Hole 116: 2.5 Metres Grading 70.34% U3O8 / #10-200: 22.5 Metres Grading 11.3% U3O8 / #30: 69 metres grading 2.33% U3O8 / #10-188B: 7.5 metres grading 29.98% U3O8

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Message: Open pit vs. underground mining

Open pit vs. underground mining

posted on Dec 22, 2009 06:32PM

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.

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