
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Ovoca Gold is one of the only independent (no strategic stake owned) publically-listed junior explorer/miner active in Russia today
Junior miner presence in Russia largely absent +
Foreign companies wanting to enter Russia lack local partners+
World class projects and people=
Business opportunity: focus of Ovoca Gold
Drill rig at Olcha
Ovoca focus
32EV is market capitalization as of 28.02.11 plus net cash as of latest financial report, peer group is AIM listed companies with operations in emerging markets
Producers Explorers/developers
Peer valuation (EV/oz resource)
Current valuation implies negative value for our resources, free gold!
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Current EV valuation of Ovoca Gold implies a negative US$/oz Au (JORC M,I&I)
Explorer/developer peer average valuation would imply share price of GBP 0.65
Assume Rassoshinskaya conversion and Stakhanovsky threshold of 300,000 oz JORC measured and indicated completed by end-2011:
•Payment out of Ovoca equals US$12mn as per vending agreement•JORC measured, indicated and inferred resource at 694,000 oz Au (Olcha + Stakhanovsky)•Current EV valuation would be US$8/oz JORC resource (less than half closest peer)•Cash and equivalents position would still be very strong at forecast US$32 – 35mn
Valuation – Vending arrangement
Road sign for Susuman, note city coat-of-arms is dredge for placer mining
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Stakhanovsky
Rassoshinskaya
ExploitationMine
developmentExploration
2010 - 2011 2012 2013 –
2010 - 2013 2014-2015 2016 –
Management intentions (3 - 5 years)
a significant gold resource ready for feasibility study and/or JV partner with
global mining companies
a cash generating asset producing 30,000 – 50,000 ounces Au annually
(preliminary in-house estimate)
Development timeline
Management’s goal is to put Stakhanovsky into production as soon as possible, generate cash flow to keep company financially self-sufficient, explore the Rassoshinskaya license area, and keep an eye out for opportunistic acquisitions.
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Name Position Background
Tim McCutcheon
CEO, Executive Director
Mr. McCutcheon’s background is as a capital markets analyst and investment banker. Worked in Moscow and New York in banking and has over 15 years of business experience in Russia/CIS. BA cum laude Columbia University, New York, NY. MBA, Columbia Business School.
Mikhail Mogutov
Executive Chairman
Mr. Mogutov has been involved in acquiring and managing industrial complexes since 1988. His experience includes United Machinery Plant (Russia’s largest machine-building enterprise), Vostsibugol (one of Russia’s largest coal mines), and Biomed (pharmaceuticals).
Leonid Skoptsov
Non-executive Director
Mr. Skoptsov has decades of experience in managing and advising natural resource companies. His experience includes oil producer Volganeft (oil company in Russia), First Mining (developer of large zinc-lead deposit in Russian Far North), and North Pacific Coal (large coking coal project in Russian Far North).
Yury Radchenko
Non-executive Director
Mr. Radchenko, a geologist, was a founder of the Dukatsky Mining Geological Company, now one of the largest exploration contractors in the Russian Far East. He is currently the general director for the Julietta gold mine (formerly Kinross). He is also the discoverer of the Lunnoye silver deposit (Polymetal).
Don SchisselNon-executive Director
Mr. Schissel has recently retired from BHP Billiton after a near 30 year career there. He was Regional Exploration Manager - Eurasia between 1992 – 1999, as well as Exploration Manager - Russia and Kazakhstan between 2005 – 2009. Team discovery of Oyu Tolgoi porphyry copper deposit in Mongolia (now in Ivanhoe Mines) and Jinlong gold deposit in China.
Ken KuchlingNon-executive Director
Mr. Kuchling is a mining consultant with a focus on mining engineering. His clients include Northgate Minerals, NovaGold, Oromin, and BHP. He was Senior Mining Engineer for Rio Tinto’s Diavik Diamond Mine in Canada between 1997 – 2000 and played a key role in project feasibility study and permitting.
Kirill Golovanov
Corporate Secretary, Head Russia Office
Mr. Golovanov is a graduate of Moscow State Legal Academy and has worked in Gazprombank, Vneshekonombank, as well as a department manager in the Federal Service on Bankruptcy and Finance Restoration – a subdivision of the Russian Federation Ministry of Finance.
Svetlana Radchenko
CFO
Ms. Radchenko has over a decade of experience in financial management of both Russian and international companies, including working in the finance departments of such companies as OAO Volganeft and OAO TverUniversalBank. She has a Doctorate in Finance, St. Petersburg State University, Russia and MA Finance, Moscow State University, Russia.
Oleg Tsopanov
Head Geologist
Mr. Tsopanov has a long and successful career as a geologist. He was the Head of Diamonds, Gold and Precious Metals at the Ministry of Geology of the USSR. Mr. Tsopanov is responsible for the discovery of multiple gold and other metal ore bodies, including Kubaka (Kinross), Dukat (Polymetal), and Karleveem.
Vyacheslav Makeev
Head Metallurgist
Mr. Makeev is a metallurgist and was the Production Chief at the Julietta mine (Bema Gold). He was also instrumental in the construction and operation of the Lunnoye silver mine (Polymetal), where he served as Chief Metallurgist. He was also Head of Technology at TsNIGRI, a major Russian laboratory.
Team
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Ovoca Gold Plc.
Russia representative office:Stoloviy Pereulok, Bld 6Moscow, 121069RussiaTelephone: +7 495 916 6029
Dublin office:78 Merrion SquareDublin 2IrelandTelephone: +353 1 661 9819
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