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Chile Explore Congress Speaker: Stephen Nano President & CEO TSX.V: MRZ 13 14 August 2014 → Presentation 2 : Gorbea Gold Belt & Rubi Copper projects New targets in a mature terrane → Presentation 1: Project Generator JV Business Model Risk management for exploration success
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Chile Explore CongressSpeaker: Stephen Nano President & CEO TSX.V: MRZ

13 – 14 August 2014

→ Presentation 2 : Gorbea Gold Belt & Rubi Copper projectsNew targets in a mature terrane

→ Presentation 1: Project Generator JV Business Model Risk management for exploration success

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Cautionary StatementThis presentation contains certain statements that may be deemed “forward-looking statements”. All statements in this release, other thanstatements of historical fact, that address future production, reserve potential, exploration drilling, exploitation activities and events ordevelopments that the Company expects to occur, are forward looking statements. Forward looking statements are statements that are nothistorical facts and are generally, but not always, identified by the words “expects”, “plans” “anticipates”, “believes”, “intends”, “estimates”,“projects”, “potential” and similar expressions, or that events or conditions “will”, “would”, “may”, “could” or “should” occur. Informationinferred from the interpretation of drilling results and information concerning mineral resource estimates may also be deemed to be forwardlooking statements, as it constitutes a prediction of what might be found to be present when and if a project is actually developed. Althoughthe Company believes the expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, suchstatements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements.Factors that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements include market prices, exploitationand exploration successes, and continued availability of capital and financing, and general economic, market or business conditions.Investors are cautioned that any such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differmaterially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Forward looking statements are based on the beliefs, estimates andopinions of the Company’s management on the date the statements are made. The Company undertakes no obligation to update theseforward-looking statements in the event that management’s beliefs, estimates or opinions, or other factors, should change.

This presentation may use the term “indicated resource”. The Company advises investors that although this term is recognized and requiredby Canadian securities regulations (under National Instrument 43-101 “Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects”), the US Securities andExchange Commission does not recognize this term. Investors are cautioned not to assume that any part of or all of the mineral deposits inthese categories will ever be converted into reserves.

Stephen Nano, President and CEO for the Company and a “Qualified Person” under National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed andapproved the scientific and technical information in this presentation.

MIRASOL RESOURCES

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New Targets in a Mature TerraneChilean exploration has delivered many world class copper & gold deposits

Chile is thought of as one of the world’s more mature exploration terranes

Does this mean that all new discoveries will come from expensive deep exploration?

Mirasol takes a dual approach to exploration in Chile to identify new exploration opportunities

Known projects with new eyes → new geological understanding & new technologies

New projects with old eyes → new concepts + high calibre experienced geologists

Strong potential for new discovery in Chile – outcropping & covered

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Mirasol Resources: Profile• TSX:V listed 2003

• Well funded – Approx. $29.8M CAD working capital (Cash & Shares as at July 1st 2014)

• Conservative capital structure (44.2 M shares outstanding)

• High-calibre project portfolio:

o Rubi JV: First Quantum Minerals copper-gold porphyry, Chileo Five Headline Projects – large system / multiple targets / drill-ready

• Discovery-focused management & exploration team

• Demonstrated discovery success for Mirasol: Joaquin & Virginia deposits

• Delivered on business model with sale of Joaquin: US $30M with 1.3 Million shares in Coeur Mining

Mirasol is primed for the next discovery

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Stephen C. Nano, President, CEO and Director, BSc. (Hons.), +25 years in exploration and management roles in Latin America, Asia Pacific and Central Asia for major mining companies. +15 years in South America.

Timothy W. Heenan, Exploration Manager and Director, BSc., +25 years as exploration geologist and program manager throughout the Americas, with small and large mining companies. +15 years in South America

Mary L. Little, Director , MSc., MBA, +25 years as geologist, analyst and country manager for major mining companies. +15 years in South America.

Nick DeMare, Independent Director, CA, President of Chase Management Inc. and Board member of several TSX listed companies.

Borden Putnam, Independent Director, CA BSc. & MSc. 17-years as analyst for natural resources hedge funds, 20-years within the mining industry in senior management exploration and consulting positions. Working worldwide with Newmont and AMAX mining.

Bernie Zacharias, Chief Financial Officer, Co-founder of Avisar Chartered Accountants since 2004 and CFO of several TSX Venture listed companies.M

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10 / 100% Mirasol owned projects Rubi FQM JV: copper, goldGorbea belt: strategic area play2 headline projects:

Atlas: silver, goldTitan: gold

3 headline projects:Claudia: gold, silverCurva: gold, silverVirginia: silver

23 / 100% Mirasol owned projects

Mirasol ResourcesSanta Cruz Gold-Silver Projects

0 100

Kilometres

Santa Cruz,Argentina

Atacama, Chile

• Excellent Project Portfolio• 100% Mirasol owned • Gold silver copper• Geographic focus

Mirasol Project Generation

Oligocene-Eocene Belt

Miocene Volcanics Belt

Jurassic Igneous Rocks

Tertiary Igneous Rocks

Lithology

Mirasol Mineral Claims

Mirasol Earn-in JV Area

LEGEND

MirasolReconaisance Region

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Rubi Porphyry Copper-Gold Project Chile First Quantum Minerals JV

Known project → New eyes

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Mirasol Rubi JV Chile - First Quantum Minerals

• Targeting large porphyry copper gold deposits

• Adjacent to El Salvador & Potrerillos copper-gold-moly mining districts

• Previous exploration in the project area

• New approach / technologies / models → new outcropping & gravel covered targets

• New JV with strong partner

• Aggressive exploration in progress

• Advancing to drill testing

Mirasol / First Quantum Minerals-Rubi JV

MirasolGorbea Gold Belt /Atlas & Titan

Copper-Gold Mine/Advanced ProspectGold-Silver Mine/Advanced Prospect

Miocene-age Deposits

LEGEND

Oligocene-Eocene Belt

100% Mirasol Claims

Miocene Volcanics Belt

Mirasol Earn-in JV Area

Maricunga Gold BeltTotal 82 Moz AuTotal 243.6 Moz AgTotal 10 968 Mlbs Cu

Rubi Project

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Modified from Richard H. SillitoePorphyry copper systems (in A group of papers on porphyry Cu deposits )Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists(January 2010), 105(1):3-41

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Erosion Level:LithocapQbda SaladaTarget

Erosion Level: Portezuelo & CornerTarget

Rubi JV Project: Known Project / New Eyes • Previous exploration drilling in project area – 1980’s to 90’s• New Aster & PIMA alteration / new geochemical & geophysical techniques • Improved understanding of alteration & mineralization model → New (renewed) outcropping & gravel covered porphyry & epithermal targets

Rubi ASTER Alteration Mapping

3

4

2

1

Advanced Argillic / Argillic

Intermediate argillic / Argillic

Advanced Argillic / Argillic

Propyllitic

Strong Fe Oxides

Phyllic -Argillic

1

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Rubi JV – El Salvador Porphyry District, Chile

1. FQM can extend earning 1 or 3 - 2 years by making $500k payment per extension2. FQM operates 3. Tenure fees part of FQM spend4. Signed binding Letter Agreement which allows non-invasive exploration to proceed

Year 1 Minimum Spend$1.5 M USD (no management fee) 3,000 m drilling 100% magnetic coverage

4 years 55% payment For $6.5 M USD + $1.1 M USD in staggered cash payments

+2 years 65% NI 43-101 compliant Indicated Resources

+2 years 75% Decision to mineProvide to Mirasol financing 25% interestPayback from 50% Mirasol cash flow

• Multi-target porphyry copper-gold project adjacent to world class El Salvador -Potrerillos porphyry district

• Excellent JV deal terms• Strong JV partner: First Quantum Minerals• Aggressive exploration program commenced in November 2013

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Rubi Copper- Gold JV - First Quantum Minerals

• FQM initiated exploration in November 2013 – JV Spend to date: ≈ $680,000 USD

• New property-wide, 2,460 line km Helimag survey

• Extensive property-wide soil program

• Detailed mapping & sampling

• Detailed alteration vectoring studies

• Integrated targeting

Multiple targets identified for geophysical testing & potential drilling

Drill permitting process initiated

Adjacent to world class El Salvador - Potrerillos porphyry districts

Rubi – Target Areas

QuebradaSalado veinsgold-silver intermediate sulphidation epithermalno prior drilling

Lithocap7 sq km of advanced argillic alt.high sulphidation/porphyry copper-gold-molybdenum target

Pampa del Incagravel covered porphyry & exotic copper target

Corner Zonecovered porphyry copper target

Portezuelo Targetoutcropping porphyry Alt & Veinsshallow drilling 1980’sno modern exploration copper-molybdenum-gold porphyry target

Rubi

Property

Potrerillos PorphyryDistrict22 250 Mlbs Cu & 25 Moz Au

El Salvador Porphyry District37 500 Mlbs Cu & 12 Moz Au

LegendNormal (& Positive) Magnetic Intensity

Strong Magnetic Low

Primary Au Deposit/Mine

Primary Cu Deposit/Mine

Base Image -Residual intensity

map of the total magnetic field in

Northern Chile modified from:

Economic Geology, 2001.

Vol 96: 239-248

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Mirasol Gorbea Gold Belt, Chile:Atlas & Titan Gold-Silver Projects

New projects → Old eyes

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Mirasol Gorbea Gold Belt, ChileNew strategic area play: 9 x 100% owned Mirasol Projects - Most Advanced: Atlas & Titan

• Concept driven project generation → local knowledge / GIS framework study

• Atlas & Titan new discoveries, large outcropping gold-silver system

• High sulphidation epithermal oxide gold targets

• Conceptual porphyry copper-gold target at Titan

• Atlas: Extensive surface gold/silver rock chips & trenching

• Titan: Scout drill intersections up to 18m @ 2.16 g/t Au Incl. 10m @ 3.58 g/t Au

Mirasol / First Quantum Minerals-Rubi JV

MirasolGorbea Gold Belt /Atlas & Titan

Copper-Gold Mine/Advanced ProspectGold-Silver Mine/Advanced Prospect

Miocene-age Deposits

LEGEND

Oligocene-Eocene Belt

100% Mirasol Claims

Miocene Volcanics Belt

Mirasol Earn-in JV Area

Maricunga Gold BeltTotal 82 Moz AuTotal 243.6 Moz AgTotal 10 968 Mlbs Cu

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Atlas Project 7020 Ha

100% Mirasol Owned

El Dorado Project1100 Ha100% Mirasol Owned

Titan Project4120Ha100% Mirasol Owned

Alunite Illite Kaolinite

ASTER Alteration

LEGEND

Pyropyllite

MagneticDepletion Zone

Ground MagneticAnalytical Signal of the Vertical Integral (ASVI)

100% MirasolClaims

Sulfidation Trend

Low High

Ground Magnetic Imagery:Analytical Signal to Vertical Integral (ASVI)

Base Imagery: Landsat-8 (USGS 2014)

• Atlas: new prospects identified

• Anomalous rock chip gold & silver assays over 6.7 sq. km area

• New trench gold/silver channel samples

• New 5.4 sq. km IP electrical geophysics

Gorbea Gold Belt: Atlas & Titan Projects, Chile2 adjacent Headline Projects / new gold – silver discoveries / good access / workable altitude

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Atlas Project – Gorbea Gold Belt, ChileAtlas Surface Rock Chips

AGZ

ASZ

1 to 50.40.25 to 10.10 to 0.250.05 to 0.100.01 to 0.050 to 0.01BDL to 0R

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50. 3 / 5.2 30.7 / 42.3 16.8 / 43.9

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Labelled Rock Chip Results

Silver (g/t)Gold (g/t)

Best 3 Rock Chip SamplesFrom beginning of project to June 2014

Gold / Silver (g/t)By Gold By Silver

0.01 / 24700.08 / 6390.06 / 592

0.01/24700.02/592

0.15/415

Areas of Gold/Silver Anomalous Rock Chips

50.3/5.2

16.8/43.930.7/42.3

0.08/639

AtlasSilver Zone

Atlas Gold Zone

0.01/377

0.3/0.1

0/70.70/56.50/43.6

0.01/14

0.06/492

Pampa Zone

By G

old 2.91/1.9

1.14/2.11.32/5.7

By S

ilver 0.06/421

0.05/3860.08/248

Pleiades Base Imagery

IP Resistivity50m Depth Slice

Pleiades Base Imagery

10 500100

IP 50m Depth Slice: Resistivity (Ohm-m)

1000

NEW PAMPA ZONEAnomalous Rock Chip up to2.91 g/t Au & 421 g/t Ag

ATLAS GOLD ZONEAnomalous Rock Chips up to 50.3 g/t Au

ATLAS SILVER ZONEAnomalous Rock Chips up to 639 g/t Ag

Soil covered high-resistive zone. Local outcrops of strong quartz-alunitealteration & elevated Ba-As-Sb-Hg

Large gold-silver system / high grade rock chip assays with geophysical anomalies – defining drill target

MRZ Atlas Project 7020 Ha

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1 to 50.30.25 to 10.10 to 0.250.05 to 0.100.01 to 0.050 to 0.01BDL to 0

Rock Chip Assaysby Gold (g/t)

Trench Collar & Trace

50m IP ResistivityContour Line

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1000

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Dep

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50.3/5.24

30.7/42.3

16.75/43.9

7.72/28.5

5.05/23.4

7.03/0.37

8.96/44.77.46/56.9

Magnetic Structure

50m IP Resistivity Depth Slice

Labelled Rock Chip Results,

greater than 5.0 g/t Au

Silver (g/t)Gold (g/t)

5 0 . 3 / 5 . 2 4

Funnel Shaped Resistive Bodies

Feeder Zone/Buried Dome?

Mirasol Atlas Project-7020 Ha

AGZSantiago

AntofagastaMirasol Atlas Project

Location Overview: Tenure Overview:

Atlas Gold Zone (AGZ) Prospect – Priority Drill Targets • AGZ prospect surface rock chip samples

define an 800 by 500 m area with anomalous gold/silver

• 55 samples in the range 1- 50.3 g/t Au outline multiple NW trending vuggy silica structures.

• AGZ gold structures traverse 1.1 km long trend with highly resistivity bodies –hydrothermal feeder zones (breccia’s?) or buried domes?

• New trench channel of vuggy silica structures & breccias, assay:

8.4 m @ 1.85 g/t Au,11.3 m @ 1.32 g/t Au &14.9 m @ 1.67 g/t Au

→ Priority drill targets developing

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Mirasol Atlas Project: Atlas Gold Zone (AGZ) Mineralization in Trenches

Technician sampling a

vuggy silica structure

Vuggy silica after porphyritic andesite with up

to 7.28 g/t Au & 5.77 g/t AgLate stage barite vein common in vuggy silica

structures from 3.27 - 8.85 g/t Au

Breccia vuggy silica clasts re-brecciation &

leach clasts with late fill of pink alunite, up to

5.07 g/t Au & 7.95 g/t Ag in TR-02

Jigsaw breccia of the edge of the

hydrothermal breccia zone with up to 1.09 g/t

Au in TR-02

Hydrothermal breccia zone exposed over 25m

in trench TR-02

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Atlas Silver Zone (ASZ) Prospect : Overview

AGZ

30 to 63910 to 30

5 to 102.5 to 51 to 2.50 to 1BDL to 0

Rock Chip Assaysby Silver (g/t)

ASZ Trench AlterationMirasol

Atlas Project

Pleiades Imagery (2014)

215 g/t Ag

241 g/t Ag 492 g/t Ag

117 g/t Ag

112 g/t Ag

154 g/t Ag

63.3 g/t Ag

113 g/t Ag

415 g/t Ag205 g/t Ag

140 g/t Ag

639 g/t Ag443 g/t Ag321 g/t Ag300 g/t Ag144 g/t Ag

215 g/t Ag

241 g/t Ag 492 g/t Ag

117 g/t Ag

112 g/t Ag

154 g/t Ag

63.3 g/t Ag

113 g/t Ag

415 g/t Ag205 g/t Ag

140 g/t Ag

639 g/t Ag443 g/t Ag321 g/t Ag300 g/t Ag144 g/t Ag

500

Resis

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Oh

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10

100

100050m PDP electrical GeophysicsResistivity Depth Slice

Strong Advance ArgillicModerate Advance Argillic+FeOx Banded

Moderate Advance Argillic

Strong Silicification

Sulphur Veins

Strong ArgillicTrench Collar & Trace

50m PDP ResistivityContour Line

• Distinct Ag:Au ratio ≈ 1000:1• High-grade silver +100 to 639 g/t Ag float & subcrop over 750 m of strike length• Pervasive alteration eruptive tuff ring & phreato-magmatic vent breccias • Intense steam heated alteration overprint (crystobalite-alunite-kaolinite native sulphur & cinnabar)

1 trench in zone to date

26.7 m @ 0.016 g/t Au & 54.76 g/t Ag,Inc. 11.2 m @ 0.013 g/t Au & 92.43 g/t Ag.

Mineralization may extend under cover to east

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Laminated ash with bands of intense advanced

argillic alteration silver mineralization TR06

Cinnabar wisps in the zone of the phreatic

breccia with intense advanced argillic in

TR-06

Sulphur vein (dipping SW) in the middle of a

phreatic vent breccia with intense advanced

argillic alteration in TR-06

Upward flaring phreatic-hydrothermal breccia

with mineralized clasts

Poly lithic hydrothermal breccia

clasts of quartz vein fragment with bands of

acanthite, suggest ISE or LSE *find grade*

Ignimbrites with pervasive quartz opaline silica

and sulfide/sulfosals veinlets TR06

Mirasol Atlas Project: Atlas Silver Zone (ASZ): Trench 6

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Mirasol – Forward Focus & Objectives Focus on our core business model – Project Generator JV company

• Chile: focus of our spend / project generation / project exploration • Argentina: represents a counter cyclic investment opportunity

Build our generative pipeline – our R&D investment & life blood of this company

• Chile: Concept driven generation & early stage project acquisition • Argentina: Strategic consolidation in key districts / low holding cost

JV deals on headline properties in Chile & Argentina - realize value to our shareholders via discovery – Gorbea Belt & Argentine headline projects

Slow the burn rate: targeting total corporate + exploration spend FY2015 of USD $6.1 to 5.5M

Evaluate accretive business opportunities

Improve information flow to our shareholders & the market so they can make informed investment choices

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• Well Funded

• Strong Rubi JV

• Five Headline Projects

• Management Focused on Shareholder Value

• Focused on Chile – new eyes / old eyes

Chile Explore CongressSpeaker: Stephen Nano President & CEO TSX.V: MRZ


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