CORPORATE PRESENTATION JANUARY 2018

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1 CORPORATE PRESENTATION JANUARY 2018 EXPLORING WITH STRONG PARTNERS AND LEADING-EDGE TECHNOLOGY Pinaya-Copper Gold Project, Peru

2 FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS The TSX-V has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this presentation. Neither the TSX-V nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX-V) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this presentation. Certain statements in this presentation constitute forward-looking statements or forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Such statements can be identified by the use of words such as may, would, could, will, intend, expect, believe, plan, anticipate, estimate, scheduled, forecast, predict, foresee and other similar terminology, or state that certain actions, events or results may, could, would, might or will be taken, occur or be achieved. These statements reflect Kaizen s current expectations regarding future events, performance and results and speak only as of the date of this presentation. These include, but are not limited to, statements regarding: the acquisition of projects that match evaluation criteria and align with corporate strategic objectives of the Company; participation by Japanese strategic partners, including at the project level; receipt of the third payment by ITOCHU in respect of its funding of the Pinaya Copper-Gold Project; Kaizen providing matching funding of up to C$2.5 million for the Pinaya Copper-Gold Project; the development of exploration programs at Kaizen s projects; technologies and expertise; and the identification, exploration and development of new, high quality mineral projects. Such statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Kaizen or its mineral projects, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements or information. In making such statements, Kaizen has made assumptions regarding, among other things: general business and economic conditions; the availability of additional exploration and mineral project financing; the supply and demand for, inventories of, and the level and volatility of the prices of metals; ongoing relationships with strategic partners; the timing and receipt of governmental permits, approvals, and licenses; changes in regulations; political factors; the accuracy of the Company s interpretation of drill results; the geology, grade and continuity of the Company s mineral deposits; the availability of equipment, skilled labour and services needed for the exploration and development of mineral properties; and currency fluctuations. This presentation also contains references to estimates of Mineral Resources. The estimation of Mineral Resources is inherently uncertain and involves subjective judgments about many relevant factors. Mineral Resources that are not Mineral Reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability. The accuracy of any such estimates is a function of the quantity and quality of available data, and of the assumptions made and judgments used in engineering and geological interpretation, which may prove to be unreliable and depend, to a certain extent, upon the analysis of drilling results and statistical inferences that ultimately may prove to be inaccurate. Mineral Resource estimates may have to be re-estimated based on: (i) fluctuations in mineral prices; (ii) results of drilling; (iii) metallurgical testing and other studies; (iv) proposed and completed mining exploration programs; (v) the evaluation of exploration and drilling plans subsequent to the date of any estimates; and (vi) the possible failure to receive required permits, approvals and licenses. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this presentation and are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. Subject to applicable securities laws, Kaizen does not assume any obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this presentation. Forward-looking information is designed to help you understand management s current views of the Company s near and longer term prospects, and it may not be appropriate for other purposes. Kaizen will not update any forward-looking statements or forward-looking information unless we are required to by applicable securities laws. The forward-looking statements contained herein are based on information available and are made as of January 18,

3 DISCLAIMER AND QUALIFIED PERSONS The information in this presentation is published to inform you about Kaizen Discovery and its activities. To the extent permitted by law, Kaizen Discovery accepts no responsibility or liability for any losses or damages of any kind arising out of the use of any information contained in this presentation. Recipients should make their own enquiries in relation to any investment decisions. This presentation does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any securities in any jurisdiction, including the United States. Mineral resources are considered too speculative geologically to have the economic considerations applied to them that would enable them to be categorized as mineral reserves and it is uncertain if further exploration will result in the any resource reported herein being delineated as a mineral reserve. National Instrument (NI) Qualified Persons Pinaya Copper-Gold Project: The scientific and technical information herein related to the Pinaya Project has been reviewed and verified by Mark Gibson, PrNatSci, Chief Operating Officer of the Company, a Qualified Person under the terms of NI Mr. Gibson is not independent of Kaizen. The Mineral Resources disclosed herein for the Pinaya Project are reported in the NI Technical Report dated April 26, 2016, Pinaya Gold-Copper Project Technical Report (the Technical Report ) prepared jointly by Brian Cole, P.Geo. and Ronald G. Simpson, P.Geo. (Geosim Services Inc.). Both Mr. Cole and Mr. Simpson are independent of Kaizen. Pinaya Copper-Gold Project, Peru 3

4 INVESTMENT HIGHLIGHTS Pinaya Copper-Gold Project (90% held by Kaizen) potential for a major discovery: Current resource open to further expansion with additional step out drilling (north, south and at depth). Untested and underexplored mineralized occurrences across the project area. Strong board and management team with extensive industry experience. January 2017 Rights Offering raised C$7.3 million. Backed by HPX, a private exploration technology company led by Robert Friedland that provides ground-breaking technological hardware and software solutions to address the limitations of existing exploration technology. Strong business ties with ITOCHU of Japan (10% shareholder in Pinaya joint venture). Building a select portfolio of high-quality, advanced exploration assets in South America. Pinaya Copper-Gold Project, Peru 4 4

5 MANAGEMENT AND TECHNICAL TEAM Tom Peregoodoff President and Chief Executive Officer President and Chief Executive Officer of Peregrine Diamonds Ltd.; previously spent 18 years with BHP Billiton. David Garratt, CPA, CA Chief Financial Officer Former VP and Corporate Controller of Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd.; six years in Deloitte LLP s audit practice focusing on servicing mining clients. Mark Gibson Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer of High Power Exploration Inc.; formerly with Anglo American. Gustavo Zulliger Vice President, Exploration Specializes in exploration of porphyry copper and epithermal systems in South America s high-andes region; 22 years of experience in mineral exploration, project generation, and project evaluation. Nakaba Chimura Executive Vice President, Asia Finance Asian capital market adviser to Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. and GoviEx Uranium Inc. 5

6 BOARD OF DIRECTORS David Huberman, Chairman Chairman of Nominating & Corporate Governance and Compensation Committees President of Coda Consulting Corp.; former 25-year Senior Partner of a Canadian business law firm; Director of Trevali Mining Corporation. David Boehm Former senior partner of Grant Thornton in Hong Kong, and a director of Ivanhoe Capital Pte Ltd. David Korbin Former Managing Partner of Deloitte; former director of Ivanhoe Australia and Ivanhoe Mines (now Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd.). Richard Cohen Managing Director at Primary Capital Inc., more than 30 years of experience in the mining investment industry. Terry Krepiakevich Chairman of Audit Committee Former Chief Executive Officer of Meryllion Resources Corp.; former Chief Financial Officer of SouthGobi Resources Ltd. Eric Finlayson President of High Power Exploration Inc. (HPX), spent 24 years with Rio Tinto, including five years as Rio's Global Head of Exploration. Ignacio Rosado Chief Executive Officer of Volcan Compañia Minera S.A.A.; former Chief Financial Officer of Hochschild Mining plc. 6

7 STRATEGY Why Copper? Long term supply deficit is forecast due to declining mining grades. Fewer large mines being commissioned will reduce future supply further. This will lead to an increasing copper price. Steady increase in demand is forecast, fuelled by growth in emerging economies (China and India) requiring the metal for infrastructure projects. Copper is a major component in the electric vehicle revolution. 80 kg of copper in a Tesla 3 versus 20 kg in gasoline vehicle. Why Latin America? Latin America is host to some of the most productive geological terrains for copper and gold deposits. In 2017, Peru and Chile accounted for MORE THAN 30% of the global exploration budget. Within the top 10 countries ranking by reserves and resources, Chile ranks 1 st, Peru ranks 2 nd and Mexico ranks 9 th. 1 Chile ranks 24 th, Peru, 101 st, on global corruption ranking. 2 1 Source: SNL Metals & Mining. 2 Source: Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index

8 ACCESS TO PROPRIETARY TECHNOLOGY Shareholder support: Major shareholder of Kaizen is HPX TechCo.* Robert Friedland is the Co-Chairman and CEO of HPX. Proprietary technology: Kaizen has access to proprietary Typhoon TM exploration technology developed and controlled by HPX. Typhoon TM can be deployed in IP or EM configurations. Technology enables deeper penetration especially important in areas of thick ground cover. HPX also is partnered with Computational Geosciences, a private, Vancouver-based company that performs advanced inversion and interpretation of data. This technology ensures that the resulting prediction of physical properties is as accurate as possible. * High Power Exploration (HPX) is an affiliate of Kaizen's majority shareholder, HPX TechCo Inc. 8

9 ACCESS TO PROPRIETARY TECHNOLOGY Finding a needle in a haystack The combination of proprietary hardware and software innovations unlocks the value of mineral properties and highlights the opportunities that other explorers and technologies are destined to miss. TYPHOON TECHNOLOGY FOR MINERAL EXPLORATION <500m Blind zone <500m CONVENTIONAL IP/EM SYSTEM >2000m >2000m >2000m TYPHOON IP/EM SYSTEM DEEPER A high signal/noise ratio and long electrode separation enables deeper prospecting. FASTER Can be substantially faster than conventional methods for deep targets due to custom survey deployment. BETTER Increased effectiveness through improved resolution of targets and host geology. 9

10 SEEING WHERE OTHERS CANNOT INJECTED SIGNAL TECHNOLOGY FOR MINERAL EXPLORATION MEASURED SIGNAL In Northern Chile, deposits that are beneath resistive cover cannot be discovered with traditional geophysical methods. The world-class Chilean copper deposits were largely discovered from surface exposure. These deposits occur on the margins of vast unexplored caliche-covered plains. 20km Antucoya Cerro Colorado??? Collahuasi? Caliche Plains Spence? El Abra? Depending on the region, between 20% - 60% of the main porphyry belt in northern Chile lies concealed under caliche plains or similarly resistive ignimbrite cover. Chuquicamata? Telsoro Esparanza Lomas??? 10

11 PINAYA COPPER-GOLD PROJECT PROJECT: PINAYA Peru PINAYA Location Departments of Arequipa & Puno, Peru. Partner ITOCHU (currently 10% interest) at project level. Deal terms C$2.5 million for exploration for an indirect 20% stake in the project. Kaizen to match Itochu's exploration funding. What are we looking for? Copper-gold porphyry/skarn comparable to other projects in the porphyry belt such as Las Bambas, Tintaya, Constancia, and Antapaccay. *Source: S&P Global Market Intelligence 11

12 WHY PINAYA? Pinaya is located within the Andahuaylas-Yauri porphyry/skarn belt. Belt hosts Las Bambas (12.8 Mt Cu), Tintaya (3.5 Mt Cu) and Antapaccay (4.1 Mt Cu). Large amount of work carried by past operators with a NI completed, and updated in Resource is open to north and south; the deeper resistive target extends to the east and remains untested. Mapping, geophysics, and past drilling indicate untested targets within the Pinaya Property in addition to the potential for a deeper, undrilled porphyry. *Source: S&P Global Market Intelligence ZTEM time domain resistivity slice. 12

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14 PINAYA COPPER-GOLD PROJECT Resources within porphyry zones and gold oxide skarn zone Updated NI technical report, April 26, m 3.55% Cu, 2.17 g/t Au. Intermediate crowded diorite porphyry. 93.8m 1.58% Cu, 1.6 g/t Au. Crowded diorite porphyry. Mineral Resources that are not Mineral Reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability Mineral Resources have an effective date of April 26, 2016; Ronald G. Simpson, P.Geo. is the Qualified Person responsible for the Mineral Resource estimates. Mineral Resources are reported within a conceptual open pit shell based on metal prices of $2.84/lb Cu and $1236/oz Au and average metallurgical recoveries of 80%. The pit shell also considers a mining cost of $2.00/t for mineralized and waste material and $1.75/t for overburden; processing cost of $8.50/t; G&A cost of $1.50/t; and an ultimate pit slope angle of 45. Copper equivalent grade estimate based on $2.84/lb Cu and $1236/oz Au. Mineral Resources are reported at cut off grades of 0.25 g/t Au for the GOSZ (Gold Oxide Skarn Zone) and 0.3% Cu Equivalent for the WPZ (Western Porphyry Zone) and NWPZ (Northwestern Porphyry Zone) zones. Tonnages are rounded to the nearest thousand tonnes; grades are rounded to three decimal places. Rounding as required by reporting guidelines may result in apparent summation differences between tonnes, grade and contained metal content. 14

15 PINAYA COPPER-GOLD PROJECT Building on the foundation of historic work Drilling: 160 diamond drill holes (46,530 metres), primarily in the resource area Soil sampling and trenching: 6,000 samples taken over property Geophysics: Magnetics, IP survey over resource area, property-wide Z-axis Tipper Electromagnetic (ZTEM) survey Mineral zone domains and grade shells Town of Pinaya Project Camp Source: NI Technical Report on Pinaya Copper-Gold Project. Mineral zone domains were created by modeling log transformed three-metre grade composites in Leapfrog3d and further constrained by selected lithologies. The grade shell levels selected were 0.1% for Cu and 0.2 g/t for Au. 15

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17 PINAYA COPPER-GOLD PROJECT Exploration completed to date Existing drill core re-logged and verified. Social licence to operate received. Environmental Instrument for planned drill program approved. Detailed mapping of the property completed in June exploration plan Drilling program of approximately 4,000 metres to start upon receipt of the authorization to commence activities from the Ministry of Mines. Drill plan aimed at expanding the resource area and drill testing high value targets within the project area. Current Resource 17

18 PINAYA COPPER-GOLD PROJECT Katty Vargas (center), Kaizen Discovery Peru's General Manager, with representatives of the Pinaya community at the land access agreement signing ceremony. Community support Land access agreements signed with the community of Pinaya and individual private landholders. Two separate agreements with the community outlining social development and employment commitments continuing. Agreements extended though 2018 at no additional cost to the Company The Kaizen Discovery Peru team at the Pinaya Copper-Gold Project in Peru. Consulta Previa Consulta Previa ongoing. Meeting with the Ministry of Energy and Mines and the local community of Pinaya scheduled for January 26 to January 28,

19 BRITISH COLUMBIA EXPLORATION PROJECTS British Columbia projects (Pliny and Tanzilla) are non-core projects for Kaizen and are available for purchase or joint venture. Tanzilla and Pliny Projects Location: Northwest British Columbia, approximately 20 kilometres southeast of the community of Dease Lake. Targets: Tanzilla is an extensive lithocap above a buried porphyry system. Pliny is a multiphase alkali copper and gold porphyry complex. Exploration Overview: From 2013 to 2015, Tanzilla exploration included mapping, surface rock sampling, an induced polarization survey, and eight diamond drill holes for a total 3,332 metres. 19

20 COPPERMINE PROJECT Location: Nunavut, Canada (Coppermine is a non-core project for Kaizen and is available for purchase or joint venture.) Target: Sediment-hosted stratiform copper Project description: The Coppermine Project is an early-stage, district-scale exploration play. The project comprises two geologically distinct exploration targets: sediment-hosted stratiform copper, and structurally controlled volcanic-hosted copper (±silver). Project currently on care and maintenance pending finalization of Nunavut land-use plan. Coppermine Project, Nunavut, Canada 20

21 CORPORATE SNAPSHOT Ticker Symbol TSX-V: KZD Stock Information* Major Shareholders Share Price C$0.11 Shares Issued and Outstanding: 276,766,636 Market Capitalization C$30.44 million HPX TechCo Inc., ITOCHU Corporation January 18, 2018 Kaizen Discovery provides update on permitting process for its planned exploration program at the Pinaya Copper-Gold Project Selected Recent News Releases September 8, 2017 July 25, 2017 June 28, 2017 February 23, 2017 January 12, 2017 January 04, 2017 November 09, 2016 October 5, 2016 Kaizen Discovery provides update on Pinaya and Aspen Grove Copper-Gold exploration projects Kaizen Discovery provides update on exploration program at Pinaya Copper-Gold Project Kaizen announces election of directors at AGM; update on planned drilling program at Pinaya Copper-Gold Project Kaizen Discovery prepares to commence exploration program at the Pinaya Copper-Gold Project in Peru Kaizen Discovery successfully closes over-subscribed rights offering yielding C$7.3 million in gross proceeds Kaizen Discovery appoints industry veteran Tom Peregoodoff as President and CEO Kaizen Discovery signs land access and community agreements for the Pinaya Copper-Gold Project in Peru Kaizen Discovery reports 2016 exploration drilling results from its Aspen Grove Project in southern British Columbia *Information current as of January 18,

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