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Page 1: RRI Corporate Presentation January 2020 · Disclosure for Mineral Projects and is a co-author of the 43-101 Technical Report on the PeñolesGold-Silver Project, Durango State, Mexico

CORPORATE PRESENTATION January 2020

Page 2: RRI Corporate Presentation January 2020 · Disclosure for Mineral Projects and is a co-author of the 43-101 Technical Report on the PeñolesGold-Silver Project, Durango State, Mexico

Disclaimer

Forward-Looking Statements

This document contains forward-looking statements and factual information that are current as of the date the document was originally created.Riverside Resources Inc. (“the Company”) disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether asa result of new information, future events or otherwise. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to thetiming and amount of estimated future exploration, success of exploration activities, expenditures, permitting, and requirements for additionalcapital and access to data.

Forward looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause the actual results,performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed orimplied by the forward looking statements. Such factors include, among others, risks related to actual results of current exploration activities;changes in project parameters as plans continue to be refined; the ability to enter into joint ventures or to acquire or dispose of properties; futureprices of mineral resources; accidents, labor disputes and other risks of the mining industry; ability to obtain financing; and delays in obtaininggovernmental approvals of financing

Any statements, opinions, projections, forecasts or other material contained in this presentation do not constitute a commitment, representationor warranty by the company or its directors, officers, agents or employees. The directors, officers, agents and employees of the company shallin no way be liable to any person or body for any loss, claim, demand, damages, costs or expenses of whatsoever nature arising in any way outof, or in connection with, the information contained in this presentation. This presentation does not constitute an offer to sell securities and is nota solicitation of an offer to buy securities. It is not to be distributed to third parties without the consent of the company. An investment in thecompany is considered to be speculative in nature. Each individual should rely solely upon its own investigations and inquiries with respect tothe company and agrees it will not in any way rely upon this presentation. The company recommends that you consult your own professionaladvisor(s).

Qualified Person

The scientific and technical data contained in this presentation relating Riverside’s mineral properties was reviewed by Freeman Smith, P.Geo., a non-independent qualified person to Riverside Resources, who acts as a "qualified person" under National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.

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Page 3: RRI Corporate Presentation January 2020 · Disclosure for Mineral Projects and is a co-author of the 43-101 Technical Report on the PeñolesGold-Silver Project, Durango State, Mexico

Investment Highlights

• Highly experienced & focused

exploration team

• 75,000 Location Database

($20M+ in past investment)

• +$2.5M in cash and +$1.5M in

other junior resource equities

• Less than 63M shares

outstanding

• New partnerships in 2020

– Exploration Funding Agreement with

BHP (focus on copper)

• Canadian Project Acquisitions

• Mexico Project Transactions

• Gold-Silver resource

project + new discovery

drilling in 2020

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Partner-funded Exploration in Sonora, Mexico

Page 4: RRI Corporate Presentation January 2020 · Disclosure for Mineral Projects and is a co-author of the 43-101 Technical Report on the PeñolesGold-Silver Project, Durango State, Mexico

Experienced and Balanced Management Team

Management • John-Mark Staude, President & CEO• Alberto Orozco, VP Corporate

Development • Freeman Smith, VP Exploration • Pedro Herrera,

Country Manager (Mexico) • Robert Scott, CFO

Board of Directors & Advisors • John-Mark Staude, Director• Brian Groves, Director• Carol Ellis, Director• James Clare, Director • Walter Henry, Director• Ron Burk, Advisor • Joness Lang, Advisor

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Riverside in the Field with Directors

For full bios please visit Riverside’s

website at www.rivres.com

Page 5: RRI Corporate Presentation January 2020 · Disclosure for Mineral Projects and is a co-author of the 43-101 Technical Report on the PeñolesGold-Silver Project, Durango State, Mexico

Highly Experienced Technical TeamJohn-Mark Staude, President & CEO Mr. Staude earned a Masters of Science from Harvard University in 1989 and a Ph.D. in economic geology from the University of Arizona in 1995.

Alberto Orozco, VP Corporate DevelopmentMr. Orozco has 15 years of mining experience working with Linear Gold Corp., Pediment Gold and more recently, Argonaut Gold

Freeman Smith, VP Exploration Mr. Smith has 19 years of professional experience in the resource industry working with Oro Gold, BCGold Corp and GoldplayExplorations.

Pedro Herrera, Country Manager (Mexico) Mr. Herrera holds his MSc. and has more than 20 years of exploration experience throughout Mexico.

Ron Burk, Advisor Mr. Burk has 30 years of work experiencein the minerals industry and contributed in the discovery of the Pitarrilla Project in Durango, Mexico.

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Companies our technical team have formerly worked with

Page 6: RRI Corporate Presentation January 2020 · Disclosure for Mineral Projects and is a co-author of the 43-101 Technical Report on the PeñolesGold-Silver Project, Durango State, Mexico

Share Structure and Key Shareholders

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Major Shareholders own ~70% of outstanding shares

Issued(since IPO in 2007)

62,691,188

Options 3,941,000

Warrants (0.22) 17,488,875

Fully Diluted 84,121,063

Cash +$2,500,000

52 Week Hi-Lo $0.22 - $0.125

Market Cap ~C$10M

~5%

~35%

~15%~15%~2%

~28%

Retail Investors European Investor Group*

TrimarkCapital Ltd.

*European Investor Group consists of high net worth investors and small resource funds

*These amounts are estimated to the best of our knowledge as of January 1, 2020

Page 7: RRI Corporate Presentation January 2020 · Disclosure for Mineral Projects and is a co-author of the 43-101 Technical Report on the PeñolesGold-Silver Project, Durango State, Mexico

Riverside’s Equity Portfolio

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*+$1.5M CAD deemed value as of January 1, 2020

**Shares held in illiquid private companies/shells

Shares Held by Riverside

+2.5M*

1M*

~15M** Other Private/Non-Public Companies

Page 8: RRI Corporate Presentation January 2020 · Disclosure for Mineral Projects and is a co-author of the 43-101 Technical Report on the PeñolesGold-Silver Project, Durango State, Mexico

Partner Funded Exploration

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Partners

For every $1 Riverside spends on exploration the Company has generated ~$2 in partner-funded exploration.

*since inception

Page 9: RRI Corporate Presentation January 2020 · Disclosure for Mineral Projects and is a co-author of the 43-101 Technical Report on the PeñolesGold-Silver Project, Durango State, Mexico

Past Strategic Partnerships

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26 km

40 km

USAMEXICO

Major companies Riverside has had Strategic Alliances with

Page 10: RRI Corporate Presentation January 2020 · Disclosure for Mineral Projects and is a co-author of the 43-101 Technical Report on the PeñolesGold-Silver Project, Durango State, Mexico

Exploration Funding Agreement with BHP

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• BHP to fund US$1M/year for a minimum of two-years for copper generative work

• Focus on the central portion of the Laramide Copper Belt in Sonora, Mexico

• Monthly management feesplus 10% for all work

• Built in success fee paymentsto Riverside at each stage of development

• Three Stages1. Project Generation Phase (I)2. Project Operation Phase (II)

3. Joint Venture Stage (III)

Region of Copper Belt of Mexico and Riverside-BHP Generative program

Page 11: RRI Corporate Presentation January 2020 · Disclosure for Mineral Projects and is a co-author of the 43-101 Technical Report on the PeñolesGold-Silver Project, Durango State, Mexico

Progressing the Portfolio

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26 km

40 k

m

USAMEXICO

GOLD SILVER PROJECT Drilling Program Discovery re-rating of

Project

PEÑOLES SILVER-GOLD PROJECT Expanded drilling Project spin-out

CANADIAN GOLD PROJECT

Funded drill program with partner Conserves RRI capital

ARIEL COPPER PROJECT Joint Venture Partnership Expanding RRI’s Copper

exposure

PROJECT 2020 MILESTONE VALUE CREATION

Page 12: RRI Corporate Presentation January 2020 · Disclosure for Mineral Projects and is a co-author of the 43-101 Technical Report on the PeñolesGold-Silver Project, Durango State, Mexico

Expanding into Canada

Page 13: RRI Corporate Presentation January 2020 · Disclosure for Mineral Projects and is a co-author of the 43-101 Technical Report on the PeñolesGold-Silver Project, Durango State, Mexico

Why Canada? Why Ontario?

• Ontario is the leading mining jurisdiction in Canada

• Ontario’s mining belts are within mining friendly jurisdictions and host excellent infrastructure and numerous producing mines

• Riverside’s projects are located Northeast of Thunder bay Ontario within the Beardmore-Geraldton Greenstone Belt (BGGB)

43%57%

Gold Production %

Ontario

Rest of Canada

Page 14: RRI Corporate Presentation January 2020 · Disclosure for Mineral Projects and is a co-author of the 43-101 Technical Report on the PeñolesGold-Silver Project, Durango State, Mexico

Oakes Gold Project

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26 km

40 km

USAMEXICO

• Located in Ontario, Canada • Good access and close to

necessary infrastructure

• Historical high-grade gold intercepts

• Riverside’s 1st phase exploration program found *high-grade gold samples of 19.7 g/t Au and 31.9 g/t Au*(see press release July 29, 2019)

• 2nd phase exploration program found high-grade gold of up to 7 g/t Au*(see press release Dec 11, 2019)

• High-grade gold discovery potential

• Identifying and sampling targets for a proposed drill program at the Project

• Available for option

Page 15: RRI Corporate Presentation January 2020 · Disclosure for Mineral Projects and is a co-author of the 43-101 Technical Report on the PeñolesGold-Silver Project, Durango State, Mexico

Diverse High-Quality Mexico Portfolio

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Page 16: RRI Corporate Presentation January 2020 · Disclosure for Mineral Projects and is a co-author of the 43-101 Technical Report on the PeñolesGold-Silver Project, Durango State, Mexico

Los Cuarentas Gold-Silver Project

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26 km

USAMEXICO

• 100% Riverside owned

• Located in NE Sonora, Mexico & 17 km NW of

SilverCrest Metals’ Las

Chispas mine with similar geology

• High-grade, low-sulphidationepithermal gold quartz vein system

• Good access and close to necessary infrastructure

• Drill permits approved

• Identifying and sampling targets for a proposed drill program

Page 17: RRI Corporate Presentation January 2020 · Disclosure for Mineral Projects and is a co-author of the 43-101 Technical Report on the PeñolesGold-Silver Project, Durango State, Mexico

Cecilia Gold-Silver Project

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26 km

Agua Prieta

40 km

USAMEXICO

CECILIA

Cananea – World-class Porphyry Copper Deposit

• Located in NE Sonora, Mexico, 40 km east of Cananea (Mexico’s largest copper city)

• Good access and close to necessary infrastructure

• Near-surface gold mineralization amenable to open-pit mining

• Riverside’s 1st phase exploration found *high-grade gold and silver assays up to 113 g/t Au & 288 g/t Ag *(see press release June 6, 2017)

• Drill permit approved with drill targets identified

• Identifying and sampling targets for a proposed drill program

Page 18: RRI Corporate Presentation January 2020 · Disclosure for Mineral Projects and is a co-author of the 43-101 Technical Report on the PeñolesGold-Silver Project, Durango State, Mexico

Cecilia Gold-Silver Project

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Riverside located 4 (four) new target areas at Cecilia and identified gold rich rock intervals at Cerro Magallanes

Cerro Magallanes

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CECILIA PROJECTCentral Target Area

Drilling Au Intercepts

Surface rock samplesAu Composites (m @ g/t)

Underground samples Au Composites (m @ g/t)

Structural Target Zone

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0 100 200 300m

27m @ 9.20 g/t Au

19m @ 2.37 g/t Au

17m @ 2.88 g/t Au

20m @ 2.44 g/t Au

27m @ 1.31 g/t Au

21m @ 2.44 g/t Au

8m @ 3.11 g/t Au

11m @ 5.38 g/t Au

29m @ 1.64 g/t Au

19m @ 2.11 gr/t Au

12m @ 1.98 g/t Au

8m @ 8.27 g/t Au

8m @ 8.27 g/t Au

25m @ 1.32 g/t Au

25m @ 3.63 g/t Au

16m @ 1.92 g/t Au

San Jose NW

Structure

San Jose NW

Structure

47m @ 1.12 g/t Au

14m @ 2.44 g/t Au

26m @ 1.96 g/t Au

22m @ 1.46 g/t Au

San Jose Target

Aqua Prieta Target

Central Target

East Target

North Breccia Target

*Grades are not true widths - Sampling along structures

Page 19: RRI Corporate Presentation January 2020 · Disclosure for Mineral Projects and is a co-author of the 43-101 Technical Report on the PeñolesGold-Silver Project, Durango State, Mexico

PEÑOLES PROJECT

Peñoles Gold-Silver Project

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• 100% Riverside owned

• *500K Oz Au eqNI 43-101 Resource

• 11,500 metres of drilling and open

• All reported resources within 150 metres from surface

• Open in multiple directions, >5 district targets

• Initial Inferred *43-101 resource estimate: – 305,000oz Au

@ 0.46 g/t & – 15,150,000oz + Ag

@ 62.3 g/t

*The El Capitan gold and Jesus Maria silver Inferred Mineral Resource estimates were done by Robert Sim, P.Geo of SIM Geological Inc. Mr. Sim is an

Independent Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 Standards of

Disclosure for Mineral Projects and is a co-author of the 43-101 Technical Report on the Peñoles Gold-Silver Project, Durango State, Mexico that was made public on April 16, 2015. “Inferred Mineral Resources” have a great amount of uncertainty as to their existence and economic viability.

Page 20: RRI Corporate Presentation January 2020 · Disclosure for Mineral Projects and is a co-author of the 43-101 Technical Report on the PeñolesGold-Silver Project, Durango State, Mexico

• Past partner-funded drilling, underground sampling and trenching at the historical Jesus Maria silver mine discovered high-grade Ag.

• Drill highlights included*:

JM DDH 14-10: 4.25 m at

732.24 g/t Ag & 1.2 g/t Au

JM DDH 14-24: 7.15 m at

988.43 g/t Ag & 1.24 g/t Au

JM DDH 14-26: 3.00 m at 573.8 g/t Ag & 0.29 g/t Au

JM DDH 14-27: 18.7 m at 203.92 g/t Ag & 0.65 g/t Au

*All intercepts above reported within first 150m from surface

*See slide 19 for 43-101 mineral resource estimate statement. Updated in 2019

Peñoles Gold-Silver Project – Jesus Maria Target

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Riverside’s President and CEO, John-Mark Staude, visits historical workings at Jesus Maria

Exploration at Peñoles

Page 21: RRI Corporate Presentation January 2020 · Disclosure for Mineral Projects and is a co-author of the 43-101 Technical Report on the PeñolesGold-Silver Project, Durango State, Mexico

Oxide Gold in Veins

La Silla Gold-Silver Project

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• Good access and close to necessary infrastructure

• 23 km2 land package with epithermal Au-Ag vein system

• High-grade Au-Ag samples collected in June 2018*– 19.9 g/t Au– 200 g/t Ag *(see press release June 19, 2018)

• Riverside’s previous exploration program expanded previous work refining targets for potential future drilling

• Riverside has signed a Definitive Agreement*with Sinaloa Resources Inc*(see press release Feb 19,2019)

Schematic Cross-Section Looking West at the Ciruelos Vein

Page 22: RRI Corporate Presentation January 2020 · Disclosure for Mineral Projects and is a co-author of the 43-101 Technical Report on the PeñolesGold-Silver Project, Durango State, Mexico

Tajitos Gold Project

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Red Areas = Riverside Concessions

• Located in NW Sonora, Mexico in the heart of the Sonora MegashearGold Belt

• Large 61 km2 land package with orogenic gold system and open pit potential

• High-grade gold previously mined 100% Riverside owned

• Tajitos Project is surrounded by two advanced projects: – Fresnillo PLC’s Tajitos Project – Agnico Eagle’s Pitaya Project

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RRI Copper Portfolio – Available for Partnership

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Riverside has two Copper Assets

Major Mexico Copper Mines

ARIEL PROJECT

TECO PROJECT

ARIEL

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Asset Value Drivers

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26 km

40 km

USA

Riverside’s Portfolio & Partnerships

100% Owned Projects

Cecilia Gold-Silver Project

Peñoles Gold-Silver Project

Tajitos Gold Project

Ariel Copper Project

Partner-Funded Projects

Sugarloaf Peak Gold Project

La Silla Gold-Silver Project

Funded Exploration Program

BHP Exploration Partnership Program for copper discovery in Sonora, Mexico

CANADA MEXICOOakes Gold Project

LongroseGold Project

Los CuarentasGold-Silver Project

Pichette Gold Project

Page 25: RRI Corporate Presentation January 2020 · Disclosure for Mineral Projects and is a co-author of the 43-101 Technical Report on the PeñolesGold-Silver Project, Durango State, Mexico

Upcoming 2020 Catalysts & Value Drivers

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• Riverside commences Exploration Funding Agreement with BHP• Lead generation à Copper Discovery

• Riverside expects to deliver partner-funded drill program at Oakes Gold Project

• Continued exploration at Riverside owned projects:• Cecilia Project: Targets identified & permitted

for drilling• Los Cuarentas Project: Drill

permitted

• New strategic partnerships to advance existing 100%-owned Riverside projects

• New project acquisitions and portfolio growth: • Mexico Expansion (Advancing the Los Cuarentas

Project)• Canadian Acquisitions (Sampling programs and

working up targets)

Page 26: RRI Corporate Presentation January 2020 · Disclosure for Mineral Projects and is a co-author of the 43-101 Technical Report on the PeñolesGold-Silver Project, Durango State, Mexico

Summary & Key Takeaways

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• Riverside has more than $2.5M in the treasury, no debt & a strong shareholder base with less than63M shares outstanding

• The Company has a strong portfolio of gold-silver and copper assets in stable jurisdictions and is actively adding new quality projects to the portfolio

• Partners consistently de-risking the portfolio and advancing projects towards discovery and resource development with valuation catalysts of new deals, exploration results and upcoming drill programs

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Riverside Resources Inc.

Suite 550 – 800 West Pender StreetVancouver, BC, Canada V6C 2V6

+1 778.327.6671 x 312

[email protected]