Registered number: 05389216

BLUEJAY MINING PLC

ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2020

BLUEJAY MINING PLC

CONTENTS

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Company Information

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Chairman's Report

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Strategic Report

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Directors' Report

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Statement of Directors' Responsibilities

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Corporate Governance Report

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Independent Auditor's Report

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Statements of Financial Position

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Consolidated Income Statement

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Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income

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Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity

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Company Statement of Changes in Equity

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Statements of Cash Flows

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Notes to the Financial Statements

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BLUEJAY MINING PLC

COMPANY INFORMATION

Directors

Roderick McIllree (Executive Chairman)

Bo Stensgaard (Chief Executive Officer)

Peter Waugh (Non-Executive Director)

Michael Hutchinson (Non-Executive Chairman)

Ian Henderson Non-Executive Director) - resigned 5 January 2021

Johannus Egholm Hansen (Non-Executive Director) - appointed 15 March 2021

Company Secretary

Westend Corporate LLP

Registered Office

2nd Floor

7-9 Swallow Street

London

W1B 4DE

Company Number

05389216

Bankers

HSBC Bank plc

129 New Bond Street

London

W1J 2JA

Nominated Adviser

S.P. Angel Corporate Finance LLP

Prince Frederick House

35-39 Maddox Street

London

W1S 2PP

Broker

Hannam & Partners (Advisory) LLP

2 Park Street

London

W1K 2HX

Independent Auditor

PKF Littlejohn LLP

Statutory Auditor

15 Westferry Circus

Canary Wharf

London

E14 4HD

Solicitors

Hill Dickinson LLP

The Broadgate Tower

20 Primrose Street

London

EC2A 2EW

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CHAIRMAN'S REPORT

In light of the continued unprecedented times, and the subsequent challenging economic climate we find ourselves in, I would like to begin my report by sending my well wishes to all and thanking the entire Bluejay Mining plc ('Bluejay' or the 'Company') team for remaining as focused as ever.

Bluejay continues to be steadfast in holding a world class strategic portfolio and I am pleased to say that the breadth and potential of our portfolio is considerable; from our early stage exploration projects in Greenland and Finland, all the way through to our more established, near term target production asset in Greenland represented by the world's highest grade ilmenite sand project, the Dundas Ilmenite Project ('Dundas Project' or 'Dundas'). We have built a portfolio that spans the value chain and offers shareholders significant value potential. The new year commenced as planned, with the push towards the granting of the Exploitation Licence for Dundas and procurement of some initial infrastructure. For Disko and Kangerluarsuk drilling contractors were engaged and plans established for the drill camp infrastructure.

However, the unexpected outbreak of COVID-19 derailed all field activities with the introduction of lockdowns and international travel restrictions. In March 2020, the Company took swift, decisive and appropriate action to protect employees, stakeholders, citizens and shareholders' capital by shifting focus to a combination of cost saving initiatives including salary reductions throughout the entire organisation, while at the same time progressing all our projects as much as was possible away from the field.

Greenland

Bluejay's primary focus remains the commencement of production at our flagship asset, the Dundas Ilmenite Project, which currently possesses a JORC compliant Mineral Resource of 117 million tonnes ('Mt') at 6.1% ilmenite in situ and requires a simple mining operation with minimal processing.

For Bluejay and our stakeholders worldwide, Dundas represents significant near-term value potential thanks to the high grades and quality of ilmenite in-situ and the sheer size of the deposit. In December 2020, we reached a significant milestone in the form of an Exploitation Licence, which will allow Bluejay to progress towards procurement, construction and ilmenite production of its planned 440,000 tonnes per annum. The licence, which can be extended, is valid for an initial period of 30 years.

The Exploitation Licence also came together with the final approval of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessments ('EIA' and 'SIA'), a public consultation on the Project and the assessment, formulation and signing of an Impact Benefit Agreement with the Municipality of North-West Greenland and the Government of Greenland. Approvals for the Navigational Safety Investigation and the process and assessment related to the UN Espoo Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context with participation of Greenlandic, Danish and Canadian authorities was received. We are proud of the process and the outcome. The strong and transparent legal framework for all aspects of extractive projects in Greenland is at the highest standard and the comprehensive studies, meticulous evaluation and continuous dialogue with the authorities ensures a robust and endorsed foundation for the Dundas Project, its next financing steps, the construction, and the ultimate production.

Additionally, by end of December 2020, we reached another significant milestone for the Company with the signing of a Master Distribution Agreement with a large, long established Asian trading and industrial conglomerate for a minimum of 250,000 tonnes and up to 340,000 tonnes of ilmenite per annum, which is approximately 75% of the expected annual production from Dundas. It is expected that this product will ultimately be supplied into multiple international markets in Asia (including China and Japan), and European countries. The landmark award of the licence allows Bluejay to further discussions with several other leading industry players with a view to securing additional commercial offtake agreements for the remaining 100,000 tonnes of expected annual production. These discussions will continue in 2021 and we are confident that an offtake for the remainder of the expected production can be achieved considering the quality of the ilmenite from Dundas.

Post-period, in February 2021, we announced the receipt of a letter of interest from the Export-Import Bank of the United States ('EXIM') for the capital requirements of the Dundas Project. Although there is no guarantee that binding terms will be reached, the Company will continue to progress the necessary eligibility requirements in order to secure the financing. The Company is also advancing constructive discussions with various other Export Credit Agencies as well as other traditional commercial lenders to ensure the highest quality and most favourable commercial terms available for the development of Dundas.

Currently there is up to 707 Mt of independently ilmenite-richbeach-sand resources (verified JORC Reserve, Resource and Exploration targets) that should eventually allow for many decades of mine life to be added to the current 11-year life of mine

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outlined (JORC Reserve of 67.1 Mt) in the Pre-Feasibility Study and/or a scale-up of the annual 440,000 tonnes of ilmenite concentrate production, if warranted, for the Dundas Project.

Additionally, the Company is continuing to upgrade, optimise and validate the designs and build requirements for Dundas, where we expect to utilise local contractors as well as those within the ECA frameworks, with preliminary results to date showing meaningful improvements can be achieved. The findings of the optimisation study are significant and represent additional upside for the Project and will be documented as we move to securing financing. Part of the optimisation will also concern the evaluation of more environmentally sustainable and more energy efficient components to the infrastructure and design including the consideration of renewable energy, and greater electrification of processes and waste management.

The ilmenite product market remains extremely robust, with a clear and strong upward price trend forecast to continue for several years to come. This tightening of supply and increasing price forecasts provide a perfect platform to now bring online this significant, world leading project.

The successful 42,000 tonne trial shipment of ilmenite sand that was carried out in 2019 provided the basis for continued large-scale testing and the validation of the design associated with the processing of the mineral sands into a standard and premium Dundas ilmenite product. Our gravity separation plant facilities in Quebec was operational but because of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, related health-precautions and restrictions, we announced on 27 March 2020 that the plant was put on care and maintenance. This delay in the processing of the bulk sample provided an opportunity to review strategically the options for extracting the most value, commercially and technically, from the resulting ilmenite concentrate and in particular, the impact of the signing of the Master Distribution Agreement in December 2020. As a consequence, the smelter test agreed with RTIT was determined to be of lower importance as new options for commercial enhancement with additional customers had become available. Therefore, once the pilot plant has been restarted the portion of ilmenite assigned to RTIT will, at the very least, be significantly reduced from that originally envisaged to facilitate other customers.

We are extremely proud of all the work the team has done to get us to this point and all of the support we have received from the various authorities. We would also like to extend a special thanks to the Government of Greenland and the Greenlandic authorities for their continued support throughout the process, and we look forward to continue the constructive cooperation with the newly elected new Government of Greenland. We would also like to acknowledge the strong financial support received from three important Greenlandic and Danish Government backed financial institutions, all of which clearly demonstrates a strong political desire to grow the country's mineral resource industry.

Whilst Bluejay's operational focus remains on securing financing for Dundas and bringing the project into commercial production, our other promising Greenlandic assets remain at the forefront of future development plans. The Disko-Nuussuaq ('Disko') Magmatic Massive Sulphide nickel-copper-platinum-cobalt project in Greenland, is a vast, highly prospective, and strategically located project with proven potential to host similar mineralisation and scale to the world's most sizeable nickel- copper sulphide mine, Norilsk-Talnakh, in Siberia. In February 2020, we announced highly encouraging assay results from the first geochemical survey undertaken at Disko, which was completed in October 2019. These identified multiple nickel and copper geochemical anomalies, further enforcing both new and pre-existing anomalies. In addition, the Company was granted a newly expanded licence area at Disko as well as a new licence on Disko Island, which increased Bluejay's total land position at the project to 2,897 square kilometres ('km2'). We continue to discuss strategic options for this unique asset.

Having refined exact drill site positioning and increased our confidence in Disko, an extensive exploration and drill programme had been planned to commence in Q2 2020. However, COVID-19 put a stop to these plans as well as other work scheduled at our Kangerluarsuk lead-zinc-silver project. This was a disappointing set-back, but we were able to compensate by completing extensive desktop work, reprocessing data and incorporating the latest technical information to further validate and refine drill targets. We continue dialogue with respect to the appropriate next phases for these assets.

At Kangerluarsuk, drilling will target known zinc, lead, silver and copper occurrences that have correlations with the neighbouring former Black Angel zinc-lead-silver mine. The close vicinity and similar settings of the Kangerluarsuk prospect to the very profitable former Black Angel mine is intriguing and this should be seen as a strong candidate for drill-target potential within a brownfield former mine district. Recent work and mapping by the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland ("GEUS") has raised of our confidence in the licence's prospectivity and, as a consequence, post-period-end in January 2020 we increased the project area by more than five-fold to 692 km2.

In April 2020, the Thunderstone Project ('Thunderstone'), which consists of two new exploration licences in south Greenland, was announced. A low-cost simple fieldwork programme was arranged in August 2020, under strict adherence to COVID-19 guidelines, to follow up on desk-top work and several high-priority gold and base metal geochemical anomalies identified as

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