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1 A Z E R B A I J A N G O L D, C O P P E R A N D S I L V E R P R O D U C E R A C A S H G E N E R A T I V E M I N I N G B U S I N E S S P R O A C T I V E I N V E S T O R S E V E N I N G F E B R U A R Y

2 D I S C L A I M E R The information in this document is subject to updating, revision and amendment. This document neither constitutes nor forms nor should be constructed as constituting or forming part of any offer or invitation to sell or any solicitation of any offer to purchase or to subscribe for any securities in Anglo Asian Mining PLC ( Anglo Asian Mining ) or any other body corporate or an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity under section 21 of the UK Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 nor shall it or any part of it form the basis of or be relied on in connection with any contract therefore. This document does not constitute an invitation to effect any transaction with Anglo Asian Mining nor to make use of any services provided by Anglo Asian Mining. No reliance may be placed for any purpose whatsoever on the information contained in this document nor on assumptions made as to its completeness. No representation or warranty, express or implied, is given by Anglo Asian Mining, any of its subsidiaries or any of its respective advisers, officers, employees or agents, as to the accuracy, fairness or completeness of the information or opinions contained in this document or expressed in the presentation and, no liability is accepted for any such information or opinions (which should not be relied upon) or for any loss howsoever arising, directly or indirectly, from any use of this document or its contents or information expressed in the presentation. The information and opinions contained in this document and the presentation are provided as the date of this document and the presentation and are subject to change without notice. This presentation contains forward-looking statements that are based on Anglo Asian Mining's current expectations and estimates. Such forwardlooking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from estimated or anticipated events or results implied or expressed in such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause such difference include changes in world commodities and equity markets, political developments in Azerbaijan, changes to regulations affecting Anglo Asian Mining's activities and other risks involved in the mining industry. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made and Anglo Asian Mining disclaims any intent or obligation to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or results or otherwise. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and, accordingly, undue reliance should not be put on such statements due to the inherent uncertainty therein. This presentation has been prepared in compliance with English law and English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes arising from or connected with this presentation. 2

3 C O M P A N Y O V E R V I E W Market Ticker AIM AAZ Established gold, copper and silver producer in Azerbaijan AIM traded since 2005 Excellent infrastructure - good road access and connected to electricity power grid Main property is the Gedabek lease: Gedabek and Ugur open-pit mines Gadir underground mine Group s processing facilities Share Price 40.0p Shares in Issue 113,761,024 Market Cap 45.6m Nominated Adviser SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP Broker SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP Significant shareholders Experienced board and strong management Excellent relations with the Government of Azerbaijan Production sharing agreement based on local oil industry Strong community relations and corporate and social responsibilities programmes Recent share price

4 C O N T R A C T ( L E A S E ) A R E A S Production Discovery Exploration Gosha Gadir** Gedabek Ordubad * Occupied contract areas to develop when political climate permits ** Underground mine co-located on the main Gedabek lease Soutely* Gyzilbulakh* Vejnali* 4

5 E X P E R I E N C E D A N D P R O V E N B O A R D A N D M A N A G E M E N T Khosrow Zamani * Non-executive chairman Former director Southern Europe and Central Asia of the International Finance Corporation ( IFC ) Oversaw the IFC portfolio of more than US$2 billion, diversified across the financial, oil and gas, mining Reza Vaziri* President and CEO Head of the foreign relations office at the ministry of the Imperial Court of Iran before moving to the US Initial founder of the US Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce and has been appointed chairman for life Richard Round* Non-executive director Over 25 years of finance and industry experience Held a number of executive finance director roles in various public and private natural resource groups Professor John Monhemius* Non-executive director Over 40 years experience in hydrometallurgy and environmental control in mining and metallurgical processes. Acted as a consultant to large mining and chemical companies Governor John Sununu* Non-executive director Chief of staff to President George H.W. Bush Former partner in Trinity International Partners and currently President of JHS Associates, Ltd Bill Morgan Chief financial officer UK chartered accountant over 30 years Regional CFO Kinross - Russia Region, CFO Hambledon Mining plc and Bakyrchik Gold plc Farhang Hedjazi Vice president, technical services Worked in the field since 1985 and constructed process plants including zinc smelters, CIL plants, gold heap leach facilities and managed underground mines M SC. In non-ferrous extractive metallurgy Stephen Westhead Director of geology and mining A Chartered Geologist with over 25 years of experience having worked in India, CIS, Eastern Europe and Russia Project management expertise from exploration, construction and production PhD in structural controls on mineralisation, a MSc in Mineral Exploration and Mining Geology and a BSc in Applied Geology *Member of the board 5

6 P R O D U C T I O N S H A R I N G A G R E E M E N T P R O D U C T I O N S H A R I N G A G R E E M E N T W I T H T H E G O V E R N M E N T O F A Z E R B A I J A N A R E V E N U E S H A R I N G C O N T R A C T M O D E L E D O N A Z E R B A I J A N S O I L I N D U S T R Y Six contract areas each has a 15 year production period after notice of discovery which can be extended up to 10 years Full operational management favourable regulatory regime Government profit share ( royalty ) of 51 per cent. of profit production. Profit production defined as value of production less all operating and capital costs to produce Regime applied to all products copper and silver settled in gold bullion Profit production set at a minimum of 25 per cent. of value of production effective royalty of per cent (25 per cent. times 51 per cent). Unrecovered costs can be carried forward indefinitely Group currently has approximately US$100 million of unrecovered costs. Given ongoing capital expenditure this has remained stable in the last few years 6

7 M A I N S I T E A T G E B A B E K Gedabek Open Pit Gadir Underground Mine Process Plants 7

8 P R O C E S S I N G A N D P R O D U C T I O N Production C O P P E R A N D G O L D C O N C E N T R A T E G O L D D O R É G O L D D O R É C O P P E R C O N C E N T R A T E G O L D D O R É 8

9 M E T A L P R O D U C T I O N I N F Y A N D Precious metal production and sales as gold doré Production Six months ended Gold produced* (ounces) Silver produced* (ounces) Gold sales** (ounces) Gold sales price ($/ounce) H ,309 4,941 27,719 1,230 H ,628 5,347 25,562 1,278 FY ,937 10,288 53,281 1,253 H ,389 5,713 15,689 1,238 H ,145 17,015 27,807 1,281 FY ,534 22,728 43,496 1,265 Copper and gold production and sales as concentrate Six months ended Concentrate* (dry metric tonnes) Copper produced* (tonnes) Gold produced* (ounces) Concentrate sales** ($000) H , ,068 5,062 H ,348 1,063 2,389 7,192 FY ,530 1,941 4,457 12,254 H ,362 1,322 4,829 10,324 H , ,254 6,457 FY ,330 1,991 7,083 16,781 FY 2017 production - 71,461 gold equivalent ounces * including Government of Azerbaijan's share. ** excluding Government of Azerbaijan's share. 9

10 F I N A N C I A L P E R F O R M A N C E H Production Discovery Exploration L o w c o s t p r o d u c e r A I S C $ / o u n c e H $000 (except AISC) H (to 30 June 2017) H (to 30 June 2016) FY 2016 (to 31 December 2016) Revenue 29,838 39,323 79,184 Gross profit 3,910 9,363 16,414 Operating profit 606 6,034 11,714 (Loss) / profit before tax (1,324) 3,488 6,779 Cash generated from operations 10,785 16,915 29,579 Capital expenditure 3,404 6,576 10,679 Net debt 28,986 40,728 34,551 All in sustaining costs (AISC)* $/oz *Please note that there are no royalty costs included in the Company s AISC calculation as the Production Sharing Agreement with the Government of Azerbaijan is structured as a revenue sharing arrangement. Therefore the AISC is calculated using a cost of sales which is the cost of producing 100% of the gold and such costs are allocated to total gold production including the Government of Azerbaijan s share. 10

11 E X P L O R A T I O N, D E V E L O P M E N T & P R O D U C T I O N I N I T I A T I V E S Following completion of a wide ranging strategic review, various initiatives have been implemented to ensure sustainable, long-term production at Gedabek - Reza Vaziri, CEO of Anglo Asian 11

12 E X P L O R A T I O N A N D D E V E L O P M E N T I N I T A T I V E S UGUR OPEN PIT MINE Exploration underway at newly producing Ugur to define extensions of similar mineralisation to increase resource inventory DRILLING AT GEDABEK On-going drilling programme to evaluate and optimise the mine plan DOWN DIP POTENTIAL AT GADIR Continuity of mineralisation demonstrated following evaluation of further down dip potential TUNNEL BETWEEN GADIR AND GEDABEK UNDERGROUND MINERALISATION First phase of the tunnel completed with Gedabek style mineralisation intersected ORDUBAD CONTRACT LICENCE POTENTIAL Low-cost exploration work successfully completed with encouraging initial results confirming presence of surface and underground gold and copper mineralisation GEDABEK TAILINGS DAM WALL RAISE COMPLETED To support planned expansion the tailings wall has been raised to provide additional 12 metres capacity WATER TREATMENT PLANT Now producing ~200,000 litres of clean water per day 12

13 N E W U G U R O P E N P I T M I N E A T G E D A B E K Production Ugur mine brought into production in one year from discovery Start up pit in center Ugur mine Located 3 kilometres north-west of processing facilities Commenced production - September 2017 Free digging of oxide ore Ore processed by agitation leaching Producing ~ 6,000 ounces of gold per month RC grade control drilling JORC Mineral Resource of 199,000 ounces gold 13

14 U G U R : J O R C R E S O U R C E S A N D R E S E R V E S Production Mineral Resources Tonnage (millions) Gold Grade (g/t) Silver Grade (g/t) Gold (ounces) Silver (ounces)* Measured , ,000 Indicated ,000 44,000 Measure and Indicated , ,000 Inferred , ,000 Total ,000 1,049,000 * does not add due to rounding. Mineral Reserves Tonnage (millions) Gold Grade (g/t) Silver Grade (g/t) Gold (ounces) Silver (ounces) Proved , ,000 Probable ,000 29,000 Proved and probable , ,000 14

15 P R O D U C T I O N T A R G E T FY 2018: 78,000 84,000 gold equivalent ounces TARGET 71,461 gold equivalent ounces produced in FY per cent. increase targeted for FY 2018 REASONS FOR INCREASE Optimisation initiatives in 2017 now bearing fruit Ugur and Gedabek open pits and Gadir underground mine all producing in 2018 Installation of dedicated second crusher line for flotation plant in Q will facilitate increased copper production Metal FY 2016 FY 2017 FY 2018 (Target) Copper (tonnes) 1,941 1,991 2,100 2,300 Silver (ounces) 165, ,853 - Gold (ounces) 65,394 59,617 64,000 70,000 15

16 I N V E S T M E N T P R O P O S I T I O N E S T A B L I S H E D produced first gold May 2009 Production E X P E R I E N C E D highly qualified team with decades in the industry directors own 40 per cent. of the Company fully aligning them with shareholders F I R S T M O V E R A D V A N T A G E Azerbaijan only listed miner in C A S H G E N E R A T I V E highly cash generative with fast reducing debt (47 per cent. reduction in 2017) Discovery Exploration A L O N G - T E R M P R O F I T A B L E AND S U S T A I N A B L E M I N I N G B U S I N E S S F A S T T R A C K A B I L I T Y Ugur mine brought into production in one year from discovery E X P L O R A T I O N P O T E N T I A L several high-grade targets under investigation 16

17 C O N T A C T U S Bill Morgan Chief Financial Officer A Z E R B A I J A N G O L D, C O P P E R A N D S I L V E R P R O D U C E R bill.morgan@aimc.az T: SP A CAngel A S H G E NSt EBrides R A T I VPartners E Broker & Nomad M I N I N G B UFinancial S I N E S SPR IR T: Stephen Westhead Director of Geology and Mining stephen.westhead@aimc.az T: E: info@stbridespartners.co.uk P R O A C T I V E I N V E S T O R S E V E N I N G F E B R U A R Y , 520 Yard Huseyn Javid Avenue Baku, Republic of Azerbaijan T: