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Message: ....what"s the plan..

..who knows, looking back too 2001 San Antonio had just gone through a major mine complex retrofit seeing $ 180,000,000 being spent on a new Mill and facilities up &down. Young Dale Ginn had been key geologist ( 10 YRS ) and later mine manager seeing gold averaging .22 gr at times. The decission to tye up with 80 yrs of Greens past drilling was good timing in buying out the mine and becoming Lanlord of alot of knowledge..PRIOR 2001 the mine had good knowledge of the seven structures with current work working the deeps with yrs of future mine planing in place to continue but gold below $ 250./oz was cutting it fine..PS "Technical report 2001:

mining is exploiting the lower set of stockwork veins, which may continue to step to the east

in further en echelon steps such as the Deep East zone, and potential further steps to the east

of that. In addition, there is also potential for another new set of en echelon stockwork veins

and associated shear veins 500-1500 feet below (east-northeast) of the current area of

mining. The down dip projection of veins currently being mined is still open; increasing

displacement and strike length of shear veins at the lowest levels suggests that they may

continue significantly to depth, although the A vein system is thinning and approaching the

maximum dimensions of other stockwork veins developed above, suggesting that it may be

near its limits. Other areas of high exploration potential within or near the mine workings

include (i) the D shaft area between 30 and 4920 levels, where vein systems in the 30-200

and Puff subdrifts, and the Deep West shear veins may continue, (ii) potential for a small

shear system in the footwall of the C shear vein below 5040 level that may represent the top

of a new shear vein, (iii) areas southeast of the historic area of mining where the SAM unit

obtains a 200-400 feet thickness that is comparable to that in the historically mined areas.

Further en echelon steps of stockwork veins east of and beyond the 40, 50, and 60 stockwork

veins may occur in the latter area. Outside the immediate area of the mine workings,

exploration potential exists (i) in other portions of the SAM unit where the unit forms

thickened lobes of optimum thickness, or where shear zones are developed, (ii) in unit A, a

gabbro-mafic volcanic unit south of the SAM unit, and (iii) where the northwest trending

Rice Lake shear zone intersects the SAM unit and unit A. .!!!

[ This report summarizes a program of undergound structural geological mapping at the San

Antonio mine conducted by the writer during January, 2001. The work was completed for

Harmony Gold (Canada) Inc. at the request of Mr. D. Ginn, Chief Geologist, to assess the

structural geological style, controls and setting of vein systems within the mine for

application to mine planning and underground exploration. Underground geological maps

of mine workings produced by Harmony geologists and historical mine maps were used as a

base for the work. As a result of the study, several exploration targets and methods are

recommended. To conform with mine grids, distance measurements and grid coordinates

reported for undergound are in feet. Work was concentrated on levels where active mining

was taking place, mainly 30 level, and between 4980 and 4790 levels inclusive.

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