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Triton Gold's team of mineral explorers has industry-leading expertise in integrating and applying a range of advanced 3-D and 4-D (time) modelling, simulation and data analysis technologies that the Company believes can help accelerate the exploration process while reducing risks and costs. The extent and sophistication of the integration helps enable the team to evaluate, compare and interpret the widest possible range of data more rigorously, rapidly and precisely than ever before. The Company believes that the exploration team's advanced skills as well as integrated software applications constitute a competitive edge. This edge helps enables the Company to quickly and cost-effectively complete initial screening of large areas using existing data sets and prioritize their potential for further analysis and investment. Once the priority ground holdings have been identified, infill sampling and more conventional exploration techniques can be applied to progressively test the high-priority targets.

• Exploration in a Mature District
• Integrated Geophysical and Geochemical Techniques
• Leveraging Existing Datasets

EXPLORATION IN A MATURE DISTRICT

Triton Gold's primary focus area in Western Australia, and in particular the Eastern Goldfields (within the Yilgarn Craton), is considered by some to be a mature exploration district. Even though the region has a long mining history and has experienced substantial exploration activity, the Company believes that this is only partially true. While extensive exploration has taken place in Western Australia, much of this exploration has been superficial. The Company sees significant opportunity in applying its innovative exploration techniques to leverage the intelligence gained from prior exploration to pursue new discoveries.

Western Australia has seen a geologically long period of deep weathering that has resulted in extensive cover across much of the most prospective rock layers. This cover has paradoxically both allowed and prevented discovery. The cover, dominated by saprolitic regolith, allows for well-defined and understood lateral dispersion processes, and has provided the basis for much of the exploration process and discoveries in Western Australia. The Company believes that the same cover, however, has effectively masked deeper mineralized systems. The Company also believes that the relative ease with which near-surface mineralization has been identified in Western Australia has also had the effect of over-simplifying exploration.

The Triton Gold team has devoted considerable time and resources to developing a clearer understanding of the geological processes that cause the development of major gold deposits in such structures -- and applying integrated analysis techniques to define clear evidence for their occurrence. This combination of geological analysis and the application of advanced, integrated geophysical and geochemical analysis in alteration zones – or areas in rocks that have been altered – helps enable the Company to more accurately indicate significant pathfinders. These, in turn, can be used to help identify the predictive markers for a significant deposit.

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INTEGRATED GEOPHYSICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES

Triton Gold is particularly skilled in using geophysical data to create 2-D and 3-D geophysical maps to pinpoint the most promising ore bodies. The Company integrates these 2-D and 3-D maps with the analysis of geochemical anomalies to further define the area in which the actual mineralization is likely to occur. Triton Gold applies highly effective advanced techniques such as lithogeochemistry and Portable Infrared Mineral Analyzer (PIMA) in this process.

Lithogeochemistry uses the entire spectrum of elements contained in specific rock samples to define both the actual parent rock composition, providing a better understanding of the geology of the area, and the alteration of the rock. The alteration of the rock, evidence of the hydrothermal processes associated with the development of mineral deposits, while typically covering a much larger area than the deposit itself, varies depending on the proximity to mineralization.

PIMA technology uses SWIR (short wave infrared radiation) in the rapid and cost effective analysis of alteration minerals including analysis of subtle variations in mineral crystallinity and composition.

Together lithogeochemisty and PIMA can be used to more accurately determine the most likely areas within a project for significant mineralization to occur.

Following the analysis of geological, geophysical and geochemical data, the exploration team evaluates the most promising anomalies with geological mapping and rock sampling to examine surface targets in two dimensions. Where evidence suggests that the exploration target may be relatively deep or more geologically complex, the Company can develop a 3-D Common Earth model of the target, incorporating all of the known data to better define the target. This can be an effective means of mitigating exploration risk once higher cost tools are needed.

Also of interest is Creating a Common Earth Model

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LEVERAGING EXISTING DATASETS

These advanced exploration techniques are relatively simple to apply and actually leverage results from extensive, prior exploration. Previous drilling in the Eastern Goldfields has provided extensive datasets of bedrock geochemistry, enabling Triton Gold to resample historic drilling and conduct analysis relatively quickly and cost-effectively to focus exploration within a given project area. These innovations enable the Company to better predict the location and likely style of mineralization, and therefore tailor exploration efforts to more effectively test the defined targets.

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