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VMS:TSX.V
Explorer to Producer
NAN: TSX.V
The World’s Next Nickel Belt
New York Hard Assets Investment Conference
May 14-15, 2012
Discovering High Grade Copper Deposits in Manitoba, Canada
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
NOTE:
Some of the statements contained herein may be forward-looking
statements which involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties.
Without limitation, statements regarding potential mineralization and
resources, exploration results, and future plans and objectives of the
Company are forward-looking statements that involve various risks. The
following are important factors that could cause the Company’s actual
results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements: changes in the world wide price of mineral
commodities, general market conditions, risks inherent in mineral
exploration, risks associated with development, construction and mining
operations, the uncertainty of future profitability and the uncertainty of
access to additional capital. There can be no assurance that forward-looking
statements will prove to be accurate as actual results and future
events may differ materially from those anticipated in such statements.
VMS Ventures Inc. undertakes no obligation to update such forward-looking
statements if circumstances or management’s estimates or opinions
should change. The reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on
such forward-looking statements.
VMS VENTURES INC.
CAPITAL STRUCTURE(as at April, 2012)
Issued & Outstanding: 129,168,399Warrants: 163,333Options: 9,909,850Fully Diluted: 139,241,582
Well funded junior with approximately $10.8M in the treasury.
Discovered the copper rich Reed Copper deposit in Manitoba in 2007.
• JV Partner HudBay Minerals (T.HBM) is project operator; VMS costs carried to production. Project ownership is 70% HBM & 30% VMS.
Reed Copper deposit Prefeasbility announced in April 2012. Indicated Reserve: 2.2M Tonnes of 3.83% Cu, 0.48 g/t Au, 6.02 g/t Ag
Large, highly prospective land package in the prolific Flin Flon – Snow Lake Greenstone Belt of Manitoba
VMS owns ~45% of North American Nickel
QUICK FACTSVMS - TSX.V
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Rick Mark, M.Ed (Admin) - CEO & Chairman VMS & NAN: Rick has over 23 years experience in the public market place. He is also the CEO & Chair of VMS Ventures Inc. (VMS:TSX.V), and Harvest Gold Corporation (HVG-TSX.V), a December 2005 "spin off" from VMS, and is the President and CEO of Pancontinental Uranium Corp. (PUC-TSX.V).
Neil Richardson P. Geo. COO, VMS, Advisor to NAN: Neil has a long history of mineral exploration and mining experience with HudBay Minerals and others. Neil is the Chief Operating Officer for VMS Ventures responsible for developing and implementing exploration programs .
Mark Fedikow, HBSc., M.Sc., Ph.D., P.Eng., P. Geo., C.P.G. - President and C.O.O., Director NAN, VP Exploration VMS: Mark has 35 years of industry and government experience Chief Geologist of the Mineral Deposits Section in Manitoba. Recipient of Canadian national award for outstanding geoscientific achievement. He is President of NAN the Vice President of Exploration and Technical Services of VMS.
John Roozendaal B.Sc – President of VMS, Director of NAN: Founding director and President of VMS Ventures Inc. 20 years of Mineral Exploration experience, directly involved in the Reed Copper discovery..
John Pattison, P. Geo., B.Sc. Chief Geologist VMS and NAN: John has extensive experience in base metal exploration. John worked with Falconbridge Limited and associated companies for 19 years managing base metal, PGE and gold exploration projects throughout Canada and southern Africa.
VMS/NAN MANAGEMENT
Independent Directors:
Don Whalen, VMS: Mr. Whalen was Executive Chairman and Director of High River Gold Mines.Before joining High River, he held numerous marketing, technical and management positions over a 29 year career with IBM Canada Ltd.
Jim Clucas, NAN: Jim was Chief Financial Officer of Inco’s Canadian operations and has been involved in the development of several mineral deposits, including the Snow Lake Mine (High River Gold Mines), Montana Tunnels (Pegasus Mining) and the Fenix Project in Guatemala. He was the founder of International Nickel Ventures Inc. which acquired and developed the Santa Fe/Ipora Nickel Laterite deposit in Brazil. Jim is currently President and CEO of Search Minerals
Advisory Board
Cashel Meagher B.Sc. P. Geo.: Cashel is currently Vice President South America Business Unit of Hudbay Minerals. He has worked with the technical and management teams at VMS Ventures and North American Nickel through the Reed Lake joint venture with VMS. Prior to joining Hudbay, Mr. Meagher held management positions with Vale Inco in exploration, technical services, and mine operations.
Mike Muzylowski - Callinan Mines Ltd. (CAA-TSX.V) accomplished President and CEO, has played key roles in the discovery of 15 Canadian mines, 13 in Manitoba, during his distinguished career as a geologist, geophysicist and senior mining executive.
James M. Patterson B.A. D.I.C. Ph.D. P. Geo.: Jim a former VP Exploration for FNX Mining Company, has over 40 years experience in mineral exploration with major and junior exploration companies, government and international development agencies.
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INDEPENDENT DIRECTORS & ADVISORY BOARD
REED COPPER DEPOSIT
VMS-HudBay JV
• VMS owns 30% and is carried to production
• Prefeasibility report indicates 2,157,000 tonnes of 3.83% Cu, 0.59% Zn and 0.48 g/t Au
• NPV 8% @ $3.75 Cu = $191,361,000; IRR 68.40%
• Borehole Pulse Electromagnetic targets indicate the deposit is open at depth
Open down plunge
ORE BODIES TEND TO GROW IN THE FLIN FLON BELT
After K. Gilmore (Hudbay Minerals), 2007
REED COPPER DEPOSIT: CASH FLOW WITHIN SIGHT
The high grade nature of the Reed Copper deposit gives the project strong leverage to copper prices.
The following table shows a copper price sensitivity analysis based on the operating parameters set
out in the prefeasibility. Prefeasibility 3 Year HistoricalBase Case (1) Average Price Case (2) Cu = $3.75/lb USD (3)
Price and Exchange AveragesCopper
(USS/lb) $2.95 $3.20 $3.75
Gold (US$/oz) $1,269.00 $1,235.00 $1,235.00
Silver (US$/oz) $24.78 $22.85 $22.85
US$/CDN$ 0.95 0.94 0.92Pre-tax
Cash Flow $102,426,000 $182,975,000 $300,964,000NPV 8% $57,443,000 $109,904,000 $191,361,000
IRR 34.70% 46.60% 68.40%
(1) Prefeasibility Base Case metal prices projections compiled by HudBay based on 11 well-known financial institutions.(2) Bloomberg three year historical average (December 1, 2008 to December 1, 2011)
(3) $3.75 copper price for perspective on valuation impact of copper price
VMS VENTURES – HUDBAY JV & OPTIONS PROJECTS
VMS-Hudbay JV
• 30-70 joint venture, VMS carried to production.
• Hudbay is operator.• NI 43-101 Geological
Resourced April, 2011• PEA announced December,
2011• Permits in place for bulk
sample and surface, announced Jan 2012
• Prefeasibility announced April 2012
• Started portal entrance
4 Option Agreements• HudBay is operator.• $2.6 M in cumulative
expenditures to earn 70%.
Prefeasibility study completed on Reed Copper project Bulk sample and underground development permits in placeStarted portal entrance – milestone for underground development
2012 HIGHLIGHTS
Reed Copper deposit
Reed North zone
VTEM COVERAGE OVERVMS’ 100% OWNED PROJECTS
• Many recent discoveries, including VMS’s Reed Lake Deposit, were made with VTEM
• VMS Ventures has flown over 17,000 line-km of VTEM over its projects, majority flown at 100 m line spacing.
• 5 years and $13 million in work – Targets ready to drill.
VMS 2012 ACTIVITIES
HudBay JV: The Reed deposit, Manitoba’s next copper mine
• Prefeasibility report announced April 2, 2012• Mine Portal entrance established• Mine Decline started; Hudbay crew to take over underground development in Q3 • Production commences Q3 - 2013
VMS 100% Owned Properties
Sudbury Projects• Golden Pine, Black Creek & Terra Incognita scheduled for prospecting/trenching
in Q2, auger drilling and diamond drilling in Q3 – Q4
North American Nickel (VMS owns 26M shares)
Maniitsoq project will be drilled; own VMS or NAN ahead of drilling
Slide 12
NORTH AMERICAN NICKEL INC.
CAPITAL STRUCTURE(as at April, 2012)
Issued & Outstanding: 56,747,693Warrants: 30,141,450Options: 5,618,000Fully Diluted: 92,507,143
NAN - TSX.VAcquired the large, prospective Maniitsoq
property in Greenland in August, 2011
High-grade nickel intercepts in historic drill holes:
9.85 m at 2.67% Ni and 60% Cu at Imiak Hill12.89 m averaging 2.24% Ni and
0.63% Cu at Fossilik
Sudbury Ontario land position includes the Post Creek, Halcyon and Wahnapitae properties.
VMS owns 26M shares
QUICK FACTS
MANIITSOQ PROJECT, GREENLAND
100% interest in a giant property covering 4,983 km2 of the highly prospective, but underexplored, Greenland Norite Belt.
Located on tide water (navigable year-round) on the southwest coast of Greenland, near the village of Maniitsoq.
Maniitsoq (looking east towards the project area)
THE GREENLAND NORITE BELT- PLENTY OF ROOM FOR WORLD CLASS
NICKEL DEPOSIT(S)Belt is J-shaped, 75 km
long by 15 km wide and characterised by nickel-bearing noritic intrusions.
Numerous significant nickel showings with consistently high nickel tenor.
From Eckstrand & Hulbert, 2007
Voisey’s Bay Deposit at map scale.
Plan view of the Voisey’s Bay intrusion (from Eckstrand & Hulbert, 2007)
Slide 15
Nickel Tenor
• Maniitsoq sulphides have a relatively consistent nickel tenor of 6 to 8% Ni recalculated to 100% sulphide.
• Presence of pyrite means there is more S for a given amount of sulphide than in typical magmatic sulphide deposits consisting mainly of pyrrhotite-pentlandite and chalcopyrite.
Typical 100% sulphide mixtureof Po+Cp+Pn contains 35.7% S
Kerr, 2003
After Shore, 2000(Falconbridge Limited)
Nic
kel w
t. %
Sulphur wt. %
Ni vs. S for Maniitsoq Drill Core
DRILL CORE
MANIITSOQ PROJECT2011 SKYTEM RESULTS
NAN WORK (2011)
Helicopter EM surveys by NAN in 2011 over two small areas (<8% of the project area) successfully delineated new targets.
Additional helicopter EM surveys and drilling planned for 2012.
HISTORICAL WORK
Almost all showings were discovered in the 1960’s and early 70’s.
Average hole length less than 55 meters.
Slide 17
3D EM Modeling Target B1-B
700 m long, near surface conductive zone.
No previous drilling.
Characteristics and orientation of the conductor vary considerably along strike suggesting it is not formational.
Magnetic data suggests that it is hosted in a large (2.5 x 1.0 km) norite body (shown in light purple).
Target B1-B
InterpretedNorite
1 km
Slide 18
3D EM Modeling Target B1-J
170 m long by 16 m wide conductor that comes to surface and is directly coincident with the Imiak Hill showing.
The model shows that the mineralization strikes parallel to most of the historical drilling and therefore has not been properly tested.
The model has very limited dip extent (21 m) but the best intersection on the showing (9.85 m averaging 2.67% Ni and 0.60% Cu) occurs 130 m below surface indicating that strong mineralization at surface is masking the EM response from mineralization at depth. FOOTWALL
CONTACTOF NORITE
9.85m @ 2.67% Ni, 0.60% Cu
STRIKE
9.85m @ 2.67% Ni, 0.60% Cu
TARGET B1-J (IMIAK HILL): 3D VIEW LOOKING WEST
TARGET B1-J:3D VIEWLOOKING DOWN(PLAN)
Slide 19
3D EM Modeling Target B1-L
Modeled as a 330 x 100 m flat-lying conductor located 160 m below surface within a norite intrusion.
The conductor is untested but shallow, historical drilling 100 m above intersected weakly disseminated, nickeliferous sulphides grading up to 0.52% Ni and 0.26% Cu over 12.94 m.
Clearly, mineralizing processes were at work here as indicated by the disseminated near-surface mineralization and the most logical location to look for massive sulphides is at depth.
100 m330 m
TARGET B1-L (SPOTTY HILL): 3D VIEW LOOKING NORTH
~ 160 m BELOW SURFACE(i.e. 100 m BENEATHPREVIOUS DRILLING)
Slide 20
Plans for 2012 & Beyond
2012• Ground truth all 25 conductive target zones
identified by SkyTEM with emphasis on 3 highest priority zones (B1-B, B1-J and B1-L).
• Minimum 2,000 m of drilling to the three highest priority targets.
• 3,000 line-km of helicopter TEM over prospective norites in southern part of the norite belt.
• Prospecting outside of main norite belt looking for new showings and norites.
• Estimated cost $3.0 million
2013
• Minimum 6,000 m of follow-up drilling on targets derived from 2012 work
• 3,000 line-km of helicopter TEM
• Estimated cost $ 7.5 million.
Slide 21
Investor Risk Mitigation
100% ownership; Camp-sized land package (Sudbury) Public Co management/financing experience Technical team is deep Secure political jurisdiction Regional setting; year round exploration Historic exploration data is remarkable ($10M plus) Geology
Abundance of Ni-Cu occurrences at surface & in drilling Undeformed norite host rocks Mineralization: inclusion-bearing sulphides Nickel Tenor – consistent and economic grade
New technologies in “old” camp work– 25 EM targets in 8% of land package