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Safe Harbour Statement
Certain statements contained in this presentation constitute forward-looking statements. These statements relate to future events or the Corporation's future performance, business prospects or opportunities. All statements other than statements of historical fact may be forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are often, but not always, identified by the use of words such as "seek", "anticipate", "plan", "continue", "estimate", "expect, "may", "will", "project", "predict", "potential", "targeting", "intend", "could", "might", "should", "believe" and similar expressions. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements. The Corporation believes that the expectations reflected in those forward-looking statements are reasonable, but no assurance can be given that these expectations will prove to be correct and such forward-looking statements should not be unduly relied upon. These statements speak only as of the date specified. The Corporation does not intend, and does not assume any obligation, to update these forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties relating to, among other things, results of exploration activities, the Corporation's limited experience with development-stage mining operations, uninsured risks, regulatory changes, defects in title, availability of materials and equipment, timeliness of government approvals, changes in commodity and particularly diamond prices, actual performance of facilities, equipment and processes relative to specifications and expectations and unanticipated environmental impacts on operations. Additional factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include, but are not limited to, the risk factors described in the Corporation’s Annual Information Form dated March 15, 2007. The Corporation cautions that the foregoing list of factors that may affect future results is not exhaustive. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.
The potential carats, rock value and gross value set out in this presentation are estimates which are calculated based on potential tonnage, average bulk sample grades and modeled carat values from the bulk sample. These figures are conceptual in nature and should not be unduly relied upon because they are based on preliminary exploration results and could be affected by the risks and uncertainties referred to above. There has been insufficient exploration to date to confirm such estimates for the Star or Orion Kimberlites or to define a mineral resource on the Star or Orion Kimberlites and it is uncertain if further exploration will result in the discovery of an economically viable mineral resource on the Star or Orion Kimberlites.
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Company Highlights
Operator of two major diamond exploration projects• 100% Star Diamond Project
• 60% Fort a la Corne Joint Venture
Joint Venture partner: Newmont• 9.7% equity interest in SGF
• 40% interest in FALC-JV
2008 Budget: $106.8 million• Star: $7.9 million
• FALC-JV: $86.8 million
Strong Treasury• Adequate cash for all programs
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Project Evolution
Star Diamond Project• Mineral Resource, Reserve and Bankable Feasibility before end 2008
• Field work complete
FALC-JV: Orion Kimberlite Cluster• Detailed bulk sampling in 2008
• Orion South – Shaft sinking, underground bulk sampling & LDD
• Orion North (K120) - LDD
FALC-JV: Taurus Kimberlite Cluster• The New Frontier
• Enormous Kimberlite Volume and Known Macrodiamonds
• LDD in 2008
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Project Location
Road accessible 365 days/year Access to hydroelectric power Mining friendly province
Region in close proximity to existing local infrastructure
Significant contrast to difficult logistics of projects in Northern Canada
Ekati & Diavik
Snap
Gaucho Kue
Victor
RenardSTARORION
SASKATOON
CANADIAN DIAMOND MINES & ADVANCED PROJECTS
CANADIAN DIAMOND MINES & ADVANCED PROJECTS
Ekati & Diavik
Snap
Gaucho Kue
Victor
RenardSTARORION
SASKATOON
Ekati & Diavik
Snap
Gaucho Kue
Victor
RenardSTARORION
SASKATOON
CANADIAN DIAMOND MINES & ADVANCED PROJECTS
CANADIAN DIAMOND MINES & ADVANCED PROJECTS
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Target Kimberlites
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Kimberlite Eruption (Surtsey 1963-7)
Colour contour of Star EJF elevation
EJF cinder cone
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Star Diamond Project
• Resource Definition imminent • Mid 2008 Reserve Definition• End 2008 Bankable Feasibility Study• 2009/2010 Pre-Strip of open pit/mine construction• 2011 Potential Production
Advanced stage exploration under way
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Underground Bulk Sampling
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Pattern Core Drilling
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Core Logging
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Large Diameter Drilling
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Sample Processing Plant
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Rough Diamonds
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Star Geological Model
*Conceptual in nature, not Resource – Resource early 2008
Total 276 million tonnes kimberlite
Potential economic lithologies:• EJF: 163 million tonnes*
• Pense: 26 million tonnes*
• Cantuar: 23 million tonnes*
• MJF: 14 million tonnes*
• LJF: 30 million tonnes*
• KDF: 20 million tonnes* (not modeled)
EJF
Cantuar
MJF
LJF
Cantuar
Pense
100 metres
100 metres
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18 cpht
16 cpht
10.5 cpht
EJF 300 tonne Bulk Samples 41,745 tonnes
RE-EJF 30 tonne Mini Bulk Samples 1,055 tonnes
EJF 30 tonne LDD Mini Bulk Samples 3,471 tonnes
Under recovery of course diamonds due to breakage of large stones
Over recovery of small diamonds which are fragments of large broken stones
Gap due to sample support size
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Relationship between Underground Bulk and Mini Bulk (LDD & RE) Samples for EJF at Star
Star Diamond Grade
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Star Diamonds
10,829 carats from 70,641 tonnes underground bulk sample EJF 18 cpht; Cantuar 18 cpht; Pense 13 cpht; MJF 7 cpht; LJF 3 cpht Attractive diamond populations with high proportion of white and
coarse size frequency distributions Largest stones 49.50, 22.56, 19.67, 19.58, 19.30 carats
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Star Diamond Valuations
KimberliteLithology
Carats ModelPrice
($/carat)
MinimumPrice
($/carat)
HighPrice
($/carat)
Estimated Percentage Carats of Deposit
Cantuar 1,126.32 $300 $241 $383 12
Pense 1,410.73 $97 $83 $115 9
EJF 7,123.10 $160 $132 $194 77
MJF-LJF 80.09 $99 $70 $138 2
Total 9,740.24 $170 $140 $208 100
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Polished Product
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Fort a la Corne Joint Venture
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Fort a la Corne Joint Venture - Orion
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Orion South Geological Model
Total 360 to 400 million tonnes kimberlitePotential economic lithologies
• EJF 1 & 2: 196 million tonnes*
• Pense 1, 2 & 3: 124 million tonnes*
• Cantuar: 9 million tonnes*
• Viking: 17 million tonnes*
• LJF: 54 million tonnes*
*Conceptual in nature, not Resource – Resource 2009
100 metres
100 metres
Viking
CantuarPense
EJF
LJF
N
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Star RE-EJF 30 tonne Mini Bulk Samples 1,055 tonnes
Star EJF 30 tonne LDD Mini Bulk Samples 3,471 tonnes
Star EJF 300 tonne Bulk Samples 41,745 tonnes
Orion South EJF 30 tonne Mini Bulk Samples 1,604 tonnes
Orion South Pense 30 tonne Mini Bulk Samples 2,276 tonnes
18 cpht
16 cpht
10.5 cpht
10 cpht
6 cpht
Relationship between Star EJF Results and Orion South LDD Results
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Orion South LDD Diamond Grade
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Orion South Underground Bulk Sampling
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Orion South Shaft Complete
Shaft complete to 210 metres below surface
Station construction complete 4.5 metre diameter, concrete lined 7,000 tonnes kimberlite from
shaft and station Bulk sampling at 180 metres:
targeting EJF1, EJF2 & Pense Target 10,000 carats from EJF
and 5,000 carats from Pense
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Orion South Shaft Geology
LJF
EJF
Till
20.43 cpht
16.62 cpht
7.32 cpht
Initial results: 97 carats from 605 tonnes Elevated grade close to till-kimberlite
interface (16-20 cpht)
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FALC-JV Orion Diamonds
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10.53 carats
Attractive diamond populations similar to Star Coarse size frequency distributions
Orion South: 15.88,10.53, 10.23, 8.29, 6.31, 5.21 caratsOrion North: 7.53, 3.0, 2.86, 2.63 carats
LDD results suggest similar grades to Star
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Taurus Kimberlite Cluster
Zones of Prospective Coarse Grained
Kimberlite
6.3 km contiguous kimberlite
Potential for large volumes of kimberlite
Macrodiamonds: 57.6 carats, largest stone 1.11 carats
K122 sample grades: 20 cpht
Re-log of archival core indicates prospective coarse grained kimberlite
LDD scheduled for K122, K118 and K150 in 2008 – five holes on each
K122
K152
K218
K118
K150
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Buffalo Hills Acquisition
Shore Gold and Diamondex purchase Ashton’s interest in the Buffalo Hills Project for $17.5M
• Shore $8.75M
• Diamondex $6.25M (+$2.5M in shares)
Diamondex is operator
2008 Budget: $7 million (50% SGF)
2008 Program 14,000 m PQ core drilling on kimberlites: K91, BH225, K14, K252, K6 & K5
Drill Program commenced Feb 2008
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Peers – Market Capitalization
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Executive Management
Ken MacNeill (President, CEO, Director) – 26 years experience in resource development in Saskatchewan; 11 years diamond experience.
Harvey Bay (COO & CFO) – 28 years experience in financial management of resource companies; 5 years diamond experience.
George Read – (Senior VP Ex & Dev) 24 years experience in the diamond industry, including 12 years with De Beers.
Pieter du Plessis – (VP Ex) 19 years experience in the diamond industry - 15 with De Beers.
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Corporate Information
CORPORATE OFFICE 300 - 224 4th Avenue S, Saskatoon, SK S7K 5M5 Tel: (306) 664-2202 Fax: (306) 664-7181 Email: [email protected] Web: www.shoregold.com
MARKET AND FINANCIAL INFORMATION
• Shares Listed: TSX (Part of TSX Composite Index)
• Symbol: SGF
• Basic Shares O/S: 182.7million
• Fully Diluted Shares O/S: 190.8 million
• Adequate cash to complete all announced programs
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Exploring and Developing Saskatchewan’s Diamond Resources