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Investor Presentation
March 2012
Successful Exploration &
Discovery Company Underpinned
by Future Gold Production
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Disclaimer
Overview
AIM-quoted Exploration and Development company focussed on gold and base
metals in East Africa and West Africa, underpinned by a strong exploration portfolio
and two mine development projects in Turkey
Discovered to date: 2.26 Moz Au
7 Moz Ag
186 kt Cu
Major JV and equity partners include: AngloGold Ashanti, Antofagasta, Centamin,
Centerra, Teck, Thani Ashanti
JV investment to date of $13.7 M (with a further min of US$16.2 M [+/- US$20 M]
subject to earn-in)
Positive cash flow possible by mid/late-2013
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Risk Management Strategy
Clear focus on discovering and exploiting mineral wealth
Multiple plays increase odds of success
Continuous monitoring and reviewing of investment strategies
JV partners ensure risk is shared and/or eliminated
Value created with minimal cash exposure
Growing reputation enables negotiation of increasingly better partnerships and potential
rewards
Production agreements with local companies realise value from smaller projects
Cash-flow
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Asset Total Stratex
spend (£)
Total partner
spend (£)
Total Au (oz) Stratex retained
Au (oz)
Stratex cost per
retained oz (£)
Öksüt 509,424 2,063,273 1,047,872 523,936 (50%)
314,361 (30%)
0.97
1.62
Muratdere 631,628 - 204,300* 204,300 (100%)
61,290 (30%)
3.09
10.31
Altıntepe 850,854 333,333 593,100** 593,100 (100%)
266,895 (45%)
1.43
3.19
TOTAL 1st earn-in 1,321,336 1.50
2nd earn-in 642,546 3.10
Creating Value
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** Resource at Altıntepe includes 3.18 Moz Ag (not included)
** Resource at Muratdere includes 186 kt Cu, 3.9 Moz Ag and 6,390 t Mo (not included)
Cost-effective discovery
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Our Interests
* Portfolio in important West African
region recently acquired via Silvrex Ltd
+ 49.5% passive
holding in new
industrial minerals
company
Rift
Resources
+ Eight exploration
projects
+ Six exploration and
two development
projects
+ Two exploration
projects*
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East Africa Operations
- Afar Project,
incl Megenta
Blackrock
Shehagne
Under-explored with major gold and
base metal potential
Mining-friendly regime in Ethiopia –
Corporate tax 30%; royalties 5-8%; tax
free importation; transparent code
exploration thro’ to mining;
government 5% free-carried interest
Growing mining interest – BHP Billiton,
Centamin, Nyota Minerals, Allana
Potash, MidRoc, Tigray Resources,
Ethiopian Potash Corp
Stratex first-mover advantage in
discovering new gold province in Afar
Depression of Ethiopia
30
km
250 m
?
Potential blind extensions under wadi gravels
100%-owned licence - 299 sq km over four extensive areas of low -sulphidation mineralisation
>30 km veining identified including five substantial vein systems outcropping at Black Water Zone –
Stanley, Nesbitt, Oasis, Theodore and Baker
5,000 m drill programme currently underway
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Blackrock
Black Water Zone – aerial photograph
E BAKER
THEODORE
OASIS
NESBITT
STANLEY
60.4 g/t Au
34.6 g/t Au
?
38.3 g/t Au
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2,552 m of 5,000 m programme drilled to date over 14
holes. Best results include:
Veins thicken significantly to the north, e.g. 5.35 m
vein in BW-DD-8 at 99.75 m depth – awaiting results
‘Blind’ quartz vein zone identified at 84 m under
gravels in BW-DD-16 – over 2,000 m of blind veins
interpreted for Black Water alone
Future drilling to test high grade outcrops on other
structures, including Baker, Oasis and Stanley
Hole Length (m) Au (g/t)
BW-DD-001 0.70 0.48
BW-DD-002 2.41 0.29
BW-DD-003 4.65 0.51
including 1.45 0.67
BW-DD-009 0.95 0.81
Black Water drilling to date
Baker
18.7 g/t Au
Oasis
Nesbitt
Stanley
60.1 g/t Au
7.8 & 5.0 g/t Au
6.1m @ 1.0 g/t Au
38.3 g/t Au
34.8 g/t Au
1.2m @ 5.7 g/t Au
BW-DD-16
250 m
First 11 licences acquired in Afar district, incl.
Megenta
Thani Ashanti earning-in to initial 51% through
US$3 M exploration funding over 2 years
3,000 m drill programme has confirmed Megenta
as part of new 3 km gold system –
MG-DD-12 – 3.25 m @ 4.49 g/t Au incl. 0.70
m @ 19.5 g/t
MG–DD-10 - 43.20m @ 0.67 g/t Au incl. 2.9
m @ 3.56 g/t Au
MG-DD- 09 - 44.30 m @ 0.54 g/t Au incl. 2.1
m @ 1.67 g/t Au
Follow-up drilling programme anticipated in 2012
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Afar Project
Banded quartz vein in drill core
Cerro Vanguardia
>6.0 M oz Au
Cerro Negro*
3.1 M oz Au
Expanded to 5.1 M oz Au
Manatial Espejo
1.2 M oz Au equiv.
Mina Martha
22 M oz Ag equiv.
San Jose
1.99 M oz Au equiv.
Las Calandrias
Cerro Moro
2.4 M oz Au equiv.
(131,000 m drilled+)
Cap Oeste
Geological Setting:
Rifting – same as Afar
Bimodal rhyolites & basalts - Afar
Rhyolite domes – defined in Afar
** Goldcorp acquired Cerro Negro for C$3.6 Billion = c.$1,000/oz **
Source: Mariana Resources
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Deseado Massif Comparison
Distance Megenta to Blackrock
Ethiopia & Djibouti
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Additional East African Assets
ARABIAN-NUBIAN
SHIELD
Prospective for gold
and base metal
deposits
0 250 km
After Corti, 2009
AFAR
DEPRESSION
Potential for
bonanza gold
grades
Further drill-advanced project in Arabian Nubian Shield - Shehagne
Five further early-stage exploration projects
0 250 km
West Africa
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200 km
West Africa Licences
Dalafin licence covers 636 sq km in prospective Birimian Kédougou-Kenieba gold belt
Four early-stage exploration licences over 1,985 sq km in Mauritania
Nine million-plus oz deposits discovered to date in Kédougou-Kenieba gold belt
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6 early and mid-stage exploration
prospects – drilling programmes
anticipated at 4 projects in 2012
2 resource development projects with
first gold pour anticipated 2013
New copper exploration initiative with
Antofagasta Minerals
Turkish Operations
Hasançelebi
Ӧksüt
Altunhisar
Muratdere
Inlice
Altıntepe
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+1Moz Gold Discovery– Öksüt, Turkey
High-sulphidation gold discovery in central
Turkey, currently being funded by a Canadian
major JV partner Centerra B.V:
50% vested interest for US$3 M
Opted to earn additional 20% for a further
US$3 M
Stratex interest of 50% free carried for
next US$3 M expenditure over next 2
years
Total resource 1,047,872 oz gold, incl.
probable heap-leachable resource of 0.56 Moz
oxide gold + 0.40 Moz sulphide gold
Scope for further resource upgrade with drilling
programme planned by Centerra in Q2 2012
* rock-chip sampling result prior to drilling (Cross-section of Ortaçam North Zone in Appendix)
289,729 oz Au
758,144 oz Au
Development Assets:
Inlice Project:
Stratex 45% interest, JV with NTF 55%, $2 M to take to feasibility
study (completed)
JORC Reserve: 59.6 Koz Au: Resource 69 Koz Au (oxide) plus
164 Koz Au (sulphide)
Production targeted 2013 – provisionally 15,000-20,000 oz per
annum
Altintepe Project:
Stratex 100%, with Bahar Mining completing feasibility for 55%
and carrying all pre–production costs
In-house JORC Resource: 491 Koz Au (oxide + transition), 101 Koz
Au (sulphide), 2.37 Moz Ag (oxide), 813 Koz Ag (sulphide)
Production provisionally targeted for 2013 – 30,000 oz per annum -
subject to feasibility
Turkish Development Assets
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NTF – HEP dam
construction
Muratdere porphyry copper-gold-molybdenum project, 250 km west of Ankara –
186,000 t Cu + 204,296 oz Au + 3.9 Moz Ag + 6,390 t Mo + 17.6 t Re identified
Turkish investor DD for $1.7 M for 51%; + $0.5M & complete feasibility for 70%
Due-diligence to be completed April 2012
Hasançelebi gold project, 500 km SE of Ankara –
Teck funding exploration to US$2 M for 51% interest
Review of 2011 exploration data on-going
Altunhisar gold project, 260 km SE of Ankara –
Centerra funding exploration to US$1.5 M for 51% interest
Drilling anticipated 2012
Antofagasta strategic alliance to explore for copper deposits –
Antofagasta funding initial US$1 million for 16 month target-generation and exploration
programme
Target prioritisation and possible licence acquisitions in 2012
Additional Turkish Assets
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Turkey
Öksüt - on-going drilling to increase resource base, funded by Centerra (US$3 M to earn 70%)
Altıntepe – accelerated development (partner on site and funding to production)
Inlice – complete EIS, financing, development, production mid-2013 (45% Stratex)
Muratdere - post-due-diligence, partner to pay US$1.7 M (51 %) & complete feasibility (70 %)
Ethiopia
On-going drilling to identify bonanza zones at Blackrock
Thani Ashanti funding second-phase exploration & drill programme at Megenta to test system at depth
(US$3 M to earn 51%)
Identification and acquisition of new mineralised systems in Afar
West Africa
Focused exploration for discovery in Senegal & Mauritania
Valuation Drivers 2012
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Focused exploration and development business
Experienced management team
Clear strategy to minimise risk and extract maximum potential
rewards
Multiple plays
Major JV partners
Local production agreements
First-mover advantage in Afar (Ethiopia/Djibouti)
Tangible success
Two gold-development projects in Turkey
Significant +1M oz Öksüt gold discovery in Turkey
New gold district discovery in Afar – incl. Blackrock
Acquisition of West African portfolio
Conclusion
Share Data AIM-Listed (STI)
19th March 2012
Shares in issue 363.15 M
Fully diluted shares 384.19 M
Share price 8.38 p
52 High 10.63 p
52 Low 6.63 p
Market cap. £29.39 M
Cash Position £1.70 M
(as at end Feb)
Key Shareholders
ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI 11.51 %
TECK RESOURCES LIMITED 9.84 %
FOREST NOMINEES 7.12 %
GRAHAM N J 6.22 %
RICHMOND CAPITAL LLP 5.00 %
DIRECTORS 6.07 %
ANTOFAGASTA 2.85 %
THANI ASHANTI 2.20 %
Nomad – Grant Thornton
Broker – Northland Capital
Co-broker – Fox-Davies Capital
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Corporate Data
Appendices
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Christopher Hall has over 39 years of wide ranging experience in the mining sector. He is currently the in-house mining
adviser to Grant Thornton LLP, principally assisting the Capital Markets team with clients listed on London Stock Exchange
and the AIM market. Christopher joined Stratex in February 2008 as Non-Executive Director.
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Christopher Hall
Non- Executive
Chairman
Thirty-seven years of experience as a professional economic geologist in exploration, mining, and applied academic posts
and has particular expertise in the genesis and exploration of gold deposits, having worked in Europe, Central Asia, North
and South America and throughout Africa.
Bob Foster
Chief Executive Officer
David has 30 years of experience in the exploration sector and has worked on and assessed exploration projects and
mines in over 50 countries including Turkey, where he worked for four and half years. He also worked as Consultant
Geologist for Minorco South America, where he subsequently became Exploration Manager for AngloGold in 1999.
David J. Hall
Executive Director
(East Africa)
A Turkish national with a career spanning 30 years dedicated to mineral exploration and mining geology throughout Turkey.
Bahri commenced his career in1980 with the government's General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration. More
recently he was Exploration Manager Turkey for Dardanel Madencilik, the Turkish subsidiary of major Canadian mining
company Inco Ltd before joining Stratex in 2005.
Bahri Yildiz
General Manager, Turkey
A professional economic geologist for over 50 years, Franco has worked in over 100 countries for governments,
international organizations, multinationals and as a consultant, mainly in mineral exploration, country potential assessment,
negotiations and also on natural risks and themes of international cooperation.
Franco Maranzana
General Manager,
Djibouti
Perry qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1971, training with Spain Brothers & Co. and KPMG. During his 40-year
professional career he has worked in senior management with British Oxygen Ltd, Rank Xerox Ltd, and Intermec
International Inc. before becoming an independent consultant in 2000.
Perry Ashwood
Chief Financial Officer
Management
With over 40 years of experience, John has been involved in infrastructure and mining development projects, at various
levels up to Project Director, as well as restructuring projects in Africa, Europe, the Former Soviet Union, the Middle East,
and the Indian sub-continent. Since the 1990’s he has also been Director of a number of consultancy companies and is
currently an advisor to UNCTAD.
John Cole-Baker
Executive Director
(West Africa)
2006:
IPO £1.87 M @ 5 p; (Teck founder)
Inlice discovered
£1.175 M @ 7.5 p; institutional placing
2007:
£7 M @ 9 p; institutional placing
Altintepe acquisition
2008:
Öksüt gold discovery
2009:
Centerra JV on Öksüt
Expansion into Ethiopia & first epithermal gold discovery in Afar rift valley
2010:
£1.3 M @ 3.5 p; institutional placing
JV with gold-major Thani Ashanti on ‘Afar Project’
2011:
Blackrock discovery - camp established and drilling starts
AngloGold in for £3 M @ 7.72 p at company-level – at premium
2012:
Öksüt resource exceeds 1 Moz
Key Events
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Blackrock
MAJOR DISCOVERY
Outcropping
Deeper in system than Megenta
Critical boiling zone textures
5,000 metres drill programme
currently underway
Theodore structure Oasis structure Nesbitt structure
1 2 3 4 5
Individual veins over 50 m.
Silica-replaced bladed calcite
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Low-sulphidation systems - hitting the shoots
SHOOT IS 105,000 t GRADING 27.2 g/t Au and 2,614 g/t Ag - =267,000 oz Au Eq. 151 holes for 37,562 metres
NB: BONANZA-GRADE
SHOOTS EASILY
MISSED
>900 m with no
significant values
<2 G/M <2 G/M
Extorre’s Cerro Moro Project - Zoe Discovery: projected long section
Source: http://www.extorre.com/projects/cerro_moro.php
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Shehagne - Centamin JV
SEA vested at 60% following £350,000 expenditure
Channel chip sampling has identified large, low grade gold
target – potentially bulk-mineable
84 metres grading 1.04 g/t Au including 28 m grading 1.86 g/t Au
104 metres grading 0.77 g/t Au including 11 m grading 4.39 g/t Au
Trench
Pre-drilling projection:
Öksüt, Turkey– Statistics
27 * rock-chip sampling result prior to drilling
Öksüt – Ortaçam North
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Best intersection to date: ODD-55: 268.00 m @ 2.34 g/t Au
Open to North, East and at depth
NTF – HEP dam
construction
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Near-Term Production in Turkey
Inlice Project Altıntepe Project
JORC reserve 59,600 oz Au @ 2.36 g/t N/A
JORC resource 69,324 oz Au @ 2.29 g/t in oxide;
164,000 oz Au @ 1.78 g/t in
sulphide
491,426 oz Au (oxide + transition);
101,695 oz Au (sulphide);
2.37 M oz Ag (oxide);
812,819 oz Ag (sulphide)
Stripping ratio 0.76t waste to 1t ore N/A
Cash operating
costs
US$ 412 N/A
NPV (10) US$ 6.3 M (@ US$1,100 oz Au);
US$ 14.6 M (@ US$1,400 oz Au);
N/A
After-tax IRR 37% @ US$1,100 oz Au;
48% @ US$1,200/oz Au
N/A
Targeted
production
2013 2013
Stratex interest 45% 100% (45%)
JV partner,
funding
NTF - US$ 2M feasibility study
(completed)
EIS approval awaited
Bahar Mining completing feasibility
for 55% and carrying all pre-
production costs
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Stratex 49.5% passive holding in new industrial minerals company
Stratex licence in highly prospective potash area sold to
Rift Resources plc, as non-core business
£250k raised to explore the licence and add to portfolio
Rift Resources
Christopher Hall
Non-Executive Chairman
Bob Foster
CEO
Perry Ashwood
CFO and Company Secretary
David Hall
Executive Director (East Africa)
John Cole-Baker
Executive Director (West Africa)
Claire Bay
Corporate Geologist
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