SCOTT WILSON RPA www.scottwilson.com
Hathor Exploration Limited – Midwest NorthEast
Technical Report NI 43-101 – December 18, 2009 Page 17-31
POTENTIAL OPEN PIT MINING SCENARIO
The following economic assumptions were used to estimate a discard grade for a
potential open pit mining scenario:
• U3O8 price: US$65/lb
• Mining cost: C$2/t
• Ore Shipment: C$5.00/t milled
• Toll Milling: C$50.0/t milled
• General and Administrative cost: C$40/t
• U3O8 recovery: 97.5%
• Exchange rate: 1.1 C$/US$
Scott Wilson RPA estimated an open pit discard grade of 0.06% U3O8. This
represents the minimum grade at which material would be sent to the mill, rather than the
waste dump, on the assumption that all material within the pit shell will be mined. To
ensure that the RRZ has a reasonable prospect of economic extraction for a deposit
amenable to open pit methods, Scott Wilson RPA ran a preliminary pit shell using
Whittle Four-X and found that more than 90% of the resource was captured.
POTENTIAL UNDERGROUND MINING SCENARIO
The following economic assumptions were used to estimate a breakeven grade for a
potential underground mining scenario:
• U3O8 price: US$65/lb
• Mining cost: C$100/t
• Ore Shipment: C$5.00/t milled
• Toll Milling: C$50.0/t milled
• General and Administrative cost: C$40/t
• U3O8 recovery: 97.5%
• Exchange rate: 1.1 C$/US$
Scott Wilson RPA used 60% of the mining and G&A costs to estimate a marginal cutoff
grade of 0.10% U3O8 for reporting of Mineral Resources. The material with grade
above the marginal cut-off grade, but below the fully costed cut-off grade, represents
mineralization that has a reasonable prospect of economic extraction assuming sunk
development costs and that this marginal material does not displace higher grade
mineralization in the mill feed. The marginal material is included largely for purposes of
maintaining resource continuity, and does not make up a large proportion of the total
Mineral Resource.