Cebollati Property

Cebollati Property

The Cebollati Property is located in the Department of Lavalleja, 180 kilometres northeast of Montevideo in southern Uruguay and consists of ten claims totalling approximately 34,200 hectares. The claims are comprised of one exploration license totalling 163 hectares, one exploration application totalling 163 hectares, five prospection licenses totalling 14,808 hectares and three prospection license applications totalling 19,066 hectares. The Cebollati Property has excellent paved road access approximately eight kilometres from a highway in rolling farm country.

Under the terms of the Cebollati Option Agreement, the Company earned an 80% interest in the Cebollati Property by paying US$1 million in stages by January 31, 2012 and has agreed to fund all exploration work through feasibility. Additional obligations include the completion of a feasibility study, a per ounce gold payment and a net smelter royalty for additional production. The Company has made all cash purchase payments under the Cebollati Option Agreement and has earned an 80% interest in the Cebollati Property. Fifty two (52) holes totalling 8,310 metres were completed on the Cebollati Property during the 2011 drill program.

Concentrated drilling in the Southern and Windmill zones confirmed the existence of continuous, shallow, mineralized zones which are open along strike and to depth. In conjunction with the trenching, each of these zones extends for in excess of 400 metres within a mineralized system, which has been defined over greater than 2.2 kilometres in strike length. Highlights of the new drilling include hole UC11-019 with 11.15 metres grading 11.59 g/t gold within a broader 23.85 metres interval of mineralization grading 5.69 g/t, UC11-032 with 7.55 metres grading 4.51 g/t gold, including 12.81 g/t gold over 2.30 metres, and UC11-037 with 4.00 metres grading 4.04 g/t gold and 8.00 metres at 2.84 g/t gold.

To increase the understanding of the mineralization controls in the Southern Zone, a 50 by 15 metre area was stripped and nine east-west continuous sample lines were completed for a total of 340 line metres. This area is located at the fold hinge of the main antiformal structure where a shallow north-northeast plunge was identified. The direction of the fold hinge is affected by west-northwest structures generating possible dilatational jogs controlling the high grade mineralization. Similar structures were observed in the western limb of the antiform.

The 2012 exploration program for the Cebollati Property has a budget of US$3.4 million, which includes 4,000 metres of drilling and the stripping of two 50 by 20 metre areas to understand the geology. The drilling program will continue on the Southern and Windmill zones following the successful 2011 exploration drilling program that confirmed the presence of significant gold bearing replacement style mineralization within multiple zones. In addition, the 2012 exploration will continue on regional evaluation and project generation work.


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