DATED 13 JUNE 2018

 

  (1) BUNKER HILL Mining CORPORATION         (2) HUMMINGBIRD RESOURCES PLC

 

CONVERTIBLE LOAN AGREEMENT

 

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CONTENTS

 

Clause   Page       1    Definitions and interpretation 2 2    The Loan 7 3
Purpose 8 4  Interest 8 5    Repayment 8 6    LENDER’S CONVERSION OPTION 8 7  
REORGANISATION 10 8    Taxes 11 9   EXCLUSIVITY PERIOD 11 10    Representations
and Warranties 12 11   COMPLIANCE 13 12    Undertakings 13 13  Events of Default
16 14   INDEMNITIES 18 15  announcements 18 16  Costs and expenses 18 17  
Benefit of this Agreement 19 18   Assignments and transfers 19 19   Remedies and
waivers 19 20  Severability 19 21  Notices 19 22   Law and Jurisdiction 20 23  
Counterparts and delivery 20 24  third party rights 20

 

   

 

 

THIS AGREEMENT

 

BETWEEN:

 

(1) BUNKER HILL MINING CORPORATION, a company incorporated in Nevada and whose
registered office is situated at 1802 N. Carson Street, Suite 212, Carson City,
Nevada 89701 (the “Company”); and     (2) HUMMINGBIRD RESOURCES PLC, a company
incorporated in England and Wales and whose registered office is at 49-63
Spencer Street, Hockley, Birmingham B18 6DE United Kingdom (the “Lender”).

 

RECITALS

 

The Lender has agreed to provide to the Company an unsecured loan in the
aggregate sum of US$1,500,000 (One Million Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars) on and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement

 

AGREED TERMS

 

1 Definitions and interpretation

 

1.1 Definitions

 

In this Agreement the following expressions have the following meanings, unless
the context otherwise requires:

 

  Accounting Standards International Financial Reporting Standards;        
Accounts the audited consolidated accounts of the Company and the Group for the
financial year ended on 31 December 2017 (including the notes thereto and
auditor’s report thereon);         Act the Companies Act 2006 as amended;      
  Admission in relation to any Common Shares means the admission of such Common
Shares to trading on CSE becoming effective under the CSE Trading Rules and
“Admitted” shall be construed accordingly;         Advance Date the date on
which the Principal Amount is transferred by the Lender to the Company;        
Agreement this agreement;         Applicable Laws means all applicable laws,
statutes, regulations, directives, by-laws, orders, codes of conduct and
mandatory guidelines which have legal effect, whether local, national,
international or otherwise existing from time to time, in any jurisdiction
together with any similar instrument having legal effect in the relevant
circumstances (including, without limitation, the CSE Trading Rules);

 

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  Auditors the auditors of the Company from time to time;         Bloomberg

Bloomberg LP, a financial information provider;

 

  Business Day a day (not being a Saturday or Sunday) on which clearing banks
are open for normal business in London;         CSE the Canadian Securities
Exchange;         CSE Trading Rules the trading rules of the CSE;        
Closing Price in respect of a particular Trading Day, the closing price for a
Common Share on CSE, as reported by Bloomberg;         Common Shares Common
Shares of US$0.001 each in the capital of the Company;         Company’s Group
or Group the Company and its subsidiaries from time to time;        
Constitution the documents that form the constitution of the Company current at
the date of this Agreement or as amended from time to time;         Conversion
Amount has the meaning given thereto in clause 6.1;         Conversion Date has
the meaning given thereto in clause 6.1;         Conversion Notice has the
meaning given thereto in clause 6.1;         Conversion Price means Can$0.85;  
      Conversion Shares has the meaning given thereto in clause 6.2;        
Delivery in respect of any Conversion Shares, the delivery of such shares to the
Lender and “Delivered” shall be construed accordingly;         Directors the
directors of the Company from time to time;        

Encumbrance

 

any mortgage, charge, assignment by way of security, claim, hypothecation,
pledge, lien, encumbrance, security interest, title retention, preferential
right or trust arrangement or any other security agreement or arrangement,
equity interest or third party interest whatsoever having the effect of
security;

 

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EPA

the United States Environmental Protection Agency

        EPA Agreement the settlement agreement between the EPA, the Company and
others dated 14 May 2018;         Event of Default any of those events set out
in clause 14;         Insolvency Event in relation to a company means:

 

    (a) that company suspends or threatens to suspend all or a substantial part
of its operations (except in the ordinary course of its business), or all or a
substantial part of its assets are expropriated by any governmental or other
competent authority;             (b) a meeting is convened or a petition is
presented (which petition is not discharged within twenty-one (21) days of
presentation) , or an order is made or an effective resolution is passed for the
winding-up of that company, except for the purposes of a reconstruction or
amalgamation whilst solvent on terms previously approved in writing by the
Investor acting reasonably;             (c) an order is made or a petition is
presented for the appointment of an administrator to that company;            
(d) distress, execution or other legal process is levied against any of the
assets of that company;             (e) an encumbrancer takes possession or a
receiver or administrative receiver is appointed of the whole or any part of the
assets or undertaking of that company; or             (f) that company: (i)
ceases or suspends generally payment of its debts, or announces an intention to
do so, or is unable to pay its debts, or is deemed unable to pay its debts
within the meaning of sections 123(1)(e) or 123(2) of the Insolvency Act 1986;
(ii) proposes, or its directors make a proposal for, a voluntary arrangement
under part I of the Insolvency Act 1986; or (iii) enters into any composition or
other arrangement for the benefit of its creditors generally or any class of
creditors or, in respect of a company incorporated outside of England and Wales,
an event analogous to the events set out in paragraphs (i) to (iii) occurs in
respect of such company;

 

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    save that the solvent dissolution of any inactive subsidiary of the Company
shall not be construed as an Insolvency Event;         Loan the unsecured loan
of US$1,500,000 to be made available by the Lender to the Company under this
Agreement;         Material Adverse Change a new event or change in
circumstances that is material and adverse to the assets, financial condition or
prospects of the Company’s Group, taken as a whole;         Material Licences
has the meaning set out in paragraph 10 of Schedule 2;         Maturity Date

has the meaning set out in clause 5.1;

 

  Party either the Lender or the Company, as the context so permits, and
“Parties” shall be construed accordingly;         Reorganisation in relation to
the Company, any bonus issue of shares or other issue of shares by way of
capitalisation of profits or reserves, any consolidation or sub-division or
reduction of capital, any capital dividend or any other reconstruction or
adjustment relating to the equity share capital of the Company and any other
amalgamation, arrangement, reconstruction or compromise or transaction affecting
the share capital of the Company;         subsidiary has the meaning given to
such term in the Act;         Taxes all present and future taxes, levies,
duties, charges, assessments, deductions or withholdings whatsoever, including
any interest thereon and any penalties and fines with respect thereto, imposed,
levied, collected or withheld pursuant to any law, regulation or other
authorization having the force of law and “Taxation” shall be construed
accordingly;         Trading Day any day during which trading of securities
takes place on CSE;         VAT value added tax or other similar sales or
turnover tax anywhere in the world;

 

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  VWAP for any Trading Day, the volume weighted average price of the Common
Shares on CSE as reported by Bloomberg under the symbol “BNKR.CN”;        
Warrants the Warrants to be granted by the Company pursuant to the Warrant Deed;
        Warrant Deed the deed granting the Warrants executed immediately prior
to this Agreement; and         Warranties the warranties and representations of
the Company contained in clause 10 and Schedule 2 and a reference to a
“Warranty” shall be construed accordingly; and

 

1.2Interpretation

 

(a)In this Agreement:

 

  (i) the clause headings are included for convenience only and do not affect
the construction of this Agreement;         (ii) words denoting the singular
include the plural and vice versa;         (iii)

words denoting one gender include each gender and all genders; and

 

  (iv) the words “includes”, “including” and “included” will be construed
without limitation.

 

  (b) In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires, references to:

 

  (i) a person shall be construed as including references to an individual,
firm, company, corporation or unincorporated body of persons;         (ii)
documents, instruments and agreements are references to such documents,
instruments and agreements as modified, amended, varied, supplemented or novated
from time to time;         (iii) the terms the “Lender” and the “Company” or a
party to this Agreement include, where the context so admits, references to
successors, transferees and assigns of any such person;         (iv) recitals,
clauses, schedules and appendices are references to recitals to this Agreement,
clauses of this Agreement and schedules and appendices to this Agreement and
references to this Agreement include its schedules and appendices;

 

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  (v) paragraphs are references to paragraphs of the schedule in which the
references appear;         (vi) statutory provisions (where the context so
admits and unless otherwise expressly provided) are construed as references to
those provisions as respectively amended, consolidated, extended or re-enacted
from time to time, and to any orders, regulations, instruments or other
subordinate legislation made under the relevant statute;         (vii)
references to any English legal term for any action, remedy, method or judicial
proceeding, legal document, legal status, court, official, or any legal concept
or thing shall, in respect of any jurisdiction other than England, be deemed to
include that which most nearly approximates in that jurisdiction to the English
legal term; and         (viii) a time of day is a reference to London time.

 

2THE LOAN

 

2.1 Subject to the terms of this Agreement, and in reliance upon the Warranties
and undertakings of the Company contained herein, the Lender agrees to make
available to the Company the Loan.     2.2 The Lender will only be obliged to
advance the Loan to the Company if it has received the documents and evidence
listed in clause 2.3 below in a form and substance reasonably satisfactory to
the Lender.     2.3 The Lender shall not be required to advance the Loan to the
Company unless the following conditions have been satisfied:

 

  (a)

the Warranties being true and accurate, by reference to the facts and
circumstances then existing; and

        (b) the execution by the Company of the Warrant Deed and the delivery by
the Company to the Lender of the executed Warrant Deed and accompanying Warrant
certificates.

 

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3 Purpose

 

The Company shall apply the Loan to pay U$1,000,000 due to the EPA and for
general working capital purposes.

 

4INTEREST

 

4.1 The Company shall pay interest on the outstanding Loan at the rate of 10%
per annum, such interest to accrue from the Advance Date up to the date of
repayment or conversion in full of the Loan.     4.2 Interest on the outstanding
amount of a Loan shall be calculated on a daily basis and based on a year of
three hundred and sixty five (365) days.     4.3 The Company shall pay accrued
and unpaid interest on the Conversion Date as provided in clause 6.1 or the
Maturity Date to the extent the Lender does not exercise its conversion rights
hereunder.     4.4 If the Company fails to pay any sum on the due date for
payment under this Agreement or fails to allot and issue any Common Shares to
the Lender in accordance with the terms hereunder, interest will accrue on a
daily basis (payable on demand) on the outstanding principal amount of the Loan
from the date of default until actual payment or conversion (both before and
after judgement) at the rate of 20% per annum.     5 Repayment     5.1 The Loan,
including accrued interest thereon, shall be repayable by the Company to a bank
account notified in advance to the Lender on the date that is one (1) year from
the Advance Date (the “Maturity Date”).     5.2 The Company shall not be
entitled to prepay the Loan in part or in whole.     6 LENDER’S CONVERSION
OPTION     6.1 Subject to this clause 6, the Lender shall have the option on any
date specified by the Lender in its discretion prior to the Maturity Date
(“Conversion Date”) by providing written notice to the Company (“Conversion
Notice”), to require a conversion of all or part of the Loan and any accrued
interest thereon into Common Shares, and the Company shall effect a conversion
of such amount as is specified by the Lender in the Conversion Notice (the
“Conversion Amount”) into Common Shares.

 

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6.2 The number of Common Shares to be issued in satisfaction of the Conversion
Amount (the “Conversion Shares”) shall be equal to that number resulting when
the Conversion Amount is divided by the Conversion Price.     6.3 The Company
acknowledges that the Lender may sell some or all of the Conversion Shares
allotted and issued to it at such times and in such numbers as the Lender may
decide.     6.4 Notwithstanding the other provisions set out in this clause 6,
and in the event the issuance to the Lender of any Conversion Shares then
required to be issued hereunder would breach the Company’s constitution, or any
laws or regulations, including the CSA Trading Rules or the rules of any other
stock exchange on which the Common Shares are then listed, the Company may elect
to make a cash payment to the Lender in lieu of and in full satisfaction of the
obligation to issue such number of Conversion Shares as would otherwise give
rise to such breach, with the balance being issued in accordance with the
Conversion Notice. The Company undertakes to the Lender that before making any
such election it shall use its best endeavours to obtain the consents and
approvals necessary to issue the relevant Conversion Shares (including obtaining
any shareholder authorities and the publication of any prospectus or offer
document). If such consents and approvals cannot be obtained within two months
of date of the Conversion Notice, the Company may elect to make the cash payment
promptly which shall be equal to the number of Conversion Shares which may not
be issued, multiplied by the Conversion Price.     6.5 Notwithstanding the other
provisions set out in this clause 6, if at any time during the TERM of this
Agreement, in the event the issuance to the Lender of any Conversion Shares then
required to be issued hereunder would, together with the number of Common Shares
which could arise on exercise of all the Lender’s outstanding rights to Common
Shares under the Warrant Deed, result in the Lender holding 10% or more of the
Company’s issued Common Shares, the Company shall, instead of issuing any such
Conversion Shares, be required to make a cash payment promptly to the Lender
which shall be equal to the number of Conversion Shares which may not be issued,
multiplied by the Conversion Price. The provisions of this clause shall cease to
apply in circumstances where the Lender acquires any interest in Common Shares
other than under the terms of this Agreement and the Warrant Deed, which,
together with any Conversion Shares already issued and the number of Common
Shares which could arise on exercise of all the Lender’s outstanding rights to
Common Shares under the Warrant Deed, result in the Lender holding 10% or more
of the Company’s issued Common Shares.

 

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6.6 Following conversion, and for so long as the Lender holds 5% or more of the
Company’s issued Common Shares, it shall have the right to appoint and remove a
Director to the board of the Company.     7 REORGANISATION     7.1 If any
Reorganisation takes place after the date of this Agreement, such adjustments
shall be made to the Conversion Price and number of Conversion Shares as the
Auditors shall certify in writing to the Company and the Lender to be necessary
in order that, after such adjustment:

 

  (a) the total number of Conversion Shares which may be issued pursuant to the
Conversion Notice, is such that Conversion Shares when issued:

 

  (i) will carry as nearly as possible (and in any event not less than) the same
proportion of the votes as the Conversion Shares would have carried prior to
such adjustment; and         (ii) will carry the entitlement to participate in
the same proportion in the profits and assets of the Company as would the total
number of Conversion Shares converted pursuant to the Conversion Notice
immediately prior to the event giving rise to such adjustment;

 

7.2 The Company shall procure that no such event as is referred to in clause 7.1
shall occur prior to the end of the Maturity Period unless the Auditors shall
either (i) prior to or (ii) contemporaneously with, the relevant resolution of
the members of the Company or the Directors giving effect to or sanctioning such
event, certify the appropriate adjustments. The Company shall send notice of
such adjustments to the Lender as soon as practicable (and in any event no later
than seven days) following such resolution as aforesaid.     7.3 In calculating
any entitlement to Conversion under this clause 7 fractions shall be rounded
down to the nearest whole Common Share.

 

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8 Taxes     8.1 All payments due to be made by the Company to the Lender under
this Agreement, whether of principal, interest or otherwise, shall be made
without deduction or withholding for, or on account of, any Taxes, except to the
extent the Company is required by law to deduct or withhold any Taxes on any
amounts payable hereunder. If at any time the Company is required to make any
deduction or withholding in respect of Taxes from any payment due hereunder,
then the Company shall pay any such additional amount to the Lender as is
necessary to ensure that, after the making of such deduction or withholding, the
Lender receives on the due date for such payment (and retains, free from any
liability in respect of such deduction or withholding) a net sum equal to the
sum which it would have received had no such deduction or withholding been
required to be made. The Company shall use its reasonable endeavours to obtain
from the applicable authority as soon as possible after making such payment (to
the extent they are issued by such authority) an official receipt or other
appropriate evidence issued by such authority evidencing that the payment has
been duly remitted to the appropriate authority and shall furnish the Lender
within ten (10) days of receipt of the same such official receipt or evidence.  
  8.2 Without prejudice to the provisions of clause 8.1, if the Lender is
required to make any payment on account of Tax (and such Tax is directly
incurred as a result of the Lender having entered into, performed its
obligations under and received the benefits of this Agreement, and not being a
Tax imposed on all or part of the Investor’s net income or as the result of any
of the Lender’s business operations anywhere in the world) on any sum received
or receivable under this Agreement by the Lender from the Company (including,
without limitation, any sum received or receivable under this clause 8.2) the
Company shall, upon demand of the Lender, indemnify the Lender against that
payment or liability, together with any interest, penalties and reasonable
expenses payable or incurred in connection therewith.     9 EXCLUSIVITY PERIOD  
  9.1 The following definitions apply to this clause 9:       Exclusivity
Period: the period commencing on the date of this Agreement and ending on 13
December 2018.       Proposed Transaction: the Lender entering into any joint
venture agreement, farm-in agreement, strategic partnership or similar agreement
or arrangement with the Company or any member the Company’s Group; the
acquisition by the Lender of all or some of the business and assets of the
Company or the Company’s Group; or the acquisition by the Lender of all or some
of the issued share capital of the Company or any member of the Company’s Group.

 

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  Restricted Activity: each and any of the following:

 

a) [deleted]

 

b) entering into any joint venture agreement, farm-in agreement, strategic
partnership or similar agreement or arrangement with the Company or any member
of the Company’s Group;

 

c) the disposal (whether by way of sale, offer, transfer or otherwise) of all or
any part of, or any interest in, the issued share capital of the Company or any
member of the Company’s Group;

 

d) the disposal (whether by way of sale, offer, transfer or otherwise) of all,
or any part of, the business or assets of the Company or any member of the
Company’s Group (other than in the ordinary course of trading).

 

  Third Party: any person other than the Company or a member of the Company’s
Group (or any of their respective officers, employees, agents or advisers).    
9.2 The Company agrees that it will within two weeks following the execution of
this Agreement provide the Lender with a list of Third Parties with whom it has
conducted discussions and negotiations in the previous month concerning a
Restricted Activity.     9.3 The Company agrees that for the duration of the
Exclusivity Period, it will not discuss and negotiate the Proposed Transaction
with Third Parties whose principal area of operation is mining exploration,
development or production.     9.4 The Company will immediately notify the
Lender in writing if, during the Exclusivity Period, the Company or any member
of its Group receive an offer (whether written or oral), indication of interest,
proposal or enquiry from a Third Party concerning a Restricted Activity or any
direct investment in the Company.     10 Representations and Warranties     10.1
The Company represents and warrants to the Lender in the terms of the Warranties
on the date hereof, and the Company shall be deemed to represent that the
Warranties are true and correct in all material respects upon any Advance Date
with reference to the facts and circumstances then existing. The Company
acknowledges and accepts that the Lender is entering into this Agreement on the
basis of and in reliance upon, inter alia the Warranties.     10.2 Where any
warranty is expressed to be qualified by reference to the awareness and/or
knowledge and/or information and/or belief of the Company it will be deemed to
mean that it has been made after all due and careful inquiry.     10.3 The
Company hereby undertakes immediately to notify the Lender in writing if it
comes to its knowledge that any of the Warranties was, when given, untrue,
inaccurate or misleading in any material respect or ceases to be true and
accurate or becomes misleading (or would be untrue, inaccurate or misleading in
any material respect if repeated at the time of the Advance Date with reference
to the facts and circumstances then existing).

 

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10.4The Lender warrants to the Company as follows and the Lender is deemed to
repeat such warranties upon the Advance Date and acknowledges and accepts that
the Company is entering into this Agreement on the basis of and in reliance upon
(inter alia) such warranties:

 

(a)the Lender is public company incorporated in the England and Wales with
limited liability that is validly existing and in good standing under the laws
of England and Wales;    

(b)the Lender has the corporate power and capacity to enter into, and to perform
its obligations under this Agreement. This Agreement has been duly authorised,
executed and delivered by the Lender and is a valid and binding obligation of
the Lender enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except as such
enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganisation, moratorium, liquidation, receivership or similar laws relating
to, or affecting generally the enforcement of, creditors’ rights and remedies or
by other equitable principles of general application.

 

11COMPLIANCE

 

The Company covenants with the Lender that it will at all times in all material
respects uphold, comply and act in accordance with the CSE Trading Rules and all
Applicable Laws.

 

12UNDERTAKINGS

 

12.1The Company irrevocably undertakes with the Lender that, from the date of
this Agreement and for so long as any amount is outstanding under any Loan, it
shall:

 

(a)obtain, maintain and comply in all material respects with the terms of all
material authorisations, approvals, licences, exemptions, notarisations and
consents required to enable it lawfully to enter into and perform its
obligations under this Agreement and the Warrant Deed (including, without
limitation, to issue Common Shares in full satisfaction of the exercise of all
Warrants) or to ensure the legality, validity, enforceability or admissibility
in evidence of this Agreement in England and Wales;

 

(b)promptly inform the Lender of the occurrence of any Event of Default and,
upon receipt of a written request to that effect from the Lender, confirm to the
Lender that, save as previously notified to the Lender or as notified in that
confirmation, no such Event of Default has occurred;

 

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(c)use all reasonable efforts to maintain the Admission of the Common Shares to
trading on CSE;

 

(d)comply with, and file in a timely manner all material reports and other
documents required of it under all Applicable Laws, including the CSE Trading
Rules, and will not take any action or file any document to terminate or suspend
the admission of its Common Shares to trading on CSE;

 

(e)take all steps reasonably necessary to preserve and continue the material
licences, permits and other authorities required by the Company’s Group to carry
on its business (as such business and as such material licences, permits and
other authorities may be constituted from time to time);

 

(f)immediately notify the Lender upon its becoming aware of the issuance by the
CSE of any notice relating to a potential or actual suspension or de-listing of
the Common Shares from trading on CSE;

 

(g)only use the proceeds of any Loan for activities in the ordinary course of
its business; and

 

(h)not enter into Restricted Activity or financing arrangements, either for
equity or debt, (other than with the Lender) without offering the Lender the
right of first refusal to enter into such other financing arrangements on
materially the same bona fide terms as offered by a third party. For the
avoidance of doubt such financing arrangements shall include royalty financing
and offtake financing.

 

(i)Not issue any of the 10,000,000 preferred shares that form part of the
Company’s authorised share capital but have not yet been issued;

 

(j)procure that the Company nor any member of the Company’s Group shall, without
the prior written approval of Lender:

 

(i)issue any loan capital or enter into any commitment with any person with
respect to the issue of any loan capital;    

(ii)make any borrowing from its bankers other than in the ordinary and usual
course of business;

 

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(iii)create or grant any Encumbrance over the whole or any part of the business,
undertaking or assets of the Company or over any shares in the Company or any
member of the Company’s Group, or agree to do so;

 

(iv)make any loan (otherwise than by way of deposit with a bank or other
institution the normal business of which includes the acceptance of deposits or
in the ordinary course of business) or grant any credit (other than in the
normal course of trading) or giving any guarantee (other than in the normal
course of trading) or indemnity; or

 

(v)issue or grant any options or warrants under which the holder may subscribe
for Common Shares (other than in accordance with an employee incentive share
scheme) which have an exercise price which is less than half the amount of the
Conversion Price;

 

(k)supply the Lender with the financial and other information necessary to keep
the Lender informed about how effectively the Company is performing and in
particular shall supply the Lender with quarterly management accounts of the
Company within 28 days after the end of the month to which they relate, which
shall include a profit and loss account, a balance sheet and a cashflow
statement and such other information as the Lender may reasonably require;

 

12.2The Company undertakes to the Lender to make all necessary price protection
applications and notifications to the CSE and any other relevant authorities to
ensure that in any circumstances where the Company carries out an equity
fundraising involving the Lender, the price on issue of any Common Shares can be
the same price as the Conversion Price.

 

12.3[deleted]

 

12.4The Company undertakes to the Lender that, where any Common Shares are due
to be allotted and issued to the Lender pursuant to this Agreement, whether on a
Conversion Date, Maturity Date, or otherwise, it shall as soon as reasonably
practicable following the Common Shares becoming due:

 

(a)allot and issue the relevant number of Common Shares to the Lender;

 

(b)make application and issue appropriate instructions for Admission and
Delivery of the relevant number of Common Shares, such Admission and Delivery to
occur as soon as practicable (and, in any event, within five (5) Trading Days);
and

 

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(c)use all reasonable endeavours, including instructing its transfer agent to
effect Delivery hereunder on an expedited basis and giving all other necessary
directions and instructions, to procure Admission and Delivery of the relevant
number of Common Shares in accordance with this clause.

 

12.5The Company acknowledges that the Lender will incur significant costs, fees
and expenses in reliance on the undertakings clauses 9.3 and 12.1(h).
Accordingly, if the Company or any member of its Group breaches any of those
undertakings, the Company will (without prejudice to any other rights or
remedies that the Lender may have) pay to the Lender an amount equal to all
costs, fees, disbursements and expenses (including in each case any applicable
VAT) which have been or will be incurred by the Lender in connection with its
investigation, evaluation and negotiation of the Proposed Transaction (including
any costs, fees or expenses incurred before this Agreement was signed) (“Break
Fee”).

 

12.6Without prejudice to any other rights or remedies that the Lender may have,
the Company acknowledges and agrees that damages alone would not be an adequate
remedy for any breach of the undertakings in this Agreement and the Lender will
be entitled to the remedies of injunction, specific performance or other
equitable relief for any threatened or actual breach of such undertakings.

 

13EVENTS OF DEFAULT

 

13.1Each of the following events is an Event of Default:

 

(a)the Company fails duly to perform or comply in any material respect with any
material obligation expressed to be assumed by it in this Agreement or the
Warrant Deed;

 

(b)all or any substantive part of the Common Shares is delisted from or ceases
to trade on CSE (not to include temporary suspensions of trading up to a maximum
five (5) consecutive Trading Days);

 

(c)the Company is in material breach of any of the material undertakings,
representations or Warranties set out in this Agreement or the Warrant Deed;

 

(d)any Insolvency Event occurs;

 

(e)the Company repudiates this Agreement or the Warrant Deed or makes any public
statement evidencing an intention to repudiate this Agreement or the Warrant
Deed;

 

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(f)at any time any material act, condition or thing required to be done,
fulfilled or performed by the Company in order:

 

(i)to enable the Company lawfully to enter into, exercise its rights under or
perform the material obligations expressed to be assumed by it in this Agreement
or the Warrant Deed;

 

(ii)to ensure the performance of the material obligations expressed to be
assumed by the Company in this Agreement, or the Warrant Deed; or

 

(iii)to make this Agreement or the Warrant Deed admissible in evidence in
England and Wales,

 

is not done, fulfilled or performed within any time available to ensure
compliance with the same;

 

(g)at any time it is or becomes unlawful for the Company to perform or comply
with any or all of its material obligations under this Agreement or the Warrant
Deed or any of the material obligations of the Company under this Agreement or
the Warrant Deed are not, or cease to be, legal, valid and binding (unless due
to any action of the Lender or a change in status of the Lender); or

 

(h)the occurrence of a Material Adverse Change.

 

13.2On and at any time after the occurrence of an Event of Default, which is
continuing, the Lender, in its absolute discretion may, by written notice to the
Company, declare all outstanding amounts under the Loan and any interest thereon
to be immediately due and payable, together with any other sums then owed by the
Company to the Lender and, upon that declaration, such sums shall become
immediately due and payable, without further demand or notice of any kind, all
of which are hereby expressly waived by the Company.

 

13.3For the avoidance of doubt, the conversion of any outstanding amount of the
Loan shall only be deemed completed upon the Company having complied with its
obligations pursuant to clause 12.2.

 

13.4Notwithstanding anything else in this Agreement and other than in relation
to clause 13.1(b), no failure by any member of the Company’s Group to do, fulfil
or perform any act, condition or thing shall constitute the occurrence of an
Event of Default unless such failure, if capable of remedy, has not been
remedied within five (5) calendar days of the earlier of notice of that failure
by the Lender to the Company or the date the Company becomes aware of such
failure (the “Cure Period”), provided, however, that nothing shall derogate from
the rights of the Lender in respect of any other Event of Default which may
arise from an earlier Event of Default which has been remedied during the Cure
Period.

 

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13.5Notwithstanding anything else in this Agreement, neither the Company nor the
Lender shall be deemed in default nor shall an occurrence of an Event of Default
be constituted with regard to any act, condition or thing required to be done,
fulfilled or performed hereunder if such failure is due to acts of war or
terrorism, outbreak of disease of other comparable event which is beyond the
reasonable control of such person and which disrupts the operation of the
financial system in the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States of America or
elsewhere.

 

14INDEMNITIES

 

14.1The Company shall promptly indemnify the Lender against any direct loss or
reasonable expense which the Lender shall sustain or incur as a consequence of:

 

(a)any default in repayment of the Loan or any part thereof or payment of
interest accrued thereon or any other amount payable under this Agreement on the
due date;

 

(b)the occurrence of any Event of Default; and

 

(c)any repayment of the Loan or part thereof being made after the relevant due
date for repayment or for prepayment, as the case may be;

 

including, in any such case, but not limited to, any loss or expense sustained
or incurred in maintaining or funding, the Loan or any part thereof or in
liquidating or re-employing deposits from third parties acquired to effect or
maintain the Loan or part thereof.

 

15ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

15.1The Company hereby undertakes to the Lender that it will not make any public
announcement or statement or communication regarding this Agreement without the
prior written consent of the Lender.

 

16COSTS AND EXPENSES

 

The Company shall pay all of its and the Lender’s costs and expenses in relation
to the negotiation, preparation and execution and carrying into effect of this
Agreement.

 

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17BENEFIT OF THIS AGREEMENT

 

This Agreement shall be binding upon and enure to the benefit of each party to
this Agreement and its lawful successors and assigns.

 

18ASSIGNMENTS AND TRANSFERS

 

Neither the Company nor the Lender may assign or transfer its rights, benefits
and obligations under this Agreement without prior written approval of the other
Party, which may be withheld in such Party’s discretion, save that the Lender
may assign to a member of its Group.

 

19REMEDIES AND WAIVERS

 

19.1No failure, delay or other relaxation or indulgence on the part of the
Lender or the Company to exercise any power, right or remedy shall operate as a
waiver thereof nor shall any single or partial exercise or waiver of any power,
right or remedy preclude its further exercise or the exercise of any other
power, right or remedy.

 

19.2All rights of the Lender and the Company contained in this Agreement are in
addition to all rights vested or to be vested pursuant to common law or statute.

 

20SEVERABILITY

 

Each of the provisions of this Agreement is severable and distinct from the
others and if at any time one or more of such provisions is or becomes invalid,
illegal or unenforceable the validity, legality and enforceability of the
remaining provisions hereof shall not in any way be affected or impaired
thereby.

 

21NOTICES

 

21.1Any notice to be given by any Party hereunder shall be in writing and shall
be deemed to have been duly given if delivered by hand or by email (to such
email address as may from time to time be notified by the relevant party) or
given by letter sent by first-class registered mail to the party to receive such
notice provided that any party may change its address or facsimile number for
notice by giving to the other party written notice of such change.

 

21.2Any notice given under this Clause shall be effective:

 

(a)if delivered personally, when delivered;

 

(b)if sent by email (to the Company FAO Helga Fairhurst to
hf@bunkerhillmining.com) and to the Lender (FAO Tom Hill to
tom@hummingbirdresources.co.uk), either (i) on receipt of a read receipt email
from the correct address; (ii) 24 hours from delivery if sent to the correct
email address and no notice of delivery failure is received; or (iii) on receipt
of confirmation of receipt from the recipient; or

  

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 (c)if sent by first-class registered post within the United Kingdom, two
Business Days after posting or if sent from or to any place outside the United
Kingdom by prepaid priority airmail seven Business Days after posting.

 

22Law and Jurisdiction

 

This Agreement is governed by and shall be construed in accordance with the laws
of England and Wales and the parties submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of
the English courts to settle any disputes which may arise out of or in
connection with this Agreement.

 

23Counterparts and delivery

 

This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which
shall be deemed to be an original, and which together shall constitute one and
the same agreement.

 

24third party rights

 

A person who is not a party to this Agreement has no right under the Contract
(Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce or enjoy the benefits of this
Agreement.

 

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IN WITNESS whereof the parties to this Agreement have caused this Agreement to
be duly executed on the date written at the beginning of this Agreement.

 

Signed for and on behalf of

 

BUNKER HILL MINING CORPORATION   /s/ Bruce D. Reid by its duly authorised
representative   Director           Bruce D. Reid     Print name

 

Signed for and on behalf of

 

HUMMINGBIRD RESOURCES PLC   /s/ Daniel Betts by its duly authorised
representative   Director           Daniel Betts     Print name

 

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SCHEDULE 1

 

SHARE CAPITAL

 

Issued share capital (Common Shares): 33,013,715 Issued share capital (Preferred
Shares) Nil Other rights over shares or securities in the Company

4,340,320 (Warrants)

2,391,000 (Options)

 

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SCHEDULE 2

 

WARRANTIES

 

1 Due Diligence Queries

 

1.1All statements of fact contained in the Company’s written responses to the
due diligence queries provided by the Lender to the Company dated 12 June 2018
were when given true and accurate in all material respects and were not
misleading in any material respect and all expressions of belief, opinion,
intention and expectation contained in such answers were fair and honestly held
at the time made and had been made after reasonable enquiry.

 

1.2The title opinions dated 12 November 2017 and 13 December 2017 relating to
certain of the Material Licences provided by the Company to the Lender remain
true and accurate in all material respects and not misleading in any material
respect.

 

2Capacity and Compliance with Law and Regulation and issue of Common Shares

 

2.1The details set out in Schedule 1 relating to the Company’s share capital are
true and accurate.

 

2.2The trading of the Common Shares on CSE has not ceased or been suspended, the
Company has not received any notice threatening the continued trading of the
Common Shares on CSE and the Company is not aware of any event which might
reasonably be expected to cause such cessation or suspension.

 

2.3This Agreement constitutes a legally binding and enforceable obligation of
the Company. The Company has all necessary corporate power under its
Constitution to enter into this Agreement and there are no consents,
authorisations, approvals or licences required by the Company (including,
without limitation, any sanction or consent of the shareholders of the Company
or any class of them) for the Company to enter into and comply with its
obligations under this Agreement.

 

2.4The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the performance of its terms
by the Company do not conflict with the Company’s Constitution, any Applicable
Laws or any material agreements, obligations or commitments binding upon it.

 

2.5Any Common Shares to be issued under this Agreement will be allotted and
issued as fully paid and free from all Encumbrances whatsoever (other than those
created or arising from the actions of the Investor) and will rank pari passu in
all respects with the existing issued Common Shares including the right to
receive dividends or other distributions declared, made or paid after the date
of issuance (unless the market price of such Common Shares at the date of
issuance is quoted “ex dividend”).

 

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2.6Each member of the Company’s Group has complied in all material respects with
all Applicable Laws and has obtained and is in material compliance with the
terms and conditions of all material licences, permits, leases, concessions,
permissions, authorisations and consents necessary for the carrying on of its
business for the time being, all of which are in full force and effect, and the
Company is not aware of any material breach of them and there are no
circumstances which may prejudice the continuation of them or which indicate
that any of them may be revoked or terminated or not renewed, in whole or in
part, in the ordinary course of events.

 

2.7The Company has made all announcements required to be made by it to the
market under the CSA Trading Rules, including all announcements of information
that is material for investors to make an informed decision on their investment
in the Company, and all statements of fact in such announcements made by the
Company (including, without limitation, all resource, reserve and/or drilling
updates and all announcements of resources, reserves and/or drilling results)
were when made true, accurate and not misleading in all material respects. Each
expression of opinion or intention or expectation in each such announcement was
made on reasonable grounds after reasonable enquiry and was truly and honestly
held by the Company at the time it was made and was fairly based. There was no
other fact known that was omitted from disclosure in any such announcement
which, by such omission, made any such statement or expression in any such
announcement misleading (by itself or in its context) in any material respect.

 

2.8No event has occurred and is subsisting or, to the knowledge of the Company,
is about to occur which constitutes or would constitute a material default by
any member of the Company’s Group, or result in the acceleration by reason of
default of any material obligation of any member of the Company’s Group, under
any agreement, undertaking, instrument or arrangement to which any member of the
Company’s Group is a party or by which any of them or any of their respective
interests, properties, revenues and assets are bound which would in any such
case have a material adverse effect on the business, assets, prospects or
condition of any member of the Company’s Group.

 

2.9Save as disclosed by the Company in the Accounts, or on the Company’s website
or via SEDAR, there are in force no options or other agreements which require or
may require, or confer any right to require, the issue of any shares or other
securities of any member of the Company’s Group now or at any time after the
date of this Agreement. None of the owners or holders of any of the share
capital of the Company has any rights, in his capacity as such, in relation to
the Company’s Group other than as set out in the Constitution.

 

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3 The Accounts

 

3.1The Accounts have been prepared in accordance with the Accounting Standards
and all Applicable Laws, give a true and fair view of the assets and liabilities
and state of affairs of the Company’s Group as at the end of each of the
financial periods to which they relate and of the cash flow and profit and loss
for each such period and either make proper provision for or, where appropriate,
include a note in accordance with good accounting practice in respect of all
material liabilities and capital commitments of the Company’s Group, whether
actual, deferred, contingent or disputed.

 

3.2Since the date of the last set of Accounts, the Company’s Group has carried
on its business in the ordinary and usual course and there has been no Material
Adverse Change.

 

3.3The total current liabilities of the Company (not including its obligations
to make payments under the EPA Agreement and under the Bunker Hill Mining Lease
with Option to Purchase dated 1 November 2017) are less than US$500,000.

 

4 Contracts

 

4.1No member of the Company’s Group is a party to any contract or obligation
that is onerous or unusual or not on an arm’s length basis, which has not been
fairly disclosed via a regulatory information service or in the financial
statements of the Company and which is of material importance to the business of
the Company’s Group.

 

4.2To the Company’s knowledge, there are no grounds for the invalidity or
rescission, avoidance or repudiation of any agreement or transaction to which
any member of the Company’s Group is a party and no member of the Company’s
Group has received any notice of any intention to terminate any such agreement
or to repudiate or disclaim any such transaction, and which in each case is of
material importance to the business of the Company’s Group.

 

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5Litigation

 

Save as disclosed in the Accounts or via a regulatory information service no
member of the Company’s Group is engaged in any material litigation,
arbitration, prosecution or other legal proceedings or subject to official
investigation or enquiry, and, to the knowledge the Company no material
litigation, arbitration, prosecution or other proceedings, investigation or
enquiry is pending or threatened against any member of the Company’s Group and
no circumstances that are likely to give rise to any such litigation,
arbitration, prosecution or other proceedings, investigations or enquiry exist,
which in any of the foregoing cases, either individually or collectively would
reasonably be expected to constitute a Material Adverse Change.

 

6Insolvency, winding-up, etc.

 

No Insolvency Event has occurred in relation to any Group Company.

 

7Indebtedness

 

No outstanding material indebtedness of any member of the Company’s Group has
become repayable before its stated maturity, nor has any security in respect of
such indebtedness become enforceable by reason of default by any member of the
Company’s Group and, to the knowledge of the Company, no event has occurred
which, or circumstances arisen such that, with the lapse of time and/or the
fulfilment of any condition and/or the giving of notice and/or the making of a
determination and/or other formality, may result in any such indebtedness
becoming so repayable or any such security becoming enforceable, and no person
to whom any indebtedness of any member of the Company’s Group which is repayable
on demand is owed has demanded or threatened to demand repayment of, or to take
any steps to enforce any security for, the same.

 

8Intellectual Property

 

No Group Company is materially dependent on any patent rights, know-how,
trademarks, service marks, trade names, designs, design rights, copyrights or
other similar rights which it does not own or have the right to use.

 

9Assets

 

Each member of the Company’s Group has good and marketable title to all of its
fixed assets (including real estate properties) which are material to its
business, to the extent that the concept of good and marketable title can
reasonably be applied to certain of such assets, having regard to their specific
nature, and no Encumbrances exist over any Group Company’s assets, save for any
assets held on lease, hire purchase or any similar financing arrangements.

 

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10Material Licences and Environmental Matters

 

10.1The Company’s Group has all material leases, tenancies, licences,
concessions, permits, authorisations, consents or similar agreements or
permissions (including options thereover) required by the Company’s Group to
carry on its business as such business (including the Bunker Hill Mining Lease
with Option to Purchase dated 1 November 2017 and the EPA Agreement) and as such
leases, tenancies, licences, concessions, permits, authorisations, consents or
similar agreements or permissions (including options thereover) may be
constituted are for the time being comprised (the “Material Licences”).

 

10.2Except where it would not result in a Material Adverse Change, without
prejudice to the generality of paragraph 10.1 above:

 

(a)the Material Licences are valid and subsisting, the title to each Material
Licence and all interest therein is vested in a member of the Company’s Group
and all prior transfers or assignments of the Material Licences and all
interests therein were valid and enforceable in accordance with their terms and
duly registered with, and (if required under the terms thereof or otherwise by
Applicable Laws) approved by, the appropriate authorities, or application for
any such approval (if required under the terms thereof or otherwise by
Applicable Laws) has been duly made and no member of the Company’s Group is
aware of any reason such application may be denied;

 

(b)all of the relevant original documents of title in relation to the Material
Licences are in the possession or under the control of or accessible by the
relevant member of the Company’s Group and are validly executed by such member
of the Company’s Group or predecessors in title to such member of the Company’s
Group and the relevant granting authority, are enforceable in accordance with
their terms and are duly registered with the appropriate authorities;

 

(c)the relevant member of the Company’s Group has all necessary rights pursuant
to the Material Licences to carry out all the exploration, development or, where
relevant, production operations currently carried on by or on behalf of the
Company’s Group in the area the subject of the Material Licences;

 

(d)the Company’s Group has, or has the benefit of, all necessary rights,
easements, interests, covenants (restrictive or positive), conditions,
restrictions, exceptions, reservation conditions and other encumbrances
necessary in order to enable it to exercise its rights arising from the Material
Licences in the manner in which they are currently, exercised;

 

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(e)the Company’s Group has observed all material covenants, restrictions,
notices or other obligations in respect of the Material Licences; and

 

(f)all operations carried out by the Company’s Group on the area the subject of
the Material Licences have been materially in accordance with the terms of the
Material Licences and all applicable legislation and regulations and any orders,
consents or permissions made or given thereunder.

 

10.3Each member of the Company’s Group is and always has been in compliance in
all material respects with all applicable Environmental Laws and has obtained
and complied in all material respects with the terms and conditions of, all
material environmental permits and licences and other authorisations required in
relation to the operations of its business, and, to the knowledge of the
Company, there are in relation to each member of the Company’s Group, no past or
present events, conditions, circumstances, activities, practices or incidents
which materially interfere with or prevent compliance with or which give rise to
any material liability under Environmental Laws or otherwise form the basis of
any claim, action, suit, proceedings, hearing or investigations relating to the
environment or any breach of Environmental Laws, which would result in a
Material Adverse Change, nor has any member of the Company’s Group been notified
of any such liability or breach.

 

10.4For the purposes of paragraph 10.3, “Environmental Laws” shall mean all
laws, regulations, directives, statutes, subordinate legislation, common law and
other national and local laws, all judgments, orders, instructions or awards of
any court or competent authority and all codes of practice and guidance notes to
the extent enforceable and legally binding on the Company which have as a
purpose or effect the protection of the Environment but excluding for the
avoidance of doubt any of the above which regulate land use under the town and
planning regime.

 

10.5For the purposes of paragraph 10.3 “Environment” shall mean any and all
living organisms (including man) and the ecosystems of which they form part and
the media of air, water and land.

 

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