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Introduction
BOD Corporate Presentation January 2018 4
Botswana Diamonds at a glance
AIM: BOD
BSE : BOD Dual listed in London and Botswana
EXPERIENCED MANAGEMENT
Team with prior successful commercial diamond discovery
(AK6/Karowe): African Diamonds plc returned 25x
investment plus BOD
VISION
Development of quality, advanced, primary diamond
deposits and close to current or historical diamond mines.
Always on the lookout for new opportunities.
BEST ADDRESSES
South Africa: under explored with strong infrastructure and
skills base as an established diamond producer and
Botswana: ‘The Switzerland of Africa’.
TECHNOLOGY
PARTNERSHIPS
Application of third generation (advanced) exploration
technology
South Africa: Vutomi
Botswana: Alrosa and BCL/Maibwe
BOD Corporate Presentation January 2018 5
 Vutomi Earn-In. Flagship Project:
Thorny River
Agreement with Vutomi which has prospecting
rights over 20 high interest kimberlites and
40,000 hectares of highly prospective ground in
South Africa
 Botswana Diamonds/Alrosa Joint Venture
50/50 joint venture (Sunland Minerals) with
Alrosa in the Orapa and Kalahari areas. Alrosa is
the world’s largest diamond producer with 19
mines
 Maibwe Joint Venture with BCL
Joint venture (Maibwe) on a block of 10 licences
in the Kalahari with joint venture partners BCL,
Future Minerals and Siseko
THREE VENTURES
Kimberlites in southern Africa. Source: De Wit et al, June 2016
Highlights
SOUTHAFRICABOTSWANABOTSWANA
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 Powerful industry fundamentals in medium-
long term
 Global rough diamond production expected
to peak in next 3–4 years
 No significant discoveries in last 10 years
other than Karowe (Botswana, Lucara) and
Luaxe (Alrosa, Angola)
 Long lead-time from discovery to production
 Sustained strong demand growth in US;
urbanisation and surging middle class driving
growth in India and China
 Diamond jewellery demand increasing in
major consumer markets (US, China, India
and Gulf)
 Dedicated marketing required to capture
Millennials opportunity
 Widening supply-demand gap will lead to
rebound in diamond prices
Why Diamonds?
Source: Bain & co, December 2017
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Exploration Activities
BOD Corporate Presentation January 2018 8
Our Project Pipeline
EXPLORATION
TARGET
MINERALISATION
INFERRED
RESOURCE
INDICATED
RESOURCE
RESERVE
Thorny River
Maibwe
Ontevreden
Free State
Sunland
Minerals
South Africa
Botswana
Investment
Time
Confidence
Risk
BOD Corporate Presentation January 2018 9
A confluence of:
 Perceptions of high risk and barriers to entry
 A historic legacy of South Africa as the domain of De Beers, which
is no longer the case
 Limited competition for exploration ground
 Latest generation diamond exploration technologies not yet
applied
Exploration in South Africa
KEY FACTS
And the oversight of:
 Sophisticated fixed and banking infrastructures
 A long history of diamond production with some 700m carats of
diamonds produced since 1870.
 The county produces in excess of US$1 billion of gems per year
(c.8% of global supply)
Highlights of Vutomi earn-in:
 Portfolio of highly prospective multi-stage projects in the vicinity
of known diamond mines
 20 high-interest kimberlites already identified on the various
prospecting rights
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Marsfontein Mine
 Pipe was 0.4 hectares in size
 Produced 1.9m carats with an average grade of 172cpht
 Diamond value of $128/ct (BCOS +1.2mm)
 Return on the $25m investment achieved in less than 4
days
 Mine was operated by a De Beers / SouthernEra JV
Klipspringer Mine
 Owned by ASA Resources plc
 Inferred Resource of 3.4m tons
 Indicated Resource of 0.7m tons
 Inferred and Indicated Resource with a grade of 49 cpht
and diamond value of $130/ct (BCOS +1mm)
 A cash offer of R23m plus 3% royalty on diamond sales
has been made for 74% of the mine by a private SA
group SLA Capital
Vutomi Flagship Project: Thorny River
NEARBY DIAMOND MINES
Marsfontein Pit
BCOS = Bottom Cut-Off
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 Consolidation of Frischgewaagt, Hartbeesfontein and
Doornrivier properties into 2,771 hectare project
 Extension of Klipspringer & Marsfontein Mine kimberlite
dyke/pipe system
 Results of drilling, geophysics & sampling campaigns:
 Minimum kimberlite dyke strike length of 4 km
 223 microdiamonds recovered from 160kg of core
 467 macrodiamonds recovered from 2015 surface sampling
yielded 247 carats, sold at $180/ct
 512 macrodiamonds recovered from 2017 trench sample
yielded 62 carats
 Exploration results:
 Estimated 1.2 – 2.1 M tons to 100 metres
 Modelled value of US$259/ct (BCOS of +2mm) in 2016
 Estimated (modelled) Total Content grade of 46-74 cpht
(BCOS +1mm) or 35-56 cpht (BCOS +2mm)
 In-situ value of $60-140/ton
 Future work entails further increasing confidence in the
grade, value and volume estimates and exploring
commercialisation opportunities
Vutomi Flagship Project: Thorny River
EXPLORATION RESULTS
Trench sampling
+9 Diamond Sieve+11 Diamond Sieve
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 Group 2 kimberlite (similar to Helam cluster)
identified from initial work
 High resolution ground geophysics suggests a
minimum pipe surface area of 100x70m
 Abundant G10 and G9 garnets with a
complimentary suite of eclogitic garnets. This
mix of garnets is typically seen in high-grade
kimberlite pipes.
 Drilling and sampling planned for 2018
EXPLORATION RESULTS
Vutomi Project: Ontevreden
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 Petra’s nearby Helam Mine is made of an east-west trending
kimberlite dyke swarm, with a grade of 267cpht (BCOS
+1mm)
 FY 2014 Average diamond value US$145/ct (BCOS +1mm)
 Helam has been on care and maintenance since 2015
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 8 kimberlite pipes identified through
fieldwork and sampling of anomalies
 Confirmed as Group 1 kimberlites by
whole rock geochemistry: similar to
Kimberley pipes
 Detailed ground geophysical survey
completed with kimberlite pipe
surface areas of up to 1.5 hectares
EXPLORATION RESULTS
Vutomi Project: Free State
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 Four contiguous prospecting areas covering 36,000 ha
 15 known kimberlites, as well as evidence of historic operations
BOD Corporate Presentation January 2018 14
Botswana IS diamond country
 World’s best address for diamond investment
 The Switzerland of Africa; stable, wealthy
democracy
 Continued political stability; rule of law; good title
 Good governance; prudent economic and natural
resource management
 Robust economic growth supported by revenue
flows consequent to the discovery of diamonds
 World’s largest diamond producer (by value) with
world-leading diamond mines: Orapa (1972),
Letlhakane (1973), Jwaneng (1982), Damtshaa
(2002) and Karowe (2012)
 Lucara’s Karowe discovered in 2004 by BOD team,
came on stream in 2012, producing exceptional
large stones
Exploration in Botswana
KEY FACTS
Source: Brook 2012 on 11IKC Website
BOD Corporate Presentation January 2018 15
 BOD has a joint venture with Alrosa, a
Russian stock exchange listed
diamond company
 Sunland Minerals the JV company is a
50/50 heads up; 2017/2018 joint
budget of US$1.75m
 BOD is operator
 15 Prospecting Licences (PL) held by
Sunland Minerals, the JV company
 6 in the Orapa area and 9 in the
Kalahari
 Prospecting is currently mainly
focused in the Kalahari
Sunland Minerals Joint Venture
KEY FACTS
Source: Brook 2012 on 11IKC Website
BOD Corporate Presentation January 2018 16
 Maibwe Joint Venture owned by BCL (51%),
Future Minerals (20%) and Siseko (29%)
 Siseko is 51% owned by BOD
 BOD has a 15% carry through to Bankable
Feasibility Study
 10 licences held by Maibwe in the Kalahari
 Surrounding area hosts Gem’s Ghaghoo mine
and Petra KX-36 discovery
 A 2015 drilling programme on PL 186
discovered kimberlites containing significant
quantities of diamonds
 BOD has drilled verification holes and is in the
process of analysing the samples
 BCL is in liquidation and unable to finance an
agreed work programme. BOD has approached
the liquidator with several possible options
Maibwe Joint Venture with BCL
KEY FACTS
Source: Brook 2012 on 11IKC Website
ALROSA JV PROSPECTING LICENCES
MAIBWE JV PROSPECTING LICENCES
Drilling in the Kalahari
BOD Corporate Presentation 2017 17
Corporate
18
Company Summary
CORPORATE INFORMATION
Exchanges AIM (LSE) /BSE
Ticker BOD
Shares in Issue 459 M
Market Cap £5.5 M
Share price 1.20 p (25/01/2018)
SIGNIFICANT SHAREHOLDERS
Shareholders who hold more than 3% % Holding
John Teeling 11.8
Pershing International Nominee 8.0
James Finn 5.5
HSBC Global Nominees 4.8
Rene Nominees 4.3
TD Waterhouse (Europe) Ltd 3.6
David Horgan 3.4
BOD Corporate Presentation January 2018
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Share Price
Key to numbers: RNS’s issued
1. 27-02-2017: Placing to fund drilling
2. 13-03-2017: Exercise of Warrants
3. 27-03-2017: Interim results
4. 03-04-2017: Issue of shares to Vutomi
5. 06-04-2017: First drilling completed at
Vutomi
6. 25-04-2017: New prospecting applications
approved in Botswana
7. 11-05-2017: Exercise of Warrants
8. 13-06-2017: Diamond grade estimated to be
between 20-270cpht
9. 11-07-2017: Update on the Vutomi Joint
Venture in South Africa
10. 14-07-2017: New kimberlite discovered on
Vutomi licence
11. 17-07-2017: New licence acquired on the
Vutomi Joint Venture
12. 03-08-2017: £868,000 fundraising update
13. 12-09-2017: Vutomi JV - exploration update
14. 29-09-2017: Update on new kimberlite
discovery
15. 04-10-2017: Thorny River – additional holes
to be drilled
16. 24-10-2017: Free State project: eight
kimberlites discovered
17. 26-10-2017: Preliminary results for the year
ended 30 June 17
18. 17-11-2017: Free State Project – update
19. 30-11-2017: Results of AGM
20. 20-12-2017: Exercise of Warrants
21. 25-01-2018: Thorny River Project – grade &
volume update
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Management Team
John Teeling - Executive Chairman
Founder of a number of listed resource companies, including African Diamonds. Corporate transactions in
recent years have returned US$250M to shareholders. Holds a doctorate in business from Harvard
Business School as well as an MBA from Wharton.
James Campbell – Managing Director
Has been Managing Director of Rockwell Diamonds and African Diamonds. Prior to these appointments
he was a General Manager with De Beers. Holds degrees in Mining & Exploration geology and an MBA
James Finn - Finance Director
20 years’ African resource company experience; director of a number of resource and industrial ventures.
Has led the listing procedure for ten AIM companies. Holds a degree in business and has an accounting
qualification.
David Horgan – Director
Former director of African Diamonds. Holds a Law degree from Cambridge and an MBA from Harvard; 20
years of exploration experience in Africa and South America.
Robert Bouquet – Commercial Director
20 years' experience in diamond industry; 15 with De Beers/Rio Tinto Diamonds in a variety of strategic
and commercial roles.
Anne McFarland– Director
Has worked in finance, commodity trading and manufacturing with Glencore, BP and Russian
conglomerates. Fluent in Russian. Holds a degree in classics and is a chartered accountant.
BOD Corporate Presentation January 2018 21
Peer Comparison
Company Flagship
Property
Location Resources Exchange
of Listing
Market Cap
BlueRock
Diamonds
Kareevlei
South
Africa
A diamond mining company with activities in
the Kimberley region of South Africa. The
Kareevlei project contains five
diamondiferous kimberlite pipes and has an
inferred mineral resource of 359,000 carats.
Led by Adam Waugh.
AIM:BRD £2.23M
Pangolin
Diamonds
Malatswae Botswana
Has seven 100% owned projects in eight
properties across Botswana. Both primary
and secondary diamond sources. Led by Dr
Leon Daniels.
TSX.V:PAN CAN$5.70M
Tsodilo
Resources
BK16 Botswana
A diamond, base and precious metal
exploration company concentrating its
exploration efforts on the southern portion
of the Angola / Congo craton in northwest
Botswana. Evaluating the BK16 kimberlite in
the Orapa area. Led by Prof MCJ de Wit.
CVE:TSD CAN$38.55M
BOD Corporate Presentation January 2018 22
 Listed on London AIM and the Botswana Stock Exchange
 Experienced team which developed the AK6 (Karowe Mine) in Botswana
 The right addresses with a balanced portfolio of early stage and advanced
kimberlite projects in South Africa and Botswana
 Use of fit-for-purpose technology
 Partnerships with Vutomi, Alrosa and Maibwe
 Forecast news flow over the next 6-months:
 Thorny River resource development & techno-economic studies
 Drilling results from the Ontevreden kimberlite
 Mineral chemistry results from the Free State project
 Maibwe JV resolution
 Exploration results from Sunland Minerals JV
 Always on the look out for new opportunities where a robust set of filters are
applied.
Summary
BOD Corporate Presentation January 2018 23
162 Clontarf Road
Clontarf
Dublin 3
Ph: +353 1833 2833
Web: www.botswanadiamonds.co.uk
Email: info@botswanadiamonds.co.uk

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Botswana Diamonds plc Jan 2018 Corporate Presentation

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  • 2. BOD Corporate Presentation October 2017 2 Disclaimer This document is personal to the recipient and has been prepared and issued by Botswana Diamonds plc (the Company) For the purposes of this notice, the presentation that follows (the Presentation) shall mean and include the slides that follow, the oral presentation of the slides by the Company, the question-and-answer session that follows that presentation, hard copies of this document and any materials distributed at, or in connection with, that presentation. This Presentation has not been independently verified. The Presentation is for information purposes only and does not purport to contain all information that a prospective investor may require. No reliance may be placed for any purposes whatsoever on the information contained in this Presentation or on its completeness, accuracy or fairness. 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  • 3. BOD Corporate Presentation 2017 3 Introduction
  • 4. BOD Corporate Presentation January 2018 4 Botswana Diamonds at a glance AIM: BOD BSE : BOD Dual listed in London and Botswana EXPERIENCED MANAGEMENT Team with prior successful commercial diamond discovery (AK6/Karowe): African Diamonds plc returned 25x investment plus BOD VISION Development of quality, advanced, primary diamond deposits and close to current or historical diamond mines. Always on the lookout for new opportunities. BEST ADDRESSES South Africa: under explored with strong infrastructure and skills base as an established diamond producer and Botswana: ‘The Switzerland of Africa’. TECHNOLOGY PARTNERSHIPS Application of third generation (advanced) exploration technology South Africa: Vutomi Botswana: Alrosa and BCL/Maibwe
  • 5. BOD Corporate Presentation January 2018 5  Vutomi Earn-In. Flagship Project: Thorny River Agreement with Vutomi which has prospecting rights over 20 high interest kimberlites and 40,000 hectares of highly prospective ground in South Africa  Botswana Diamonds/Alrosa Joint Venture 50/50 joint venture (Sunland Minerals) with Alrosa in the Orapa and Kalahari areas. Alrosa is the world’s largest diamond producer with 19 mines  Maibwe Joint Venture with BCL Joint venture (Maibwe) on a block of 10 licences in the Kalahari with joint venture partners BCL, Future Minerals and Siseko THREE VENTURES Kimberlites in southern Africa. Source: De Wit et al, June 2016 Highlights SOUTHAFRICABOTSWANABOTSWANA
  • 6. BOD Corporate Presentation January 2018 6  Powerful industry fundamentals in medium- long term  Global rough diamond production expected to peak in next 3–4 years  No significant discoveries in last 10 years other than Karowe (Botswana, Lucara) and Luaxe (Alrosa, Angola)  Long lead-time from discovery to production  Sustained strong demand growth in US; urbanisation and surging middle class driving growth in India and China  Diamond jewellery demand increasing in major consumer markets (US, China, India and Gulf)  Dedicated marketing required to capture Millennials opportunity  Widening supply-demand gap will lead to rebound in diamond prices Why Diamonds? Source: Bain & co, December 2017
  • 7. BOD Corporate Presentation 2017 7 Exploration Activities
  • 8. BOD Corporate Presentation January 2018 8 Our Project Pipeline EXPLORATION TARGET MINERALISATION INFERRED RESOURCE INDICATED RESOURCE RESERVE Thorny River Maibwe Ontevreden Free State Sunland Minerals South Africa Botswana Investment Time Confidence Risk
  • 9. BOD Corporate Presentation January 2018 9 A confluence of:  Perceptions of high risk and barriers to entry  A historic legacy of South Africa as the domain of De Beers, which is no longer the case  Limited competition for exploration ground  Latest generation diamond exploration technologies not yet applied Exploration in South Africa KEY FACTS And the oversight of:  Sophisticated fixed and banking infrastructures  A long history of diamond production with some 700m carats of diamonds produced since 1870.  The county produces in excess of US$1 billion of gems per year (c.8% of global supply) Highlights of Vutomi earn-in:  Portfolio of highly prospective multi-stage projects in the vicinity of known diamond mines  20 high-interest kimberlites already identified on the various prospecting rights
  • 10. BOD Corporate Presentation January 2018 10 Marsfontein Mine  Pipe was 0.4 hectares in size  Produced 1.9m carats with an average grade of 172cpht  Diamond value of $128/ct (BCOS +1.2mm)  Return on the $25m investment achieved in less than 4 days  Mine was operated by a De Beers / SouthernEra JV Klipspringer Mine  Owned by ASA Resources plc  Inferred Resource of 3.4m tons  Indicated Resource of 0.7m tons  Inferred and Indicated Resource with a grade of 49 cpht and diamond value of $130/ct (BCOS +1mm)  A cash offer of R23m plus 3% royalty on diamond sales has been made for 74% of the mine by a private SA group SLA Capital Vutomi Flagship Project: Thorny River NEARBY DIAMOND MINES Marsfontein Pit BCOS = Bottom Cut-Off
  • 11. BOD Corporate Presentation January 2018 11  Consolidation of Frischgewaagt, Hartbeesfontein and Doornrivier properties into 2,771 hectare project  Extension of Klipspringer & Marsfontein Mine kimberlite dyke/pipe system  Results of drilling, geophysics & sampling campaigns:  Minimum kimberlite dyke strike length of 4 km  223 microdiamonds recovered from 160kg of core  467 macrodiamonds recovered from 2015 surface sampling yielded 247 carats, sold at $180/ct  512 macrodiamonds recovered from 2017 trench sample yielded 62 carats  Exploration results:  Estimated 1.2 – 2.1 M tons to 100 metres  Modelled value of US$259/ct (BCOS of +2mm) in 2016  Estimated (modelled) Total Content grade of 46-74 cpht (BCOS +1mm) or 35-56 cpht (BCOS +2mm)  In-situ value of $60-140/ton  Future work entails further increasing confidence in the grade, value and volume estimates and exploring commercialisation opportunities Vutomi Flagship Project: Thorny River EXPLORATION RESULTS Trench sampling +9 Diamond Sieve+11 Diamond Sieve
  • 12. BOD Corporate Presentation January 2018  Group 2 kimberlite (similar to Helam cluster) identified from initial work  High resolution ground geophysics suggests a minimum pipe surface area of 100x70m  Abundant G10 and G9 garnets with a complimentary suite of eclogitic garnets. This mix of garnets is typically seen in high-grade kimberlite pipes.  Drilling and sampling planned for 2018 EXPLORATION RESULTS Vutomi Project: Ontevreden 12  Petra’s nearby Helam Mine is made of an east-west trending kimberlite dyke swarm, with a grade of 267cpht (BCOS +1mm)  FY 2014 Average diamond value US$145/ct (BCOS +1mm)  Helam has been on care and maintenance since 2015
  • 13. BOD Corporate Presentation January 2018  8 kimberlite pipes identified through fieldwork and sampling of anomalies  Confirmed as Group 1 kimberlites by whole rock geochemistry: similar to Kimberley pipes  Detailed ground geophysical survey completed with kimberlite pipe surface areas of up to 1.5 hectares EXPLORATION RESULTS Vutomi Project: Free State 13  Four contiguous prospecting areas covering 36,000 ha  15 known kimberlites, as well as evidence of historic operations
  • 14. BOD Corporate Presentation January 2018 14 Botswana IS diamond country  World’s best address for diamond investment  The Switzerland of Africa; stable, wealthy democracy  Continued political stability; rule of law; good title  Good governance; prudent economic and natural resource management  Robust economic growth supported by revenue flows consequent to the discovery of diamonds  World’s largest diamond producer (by value) with world-leading diamond mines: Orapa (1972), Letlhakane (1973), Jwaneng (1982), Damtshaa (2002) and Karowe (2012)  Lucara’s Karowe discovered in 2004 by BOD team, came on stream in 2012, producing exceptional large stones Exploration in Botswana KEY FACTS Source: Brook 2012 on 11IKC Website
  • 15. BOD Corporate Presentation January 2018 15  BOD has a joint venture with Alrosa, a Russian stock exchange listed diamond company  Sunland Minerals the JV company is a 50/50 heads up; 2017/2018 joint budget of US$1.75m  BOD is operator  15 Prospecting Licences (PL) held by Sunland Minerals, the JV company  6 in the Orapa area and 9 in the Kalahari  Prospecting is currently mainly focused in the Kalahari Sunland Minerals Joint Venture KEY FACTS Source: Brook 2012 on 11IKC Website
  • 16. BOD Corporate Presentation January 2018 16  Maibwe Joint Venture owned by BCL (51%), Future Minerals (20%) and Siseko (29%)  Siseko is 51% owned by BOD  BOD has a 15% carry through to Bankable Feasibility Study  10 licences held by Maibwe in the Kalahari  Surrounding area hosts Gem’s Ghaghoo mine and Petra KX-36 discovery  A 2015 drilling programme on PL 186 discovered kimberlites containing significant quantities of diamonds  BOD has drilled verification holes and is in the process of analysing the samples  BCL is in liquidation and unable to finance an agreed work programme. BOD has approached the liquidator with several possible options Maibwe Joint Venture with BCL KEY FACTS Source: Brook 2012 on 11IKC Website ALROSA JV PROSPECTING LICENCES MAIBWE JV PROSPECTING LICENCES Drilling in the Kalahari
  • 17. BOD Corporate Presentation 2017 17 Corporate
  • 18. 18 Company Summary CORPORATE INFORMATION Exchanges AIM (LSE) /BSE Ticker BOD Shares in Issue 459 M Market Cap £5.5 M Share price 1.20 p (25/01/2018) SIGNIFICANT SHAREHOLDERS Shareholders who hold more than 3% % Holding John Teeling 11.8 Pershing International Nominee 8.0 James Finn 5.5 HSBC Global Nominees 4.8 Rene Nominees 4.3 TD Waterhouse (Europe) Ltd 3.6 David Horgan 3.4 BOD Corporate Presentation January 2018
  • 19. 19 Share Price Key to numbers: RNS’s issued 1. 27-02-2017: Placing to fund drilling 2. 13-03-2017: Exercise of Warrants 3. 27-03-2017: Interim results 4. 03-04-2017: Issue of shares to Vutomi 5. 06-04-2017: First drilling completed at Vutomi 6. 25-04-2017: New prospecting applications approved in Botswana 7. 11-05-2017: Exercise of Warrants 8. 13-06-2017: Diamond grade estimated to be between 20-270cpht 9. 11-07-2017: Update on the Vutomi Joint Venture in South Africa 10. 14-07-2017: New kimberlite discovered on Vutomi licence 11. 17-07-2017: New licence acquired on the Vutomi Joint Venture 12. 03-08-2017: £868,000 fundraising update 13. 12-09-2017: Vutomi JV - exploration update 14. 29-09-2017: Update on new kimberlite discovery 15. 04-10-2017: Thorny River – additional holes to be drilled 16. 24-10-2017: Free State project: eight kimberlites discovered 17. 26-10-2017: Preliminary results for the year ended 30 June 17 18. 17-11-2017: Free State Project – update 19. 30-11-2017: Results of AGM 20. 20-12-2017: Exercise of Warrants 21. 25-01-2018: Thorny River Project – grade & volume update Share Price – 1 Year 1 3 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
  • 20. BOD Corporate Presentation January 2018 20 Management Team John Teeling - Executive Chairman Founder of a number of listed resource companies, including African Diamonds. Corporate transactions in recent years have returned US$250M to shareholders. Holds a doctorate in business from Harvard Business School as well as an MBA from Wharton. James Campbell – Managing Director Has been Managing Director of Rockwell Diamonds and African Diamonds. Prior to these appointments he was a General Manager with De Beers. Holds degrees in Mining & Exploration geology and an MBA James Finn - Finance Director 20 years’ African resource company experience; director of a number of resource and industrial ventures. Has led the listing procedure for ten AIM companies. Holds a degree in business and has an accounting qualification. David Horgan – Director Former director of African Diamonds. Holds a Law degree from Cambridge and an MBA from Harvard; 20 years of exploration experience in Africa and South America. Robert Bouquet – Commercial Director 20 years' experience in diamond industry; 15 with De Beers/Rio Tinto Diamonds in a variety of strategic and commercial roles. Anne McFarland– Director Has worked in finance, commodity trading and manufacturing with Glencore, BP and Russian conglomerates. Fluent in Russian. Holds a degree in classics and is a chartered accountant.
  • 21. BOD Corporate Presentation January 2018 21 Peer Comparison Company Flagship Property Location Resources Exchange of Listing Market Cap BlueRock Diamonds Kareevlei South Africa A diamond mining company with activities in the Kimberley region of South Africa. The Kareevlei project contains five diamondiferous kimberlite pipes and has an inferred mineral resource of 359,000 carats. Led by Adam Waugh. AIM:BRD £2.23M Pangolin Diamonds Malatswae Botswana Has seven 100% owned projects in eight properties across Botswana. Both primary and secondary diamond sources. Led by Dr Leon Daniels. TSX.V:PAN CAN$5.70M Tsodilo Resources BK16 Botswana A diamond, base and precious metal exploration company concentrating its exploration efforts on the southern portion of the Angola / Congo craton in northwest Botswana. Evaluating the BK16 kimberlite in the Orapa area. Led by Prof MCJ de Wit. CVE:TSD CAN$38.55M
  • 22. BOD Corporate Presentation January 2018 22  Listed on London AIM and the Botswana Stock Exchange  Experienced team which developed the AK6 (Karowe Mine) in Botswana  The right addresses with a balanced portfolio of early stage and advanced kimberlite projects in South Africa and Botswana  Use of fit-for-purpose technology  Partnerships with Vutomi, Alrosa and Maibwe  Forecast news flow over the next 6-months:  Thorny River resource development & techno-economic studies  Drilling results from the Ontevreden kimberlite  Mineral chemistry results from the Free State project  Maibwe JV resolution  Exploration results from Sunland Minerals JV  Always on the look out for new opportunities where a robust set of filters are applied. Summary
  • 23. BOD Corporate Presentation January 2018 23 162 Clontarf Road Clontarf Dublin 3 Ph: +353 1833 2833 Web: www.botswanadiamonds.co.uk Email: info@botswanadiamonds.co.uk