Overviews of worldwide active listed strategic metals/special minerals companies

Strategic Metals & Rare Earths Letter I N T E R N A T I O N AL th e in d ep en d en t in fo rma tio n a n d a d vi so ry p u b lic a tio n o n in ve s tin g in S tr a teg i c Meta l s & Ra re E a rth s

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Heavy Rare Earths Oxides (HREO)

Light Rare Earth Oxides (LREO)

europium (Eu) gadolinium (Gd) terbium (Tb) dysprosium (Dy) holmium (Ho)

lanthanum (La) cerium (Ce) praseodymium (Pr) neodymium (Nd) promethimium (Pm) samarium (Sm)

erbium (Er) thullium (Tm) ytterbium (Yb) lutetium (Lu)

Critical Metals and Special Minerals yttrium (Y) scandium (Sc) niobium (Nb) tantalum (Ta) beryllium (Be) gallium (Ga) indium (In) germanium (Ge)

lithium (Li) cobalt (Co) graphite (C) tungsten (W) titanium (Ti) zirconium (Zr) hafnium (Hf) antimony (Sb)

Overview of global listed REE companies Trading symbol 30 June 2017

US: Texas Mineral Resources Rare Element Resources

OTC US TMRC OTC US REEMF

Ucore Rare Metals

TSX.V

Canada: Avalon Rare Metals Commerce Resources Eagle Plains Resources Search Minerals Quest Rare Minerals Appia Energy Cache Exploration Canada Rare Earth Matamec Explorations Pele Mountain Resources Medaillon Resources Int. Montoro Resources Canadian Int. Minerals

TSX TSX.V TSX.V TSX.V TSX.V CNSX TSX.V TSX.V TSX.V TSX.V TSX.V TSX.V TSX.V

Share price Currrent Year-end 2017 2016

Change 12 months Total shares in % prices issued H L million

UCU

US$ 0.210 0.165 C$ 0.315

US$ 0.110 0.060 C$ 0.310

US$ US$ 91 0.390 0.090 175 0.530 0.001 C$ C$ 2 0.435 0.245

AVL CCE EPL SMY QRM API CAY LL MAT GEM MDL IMT CIN

C$ 0.140 0.070 0.160 0.075 0.100 0.155 0.245 0.040 0.045 0.020 0.035 0.015 0.015

C$ 0.145 0.050 0.155 0.060 0.150 0.250 0.105 0.035 0.045 0.020 0.020 0.020 0.025

-3 40 3 25 -33 -38 133 14 0 0 75 -25 -40

C$ 0.260 0.110 0.235 0.100 0.300 0.465 0.305 0.060 0.105 0.040 0.070 0.030 0.055

LYC ALK NTU HAS ARU

A$ 0.110 0.240 0.110 0.090 0.060

A$ 0.070 0.340 0.120 0.070 0.060

57 -29 -8 29 0

A$ 0.140 0.660 0.180 0.110 0.110

Greenland: Greenland Min. and Energy 5) ASX

GGG

A$ 0.100

Sweden: Leading Edge Materials

LEM

C$ 0.760

2) 1) 3) 3)

Australia: Lynas ASX Alkane Resources 4) ASX Northern Minerals 3) ASX Hastings Technology Metals ASX Arafura Resources ASX

Market cap. million local US$

270.1

US$ 9.4 8.7 C$ 85.1

65.3

C$ 0.135 0.050 0.105 0.055 0.080 0.100 0.050 0.025 0.040 0.015 0.020 0.015 0.015

192.7 309.6 84.3 151.2 94.6 52.3 29.6 166.9 137.0 210.0 84.1 76.3 54.0

C$ 27.0 21.7 13.5 11.3 9.5 8.1 7.3 6.7 6.2 4.2 2.9 1.1 0.8

20.7 16.6 10.3 8.7 7.3 6.2 5.6 5.1 4.7 3.2 2.3 0.9 0.6

A$ 0.050 0.210 0.070 0.070 0.050

3,678.0 505.2 708.9 538.2 546.9

A$ 404.6 121.2 78.0 48.4 32.8

309.9 92.9 59.7 37.1 25.1

A$ 0.090

A$ A$ 11 0.200 0.030

1,005.0

A$ 100.5

77.0

C$ 0.510

C$ C$ 49 0.930 0.250

88.1

C$ 67.0

51.4

44.9 52.9

9.4 8.7

Western Europe:

6) TSX.V

1) also gold and base metal assets 2) vertically integrated REE business 3) also uranium assets 4) also gold producer

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5) world's largest undeveloped multi-element REE-uranium-zinc occurrence 6) Plan of arrangement between Flinders Resources and Tasman Metals and name change effective 25 August 2016

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30 June 2017 Trading symbol

Share price Current 2017

Year-end 2016

Change 12 months prices in % L H

Net shares issued million

C$ 0.030

C$ 0.050

C$ C$ -40 0.090 0.015

174.9

A$ 0.070 C$ 0.025

A$ A$ -14 0.130 0.050 C$ C$ 0 0.050 0.015

Market cap. million US$ local

Central Asia: Kyrgyzstan: Stans Energy

TSX.V

HRE

C$ 5.2

4.0

Africa:

8) TSX.V Montero Mining and Exploration

MON

A$ 0.060 C$ 0.025

Burundi: Rainbow Rare Earths

RBW

GBp 12.500

Tanzania: Peak Resources

7) ASX

9) AIM

PEK

Kenya: Pacific Wildcat Resources 10) TSX.V

PAW.H

Malawi: Globe Metals and Mining

GBE

GBp GBp 7 15.13 10.25

154.6

ÂŁ 19.3

24.7

295.1

C$ 4.4

3.4

C$ 0.015

C$ 0.015

C$ C$ 0 0.015 0.005

A$ 0.020 C$ 0.060

A$ A$ 0 0.030 0.020 C$ C$ -8 0.105 0.040

C$ 0.050

C$ C$ 30 0.115 0.040

Mkango Resources

TSX.V

MKA

A$ 0.020 C$ 0.055

Namibia: Namibia Rare Earths

TSX.V

NRE

C$ 0.065

11) ASX

GBp 11.630 9)

84.8

A$ 28.7 C$ 2.1

7) also gold projects in Tanzania and Australia 8) also phosphate assets South Africa 9) listed as at 30 January 2017 10) also tantalum mine in Mozambique and gold-silver project in Nevada; listing changed to US OTC on November 25, 2015 11) also graphite project

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477.5

83.9

A$ 9.4 C$ 4.6

83.7

C$ 5.4

469.7

21.9 1.6

7.2 3.5

4.2

Overview of listed LITHIUM companies Trading symbol

Share price Change Current Year-end in % 2017 2016

30 June 2017

FMC SQM Tianqi Lithium

Albemarle Corp.

Orocobre Galaxy Resources Pilbara Minerals Altura Mining Global Geoscience Neometals Tawana Resources Core Exploration Lithium Australia Novo Lithio European Lithium Liontown Resources Nemaska Lithium Lithium Americas Critical Elements Bacanora Minerals Lithium X Energy LCS Lithium Wealth Minerals Neo Lithium Millennial Lithium Standard Lithium Advantage Lithium Frontier Lithium Pure Energy Minerals Power Metals Dajin Resources Aberdeen International Southern Lithium Ultra Lithium McArthur Minerals Argentina Lithium and Energy

European Metals Holdings

002466

US$ 56.560 28.650 HK$ 32.450

ERA:FP

Euro 42.96

Euro 56.74

-24

Euro Euro 66.72 28.02

US$ 105.540

US$ 86.080

23

US$ US$ 116.64 75.11

A$

A$

ORE GXY PLS AJM GSC NMT TAW CXO LIT NLI EUR LTR

3.470 1.660 0.380 0.130 0.150 0.270 0.200 0.070 0.070 0.050 0.040 0.010

4.530 2.630 0.500 0.140 0.070 0.340 0.120 0.070 0.150 0.060 0.060 0.020

TSX TSX TSX.V TSX.V TSX.V TSX.V TSX.V TSX TSX TSX.V TSX.V TSX.V TSX TSX.V TSX.V TSX TSX.V TSX.V TSX.V TSX

NMX LAC CRE BCN LIX LSC WML NLC ML SLL AAL FL PE PWM DJI AAB SNL ULI MMS LIT

C$ 0.980 0.870 1.110 1.240 1.950 1.240 1.590 1.150 1.570 1.060 0.380 0.360 0.510 0.305 0.090 0.135 0.215 0.160 0.070 0.120

AIM

EMH

GBp 48.000

1) HKSE Paris 2) NYSE

ASX 3) ASX ASX ASX ASX ASX ASX ASX ASX 4) ASX ASX ASX

5)

6) 8) 7)

9)

12 months Total shares prices issued H L million

US$ 73.050 33.020 HK$ 54.350

NYSE NYSE

ERAMET

(by market capitalization)

FMC SQM

ALB

29 15 67

US$ 77.38 37.47 HK$ 56.52

US$ 43.26 24.18 HK$ 31.20

Market cap. million local US$

US$ 9,788.7 3,975.6 HK$ 994.4 54,045.6 134.0 120.4

26.6

Euro 1,142.7

3

6,917.8 1,302.7

US$ 110.8 11,693.8 11,693.8

A$

A$

A$

-23 -37 -24 -7 114 -21 67 0 -53 -17 -33 -50

5.05 3.50 0.74 0.22 0.22 0.49 0.30 0.15 0.33 0.11 0.09 0.05

2.62 1.43 0.31 0.11 0.05 0.25 0.03 0.03 0.07 0.05 0.04 0.01

210.5 395.10 1,467.0 1,524.0 1,128.0 546.1 442.1 376.5 284.5 370.4 457.4 990.3

730.4 655.9 557.5 198.1 169.2 147.4 88.4 26.4 19.9 18.5 18.3 9.9

559.5 502.4 427.0 151.8 129.6 112.9 67.7 20.2 15.3 14.2 14.0 7.6

C$ 1.240 0.820 0.510 1.010 2.250 0.422 1.250 1.060 1.470 0.550 0.970 0.260 0.600 0.250 0.120 0.155 0.230 0.170 0.075 0.370

-21 6 118 23 -13 194 27 8 7 93 -61 38 -15 22 -25 -13 -7 -6 -7 -68

C$ 1.60 1.26 1.19 1.75 2.50 1.77 2.10 2.09 2.45 1.25 1.34 0.46 0.97 0.55 0.22 0.19 0.49 0.26 0.16 0.83

C$ 0.89 0.52 0.39 1.01 1.32 0.42 0.71 0.91 0.60 0.20 0.36 0.24 0.49 0.07 0.09 0.11 0.05 0.14 0.05 0.09

376.8 380.8 149.0 131.9 79.2 116.2 83.3 88.6 43.8 49.3 135.0 132.6 66.2 76.8 138.2 88.9 48.2 64.7 147.3 51.4

C$ 369.3 331.3 165.4 163.6 154.4 144.1 132.4 101.9 68.8 52.3 51.3 47.7 33.8 23.4 12.4 12.0 10.4 10.4 10.3 6.2

283.2 254.1 126.9 125.4 118.5 110.5 101.6 78.1 52.7 40.1 39.3 36.6 25.9 18.0 9.5 9.2 7.9 7.9 7.9 4.7

GBp 34.750

38

GBp GBp 84.00 18.00

129.4

£ 62.1

80.5

1) owns 49% of Talison Lithium 2) owns 51% of Talison Lithium 3) completed acquisition of General Mining ; 1.65 Galaxy share for 1 General Mining share) as at 16 August 2016 4) Dakota Minerals , name change in Novo Litio effective June 5, 2017 5) formerly Western Lithium USA , name change effective March 31, 2016 6) previously Oakham Capital ; closed three-cornered amalgamation transaction on February 22, 2017; Enirgi Group largest shareholder (18.19%) 7) bought portfolio of exploration projects in Argentina from Orocobre in consideration of US$ 30.5 million in shares and warrants in November 2016 8) formerly Redhill Resources , name change effective May 31, 2016 9) formerly Signal Exploration name change effective November 11, 2016

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9,788.7 3,975.6

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Overview of listed COBALT companies Trading symbol 30 June 2017

Cobalt 27 Capital 1) eCobalt Solutions Fortune Minerals First Cobalt US Cobalt 2) Lico Energy Metals Cruz Cobalt Castle Silver Resources Cobaltech Mining Global Energy Metals

TSX.V TSX.V TSX.V TSX.V TSX.V TSX.V TSX.V TSX.V TSX.V TSX.V

KBLT ECS FT FCC USCO LIC CUZ CSR CSK GEMC

Cobalt One 3) Ardea Resources 4)

ASX ASX

CO1 ARL

1) 2) 3) 4)

(by market capitalization)

Share price Change Current Year-end in % 2017 2016 C$ 9.100 1.120 0.200 0.760 0.700 0.135 0.205 0.255 0.135 0.140 A$ 0.130 0.580

C$ 9.000 0.540 0.125 0.390 0.200 0.135 0.130 0.070 0.240 0.160 A$ 0.050 0.180

1 107 60 95 250 0 58 264 -44 -13 160 222

12 months Total shares Market cap. prices issued million H L million local US$ C$ C$ 13.20 8.87 1.48 0.45 0.34 0.10 0.92 0.06 0.99 0.53 0.24 0.07 0.31 0.10 0.30 0.02 0.45 0.02 0.67 0.125 A$ A$ 0.19 0.02 0.93 0.17

24.6 129.8 300.1 56.7 50.6 106.7 60.3 47.4 86.7 35.4 576.6 67.0

C$ 223.9 171.7 145.4 111.5 60.0 46.0 43.1 33.1 35.4 27.2 14.4 11.0 12.4 9.5 12.1 9.3 11.7 9.0 5.0 3.8 A$ 75.0 57.4 38.9 29.8

name change from Arak Resources - effective 10 April 2017; 1 for 20 shares consolidation as at 23 June 2017 name change from Scientific Metals to US Cobalt - effective May 25, 2017 name change from Equator Resource to Cobalt One - effective May 26, 2017 listed as at 9 February 2017

Overview of listed GRAPHITE companies Trading symbol 30 June 2017

Syrah Resources Magnis Resources Kibaran Resources

ASX ASX ASX

SYR MNS KNL

Zenyatta Ventures Nouveau Monde Graphite Alabama Graphite Canada Carbon Focus Graphite Northern Graphite Graphite One Resources Great Lakes Graphite CKR Carbon 1) Eagle Graphite Lomiko Metals

TSX.V TSX.V TSX.V TSX.V TSX.V TSX.V TSX TSX.V TSX.V TSX.V TSX.V TSX.V

ZEN NOU CSPG CCB FMS NGC GPH CJC GLK CKR EGA LMR

Next Graphite 2)

OTC

GPNE

Canada Strategic Metals

(by market capitalization)

Share price Change Current Year-end in % 2017 2016 A$ 2.770 0.520 0.180

A$ 3.050 0.760 0.190

C$ 1.040 0.280 0.140 0.170 0.080 0.300 0.055 0.125 0.070 0.100 0.030 0.190 US$ 0.020

C$ 0.850 0.235 0.150 0.260 0.065 0.300 0.080 0.115 0.070 0.080 0.030 0.215 US$ 0.030

-9 -32 -5 22 19 -7 -35 23 0 -31 9 0 25 0 -12 -33

12 months Total shares prices issued H L million A$ A$ 6.49 2.23 0.99 0.48 0.31 0.13 C$ 1.55 0.36 0.22 0.32 0.20 0.50 0.13 0.26 0.11 0.19 0.06 0.40 US$ 0.08

C$ 0.63 0.20 0.11 0.14 0.06 0.18 0.06 0.10 0.06 0.06 0.03 0.19 US$ 0.01

263.9 549.7 243.2 60.5 85.9 145.3 99.2 210.8 51.5 241.1 88.6 125.7 71.0 277.9 19.7 51.4

Market cap. million local US$ A$ 731.0 285.8 43.8

559.9 219.0 33.5

C$ 62.9 24.1 20.3 16.9 16.9 15.5 13.3 11.1 8.8 7.1 8.3 3.7 US$ 1.0

1) formerly Caribou King Resources ; earned 63% interest in the Aukam Graphite Project in Namibia from Next Graphite in January 2017 2) sold 63% interest in the Aukam Graphite Project in Namibia to CKR Carbon in January 2017

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48.3 18.4 15.6 12.9 12.9 11.9 10.2 8.5 6.7 5.4 6.4 2.9 1.0

Overview of listed TUNGSTEN companies Trading symbol 30 June 2017

(by market capitalization)

Share price Change Current Year-end in % 2017 2016

12 months Total shares prices issued H L million

Market cap. million local US$

Almonty Industries

TSX.V AII

C$ 0.245

C$ 0.270

-9

C$ 0.44

C$ 0.20

110.9

C$ 27.2

20.8

Wolf Minerals Carbine Tungsten

ASX ASX

A$ 0.060 0.010

A$ 0.080 0.020

-25 -50

A$ 0.13 0.03

A$ 0.06 0.01

1,088.0 482.9

A$ 65.3 4.8

50.0 3.7

WLF CNQ

Overview of listed TITANIUM companies Trading symbol 30 June 2017

(by market capitalization)

Share price Change Current Year-end in % 2017 2016

12 months prices H L

Total shares issued million

Market cap. million local US$

US$ US$ 19.96 4.70 19.99 4.17

115.9 66.3

US$ 2,111.7 2,111.7 1,002.5 1,002.5

US$ 18.22 15.12

US$ 6.78 10.31

169 47

RGX

C$ 0.05

C$ 0.06

-17

C$ 0.11

C$ 0.04

206.1

Iluka Resources ASX TNG ASX Mineral Deposits 1) ASX

ILU TNG MDL

A$ 8.68 0.15 0.67

A$ 7.27 0.14 0.49

19 7 37

A$ 9.34 0.19 0.73

A$ 5.32 0.11 0.23

418.7 804.5 197.0

GBp

GBp

BlueJay Mining

JAY

14.13

6.78

Kronos Worldwide Tronox

NYSE KRO NYSE TROX

Argex Titanium

TSX

2)

AIM

GBp GBp 108

16.50

4.70

C$ 10.3

7.9

A$ 3,634.3 2,783.9 120.7 92.4 132.0 101.1 £

766.9

108.4

140.4

1) owns 50% of the TiZir joint venture in partnership with ERAMET of France 2) name change from FinnAust Mining Plc to BlueJay Mining Plc effective March 13, 2017

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