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1 1 December 2017

2 Forward Looking Statements Some of the statements in this document may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. All statements in this document, other than statements of historical facts, that address events or developments that management of the Company expects, are forward-looking statements. Although reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. The Company undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements if management s beliefs, estimates or opinions, or other factors, should change. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, include market prices, exploration and development successes, continued availability of capital and financing, and general economic, market or business conditions. Please see the public filings of the Company at for further information. Qualified Person Cornell McDowell, P. Geo., V.P. of Exploration for Aben is the Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument and has reviewed and approved the technical information in this presentation. 2 2

3 Aben Trading Symbols TSX-Venture Exchange: US OTC Pink Symbol: Frankfurt Exchange: ABN ABNAF E2L2 Shares Outstanding: 53,248,149 Fully Diluted Shares: 82,278,194 Recent Share Price: CDN $0.12 Market Capitalization: CDN $6.4 million 3 3

4 Aben Stock Chart 4 4

5 Aben s Investment Highlights THREE c HIGHLY PROSPECTIVE GOLD PROJECTS IN GEOPOLITICALLY FAVOURABLE WESTERN CANADA The flagship Forrest Kerr Project located in BC s Golden Triangle region proximal to recent discoveries made by GT Gold and Colorado Resources The Chico Project located in Saskatchewan which was recently ranked the #1 mining jurisdiction globally by the Fraser Institute The Justin Project located in the Yukon adjacent to Golden Predator s 3 Aces Project SIGNIFICANT HISTORIC WORK HAS BEEN PERFORMED ON ALL PROJECTS INCLUDING HIGH GRADE GOLD IN PREVIOUS DRILLING; ROBUST UPSIDE DISCOVERY POTENTIAL REMAINING EXPERIENCED MANAGEMENT TEAM WITH PROVEN TRACK RECORDS OF SUCCESS AND FOCUSED EXPERTISE IN WESTERN CANADA 5 5

6 Management, Directors and Advisory Board Ronald Netolitzky, M.Sc. Geology: Director, Chairman Ron Netolitzky serves as Chairman of the Board of Aben Resources. Mr. Netolitzky holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Alberta and a M.Sc. degree from the University of Calgary, both in geological sciences. He has had an illustrious career in the mining and exploration industry with over 40 years of experience and having been directly associated with three major gold discoveries in Canada that subsequently went into production: Eskay Creek, Snip and Brewery Creek. Notably, two of these deposits and mines, Esaky Creek and Snip, are located in the Golden Triangle of British Columbia. In 2006, his Viceroy Exploration was acquired by Yamana Gold Inc. for its Gualcamayo gold deposit for $577 million. Mr. Netolitzky has been honored with the Prospector of the Year award from the PDAC, and Developer of the Year award from the BC & Yukon Chamber of Mines. In 2015, he was inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame. James G. Pettit: Director, President & CEO Jim Pettit has been President & CEO and a Director of Aben Resources since November Mr. Pettit is currently serving on the board of directors of five publicly traded companies and offers over 30 years of experience within the industry specializing in finance, corporate governance, executive management and compliance. Jim was previously Chairman and CEO of Bayfield Ventures Corp. which was acquired by New Gold Inc. in Timothy Termuende: P.Geo., Director Tim Termuende serves as a Director of Aben Resources and is a professional geologist with over 30 years experience in the mineral exploration industry and is a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument Since earning his degree in Geological Sciences at the University of British Columbia in 1987, Mr. Termuende has worked on exploration projects throughout North, Central, and South America and has been personally involved in exploration at and around Aben s flagship project, Forrest Kerr in the Golden Triangle, since the early 1990's. He has been continuously active in mineral exploration throughout western Canada since 1976, and currently oversees a broad range of ongoing exploration projects located throughout British Columbia, Saskatchewan, the Yukon and the Northwest Territories. 6

7 Management, Directors and Advisory Board Cornell McDowell, P.Geo., Vice President of Exploration & Qualified Person Cornell McDowell is a professional geologist registered in both Alberta and British Columbia and serves as V.P. of Exploration of Aben Resources. He has been self-employed as a geological consultant throughout the past decade with both publicly listed and privately held mineral exploration corporations. Most recently he helped take Gold Reach's Ootsa project from the initial exploration stage through to resource development which ended with the delivery of a positive PEA. He is currently President & CEO of North Sur Resources and serves on the board and audit committee for Manson Creek Resources. Michael Roberts: Ph.D., P.Geo., Technical Advisory Board Mike is a professional geologist with over 15 years of experience in mineral exploration and was recently the V.P. of Exploration for Kiska Metals Corporation. As a field geologist for several junior exploration companies and as V.P. for Kiska, Mike has conducted and managed grassroots to advanced exploration programs for base and breccia metals in North America and Australia, typically in partnerships with major mining companies. Mike is passionate about the mineral potential of B.C., and has been actively involved in exploration programs in the Forrest Kerr area since Henry Awmack: P.Geo., TechnicalAdvisory Board Henry has over 30 years of experience in the mining industry. As a co-founder of Equity Engineering Ltd. in 1987, Mr. Awmack has managed all aspects of a geological consulting and contracting firm including project planning and execution, hiring of field crews, geological fieldwork, property examinations and preparation of technical reports. He has worked around the world exploring for a variety of commodities and has extensive "on the ground" experience in the Forrest Kerr area in B.C. Mr. Awmack holds a B.Sc. (Honours) Applied Science in Geological Engineering from the University of British Columbia and is registered as a professional engineer with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia. 7

8 Management and Board s Track Record of Success Eskay, Snip, Brewery Creek Viceroy Exploration (TSX-V: VYE) Bayfield Ventures (TSX-V: BYV) Copper Canyon (TSX-V: CPY) Aben Resources (TSX-V: ABN) Ron Netolitzky has been directly associated with three major gold discoveries in Canada that have subsequently been put into production: Two of which are in the Golden Triangle Eskay Creek, Snip and Brewery Creek Mr. Netolitzky was previously Chairman and President of Viceroy Exploration Ltd., which achieved exploration success with its Gualcaymayo gold project in Argentina Successfully sold the company to Yamana Gold in 2006 for $577M Jim Pettit led the Bayfield team that made high grade gold discovery on Bayfield Ventures Burns Block in Ontario Successfully sold the company to New Gold in 2014 Tim Termuende was previously the President and CEO of Copper Canyon, a copper exploration; the company made a high grade copper discovery in the Golden Triangle Successfully sold the company to NovaGold in 2011 A gold exploration company with the goal of making the next high grade discovery in BC s Golden Triangle where Eskay Creek and Snip are located with experienced management and technical team Producing Sold Sold Sold Exploring 8

9 Aben s Forrest Kerr Gold Project Highlights Aben s flagship gold project totals 23,000 hectares located in a worldclass gold district, B.C. s Golden Triangle Acquisition through option agreements of the three properties that make up the Forest Kerr Project Significant historic work has been performed across the whole project area including previous drilling that returned high grade gold drill intercepts Data compilation study has been performed incorporating all historic data; regional scale approach to exploration and knowledge is now possible First season of fieldwork and drilling will include but not be limited to the testing of excellent drill results in historic holes: Boundary Zone drill hole RG91-16 returned 33.4 g/t Au over 11m Carcass Creek Zone drill hole RG91-21 returned 9.9 g/t Au over 29.3m Boundary and Carcass Creek Zones are 4 km apart Gossan Creek Zone has a large, relatively untested gold in soil anomaly extending over 3 km 9

10 The Golden Triangle Region in NW British Columbia A stable, geopolitically favourable jurisdiction with an abundance of mining and exploration activities This region has hosted significant mineral deposits including: Pretium (Brucejack), Eskay Creek, Snip, Galore Creek, Copper Canyon, Schaft Creek, KSM, Granduc, Red Chris and more Recent discoveries have reignited interest in the district including discoveries made at GT Gold s Tatogga Property (north of Aben s Forrest Kerr Project) as well as at Colorado Resources KSM Property (adjacent to the south of Aben s Forrest Kerr Project) Aben s Forrest Kerr claim package encompasses in excess of 23,000 hectares which consists of a 40 km long north-south belt overlying rocks of the Hazelton and Stuhini Groups, a complex assemblage of volcanic accumulations with intervening sedimentary sequences which are host to significant gold deposits in the Golden Triangle Aben can earn a 100% interest over the entire claim group by expending $3,000,000 on exploration by June

11 Forrest Kerr Gold Project A New Look Despite the high grade historic drill results from the early 1990 s and 2000 s, limited follow up work has been carried out since then due to high drilling costs / limited accessibility, historic glacier coverage, and a less comprehensive understanding of the geology until recently Significant improvements to infrastructure recently have lowered exploration costs and made the project more accessible: Forrest Kerr is now road accessible on both the north and south portions of the property Northern road, Galore Creek access road, has cut through 9 km of geology that is very prospective for hosting high grade gold deposits and VMS style gold deposits AltaGas-owned 250 man camp located on property area Existing power line and power generation (hydroelectric facilities) located on southern part of property Proposed power line transects northern portion of the property In addition, rapid glacial retreats over the past 25 years have exposed extensive new areas of outcrop exposure in this highly prospective region Lastly, Aben's technical team has spent over a year analyzing and reinterpreting the historical exploration and geological data with the help of structural geologists to get a better understanding of the existing targets and high grade gold mineralization at the project 11

12 Forrest Kerr Gold Project Upcoming Catalysts 2016 H H Completed deals to acquire Forrest Kerr property Added geologists and technical advisors to Advisory Board with focused expertise in the Golden Triangle Reinterpretation of target types at Forrest Kerr in light of the significance, size and success of other deposits in the Golden Triangle (e.g. Brucejack) Closed $1.7M in financings to fund summer 2017 drill program Commenced summer diamond drill program at Forrest Kerr; test high grade gold zones discovered in previous drilling at Boundary + Carcass Creek Zones Completed 9 hole drill program 12

13 2017 Forrest Kerr Exploration Program 13 14

14 2017 Boundary North Exploration 14 14

15 2017 Boundary Zone Exploration 15 15

16 2017 Boundary Cross Section 16 15

17 2017 Forrest Kerr Soil Sampling Exploration 17 16

18 Chico Gold Project Highlights Aben has option to earn up to 80% of Chico Gold Project 125 kilometres east of La Ronge, Saskatchewan and 40 kilometres south of Silver Standard Resources' Seabee/Santoy mine complex; workable all year round Seabee/Santoy achieved highest annual gold production in 26 year history in 77,640 ounces from feed averaging 7.91 g/t Au Silver Standard acquired Seabee/Santoy through its acquisition of Claude Resources in May 2016 with deal valued at $337 million Chico project has the same structural features as Seabee and Santoy deposits and Chico trend extends over 1.5 km: Shear hosted gold bearing quartz veining in secondary splays Multi-episodic tension gash, ribbon and sheeted quartz vein arrays Gabbro and granite host rocks Positive gold, copper and silver geochemical associations Potassic, carbonate, hematite, calc-silicate and silica alteration 18 17

19 Chico Gold Project Previous Exploration and Future Plans Significant, shallow gold intercepts in all historic holes drilled including: oz/ton Au over 0.4m at Chico showing oz/ton Au over 2.0m at Royex Over 100 samples from Chico have graded > 500 ppb Au in eight trenched areas; historic and 2016 soil samples consistently anomalous along Chico trend with up to 4,523 ppb Au Completed IP Geophysical surveys to help refine identify additional targets Project is drill ready and drilling permits have been obtained for potential winter 2018 drill program: Drill along strike and to depth near previous high grade drill intercepts Drill test soil/rock geochemical anomalies and intersecting mineralized vectors Follow up on 2016 geochemical anomalies in context of new structural interpretation and geophysical data 19 18

20 Chico 2016 Airborne Geophysics Effective in delineating diorite/gabbro lithology Total Magnetics Vertical Gradient Magnetics 19

21 Chico / Seabee / Santoy Similarities Shear hosted gold bearing quartz veining in secondary splays Multi-episodic tension gash, ribbon and sheeted quartz vein arrays Gabbro and granite host rocks Positive gold, copper and silver geochemical associations Potassic, carbonate, hematite, calcsilicate and silica alteration 20

22 Future Work at Chico Project is drill ready drilling permits have been obtained Along strike and to depth near previous high grade intercepts Soil/rock geochemical anomalies intersecting mineralized vectors IP Geophysical surveys to help refine identify additional targets Follow up 2016 geochemical anomalies in context of new structural interpretation and geophysical data Continued prospecting, geochemical surveys and mapping 21

23 Justin Gold Project, Yukon Territory Aben owns a 100% interest in the 18,314 acre Justin Gold Project in southeast Yukon adjacent to Golden Predator s 3 Aces project The property has the potential to host both high-grade and bulktonnage gold zones within three different styles of mineralization: epithermal, skarn and sediment-hosted Wide spread mineralization across property in a NNW trending anomaly measuring 3.5 km long and 0.5 km wide encompassing the Confluence, Main, Kangas, and POW Zones Previous drilling encountered gold mineralization in holes drilled on the POW Zone; discovery of a greenfields Intrusive Related Gold System (IRGS) in 2011 drilling 23 22

24 Justin Gold Project POW Zone Discovery Multi-phase precious metal mineralization has been discovered in the POW Zone: contact metamorphic skarn (massive replacement style mineralization) and structurally controlled stockwork vein hosted mineralization Both phases of mineralization display geochemical affinity to an Intrusion Related Gold System and indicates that the mineralizing system was long-lived; notable IRGS deposits within Tintina Gold Belt include Kinross' Fort Knox operation in Alaska and Victoria Gold s Eagle Gold Deposit A total of 4,014 metres was drilled in 19 holes during the 2011 & 2012 field seasons with 10 drill holes successfully intersecting gold mineralization Significant drill results include hole JN11009 with 2.47 g/t Au over 21m within 60m of 1.19 g/t Au, and hole JN12011 with 46.4m of 1.49 g/t Au The POW Zone exhibits strong continuity of mineralization and remains open in all directions POW Zone Discovery: Kangas Zone Discovery: Hole JN g/t Ag, 1.1 g/t Au, 3.52% Cu over 1.07m* * Poor sample recovery but still significant result Hole JN g/t Au over 21m within 60m of 1.19 g/t Au Hole JN g/t Au and 29 g/t Ag over 11.3m POW Zone open in all directions

25 CONTACT INFO. Jim Pettit: President & CEO Don Myers: Investor Relations Suite 1610, 777 Dunsmuir Street Vancouver, BC, V7Y 1K4, CANADA Tel: (604) Fax: (604) Toll Free: Web Site: