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Confidentiality and Forward Looking Statements This presentation contains projections and forward looking information that involve various risks and uncertainties regarding future events. Such forward- looking information can include,


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  • This presentation contains projections and forward looking information that

involve various risks and uncertainties regarding future events. Such forward- looking information can include, without limitation, statements based on current expectations involving a number of risks and uncertainties and are not guarantees of future performance of the Company. These risks and uncertainties could cause actual results and the Company’s plans and objectives to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking information. Actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such

  • information. These and all subsequent written and oral forward-looking

information are based on estimates and opinions of management on the dates they are made and expressly qualified in their entirety by this notice.

  • The Company assumes no obligation to update forward-looking information

should circumstances or management’s estimates or opinions change. This presentation does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities of the Company within the United States or otherwise.

Confidentiality and Forward Looking Statements

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  • Our industry is emerging from a period of reckoning into an era of

reform where it must compete with a variety of equally enterprising investment opportunities in a more connected and engaged modern world

  • Royal Road Minerals is gold and copper focussed and has

implemented a strategy for industry reform by way of:

  • Executing a plan to meet new market expectations
  • Positively embracing and adapting to change
  • Providing unparalleled shareholder support
  • Being serious about stakeholder engagement
  • Being fast, flexible and competitive

Corporate Strategy

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Skill-Relevant Management Team

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Tim Coughlin – CEO and Director

PhD (Structural Geology), MSc Exploration and Mining Geology, BSc Geology, FAusIMM, MSEG. 25 years of experience, senior positions with major mining companies, specialist in Andean and frontier mineral exploration and mining investment in highly prospective but under-prospected environments including Colombia, the Caucasus, the Balkans, and Russia. Credited with the discovery of the award-winning Amulsar (5Moz) gold deposit in Armenia, instrumental in the discovery of the La Rescatada (2Moz) gold deposit in Peru, acknowledged in the discovery of the La Colossa (13Moz) gold deposit in Colombia. Co-founder and until 2014 the President & CEO of Lydian International (TSX: LYD)

Rebecca Hudson – CFO

Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA), Bachelor’s Degree and Masters of Accounting. 17 years of wide-ranging finance, accounting and reporting experience, has held CFO positions with several public, junior mining & exploration companies

  • perating in North and South America. Held senior financial positions with Falconbridge and Xstrata and auditing positions with

Grant Thornton LLP in Toronto and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in the Dominican Republic.

Héctor Vargas – Managing Director Colombia

MSc Geology, MSEG. Over 35 years experience with vast knowledge on geology and projects in Colombia. Colombia and Latin American Director of Greenstone Resources Ltd and Metallica Resources. Consulted to various major mining companies, Senior Geologist Anglo Gold Colombia 2002 through to 2013. Credited with a number of gold and copper gold discoveries in Colombia including El Alacran (+2Moz eqv)

Iván Devía – Operations Director Colombia

International Risk management consultant with 15 years of experience in Latin America and the Middle East. Graduate Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law of the University Nueva Granada. Military Officer and Military Science graduate. Vice-president of Oversight-Chatter (risk management software and consulting corporation); 6 years with B2 Gold Colombia (TSX:BTO) as Health, Safety and Security Manager. Operations and Security Center Manager with AngloGold-Ashanti Colombia. Security Consultant for Britam Defense and Aegis in Iraq. Security Coordinator for KBR-Halliburton Iraq. Operations Center Coordinator BP-Exploration Services Colombia

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Experienced Board

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BSc Geology. 30 years of experience in exploration and project management in South America principally in Peru, Chile and

  • Argentina. 20 years with Noranda in Canada and South America. Responsible for the reactivation of the El Pachon project in
  • Argentina. Vice President Exploration for Zincore Metals (TSX:ZNC), responsible for the recent discovery of the promising

Dolores Cu-Mo porphyry located in Peru.

Pete Mullens – Chairman Vernon Arseneault – Director

BSc Geology, FAusIMM; 30 years of extensive mining and exploration industry experience. Successfully developed 4 Canadian listed exploration companies. Credited with the drill hole discovery of Pico Machay in Peru and the acquisition of Navidad (700Moz Ag) and Calcatreu (1Moz Au-Ag) in Argentina and, Westmoreland (50Mlb’s U) in Australia. Strong experience of commercial aspects, ore reserves, financial evaluations, mine planning, JV negotiations, and financing of junior exploration companies. Co-founder Lydian International (TSX:LYD), currently the CEO of AIM listed Aurasian Minerals (AIM:AUM). Over 20 years security experience in a variety of operational and planning roles around the world. Co-founder and Chief Operations Officer for Lydian International (TSX:LYD), was responsible for project management, logistics, land and community relations and risk management. Extensive experience in post-conflict and transitional settings including Kosovo and Georgia and also in Armenia and Ethiopia accumulating significant experience in country-entry and in early stage project and corporate development.

Hugh Devlin – Director

BSc Mining Engineering and a BA Political Science. Over 20 years of experience in mining, construction, engineering, management and finance throughout North and South America. Mr. Njegovan was a Managing Director Global Investment Banking – Mining for Scotiabank. Currently serves on the Board of Directors for St. Andrew Goldfields Ltd (TSX:SAS) and is an independent mining consultant in Toronto.

Don Njegovan – Director

PhD (gold metallogenesis), MSc Mineral Exploration, BSc Geology. MIMM, MSEG, A Fellow of The Geological Society of London, Member of the Chamber of Geological Engineers in Turkey. CEO of Turkish gold exploration and development company, Ariana Resources plc (AIM: AAU) and has been responsible for identifying c.1.5Moz gold in Turkey to date.

Dr Kerim Sener – Director

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Focused on Gold and Colombia

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  • Management view Colombia as one of the

most prospective and underexplored countries in the World. Since the 1500’s Colombia has produced +200M ounces of gold and in the last 12 years in excess of 50M new reportable gold ounces have been discovered

  • According to the World Bank’s 2015 Ease
  • f Doing Business Report, Colombia tops

Latin America and is the regional leader in terms of investor protection (10th in the World)

  • In 2014 Colombia was the fastest growing

economy in Latin America, it is implementing the OECD road map and according to the UNCTAD World Investment Report has been in the top 20 best destinations for foreign investment for the last two years in a row

Sources: ICEF Monitor: Moody’s Investors Service (forecasts); National Statistics Offices: INDEC (Argentina), INEGI (Mexico), DANE (Colombia), IBGE (Brazil), INE (Chile), INEI (Peru), 2004-2013

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La Golondrina, Colombia

(RRM earning 100%)

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Highly prospective high-grade gold region

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  • La Golondrina is located

within an underexplored region

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high-grade Intrusion Related Gold deposits (IRGS)

  • Global IRGS examples

include:

  • Donlin Ck (USA) ~10Moz
  • Fort Knox (USA) ~7Moz
  • Pogo (USA) ~ 5Moz
  • Vasilkovskoe (Kaz) ~9Moz
  • Korri Kollo (Bol)~5Moz
  • Kidston (Aus)~4.4Moz
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Unexplored high-grade producing mine

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  • Underground high-grade room and pillar

gold mine development with significant exploration potential over 400m of vertical extension

  • Previous

rock-chip sampling

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vein material returned an average 13g/t gold from 51 samples. Samples of host rock have returned up to 3.8 g/t gold and 6.8 g/t gold has been returned from a vein- stockwork zone

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Styles of gold mineralization

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Discrete high-grade (to 60g/t gold) shallow-moderate dipping veins in tonalite Vein, veinlet and sulphide zones to 1m wide in tonalite Veinlet stockwork sulphide and stratabound zones in hornfels sediment

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New potential for mineralized hornfels

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  • Underground development only recently exposed the tonalite hornfels
  • contact. Tonalite hosted mineralization is as yet of unknown thickness and

grade Tonalite Hornfels

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Visible gold is common

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Three permitted CIL plants within 15km radius

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  • Two combined gravity

and CIL toll-treatment plants

  • 20tpd

toll-treatment plant built by Colombian Government for local mining cooperative

  • Mining

region with supervision and support from regional centre in Pasto

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Exploration target style and potential?

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  • Plus million ounce high-

grade Intrusion Related Gold deposit

  • Stacked shallow-dipping

high-grade veins (Pogo- style), moderate to steep-dipping hornfels zones (IP Target?), steep dipping feeder (vein and breccia?) zones

  • Current

underground development on exposed veins only. Much of the license area concealed under volcanic ash and soil

*Source: Geological Survey Canada

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Deal Structure

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  • Royal Road has executed an Option Agreement which provides the Company with a three-year
  • ption to acquire 100% of La Golondrina, provided the following conditions are met
  • Over the three year term Royal Road must drill a minimum of 1500 meters and produce a

feasibility study. Royal Road will make a USD $50k payment to the owner on initiation of the drilling program and provide cash payments to the owner of USD $20kpa whilst the option is in force

  • If the feasibility proves positive and Royal Road makes the decision to commence construction,

the Company will exercises it option and acquire 100% of the project

  • If at the time of completion the feasibility proves uneconomic, Royal Road may extend its
  • ption to commence construction for up to a further three years (until conditions improve) by

paying the owner USD $20kpa

  • If the Company develops the project to commercial production, at such time, the owner will

have the option to elect to receive one of the following two payment alternatives 1. 20% net profit royalty to be paid once payback of all capital invested to expand and construct the operation has been made; and 2. a 15% net profit royalty, to be paid once payback of all capital invested to expand and construct the operation has been made plus a 1% net smelter royalty.

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Golondrina Program

Management believe that the Golondrina project presents an

  • utstanding

exploration opportunity The project provides a strategic foothold for the Company in the highly prospective La Llanada region of southern Colombia

  • Complete underground survey of existing

workings

  • Complete saw-cut channel sampling of

veins, vein zones and wall rocks

  • Collate all geological, geochemical and

geophysical data to generate drill targets

  • Drill test Q1 2016
  • Secure agreements over nearby mining

and exploration licenses

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Exploration Joint Ventures

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Southern Colombia

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Project Generator Models

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  • Southern Colombia
  • Targeting primarily high-grade intrusion-related gold systems and other

targets

  • First systematic program in a prolific gold mineralized and gold producing

region

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Corporate Structure

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PRO FORMA SHARE STRUCTURE

Outstanding Shares 40.1M Warrants ($0.20-0.60) 13.3M Options ($0.25 & 0.50) 2.3M Cash (CAD) 1M

SIGNIFICANT SHAREHOLDERS

%

Sprott Global 24.9 Management 10.8 Rosseau Asset Mgnt 6.2 Ariana Resources 2.2 Global Iron Ore HK Limited 2.5 JM Finn Nominees 1.8 Loeb Aron & Company 1.5 Macquarie Bank Ltd 1.3

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Contact Information

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Royal R l Road M Min inerals ls Lim Limit ited Suite 30, 4 Wharf Street

  • St. Helier, Jersey

JE2 3NR Channel Islands

For further information please contact – info@royalroadminerals.com USA-Canada toll free: +1 800 638 9205 Jersey C.I office: +441534 887 166