MARIMACA COPPER CORP.

Annual General Meeting to be held on May 23, 2024

Notice of Annual General Meeting

and

Information Circular

April 16, 2024

MARIMACA COPPER CORP.

Suite 2400, 745 Thurlow Street

Vancouver, V6E 0C5

British Columbia

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an annual general meeting (the "Meeting") of the shareholders of Marimaca Copper Corp. (the "Company") will be held virtually via webcast at https://meetnow.global/M9VWP9Jon Thursday, May 23, 2024 at 10:00 a.m. (local time in Vancouver, British Columbia) for the following purposes:

  1. for the shareholders to receive the financial statements of the Company for the year ended December 31, 2023, together with the auditor's report thereon;
  2. to set the number of directors at seven;
  3. to elect directors of the Company for the ensuing year;
  4. to appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Chartered Professional Accountants, as auditors of the Company for the ensuing year and to authorize the directors to determine the remuneration to be paid to the auditors; and
  5. to transact such other business as may properly be put before the Meeting.

If you are a registered shareholder of the Company and are unable to attend the Meeting via webcast, please read, sign and date the form of proxy for the Meeting (the "Proxy") and deposit it with Computershare Investor Services Inc. ("Computershare") by courier or mail at 100 University Avenue, 8th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, M5J 2Y1, Attention: Proxy Department, or by facsimile at 1-866-249-7775(toll-free in North America) or 1-416-263-9524 (international) by 10:00 a.m. (local time in Vancouver, British Columbia) on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 or at least 48 hours (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays) before any postponement or adjournment of the Meeting, otherwise you will not be entitled to vote at the Meeting by proxy. Alternatively, registered shareholders may vote by telephone (1-866-732-8683) or online (www.investorvote.com) using the control number listed on the Proxy. Only shareholders of record at the close of business on Tuesday, April 16, 2024 will be entitled to vote at the Meeting. An information circular and a form of Proxy accompany this notice.

If you are a non-registered shareholder of the Company, please complete and return the voting instruction form (or other accompanying form) in accordance with the instructions for completion and deposit.

All shareholders may attend the Meeting via webcast but must follow the instructions set out in the accompanying information circular if they wish to vote at the Meeting.

DATED at Vancouver, British Columbia, the 16th day of April 2024.

ON BEHALF OF MARIMACA COPPER CORP.

(signed) "Hayden Locke"

Hayden Locke,

President & Chief Executive Officer

MARIMACA COPPER CORP.

Suite 2400, 745 Thurlow Street

Vancouver, V6E 0C5

British Columbia

INFORMATION CIRCULAR

(as at April 16, 2024 except as otherwise indicated)

SOLICITATION OF PROXIES

This information circular (the "Circular") is provided in connection with the solicitation of proxies by the management (the "Management") of Marimaca Copper Corp. (the "Company"). The form of proxy which accompanies this Circular (the "Proxy") is for use at the annual general meeting of the shareholders of the Company to be held on Thursday, May 23, 2024 (the "Meeting") at 10:00 a.m. (local time in Vancouver, British Columbia) via webcast for the purposes set forth in the accompanying notice of meeting (the "Notice of Meeting") and any postponement or adjournment thereof. The Company will bear the cost of this solicitation. The solicitation will be made by mail but may also be made by telephone.

APPOINTMENT AND REVOCATION OF PROXY

Each person named in the Proxy is an officer of the Company. A registered shareholder who wishes to appoint some other person to serve as their representative at the Meeting may do so by striking out the printed names and inserting the desired person's name in the blank space provided. However, if a registered shareholder appoints a third-partyproxyholder, they must ALSO register their proxyholder so such proxyholder can participate in the webcast. Please see "How to Participate in the Meeting via Webcast" below for information on how to register a third-partyproxyholder. The completed Proxy should be delivered to Computershare Investor Services Inc. ("Computershare"), or telephone/online votes must be received by Computershare, by 10:00 a.m. (local time in Vancouver, British Columbia) on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, or not less than 48 hours (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays) before any postponement or adjournment of the Meeting.

The Proxy may be revoked by:

  1. signing a proxy with a later date and depositing it by the time and to the place noted above;
  2. signing and dating a written notice of revocation and delivering it at the time and to the place noted above, or by transmitting a revocation by telephonic or electronic means, to Computershare, at any time up to and including the last business day preceding the day of the Meeting, or any postponement or adjournment, at which the Proxy is to be used; or
  3. attending the Meeting or any postponement or adjournment of the Meeting via webcast and accepting the terms and conditions when entering the Meeting online (in which case any votes cast by the shareholder on a ballot will be counted and the submitted Proxy disregarded).
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Provisions Relating to Voting of Proxies

The shares represented by Proxy in the form provided to shareholders will be voted or withheld from voting by the designated proxyholder in accordance with the direction of the registered shareholder appointing him or her. If there is no direction by the registered shareholder, those shares will be voted FORthe approval of the resolution setting the number of directors at seven, the election of directors and the appointment of the auditors, as set out in this Circular. The Proxy gives the designated proxyholder the discretion to vote as such person sees fit on any amendments or variations to matters identified in the Notice of Meeting, or any other matters which may properly come before the Meeting. At the time of printing of this Circular, the Management knows of no other matters which may come before the Meeting other than those referred to in the Notice of Meeting.

Advice to Beneficial Holders of Common Shares

The information set forth in this section is of significant importance to many shareholders, as a substantial number of shareholders do not hold common shares of the Company ("Common Shares") in their own name. Shareholders who hold their Common Shares through their brokers, intermediaries, trustees or other persons or who otherwise do not hold their Common Shares in their own name (referred to herein as "Beneficial Shareholders") should note that only proxies deposited by shareholders who appear on the records maintained by the Company's registrar and transfer agent as registered holders of common shares will be recognized and acted upon at the Meeting.

If Common Shares are listed in an account statement provided to a Beneficial Shareholder by a broker, then those Common Shares will, in all likelihood, not be registered in the Beneficial Shareholders name. Such Common Shares will more likely be registered under the name of the Beneficial Shareholder's broker or an agent of that broker. In Canada, the vast majority of such shares are registered under the name of CDS & Co. (the registration name for CDS Clearing and Depository Services Inc., which acts as nominee for many Canadian brokerage firms). In the United States, the vast majority of such Common Shares are registered under the name of Cede & Co., the registration name for The Depository Trust Company, which acts as nominee for many United States brokerage firms. Common Shares held by brokers (or their agents or nominees) on behalf of a broker's client can only be voted or withheld at the direction of the Beneficial Shareholder. Without specific instructions, brokers and their agents and nominees are prohibited from voting shares for the broker's clients. Therefore, each Beneficial Shareholder should ensure that voting instructions are communicated to the appropriate person well in advance of the Meeting.

Existing regulatory policy requires brokers and other intermediaries to seek voting instructions from Beneficial Shareholders in advance of shareholder meetings. The various brokers and other intermediaries have their own mailing procedures and provide their own return instructions to clients, which should be carefully followed by Beneficial Shareholders in order to ensure that their Common Shares are voted at the Meeting. The form of instrument of proxy supplied to a Beneficial Shareholder by its broker (or the agent of the broker) is substantially similar to the Proxy provided directly to registered shareholders by the Company. However, its purpose is limited to instructing the registered shareholder (i.e., the broker or agent of the broker) how to vote on behalf of the Beneficial Shareholder. The vast majority of brokers now delegate responsibility for obtaining

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instructions from clients to Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. ("Broadridge") in Canada. Broadridge typically prepares a machine-readable voting instruction form ("VIF"), mails those forms to Beneficial Shareholders and asks Beneficial Shareholders to return the VIFs to Broadridge, or otherwise communicate voting instructions to Broadridge (by way of the internet or telephone, for example). Broadridge then tabulates the results of all instructions received and provides appropriate instructions respecting the voting of shares to be represented at the Meeting.

A Beneficial Shareholder who receives a Broadridge VIF cannot use that form to vote Common Shares directly at the Meeting. The VIFs must be returned to Broadridge (or instructions respecting the voting of Common Shares must otherwise be communicated to Broadridge) well in advance of the Meeting in order to have the Common Shares voted. Beneficial Shareholders may participate in the Meeting via the webcast (either themselves or through a proxyholder) or through intermediaries using the VIF (or other accompanying form). Alternatively, some Beneficial Shareholders may be able to vote by telephone or online and should refer to the VIF (or other accompanying form) for further details and instructions. If you have any questions respecting the voting of Common Shares held through a broker or other intermediary, please contact that broker or other intermediary for assistance.

If a Beneficial Shareholder wishes to vote in person at the Meeting, they will need to appoint themselves as proxyholder and then register to participate in the Meeting as described in more detail under the heading "How to Participate in the Meeting Via Webcast". Registering to participate in the Meeting via webcast is an additional step that that Beneficial Shareholder who has designated themself as proxyholder must take in order to vote at the Meeting.

The Notice of Meeting, Circular, Proxy and VIF, as applicable, are being provided to both registered shareholders and Beneficial Shareholders. Beneficial Shareholders fall into two categories - those who object to their identity being known to the issuers of securities which they own ("OBOs") and those who do not object to their identity being made known to the issuers of the securities which they own ("NOBOs"). Subject to the provisions of National Instrument 54- 101 - Communication with Beneficial Owners of Securities of a Reporting Issuer ("NI 54-101"), issuers may request and obtain a list of their NOBOs from intermediaries directly or via their transfer agent and may use the NOBO list for the distribution of proxy-related materials directly (not via Broadridge) to such NOBOs. If you are a Beneficial Shareholder and the Company or its agent has sent these materials directly to you, your name, address and information about your holdings of Common Shares have been obtained in accordance with applicable securities regulatory requirements from the intermediary holding the Common Shares on your behalf. By choosing to send these materials to you directly, the Company (and not the intermediary holding on your behalf) has assumed responsibility for (i) delivering these materials to you, and (ii) executing your proper voting instructions. Please return your voting instructions as specified in the VIF.

The Company has distributed copies of the Notice of Meeting, Circular and VIF directly to NOBOs.

The Company's OBOs can expect to be contacted by Broadridge or their brokers or their broker's agents. The Company will assume the costs associated with the delivery of the Notice of Meeting, Circular and VIF, as set out above, to OBOs by intermediaries.

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How to Participate in the Meeting via Webcast

The Meeting will be hosted online by way of a live webcast. Shareholders will not be able to attend the Meeting in person. A summary of the information shareholders will need to attend the online Meeting is provided below. The Meeting will begin at 10:00 a.m. (local time in Vancouver, British Columbia) on Thursday, May 23, 2024.

Registered shareholders and duly appointed proxyholders can attend the Meeting online by going to: https://meetnow.global/M9VWP9J.

  • Registered shareholders can participate in the Meeting by clicking "Shareholder" and entering the 15-digit control number that is located on the Proxy or in the email notification received.
  • Duly appointed proxyholders can participate in the Meeting by clicking "Invitation" and entering the Invitation Code provided to them by Computershare.

Shareholders who wish to appoint a third-party proxyholder to represent them at the online Meeting must submit their Proxy or VIF (as applicable) prior to registering their proxyholder for attendance at the Meeting. Registering the proxyholder is an additional step once a shareholder has submitted their Proxy/VIF. Failure to register a duly appointed proxyholder will result in the proxyholder not receiving an Invitation Code to participate in the Meeting. To register a third-party proxyholder, shareholders MUST visit http://www.computershare.com/Marimacaby 10:00 a.m. (local time in Vancouver, British Columbia) on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 or at least 48 hours (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays) before any postponement or adjournment of the Meeting and provide Computershare with their proxyholder's contact information, so that Computershare may provide the proxyholder with an Invitation Code via email.

It is important that you are connected to the internet at all times during the Meeting in order to vote when balloting commences. It is your responsibility to ensure connectivity for the duration of the Meeting.

Beneficial Shareholders who have not appointed themselves to vote at the Meeting as a proxyholder may login as a guest by going to https://meetnow.global/M9VWP9J prior to the start of the Meeting and clicking on "Guest" and completing the online form. Note that guests cannot vote or raise questions at the Meeting.

If you are a registered shareholder and you accept the terms and conditions when you login to the Meeting, you will be revoking any and all previously submitted proxies. However, in such a case, you will be provided the opportunity to vote by ballot on the matters put forth at the Meeting. If you DO NOT wish to revoke all previously submitted proxies, do not accept the terms and conditions, in which case you can only enter the Meeting as a guest. Note that guests cannot vote or raise questions at the Meeting.

All persons attending the Meeting are asked to login at least 30 minutes prior to the time the Meeting is scheduled to begin.

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VOTING SECURITIES AND PRINCIPAL HOLDERS OF VOTING SECURITIES

As at the date of the accompanying Notice of Meeting, the Company's authorized capital consists of an unlimited number of common shares without par value. All common shares in the capital of the Company carry the right to one vote. Shareholders registered as of April 16, 2024 are entitled to attend the Meeting via webcast and vote at the Meeting.

As of April 16, 2024, there were 93,266,369 Common Shares issued and outstanding. Shareholders who wish to be represented by proxy at the Meeting must, to entitle the person appointed by the Proxy to attend and vote, deliver their Proxies at the place and within the time set forth in the notes to the Proxy.

To the knowledge of the directors and executive officers of the Company, as of April 16, 2024, no person or company beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, or exercises control or direction over, directly or indirectly, 10% or more of the issued and outstanding Common Shares except for the following:

Percentage of

Shareholder

Number of Shares

Issued Capital

Greenstone Resources L.P. and its

25,565,822

27.41%

affiliates, Greenstone Resources II

L.P. and Greenstone Co-Investment

No. 1 (Coro) L.P. (collectively,

"Greenstone")

Affiliates of Tembo Capital Mining

10,173,905

10.91%

GP Limited, including Ndovu Capital

XIV B.V. (collectively, "Tembo")

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED AT THE MEETING

1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

The audited consolidated financial statements of the Company for the year ended December 31, 2023, together with the auditor's report on those statements, will be presented to the shareholders at the Meeting.

2. SETTING THE NUMBER OF DIRECTORS

At the annual general meeting of the shareholders of the Company held on June 27, 2018, the number of directors on the board of directors (the "Board") was set at six. In accordance with the Company's articles of incorporation (the "Articles") and the provisions of the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia) (the "BCBCA"), the number of directors was subsequently increased to seven. As management proposes to nominate seven directors for election at the Meeting, shareholders will be asked at the Meeting to approve an ordinary resolution that the number of directors of the Company be fixed at seven for the ensuing year, subject to such increases as may be permitted by the Articles and the provisions of the BCBCA.

The Board recommends a vote FORthe approval of the resolution setting the number of directors at seven.

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3. ELECTION OF DIRECTORS

The directors of the Company are elected annually and hold office until the next annual general meeting of the shareholders or until their successors are elected or appointed. Management proposes to nominate the persons listed below for election as directors of the Company to serve until their successors are elected or appointed. In the absence of instructions to the contrary, Proxies given pursuant to the solicitation by Management will be voted for the nominees listed in this Circular. Management does not contemplate that any of the nominees will be unable to serve as a director.

On March 15, 2013, the Board adopted a "majority voting policy" providing that in an uncontested election of directors, any nominee who receives a greater number of votes "withheld" than votes "for" (a "Majority Withhold Vote") must tender his or her resignation to the Chair of the Board or the Company's Nominations & Governance Committee (the "Nominations & Governance Committee") promptly following the shareholders' meeting. The Nominations & Governance Committee will consider the offer of resignation and will make a recommendation to the Board on whether to accept it. Both the Nominations & Governance Committee and the Board will evaluate any such tendered offer of resignation, in accordance with their fiduciary duties to, and in furtherance of the best interests of, the Company and its shareholders. The Board may accept or reject the offer of resignation, or it may decide to pursue additional actions including, without limitation, the following:

  • allow the director to remain on the Board and continue to serve but not be nominated for re-election to the Board at the next election of directors;
  • defer the acceptance of the resignation until the director vacancy created by the resignation can be filled by the Board with a replacement/successor director meeting all the necessary qualifications and criteria for Company directors and satisfying all other legal and regulatory requirements with respect to the composition of the Board;
  • defer the acceptance of the resignation if it is determined that the underlying cause of the Majority Withhold Vote can be cured by the director or otherwise within a specified period of time (such as, if the Majority Withhold Vote was due to the relevant director receiving such vote serving on the board of directors of another entity, by resigning from such other board); or
  • defer the acceptance of the resignation for other reasons determined by the Board to be in the best interests of the Company in the exercise of its fiduciary duties and business judgment.

The Board's decision will be disclosed in a news release within four business days after the decision.

Pursuant to the Advance Notice Policy adopted by the Board on March 15, 2013, any additional director nominations for the Meeting must be received by the Company in compliance with the Advance Notice Policy no fewer than 30 days nor more than 65 days prior to the date of the Meeting. As at the date of this Circular, no such nominations have been received by the Company and, accordingly, Management's nominees for election as directors set forth below shall be the only nominees eligible to stand for election at the Meeting.

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The following table sets out the names, province or state and country of residence of the nominees for election as directors, the offices they hold within the Company, their principal occupations, business or employment within the five preceding years, the period or periods during which each nominee has served as a director of the Company, and the number of shares of the Company and its subsidiaries which each nominee beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, or over which control or direction is exercised, as of the date of this Circular:

Number of

Name, province or state and

Common

Shares

country of residence and

Served as

beneficially

positions held in the Company

Principal occupation for last five years

director since

owned (1)

HAYDEN LOCKE

President of the Company since July 20,

April 26, 2021

32,900

London, United Kingdom

2020 and appointed as CEO and Director

as of April 26, 2021. Director of

Director

Emmerson plc since June 2018. Head of

President and Chief Executive

Corporate

and Technical

Services

Officer

(Geology, Mining and Processing) at

Highfield

Resources from

September

2014 to January 2018.

ALAN J. STEPHENS

Non-Executive Director of the Company

January 5, 2005

202,659(2)

West Sussex, United Kingdom

since 2018. Executive Director of the

Company from June 2017 to June 2018;

Director

President and Chief Executive Officer of

the Company from January 2005 to June

2017.

COLIN KINLEY (3)(4)(6)

Director and Senior Advisor, President

February 5,

134,146

Kansas, United States

and Chief Executive Officer of Kinley

2016

Exploration LLC from 2007 to present;

Director

Director of Excelsior Mining from 2010

to present; Director and Chief Operating

Officer of Eco Atlantic Oil and Gas Ltd.

from 2011 to present.

MICHAEL HAWORTH (4)(5)

Joint Managing Partner at Greenstone

February 5,

Nil(7)

London, United Kingdom

Capital LLP since August 2013.

2016.

Executive Chairman of the Company

Chair and Director

since February 2020 until April 26, 2021

when he became Non-Executive

Chairman.

CLIVE NEWALL (3)(4)(5)(6)

Chairman of Cornish Tin Limited from

February 8,

66,666(2)

Cornwall, United Kingdom

2021 to present. President and Director

2021

of First Quantum Minerals Ltd. from

Director

1996 until he resigned as President in

2020 and stepped down as a Director in

2022.

TIM PETTERSON (3)(5)(6)

Executive Chairman of MCC Mining

November 1,

72,997(2)

British Columbia, Canada

Corporation.

2018

Director

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Number of

Name, province or state and

Common

Shares

country of residence and

Served as

beneficially

positions held in the Company

Principal occupation for last five years

director since

owned (1)

GIANCARLO BRUNO

Director of the Company since

November 1,

Nil

LAGOMARSINO

November 2023. Chief Senior VP of

2023

Santiago, Chile

Capstone Copper Chile since March

2022 to August 2023. CEO of Mantos

Director

Copper since October 2015 to March

2022.

Notes:

  1. The information as to Common Shares beneficially owned or controlled has been provided by the directors themselves.
  2. Alan Stephens' shares include 2,667 Common Shares owned by his spouse. Tim Petterson's shares include 52,400 Common Shares owned by his spouse. Clive Newall's shares include 33,333 Common Shares owned by his spouse.
  3. Member of the Company's Audit Committee (the "Audit Committee"). Mr. Kinley is the Chair of the Audit Committee.
  4. Member of the Compensation Committee. Mr. Kinley is the Chair of the Compensation Committee.
  5. Member of the Environmental, Social and Governance ("ESG") Committee. Mr. Petterson is Chair of the ESG Committee.
  6. Member of the Nominations & Governance Committee. Mr. Newall is Chair of the Nominations & Governance Committee.
  7. This does not include 25,565,822 Common Shares owned by Greenstone Resources L.P. and its affiliates Greenstone Resources II L.P. and Greenstone Co-Investment No.1 (Coro) L.P., each of which is advised by Greenstone Capital LLP. Mr. Haworth is one of the senior partners of Greenstone Capital LLP.

No proposed director is being elected under any arrangement or understanding between the proposed director and any other person or company except the directors and executive officers of the Company acting solely in such capacity.

Corporate Cease Trade Orders or Bankruptcies

Alan Stephens, a Director and the former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, was a director of Weatherly International PLC ("Weatherly"). On June 1, 2018, Weatherly announced that it had appointed an administrator in accordance with the UK Insolvency Act (1986) following a decision by Weatherly's principal lender to withdraw funding. Weatherly was dissolved in August 2021.

Other than as set out above, none of the proposed directors:

  1. is, as at the date of this Circular, or has been within ten years before the date of this Circular, a director, chief executive officer or chief financial officer of any company (including the Company) that was subject to an order that was issued while the proposed director was acting in the capacity as director, chief executive officer or chief financial officer or issued after the proposed director ceased to be a director, chief executive officer or chief financial officer and which resulted from an event that occurred while the person was acting in that capacity;
  2. is, as at the date of this Circular, or has been within ten years before the date of this Circular, a director or executive officer of any company (including the Company) that, while that person was acting in that capacity, or within a year of that person ceasing to act in that capacity, became bankrupt, made a proposal under any legislation relating to bankruptcy or insolvency or was subject to or instituted any proceedings, arrangement or compromise with creditors or had a receiver, receiver manager or trustee appointed to hold its assets;
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