2024

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Date:

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Time:

9:00 a.m. (Pacific Daylight Time)

Place:

Suite 880 - 320 Granville Street

Vancouver, British Columbia

Canada, V6C 1S9

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Notice of Annual General Meeting of Shareholders

Management Information Circular

LATIN METALS INC.

Suite 890 - 999 West Hastings Street

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6E 2W2

Telephone: 604-638-3456

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the annual general meeting (the "Meeting") of shareholders of Latin Metals Inc. (the "Company") will be held at Suite 880, 320 Granville Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on Wednesday, July 10, 2024, at 9:00 a.m. (PDT) for the following purposes:

  1. to receive and consider the audited financial statements of the Company for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2023 (with comparative financial statements relating to the preceding fiscal period) together with the report of the auditor thereon;
  2. to appoint Smythe LLP, Chartered Professional Accountants as auditor of the Company for the fiscal year ending October 31, 2024, and to authorize the directors to fix the auditor's remuneration;
  3. to fix the number of directors at four (4);
  4. to elect the directors for the ensuing year;
  5. to consider and, if thought fit, to pass an ordinary resolution ratifying and approving the Company's Stock Option Plan, as more particularly described in the accompanying management information circular; and
  6. to transact such other business as may properly come before the Meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof.

The details of all matters proposed to be put before shareholders at the Meeting are set forth in the management information circular accompanying this Notice of Meeting. At the Meeting, shareholders will be asked to approve each of the foregoing items.

The directors of the Company have fixed May 24, 2024 as the record date for the Meeting (the "Record Date"). Only shareholders of record at the close of business on the Record Date are entitled to vote at the Meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof.

If you are a registered shareholder of the Company and unable to attend the Meeting in person, please exercise your right to vote by completing and returning the accompanying form of proxy and deposit it with Computershare Trust Company of Canada. Proxies must be completed, dated, signed and returned to Computershare Trust Company of Canada, Proxy Department, at 8th Floor, 100 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5J 2Y1 by 9:00 a.m. (PDT) on July 8, 2024, or if the Meeting is adjourned or postponed, not less than 48 hours (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays) before the date to which the Meeting is adjourned or postponed. Telephone voting can be completed at 1-866-732-8683, voting by fax can be sent to 1-866-249-7775 or 416-263-9524 and Internet voting can be completed at www.investorvote.com

Late proxies may be accepted or rejected by the Chairman of the Meeting at his discretion and the Chairman of the Meeting is under no obligation to accept or reject any particular late proxy. The Chairman of the Meeting may waive or extend the proxy cut-off without notice.

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If you are a non-registered shareholder, please follow the instructions from your bank, broker or other financial intermediary for instructions on how to vote your shares.

DATED at Vancouver, British Columbia, this 24th day of May, 2024.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

/s/ Keith J. Henderson

Keith J. Henderson

President, Chief Executive Officer

and Director

LATIN METALS INC.

Suite 890 - 999 West Hastings Street

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6E 2W2

Telephone: 604-638-3456

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION CIRCULAR

GENERAL PROXY INFORMATION AND CIRCULAR DISCLOSURE

Persons Making the Solicitation

This Information Circular is being furnished in connection with the solicitation of proxies by the management of Latin Metals Inc. (the "Company") for use at the annual general meeting (the "Meeting") of the holders of common shares in the capital of the Company (the "Shareholders") to be held at Suite 880, 320 Granville Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on Wednesday, July 10, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. (PDT) for the purposes set forth in the accompanying Notice of Meeting. While it is expected that the solicitation of proxies will be primarily by mail, proxies may be solicited personally or by telephone by the regular employees of the Company at nominal cost. The Company may reimburse Shareholders' nominees or agents (including brokers holding shares on behalf of clients) for the cost incurred in obtaining authorization from their principals to execute proxies. All costs of solicitation will be borne by the Company. None of the directors of the Company have advised that they intend to oppose any action intended to be taken by management as set forth in this Information Circular.

Appointment and Revocation of Proxies

The individuals named in the accompanying form of proxy (the "Proxy") are directors or officers of the Company. A SHAREHOLDER WISHING TO APPOINT SOME OTHER PERSON (WHO NEED

NOT BE A SHAREHOLDER) TO ATTEND AND ACT FOR THE SHAREHOLDER AND ON THE SHAREHOLDER'S BEHALF AT THE MEETING HAS THE RIGHT TO DO SO, EITHER BY INSERTING SUCH PERSON'S NAME IN THE BLANK SPACE PROVIDED IN THE FORM OF PROXY AND STRIKING OUT THE TWO PRINTED NAMES, OR BY COMPLETING ANOTHER FORM OF PROXY. A Proxy will not be valid unless the completed, dated and signed Proxy is received by Computershare Trust Company of Canada, Proxy Department, at 8th Floor, 100 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5J 2Y1 by 9:00 a.m. (PDT) on July 8, 2024, or if the Meeting is adjourned or postponed, not less than 48 hours (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays) before the date to which the Meeting is adjourned or postponed. Telephone voting can be completed at 1-866-732-8683,voting by fax can be sent to 1-866-249-7775or 416-263-9524and Internet voting can be completed atwww.investorvote.com.

Late proxies may be accepted or rejected by the Chairman of the Meeting at his discretion and the Chairman of the Meeting is under no obligation to accept or reject any particular late proxy. The Chairman of the Meeting may waive or extend the proxy cut-off without notice.

A Shareholder who has given a Proxy may revoke it by an instrument in writing executed by the Shareholder or by the Shareholder's attorney authorized in writing or, if the Shareholder is a corporation, by a duly authorized officer or attorney of the corporation, and delivered either to the registered office of the Company, at Suite 880, 320 Granville Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Canada, V6C 1S9, at any time up to and including the last business day preceding the day of the Meeting or any adjournment of it or to the Chairman of the Meeting on the day of the Meeting or any adjournment of it. A revocation of a Proxy does not affect any matter on which a vote has been taken prior to the revocation.

If you are a non-registered Shareholder, please follow the instructions from your bank, broker or other financial intermediary for instructions on how to revoke your voting instructions.

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Exercise of Discretion

If the instructions in a Proxy are certain, the shares represented thereby will be voted on any poll by the persons named in the Proxy and, where a choice with respect to any matter to be acted upon has been specified in the Proxy, the shares represented thereby will, on a poll, be voted or withheld from voting in accordance with the specifications so made. If you do not provide instructions in your Proxy, the persons named in the enclosed Proxy will vote your shares FOR the matters to be acted on at the Meeting.

The persons named in the enclosed Proxy will have discretionary authority with respect to any amendments or variations of these matters or any other matters properly brought before the Meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof, in each instance, to the extent permitted by law, whether or not the amendment or other item of business that comes before the Meeting is routine or contested. The persons named in the enclosed Proxy will vote on such matters in accordance with their best judgment. At the time of the printing of this Information Circular, the management of the Company knows of no such amendment, variation or other matter which may be presented to the Meeting.

Advice to Non-Registered (Beneficial) Shareholders

The information set out in this section is important to many Shareholders as a substantial number of Shareholders do not hold their shares in their own name.

Only registered Shareholders or duly appointed proxyholders for registered Shareholders are permitted to vote at the Meeting. Most of the Shareholders of the Company are "non-registered" Shareholders because the shares they own are not registered in their names, but are instead registered in the name of the brokerage firm, bank or trust company through which they purchased the shares.

More particularly, a person is not a registered Shareholder in respect of shares of the Company which are held on behalf of that person (the "Non-Registered Holder") but which are registered either (a) in the name of an intermediary (the "Intermediary") that the Non-Registered Holder deals with in respect of the shares (Intermediaries include, among others, banks, trust companies, securities dealers or brokers and trustees or administrators of self-administered RRSPs, RRIFs, RESPs and similar plans), or (b) in the name of a clearing agency (such as The Canadian Depository for Securities Limited) of which the Intermediary is a participant. In accordance with the requirements of National Instrument 54-101Communication with Beneficial Owners of Securities of a Reporting Issuer ("NI 54-101") of the Canadian Securities Administrators, the Company has distributed copies of the Notice of Meeting, this Information Circular and the form of Proxy (collectively referred to as the "Meeting Materials") to the clearing agencies and Intermediaries for onward distribution to Non-Registered Holders.

Intermediaries are required to forward the Meeting Materials to Non-Registered Holders unless a Non- Registered Holder has waived the right to receive them. Very often, Intermediaries will use service companies (such as Broadridge Investor Communication Solutions) to forward the Meeting Materials to Non-Registered Holders. Generally, if you are a Non-Registered Holder and you have not waived the right to receive the Meeting Materials you will either:

  1. be given a form of proxy which has already been signed by the Intermediary (typically by a facsimile stamped signature) which is restricted to the number of shares beneficially owned by you, but which is otherwise not complete. Because the Intermediary has already signed the proxy, this proxy is not required to be signed by you when submitting it. In this case, if you wish to submit a proxy you should otherwise properly complete the executed proxy provided and deposit it with Computershare Trust Company of Canada, as provided above; or
  2. more typically, a Non-Registered Holder will be given a voting instruction form which is not signed by the Intermediary, and which, when properly completed and signed by the Non-Registered Holder and returned to the Intermediary or its service company, will constitute voting instructions (often called a "proxy", "proxy authorization form" or "voting instruction form") which the Intermediary must follow. Typically, the voting instruction form will consist of a one

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page pre-printed form. Sometimes, instead of the one page printed form, the voting instruction form will consist of a regular printed proxy accompanied by a page of instructions that contains a removable label containing a bar-code and other information. In order for the proxy to validly constitute a voting instruction form, the Non-Registered Holder must remove the label from the instructions and affix it to the proxy, properly complete and sign the proxy and return it to the

Intermediary or its service company (notthe Company or Computershare Trust Company of Canada) in accordance with the instructions of the Intermediary or its service company.

In either case, the purpose of these procedures is to permit Non-Registered Holders to direct the voting of the shares that they beneficially own. If you are a Non-Registered Holder and you wish to vote at the Meeting in person as proxyholder for the shares owned by you, you should strike out the names of the management designated proxyholders named in the proxy authorization form or voting instruction form and insert your name in the blank space provided. In either case, you should carefully follow the instructions of your Intermediary, including when and where the proxy, proxy authorization or voting instruction form is to be delivered.

The materials with respect to the Meeting are being sent to both registered Shareholders and Non-Registered Holders who have not objected to the Intermediary through which their shares are held disclosing ownership information about themselves to the Company ("NOBOs"). If you are a NOBO, and the Company or its agent has sent these materials to you, your name and address and information about your holdings of securities have been obtained in accordance with applicable securities regulatory requirements from the Intermediary on your behalf.

If you are a Non-Registered Holder who has objected to the Intermediary through which your shares are held disclosing ownership information about you to the Company (an "OBO"), you should be aware that the Company does not intend to pay for Intermediaries to forward the materials with respect to the Meeting, including proxies or voting information forms, to OBOs and therefore an OBO will not receive the materials with respect to the Meeting unless that OBO's Intermediary assumes the cost of delivery.

NOTICE AND ACCESS

On February 11, 2013, the Canadian Securities Administrators adopted regulatory amendments to securities laws governing the delivery of proxy-related materials by public companies. As a result, public companies are now permitted to advise their shareholders of the availability of all proxy-related materials on an easily accessible website, rather than mailing physical copies of the materials.

This year the Company has decided to deliver the Meeting Materials to Shareholders by posting the Meeting Materials on its website (www.latin-metals.com). The Meeting Materials will be available on the Company's website as of June 4, 2024 and will remain on the website for one full year thereafter. The Meeting Materials will also be available on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.comas of June 4, 2024.

INTEREST OF CERTAIN PERSONS OR COMPANIES IN MATTERS TO BE ACTED UPON

Other than as disclosed elsewhere in this Information Circular, none of the current directors or executive officers, no proposed nominee for election as a director, none of the persons who have been directors or executive officers since the commencement of the 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, with the exception of the ratification and approval of the Company's stock option plan.

VOTING SHARES AND PRINCIPAL HOLDERS OF VOTING SECURITIES

The authorized capital of the Company consists of an unlimited number of common shares, each share carrying the right to one vote. As of May 24, 2024, 81,476,251 common shares were issued and outstanding.

Only holders of common shares of record at the close of business on May 24, 2024 (the "Record Date"), who either personally attend the Meeting or who have completed and delivered a form of proxy in the

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manner and subject to the provisions described above shall be entitled to vote or to have their common shares voted at the Meeting.

On a show of hands, every individual who is present as a registered Shareholder or as a duly appointed representative of one or more registered corporate Shareholders will have one vote, and on a poll every registered Shareholder present in person or represented by a validly appointed proxyholder, and every person who is a duly appointed representative of one or more corporate registered Shareholders, will have one vote for each common share registered in the name of the Shareholder on the list of Shareholders, which is available for inspection during normal business hours at Computershare Trust Company of Canada and will be available at the Meeting. Shareholders represented by proxyholders are not entitled to vote on a show of hands.

The following table sets out, to the knowledge of the directors and executive officers of the Company, based on public information, those persons or companies who beneficially own, directly or indirectly, or exercise control or direction over, common shares carrying 10% or more of the voting rights attached to all of the issued and outstanding common shares as at the Record Date:

Percentage of Issued and

Outstanding Common

Name

Number of Common Shares Held

Shares(1)

Robert C. Kopple

34,449,061 (2)

42.28%

Notes:

  1. Assumes 81,476,251 common shares issued and outstanding.
  2. Of the 34,449,061 common shares beneficially owned and controlled by Robert C. Kopple, 28,227,811 common shares are registered in the name of KF Business Ventures, LP, a partnership controlled by Robert C. Kopple, 2,846,250 common shares are registered in the name of E.L. II Properties Trust, and 3,375,000 shares of common stock are registered in the name of Robert C. Kopple.

INDEBTEDNESS OF DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

None of the current or former directors, executive officers, employees of the Company, the proposed nominees for election to the board of directors of the Company (the "Board of Directors" or the "Board"), or their respective associates or affiliates, are or have been indebted to the Company or its subsidiaries since the beginning of the last completed financial year of the Company.

INTEREST OF INFORMED PERSONS IN MATERIAL TRANSACTIONS

Other than as disclosed herein, since the beginning of the Company's last financial year, no "informed person" of the Company (including a director, officer or individual or corporation that beneficially owns or controls 10% or more of the issued and outstanding voting securities of the Company), proposed nominee for election as a director of the Company ("proposed director"), or any associate or affiliate of any informed person or proposed director, has any material interest, direct or indirect in any transaction or any proposed transaction which has materially affected or would materially affect the Company or any of its subsidiaries. See "Interest of Certain Persons or Companies in the Matters to be Acted Upon".

MANAGEMENT CONTRACTS

The management functions of the Company and its subsidiaries are primarily performed by the directors and executive officers of the Company, and not to any substantial degree by any other person with whom the Company has contracted.

STATEMENT OF EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

For the purposes of this Information Circular, a "Named Executive Officer" or "NEO" means each of the following individuals:

  1. a Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") of the Company;
  2. a Chief Financial Officer ("CFO") of the Company;

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  1. each of the Company's three most highly compensated executive officers, or the three most highly compensated individuals acting in a similar capacity, other than the CEO and CFO, at the end of the most recently completed financial year whose total compensation was, individually, more than $150,000 for the financial year; and
  2. each individual who would be a NEO under paragraph (c) but for the fact that the individual was neither an executive officer, nor acting in a similar capacity at the end of the most recently completed financial year.

Compensation Discussion and Analysis

The Company has a compensation program. The Compensation Committee relies on the experience of its members to ensure that total compensation paid to the Company's management is fair and reasonable and is both in-line with the Company's financial resources and competitive with companies at a similar stage of development.

The Compensation Committee is responsible for assisting the Board in monitoring, reviewing and approving compensation policies and practises of the Company and its subsidiaries and administering the Company's stock option plan. With regard to the CEO, the Compensation Committee is responsible for reviewing and approving corporate goals and objectives relevant to the CEO's compensation, evaluating the CEO's performance in light of those goals and objectives and making recommendations to the Board with respect to the CEO's compensation level based on this evaluation. In consultation with the CEO, the Compensation Committee makes recommendations to the Board on the framework of executive remuneration and its cost and on specific remuneration packages for each of the directors and officers other than the CEO, including recommendations regarding awards under equity compensation plans. The Compensation Committee also reviews executive compensation disclosure before the Company publicly discloses the information. The Compensation Committee's decisions are typically reflected in consent resolutions.

The Compensation Committee has the authority to engage and compensate, at the expense of the Company, any outside advisor that it determines to be necessary to permit it to carry out its duties (including compensation consultants and advisers), but it did not retain any such outside consultants or advisors during the financial year ended October 31, 2023.

Currently, the Compensation Committee is comprised of two members, namely, David Cass and Ryan King, all of whom are independent directors, and all are knowledgeable as to appropriate factors to consider when determining fair compensation for a reporting issuer's management team and directors and of fair compensation practices.

Compensation Philosophy

The Company has taken a forward-looking approach for the compensation for its directors, officers, employees and consultants to ensure that the Company can continue to build and retain a successful and motivated discovery team and, importantly, align the Company's future success with that of Shareholders.

The Company's compensation strategy is to attract and retain talent and experience with focused leadership in the operations, financing and asset management of the Company with the objective of maximizing the value of the Company. The Company compensates its Named Executive Officers based on their skill and experience levels and the existing stage of development of the Company. NEOs are rewarded on the basis of the skill and level of responsibility involved in their position, the individual's experience and qualifications, the Company's resources, industry practice, regulatory guidelines regarding executive compensation levels.

Under the Company's compensation policies and practices, NEOs and directors are not prevented from purchasing financial instruments, including prepaid variable forward contracts, equity swaps, collars or units of exchange funds that are designed to hedge or offset a decrease in market value of equity securities granted as compensation or held, directly or indirectly, by the executive officer or director.

The Company has not currently identified specific performance goals or benchmarks as such relate to

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executive compensation. The stage of the Company's development and the small size of its specialized management team allow frequent communication and constant management decisions in the interest of developing Shareholder value as a primary goal.

The Compensation Committee believes that the compensation policies and practices of the Company do not encourage executive officers to take unnecessary or excessive risk; however, the Board intends to review from time to time and at least once annually, the risks, if any, associated with the Company's compensation policies and practices at such time. Implicit in the Board of Director's mandate is that the Company's policies and practices respecting compensation, including those applicable to the Company's executives, be designed in a manner which is in the best interests of the Company and Shareholders and risk implications is one of many considerations which are taken into account in such design.

Compensation Components

The Board of Directors has implemented three levels of compensation to align the interests of the Named Executive Officers with those of the Shareholders. First, NEOs may be paid a monthly salary or consulting fee. Second, the Board of Directors may award NEOs long-term incentives in the form of stock options. Finally, and only in special circumstances, the Board of Directors may award cash or share bonuses for exceptional performance that results in a significant increase in Shareholder value. The Company does not provide medical, dental, pension or other benefits to NEOs. To date, no specific formulas have been developed to assign a specific weighting to each of these components.

When making compensation decisions in relation to the NEOs, the Compensation Committee looks at the compensation of the NEOs relative to the compensation paid to similarly situated executives at companies that the Compensation Committee considers to be peers of the Company. A benchmark group (the "Benchmark Group") is determined by screening and selecting publicly-traded companies in the same general industry (exploration companies) and on the basis of comparable size of operations and market capitalization. The Company aims to compensate employees, including NEOs, through a base salary that is generally in line with the median of the Company's peer group, but the Board has the discretion to pay above this to attract and retain key employees in achieving the Company's strategic goals, and in order to address exceptions where there are employees in dual-role positions.

The Compensation Committee reviews the composition of the Benchmark Group periodically to ensure that companies are relevant for comparative purposes, monitors the benchmark group to assess its appropriateness as a source of competitive compensation data, and adds or removes companies as appropriate. The Company's Benchmark Group for 2023 was comprised of the following companies:

Avrupa Minerals Ltd.

Mundoro Capital Inc.

Arcwest Exploration Inc.

Orogen Royalties Inc.

Benton Resources Inc.

Riverside Resources Inc.

Condor Resources Inc.

• Silver Range Resources Ltd.

• Eagle Plains Resources Ltd.

Strategic Metals Ltd.

Kenorland Minerals Ltd.

Transition Metals Inc.

Lara Exploration Ltd.

Unico Silver Limited

Base Salary

The base compensation of the Named Executive Officers is reviewed and set annually by the Board of Directors, taking into account the recommendations of the Compensation Committee. The salary review for each NEO is based on an assessment of factors such as:

  • current competitive market conditions;
  • compensation levels within the peer group; and
  • particular skills, such as leadership ability and management effectiveness, experience, responsibility and proven or expected performance of the particular individual.

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Using this information, together with budgetary guidelines and other internally generated planning and forecasting tools, the Board performs an annual assessment of the compensation of all executive officer compensation levels and then sets the base salaries or consulting fees of the NEOs.

Annual Incentive Plan

The Company has no formal annual incentive plan, however, cash bonuses may be granted from time to time by the Board of Directors upon recommendation by the Compensation Committee.

In determining whether to award any annual incentives, the Board reviews corporate performance objectives during the year.

The Board assesses each NEO's performance on the basis of his respective contribution to the achievement of corporate goals as well as to the needs of the Company that arise on a day-to-day basis. No annual bonuses were approved and paid in the fiscal year ended October 31, 2023. Due to market conditions, annual bonuses for 2023 are not being considered by the Compensation Committee.

Long-Term Compensation

Long-term compensation is paid to NEOs in the form of grants of stock options.

Stock Option Plan

The Company has established a stock option plan (the "Stock Option Plan"), which was last approved by the Shareholders at the Company's annual general Meeting held on August 3, 2023.

The purpose of the Stock Option Plan is to encourage share ownership and entrepreneurship on the part of the directors, senior management, employees and consultants of the Company and its subsidiaries. The Board believes that the Stock Option Plan aligns the interests of Named Executive Officers with the interests of Shareholders by linking a component of executive compensation to the longer-term performance of the common shares.

Options are generally granted on an annual basis, subject to the imposition of trading black-out periods, in which case options scheduled for grant will be granted subsequent to the end of the black-out period. All option grants are approved by the Board of Directors.

In monitoring stock option grants, the Board takes into account the level of options granted by comparable companies for similar levels of responsibility and considers each NEO based on reports received from management, its own observations on individual performance (where possible) and its assessment of individual contribution to Shareholder value.

In addition to determining the number of options to be granted pursuant to the methodology outlined above, the Board of Directors also makes the following determinations:

  • the exercise price for each option granted;
  • the date on which each option is granted;
  • the vesting terms for each stock option; and
  • the other materials terms and conditions of each stock option grant.

The Board makes these determinations subject to and in accordance with the provisions of the Stock Option Plan and the recommendations of the Compensation Committee.

A total of 5,030,000 stock options were granted during the most recently completed fiscal year, of which 1,750,000 options were granted to the Company's NEOs.

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