FREEMAN GOLD CORP.

(Formerly Lodge Resources Inc.)

MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS

For the Three Months ended February 28, 2022

The following Management Discussion and Analysis ("MD&A") of Freeman Gold Corp. ("Freeman" or the "Company") has been prepared by management in accordance with the requirements of National

Instrument 51-102 as of April 20, 2022, and should be read in conjunction with the condensed consolidated interim financial statements for the three months ended February 28, 2022 and the related notes contained therein as well as the audited consolidated financial statements for the years ended November 30, 2021 and 2020, and the related notes contained therein which have been prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS") as issued by the International Accounting Standards

Board. The information contained herein is not a substitute for detailed investigation or analysis on any particular issue. The information provided in this document is not intended to be a comprehensive review of all matters and developments concerning the Company.

The first, second, third and fourth quarters of the Company's fiscal years are referred to as "Q1", "Q2", "Q3" and "Q4", respectively. The years ended November 30, 2022, and 2021, are also referred to as "fiscal

2021" and "fiscal 2020", respectively. All financial information in this MD&A has been prepared in accordance with IFRS. All monetary amounts are expressed in Canadian dollars, the presentation and functional currency of the Company, unless otherwise indicated.

Statements are subject to the risks and uncertainties identified in the "Risks and Uncertainties", and "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward Looking Statements" sections of this document.

The Company is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange ("TSX-V") under the symbol "FMAN". Continuous disclosure materials are available on SEDAR atwww.sedar.com.

Overview

Freeman was incorporated in the Province of British Columbia on October 24, 2018, under the Business Corporations Act of British Columbia. The Company is in the business of exploring and evaluating mineral assets.

On April 16, 2020 (the "Closing Date"), the Company completed a share exchange transaction (the "RTO") with 1132144 B.C. Ltd. ("113BC"), the parent company of Lower 48 Resources Inc. and Lower

48 Resources (Idaho) LLC ("Lower 48"), whereby the Company acquired all of the issued and outstanding common shares of 113BC through the issuance of 33,740,000 common shares of the Company, subject to escrow terms to 113BC's shareholders. Additionally, the Company issued 3,500,000 common shares as finder fee shares to an arm's length finder that facilitated the RTO. Prior to the Closing Date, 14,257,770

common shares of the Company were outstanding. Following the Closing Date, 51,497,770 common shares of the Company were outstanding, with 66% of the Company's shares held by shareholders of

113BC.

Management determined that the RTO transaction constituted a reverse acquisition for accounting purposes whereby 113BC acquired the Company. For accounting purposes, 113BC was treated as the accounting acquirer (legal subsidiary), and the Company was treated as the accounting acquiree (legal parent) in the consolidated financial statements. As 113BC was deemed to be the acquirer for accounting purposes, its assets, liabilities, and operations since incorporation are included in the financial statements at their historical carrying values. The Company's results of operations are included from the Closing

Date. The comparative figures are those of 113BC prior to the reverse acquisition.

At February 28, 2022, the Company had cash totalling $17,440,111. As a result, the Company believes that it has adequate cashflow to meet its obligations and carry out planned activities for the next twelve months.

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the global outbreak of a novel coronavirus identified as "COVID-19" a global pandemic. To combat the spread of COVID-19, governments worldwide have enacted emergency measures including travel bans, legally enforced or self-imposed quarantine periods, social distancing and business and organization closures. These measures have caused material disruptions to businesses, governments and other organizations resulting in an economic slowdown and increased volatility in national and global equity and commodity markets. Central banks and governments, including Canadian federal and provincial governments, have reacted with significant monetary and fiscal interventions designed to stabilize economic conditions. The duration and impact of the COVID-19 outbreak is unknown currently, as is the efficacy of any interventions. It is not possible to reliably estimate the length and severity of these developments and the impact on the financial results and condition of the Company and its operations in future periods.

Exploration activities

The Lemhi gold project is in Lemhi County, Idaho (ID), USA, within the Salmon River Mountains, a part

of the Bitterroot Range which forms the Idaho-Montana border. The property is approximately 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of the town of Salmon and 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) west of Gibbonsville, ID.

The project comprises 10 patented mining claims (placer and lode), 1 patented millsite claim and 333

unpatented mining claims, totaling approximately 6,739 acres (2,727 hectares) of mineral rights and 615

acres (249 hectares) of surface rights. (The patented and unpatented ground is shown on Figure 1).

The project is located within the Cordilleran fold and thrust belt and more locally the Trans-Challis fault system. This is a broad 20-30-kilometre-wide system of en-echelon northeast-trending structures extending from Idaho City, ID northeast to the Idaho-Montana border. It spans over 270 kilometers in strike length. It is one of many structures within the Idaho-Montana porphyry belt, a wide northeast-trending alignment of porphyry-related ore deposits, which parallels the contact between the Cordilleran fold and thrust belt and the Idaho batholith and corresponds to a zone of strike-slip faults, late graben faults and northeast-trending magnetic features.

Figure 1: Lemhi Gold Project Land Status

Locally, the Lemhi project is largely underlain by Mesoproterozoic quartzites and phyllites with porphyritic dacite sills, dykes and flows of the Eocene Challis volcanics preserved in down-dropped fault blocks. Numerous faults crosscut the property forming grabens and half grabens. On the Lemhi project, a large low angle fault passes through Ditch Creek and is filled with Quaternary gravels covering part of the mineralization that comprises the Lemhi gold deposit. The mineralization on the Lemhi project is hosted in structurally controlled quartz vein swarms and quartz flooded zones and occurs in close spatial association with low angle faulting and several intrusive bodies.

Gold was discovered and mined from the area in the 1890's to mid-1900's. Modern exploration of the Lemhi project area commenced in 1984. FMC Gold Company ("FMC") conducted exploration over the current Lemhi project area between 1984 and 1991. FMC completed geologic mapping; rock, soil, and vegetation sampling, geophysical surveys, and reverse-circulation ("RC") and core drilling over the property. FMC defined an area of strong gold mineralization along the western slope of Ditch Creek. American Gold Resources ("AGR") acquired the Lemhi project in 1991 and conducted exploration over the area until 1996. The FMC and AGR drilling delineated a gold deposit: the Humbug deposit (now known as the Lemhi gold deposit), on the patented claims (MS 784 A and B, 2512 and 1120) which comprise the current Lemhi project.

The Lemhi gold deposit is roughly 650 meters east-west by 500 meters north-south. A prominent west-northwest trending zone of higher-grade mineralization and a north-east trending zone of strong mineralization were identified within the deposit. The mineralization is interpreted to be structurally controlled by northwest and northeast high-angle faults that intersect a low-angle fault. In the footwall of an intrusion and along its western terminus the gold mineralization is thick (30 meters - 70 meters) and can occur in multiple stacked zones. In the hanging wall, gold mineralization is considerably thinner and more erratic. In the core of the deposit, the low-grade envelope of mineralization is greater than 200 meters thick.

During 2020, Freeman completed substantial exploration within Lemhi including: 145 rock grab and channel samples, 633 soil samples, 565 line-kilometers of ground magnetics covering the entire property, high resolution drone photo mosaics (entire property); a 1.4 square kilometer three-dimensional induced polarization survey, and 35 cored drill holes totaling 7,149 meters. The drilling campaign has confirmed the presence of numerous structurally controlled stacked, flat lying gold mineralized horizons initially determined by 70,196 meters of historical drilling conducted between 1984 and 2012. Detailed geological logging of the new core has identified mineralized zones of varying thicknesses, ranging from 10 to over 200 meters as found in previous historic drilling and drill sections.

Of the 145 rock grab samples collected 54 samples contain greater than 1 gram per tonne gold ("g/t Au")

and 20 with greater than 5 g/t Au (up to 450 g/t Au). Of the 145 rock grab samples collected 27 samples contain greater than 10 grams per tonne silver ("g/t Ag") (up to 219 g/t Ag). Mineralization was within

phyllites, quartzites and quartz veins and appears like that of known mineralization at Lemhi. These results have identified five new exploration target areas for priority follow-up. Follow-up exploration at each of the target areas will include but not be limited to prospecting, mapping, soil sampling and possibly drilling (See the Company's news release dated May 6, 2021; Table 1).

Table 1 - Significant Rock Grab Sample Results*

Sample

Au ppm

Ag ppm

Cu ppm

C372749

450

218

5620

C372794

107.5

57.3

24200

C372782

46

55.6

5650

C372750

44.1

37.4

4770

C372783

39.5

51.1

5900

C372717

32.8

14.05

2750

C372764

28

19.35

5140

C372751

20.8

19.1

32600

C372790

20.7

26.9

7580

C372787

13.75

15.1

1490

C372793

13

10.55

4950

C372687

12.1

11.45

872

C372795

10.45

5.19

3110

C372791

10.4

16.95

7750

C372686

9.47

28.5

886

C372786

9.4

26.6

8310

C372784

8.83

9.83

5070

C372788

7.14

15.55

4720

C372789

6

17.7

11700

C372674

5.57

2.51

220

* Rock grab samples are by their nature selective and are not necessarily indicative of the general geology or the grade within the property. ppm=parts per million or grams per tonne.

Orientation soil samples were collected in areas of known mineralization using conventional B Horizon sampling, Ionic Leach sampling, and Mobile Metal Ion ("MMI") sampling. Samples were collected every 25 meters at depths of 0 to 10 centimeters, 10 to 20 centimeters, 20 to 30 centimeters and 30 to 40 centimeters. It was determined that Ionic Leach sampling at 20 to 40 centimeters would be the best sampling methodology moving forward to not only detect buried gold, silver, and copper mineralization but alteration elements such as calcium and potassium (See the Company's news release dated May 6, 2021).

A Dias Geophysical Limited 3D Induced Polarisation ("3D IP") was carried out during September and October of 2020. The survey area consisted of a 1.4 kilometer by 1.4 kilometer-area centered over the area with known mineralization, which extends roughly 650 meters east-west by 500 meters north-south. The survey was designed to characterize the geophysical signature of the deposit and possibly define new areas of gold mineralization (See the Company's news release dated May 6, 2021).

Two major contacts have been interpreted. The strongest one follows an east-northeast curvi-linear trend where chargeabilities are generally low and resistivities are very low to the south-southeast. This contact is also coincident with a magnetic high trend. The second major contact trends north south, located on the west side of the survey block and is characterized by low chargeability coincident with low resistivities.

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