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Page 1: A DISTRICT SCALE LAND PACKAGE IN A GOLD RICH · PDF fileINTRODUCTION • Solstice Gold Corp. was formed through a formed through a spin-out of the Kahuna Gold Project from Dunnedin

TSX-V: SGCConditionally approved for listing

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FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS

This document contains certain forward-looking statements (“FLS”) relating but not limited to the Company’s expectations, intentions, plans and beliefs.FLS can often be identified by forward-looking words such as “emerging”, “goal”, “plan”, “intent”, “estimate”, “expects”, “scheduled”, “may” and “will” orsimilar words suggesting future outcomes or other expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, assumptions, intentions or statements about future events orperformance. FLS in this news release also include, but are not limited to, the extent and timing of described programs, such as RAB drilling, groundmagnetics and till sampling. FLS in this presentation include comparison with certain geological features at an adjacent development property. There canbe no guarantee that continued exploration at Kahuna, which is at an early stage of exploration, will lead to the discovery of an economic gold deposit.Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from any forward-looking statement include, but are not limited to, delays in obtaining orfailures to obtain required governmental, environmental or other project approvals, inflation, changes in exchange rates, fluctuations in commodityprices, delays in the development of projects and other factors. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors thatcould cause actual results to differ materially from expected results.

Potential shareholders and prospective investors should be aware that these statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties andother factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those suggested by the forward-looking statements. Shareholders are cautioned notto place undue reliance on forward-looking information. By its nature, forward-looking information involves numerous assumptions, inherent risks anduncertainties, both general and specific, that contribute to the possibility that the predictions, forecasts, projections and various future events will notoccur. Solstice Gold undertakes no obligation to update publicly or otherwise revise any forward-looking information whether as a result of newinformation, future events or other such factors which affect this information, except as required by law.

This presentation contains information with respect to adjacent or similar mineral properties in respect of which the Company has no interest or rights toexplore or mine. Readers are cautioned that the Company has no interest in or right to acquire any interest in any such properties, and that mineraldeposits on adjacent or similar properties are not indicative of mineral deposits on the Company’s properties. Past performance is no guarantee of futureperformance and all investors are urged to consult their investment professionals before making an investment decision. Investors are further cautionedthat past performance is no guarantee of future performance

R. (Bob) Singh, P.Geo, is the Qualified Person as defined by NI 43-101 standards responsible for reviewing the technical content of this presentation.2

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INTRODUCTION

• Solstice Gold Corp. is a new gold focussed exploration company currently advancing its district scale Kahuna Gold Project.

• Conditionally approve for TSX-V listing symbol SGC

• $8 million in cash, strong shareholder base

• Sole right to develop gold or other metallic minerals on 806 km2 & exclusive secondary rights on an additional 858 km2 in a safe and emerging jurisdiction – Nunavut, Canada

• Control of ~235 km of newly recognized gold belts in a similar setting to the world class Meliadine Deposits (Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd) ~7 km from Solstice property

• Experienced, successful and award winning discovery and management team

• The mission of the company is based on managements expertise’ in creating value from identifying opportunities, making discoveries, and advancing them through the exploration stage to development

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MANAGEMENT AND BOARD OF DIRECTORSExperienced and Successful Leadership Team

David Adamson, Ph.D. – Executive Chairman, Director30 years wide range of experience from advanced exploration through to developmentCo-winner of 2010 Colin Spence award for excellence in worldwide explorationRaised over $500 million in equity

Marty Tunney, P.Eng. – President, Director15 years. Formerly with CIBC, Raymond James, Newmont, Vale, NewCastle Gold

Tony Ricci, CPA, CA – CFO25+ years with listed public companies. Formerly with Petaquilla, KPMG and AMEC

Bob Singh, P.Geo – Vice President Exploration24+ years early to advanced stage exploration projects throughout North America where he has demonstrated exceptional geological and 3D modelling skills

Christopher Taylor, M.Sc. P. Geo, – Strategic Advisor & Director15+ years experience with both mid-tiers and juniors

Michael G. Leskovec, CPA – Director15+ years. VP of Northfield Capital, CFO of Nighthawk Gold. Former Officer of Gold Eagle Mines

Chad Ulansky (B.Sc.) – Director20+ years of exploration experience. Began career working for Dia Met Minerals Ltd

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Current Shareholders

Rob McEwen, 5%

Management and Insiders,

5%

Northfield Capital Corp,

7%

Phoenix Gold Funds, 3%

Property Vendors, 5%

Top 12 Shareholders and Brokers,

50%

Other, 25%

Solstice (millions)

Shares 66.8

Warrants 20.4

Options 7.3

Working Capital $7.9

FD Shares OS 94.5

FD Cash $16.0

(March 1, 2018 est.)

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INVESTMENT THESIS• Few world class gold deposits being found in politically safe jurisdictions

• Exception is discovery and development in Canada’s North

• Strong potential for more discoveries due to early stage of exploration around major discoveries

• Very similar to southern belts in their early stages

• Declining Gold Supply – Majors not replacing ounces, exploration funding starved

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Mary River

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SGC Primary RightsSGC Secondary RightsIOL SurfaceIOL Surface + Mineral

Chesterfield Inlet

Rankin Inlet

RoadProposed Road

Agnico Eagle

NX Gold

Meliadine

20 km Gold DepositGold Discovery

PROPERTY LOCATION – “Near Mine Exploration”

• Adjacent to Agnico Eagle claims and 7 km from the nearest gold deposit– Budgeted spend of $398M in 2018 alone

• Land located on both Crown and IOL (Inuit owned surface rights)

• Only26 km from Rankin Inlet and 15 km from Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut

• Multiple daily commercial flights to Rankin Inlet 6

Rankin Inlet

Road being planned across the entire Property from Chesterfield Inlet to Rankin Inlet

Primary Rights include all mineral rights for non-diamond and gemstones excluding and minerals found in kimberlite. Dunnedin Ventures holds Secondary Rights on this ground. Secondary Rights give the holder the right to propose exploration programs on the property related to their mineral rights. Such programs are granted at the discretion of the Primary Rights holder. Agreement allows exclusive right for the parties to exchange rights on their respective claims.For additional details please see the Solstice Gold 2017 NI 43-101 Technical Report available on www.sedar.com.

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LAND POSITION WITH EXTENSIVE DATABASE• Primary Rights on 806 km2 and Secondary

Rights on 858 km2

• No underlying payments

• 4% NSR with buydown to 2%

• Adjacent to Agnico Eagle Claims and ~7 km from gold deposits which host 6.7 M Oz gold M&I(R&R Incl.) @ 5.92 g/t and 3.6 M Oz Inferred @ 7.51 g/t*

• New gold exploration data shows same host units and structures that host Meliadine are present on Solstice claims

• Extensive magnetic and till database allows rapid evaluation of gold potential – would take >$7 million to replace

• Good database but exploration focus has been for diamonds, now gold focussed

*Source: Agnico Eagle AIF, March 27, 2017 see disclaimer in FLS7

Till Sampling and Geophysical Coverage Chesterfield Inlet

Rankin Inlet

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MELIADINE FEATURES

• Extensive work to date by Agnico and predecessors has led to an evolving understanding of the geological setting which can be applied to the adjacent Solstice claims.

• Five of six of the Meliadine deposits hosted in iron-formation and sedimentary units adjacent to major regional SSE-trending Pyke fault which is traced by its magnetic signature. Structure similar to ‘breaks’ in the Abitibi

• Late Archean deposits are remobilized and developed at regional contact between mafic and sedimentary rock packages in Z-fold structures and associated with splay faults.

• Strong association of gold with arsenic (+/- accessory elements including Te, Bi…..)*

* Source Agnico Eagle website and presentations see disclaimer in FLS

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Meliadine Portal EntranceIn our view, as outlined in the following slides, the Kahuna property displays many of these attributes

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NEW STRUCTURAL INTERPRETATION• Presence of 3 major high strain zones or

‘breaks’ across the Kahuna project.

• 2nd order fault sets at Meliadine associated with gold deposits extend eastwards into favorable stratigraphy at Westeros

• The 40 km long (unfolded) Westeros fold associated with highly anomalous rock and gold in till occurrences.

• The North area includes significant and extensive areas of locally folded quartz vein outcrops (discovered in late 2017). Quartz outcrops up to 65 m wide are exposed over a strike length of at least 7 km. Quartz-rich areas associated with >85th percentile gold in till anomalies

• Over 235 km of strike length (unfolded) identified across the property to date

Source data: Solstice Gold, SRK 2005, Dunnedin Ventures, Geological Survey of Canada and public domain data is interpreted by Solstice.

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GEOLOGY EXTENDS FROM MELIADINE ONTO KAHUNAMapping by Agnico shows major regional folds repeating onto Kahuna Claims

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Agnico Eagle Geology Map (source: Agnico Eagle Mines Updated Technical Report 2015) 2017 Mapping of Kahuna Property overlain on 2005 SRK interpretation of the property geology

Mapping extends from CWM claims where two gold showings (Aqpik and Aklak) are documented on Agnico claims and also in the southern part of the property

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• Till sampling at Meliadine by the GSC (2000) identifies trains close to known gold deposits

• As part of the larger till sampling program for Diamonds, Shear Minerals also collected and analyzed selected Till samples for gold

• Till samples at Kahuna contain extensive areas of anomalous (>70th %ile) and highly anomalous (>90th %ile) samples, particularly in the SW

• Ice transport directions and distances are well documented and point to source areas within the Solstice claims

TILL SAMPLING SHOWS SIGNIFICANT GOLD

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• Grain characterization studies were also completed by both Shear Minerals and the GSC at Meliadine

• Modified and pristine grain shapes correlate well with known deposits at Meliadine

• Extensive modified +pristine grain population over much of SW Kahuna area

• Historical Diamond exploration work identified source kimberlites as close as 450m away from the tail end of indicator mineral dispersion trains

PRISTINE GOLD GRAINS – CLOSE TO HOME

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GOLD IN ROCKS – 2017 Sampling Program

Meliadine

1.24

Rock type Au (g/t)mafic volcanic 34.90

Pyritic QSP altered Gneiss 12.70

Quartz Vein in BIF 8.82

py+aspy+po massive sulphide BIF 7.01

BIF 6.47

pyritic metasediment 4.65

metasediment 4.09

Aspy rich BIF 4.07

Silicified metasediment 3.95

po-py sil altered rock 3.75

pyritic quartz vein 3.60

pyritic QSP altered rock 2.11

folded BIF with sulphides 1.99

pyritic altered rock 1.91

Quartz Vein 1.84

py-po metasediment 1.78

po metasediment 1.73

Silica sulphide altered rock 1.72

Sulphide banded rock 1.59

pyritic metasediment/BIF 1.54

Outcrop

Subcrop

Angular boulder

Sub-angular boulder

Sub-rounded boulder

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2018 EXPLORATION PROGRAM

Program designed to confirm Westeros, The North and Central Target areas, and daylight new targets for a 2019 drill campaign

• Up to 5,000 m of shallow Rotary Air Blast (“RAB”) drilling in 34 target areas commencing late April, 2018

• 5,000 line km of ground magnetic surveys at 25m spacing (ongoing)

• Multi-crew ground surveys of prospecting, geological mapping, rock, sand, till sampling commencing June, 2018

• 635 till samples from 2017 program undergoing gold grain analysis (pending)

• Winter work expected to run April to late May, summer work from June to late September

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• Reconnaissance mapping in 2017 identifies sedimentary/volcanic rocks with associated iron formations

• Gold mineralization is widespread in both till and rock samples

• Interpreted faults show offsets and orientation consistent with the structural setting at Meliadine

• Highly angular gold grains show limited travel from source

15Photo of angular altered iron formation with “Z” folding

WESTEROS: 40 km (unfolded) GOLD BELT

Also shown – quartz sericite alteration in metasediments with “Z” folding

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0.1 mm

0.1 mm

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• Reconnaissance mapping in 2017 identifies sedimentary/volcanic rocks with associated iron formations

• Structural Interpretation identifies key 1st and 2nd order structures

MAGNETICS MAPPING AND DATA IN WESTEROS

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Glacial Transport Direction

2 km

Agnico Claims

Solstice Claims 2018 Winter

RAB target

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• High resolution airborne magnetics show fold limbs, quartz outcrops are within hinge domain of larger F1 fold.

• Close up shows folded quartz veins (F2) within larger hinge of F1 folds.

High gold grain count Till sample – on strike and down-ice of limb

of major fold

Fold Axis (F2)

500m

THE NORTH TARGET - QUARTZ HILL AREA

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Quartz Outcrops

1 Km12 ppb (80th percentile)

gold in Till assay

Gold grains from historic work are down-ice from high quality geophysical anomalies interpreted as iron formation

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THE NORTH TARGET - QUARTZ HILL AREA

• 3D perspective view shows current structural interpretation

• Subtle topographic features align with interpreted faults, high resolution satellite images shows outcrop patterns of quartz rich areas.

• Filtered airborne magnetic data shows:

• Relationship between quartz outcrops and magnetic lows.

• Closely associated with magnetic linears (BIF)

• Mag lows coincident with interpreted structures

• Fold patterns with consistent vergence directions (ie. folds all closing in the same direction)

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High gold grain count Till sample

12 ppb (80th

percentile) gold in Till assay

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2018 2019

Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

TSX.V Listing ♦

Results from 2017 Till Program ♦

Advance Priority Targets to Drilling

Geophysics

RAB Drilling/Sampling

Sampling/Mapping/Prospecting

Bring Along Secondary Targets to Drilling

Drilling (Core/RC)

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• Solstice will have a steady flow of results moving forward

• Advancing the project with a 9 month ~$5M exploration budget

• Geological mapping/sampling commenced in Q2/Q3 of 2018, to be closely followed by RAB

• Solstice will advance the project with a 1 year ~$5M exploration budget

• Detailed target definition (trenching, sampling, ground geophysics) leading to drillhole targets

• Core and RC drilling of defined targets

Solstice Timeline

THE PATH FORWARD / CATALYSTS

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SUMMARY AND NEXT STEPS

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• Extensive structural zones and BIF with documented gold – setting permissive for Meliadine type mineralization

• Priority target areas in Westeros area to be fast tracked in 2018 for drilling (target winter 2018-19)

• Advance Qtz Hill targeting to drill stage. Ground surveys, extensive sampling

• Systematically explore rest of project with proven techniques, till, gold grains and mapping to define next target areas

• 100% controlled, district scale land position, no underlying payments, rapidly advancing new gold story

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1987 1995 2000 2001 2003 2004 2005 2006 2008 2009 2010 2012 2014 2015 2016 2017

Meliadine

Kahuna

Comaplex and Asamera stake the property

WMC options Meliadine from Comaplex and Cumberland in 1995

WMC says it will sell its gold unit.

Comaplex acquires WMC's 56% interest in Meliadine west for $6.7 USD and 5mm shares, to this point over $70mm spent

Snowden Tech Report of 853,000 Indicated and 486,000 inferred gold ounces

RCF Acquires Cumberland’s 22% of the project for $23mm

Agnico Acquires 15% of Comaplex for $47mm. Bulk Sampling completed

Comaplex secures 100% ownership of Meliadine project through share transaction with RCF Agnico announces

agreement to acquire 100% of Comaplex, value of $751mm

Shear in JV with Stornoway and BHP establish Churchill diamond property extensive diamond exploration program

Meliadine Feasibility Study

Final production permits received

Apex Evaluates gold potential on property for Shear

Shear spins out gold rights creating Kaminak

Kaminak drills 5 holes (total of 450m), best intercept 7.06g/t over 0.61 metres

Kaminak options non-diamond rights back to Shear, retains back in rights. Announce positive exploration results from Yukon Property

Thompson and Posescu stake core claims at Kahuna (formerly Shear). Dunnedin options and expands claims.

Dunnedin announces discovery of gold in Till samples from 2015 work program. –acquires and begins compilation of additional historical data announces plans to spin out gold assets

Dunnedin spins out gold assets into Solstice Gold

APPENDICES: TALE OF TWO PROPERTIES

Shear Acquires Jericho Mine and changes name to Shear Diamonds

Shear Auditor Raises 'Going Concern' Doubt, Jericho Mine shut down

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Highly anomalous down-ice Till samples with identified pristine –modified gold grains.

• Hinge 1 target -Numerous Fold closures interpreted as up-ice sources for float and Till samples

Sub-angular float with arsenopyrite34.9 g/t Au.

Sub-angular float sampling –7.01 g/t Au of massive sulphide.

0.1 mm

APPENDICES: WESTEROS HINGE 1 TARGET

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Glacial Transport Direction

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• Very close to source high grace rock sample, multiple folds with right lateral offset

• Highly anomalous down-ice Till samples with identified pristine gold grains

Subcrop (typically within a few meters of the source outcrop) 12.7 g/t Au with strong QSP alteration

APPENDICES: WESTEROS HINGE 2 TARGET

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Glacial Transport Direction

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• Parallel folded limbs, right lateral offset along NW trending faults (consistent with Meliadine)

• Interpreted iron formation

• Limited 2017 rock sampling returning 3.6 g/t Au from float

• High gold grain counts in historical Till samples.

APPENDICES: WESTEROS SOUTH LIMB TARGET

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Glacial Transport Direction

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THE NORTH AREA QUARTZ HILL

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Known Quartz Hill Outcrops

New Quartz area - 2.5km long up to 65 metres across strike

Fold Nose

?

Qtz extension to west

85th %ile till anomaly (incudes Meliadine area)

90th%ile mod+pristine gold grains

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VIEW LOOKING WEST FROM QUARTZ HILL

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