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Advancing lithium properties in North and South America Corporate Presentation February 2019 www.noramventures.com 1 TSXV: NRM OTC: NRVTF Frankfurt: N7R About Noram Ventures Inc. Noram Ventures Inc. is a Vancouver based junior exploration


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Advancing lithium properties in North and South America

Corporate Presentation

February 2019

www.noramventures.com TSXV: NRM OTC: NRVTF Frankfurt: N7R

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About Noram Ventures Inc.

  • Noram Ventures Inc. is a Vancouver based junior exploration

and development company focused on lithium properties.

  • Noram’s flagship property is the Zeus lithium clay property

in Clayton Valley, Nevada.

  • The Company has established strategic relationships

in Nevada and Argentina.

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Location of Zeus Lithium Property, Clayton Valley, Nevada

225 km from Tesla Lithium Battery Gigafactory Next door to Albermarle’s Silver Peak lithium brine producer, in production for >60 years NEW INFERRED RESOURCE ESTIMATE 145 MT @ 1145 ppm Li: expanding with every drill program

OPEN FOR EXPANSION

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  • New Inferred Resource, 2019-02-20:

145 million tonnes at 1145 ppm lithium

  • Previous Inferred Resource, 2017-07-27:

17 million tonnes at 1060 ppm lithium  Increased resource 8.5x, at higher grade

  • Deposit open in three directions and at depth.

Next steps:

  • Phase IV drilling to expand resources and further increase grade;
  • Technical studies on extraction methods
  • PEA in 2019-2020.
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Lithium Market: Driven by Lithium Ion Batteries for Electric Vehicles (EV): 7 kg Li/EV

7 kg Li per vehicle

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Tesla Lithium Ion Battery (LIB) Gigafactory, 30 km east of Reno, Nevada:  500,000 LIB/year in 2020  Ten major auto producers are building LIB Gigafactories

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Projected number of Electric Vehicles built globally to 2030

Bloomberg Business News 2017

Tesla in 2020

2020 – 2030: ~10x increase in demand for LIB – EV

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  • BMO Capital Markets, 2018-06

 Rapidly expanding supply and demand, prices stable @ ~$10,000-$12,000/T after 2020

Lithium Market Forecast

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Inferred Resources, 2019-02 Cutoff Grade 300 ppm 600 ppm 900 ppm: Mineral Resource Estimate Tonnes (1000s) 330,670 251,526 145,168 Grade (ppm) 858 984 1145 Contained Li (kg) 283,796,297 247,569,218 166,238,452 Li2CO3 equivalent (= Li * 5.323, in metric tonnes) 1,510,648 1,317,811 884,887

Lithium carbonate (99.5% pure) price in 2019-01 on Chinese market = $US12,500 – $14,500/metric tonne

  • www.metalbulletin.com 2019-02-09.

NEW RESOURCE ESTIMATE, FEBRUARY 2019

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Zeus property: Next door to Albermarle’s Silver Peak operations

Phase I, II drilling area Phase III drilling area

OPEN FOR EXPANSION

145 MT @ 1145 ppm Li

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OPEN FOR EXPANSION TO SOUTH AND EAST

Open at depth

OPEN FOR EXPANSION TO WEST

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Initial leaching tests on Zeus samples: >80% Li into solution at 80oC, 2M H2SO4

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Processing options

Acid leaching: >80% with moderate temperature and moderate sulfuric acid contents* *Cypress Dev’t PEA 2018 on adjacent property to south:  successful processing flow sheet  32.7% IRR after tax and 8% discount rate Nanofiltration: Bench scale testing indicates successful extraction using ion resin beads; membrane filtration Solvent Extraction: Bench scale testing indicates successful extraction using organic solutions and membrane filtration Evaporation: Successful for brines

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Comparable Companies - 1

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Comparable Companies - 2

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Comparable Companies - 3

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Share Structure

  • Current Share Price: ~$0.15
  • Shares Outstanding: 31.7 M
  • Warrants Outstanding: 12.5 M
  • Options Outstanding: 2.29 M
  • Fully Diluted: 51.2 M
  • 10:1 Consolidation completed February 2018
  • 9.01% owned by Management
  • Alba Minerals Ltd. owns 3.8 million shares

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Management

Mark Ireton

Director: Mark is a banker by profession with over 30 years of experience in all areas of commercial mid-market lending. He is versed in both public and private transactions, reorganizations, acquisitions—both management buyouts and leveraged buyouts—and divestitures in a variety of sectors that include wholesale distribution, manufacturing, aviation, transportation, construction, excavation, post production and oil service.

Glen MacDonald

Director: Glen is a P. Geo. With the British Columbia Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists, as well as Alberta’s Professional Engineers Geologists and Geophysicists Association. He brings more than 45 years of experience exploring and evaluating mining properties for senior and junior Canadian resource companies. In addition, Mr. MacDonald spent seven years as a District Exploration Manager in the Yukon and Western North West Territories for Noranda Mines, designing and managing various exploration projects.

Arthur Brown

Director: Art brings 36 years of business experience to Noram’s board. He has served on the boards of eight other companies in sectors ranging from technology to oil & gas and mineral

  • exploration. Art understands all the aspects and requirements a public company has to operate successfully. This knowledge and experience has been translated into many successful financings for

the various companies he has been involved with.

Cyrus Driver

Independent Director: A chartered accountant, Cyrus was founding partner in the firm of Driver Anderson since its inception in 1982 and a retired partner in the firm of Davidson and Company LLP. Whilst providing general public accounting services to a wide range of clients, he specializes in servicing TSX Venture listed companies and members of the brokerage community. His wide knowledge of the securities industry and its rules have enabled him to give valuable advice to clients with respect to finance, taxation and other accounting related matters. Cyrus currently serves as director and or chief financial officer of several TSX-V listed companies.

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  • C. Tucker Barrie

President and CEO: C. Tucker Barrie, Ph.D., P. Geo. Mr. Barrie has over 25 years’ experience as a global metallic minerals Economic Geologist, with expertise in copper-zinc volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits, porphyry copper-gold deposits, and magmatic sulfide nickel-copper – platinum group element deposits. Recently he has focused on lithium deposits including detailed studies of lithium brines and clays in North and South America.

Daniel F. Hachey

Director: Dan brings a strong capital markets background to Noram, largely in the area of equity financing, both public and private. Mr. Hachey has held senior investment banking positions with a number of firms and has worked in Toronto, New York and Montreal. Mr. Hachey has also been active in the area of mergers and acquisitions and other advisory work. In addition, Mr. Hachey has held Board of Directors positions with both public (NASDAQ, AMEX, TSX and TSX-V) and private companies. Mr. Hachey Holds an MBA degree in Finance from McGill University.

Anita Angie

Chief Financial Officer: Anita over 15 years of experience in management, listings, compliance, corporate structure and development as well as mergers and acquisitions for exploration and resource based public companies. She is the former President &CEO of Unity Metals Corp. (UTY-TSXV), First Cobalt Corp. (FCC-TSXV) and American Lithium Corp. (LI-TSXV). She has served on numerous boards over her career in the public markets.

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Summary

  • Treasury: October 2018 PP closed at $1.2M, will open new financing for

$3-4 million to complete PEA study and Phase IV drilling in 2019-2020

  • Strong management team with well qualified senior geologists
  • Recent consolidation and current low market cap provide upside value

for shareholders

  • Current Inferred Resource: 145 MT @ 1145 ppm Li, potentially surface

mineable, = 0.88 MT lithium carbonate equivalent

  • Next Steps: Phase IV drilling, technical work on extraction, PEA in 2019-

2020

  • Noram has 100% ownership of Zeus Property

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Contact Information

  • C. Tucker Barrie, Ph.D., P. Geo.

barriect@gmail.com tel: 1- 613-324-9917

Art Brown, Director

Email: art.astoriusresources@gmail.com tel: 1-778-319-2261

Corporate Office

Noram Ventures Inc.

Suite 304 – 700 W. Pender Street Vancouver, BC V6C 1G8

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Daniel F. Hachey, Director

Email: dfhachey@gmail.com tel: 1-778-319-2261

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References: Barrie, C. T., Peek, B., and Whittaker, P., 2018, Lithium clay deposits of the Zeus Property, Eastern Clayton Valley, Nevada: American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., extended abstract 6 p. Lane, T., et al., 2018, Preliminary Economic Assessment Technical Report Clayton Valley Lithium Project, Esmeralda County, Nevada: for Cypress Development Corp., 152 p. Peek, B. C., and Spanjers, R. P., 2017, NI 43-101 Technical Report, Lithium inferred mineral resource estimate, Clayton Valley, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA, for Noram Ventures Ltd., 67 p.

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This presentation contains "forward-looking information "with in the meaning of Canadian securities legislation. All information contained here in that is not clearly historical in nature may constitute forward-looking information. Generally, such forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates"or"doesnotanticipate",or“ believes", or variation so such words and phrases or state that certain actions, event so results“ may", "could", "would", "might" or "will be taken", "occur" or "be achieved". Forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to: (i) volatile stock price; (ii) the general global markets and economic conditions; (iii) the possibility of write-downs and impairments; (iv) the risk associated with exploration, development and operations of mineral deposits;(v)the risk associated with establishing title to mineral properties and assets; (vi) the risks associated with entering into joint ventures; (vii) fluctuations in commodity prices; (viii) the risks associated with uninsurable risks arising during the course of exploration, development and production; (ix) competition faced by the resulting issuer in securing experienced personnel and financing; (x) access to adequate infrastructure to support mining, processing, development and exploration activities; (xi) the risks associated with changes in the mining regulatory regime governing the resulting issuer; (xii) the risks associated with the various environmental regulations the resulting issuer is subject to; (xiii) risks related to regulatory and permitting delays; (xiv) risks related to potential conflicts of interest; (xv) the reliance on key personnel; (xvi) liquidity risks; (xvii) the risk of potential dilution through the issue of common shares; (xviii) the Company does not anticipate declaring dividends in the near term; (xix) the risk of litigation; and(xx) risk management. Forward-looking information is based on assumptions management believes to be reasonable at the time such statements are made, including but not limited to, continued exploration activities, no material adverse change in metal prices, exploration and development plans proceeding in accordance with plans and such plans achieving their stated expected outcomes, receipt of required regulatory approvals, and such other assumptions and factors as set out herein. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward looking information, there may be

  • ther factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such forward-looking information will prove to be

accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward- looking information. Such forward-looking information has been provided for the purpose of assisting investors in understanding the Company's business, operations and exploration plan sand may not be appropriate for other

  • purposes. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking in formation. Forward-looking information is made as of the date of this press

release, and the Company does not undertake to update such forward-looking information excepting accordance with applicable securities laws.

Noram Ventures Inc.: Forward Looking Statement

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Components of Zeus Deposit lithium clay Lithium content Clays – Smectite – Hectorite *** Illite *** Kaolinite * Other clays ** Carbonates – calcite, dolomite x Salts, sulfates, borates etc. x* Clastic material – gravel, sand x Organic Material – algal mats x

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Zeus lithium clay deposit – characteristics Thin alluvial cover Oxidized at surface Reduced at depth playa lake environment Local organics from Local sulfate patches