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INFORMATION CIRCULAR

AS AT AUGUST 1, 2023

This Information Circular is furnished in connection with the solicitation of proxies by the Management of FJORDLAND EXPLORATION INC. (the "Company") for use at the Meeting of the shareholders of the Company (the "Shareholders"), to be held at the time and place and for the purposes set forth in the accompanying Notice of Meeting and at any adjournment thereof. Except where otherwise indicated, the information contained herein is stated as of August 1, 2023.

In this Information Circular, references to the "Company", "we" and "our" refer to Fjordland Exploration Inc. "Common Shares" means common shares without par value in the capital of the Company. "Registered Shareholders" means shareholders whose names appear on the records of the Company as the registered holders of Common Shares. "Non-Registered Shareholders" means shareholders who do not hold Common Shares in their own name. "Intermediaries" refers to brokers, investment firms, clearing houses and similar entities that own securities on behalf of Non-Registered Shareholders.

GENERAL PROXY INFORMATION

Solicitation of Proxies

THE ENCLOSED PROXY IS BEING SOLICITED BY MANAGEMENT OF THE COMPANY. Solicitations will be made by mail and possibly supplemented by telephone or other personal contact to be made, without special compensation, by regular officers and employees of the Company. The Company will bear all costs of this solicitation. We have arranged to send meeting materials directly to Registered Shareholders, as well as Non-Registered Shareholders who have consented to their ownership information being disclosed by the Intermediary holding the Common Shares on their behalf (non-objecting beneficial owners). We have not arranged for Intermediaries to forward the meeting materials to Non-Registered Shareholders who have objected to their ownership information being disclosed by the Intermediary holding the Common Shares on their behalf (objecting beneficial owners). As a result, objecting beneficial owners will not receive the Information Circular and associated meeting materials unless their Intermediary assumes the costs of delivery. The Company is relying on the Notice-and-Access provisions of NI 54-101 to send proxy-related materials to Registered Shareholders or Non-Registered Shareholders in connection with the Meeting.

Appointment and Revocation of Proxies

The persons named in the accompanying form of Proxy (the "Proxy") are Directors or Officers of the Company. If you are a Registered Shareholder, you have the right to attend the meeting or vote by proxy and to appoint a person or company other than the person designated in the Proxy, who need not be a Shareholder, to attend and act for you and on your behalf at the Meeting. You may do so either by inserting the name of that other person in the blank space provided in the Proxy or by completing and delivering another suitable form of Proxy. Registered Shareholders electing to submit a Proxy may do so by:

  1. Completing, dating and signing the enclosed Proxy and returning it to the Company's transfer agent, Computershare Investor Services Inc. ("Computershare"), by fax in North America at 1- 866-249-7775, or by mail or hand delivery at 9th Floor, 100 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5J 2Y1, Canada;
  2. Using a touch-tone phone to transmit voting choices to the toll-free number given in the Proxy. Registered Shareholders who choose this option must follow the instructions of the voice response system and refer to the enclosed Proxy for the toll-free number, the Registered Shareholder's account number and the Proxy Control Number; or

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  1. Using the internet through the website of Computershare atwww.investorvote.com. Registered Shareholders who choose this option must follow the instructions that appear on the screen and refer to the enclosed Proxy for the Registered Shareholder's account number and the Proxy Control Number.

In all cases you should ensure the Proxy is received at least 48 hours before the Meeting or the adjournement thereof at which the Proxy is to be used.

Every Proxy may be revoked by an instrument in writing:

  1. executed by the Registered Shareholder or by his/her attorney authorized in writing or, where the Registered Shareholder is a company, by a duly authorized officer or attorney of the company; and
  2. delivered either to the registered office of the Company at any time up to and including the last business day preceding the day of the Meeting or any adjournment thereof, at which the Proxy is to be used, or to the chairman of the Meeting on the day of the Meeting or any adjournment thereof;

or in any other manner provided by law.

Only Registered Shareholders have the right to revoke a Proxy. Non-Registered Shareholders who wish to change their vote must, at least seven days before the Meeting, arrange for their respective Intermediaries to revoke the Proxy on their behalf. If you are a Non-RegisteredShareholder, see "Non- Registered Shareholders" below for further information on how to vote your Common Shares.

Exercise of Discretion by Proxyholder

If you vote by proxy, the persons named in the Proxy will vote or withhold from voting the Common Shares represented thereby in accordance with your instructions on any ballot that may be called for. If you specify a choice with respect to any matter to be acted upon, your Common Shares will be voted accordingly. The Proxy confers discretionary authority on the persons named therein with respect to:

  1. each matter or group of matters identified therein for which a choice is not specified;
  2. any amendment to or variation of any matter identified therein;
  3. any other matter that properly comes before the Meeting; and
  4. exercise of discretion of proxyholder.

Non-Registered Shareholders

The following information is of significant importance to Shareholders who do not hold Common Shares in their own name. Non-Registered Shareholders should note that the only Proxies that can be recognized and acted upon at the Meeting are those deposited by Registered Shareholders.

If Common Shares are listed in an account statement provided to a Shareholder by an Intermediary, then in almost all cases those Common shares will not be registered in the Shareholder's name on the records of the Company. Such Common Shares will more likely be registered under the name of the Non-Registered Shareholder's Intermediary or an agent of that Intermediary. In Canada, the majority of such Common Shares are registered under the name of CDS & Co. (the registration name for The Canadian Depository for Securities Limited, which acts as nominee for many Canadian brokerage firms), and in the United States, under the name of Cede & Co., as nominee for The Depository Trust Company (which acts as depository for many U.S. brokerage firms and custodian banks).

If you have consented to disclosure of your ownership information, you will receive a request for voting instructions from the Company. If you have declined to disclose your ownership information, you may receive a request for voting instructions from your Intermediary if they have assumed the cost of delivering the meeting materials. Every Intermediary has its own mailing procedures and provides its own return instructions to clients. However, most Intermediaries now delegate responsibility for obtaining voting

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instructions from clients to Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. ("Broadridge") in Canada and the United States.

If you are a Non-Registered Shareholder, you should carefully follow the instructions on the voting instruction form received from Broadridge in order to ensure that your Common Shares are voted at the Meeting. The voting instruction form supplied to you will be similar to the Proxy provided to the Registered Shareholders by the Company. However, its purpose is limited to instructing the Intermediary on how to vote on your behalf.

The voting instruction form sent by Broadridge will name the same persons as the Company's Proxy to represent you at the Meeting. Although as a Non-Registered Shareholder you may not be recognized directly at the Meeting for the purposes of voting Common Shares registered in the name of your intermediary, you, or a person designated by you (who need not be a Shareholder), may attend the Meeting as Proxyholder for your Intermediary and vote your Common Shares in that capacity. To exercise this right to attend the Meeting or appoint a Proxyholder of your own choosing, you should insert your own name or the name of the desired representative in the blank space provided in the voting instruction form. Alternatively, you may provide other written instructions requesting that you or your desired representative attend the Meeting as Proxyholder for your Intermediary. The completed voting instruction form or other written instructions must then be returned in accordance with the instructions on the form.

If you receive a voting instruction form from Broadridge, you cannot use it to vote Common Shares directly at the Meeting - the voting instruction form must be completed as described above and returned in accordance with its instructions well in advance of the Meeting in order to have the Common Shares voted.

VOTING SHARES AND PRINCIPAL HOLDERS THEREOF

On August 1, 2023, 82,935,531 common shares without par value were issued and outstanding, each share carrying the right to one vote. At a General Meeting of the Company, on a show of hands, every Shareholder present in person shall have one vote and, on a poll, every Shareholder shall have one vote for each share of which he is the holder.

Only Shareholders of record on the close of business on August 1, 2023 who either personally attend the Meeting or who complete and deliver a Proxy in the manner and subject to the provisions set out under the heading "General Proxy Information" will be entitled to have his or her shares voted at the Meeting or any adjournment thereof.

To the knowledge of the Directors and Senior Officers of the Company, only the following own, directly or indirectly, or exercise control or direction over, shares carrying more than 10% of the voting rights attached to all outstanding shares of the Company:

Name

Number of Shares

Percentage

I-Pulse Inc.

14,000,0001

16.9%

c/o 606- 999 Canada Place

Vancouver, B.C.

V6C 1E1

114,000,000 shares are held by IVNE BC Holdings Ltd., a private company indirectly controlled by I-Pulse Inc.

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INTEREST OF CERTAIN PERSONS OR

COMPANIES IN MATTERS TO BE ACTED UPON

Other than as disclosed elsewhere in this Information Circular, none of the Directors or Senior Officers of the Company, no proposed nominee for election as a Director of the Company, none of the persons who have been Directors or Senior Officers of the Company since the commencement of the Company's last completed financial year and no associate or affiliate of any of the foregoing persons has any material interest, direct or indirect, by way of beneficial ownership of securities or otherwise, in any matter to be acted upon at the Meeting.

INTEREST OF INFORMED PERSONS IN MATERIAL TRANSACTIONS

For the purposes of this Information Circular, "informed person" means:

  1. a director or executive officer of the Company;
  2. a director or executive officer of a person or company that is itself an informed person or subsidiary of the Company;
  3. any person or company who beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, voting securities of the Company or who exercises control or direction over voting securities of the Company, or a combination of both, carrying more than 10% of the voting rights attached to all outstanding voting securities of the Company, other than voting securities held by the person or company as underwriter in the course of a distribution; and
  4. the Company if it has purchased, redeemed or otherwise acquired any of its own securities, for so long as it holds any of its securities.

Other than as set forth herein, no informed person, no proposed director of the Company and no associate or affiliate of any such informed person or proposed director, has any material interest, direct or indirect, in any material transaction since the commencement of the Company's last completed financial year or in any proposed transaction, which, in either case, has materially affected or will materially affect the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

STATEMENT OF EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

  1. General Provisions

For the purposes of this Information Circular:

"CEO" of the Company means an individual who served as Chief Executive Officer of the Company, or performed functions similar to a Chief Executive Officer, for any part of the most recently completed financial year;

"CFO" of the Company means an individual who served as Chief Financial Officer of the Company, or performed functions similar to a Chief Financial Officer, for any part of the most recently completed financial year;

"compensation securities" includes stock options, convertible securities, exchangeable securities and similar instruments including stock appreciation rights, deferred share units and restricted stock units granted or issued by the Company or one of its subsidiaries for services provided or to be provided, directly or indirectly, to the Company or its subsidiaries;

"executive officer" of the Company means an individual who is the Chairman or Vice-Chairman of the Board, the President, a CEO, a CFO, a Vice-President in charge of a principal business unit, division or function including sales, finance or production, or any other individual who performed a policy-making function in respect of the Company;

"NEO" or "named executive officer" means each of the following individuals:

  1. each individual who, in respect of the company, during any part of the most recently completed financial year, served as chief executive officer, including an individual performing functions similar to a chief executive officer;

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  1. each individual who, in respect of the company, during any part of the most recently completed financial year, served as chief financial officer, including an individual performing functions similar to a chief financial officer;
  2. in respect of the company and its subsidiaries, the most highly compensated executive officer other than the individuals identified in paragraphs (a) and (b) at the end of the most recently completed financial year whose total compensation was more than $150,000, as determined in accordance with subsection 1.3(5), for that financial year;
  3. each individual who would be a named executive officer under paragraph (c) but for the fact that the individual was not an executive officer of the company, and was not acting in a similar capacity, at the end of that financial year;

"underlying securities" means any securities issuable on conversion, exchange or exercise of compensation securities.

All currency references herein are expressed in Canadian Dollars unless otherwise specified.

  1. Compensation Discussion and Analysis

The Company's Compensation Committee, which is comprised of John Sheedy, Victor A. Tanaka and Peter Krag-Hansen, is solely responsible for the compensation program for the Company's Named Executive Officers. At the request of the Compensation Committee, other directors may, from time to time, provide recommendations to the Compensation Committee with respect to compensation for the Company's NEOs.

The compensation program's objectives are:

  • Attract and retain qualified and experienced executives to drive the continued development of the Company and its current and future mineral exploration assets, thereby creating shareholder value; and
  • Provide executives, through independent research and analysis, with appropriate salaries and incentives and encourage the achievement of specific milestones with respect to the development of the Company.

The deliberations of the Compensation Committee are private. Compensation for the Company's NEOs consists generally of: (i) base cash salary or consulting fee; (ii) cash bonus payments for achievement of specific milestones or benchmarks; and (iii) option grants pursuant to the Company's Stock Option Plan. The Company does not provide the NEOs with personal benefits nor does the Company provide any additional compensation to its NEOs for serving as directors of the Company.

At the Meeting, the disinterested shareholders of the Company will be asked to consider and, if deemed advisable, to pass, with or without variation, an ordinary resolution of disinterested shareholders confirming and approving a proposed equity incentive plan. The directors of the Company unanimously recommend that shareholders vote in favour of resolution approving the new equiy incentive plan. The persons named in the form of proxy accompanying this Circular intend to vote FOR the Equity Incentive Plan, unless the shareholder of the Company who has given such proxy has directed that the shares represented by such proxy be voted against the Equity Incentive Plan. For further information regarding the proposed new Equity Incentive Plan and a summary of its material terms see section in this Circular titled "Particulars of Other Matters To Be Acted Upon - Approval of Proposed Equity Incentive Plan".

  1. Summary Compensation Tables

James Tuer, President and CEO and Mark T. Brown, are the NEOs of the Company for the purposes of the following disclosure. The compensation for the NEOs and directors of the Company who are not NEOs, directly or indirectly, for the Company's two most recently-completed financial years is as follows:

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