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About Ruby Creek

The Opportunity

Gold Production

The Board

©2014 Ruby Creek Resources Inc. 2nd Floor Berkeley House, Berkeley square, London, W1J 6BD

The Opportunity

Ruby Creek Resources Inc. (a US-listed company) is raising funds to restart and upgrade its gold property in Tanzania in an area known as the Gold Plateau.

The Company intends to raise this money via the sale of a small proportion of its future gold production at a 10% discount of the daily gold price as listed on the London Bullion Market Association. This will be delivered to the client in physical form ten months from financial close of the offer.

Assuming prices remain unchanged, the purchase of forward gold at this discount effectively provides a 1% return per month, or a potential improvement of 5 times – compared with the best savings deposit rates in the UK, currently 2% if locked down for 2 years.

ABOUT RUBY CREEK RESOURCES

Ruby Creek was first incorporated in 2006 with the company’s principle business being the acquisition and exploration of mineral properties. In 2010 Ruby Creek Resources (Tanzania) was formed and was followed by several more Tanzanian companies in 2011. The USA office is located in Los Angeles, and the Tanzania office in Dar es Salaam.

The company is developing a gold property located in an area of Tanzania known as the Gold Plateau. This Gold Plateau Project consists of a property with a 10- year mining license and a number of adjacent properties with similar deposit characteristics. The region hosts extensive artisanal gold mining activities.

Ruby Creek is actively developing, exploring and expanding the Gold Plateau Project, more than 1500 km2 of prospecting and mining rights in Southern Tanzania.

It has acquired its first mining license on the Gold Plateau, for ten years across ten square kilometers, as part of the acquisition of the Gold Standard Co. This acquisition included mining equipment.

Test mining was conducted from September, 2010 to May, 2012.

The mining license allows Ruby Creek to start commercial gold production.

GOLD PRODUCTION

Presently operations are in the test and commissioning phase and are moving toward continuous gold production. Ruby Creek has equipment capacity of 40 ton/hour with the potential of increasing to 60 ton/ hour. Additional equipment is planned to further increase capacity to over 200 ton/hour in the next year.

Ruby Creek Resources controls gold concessions amounting to over 1500 square kilometers (which to put this in perspective is larger than Singapore and Bahrain combined) of gold bearing land in southern Tanzania. It is currently focusing its mining activity on a 10km2 patch (roughly 5 times the size of Monaco) of rich ore and anticipates producing 10,000oz of gold from this area per year for the continuing future.

There are numerous forecasts in the public domain regarding the future price of gold, and as can been seen later in this brochure, many of the experts remain bullish. The chart below highlights the continuing upward trend, since 2002, which has seen gold appreciate by over 700%.

LBMA Gold Fixing USD 2002 - 2014 $2,000.00

$1,800.00

$1,600.00

$1,400.00

$1,200.00

$1,000.00

$800.00

$600.00

$400.00

$200.00

Most investment professionals regard gold as a store of value, and this is particularly so in times of economic and exchange rate uncertainty. It is also widely recognised as an essential part of a balanced investment portfolio. If the price trend continues as above, then the opportunity to purchase at a discounted price against the current LBMA price offers even more benefit to the purchaser.

Whilst the FTSE 100 and other major world markets have been making exceptional gains over the previous 2 years, particularly as a result of cheap money, i.e. quantative easing, this same cheap money and resultant subsequent performance has not filtered through to the market of smaller cap stocks As a result, raising new finance for smaller cap companies has become increasingly difficult. Either it is impossible to raise the money via a share placing, or institutional investors require such a substantial discount to invest that it effectively destroys value for current investors, and thus no deal can be struck.

It is unlikely that this scenario will continue indefinitely and, most probably, investment in small cap shares will begin to filter through and opportunities like this will cease.

Whilst this situation prevails, however, Ruby Creek Resources wants to re-establish and upgrade its operational activity as swiftly as possible, and has decided to sell a small portion of its anticipated gold production at a discount, to raise the short-term funding it needs.

This offers Ruby Creek two advantages:

Firstly, it lets it raise money faster than waiting for the markets to correct themselves and money to start flowing into smaller cap shares. Secondly, because it is selling production of its gold as opposed to a rights issue, there is no dilution of shareholder value via an issue at an unfairly low price.

As most of the mining infrastructure and equipment is already available on-site, funds raised will be used for upgrades and production efficiency. There will be no significant delay in anticipated gold production. The provision of 2,200 troy ounces in gold at a discounted price, through this fundraising process represents only 25% of Ruby Creek Resource’s year one output target, and therefore provides the buyer with a considerable margin of safety.

©2014 Ruby Creek Resources Inc. 2nd Floor Berkeley House, Berkeley square, London, W1J 6BD

INNOVATIVE BUSINESS MODEL

Most junior gold companies focus on establishing the presence (proving-up) of economically recoverable gold resources. Few prove-up enough economic resources to fund mine development which can take up to five years \and might require over $50 million in capital expenditure. If such a company can prove-up viable resources, it will usually sell itself to, or partner, a major mining business, because it is unable to exploit the resource unaided. Ruby Creek Resources has already begun gold production and is conducting exploration using surface mining, which costs a small proportion of hard rock mining. It does not, therefore, need high levels of investment to extract gold.

MINING-FRIENDLY COUNTRY

Stable, peaceful democracy.

• English and Swahili speaking with British Common Law.

• Modern Mining Act in 1998 and 2010 to attract

foreign mining companies. • Good infrastructure with skilled and

knowledgeable labour and management pool.

• Endorsed by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONISBILITY

• Ruby Creek Resources is currently focused on helping to provide medical care, clean water and education. RCR’s camp medical facility provides free primary medical care as well as basic health care to its local neighbours.

• Ruby Creek Resources crews assist with remedial

well work as well as new water services and projects.

• Ruby Creek Resources has built and is running a

school for a local mining village.

• Ruby Creek Resources personnel have built desks

for school children in the vicinity of the mine.

What the Experts Say about Gold

Société Générale Strategist Albert Edwards says gold will top

$10,000 per ounce (with the S&P 500 Index tumbling to 450 and

Treasuries yielding less than 1%).

JPMorgan Chase went on record in August recommending clients

"position for a short-term bounce in gold." Gold's price resistance

to Paulson & Co. cutting its gold exposure, along with growing

physical gold demand in Asia, were cited among the main reasons.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch, in spite of lower price forecasts for

gold this year, reiterated they remain "longer-term bulls."

Citibank's top technical analyst Tom Fitzpatrick stated gold could

head to $3,500. "We believe we are back into that track where gold

is the hard currency of choice, and we expect for this trend to

accelerate going forward."

George Soros seems to be getting back into the gold miners: he

recently acquired a substantial stake in the large-cap Market

Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX) and kept his calls on Barrick Gold

(ABX).

Don Coxe, a highly respected global commodities strategist, says we can expect gold to rise with an improving economy, the opposite of what many in the mainstream expect. "You need gold for insurance, but this time the payoff will come when the economy improves. In the past when everything was falling all around you, commodity prices were soaring out of sight. We had three recessions in the 1970s and gold went from $35 an ounce to $850. But this time, gold is going to appreciate when we start getting 3% GDP growth."

Jeffrey Gundlach, bond guru and not historically known for being a big fan of gold, came out with a candid endorsement of the yellow metal: "Now, I kind of like gold. It's definitely very non-correlated to other assets you may have in your portfolio, and it does seem sort of cheap. I also like the GDX."

Rob McEwen, CEO of McEwen Mining and founder of Goldcorp, reiterated his bullish call for gold to someday top $5,000. "We now have governments willing to seize their citizens' assets. We now have currency controls on the table, which we haven't seen since the late 1960s/early '70s. We have continued debasement of currencies. And the economies of the Western world remain stagnant despite enormous monetary stimulation. All these facts to me are bullish for gold and make me believe the price will bounce back relatively soon."

©2014 Ruby Creek Resources Inc. 2nd Floor Berkeley House, Berkeley square, London, W1J 6BD

Sovereign Gold Purchases

Turkey added 13 tonnes (417,959 troy ounces) of gold in November 2013. Overall, it has added 143.6 tonnes (4,616,847 troy ounces) so far this year, up 22.5% from a year ago, in part thanks to the adoption of a new policy to accept gold in its reserve requirements from commercial banks.

Russia bought 19.1 tonnes (614,079 troy ounces) in July and August alone. A year- to-date addition of 57.37 tonnes—second only to Turkey—Russia's gold reserves now total 1,015 tonnes.

South Korea added 20 tonnes (643,014 troy ounces) of gold in February, and now carries 23.7% more gold on its balance sheet than at the end of 2012."Gold is a real safe asset that can help (us) respond to tail risks from global financial situations effectively and boosts the reliability of our foreign reserves holdings," said central bank officials.

Kazakhstan has been buying gold every month, at an average of 2.4 tonnes (77,161 troy ounces) through October. As a result, the country's reserves have seen a 21% increase to 139.5 tonnes from a year ago.

Azerbaijan has taken advantage of a slump in gold prices and has gone from having virtually no gold reserves to 16 tonnes (514,411 ounces).

China ended 2013 officially as the largest gold consumer in the world. Chinese sentiment towards gold is well echoed in a statement made by Liu Zhongbo of the Agricultural Bank of China: "Because gold has capabilities to absorb external economic shocks, growth of its use in the international monetary system will be imminent."

Sri Lanka and Ukraine added 5.5 (176,829 troy ounces) and 6.22 tonnes (199,977 troy ounces) respectively over the past year.

Marc Faber "We have a lot of bearish sentiment, [and] a lot of

bearish commentaries about gold, but the fact is that some

countries are actually accumulating gold, notably China. They will

buy this year at a rate of something like 2,600 tons, which is more

than the annual production of gold. So I think that prices are

probably in the process of bottoming out here, and that we will see

again higher prices in the future."

Goldman Sachs proved itself to be one of the biggest hypocrites: while advising clients to sell gold and buy Treasuries in Q2 2013, it bought a stunning (and record) 3.7 million shares of GLD. And when Venezuela decided to raise cash by pawning its gold, guess who jumped in to handle the transaction? Yes, they claim the price will fall this year, but with such a slippery track record, it's important to watch what they do and not what they say. 500 Index tumbling to 450 and Treasuries yielding less than 1%).

Brent Johnson, CEO of Santiago Capital, told CNBC viewers to "buy

gold if they believe in math… Longer term, I think gold goes to

$5,000 over a number of years. If they continue to print money at

the current rate, I think it could be multiples of that. I see a slow

steady rise punctuated with some sharp upward moves."

Jim Rogers, billionaire and cofounder of the Soros Quantum Fund, publicly stated in November that he has never sold any gold and can't imagine ever selling gold in his life because he sees it as an insurance policy. "With all this staggering amount of currency debasement, gold has got to be a good place to be down the road once we get through this correction."

Steve Forbes, publishing magnate and chief executive officer of

Forbes magazine, publicly predicted an impending return to the

gold standard in a speech in Las Vegas. "A new gold standard is

crucial. The disasters that the Federal Reserve and other central

banks are inflicting on us with their funny-money policies are

enormous and underappreciated." Commerzbank calls for the gold

price to enter a boom period this year. Based on investment demand

from Asian countries—China and India in particular—the bank

predicted the yellow metal will rise to $1,400 by the end of 2014.

ScotiaMocatta's Sunil Kashyap said that despite the selloff, there's

still significant physical demand for gold, especially from India and

China, which "supports prices."

Doug Casey says that while gold is not the giveaway it was at $250

back in 2001, it is nonetheless a bargain at current prices. "I've been

buying gold for years and I continue to buy it because it is the way

you save. I'm very happy to be able to buy gold at this price. All the

so-called quantitative easing—money printing—by governments

around the world has created a glut of freshly printed money. This

glut has yet to work its way through the global economic system. As

it does, it will create a bubble in gold and a super-bubble in gold

stocks." And then there's the people who should know most about

how sound the world's various types of paper money are: central

banks. As a group, they have added tonnes of bullion to their

reserves last year…

©2014 Ruby Creek Resources Inc. 2nd Floor Berkeley House, Berkeley square, London, W1J 6BD

Mission Statement

Our Mission is to identify, acquire, and develop gold mining properties. We must maximize value for our shareholders and stakeholders. We take this seriously by aggressively pursuing select opportunities as they arise while minimizing share capital dilution

Board of Directors

Mr Robert Slavik, President and Chief Executive Officer Robert has held management positions in public and private corporations for more than 30 years working in North America, Africa and China. Currently he is also President and Director of Tanzanian Goldfields Company and Pacific Gems Trading Company, both private gem and resource companies.

Mr Jürg Bühler, Director

Jürg has more than 20 years’ experience in all aspects of the financial markets. He began his career in 1989 with Bankers Trust AG, Zürich and has gained extensive experience working for a number of high profile companies in Europe. In 2007, he founded Global Vision Investments (Cayman Islands) followed in 2008 by Global Vision Investments AG in Zug, Switzerland.

S.C. Magembe, Director

Mr Magembe is a Tanzanian businessman with numerous business activities including construction, property and resort development and management. In addition he is a holder of extensive databases of Tanzanian mining and property information. Mr Magembe advises Ruby Creek on such issues as joint venture agreements, transfers or assignments of mineral rights and mining license applications.

Advisory Board

Mr Robert J. Moriarty, Senior Advisor, Gold, Gold Markets, Gold Finance

Bob started www.321gold.com at the very bottom of the gold market in 2001. The influential mining information website gets as many as 120,000 visitors a day. In 2008 he began a mining venture in Tanzania named Gold Standard Tanzania after he found a major and previously unknown surface gold project in Southern Tanzania. He began to mine in 2009 before selling the company to Ruby Creek in 2011.

Charles Rwechungura, Advisor, Tanzanian Mining and Financial Law

Mr Rwechungura is the founder and Partner-in-Charge of CRB Africa Legal Attorneys. He played a key role working with the World Bank in the re-drafting of the Tanzanian Mining Laws of the late 90’s. He is a seasoned consultant in the fields of mining, corporate, banking and financial law.

Professor Dr Abdul Mruma, BSc MSc PhD Member of the Technical Advisory Board, Tanzanian Geology

Dr Mruma is the Chief Executive Officer of the Geological Survey of Tanzania, reporting directly to the Minister of Energy and Minerals. He is a Professor of Geology and was the head of the Department of Geology, University of Dar es Salaam from 1994 to 2004. Since 2004 he has been the Vice Chairman of the Association of Geological Surveys of Africa. Other positions he has held include: National Coordinator, International Geological Correlation Programs; External Examiner, Department of Geology of the University of Nairobi in Kenya and the University of Makerere in Uganda

Dr Mruma has been published in over thirty international publications, mainly in the fields of Structural Geology, Precambrian Geology, Stratigraphy and Mineral Deposits

©2014 Ruby Creek Resources Inc.

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DISCLAIMER

This presentation has been prepared by Ruby Creek Resources Inc., and is strictly confidential. This presentation does not constitute or form part of, and should not be construed as,

an offer or invitation to sell or any solicitation or invitation of any offer to subscribe for or purchase any securities in the United States or any other jurisdiction, and nothing contained

herein shall form the basis of any contract or commitment whatsoever.

The information in this presentation has not been independently verified. No representation, warranty or undertaking, express or implied, is or will be made by Ruby Creek or its

directors, officers, employees, affiliates, advisors and representatives (“Affiliates”) or any other person as to, and no reliance should be placed on, the fairness, accuracy, completeness

or correctness of this presentation and the information contained herein (and whether any information has been omitted from t his presentation) and no reliance should be placed on

it. Ruby Creek and its Affiliates disclaim all liability whatsoever (in negligence or otherwise) for any loss however arising, directly or indirectly, from any use of this presentation or its

contents or otherwise arising in connection with this presentation.

This presentation and its contents are confidential, and are being provided solely to you solely for your information and may not be retransmitted, further distributed to any other

person or published, in whole or in part, by any medium or in any form for any purpose. Failure to com ply with this restriction may result in a violation of the United States Securities

Act of 1933, as amended (the “US Securities Act”) or the applicable laws of other jurisdictions. Upon Ruby Creek’s request, you will promptly return this presentation and any other

material received from Ruby Creek without retaining any copies thereof.

This presentation contains “forward-looking information” which may include, but is not limited to, statements with respect to the future financial or operating performance of Ruby

Creek, its subsidiaries and its projects, the estimation of mineral reserves and resources, the realization of mineral reserve estimates, the timing and amount of future production, costs

of production, capital, operating and exploration expenditures, costs and timing of development of new deposits, costs and timing of future exploration, requirements for additional

capital, government regulation of mining operations, environmental risks, reclamation expenses, title disputes or claims and limitations of insurance coverage. Often, but not always,

forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of “scheduled”, “estimates”, “forecasts”, “intends”, “anticipates”, or “believes” or variations (including negative variations) of

known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may such words and phrases, or state that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “might” or “will”

be taken, occur or be achieved. Forward-looking statements involve, cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Ruby Creek Resources Inc., and/or its subsidiaries to be

materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Such factors include, among others, general business,

economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties; the actual results of current exploration activities; actual results of reclamation activities; conclusions of economic evaluations;

changes in project parameters as plans continue to be refined; possible variations of ore grade or recovery rates; failure of plant, equipment or processes to operate as anticipated;

accident, labour disputes and other risks of the mining industry; and delays in obtaining governmental approvals or financing or in the completion of development or construction

activities. Although Ruby Creek has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual actions, events or results to differ materially from those described in forward-looking

statements, there may be other factors that could cause actions, events or results to differ from those anticipated, estimated or intended. Forward-looking statements contained herein

are made as of the date of this presentation and Ruby Creek disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events

or results or otherwise. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those

anticipated in such statements. Ruby Creek undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements if circumstances or management’s estimates or opinions should change.

Accordingly, the reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.

©2014 Ruby Creek Resources Inc. 2nd Floor Berkeley House, Berkeley Square, London, W1J 6BD