John, what is the significance (if any) of the clorite schist (which i know comes in many forms) that is being encountered at AT12, this schist has also been encounterd by others in the area where intercepts of chromite have been encountered. The fact that NOT has encounter it in NOT 08 2G-11 and encountered 5.5 m of 4% Cr203 in hole 2g-15 , has me thinkiing and may be what NOT's thinking that this chromite monster may exist troughout the northern area above FWRs' conductor #4 not to mention Conductor 12 which has been labled as Grid 2 by Noront. Again is there any significance or is this something which we will contiinue to run into.

I thank you in advance John, much appreciated.

Additional drill holes have been completed in an area 800 metres to the south of AT12 anomaly, on Noront's property, along an east-west section parallel to and near the southern border of Noront's property in close proximity to the Black Thor chrome property of Freewest Resources Inc. (as shown on AT12 drill hole location plan referred to above). Selected assay for holes NOT-08-2G15 and 2G-18 have encountered the following mineralized drill intervals (not true width):

In addition to these base and precious metal intersections, there were nine intersections of low grade chrome including 5.5 metres that averaged 3.973% Cr203 in hole 2G15. Additional results in this area will be reported upon as they are received.

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DRILL HOLE BT-08-03:

Drill hole BT-08-03 was completed as a broad step-out testing the continuity of the Black Thor chromite zone 1600 metres to the northeast of the discovery hole, BT-08-01. The latter hole, the first completed by Freewest on the Property, encountered a 100 metre-wide zone of chromite mineralization (see Freewest news release dated September 15, 2008). Drill hole BT-08-01 is located on grid line 11+00 north at station 1+85 west, while the step-out hole BT-08-03, is situated on grid line 27+00 north at station 2+25 west (see Map 1).

Map 1 comprises part of this news release and is posted on the Freewest website at www.freewest.com

The highlight of the step-out drill hole is the intersection of a wide zone of disseminated, banded, semi-massive and massive chromite mineralization comprising the on-strike extension of the Black Thor chromite zone. Chromite mineralization is hosted within a continuous northeast to southwest-trending ultramafic sill complex consisting of variably altered peridotite, dunite and pyroxenite. The chromite mineralization overlies highly altered pyroxenite and is in turn overlain by a distinct grayish-coloured talc-chlorite schist (believed to be highly altered ultramafic rocks). A fine-grained mafic dike intruding the mineralized zone may have had a destructive affect on chromite mineralization and has divided mineralization into two sub-zones.

Hole FW-08-11 was designed to undercut the mineralization encountered in hole FW-08-10 as well as hole FW-06-04. This hole was positioned on local grid L14+00E at 12+75N, drilled grid south with azimuth of 150 degrees with an initial dip of -65 degrees for a total length of 309 metres. After passing through 12 metres of overburden the hole entered gabbro and remained in gabbro until 90.2 metres. At 90.2 metres the gabbro changed to a coarse grained porphyritic gabbro until 152.5 to 156.2 when the gabbro was found to be in fault contact with intermediate volcanic. Between 156.2 and 175.6 metres the volcanics were found to have undergone extensive alteration (chloritization and silica flooding) and brecciation. Variable amounts of sulphide minerals including pyrite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite were noted in this section. At 175.6 to 182.7 the sulphide content increased, chloritization and carbonate alteration were noted. At 182.7 and extending to 189.7 metres the hole encountered coarse grained gabbro (porphyry), followed by chlorite schist between 186.7 and 195.7 metres, followed by gabbro until 231 metres. Another Intermediate volcanic unit was encountered between 231 continuing to the end of the hole at 309 metres. Sulphide mineralization was noted between 235.5 and 279 metres. The presence of two sulphide zones encountered in this hole is encouraging, these will be analyzed for their base and precious metal content. The sulphide accumulation encountered by this hole has explained the conductivity anomaly with weak magnetic signature.

Regards,

Notster