Overlooking the Similkameen River

This view is taken from the Mine's main office. The mine is located atop a hill overlooking the former mill, offices and the Similkameen River bordering the Crowsnest Highway, and equidistant between Keremeos and Osoyoos.

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Entrance to the 1700 foot Adit

This adit entrance is the lowermost adit and main haulage tunnel. An exposed surface vein system was also discovered at this level.

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Overlooking the Similkameen River

This view is taken from the Mine's main office. The mine is located atop a hill overlooking the former mill, offices and the Similkameen River bordering the Crowsnest Highway, and equidistant between Keremeos and Osoyoos.

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Short Adits, or “Gopher Holes”

These holes can be found throughout the property. Dating back to the 1890’s, early miners followed these highgrade Silver veins until they cut off

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Reviewing the Plan View of the Mine

The mine has five adit levels at elevations of 2600, 2500, 2400, 2200 and 1700 feet and three sublevels within the 12 plus kilometres of tunnels, subdrifts and raises.

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Management & Directors


Mr. Christopher D. England
President & CEO/Director


Mr. England has extensive experience in the Securities Industry both as a director/officer of public companies and as a registered representative. In 1969 Mr. England started his first public company and between that date and 1980 he participated in the formation and/or management of a number of public companies. In 1981 he obtained his license as a registered representative and from that date to 1988 and from 1990 to 1999, he worked as a stock broker for Pemberton Securities Ltd., Yorkton Securities Inc., and Georgia Pacific Securities Corporation where he was also a Shareholder and Regional Sales Manager. During his tenure with Georgia, Mr. England helped to build that firm from 38 to 170 employees prior to selling his position in 1999. In 2000 Mr. England formed a private consulting company specializing in corporate finance, corporate and management restructuring, investor relations, corporate and shareholder communications as well as computer networking and programming.

Mr. England also has extensive experience in sales having worked as a sales person and trainer for Xerox of Canada from 1971 to 1980 where he achieved the distinction of being one of the top sales persons in Xerox's Word Processing Division in Canada. Mr. England also holds a Bachelor of Education Degree from the University of Alberta.



Dr. Colin Bowdidge Ph.D. Geol.
Vice President of Exploration & Director


Colin R. Bowdidge was educated at the University of Cambridge, where he received an M.A. degree in mineralogy and petrology, and at the University of Edinburgh, where he earned a Ph.D. in geology. He is a registered Professional Geoscientist with the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario. He has worked in mineral exploration for 34 years, primarily in Canada, but including projects in the U.S.A., South America and Europe.

After working for major companies (Cerro Mining Corporation and Union Miniere) for five years, Dr. Bowdidge became a consulting geologist, which has been his principal occupation since 1974. His experience has covered exploration and development projects for a wide variety of mineral commodities: precious metals (gold, silver and platinum-group metals), base metals (nickel-copper magmatic type, copper-zinc volcanogenic type, lead-zinc vein type), uranium, ferrous metals (iron ore, titanium) and industrial minerals (talc, tremolite, wollastonite, graphite, garnet, muscovite, kyanite, barite).

With a thorough knowledge of applied geology as it relates to mineral exploration, Dr. Bowdidge also has extensive hands-on experience in modern geophysical and geochemical exploration techniques. The majority of his experience has been in the Canadian Shield where a long and complex history of metamorphism and deformation requires careful observation and skilful interpretation to unravel geological environments and their effect on mineralization.

His proudest achievement to date was the discovery of the Olden wollastonite deposit in southeast Ontario in 1986. This deposit contains a measured resource of 2.5 million tonnes grading 29% high aspect-ratio wollastonite. He made the discovery single handedly after being requested by the client to search for a wollastonite property. The discovery process took two days of literature research using public-domain data that had been published years previously, and one day in the field. The property had previously been mapped three times by government surveys and once by a mining company without any recognition of its wollastonite potential. Wollastonite is a calcium silicate mineral that is used in a wide variety of applications, but is most important as a reinforcing filler in high-end plastic mouldings. The Olden deposit has an estimated gross value of between one and two billion dollars.

In addition to exploration projects, Dr. Bowdidge has been involved in the development of several mines: the Pinebay copper mine in Manitoba, the Thierry nickel-copper mine in northwest Ontario, the Cerro Mojon gold mine in Nicaragua and the San Andres gold mine in Honduras.

Dr. Bowdidge has served as a director and/or officer of several publicly traded mining and exploration companies, of which the best known was Greenstone Resources Ltd.


Dr. K. Warren Geiger Ph.D. P.Eng. P.Geol
Director


Dr. Geiger has a Ph.D. in Economic Geology from Cornell University, as well as a Bachelors Degree in Mining Engineering, from the University of Alberta. He specializes in the evaluation and monitoring of mining exploration projects and has been a principal in the formation, financing, property acquisition and management of exploration-oriented mining companies. Noteworthy examples of these companies are Aquarius Resources Ltd. (President), Arizona Star Resource Corp (President), Nevada Star Resource Corp. (President) and Alberta Star Mining Corp (Vice President). He is a "Qualified Person" as defined in National Instrument 43- 101 and has been approved to write geological reports.

 



Mr. James Laird
Director


Mr. Laird has over 25 years experience as a mineral exploration consultant to major and junior mining companies, mainly in British Columbia. Mr. Laird has made numerous discoveries of precious and base metal deposits, industrial minerals, lapidary materials and gemstones. He has designed, permitted and managed successful exploration programs in most geological environments.

Mr. Laird is a BC Qualified Prospector with interests in mineralogy, gemmology, film and print media production. His consulting company, Laird Exploration Ltd., is also a major provider of BC Rock and Mineral sets for the Geological Survey of Canada, Science World and several educational institutions.



Mr. Raymond Demotte
Director


Mr. Demotte has over 28 years of experience working for companies such as The Bechtel Corporation and McKesson Corp. He is a member of the Society of Economic Geologists and has served in various capacities in the mining industry since 1995. He brings to the Company, a wealth of experience in financing of public companies, raising over 45 million dollars in equity financing, and has brought two mining operations into production.


Ms. Karen Robertshaw
Chief Financial Officer & Corporate Secretary


Ms. Robertshaw has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and has worked as a staff accountant for Kenway Mack Slusarchuk Stewart LLP in Calgary Alberta from 2002to 2008. She has been the accountant for WestCan Uranium since March of 2008.


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    Vancouver, B.C.
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