Objective Capital Precious Metals, Diamonds and Gemstones Investment Summit Where are the miners looking for assets – trends in staking, property acquisitions and capital raisings 20 May 2010 by Glen Jones - Intierra Resource Intelligence

1. PRECIOUS METALS,
DIAMONDS & GEMSTONES
INVESTMENT SUMMIT
10.25 – 10.50
Where are the miners looking for assets – trends in
staking, property acquisitions and capital raisings
Glen Jones – Executive Director, Intierra Resource
Intelligence
THE LONDON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY ● THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2010
www.ObjectiveCapitalConferences.com

2. Objective Capital
Precious Metals, Diamonds
& Gemstones
Investment Summit
May 2010
Presented By: Glen Jones

3. The data contained in this presentation
is a snapshot from the live Intierra database.
The statistics obtained mostly from daily
stream of data from Stock Exchange feeds
around the world, including Canada, United
States, Johannesburg, Australia and London.
Data base is updated daily.

4. Intierra Database
database
• 40,000 companies
• 3500 listed companies
• 38,000 global projects

5. Top Ten Commodities
Iron: 1860 projects = 4% Platinum: 1508 projects = 3%
Coal: 1998 projects = 4%
Diamonds: 2134 projects = 4%
Gold:
Nickel: 21,659 projects = 41%
2829 projects = 5%
Lead-Zinc:
3618 projects = 7%
Uranium:
3759 projects = 7%
Silver:
5349 projects = 10%
Copper: 8123 projects = 15%

6. Number of Active Projects
0
2000
4000
6000
8000
10,000
12,000
14,000
16,000
Gold
Copper
Silver
Uranium
Lead-Zinc
Nickel
Coal
Iron
Diamonds
Platinum
Active Projects

7. Active Gold Projects
Brazil: 262 projects = 2% South Africa: 228 projects = 2%
Argentina: 272 projects = 2%
Peru: 397 projects = 3% Chile: 221 projects = 2%
Canada:
China: 3951 projects = 34%
690 projects = 6%
Mexico:
822 projects = 7%
United States:
1328 projects = 12%
Australia: 3446 projects = 30%

8. Active Silver Projects
Chile: 82 projects = 2% Indonesia: 69 projects = 2%
China: 89 projects = 2%
Argentina: 146 projects = 4% Sweden: 66 projects = 2%
Peru: 279 projects = 7%
United States:
529 projects = 14%
Canada:
1234 projects = 32%
Australia:
599 projects = 16%
Mexico: 733 projects = 19%

9. Active Diamonds Projects
Sierra Leone: 25 projects = 2% Namibia: 23 projects = 2%
Angola: 29 projects = 3%
Russia: 18 projects = 2%
Congo (Democratic
Republic of): 41 projects = 4%
Canada:
Botswana: 523 projects = 48%
48 projects = 5%
Brazil:
54 projects = 5%
South Africa:
128 projects = 12%
Australia: 176 projects = 17%

10. Active Platinum Projects
Botswana: 12 projects = 1% Tanzania: 11 projects = 1%
Sweden: 16 projects = 2%
China: 26 projects = 3%
Russia: 31 projects = 3% Finland:
10 projects = 1%
United States:
50 projects = 5%
South Africa:
151 projects = 15%
Canada:
488 projects = 49%
Australia: 200 projects = 20%

11. Gold, the Commodity of Choice
Jan 2009 through April 2010
All values in $CDN

12. The Golden Pipeline

13. Global Gold Projects by Status
Grass Roots 5916 39.6%
Exploration 4536 30.5%
Advanced Exploration 2372 15.9%
Pre-Feasibility/Scoping 505 3.5%
Feasibility 385 2.8%
Construction 157 0.5%
Operating Mines 1053 7.2%
Total 14,924 100%

14. Global Gold:
Total Projects
Legend
3,440 to 3,959 (2)
690 to 3,439 (3)
90 to 689 (17)
20 to 89 (31)
1 to 19 (71)

15. Global Gold:
Grass Root Projects
Legend
1,290 to 1,889 (2)
330 to 1,289 (2)
70 to 329 (5)
20 to 69 (21)
1 to 19 (81)

16. Global Gold:
Exploration Projects
Legend
1,090 to 1,379 (2)
240 to 1,089 (2)
40 to 239 (10)
10 to 39 (25)
1 to 9 (67)

17. Global Gold:
Advanced Exploration Projects
Legend
127 to 668 (5)
20 to 125 (13)
6 to 19 (22)
3 to 5 (16)
1 to 2 (29)

18. Global Gold:
Pre-Feasibility Projects
Legend
89 to 115 (2)
28 to 88 (2)
9 to 27 (8)
4 to 8 (13)
1 to 3 (31)

19. Global Gold:
Feasibility Projects
Legend
107 (1)
36 to 106 (2)
7 to 35 (9)
2 to 6 (21)
1 (30)

20. Global Gold:
Construction Projects
Legend
27 (1)
11 to 26 (3)
5 to 10 (7)
2 to 4 (8)
1 (19)

21. Global Gold:
Operating Projects
Legend
135 to 256 (2)
23 to 134 (9)
6 to 22 (14)
2 to 5 (21)
1 (34)

22. Capital Raisings
Total: 1833
Total Gold: 815 (44.5%)
Total Targeted: $149.7B
Targeted Gold: $21.8B (14.5%)
Total Raised: $ 114.2B
Raised Gold: 18.6B (16.3%)

23. Number of Gold Capital Raisings
50
0
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
Exploration 450
Development
Capital
Expenditure
Asset
Acquisition
Other
Working
Capital
Debt
Reduction/
Rollover
Corporate
Acquisition/
Merger
Jan 2009 to Present
Capital Raisings

24. (in billions)
0
2.0
4.0
6.0
8.0
10.0
Development 12.0
Exploration
Capital
Expenditure
Asset
Acquisition
Other
Debt
Reduction/
Rollover
Corporate
Raised
Acquisition/
Targeted
Merger
Working
Capital
Capital Raisings by Activity

25. Number
50
0
100
150
200
250
300
TSX.V 350
Australian
Stock Exchange
Toronto
London (AIM)
CNSX –
Canadian
National
NYSE Amex
Johannesburg
Gold Capital Raisings by Exchange

26. (in Billions)
0
1.0
2.0
3.0
4.0
5.0
6.0
7.0
8.0
9.0
10.0
Toronto
Australian
Stock
Exchange
TSX.V
London
(AIM)
Johannesburg
NYSE Amex
OTC Bulletin
Board
Raised
Targeted
Capital Raisings by Exchange

27. Drilling

28. Gold Drilling Locations

29. Number of Projects Drilled
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
Canada
Australia
United
States
Mexico
Ghana
Brazil
Chile
Argentina
Papua
New Guinea
Burkina
Faso
Indonesia
Top 10 Countries for
Gold Drilling Activity

30. Number
50
0
100
150
200
250
300
350
Exploration 400
Advanced
Exploration
Pre-feasibilty
Scoping
Operating
Feasibility/
Study
Construction
Grass Roots
Care/
Maintenance
Gold Drilling by Project Status

31. Property Transactions

32. Gold Property Transactions

33. Number
10
15
20
25
30
0
5
35
Jan 09
Feb 09
Total
Gold
Mar 09
Apr 09
May 09
June 09
July 09
Aug 09 63%
Sept 09
37%
Oct 09
Nov 09
Dec 09
Jan 10
Feb 10
Mar 10
Property Transaction
Comparison
Apr 10

34. Number
20
40
60
80
0
100
120
Advanced
Exploration
Pre-Feas/
Scoping
Operating
Feasibility/
Study
Construction
Exploration
Care/
Maintenance
Total: 212
Closed
Unknown
January 2009 to Present
Gold Property Transactions

35. Summary
 Commodity of Choice: Gold
 Pipeline: Excellent
 Capital Raisings: Resource definition
 Exchanges of Choice: Toronto & Sydney
 Drilling Country of Choice: Canada & Australia
 Drilling Activity: Resource definition
 Properties of Choice to Buy: Advanced exploration

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