In Liberia, Mano has interests in 3 mineral licences with gold exploration activity. To date most exploration has focused on the 100,000 hectare license known as the Bea Mountain Mineral Development Agreement (BEA-MDA) in western Liberia. Mano has a 100% interest in the BEA-MDA license subject to a 10% free carried interest and a 3% royalty in favour of the Republic of Liberia. The MCA reconnaissance license (1,500,000 hectares) is held under a Mineral Cooperation Agreement (MCA) with the Republic of Liberia.

The Cajon Borate Deposit lies within Bacanora Minerals Ltd’s Magdalena Basin Project area in the state of Sonora, Northern Mexico. The Magdalena project consists of 2 concession blocks covering a total of 15,508 hectares. The concessions are 100% owned by Bacanora’s Mexican subsidiary: Minera Sonora Borax S.A. de C.V., subject to a 3% royalty to a Rio Tinto subsidiary and a 3% gross over-riding royalty to Colin Orr-Ewing. The property is road accessible and located 17 kilometres east of the town of Magdalena de Kino and has excellent access from that centre, either by rail or truck, to local markets for borate or to overseas markets from the port at Guaymas. <...>

The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (The AusIMM) is the leading organisation representing technical minerals sector professionals in the Australasian Region.  Members are bound by a Code of Ethics, and continual improvement of professional and industry standards within the sector in which they work.

The report of the researchers of the Institute of Hydrogeology and Geoecology named after U.M. Akhmedsafin gives a review of energy and mineral resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The report shows their role in the economy of the country, as well as the role of the state for resource management, based on the current legislation in the area of exploitation of natural resources and environment protection. The report describes counteracting measures of the state against the global economy crisis events. It also reviews the existing classification systems of mineral resources of the country. Statistics on energy production and extraction of mineral resources are provided. Besides, the report considers social and ecological aspects of energy production and extraction of mineral resources. It provides data on the development of non-traditional renewable energy resources and the results of scientific research in this area, as well as information about the training system for technical and scientific staff and about the state of energy and natural resource management system of the country. <...>

In 1988, at the request of members of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME), Inc., the President of SME formed Working Party #79, Ore Reserve Definition, with the mission to develop guidelines for the public reporting of exploration information, resources, and reserves. A Subcommittee was appointed by the Working Party to draft these guidelines and submit recommendations to SME. The Subcommittee’s recommendations were published by SME in the April 1991 issue of “Mining Engineering”, and as a document entitled “A Guide for Reporting Exploration Information, Resources, and Reserves” in January 1992. Work continued on an ad-hoc basis until 1996, when Working Party #79 was renamed the SME Committee on Resources and Reserves and became a standing committee. <...>

Wardell Armstrong International Limited (“WAI”) was commissioned by Lundin Mining Corporation (“Lundin”) to prepare an updated Technical Report in accordance with the disclosure requirements of Canadian Securities Administrators’ National Instrument 43-101, Standard of Disclosure of Mineral Projects (“NI 43-101”) to disclose recent information about the Neves-Corvo underground mine located on the Neves-Corvo integrated Mining Concession, and the surrounding Exploration Concession (collectively “Neves-Corvo”). This information has been derived from a Feasibility Study (“FS”) undertaken by Lundin on the Zinc Expansion Project (“ZEP”) at Neves-Corvo and includes anupdated Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve estimate.