John was a Geo. in Canada's NWT for many years and very familiar with mining and geology in the North. We became friends in the late eighties when both of us were living in Yellowknife at the same time and he's one of the reasons I invested in SLI years ago. Knowing John gave SLI creditability in my eyes.

On page 16 of the 43-101 report Paul makes the following statement, which i think is of considerable significance to us as SLI investors. He refers to John Brophy and the 43-101 report John wrote on the Tesoro property in 2008.

And I quote "The auriferous quartz veins of the Nazca-Ocona Gold Belt are interpreted as mesothermal vein systems related to brittle structures and analogous to structurally controlled mesothermal veins in Achean rock such as the CON MINE (Yellowknife) and Giant Mine (Yellowknife) and Salmita Mine (NWT) mines in the NWT of Canada" (Brophy 2008)

Just as a matter of interest Giant mine produced 7,000,000 oz of Gold, Con Mine 5,000,000 oz of Gold from veins similar to what we have on Tesoro.