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An Exploration Story June 2011 Cautionary Statement This presentation contains forward looking information, within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation, and forward looking statements, within the meaning of applicable United


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An Exploration Story

June 2011

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Cautionary Statement

This presentation contains forward looking information, within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation, and forward looking statements, within the meaning of applicable United States securities legislation, which reflects management‟s expectations regarding Teranga Gold Corporation‟s (“Teranga” or the “Company”) future growth, results of operations (including, without limitation, future production and capital expenditures), performance (both operational and financial) and business prospects (including the timing and development of new deposits and the success of exploration activities) and opportunities. Wherever possible, words such as “plans”, “expects”, “does not expect”, “budget”, “scheduled”, “estimates”, “forecasts”, “anticipate” or “does not anticipate”, “believe”, “intend” and similar expressions or statements that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “might” or “will” be taken, occur or be achieved, have been used to identify such forward looking information. Although the forward looking information contained in this presentation reflect management‟s current beliefs based upon information currently available to management and based upon what management believes to be reasonable assumptions, Teranga cannot be certain that actual results will be consistent with such forward looking information. A number of factors could cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from the results expressed or implied in the forward looking information, including those listed in the “Risk Factors” section of the prospectus of Teranga, dated November 11, 2010 (the “Prospectus”). These factors should be considered carefully and prospective investors should not place undue reliance on the forward looking information. Forward looking information necessarily involves significant known and unknown risks, assumptions and uncertainties that may cause Teranga‟s actual results, performance, prospects and opportunities in future periods to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward looking information. Although Teranga has attempted to identify important risks and factors that could cause actual actions, events or results to differ materially from those described in the forward looking information, there may be other factors and risks that cause actions, events or results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that the forward looking information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, prospective investors should not place undue reliance on such forward looking information. The forward looking information is stated as of the date of the Prospectus and, except as required under applicable laws, Teranga assumes no obligation to update or revise such information to reflect new events or circumstances. Forward looking information and other information contained herein concerning mineral exploration and management‟s general expectations concerning the mineral exploration industry are based on estimates prepared by management using data from publicly available industry sources as well as from market research and industry analysis and on assumptions based on data and knowledge of this industry which management believes to be reasonable. However, this data is inherently imprecise, although generally indicative of relative market positions, market shares and performance characteristics. While management is not aware of any misstatements regarding any industry data presented herein, mineral exploration involves risks and uncertainties and industry data is subject to change based on various factors. In addition, please note that statements relating to “reserves” or “resources” are deemed to be forward looking information as they involve the implied assessment, based on certain estimates and assumptions, that the resources and reserves described can be profitably mined in the future.

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Capitalization Summary

(1) As part of the demerger Mineral Deposits Ltd. retained 40 million TGZ shares and received C$50 million from the IPO proceeds. (2) As at March 31,2011 (3) Includes short-term investments and restricted cash (4) US$23.6 MM drawn under the mining fleet finance lease facility with Societe Generale.

Ticker symbol: TGZ: TSX/ASX Shares outstanding (1): 245.6 million Stock options outstanding: 14.4 million Share price (as at May 20, 2011): C$2.45 Market capitalization: C$602million Cash position(2): US$93.8 million(3) Debt position (2)(4): US$21.5 million Net cash position (2): US$72.3 million

40 MM 20%

Sabodala Gold (Mauritius) Limited 18.7 MM shares of Oromin (13.8%) 90% Interest in Sabodala Gold Project

(10% free-carried interest held by

  • Govt. of Senegal)
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Growth Strategy

Mine Site Exploration Strategic Mill Regional Exploration Regional Opportunities Mill Expansion

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Sabodala Gold (Senegal)

  • Sabodala is the first large scale gold

mine in Senegal

  • Senegal

– Mining Code passed in November 2003 – Successful democracy – Stable political environment – Estimated population of 13.7 million – Mining friendly regime – Government holds 10% free-carried interest in Sabodala and 3% royalty – Tax-free holiday that ends May 2015

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Sabodala Gold Operations

  • First gold pour in March 2009

– Approx. cost of $330M

  • Planned mill expansion from 2 MM tpa

to ~4 MM tpa

– Est. 140,000 oz Au production 2011 expanding to >200,000 oz Au – Expected to be completed early 2012 at a cost

  • f US$56 MM
  • Well developed infrastructure

– Located 650 km east of the capital Dakar and 96 km north of the town Kedougou – 30 MW heavy fuel oil power plant located on site (36 MW with mill expansion) – Auxiliary water source

(1) Teranga is on a June 30th fiscal year-end

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Sabodala Gold Production

(1) Gold produced is gold poured and does not include gold-in-circuit at period end.

Production Statistics Calendar Year 2011

  • Est. production 140,000 oz at $750 - $775/oz
  • CapEx $59.5M

Calendar Year 2012

  • Est. production 220,000 oz at $575-$625/oz
  • CapEx ~ $25M

Ore mined („000t) 491 1,457 Waste mined („000t) 6,460 10,618 Total mined („000t) 6,951 12,075 Strip ratio w aste/ore 13.2 7.3 Ore processed („000t) 608 1,195 Head grade (g/t) 1.93 2.01 Gold recovered (oz) 34,296 70,170 Gold produced (1) (oz) 36,402 70,050 Gold sold (oz) 39,490 72,946 Average price received $/oz 1,199 1,180 Total cash cost (incl. royalties) $/oz 655 713 Mining (cost/t mined) 1.7 2.1 Milling (cost/t milled) 15.3 15.6 G&A (cost/t milled) 4.7 4.9 6 months ended March 31, 2011 3 months ended March 31, 2011

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Highlights

During the first full quarter, the Company: Increased reserves and provided reserve guidance Increase production and lowered cash cost guidance for 2011 and 2012 Redesigned pit Committed to take Gora from exploration into development Ramped up exploration program

 Expect consistent news flow  Expect more discoveries on the Regional Land Package

Focused on adding reserves

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West Africa: Prolific, Under Explored Gold Belt

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Kedougou-Kenieba Inlier – A Birimian Greenstone Belt

300 600 900 1,200 1,500 1,800 2,100 Proven and Probable Measured and Indicated Inferred Reserve/Resource (000's oz)

2,254 (@1.33 g/t) 774 (@1.06 g/t) 1,51 (@1.47 g/t)

(2)(3)

Gold Reserves and Resources(1)

(1) See Appendix page 27 (2) M+I resources are inclusive of reserves (3) As at June 30, 2010, see Sabodala Technical Report

(3)

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Exploration Program

Exploration Program (Calendar 2011)

  • 1. Mine License Exploration:

$8 MM

(~60,000m) (YTD 15,000m)*

  • 2. Regional Exploration:

$17 MM

(~80-90,000) ( YTD 14,400m)*

TOTAL: US$25 MM

(140-150,000m) * Majority of assays are pending

SSC

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  • 1. Mine License Exploration
  • 2. Regional Exploration

GORA

35 KM radius

Budget: $8 M Budget: $17M

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Sabodala Mine License Exploration

  • US$8 MM exploration program is underway on the Sabodala Mine License(1)
  • 10 targets identified for follow up
  • Potential to expand proven and probable reserves from 1.51 Moz gold to 2 to 3 Moz gold over the next

12 to 24 months increasing the mine life to ~ 10 to 15 years

Masato Extension:

  • Continuation of Masato deposit

“The Corridor”:

  • Continuation of the main Sabodala

structural trend to the north Niakafiri, Niakafiri West & Soukhoto:

  • Down-dip extension of Niakafiri,

strike extension of Niakafiri West and Soukhoto Sambaya Hill:

  • Confluence of Niakafiri Shear Zone

with Main Flat from Sabodala and Masato Shear

(1) to be completed by June 30, 2011

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SABODALA STRUCTURAL TREND (“The Corridor”)(1)

  • Northerly trending extension of Sabodala pit
  • Mineralization traced more than 100m north of the existing

pit along trend

  • Open to north and west
  • Drilling intersected wide widths of alteration similar to

Sabodala and Niakafiri

  • Drilling 20m centres
  • Plan is to conduct 10,800 meters of RC and Diamond

drilling to test target at depth and along strike

  • Expect resources defined to be converted to reserves in

2011

Sabodala Mine License – „The Corridor‟

(1) Please note that the target “Sabodala Structural Corridor”, was previously identified as 3 separate targets in the September 27, 2010 Sabodala Technical Report but now has been consolidated to 1 target which therefore brings the total Mining Lease targets to 10.

Ayoub’s Thrust Mylonite Shear Zone Sabodala Pit

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Sabodala Mine License – Masato Target

MASATO EXTENSION

  • Masato structural trend (1.6 M ounces on Oromin JV)

strikes across onto SGO license

  • Trend defined by an IP and geochemical anomaly
  • Plan to conduct 5,000 meters of RC and Diamond drilling

to define structural trend and test structure at depth

  • Initially being tested over a 500 metre strike length, 20 drill

holes totaling 6,150 metres of drilling

  • First drill hole SMRC055
  • 11m of 1.08gpt from 234m down hole
  • 20m of 3.53gpt from 267m down hole
  • Will be extended with core as part of

program

  • Multiple mineralized zones have been identified with high

grade intervals apparent from aqua regia assays conducted

  • n site
  • Expect to define new resources in calendar 2011

Sabodala Pit Masato Extensions

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SUTUBA

  • Southern extension of the Sabodala Deposit
  • Consists of a parallel set of NW trending, outcropping high

grade shear zones

  • Numerous significant intercepts drilled
  • Potential for higher-grade mill feed in the short term

Sabodala Mine License – Sutuba Target

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  • 1. Mine License Exploration
  • 2. Regional Exploration

GORA

35 KM radius

Budget: $8 M Budget: $17M

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Regional Exploration

  • From 2007 – 2009, no significant drilling was

done on the 1,455 km2 Regional Land Package due to cash constraints

  • There are 27 drill targets identified to drill by

end of year; drilling program (US$17M) currently underway

  • 14,400m of DD and RC and 34,600m of RAB

drilling completed March 31, 2011

  • 10 drill rigs are currently on the Regional Land

Package

  • All targets in trucking distance of the existing

mill

GORA

“The Donut” Gora Tourokhoto

35 KM radius

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Gora – High-Grade Quartz Vein

  • Most advanced target: moving from exploration to development
  • Inferred Resource of 106,000ozs @ 6 g/t Au
  • 22 km from Sabodala mill
  • Increased exploration budget for 2011
  • 800m strike length auriferous quartz vein, outcropping
  • Deposit open in all directions
  • 3 active drill rigs (2 DD, 1 RC/DD)
  • 2011 drill program:
  • Significant increase in mineralized envelopes relative to 2010

RC drill program

  • Now understood to be a stacked vein system (vs. single-vein)
  • Excellent potential for bulk style mineralization
  • Vein 1 extended (currently 8.8 g/t Au)
  • Vein 2 now more continuous (3.0 g/t Au)
  • Vein 3 now important mineralized body
  • Vein 5 discovered just below Vein 1
  • Further drilling required: 6,000m RC; 5,500m DD
  • Current program designed to a vertical depth of 120m and

along strike

  • Expect to be completed by June 2011
  • Expect to bring resource to reserve by end of calendar 2011

with the goal of processing high-grade ore as soon as late 2012

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Diegoun North – “THE DONUT”

HONEY JAM CINNAMON

  • 7km x 4 Km complex of gold anomalism
  • Contrasting rock types, porphyries, granites, dolerite & sediments
  • Rock samples to 80 g/t Au
  • RAB drilling has defined gold mineralization in bedrock
  • 5000m of RC allocated, early RC planned over RAB anomalies

HONEY JAM

  • 19,000m RAB drill program commenced at Cinnamon – 11,000m

completed

  • 10,000m first pass RC drilling with 17 RC holes (2,300m)
  • Several intervals of anomalous gold identified: widths up to 40m

Sabodala Ore Body

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Tourokhoto

  • >5Km long, up to 1Km wide gold anomaly defined by termite sampling
  • Parallels NE trending shears of the MTZ
  • 3 Moz Massawa deposit hosted on MTZ about 25Km south
  • >240 ppb Au contours coincide with areas where MTZ shears are

intersected by later NE fault structures

  • Rock sampling returned up to 10 g/t Au from sparse outcrop
  • Wide zones of sheared sediments and quartz-feldspar porphyries
  • bserved
  • Quartz tourmaline Veining observed
  • Commenced 23,000m RAB drill program over 5km gold geochemical

anomaly

  • 13,000m of RAB drilling completed to date
  • Program will define bedrock gold bearing zones
  • Program will provide targets for follow up DD and RC drilling
  • Commenced 1,600m, 5-hole DD program
  • Identified significant gold-bearing structure and alteration
  • Follow-up continues
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Dembala Hill

  • 2Km mineralized trend located on eastern boundary of MTZ
  • Hosted in felsic-porphyry and dolerite
  • Mineralization up to 74m wide in trenches
  • Grades of up to 6 g/t Au encountered
  • Mineralization related to micro-veinlets of sulphides in intrusive
  • 24 hole, 2,700m RC program completed
  • Drill program identified a gold bearing structure requiring

follow-up drilling

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Diadiako / Bransan and Sabodala NW

Diadiako – Commenced a 7,000m first phase RC drill program

  • Completed 18 holes, 2,600m
  • Identified a 1km, shallow dipping gold bearing

structure

  • Sabodala type quartz-albite-carbonate alteration

– Two phase program Bransan and Sabodala North West – Completed 23,000m RAB drilling program over several prospects – Assays pending

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Goundamekho - Extensive Surface Gold Workings on Structures

Gold from Trenches 75g nugget from artisan workings

  • 35 RC holes for 4,200m completed
  • Multiple gold bearing structures warrant follow-up drilling
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Exploration Team / On Site Assay Lab

Geochem Sampling Team at Makana Mapping at Makana RC Drilling at Bransan Niang, Database and GIS Management Structural Mapping Field Work Sounkounkou On site assay lab Mapping Trenches at Dembala Berola Part of team at Exploration Office

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Kedougou-Kenieba Inlier – A Birimian Greenstone Belt

An emerging world class gold district.

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Summary

World-class asset in its early stages

  • 1. Experienced Management Team
  • 2. Senegal West Africa – 1,488km2 land position
  • Largest land position in Senegal
  • 3. Operating mine and mill
  • 4. Planned mill expansion
  • from 2Mtpa to ~4Mtpa
  • increasing gold production (Est. 2011: 140,000 oz; Est. 2012: 220,000 oz)
  • 5. Aggressive exploration program
  • US$25M to be spent in calendar 2011
  • ~15 drill rigs
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An Exploration Story

June 2011

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Aendices

Competent Persons Statement The technical information contained in this presentation relating to exploration activities within the mining license is based on information compiled by Mr. Bruce Van Brunt, who is a member of The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and is also a registered professional geologist in the State of Washington, USA. He is qualified as a Competent Person as defined in the 2004 Edition of the “Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves” (the “Australasian Code”) and as defined in the Canadian Securities Administrators National Instrument 43-101 (“NI 43- 101”). Mr. Van Brunt has consented to the inclusion of this information in the form and context in which it appears in this

  • presentation. Mr. Van Brunt is a full-time employee of Teranga.

The technical information contained in this presentation relating to the regional exploration is based on information compiled by Mr. Martin Pawlitschek, who is qualified as a Competent Person as defined in the Australasian Code and as defined in NI 43-101. Mr. Pawlitschek has consented to the inclusion of this information in the form and context in which it appears in this

  • presentation. Pawlitschek is a full-time employee of Teranga.
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Sabodala Gold Project: Reserves & Resources

(1) See the Sabodala Technical Report ; #‟s as at June 30, 2010

Ore Grade Contained Gold

(000 tonnes) (g/t Au) (000 oz Au)

Proven & Probable Sabodala 24,350 1.57 1,231 Niakafiri 7,623 1.15 281 Total 31,973 1.47 1,512 Measured & Indicated Sabodala 41,892 1.39 1,869 Niakafiri 10,741 1.12 386 Total 52,633 1.33 2,254(1) Inferred Resources Sabodala 7,310 1.22 287 Niakifiri 7,248 0.88 205 Niakifiri West 7,144 0.82 188 Soukhoto 566 1.32 24 Gora 387 5.60 70 Total 22,655 1.06 774(1)

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Non-Deferred Hedge Schedule

Delivery Date Price US$/oz Ounces 18-May-2011 846.00 10,000 17-Aug-2011 846.00 18,500 17-Nov-2011 846.00 18,500 17-Feb-2012 846.00 28,000 17-May-2012 846.00 28,000 15-Aug-2012 846.00 27,500 21-Nov-2012 832.92 25,000 20-Feb-2013 832.92 25,000 17-May-2013 790.66 25,000 21-Aug-2013 791.50 16,000 Total 833.00 221,500

Note: See page 40 of the Prospectus

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Management & Board

Alan R. Hill Executive Chairman & CEO

  • Mining engineer with over 20 years experience globally in project evaluations, acquisitions and mine

development as Executive VP of Barrick Gold

  • Currently a Director of Gold Fields
  • Former President and CEO of Gabriel Resources (2005 – 2009) and non-Executive Chairman of

Alamos Gold (2004 – 2007) Richard S. Young President & CFO

  • Over 10 years experience in mining finance, development, corporate development, and investor

relations with Barrick Gold

  • Former VP and CFO of Gabriel Resources (2005 – 2010)

Christopher R. Lattanzi Director

  • Mining engineer with over 20 years experience in property valuation, scoping, feasibility studies and

project monitoring on a global basis

  • Currently a Director of Argonaut Gold and Spanish Mountain Gold
  • Founding member and former president of Micon International (1988 – 2005)

Oliver Lennox-King Director

  • Over 30 years experience in the mineral resource industry with a wide range of experience in financing,

research and marketing

  • Non-Executive Chairman of Fronteer Gold and director of CGX Energy
  • Instrumental in the formation of Southern Cross Resources (1997), former President of Tiomin

Resources (1992 – 1997)

  • MDL Director not standing for re-election

Alan R. Thomas Director

  • Director/Trustee and CFO of Labrador Iron Ore Royalty
  • Former Director of Gabriel Resources (2006 – 2010), CFO of ShawCor (2000 – 2006), and CFO of

Noranda (1987 – 1998) Frank Wheatley Director

  • Over 25 years experience as a director and senior officer of, and legal counsel to, a number of Canadian

public mining companies and has extensive legal and business experience in the mineral industry, particularly in the areas of public financing, project debt financing, permitting of large scale mining projects, and strategic mergers and acquisitions in the international minerals industry

  • Currently the Executive Director, Corporate Affairs and Strategy of Talison Lithium Limited
  • Currently a director of Lithic Resources Ltd. and Portal Resources Ltd.
  • Former Vice-President and General Counsel of Gabriel Resources Ltd. (2000 - 2009)
  • Former Vice President, Legal Affairs of Eldorado Gold Corporation