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This presentation does not constitute and offer to sell, or the solicitation for the offer to buy, the securities of Gensource.

The scientific and technical information contained in this presentation has been reviewed and approved by Mike Ferguson, P.Eng., who is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Gensource and a “qualified person” under National Instrument 43-101. Caution Regarding Forward-Looking Statements: This presentation may contain forward looking information and Gensource cautions readers that forward looking information is based on certain assumptions and risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations of Gensource included in this news release. This news release includes certain "forward-looking statements”, which often, but not always, can be identified by the use of words such as "believes", "anticipates", "expects", "estimates", "may", "could", "would", "will", or "plan". These statements are based on information currently available to Gensource and Gensource provides no assurance that actual results will meet management's expectations. Forward-looking statements include estimates and statements with respect to Gensource’s future plans, objectives or goals, to the effect that Gensource or management expects a stated condition or result to occur, including completion of the purchase by Gensource from Yancoal Canada Resources Co. Ltd. of two potash exploration permits, including an off-take term sheet, as more particularly described in the Gensource news release dated April 6, 2016 on the SEDAR profile of the Company at www.SEDAR.com (“YCR transaction,”) the expected timing for release of a resource estimate and a preliminary economic assessment, as well as a feasibility study, and the establishment of vertical integration partnerships and the sourcing of end use potash purchasers. Since forward-looking statements are based on assumptions and address future events and conditions, by their very nature they involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Actual results relating to, among

  • ther things, completion of the YCR transaction, a refund of lease conversion costs in the event that the YCR transaction does not proceed, results of

exploration, the economics of processing methods, project development, reclamation and capital costs of Gensource’s mineral properties, Gensource’s financial condition and prospects, the ability to establish viable vertical integration partnerships and the sourcing of end use potash purchasers, could differ materially from those currently anticipated in such statements for many reasons such as: an inability to complete the YCR transaction on the terms as announced or at all, including the conditions for regulatory approval and financing; denial by ministerial authorities of a refund of lease conversion costs in the event that the YCR transaction does not proceed; changes in general economic conditions and conditions in the financial markets; the ability to find distributors and source off-take agreements; changes in demand and prices for potash; litigation, legislative, environmental and other judicial, regulatory, political and competitive developments; technological and operational difficulties encountered in connection with Gensource’s activities; and other matters discussed in this news release and in filings made with securities regulators. This list is not exhaustive of the factors that may affect any of Gensource’s forward-looking statements. These and other factors should be considered carefully and readers should not place undue reliance on Gensource’s forward- looking statements. Gensource does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by Gensource or on its behalf, except in accordance with applicable securities laws. For a more complete review of the factors that may affect Gensource’s forward-looking statements, please see the company’s Information Circulars and Management’s Discussion and Analyses, posted on Sedar, www.sedar.ca, or

  • n the Company's website at www.gensourcepotash.ca/?page_id=642 .

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Potash Industry – Lots of Noise!

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“Potash miners twisting in the wind....330 layoffs at Mosaic” StarPhoenix “The End of the Potash World as we know it” Joel Jackson BMO Analyst “The Fertilizer Hits the Fan....” The Globe and Mail “The Day Everything Changed in the World of Potash” Businessweek “Uralkali CEO Arrested in Belarus” BBC News “A New Reality For Potash Prices” Globe & Mail “Potash Corp Slashes Dividend” Financial Post

Cheaper Cleaner Choice

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Why Be Excited About the Potash Industry?

Gensource Potash – The Three C’s

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Cleaner:

  • Environmentally head and shoulders above existing potash operations

No salt tailings on surface - No fresh water usage - Small, scalable and repeatable

Cheaper:

  • Less than $US 765/tonne of capacity Capex cost
  • $US 40/t Opex – the lowest cost of production outside of Russia

Choice:

  • Provides a choice to consumers, from a new, independent producer
  • Direct-to-consumer (or as close as possible) sales result in significant

savings by by-passing the “middle man” distribution channel

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Vertical Integration

  • Focused on creating an integrated business model within a “highly controlled”

potash market

Selective Dissolution and Enhanced Recovery Technique

  • Proven 21st century extraction and processing technique
  • Currently used in potash, sodium carbonate and sulfur industries
  • Provides significant advantages in:

Cap Ex Op Ex Environmental Footprint

Extensive Board and Advisor Experience

  • Potash and Saskatchewan focused Board and world-class Advisory Team
  • CEO Mike Ferguson – Potash One’s Legacy project into development

– Sold to K+S Potash for $434 million

  • Team experienced various solution mining techniques

Two Projects

  • Off-Take agreement being negotiated

Gensource Potash Overview

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Mike Ferguson, P.Eng. - President & CEO

Assembled and led the world-class team that made Potash One’s Legacy Project, the only Saskatchewan greenfield potash development in 40 yrs to proceed to construction, Sold to K+S for $434 million

Rob Theoret, B.Comm., CIM - CFO

20 years capital market experience. Co-founder of NEXXT Potash and has successfully financed several local junior development companies

Dwayne Dahl - Director

25 years of experience in the potash and fertilizer industry through senior positions at Canpotex Limited, including the last 16 years as CFO / Senior Vice President and Treasurer

  • Dr. Mark Stauffer - Director
  • Dr. Stauffer has been a leader in the fertilizer industry for over 40 years, culminating his career as

President of the Potash & Phosphate Institute / Potash & Phosphate Institute of Canada. Served as a Director of TSX-traded Migao Corporation and former TSX-traded Allana Potash Corporation

Paul Martin - Director

Chairman of Martin Charlton Communications, Saskatchewan's largest public relations firm specializing in communications strategy and support, media relations, government relations, event planning and strategic advice

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Gensource – Management & Board

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Gensource – Technical Team

These individuals, together with Mike Ferguson, comprised the core Potash One Legacy Project Team – they are responsible for the success of the Project

Max Ramey, PE - Solution Mining

Solution mining lead for the Potash One - Legacy Project (as well as the Rio Tinto - Potasio Rio Colorado Project in Argentina). Solution mining lead for the design, pilot testing, commissioning, and operation of the American Soda nahcolite solution mining project in Colorado, USA. With 31 years of solution mining experience and a track record in operations, design, and commissioning of solution mining facilities, Max is a world-class expert in high demand throughout the solution mining industry.

John McEwan, PE - Processing

Developed the process design for the Legacy project, as well as the Potasio Rio Colorado Project in Argentina based on his over 40 years in the mining/ mineral processing industry. With solution processing expertise in many minerals under varied chemical conditions, John leads the effort to move processing techniques into the 21st century, providing an exceptionally efficient processing solution for Gensource’s selective dissolution projects.

Sandy Debusschere - Drilling

Sandy is a well-known and sought-after drilling design and execution consultant in the province, with extensive experience in oil & gas and potash exploration and operational drilling. Sandy is responsible for the drilling design for Potash One’s Legacy Project as well as for several other solution mining projects in Saskatchewan and worldwide. Sandy’s expertise extends to horizontal drilling and solution mining-specific aspects of drilling and casing operations.

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Business Plan

Be Vertically Integrated

  • Gensource is focused on Vertical Integration
  • Pre-sell production prior to project development begins

Be Small – Be Scalable

  • Effectively match customer demand to production
  • Difficult to vertically integrate if developing a $4B project as the market unable to absorb

Be Smart – Create Value

  • Selective Mining and Enhance Processing provides project feasibility, even in

today’s market environment

  • Project size economic even down to project size of 250,000 t/a
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Vertical Integration – Why?

Vertical integration: arrangement whereby the supply chain of a company is

  • wned by that company
  • Vertical integration has not been possible in potash before due to

the extraordinarily high barriers to entry

  • Gensource believes it has eliminated these barriers
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Vertical Integration – Why?

Price of Potash is rising compared to the price of the crop it fertilizes - index of Crop price divided by potash price indicating a continuous decrease in the index

Source: World Bank data statistics, IMF International Fin. Stats.

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How do you “be small” in an industry that lives on BIG numbers?

  • Utilizing technologies developed 100 years ago (for conventional mines) and 60

years ago (for solution mines)

  • Existing mines are antiquated
  • Replicating old technology mines is a losing proposition.
  • Utilize existing and up-to-date selective mining techniques and novel

processing methods.

Selective Mining and Enhanced Recovery Technologies

  • Deploy a senior team of industry leading experts in cavern design, potash

processing and project management

Be Small & Scalable: How?

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The Solution: Selective Dissolution

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*Technology brought to Gensource through Innovare Technologies Ltd., and entity owned by Gensource’s Advisory Board

Selective Dissolution and Enhanced Recovery*

  • Brackish formation water is used as the input - not precious fresh surface water
  • Made into extraction brine by saturating it in NaCl (salt)
  • When saturated with NaCl, only KCl (potash) is dissolved
  • Horizontal drilling techniques enable the creation of horizontal Selective

Dissolution caverns

  • Saturated brine is pumped through the horizontal cavern and then through a

crystallization process on surface that removes the KCl from the brine

  • Resulting in solid crystals of potassium nutrient (KCl)
  • Solid KCl is dried and screened to a specific size for sale as the final product
  • Remaining brine (still saturated with NaCl but not KCl) is returned to the horizontal

caverns, where it dissolves additional KCl and the cycle is repeated

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Selective Mining: Simple Mining Schematic

Conceptual Horizontal Well Pattern Conceptual Horizontal Cavern for Selective Dissolution

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Conventional Conventional Solution Mining Selective Dissolution

  • Min. viable production

rate 2.5+ Mt/a 2.0 Mt/a 250 kt/a Capex per tonne ($US) $1,990 * $1,620 * $761 ** Operating costs ($US) $80 /t * $118/t * 40.3/t** Development Time 7-10 years 6-8 years 3 years ** Tailings 2 tonnes salt tailings per tonne of potash produced 2 tonnes salt tailings per tonne of potash produced None Brine containment structures on surface Large (many Ha) salt tailings and brine pond containment structures req’d Large salt tailings and brine pond containment structures req’d as well as cooling ponds None

* Potash Mining Supply Chain Requirement Guide, Ministry of Economy, Government of Saskatchewan, September 14, 2012 ** Gensource PEA June 2016

Be Small: Conventional vs. Solution

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Big Problem with Existing Technology

Conventional Potash Mine In Saskatchewan

Source: Google Earth, Esterhazy Saskatchewan

Large Environmental Footprint

Massive salt tailings stored on surface for indefinite period Large fresh water consumption – Water pipelines Energy consumption very large

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Gensource’s Vanguard Project

Rail Spur Product Storage Site water run-off pond Cooling Tower Process Plant Access Road

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Projects – Two Independent Projects

Lazlo Project - Saskatchewan Vanguard Project - Saskatchewan

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Projects: Vanguard

  • Comprises two potash mining leases

(KP 483 and 363), which are in final stages of acquisition from Yancoal Canada Resources Ltd.

  • NI 43-101 report completed by GSP
  • Completed Preliminary Economic

Assessment (PEA)

  • Full Off-Take agreement with

Yancoal Canada completed

  • Next Steps: Drilling and

Prefeasibility Study

KP 363 & KP 483 Locality Map

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Vanguard: Preliminary Economic Assessment

Project capacity: 250,000 t/a final product,

standard grade.

Mine life:

100 years +, based on 64 Mt

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resource (Resource Estimate 04/28/16).

Mining method: Selective Dissolution using

horizontal caverns

Processing:

Cooling crystallization incorporating innovative energy efficiency measures

CAPEX: C$247M including

contingency – (~US$190M at today’s nominal exchange rate of 1.30)

OPEX: C$52.39 /t final product

(~US$40.30/t at today’s nominal exchange rate

  • f1.30).

Project NPV’s and IRR’s are compelling…

Indicator Pre Sask. Profit Tax Post Sask. Profit Tax NPV8 $322,594,953 $212,671,723 IRR 19.55% 16.86%

…. with terrific metrics in high and low pricing environments.

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Vanguard: Preliminary Economic Assessment

Project Economics are Some of the Best in the World

Bottom Line....Gensource’s cash production costs are the lowest in North America and on par with Russia.

Source: Gensource Potash PEA June 2016

Gensource

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Projects: Lazlo

  • The Lazlo Project is Gensource’s 123,000 acre

area representing an ideal candidate to implement a selective dissolution operation

  • Lazlo Area is located in the “Davidson Sub-

Basin” region of the Prairie Evaporite underlying central Saskatchewan, with combined thicknesses of about 30m of high-grade, mineable ore.

  • Three historic drill holes exist, which indicate

excellent grades, thicknesses, and temperature

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…Take away message:

the resource in the Lazlo area is rich and widespread

Lazlo: NI 43-101

  • Updated NI 43-101 report completed in December 2014
  • Defines an “exploration target” complete with ranges of expected resource

grades and tonnages

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Overview Schedule to Production

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Financing & Use of Funds

 Feasibility Phase: Complete Vanguard Feasibility

  • Offering: $4M total - $2.5M Hard and $1.5M Flow-through
  • Pricing:

$0.09/non flow-through $0.11/flow-through

  • Timing:

Summer 2016 – Q1 2017.

  • Drilling, seismic and engineering
  • Environmental and regulatory approvals

 Capex Phase: Construction Financing

  • $C ~ 250M total estimated Capex
  • 18 – 20 month procurement/construction timeline.

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TSX-V: GSP Shares Outstanding: 239.2M Warrants & Options: Options ($0.06 - $0.10 exp 07/17 to 06/21) 12.6M Warrants $0.05 Sept/16 14M $0.10 Feb/17 5.3M $0.12 Dec/17 3.6M $0.12 May/18 13.8M $0.15 Sept/18 16.8M Fully Diluted 305.3M Directors and Management ~ 20.0%

Share Structure

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Subscriber Rights

The below rights are in addition to and do not derogate from any other right that the purchaser may have at law. Further, the below serves as a summary of the purchaser’s rights as an investor in the event of a misrepresentation. The purchaser should refer to the provisions of the securities legislation of the purchaser’s province or territory for the particulars

  • f investor’s rights, limitations of those rights and certain parties’ defences to such rights and should consult with a legal advisor.

Statutory Rights of Action for Purchasers Resident in Alberta This presentation could be designated as an offering memorandum under Alberta laws. In the event that this presentation is an offering memorandum, you will have certain rights provided to you by the Securities Act (Alberta) (the “Alberta Act”) in the event of a misrepresentation. Where an offering memorandum contains a misrepresentation, the Alberta Act provides that a purchaser who purchases a security offered by the offering memorandum has, without regard to whether the purchaser relied on the misrepresentation, the following rights of action: 1.for damages against: (i) the issuer; (ii) every director of the issuer at the date of the offering memorandum; (iii) every person or company who signed the offering memorandum; and 2.for rescission against the issuer. If a misrepresentation is contained in a record incorporated by reference in, or deemed incorporated into, an offering memorandum, the misrepresentation is deemed to be contained in the offering memorandum. Such rights of rescission and damages are subject to certain limitations and defences available to the issuer or other parties sued as more particularly set forth in the Alberta Act. Time Limitations – If a purchaser intends to rely on the rights described above, the purchaser must do so within strict time limitations. The purchaser must commence the action for rescission within 180 days after the date of the transaction that gave rise to the cause of action. The purchaser must commence the action for damages within the earlier of: (i) 180 days after the date that the purchaser first had knowledge of the facts giving rise to the cause of action; or (ii) or three years after the date

  • f the transaction that gave rise to the cause of action. The amount recoverable under the Securities Act (Alberta) may not exceed the price at which the securities were offered

under the offering memorandum. Statutory Rights of Action for Purchasers Resident in Saskatchewan This presentation could constitute an offering memorandum under Saskatchewan laws. In the event that this presentation is an offering memorandum, you will have certain rights provided to you by The Securities Act (Saskatchewan) (the “Saskatchewan Act”) in the event of a misrepresentation. Where an offering memorandum, together with any amendment to it (in this part, collectively being referred to as an “offering memorandum”), sent or delivered to a purchaser contains a misrepresentation, a purchaser who purchases a security covered by the offering memorandum has, without regard to whether the purchaser relied on the misrepresentation, has the following rights

  • f action:

1.rescission against the issuer or a selling security holder on whose behalf the distribution is made; or 2.damages against: (i) the issuer or a selling security holder on whose behalf the distribution is made; (ii) every promoter and director of the issuer or the selling security holder, as the case may be, at the time the offering memorandum or any amendment to it was sent or delivered; (iii) every person or company whose consent has been filed respecting the

  • ffering, but only with respect to reports, opinions or statements that have been made by them; (iv) every person who or company that, in addition to the persons or companies

mentioned in (i) to (iii) above, signed the offering memorandum or the amendment to the offering memorandum; and (v) every person who or company that sells securities on behalf of the issuer or selling security holder under the offering memorandum or amendment to the offering memorandum. In addition, if there is a misrepresentation (as defined in the Saskatchewan Act) in any "advertising" or "sales literature" (as those terms are defined in the Saskatchewan Act) distributed in connection with a private placement offering and the purchaser is a resident of Saskatchewan, the purchaser has a statutory right to sue: 1.the issuer or a selling security holder of whose behalf the distribution is made; 2.every promoter or director of the issuer or selling security holder, as the case may be, at the time the advertising or sales literature was disseminated; and 3.every person who or company that, at the time the advertising or sales literature was disseminated, sells securities on behalf of the issuer or selling security holder in the offering with respect to which the advertising or sales literature was disseminated.

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Subscriber Rights Continued

Furthermore, if there is a misrepresentation in any verbal statement made to a purchaser relating to the securities purchased and the verbal statement was made either before or contemporaneously with the purchase of the securities, the purchaser has a statutory right to sue the individual who made the verbal statement. Such rights of rescission and damages are subject to certain limitations and defences available to the issuer or other parties sued as more particularly set forth in the Saskatchewan Act. Time Limitations – If a purchaser intends to rely on the rights described above, the purchaser must do so within strict time limitations. The purchaser must commence the action for rescission within 180 days after the date of the transaction that gave rise to the cause of action. The purchaser must commence the action for damages within the earlier of: (i) one year after the purchaser first had knowledge of the facts giving rise to the cause of action; or (ii) or six years after the date of the transaction that gave rise to the cause of action. A purchaser that receives an amended

  • ffering memorandum also has the right to withdraw from the agreement to purchase the securities by delivering a notice to the person who or company that is selling the securities,

indicating the purchaser's intention not to be bound by the purchase agreement. A purchaser must deliver the notice of withdrawal within two business days after receiving the amended offering memorandum. Statutory Rights of Action for Purchasers Resident in Manitoba This presentation could constitute an offering memorandum under Manitoba laws. In the event that this presentation is an offering memorandum, you will have certain rights provided to you by The Securities Act (Manitoba) (the “Manitoba Act”) in the event of a misrepresentation. When an offering memorandum contains a misrepresentation, a purchaser who purchases a security offered by the offering memorandum is deemed to have relied on the representation if it was a misrepresentation at the time of purchase and the purchase has: 1.a right of action for damages against: (i) the issuer; (ii) every director of the issuer at the date of the offering memorandum; and (iii) every person or company who signed the offering memorandum; and 2.a right of rescission against the issuer. If the purchaser chooses to exercise a right of rescission against the issuer, the purchaser has no right of action for damages against a person or company referred to above. Such rights of rescission and damages are subject to certain limitations and defences available to the issuer and other parties sued as more particularly described in the Manitoba Act. The Securities Act (Manitoba) also provides defences in addition to those summarized here. The amount recoverable cannot exceed the price at which the securities were offered under the

  • ffering memorandum. Additionally, in an action for damages, any defendant is not liable for all or any part of the damages that the defendant proves do not represent the depreciation

in value of the security as a result of the misrepresentation. Time Limitations – If a purchaser intends to rely on the rights described above, the purchaser must do so within strict time

  • limitations. The purchaser must commence the action for rescission within 180 days after the date of the transaction that gave rise to the cause of action. The purchaser must

commence the action for damages within the earlier of: (i) 180 days after the purchaser first had knowledge of the facts giving rise to the cause of action; or (ii) or two years after the date of the transaction that gave rise to the cause of action. Statutory Rights of Action for Purchasers Resident in Ontario This presentation could constitute an offering memorandum under Ontario laws. In the event that this presentation is an offering memorandum, you will have certain rights provided to you by the Securities Act (Ontario) (the “Ontario Act”) in the event of a misrepresentation. Where an offering memorandum contains a misrepresentation, a purchaser who purchases a security offered by the offering memorandum has, whether or not the purchaser relied on the misrepresentation, the following rights: 1.right of action for damages against the issuer and a selling security holder on whose behalf the distribution is made; or 2.if the purchaser purchased the security from a person or company referred to above, the purchaser may elect to exercise a right of rescission against the person or company. If the purchaser exercises this right of recession, the purchaser ceases to have a right of action for damages against the person or company. Such rights of rescission and damages are subject to certain limitations and defences available to the issuer or other parties sued as more particularly set forth in the Ontario Act. Time Limitations – If a purchaser intends to rely on the rights described above, the purchaser must do so within strict time limitations. The purchaser must commence the action for rescission within 180 days after the date of the transaction that gave rise to the cause of action. The purchaser must commence the action for damages within the earlier of: (i) 180 days after the purchaser first had knowledge of the facts giving rise to the cause of action; or (ii) or three years after the date of the transaction that gave rise to the cause of action.

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Rob Theoret, B.Comm., CIM CFO rob@gensource.ca 306-974-6406 Gensource Potash Corp. Suite 1100, 201 1st Ave. South Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7K 1J5

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