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IMBO PROJECT

The Imbo Project within Ngayu

The primary area of interest is the Adumbi deposit currently within the Imbo mining licence in the east of the Ngayu belt. These activities have included updating the Adumbi database and resource, ongoing drilling to prove up further resources at Adumbi as well as reconnaissance fieldwork on the Imbo East (previously Maiepunji) prospect, 10 kilometres west-southwest of Adumbi where at least four zones of interest have been discovered.

Loncor acquired control of the Imbo project in September 2019, initially acquiring a 71.25% interest in the project. This 71.25% interest at Imbo was subsequently increased to 84.68% in September 2020. A re-assessment of the resource bearing deposits at Imbo in April 2020 - namely Adumbi, Kitenge and Manzako - and the incorporation of 4 previously excluded drill holes, resulted in a 61% increase in Adumbi’s inferred resource. A further assessment in April 2021 incorporated the first six holes of the ongoing 7,000 metre drill program, adding a further 963,000 ozs or 44% to the Adumbi resurces within the US$1500/oz pit shell. The three deposits, which sit within 5 kilometres of each other, now have an inferred mineral resource of 3.466 million ounces of gold (42.996 million tonnes grading 2.51 g/t Au), with 84.68% of this inferred mineral resource being attributable to Loncor.

On April 27 2021 a 43-1010 technical report on the Imbo Project resource was filed with SEDAR, having been prepared by Minecon Resource and Services Limited with an effective date of April 27 2021. The Minecon report is entitled "Updated Resource Statement and Independent National Instrument 43-101 Technical Report, Imbo Project, Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo". The aforementioned report is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and EDGAR at www.sec.gov.

A major structural fracture trends east-northeast through the Imva area where a number of targets are located and then trends southeast through the Imbo mining licence where the Adumbi, Kitenge and Manzako deposits are located and then across the Imbo river to the Imbo East prospect. In total, this major structural break extends for 16 kilometres within the Imbo licence and will require further exploration to fully evaluate this prospective trend. Recent reconnaissance to the east of the Imbo river at the Imbo east prospect has substantiated the potential of this structural trend with four key areas of interest being de-lineated (see press release February 24, 2021 for detail). Mineralization is found within steeply dipping metasediments with or without quartz veins with silica, sericite and graphitic alteration and mainly limonitic boxworks after pyrite. These metasediments are found immediately southwest of a prominent range of BIF which is also mineralized.

Going forward, the Imbo project area is the focus of attention for the Company with an ongoing 7,000 meter drill program now focussing on creating a significant underground resource at Adumbi, the first six holes already adding 963,000 ozs of inferred resource to the proposed pit shell in April 2021.

Refer to the web pages on the individual projects for more detail.

Loncor's Additional Areas of Interest

Certain parcels of land within the Ngayu project surrounding and including the Makapela and Adumbi deposits have been retained by Loncor. Loncor’s Makapela deposit (which is 100%-owned by Loncor) has an indicated mineral resource of 614,200 ounces of gold (2.20 million tonnes grading 8.66 g/t Au) and an inferred mineral resource of 549,600 ounces of gold (3.22 million tonnes grading 5.30 g/t Au).

Loncor has a parcel of ground around the Yindi area (100%) where previous drilling during the period 2010-11 gave some significant gold drill interceptions. Further investigation of the Yindi area is warranted.

Qualified Person

Peter N. Cowley, who is President of Loncor and a "qualified person" as such term is defined in National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed and approved the technical information on this web site.

Technical Reports

Additional information with respect to Loncor’s Imbo Project (including the Adumbi deposit) is contained in the technical report of Minecon Resources and Services Limited dated April 17 2020 and entitled "Independent National Instrument 43-101 Technical Report on the Imbo Project, Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo". A copy of the said report can be obtained from SEDAR at www.sedar.com and EDGAR at www.sec.gov.

Additional information with respect to Loncor’s Makapela Project, and certain other properties of the Company in the Ngayu gold belt, is contained in the technical report of Venmyn Rand (Pty) Ltd dated May 29 2012 and entitled "Updated National Instrument 43-101 Independent Technical Report on the Ngayu Gold Project, Orientale Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo". A copy of the said report can be obtained from SEDAR at www.sedar.com and EDGAR at www.sec.gov.