Plato Gold Corp. is exploring the Good Hope Niobium Property in Ontario, Canada for its niobium potential. High-grade niobium mineralization up to 1.63% Nb2O5 has been found on surface. Drilling aims to trace carbonatite vein systems to their source, believed to be high-grade pyrochlore-apatite cumulate rocks. If found, further drilling could outline an initial niobium resource. Niobium has increasing demand for steel production and new applications in batteries and quantum computing. The project has potential to make a new primary niobium discovery in Canada.
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3. Laura Giroux, MSc, PGeo is acting as Qualified Person as defined under NI
43-101 for the Good Hope Property and has reviewed and approved the
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Geoscientist in the Province of Ontario with more than 10 years of experience working
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4. Executive Summary
Plato Gold Corp. (public company since 2005) optioned the award-
winning ‘Good Hope Niobium Discovery property’ in May 2017 from
prospector Rudy Wahl. Wahl received an Honorary Doctorate from
Lakehead University in June, 2017 for the Good Hope discovery.
Plato Gold Corp. is an
exciting vehicle in
which to participate
in this "not well
known" metal
Niobium is mined in
only 3 places on
earth; a semi
monopoly
Nb
Long term price
trend is up
Exciting new uses for
the metal in quantum
computing and
electric vehicles, as
well as long term
increase in demand
5. Highlights
Good Hope Niobium Property won the Bernie Schnieders Discovery of the
Year 2014 award in 2014. The property has high-grade niobium (up to 1.63 wt.%
Nb2O5) and phosphorous (<20.6wt.%P2O5) mineralization on surface.
low contents of
deleterious elements
such as Th or U in ore
mineral
phosphate potentially
a by-product
mineralogical work
indicates the potential
of very high-grade
(>>2 wt.% Nb2O5)
rock units in vicinity of
Discovery pit
existing
infrastructure
power and
transportation
networks
6. Niobium Uses
Nb as alloy in steel:
increases strength,
toughness, corrosion
resistance, reduces
weight of alloy
products.
Steel (structural)
31%
Steel (automotive)
28%
Steel (pipeline)
27%
Superalloys
8%
Chemical applications
6%
Bridges
High rise buildings
Train rails
Container ships
Aerospace
Electricity
Superconductors
86%
High Strength Low
Alloy (HSLA)
Steel
Total consumption: 12,500 tonnes
Figure 124: Global end uses of niobium.
Figures for 2014 (Data from EC, 2014)
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20
40
60
80
100
120
140
0 100,000 200,000 300,000 400,000 500,000 600,000 700,000 800,000 900,000
HSLA Industry is experiencing an increase in niobium intensity (Nb g/t) and in steel production
Sources: CITIC Metal co., Ltd and Asian Metal Ltd, Sept. 2017
80 - 130 g/t Nb
China slowly increasing the
amount of Nb in their steel
Steel Output
Potential Rise in Demand
?
?
22 g/t Nb
China
India
Europe & CIS
Americas
South Korea
Japan
gFeNb/tSteel
CRUDE STEEL OUTPUT
CRUDE STEEL PRODUCTION VS. NIOBIUM INTENSITY OF USE, 2016
9. New Applications of Niobium
Super-conduction Niobium arrays are
revolutionizing computers, communication
technology and sensors. It is considered
the next industrial super-cycle.
QUANTUM COMPUTING
Next gen of lithium ion electric vehicle
batteries from Toshiba are made of a
Titanium-Niobium-Oxide anode, which
can go 200 mi on a 6-min charge.
SUPER CHARGE ION BATTERY
10. 30%
of ferro-niobium production
capacity controlled by Asian
investors, at least.
90%
of global ferro-niobium
production in Brazil
U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Congress agreed in the 2014
National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that the National Defense
Stockpile should purchase and store FeNb. Critical and Strategic
Material: supply diversification required!
Global Niobium Supply
11. Economic Nb
deposits
Lateritic horizon (Araxá):
10-100x enriched in Nb
1.5 – 2.5 wt.% Nb2O5
Marginally
economic
Nb deposits
primary carbonatite
complex (Niobec) 0.41
– 0.67 wt.% Nb2O5
Good Hope Nb Property may be the source region of Nb
mineralization in carbonatite veins
The primary Nb mineral in the Nb deposits is pyrochlore: (Na,Ca)2(Nb,Ta,Ti)2O6(OH,F)
ijolite
alkali feldspar rock
Tropical weathering
Hard rock
carbonatite
Niobium Deposits
Good Hope
NB Project
Potential for discovery of:
• source region of Nb
mineralization in
carbonatite veins
• cumulate rocks strongly
enriched in Nb?
12. Good Hope Niobium Property
Plato Gold Corp. claims surround Prairie Lake Carbonatite Complex
site #28
site #21
Location: 45 km northwest of Marathon,
Ontario. 190 km northeast of Thunder
Bay (regional transportation hub)
Access: Highway #17 and Deadhorse
Creek Road. Canadian Pacific Railway
along Highway #17
13. • grab sampling
• test pitting
• outcrop stripping
• trenching
• geophysical survey
• limited diamond drilling
System of carbonatite veins in brecciated alkali feldspar rock. Localized very high
grades of Nb (up to 1.63% Nb2O5). Many low grade (<0.6% Nb2O5) samples due to
spotty mineralization and dilution (especially drill core and trench sample assays)
Year Location Sample Type Nb2O5
2014 Site #28 grab 1.63%
2014 Site #28 grab 1.43%
2015 Site #28 grab 1.60%
2015 Site #28 trench TR-01 1.21%
2015 Site #28 trench TR-01 1.05%
2017 Site #28 grab 1.06%
2014 Site #21A grab 0.91%
Selected Niobium assays:
Carbonatite vein
Alkali feldspar rock
Drill core PL-01
Site
#28
Prospecting & Exploration
14. • Very high grades related to apatite patches distributed throughout carbonatite veins.
• Apatite contains very high concentrations of pyrochlore (contains the niobium).
• Apatite patches interpreted as disintegrated cumulates à transported by vein carbonatite.
• Pyrochlore – apatite cumulates formed within a magma chamber of unknown shape and dimension
• cumulates are rocks consisting mostly of apatite with pyrochlore: very high grades of Nb possible.
UV light photograph of drill core
apatite: blue
calcite: pink
UV light photograph of drill core
apatite
dolomite
Mineralogical Interpretation
15. Carbonatite veins in alkali feldspar rock with disintegrated pyrochlore-apatite cumulates
Re-mobilized apatite cumulates (white patches)
in carbonatite (tan and brown masses);
red circles = high-grade material
blue circles = low-grade material
Pyrochlore (yellow) in apatite (blue)
and carbonate (red)
Schematic sketch of geological situation at Site #28
0.5 m
Good Hope Niobium Property - Summary
16. Disintegrated pyrochlore – apatite cumulates in carbonatite veins. The original source
of veins and cumulates in unidentified carbonatite occurrence. Soft ‘ carbonatite rock
weathers easier than ‘hard’ silicate rock to form morphological depression
swamp in depression
Site #28: carbonatite veins
300 – 500 m?
N S
EXPLORATION MODEL
17. Diamond Drilling:
Establishing exact orientation of vein system at Site #28 (2-3*200-300 m)
Tracing carbonatite vein system in 100 m steps to its source (6*100-300 m)
Source region suspected broadly to the north, below swamps (natural
depression due to soft carbonatite rocks?)
Drilling of source region to probe for presence of cumulate rocks (2-4*100-500 m)
If positive, drilling to establish maiden resource (4-6*100 – 500 m)
Strategy
At Site #28, the focus will be on finding the source of the carbonatite veins to
locate pyrochlore – apatite cumulates. At Site # 21A, the focus will be on advance
exploration work by stripping, trenching, and sampling.
SITE
28
SITE
21A
High-grade samples (>1% Nb2O5)
suggestive of similar style of
mineralization and presence of
carbonatite vein system
18. Slide 6 (Niobium Uses): European Union Commission Study on the review
of the list of Critical Raw Metals Materials, June 2017.
Slide 7 (Niobium Price Chart): data from
https://www.metalary.com/niobium-price/
Slide 8 (Niobium Uses: Potential Rise in Demand): graph from NioBay
Metals Web presentation (February 2017).
Slide 8 (Niobium Uses: Potential Rise in Demand): additional information
from CITIC Metal co., Ltd and Asian Metal Ltd, Sept. 2017.
Slide 9 (Niobium Uses – New Applications):
http://www.motortrend.com/news/toshiba-announces-new-ultra-fast-
charging-battery (October 25th 2017)
Slide 9 (Niobium Uses – New Applications): Inside Canada's race to produce
the world's first commercial quantum computer; Globe and Mail, Rob
Magazine (September 27th 2017).
Slide 10 (Global Niobium Supply):
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/cobalt-tantalum-niobium-tungsten-
molybdenum-what-lies-ahead-for-minor-metals-2017-03-03-6203129
Slide 10 (Global Niobium Supply):
https://investorintel.com/sectors/technology-metals/technology-metals-
intel/niobium-grip-brazilians/
Slide 10 (Global Niobium Supply): DoD reference from NioCorp Superalloy
Materials website.
Slide 11 (Niobium Deposits): figure strongly modified from Stoppa et al.,
(2016): State of the art Italian carbonatites and their potential for critical-
metal deposits, Fig-9.
Slide 11 (Niobium Deposits): additional information on Nb deposits from
Mitchell, R. (2015) “Primary and secondary niobium mineral deposits
associated with carbonatites”, Ore Geology Reviews, Vol. 64, Pages 626 –
641.
Slide 12 (Good Hope Niobium Property): all maps Plato Gold Corp..
Slide 13 (Good Hope Niobium Property): drill core photographs from Plato
Gold Corp.; GoogleMaps exploration map from Rudy Wahl (prospector;
http://users.renegadeisp.com/~rwahl/Prairie%20Lake%20Rare%20Earth%20
Property.htm)
Slide 14 (Good Hope Niobium Property): UV light photographs of drill core
from Rudy Wahl (prospector;
http://users.renegadeisp.com/~rwahl/Prairie%20Lake%20Rare%20Earth%20
Property.htm)
Slide 14 (Good Hope Niobium Property - Mineralogical Interpretation):
based on preliminary research by Prof. Roger Mitchell (Lakehead University,
Thunderbay) and B.Sc. thesis of Amy Cleaver (April 2017).
Slide 15 (Good Hope Niobium Property – Summary): Simplified Geological
sketch and outcrop boulder image by Plato Gold Corp., false colour SEM-
BSE image by Rudy Wahl and Prof. Mitchell.
Slide 16 (Geological Model): Plato Gold Corp.
References
19. Basic outstanding shares 164,707,455
Held by insider 28%
Convertible debentures outstanding at $0.05 per share $300,000
Outstanding shares after conversion 170,707,455
Options outstanding convertible at $0.10 per share 4,845,000
Shares outstanding on a fully diluted basis 175,552 ,455
Appendix: Capital Structure
Plato Gold Capital Structure
20. Trench TR-01
Sample Nb2O5 (%)
channel 1.205 over 1.1 meters
channel 0.77 over 1 meter
channel 0.727 over 1 meter
channel 0.575 over 1.2 meters
channel 0.562 over 1 meter
channel 0.468 over 1.2 meter
channel 0.408 over 1.15 meters
Pits across 80 meters on Site #28
pit #1 1.63 20.6% P2O5
pit #2 0.802 5.58% P2O5
pit #3 0.701 9.11% P2O5
pit #4 0.59
pit #5 0.48
pit #6 0.12
grab sample 0.99 2.2 % P2O5
grab sample 0.659 10.94% P2O5
High grades of Nb correlate with phosphorous
(pyrochlore – apatite cumulates). Cumulates
disintegrated and irregularly distributed throughout
carbonatite à ‘hit or miss ‘ during channel sampling.
TR-01
Site #28
pits
See Slide 10 for pit location details
Appendix: Historic Results
21. from Mitchell, R. (2015) “Primary and secondary niobium mineral deposits associated with carbonatites”, Ore Geology Reviews, Vol. 64, Pages 626 – 641.
in production
Appendix: Overview Niobium Deposits
in production
22. 19
claims
Appendix: Plato Gold Corp. Claims
263
claim units
May 2017
Option agreement signed
2020
Exploration Permit valid until 2020
Killala Lake &
Cairngorm Lake areas
4208
hectares
23. The Prairie Lake Complex
corresponds to a residual
magnetic high anomaly
(ijolite).
The magnetic high overlaps
onto Good Hope Property in
the SW part of the Property –
potential ijolite.
Site #28 corresponds to
magnetic low – potential
carbonatites
Site #21A magnetic high
corresponds to ijolite
Appendix: Residual Magnetic Intensity
28 21A
21A
24. An apparent
resistivity low
surrounds the Prairie
Lake Complex on
Good Hope Niobium
property indicating
potential to host
carbonatites.
Appendix: Apparent Resistivity at 877 Hz