Nicola Mining Inc. Corporate Presentation May 2024
Aben Resources LTD.
1. A Canadian GOLD exploration company
Developing the Forrest Kerr Gold Project
in BC’s Golden Triangle Region
June 2017
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2. Forward Looking Statements
Some of the statements in this document may be deemed to be “forward-looking statements”. All
statements in this document, other than statements of historical facts, that address events or
developments that management of the Company expects, are forward-looking statements. Although
reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or
developments may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. The Company
undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements if management’s beliefs, estimates or
opinions, or other factors, should change. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from
those in the forward-looking statements, include market prices, exploration and development successes,
continued availability of capital and financing, and general economic, market or business conditions. Please
see the public filings of the Company at www.sedar.com for further information.
Qualified Person
Cornell McDowell, P. Geo., V.P. of Exploration for Aben is the Qualified Person as defined by National
Instrument 43-101 and has reviewed and approved the technical information in this presentation.
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5. Aben Resources’ Key Directors and Advisory Board
Ronald Netolitzky, M.Sc. Geology: Director, Chairman
Ron Netolitzky serves as Chairman of the Board of Aben Resources Ltd. Mr. Netolitzky holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of
Alberta and a M.Sc. degree from the University of Calgary, both in geological sciences.
Mr. Netolitzky has been very successful in mining exploration with over 35 years of experience and having been directly associated with three
major gold discoveries in Canada that have subsequently been put into production; Eskay Creek, Snip and Brewery Creek. Mr. Netolitzky has been
honored with the Prospector of the Year award from the PDAC, and Developer of the Year award from the BC & Yukon Chamber of Mines. In
2015, he was inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame.
James G. Pettit: Director, President & CEO
Jim Pettit has been President & CEO and a Director of Aben Resources Ltd. since November 2002. Mr. Pettit is currently serving on the board of
directors of five publicly traded companies and offers over 25 years of experience within the industry specializing in finance, corporate
governance, executive management and compliance. Jim was previously Chairman and CEO of Bayfield Ventures Corp. which was bought by New
Gold Inc. in January 2015.
Timothy Termuende: P.Geo., Director
Tim Termuende serves as a Director of Aben Resources Ltd. and is a professional geologist with over 30 years experience in the mineral
exploration industry and is a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101. Since earning his degree in Geological Sciences at the
University of British Columbia in 1987, Mr. Termuende has worked on exploration projects throughout North, Central, and South America and has
been personally involved in exploration within the Forrest Kerr, BC area in the early 1990's. He has been continuously active in mineral
exploration throughout western Canada since 1976, and currently oversees a broad range of ongoing exploration projects located throughout
British Columbia, Saskatchewan, the Yukon and the Northwest Territories.
6. Cornell McDowell, P.Geo., Vice President of Exploration & Qualified Person
Cornell McDowell is a professional geologist registered in both Alberta and British Columbia and serves as V.P. of Exploration of Aben Resources
Ltd. He has been self-employed as a geological consultant throughout the past decade with both publicly listed and privately held mineral
exploration corporations. Most recently he helped take Gold Reach's Ootsa project from the initial exploration stage through to resource
development which ended with the delivery of a positive PEA. He is currently President & CEO of North Sur Resources and serves on the board
and audit committee for Manson Creek Resources.
Michael Roberts: Ph.D., P.Geo., Technical Advisory Board
Mike is a professional geologist with over 15 years of experience in mineral exploration and is currently the V.P. of Exploration for Kiska Metals
Corporation. As a field geologist for several junior exploration companies and as V.P. for Kiska, Mike has conducted and managed grassroots to
advanced exploration programs for base and breccia metals in North America and Australia, typically in partnerships with major mining
companies. Mike is passionate about the mineral potential of B.C., and has been actively involved in exploration programs in the Forrest Kerr area
since 2005.
Henry Awmack: P.Geo., Technical Advisory Board
Henry has over 30 years' experience in the mining industry. As a co-founder of Equity Engineering Ltd. in 1987, Mr. Awmack has managed all
aspects of a geological consulting and contracting firm including project planning and execution, hiring of field crews, geological fieldwork,
property examinations and preparation of technical reports. He has worked around the world exploring for a variety of commodities, and has
extensive "on the ground" experience in the Forrest Kerr, BC area in particular. Mr. Awmack holds a B.Sc (Honours) Applied Science in Geological
Engineering from the University of British Columbia and is registered as a professional engineer with the Association of Professional Engineers
and Geoscientists of British Columbia.
7. c CORPORATE HIGH LIGHTS
• 3 HIGHLY PROSPECTIVE GOLD PROJECTS IN SAFE AND STABLE JURISDICTIONS
The Forrest Kerr Projects in BC’s GOLDEN TRIANGLE
The Chico Project located in Saskatchewan
The Justin Project located in the Yukon
• SIGNIFICANT HISTORIC WORK HAS BEEN PERFORMED ON ALL PROJECTS
• DATA COMPILATION HAS BEEN PERFORMED ON ALL PROJECTS WITH RECOMMENDATION TO
MOVE FORWARD
• VERY EXPERIENCED MANAGEMENT TEAM WITH PROVEN TRACK RECORDS OF SUCCESS.
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8. • Experienced management team with proven track records of success.
• Acquisition through option agreements of the three properties that
make up the Forest Kerr Project.
• Significant historic work has been performed across the whole project
area.
• Data compilation study has been performed incorporating all historic
data from all three properties. A regional scale approach to
exploration and knowledge is now possible.
• First season of fieldwork and drilling will include but not be limited to
the testing of excellent drill results in historic holes:
• Carcass Creek Zone drill-hole RG91-21 returned 9.867 g/t Au
over29.3m.
• Boundary Zone drill-hole RG91-16 returned 33.4 g/t Au over
11m.
• Boundary Zone drill-hole RG91-21 returned 101.0 g/t Au over
1.95m and 137.8 g/t Au over 0.85m (true width unknown).
• Gossan Creek zone has a large, poorly tested Gold in Soil
anomaly extending over 3 Km
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Highlights of the FOREST KERR PROJECT In BC’s GOLDEN TRIANGLE
A world class gold district
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The GOLDEN TRIANGLE
• A stable jurisdiction with an
abundance of mining and
exploration activities
• The Forrest Kerr claim
package encompasses in
excess of 23,000 hectares
• Aben Resources Ltd. can
earn a 100% interest over
the entire claim group by
expending $3,000,000 on
exploration by June 2020
11. Infrastructure
Power & Roads
• Existing power line and power
generation located on southern
segment of property
• Project is road accessible to both the
north and south portions of the
property
• Proposed power line transects
northern portion of the property
• AltaGas-owned 250 man camp located
on property
• Northern road has cut through 9km of
geology that is very prospective for
hosting high grade gold deposits and
VMS style gold deposits 11
12. Forrest Kerr Project
Mineralization
• Numerous documented poly-
metallic occurrences along extent of
property (Au, Ag, Cu, Pb, Zn)
• Many property wide multi-element
soil geochemical anomalies (over
18,000 soil samples taken to date)
• Several historic localized high grade
drill intersections, many occurrences
remain untested by drilling
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RDN Claims
Wedge Zone
Historic Drilling
• Quartz vein and breccia system
that extends in excess of 4km
along strike
• Mineralization in drill holes
defined over 1.3 km in strike
length in Carcass Creek zone
• Open along strike in N-S
direction with good potential to
extend width of mineralized
zone beyond current 250m
HOLEID Area FROM TO Width Au (g/t) Ag (g/t)
RG90-7 Carcass Creek 56.7 70.1 13.4 4.577 6.244
RG90-11 Gossan Porphyry 26.1 32.5 6.4 1.461 1.815
RG90-11 Gossan Porphyry 46.0 51.5 5.5 1.152 1.956
RG91-21 Carcass Creek 140.8 170.1 29.3 9.867 0.311
RG91-22 Carcass Creek 69.0 88.5 19.5 0.966 4.789
RDN04-32 Carcass Creek 93.5 98.6 5.1 1.451 4.046
RDN04-33 Carcass Creek 84.2 93.3 9.1 2.22 2.40
RG90-15 Carcass Creek 63.80 81.40 17.6 1.15 4.39
*drilled intercepts, not true widths
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RDN Claims
Carcass Creek
• Historic drilling has
discovered numerous
discrete high-grade Au
intersections in addition
to wider zones of fault
related Au mineralization
• Carcass Creek zone is
adjacent to a large
outcrop of early Jurassic
intrusive from the Texas
Creek Plutonic Suite, a
lithology strongly
associated with
mineralization
throughout the Golden
Triangle
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Forgold Claims
Boundary Zone
• Gridded soil data shows a Gold
in soil anomaly that extends
over 4km. The soil anomaly
remains open in all directions
• The Boundary Zone has only
been drill tested over a limited
area, where high grade Au in
quartz veins were intercepted
• High grade Ag, Pb and Zn
mineralization has been drilled
at the RTB zone, located uphill
and adjacent to the Boundary
Zone
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Forgold Claims
Geology
• The boundary zone is
comprised of upper
Triassic Stuhini Group
rocks that are overlain by
lower Jurassic Hazelton
volcanics and
sedimentary rocks, with
numerous early Jurassic
intrusions present
• This lithologic package is
host to the majority of
mineral deposits in the
Golden Triangle
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Forrest Claims
Historic Drilling
• Quartz vein breccia and
shear system centered
around a diorite intrusion of
Jurassic age
• Open along strike to the NE
& SW
• Strong hydrothermal system
with variable precious metal
values
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HoleID Area From(m) To(m) Width(m) Au(g/t) Ag(g/t) Cu(%)
A90-5 ForrestCreek 24.0 63.7 39.3 1.7 14.4 0.76
A90-7 ForrestCreek 43 71 28 2.28 6.3 0.31
A90-10 ForrestCreek 33 68 35 2 6.5 0.36
A90-11 ForrestCreek 56 60 4 2.6 5.7 0.23
A90-13 ForrestCreek 17 52 35 2.5 6.1 0.32
A90-13 ForrestCreek 17 29 12 5.8 10.3 0.83
*drilledintercepts,nottruewidths
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Forrest Claims
• Breccia-shear-vein
system with wide
mineralized intercepts in
historic drilling
• Hosted in Paleozoic rocks
with several local early
Jurassic intrusives
• Poorly tested Gold in soil
anomaly extends over
3km to NE
• Strong discrete
conductivity anomaly is
both unexplained and
untested
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Rapidly receding
glaciers
These images from
Google Earth Engine
show the stark contrast
in last 20 years as
glaciers recede to reveal
more rock, structure and
potential mineralization
21. Moving Forward on the Forrest Kerr Project
• Limited amount of field work conducted on the Forrest Kerr
property in recent years
• Previous work was guided through the application of the
Eskay exploration model
• Re-interpretation of target models is required in light of the
significance, size and success of other deposits in the Golden
Triangle (eg. Brucejack)
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22. CONTACT INFO.
Jim Pettit: President & CEO
Don Myers: Investor Relations
Suite 1610, 777 Dunsmuir Street
Vancouver, BC, V7Y 1K4, CANADA
Tel: (604) 687-3376 Fax: (604) 687-3119
Toll Free: 1-800-567-8181
Web Site: www.abenresources.com Email: info@abenresources.com
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