TSX.V: MON Exploring Battery Metals in in Namibia and Chile March 2019 Corporate Presentation
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About Montero ▪ TSX Venture-listed (TSX.V:MON) Battery-focused company exploring for battery metals in Tier 1 Mining Jurisdictions – Namibia and Chile Photo - Uis Lithium Project, Namibia ▪ Target - Lithium, Tin & other battery metals Exploitation Resources Namibia - Uis Tailings Project: NI43-101 Compliant Inferred Resources of 14Mt @0.37% Li 2 O and 17Mt @ 0.05% SnO 2 “We are aiming to build a portfolio of battery • Soris Pegmatite Project: Target Resource; 10Mt @1.0% Li 2 O with tantalum and tin metals projects in Namibia and Chile.” • EPL6162 Project: Greenfields lithium exploration Dr. Tony Harwood President, CEO & Director Chile - Avispa Project : New Lithium-Iodine-Nitrate discovery ▪ Experienced Board & Management technical & financial ▪ Non-Core Assets: Rare earth project in Tanzania and phosphate project in South Africa ▪ Shares issued : 21,880,818 Photo – Avispa Lithium Project, Chile 3 3 3 TSX.V: MON TSX.V: MON
Board of Directors ▪ Economic geologist DR. TONY HARWOOD ▪ 30 years of exploration and mining experience President & CEO, Director ▪ Previous experience includes: President and CEO of Africo Resources Ltd., Executive Chairman Universal Coal PLC; VP Global Generative Exploration, Placer Dome ▪ 15 years of experience in mineral exploration in Central America ANDREW THOMSON ▪ Previous experience includes former President of: Link Mineral Ventures Ltd.; Azul Resources (Bermuda) Ltd; Soltoro Ltd. (TSX.V: SOL) Non-executive Director ▪ Currently CEO Palamina ▪ Seasoned geologist GREG HALL ▪ Over 35 years of international experience Non-executive Director ▪ Chief Geologist at Placer Dome with discoveries at Granny Smith mine; Rio Tinto's Yandi iron ore mine Keringal; Wallaby Sunrise gold mine in Australia JAMIE LEVY ▪ 25 years of experience in the mining industry ▪ Previous experience includes : President and CEO of Pine Point Mining; Vice President of Pinetree Capital Non-executive Director 4 TSX.V: MON
Management, Discovery and Development Team MICHAEL EVANS GEOFF SKELTON NICO SCHOLTZ MARCIAL VERGARA Chief Geologist & QP Metallurgist & Chemical Project Geologist & QP Project Geologist & QP Engineer ▪ Geologist with 38 years ▪ Geologist based in ▪ Geologist based in Chile ▪ 30 years of experience in: experience Namibia ▪ >30 years’ experience Base, Precious & Rare ▪ ▪ >10 years’ experience ▪ Extensive experience Metals design and ▪ QP for lithium in Chile operations in Africa ▪ Worked with Phelps Dodge ▪ QP for lithium in ▪ Extensive experience: in over 15 African countries Namibia ▪ Extensive experience: ▪ Precious and base ▪ Previous experience: ▪ Extensive experience: ▪ 21 years as General exploration Manager & Project ▪ Rare metal pegmatite ▪ Mineral target generation ▪ Lithium exploration Manager exploration ▪ Establishment of ▪ Exploration in Chile ▪ Responsible for the exploration operations ▪ Lithium-Cesium- development of Tantalum (LCT) ▪ Management of separations processes pegmatite intrusions feasibility studies ▪ Mineral separation ▪ Exploration in ▪ Mine building team technology, including Namibia hydrometallurgy 5 TSX.V: MON
Battery Boom Global battery manufacturing capacity is set to double by 2021 300 250 200 Gigawatt Hours 58% 150 100 40% 24% v 50 0 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Electric Vehicles Personal Electronics Consumer and grid-scale storage Source: Bloomberg New Energy Finance 6 6 TSX.V: MON TSX.V: MON
Lithium is Essential to Battery Production There are many elements that play pertinent roles in the manufacturing of batteries: lithium, cobalt, nickel, tantalum, tin and more. Montero aims to look for opportunities to acquire projects with minerals across the battery spectrum to create a true battery-play exploration company The battery industry currently uses 42% Core ingredient to 99% of electric • • Li Co of global cobalt production, a critical vehicles metal for Lithium-ion cells Enables the formation of silicon • channels allowing lithium ions to • Nickel is the most important metal by Ta Ni travel faster within the battery mass in Li-ion battery cathodes • Limits the expansion of the silicon and preserves structural integrity Increasing demand - Using tin in • And Sn place of graphite increases the More energy storage capacity of a battery cell by nearly three times 7 7 TSX.V: MON TSX.V: MON
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