LONG VALLEY GOLD PROJECT

The project was explored by Freeport, Standard Industrial Metals, Battle Mountain Gold, and Royal Gold in the 1980s and 1990s.

Early 1980’s:  Standard Industrial Minerals Inc. discovered anomalous gold near a kaolinite clay mining operation NW of the current property.

1983-1984:   Standard optioned the property to Freeport-McMoRan. Freeport drilled 8 shallow RC holes on the South Zone.

1985:   Freeport dropped out of the option. Standard continued to drill and completed another 24 rotary holes on the South Zone.

1988:   Royal Gold acquired the property under a lease/purchase option.  Royal Gold drilled 52 air track holes on the South Zone. Metallurgical and engineering studies were also completed.

1990-93:  Royal Gold and Battle Mountain formed a joint venture with Battle Mountain operating. Geological mapping, outcrop sampling and geophysical surveys completed.  59 RC holes were drilled.  The South Zone was expanded and the Hilton and Southeast Zones were discovered. Battle Mountain dropped out of the JV in 1993.

1994-1997:  Royal Gold completed 615 RC and 10 core holes on the Hilton Creek and Southeast Zones.  A metallurgical study and engineering studies are also completed.

1997:  Amax completed 46 RC and 10 core holes as part of a due diligence toward a possible JV.  Most of the holes twinned earlier holes.  Extensive re-assaying and check assaying was performed. Amax elected not to proceed with the JV due to a drop in gold price and a pending merger.

2000:  Royal Gold returned the property to Standard in order to become a pure royalty company.

2003-2008:  Vista Gold acquired an option to purchase the project and exercises its option for 100% of the property in 2007.

2008: Vista Gold completes a Preliminary Economic Assessment for a heap leach gold mine**

2017: KORE Mining Ltd. acquires 100% of the Long Valley project from Vista Gold.   Kore completes a ground-based magnetotelluric (MT) survey to better understand the characteristics of the epithermal mineralization.

2019: KORE conducts soil sampling, field mapping, relogging of previous drilling and generation of a GIS database of information for the project.  In late 2019 KORE completed an IP and airborne mag survey to further define sulphide drill targets and oxide extension drill targets.

Note:  Historic studies should not be relied upon by investors. Such studies were done prior to the implementation of the current NI 43-101 guidelines and information contained in any historical study is not being treated as current information

The Long Valley deposit is contained entirely within the early Pleistocene-age Long Valley caldera, which has been dated at about 760,000 years old.  The caldera is an elongated east-west oval depression measuring some 10 by 19 miles and is related to the eruption of the Bishop Tuff, which is mostly covered by younger rocks within the caldera.

The Long Valley gold deposit is located near the center of the caldera and is underlain by lithologic units related to the caldera formation and its subsequent resurgence.  Associated with the resurgent doming is a sequence of interbedded volcaniclastic sedimentary rocks which were deposited in a lacustrine setting within the caldera.  These rocks consist of sediment (siltstones through conglomerates) and debris-flow deposits, with local deposits of intercalated silica sinter and rhyolite flows and dikes.  All of these lithologies have been altered and/or mineralized to variable degrees.  Intruding the generally flat-lying lake sediments are several younger rhyolite domes that have been dated from 200,000 to 300,000 years in age.

The north-south trending Hilton Creek fault zone appears to define the eastern limit of the resurgent dome within the central part of the Long Valley caldera and extends outside the caldera to the south.  This fault system is thought to control the distribution of gold mineralization in the Long Valley deposit.  Offset along this fault appears to be variable and suggests that fault activity along this zone may be episodic in nature.  Active hot springs, earthquakes, and very recent volcanism suggest that the area is still geologically active.

Gold and silver mineralization at Long Valley appears to fall under the general classification of an epithermal, low sulfidation type deposit.  Several areas, termed the North, Middle, South, Southeast, and Hilton Creek zones, are mineralized with low grades of gold and silver; the North Zone lies outside of the current property boundary.  The mineralized zones are generally north-south trending, up to 8,000 ft in length with widths ranging from 500 ft to 1,500 ft.  The tabular bodies are generally flat-lying or have a shallow easterly dip.  Mineralization is typically from 50 to 200 ft thick and, in the South and Southeast zones, is exposed at (or very near) the surface.  The top of the Hilton Creek zone is generally covered by 20 to 50 ft of alluvium.  The vast majority of the mineralization discovered to date is located in the Hilton Creek zone.

Drilling is widely spaced in and between the North, Middle, and South zones, and it may be possible that, with additional drilling, these zones may be shown to be contiguous with the better defined zones to the south.

Royal Gold generally defined the base of the oxidized zone as the last occurrence of oxide mineralization.  Sulfide mineralization and mixed oxide-sulfide material also occurs above this boundary.  The sulfide/oxide boundary occurs at depths between 150 and 250 ft and is often coincident with or slightly above the current water table.

Gold and silver mineralization is quite continuous throughout the zones and is well defined above ~0.010 oz Au/t.  Within the continuous zones of low-grade (+0.010 oz Au/t) gold mineralization are numerous zones of higher grade mineralization (+0.050 oz Au/t), particularly in the Hilton Creek zone, which may relate to zones of enhanced structural preparation.  Mineralized zones are typically correlated with zones of more intense clay alteration or argillization and/or silicification.

The Imperial Project is a real employment and economic development opportunity for Imperial County, CA.  Mining operations typically provide high paying, skilled jobs with a significant “multiplier effect” of local spending and supply cascading through the economy.

The historic environmental impact report/statement (EIR/EIS), concluded that there were no significant environmental issues that could not be mitigated.   With strict laws in California on air, water and site reclamation the Imperial project will be operated to the highest standards in the world.

KORE has the advantage of extensive historic work supporting the historic feasibility and EIR/EIS. Kore is in process of updating technical, environmental, biological and cultural studies to exceed California mining regulation and practices.

• Located on BLM (federal) lands intended for multiple use (extensive 4×4 use in area).  BLM is the lead permitting agency.

• BLM works with Imperial County to comply with California law (focus on reclamation)

• 10mi from Mesquite Mine mine: inspected and managed by same local BLM and County authorities as Imperial

• All water, air, biological and cultural inventories well understood

• No cultural resources in the project area have been listed on the national register of historic places (NRHP)

• Impacts to cultural resources will be avoided, or mitigated

In April 2017, the Trump administration developed a “priority work” list for the BLM to streamline the permitting process for hard rock mining (and other activities).

In an August 31, 2017 secretarial order, the DOI “streamlined” agencies’ processes for analyzing environmental impacts. Now, agencies may not spend greater than one (1) year to complete an EIS, nor may their final report be more than 150 pages, or 300 pages for “unusually complex” projects.