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Page 1: LONCOR RESOURCES : “Exploring Gold’s Last Frontier in Africa” | VAST, UNEXPLORED GROUND | KNOWN DEPOSITS | PROVEN LEADERSHIP TEAM | 8 th March 2011

LONCOR RESOURCES : “Exploring Gold’s Last Frontier in Africa”

| VAST, UNEXPLORED GROUND | KNOWN DEPOSITS | PROVEN LEADERSHIP TEAM |

8th March 2011

Page 2: LONCOR RESOURCES : “Exploring Gold’s Last Frontier in Africa” | VAST, UNEXPLORED GROUND | KNOWN DEPOSITS | PROVEN LEADERSHIP TEAM | 8 th March 2011

Cautionary Notes

Forward-Looking Statements: This presentation contains forward-looking statements. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, that address activities, events or developments that the Company believes, expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future (including, without limitation, statements relating to exploration results, mineral resources, potential mineralization and the Company's plans with respect to the exploration of its DRC properties) are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements reflect the current expectations or beliefs of the Company based on information currently available to the Company. Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that may cause the actual results of the Company to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements, and even if such actual results are realized or substantially realized, there can be no assurance that they will have the expected consequences to, or effects on the Company. Factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from current expectations include, among other things, the possibility that future exploration results will not be consistent with the Company's expectations, uncertainties relating to the availability and costs of financing needed in the future, changes in equity markets, changes in commodity prices, foreign currency fluctuations, political developments in the DRC, changes to regulations affecting the Company's activities, delays in obtaining or failure to obtain required project approvals, the uncertainties involved in interpreting geological data and the other risks involved in the resource exploration business. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made and, except as may be required by applicable securities laws, the Company disclaims any intent or obligation to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or results or otherwise. Although the Company believes that the assumptions inherent in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and accordingly undue reliance should not be put on such statements due to the inherent uncertainty therein.

This presentation is being made available on a confidential basis only to persons in the United States reasonably believed to be "accredited investors" as defined in Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act and specifically authorized to view this presentation. This information does not constitute an offer to any other person or, a general offer to the public of, or the general solicitation from the public of, offers to subscribe or purchase any of securities of Loncor. Any unauthorized use of the presentation is strictly prohibited. Distribution of this information to any person other than the offeree or its advisors that received it directly from the Company is unauthorized, and any disclosure of any of such information without the prior written consent of the Company is prohibited. Except as specifically provided herein, this presentation may not be copied or otherwise distributed, in whole or in part, by or to any person or in any medium whatsoever.

Qualified Person The “qualified person” (as such term is defined in National instrument 43-101) for the purpose of the technical information in this presentation is Peter Cowley, who is the President and C.E.O. of Loncor

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Loncor Resources - Investment Potential

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• Priority Ngayu Project (Orientale Province) of 4,550 km2 covers most of the prospective Ngayu Archaean Greenstone Belt. Drilling commenced in Q3/2010 with significant gold intersections at 2 prospects

• The North Kivu Project (North Kivu Province) covering 17,760 km2 has ten target gold occurrences for follow up.

• The North Kivu Project also known to host platinum, tungsten, niobium and rare earth occurrences

• Newmont Gold takes a 16.8% equity stake, due to multi-million ounce gold potential

• Solid management team with a proven track record of gold discovery and development in the DRC and Africa

Ngayu

North Kivu

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• 2003 – DRC introduces new Mining Code with the assistance of the World Bank

• 2004 to present – Growing mining industry led by Freeport McMoran, Glencore, Rio Tinto, Anvil, AnglogoldAshanti, Randgold and Banro Corp

• 2006 – Democratic elections usher in new Central & Provincial governments

• Ongoing –US$ billions invested by IMF, European Union and China in economic reconstruction and infrastructural development

• 2004-8 – World class gold deposits outlined in eastern DRC (Moto, Banro, AnglogoldAshanti) during the last 5 years

• Oct. 2009 – Consolidation in the gold sector by majors (AnglogoldAshanti/Randgold takeover of Moto Gold)

DR Congo – “The re-emerging mining power house”

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Ngayu – DRC’s last remaining unexplored Archaean Gold rich Greenstone Belt

Ngayu Greenstone BeltMoto Greenstone Belt(22 Moz)

Kilo Greenstone Belt(5 Moz)

Banro’sTwangiza-Namoya(11 Moz)

Uganda

Rwanda

Tanzania

Burundi

Kenya

Sudan

Geita (20 Moz)

Bulyanhulu (19 Moz)

Moto

Mongbwalu

LONCOR

BANRO

Major Gold Mine/Deposit

Greenstones

Legend:

North Mara (8Moz)

Golden Pride (6 Moz)

Buswagi (5 Moz)

North Kivu Project

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Ngayu Project – Archaean Greenstone Belt Geology with similarities to Geita Greenstone Belt in Tanzania

Legend:

Archaean Banded Iron Formation

Archaean Greenstone Belt

Archaean Granite Basement Intrusives

Known PrimaryGold Deposit/Prospect

Geita Greenstone Belt at same scale

Yindi

Adumbi

.

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Makapela

Main Alluvial Workings

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Ngayu Project – Airborne Magnetics outlining BIF Horizons

Known PrimaryGold Deposit/Prospect

Aeromagnetics highlight 130 km prospective BIF trend

Yindi

Adumbi

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Makapela

Main Alluvial Workings

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Yindi Prospect - 3,000 metre long mineralized trend

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Yindi Prospect Drilling

Results include:

18.98 metres grading 3.66 g/t

24.04 metres grading 1.48 g/t

8.10 metres grading 2.53 g/t

Gold intersections found mainly in Banded Ironstone Formation (BIF)

Gold associated with pyrite disseminations, semi massive and stratiform in BIF with pyrite replacing magnetite

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Ngayu - Makapela Prospect

Makapela Prospect

20 km

Yindi Prospect

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Makapela Prospect

Main Pit: 200 m Strike North Pit: 200 m Strike

Sele Sele Pit: 300 m Strike Significant Visible Gold

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Makapela Prospect

• 3,000 metre strike mineralised zone (Sele Sele, North, Main and Bamako) opened up

• Series of subvertical quartz veins in intermediate to mafic lavas and tuffs

• Geological setting similar to Bulyanhulu

• Principal quartz vein 3-6 metres thick grading up to 64 g/t Au

• Results from initial 5 holes include:

7.19 m (T.T. 4.30m) @ 64 g/t

4.08 m (T.T. 3.10m) @15.2 g/t

6.76 m (T.T. 4.30m) @ 7.0 g/t

10.86 m (T.T. 5.90m) @ 5.1 g/t

• 5,000 metre strike potential (from soil geochemical anomaly)

220000

219000

218000

217000

216000

550000 551000 552000

217000

218000

219000

220000

550000 551000 552000 553000

Sele Sele pit

Bamako pit

Main pit

North pit

NMDD001 (4.08 m @ 15.20 g/t)

NMDD002 (6.76 m @ 7.01 g/t)NMDD005 (7.19 m @ 64.0 g/t)

4.60m @ 11.42 g/t

4.20m @ 11.60 g/t3.05m @ 33.40 g/t

5.74m @ 5.20 g/t

NMDD003 (10.86m @ 5.14 g/t)NMDD004 (22.43m @ 2.88 g/t)

4.50m @ 8.49 g/t7.00m @ 5.30 g/t

MAKAPELA PROSPECT LOCALITY PLAN(Soil geochemistry, drilling and channel sampling results)

0

metre

1000500

4.60m @ 11.42 g/t

7.19m @ 64 g/t

N

15.617.4

2.24

140.0

10.3

68.7

1.51

1.61

18.8

2.82Legend

Grab sample > 1.0 g/t Au

>100 ppb Au in soil

>50 ppb Au in soil

Artisanal working

Inferred fault

Channel intersection

Drill hole intersection

12.1

f

f

ff

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Makapela: North Pit Section

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660

710

760

552020E 552040E 552060E 552080E 552100E 552120E 552140E 552160E 552180E218090N218100N218110N218120N218130N218140N218150N218160N

GEOLOGICAL LEGEND

AN

BV

QV

IIIIIIIIIIIIIII

RS

BOCO

5.70 m @ 5.23 g/t Au

7.76 m (4.3 m true)@ 7.01 g/t Au

7.19 m (4.30 m true)@ 64.00 g/t Au

NORTH PIT

MAIN VEIN

EOH = 152.00 mEOH = 131.30 m

Andesite

Basalt

Quartz vein

Residual Soil

7.76 m(4.30 m true) @ 7.01 g/t Au

7.19 m (4.30 m true) @ 64.00 g/t Au

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Ngayu Pipeline – Imva Fold Structure (30 km of prospective trend)

Imva Fold Structure

Itali

Old Trench42.50 m @ 2.11 g/t

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Ngayu Pipeline – Anguluku 4,000 m. strike associated with BIF

Anguluku

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North Kivu Project

Yindi

Ngayu Greenstone Belt

Moto Greenstone Belt(22 Moz)

Kilo Greenstone Belt(5Moz)

Twangiza-Namoya(11 Moz)

Uganda

Rwanda

Tanzania

Burundi

Kenya

Sudan

Geita (20 Moz)

Bulyanhulu (19Moz)

Moto

Mongbwalu

Adumbi

LONCOR

BANRO

Major Gold Mine/Deposit

Greenstones

Legend:

North Mara (8Moz)

Golden Pride (6Moz)

Buswagi (5Moz)

North Kivu Project

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North Kivu Project – A number of gold and platinum prospects being followed up

Legend

Known Primary Deposit/Showing

Possible Primary gold and/or platinum

Streams with Alluvial Platinum

Streams with Alluvial Gold

Mineralization Zones

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2

3

4

6

7

8

9

10

5

Prospect ID

1 Lubero

2 Lutunguru

3 Manguredjipa

4 Makwasu

5 Lutela

6 Bilolo-Mobissio-Abakuasimbo

7 Manzia-Luholu-Lubereri

8 Mohanga

9 Biabube and Loya

10 Lundjulu-Lolki-Ubiro

Butembo

Lubero

BeniManguredjipa

Lutunguru

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Manguredjipa - Priority Gold Target

• Belgians discovered high grade gold quartz veins in Manguredjipa area

• Developed two underground adits intersecting quartz veins up to 400 metres in length with grades of 18 g/t over 1 metre

• Preliminary regional exploration at Manguredjipa indicates newly discovered bulk potential

• New +1km long prospect east of underground adits outlined

Sheeted quartz veins and stockworks

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Bingo Carbonatite ( Niobium/rare earths)

• Carbonatite approximately 3km in diameter

•Carbonatite deeply weathered and forms a thick crust of laterite on surface. Previous drilling has shown minimum depth of 200 meters

•Preliminary results from 263 chip samples gave an average grade of 0.8% Nb205(pyrochlore) and total rare earths of 1% (particularly Ce, La, Nd,Sm and Gd)

•Further work to add value and possible spin out

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Etaetu Wolframite (North Kivu)

• Series of parallel Wolframite bearing quartz veins up to 40 metres in width over 2.0 kilometre strike

• Previous alluvial and colluvial mining by Belgians

• Exploration for primary wolframite since 1955 shows average grade of +/- 0.48%

• 79 orientation samples collected in 2010 gave an average WO3 grade of 0.50%

• Bulk open pit potential

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Directors and Management – Proven African & DRC Track Records in Gold Discovery & Development

• Peter Cowley President & CEO, Director Former President and CEO of Banro Corp (2004-8), Managing Director of Ashanti

Exploration (1996-2004) and Group Technical Director of Cluff Resources (1989-1996). Directed exploration teams that delineated resources of 17 Moz at Geita and 11 Moz at Twangiza- Namoya.

• Arnold Kondrat, Executive Vice President & Director Founder of Loncor and Banro Corp. President and Managing Director of Sterling

Portfolio Securities Inc. Director Banro Corp

• Simon Village, Director Chairman of Banro Corp. Formerly Managing Director, World Gold Council and

Principal of Exchange Traded Gold

• Kevin Baker, Director President & CEO Century Oilfields Services and Principal & Managing Director of

Baycor Capital

• William Wilson, Director Vice President and CFO Arnevut Resources Inc.

• Richard Lachcik, Director Partner in Macleod Dixon LLP. Chairman of Macleod Dixon Global Mining Group.

Director of Banro Corp • Experienced DRC based Exploration Staff Dr Howard Fall (Exploration Manager), Fabrice Matheys (General Manager), Mark

Hannam (Chief Geologist)

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Corporate Information

Listing Toronto Venture Exchange TSX.V: LN

Share StructureOutstanding: 57,617,745 *

Stock Options: 4,850,000 Warrants: 4,683,250 Broker Warrants (fully diluted): 1,099,988

Fully diluted: 68,250,983

* Newmont Mining 16.8%* Loncor Management 34%

Offices Head Office Toronto, CanadaOperations Kinshasa, Beni, DRC

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Corporate Social Responsibility

A commitment to sustainable community development is a Loncor principle and integral to its long term strategy for mineral development in DRC

Completion of primary school at Bafwanakengele (June 2010)

A wing of the refurbished Manguredjipa hospital

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Investment Summary

• Extensive landholdings for gold and other minerals in north-east D.R.Congo

• Newmont has taken an 16.8% equity stake based on multi-million ounce gold potential of Loncor’s projects

• Priority Ngayu Project of 4,550 km2 covers most of the prospective Ngayu Archaean Greenstone Belt.

• Ongoing drilling at Ngayu expected to outline mineral resources by end of 2011

• North Kivu Project of 17,760 km2 - exploration follow up targeting a number of gold prospects and other minerals

• Led by a senior management team with a proven track record of gold exploration discovery and development in the DRC and Africa