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Sphinx Resources Ltd. July 2016 Precious Metals-Focused Project Generator

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Sphinx Resources Ltd. July 2016

Precious Metals-Focused Project Generator

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Forward-Looking Statements

This corporate presentation may contain forward-looking statements that are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and activities to vary materially from targeted results and planning. Such risks and uncertainties include those described in Sphinx’s periodic reports including the annual report or in the filings made by Sphinx from time to time with securities regulatory authorities. The technical information contained in this presentation has been reviewed and approved by Normand Champigny, (ing., B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc.), President and CEO of Sphinx, qualified person for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.

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Sphinx Resources Ltd.

Summary Project generator Strategy & focus Deals Team Ownership Projects Value drivers

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Summary

TSX-V listed (ticker SFX) corporation headquartered and focused on Quebec. Project generator business model key to maximizing long term shareholder value. Team of mine finders. Focus on precious metals. 10 deals in last 3 years with reputable partners. Recent joint venture with SOQUEM (Quebec government’s exploration agency, 50 years, 350 projects, 8 mines). Actively identifying new projects.

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Project Generator

Social acceptability

Ground access

Precious metals

potential

High grade metamorphic terranes

Deal flow with strategic partners

Project generation Long-term shareholder value

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Strategy & Focus

Maximize deal flow with strategic partners. Generate quality projects with: high-grade precious metals, good social acceptability, low cost exploration by ensuring year-round ground access.

Maintain a diverse portfolio with projects: in different high grade metamorphic terranes, and of different levels of advancement.

Concentrate first on Quebec with potential expansion into other Canadian provinces.

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Deals (2014-16)

Gardin (100% Sphinx) Green Palladium: palladium-platinum-copper. Calumet-Sud: zinc, palladium-platinum-copper

(option to SOQUEM).

Les Ressources Tectonic (100% Sphinx) Chemin Troilus: gold-copper

Virginia Mines (now Osisko Gold Royalties), Royal Nickel & Globex (100% Sphinx) Somanike: nickel-copper and platinum-group elements.

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Committed Ownership

Shares outstanding: 47.6 M Fully diluted: 62.9 M Management, Board & advisory committee: 17 % 6 Quebec institutions: 11 % 73 shareholders: 85% of shares

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Team

Normand Champigny, M.A.Sc., ing. - President , Chief Executive Officer & Director 34 years of experience in exploration and management in Canada and internationally.

John Hick, BA, LL.B. - Chairman of the Board More than 30 years of experience in the mining industry in management positions and as

independent director.

Kerry Sparkes, M.Sc. - Director 25 years of experience in the mining industry as an exploration geologist and executive. Key person involved in the exploration, delineation and development of both the

Voisey’s Bay nickel and the Rainy River gold deposits.

Michel Gauthier, Ph.D. - Director 44 years of experience. Professor of mineral prospecting at l’Université du Québec in Montréal. Co-baptized a gold prospect, named Éléonore, in the James Bay region.

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François Biron, ing. - Director +40 years of experience in project evaluations and operations management. Considerable experience with environmental issues and social acceptability

of mining projects. Ingrid Martin, CPA, CA - Chief Financial Officer & Director 24 years of experience in finance and company acquisitions including

several mining and exploration companies in Québec. Robin N. Adair, M.Sc. (géo., P. Geol.) - Advisory Committee 32 years of experience including 25 years with Noranda and Falconbridge. Participated to the discovery of the Bracemac-McLeod zinc-copper mine.

Team (cont.)

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Calumet-Sud & Green Palladium Projects - Summary

Calumet-Sud 100% owned, 50% option to SOQUEM, 2% NSR to Gardin Strong 300-metre long lead and zinc anomaly Trenches returned anomalous values incl. 3% Zn over 10 m, including 6.9% Zn over 1 m Includes SW portion of palladium mineralization complex owned by Sphinx 2016 program: Heliborne Mag-EM-spectrometer, ground gravimetric survey and prospecting

Green Palladium 100% owned, 2% NSR to Gardin Obwondiag layered igneous complex discovered New and untested PGE reef with a potential extent of 11 km. 2016 program: Heliborne Mag-EM-spectrometer, soil survey and prospecting

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Calumet-Sud & Green Palladium Projects Geology

Obwondiag Layered Igneous complex

Calumet Mine 3.8 Mt @ 5.8% Zn, 1.6% Pb,

65 g/t Ag, 0.4 g/t Au

Zinc Discovery 5.4% Zn over 2 m

Pd + Pt + Au Discovery 3.45 g/t Pd+Pt+Au / 0.40m, and 1.25 g/t Pd+Pt+Au / 1.50m.

Located in the Pontiac Regional County Municipality in southern Québec. Exploration and mining friendly region.

Excellent infrastructure.

Potential for: Magmatic PGE. Magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE. Carbonate-hosted zinc. Gold-rich VMS.

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Grenville Province Host of rich zinc deposits

Source: Gardner, T., 1983. World Mining, March issue, p. 58-59

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Calumet-Sud Project 25m-spaced soil survey + trenching

Trench results (ppm zinc)

Soil survey results (ppm zinc - green, lead - blue)

Trenches area, southwest of elongated swamp zones

which are conformable to rock unit trend

Swamp

Swamp

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Green Palladium Project Surface mineralization

Cloudy Disseminated Cpy

Mingling textures Pyroxenite in gabbro

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Palladium-copper mineralization

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Sample MB250414-01 3.2 g/t Pd, 3.2% Cu, 0.18% Ni, 84 ppb Pt, 143 ppb Au

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Green Palladium Project Drill section

17 Section 0E (Looking NE)

3.45 g/t Pd+Pt+Au over 0.4 m

1.25 g/t Pd+Pt+Au over 1.5 m

0.21 g/t Pd+Pt+Au over 1.0 m

200 Elev.

SL

100 Elev.

Au zone

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Chemin Troilus Project Summary

Acquired from Les Ressources Tectonic, 32 km2 (100% owned). Located 110 km north-northeast of Chibougamau, good road access. Within corridor containing former gold-copper Troilus mine (produced 2 million ounces of gold and 70,000 tonnes of copper) Summer 2016 program totalling $136,640 (till sampling, ground geophysical surveys to identify the bedrock source of mineralized boulders).

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Gold-bearing boulder, sample 963314 : 1.57 g/t Au

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Somanike Project Summary

Acquisition from: Virginia/Royal Nickel/Globex, 47 km2

(100% owned). Includes former Marbridge mine: 0.7 Mt @ 2.3% Ni, 0.1% Cu. 2015 drilling: 1.41% Ni, 0.05% Cu, 0.30 g/t Pd, 0.04 g/t Pt @ 0.5 m. Untested priority drill targets identified 14 km of cumulative length over 10 distinct conductors. Cooperation agreement with Abitibiwinni first nation/Pikogan.

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Somanike Project Exploration potential

2014 airborne survey identified abundant and previously unknown ultramafic rocks. Both feeder-dykes (Raglan type) and komatiite (Kambalda type). Ni-Cu potential demonstrated by the recent nickel discovery by Sphinx in 2015. Marbridge Mine: high-grade nickel with strong potential for discoveries.

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Somanike Project Former Marbridge Mine

No environmental legacy. Strong community support and understanding of mining. No agriculture over project area.

First production Marbridge Mine, 1962

Past Producer

Marbridge Mine 1

Mine 2

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Somanike Project Marbridge Long Section

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Value drivers

Calumet-Sud & Green Palladium Projects Project-scale mag-EM-spectral, geochemical soil surveys. Drilling palladium reef and zinc targets.

Chemin Troilus Project

Till sampling, ground magnetic and induced polarization geophysical surveys Identification of source of mineralized boulders Define drill targets

Somanike Project

Identifying project partner. Drilling on selected targets in and around Marbridge mine.

Continue to review project generation and acquisition opportunities.

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