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• Assembled 18 mining concessions into a contiguous 55 square mile property —  35,200 acres or 14,256 hectare that encompasses the Nieves Silver Property.

• Expended about $20,500,000 to acquire, partially explore, assess and report, and maintain Nieves.

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• Completed 15 carefully planned exploration programs: 11 drilling Programs (2003-2013), 2 Geophysical Programs, and 1 District Wide deposition Model.

 

• Discovered and assayed a reported 91,064,729 tons of silver ore with an average grade 40 g/t silver, using a 15 g/t cutoff containing 110,000,000 oz. silver and 116,000 oz. gold.

 

• Commissioned noted engineering firm, M3, to prepare a Form 43-101 Resource report and Preliminary Economic Feasibility Study.

 

• Determined the current delineated and reported silver resource can be exploited with an open pit mine, greatly reducing mining capital and operating costs.

• Commissioned a property-wide geophysical survey that indicates the three known major braided vein systems extend laterally an additional 8 km, discovered a fourth vein system south of the Santa Rita, two vein systems 10 km west of the Concordia and four 

magnetic anomalies — the inferred source of Nieves’ extensive silver and gold mineralization.

 

• Acquired Quaterra Resources’ 50% interest in the

Quaterra/Blackberry JV for the development of Nieves leaving Blackberry with 100% ownership of Nieves.

 

• Commissioned two noted mining engineering firms, M3 and IMC, to undertake a pit optimization study with the objective of developing a starter open pit mine plan.

 

• Developed a pit optimization plan with a newly drawn shell perimeter to:

   - Increase the resource amount

   - Increase the average ore grade

   - Upgrade the resource classification of the discovered silver resource that can be mined economically <$15 silver.

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• Minimized capital shareholders dilution by funding exploration incrementally.

 

• Developed a three-stage exploration program and corresponding staged financing strategy to:

   - Optimize the current drawn pit perimeter.

   - Expand the optimized pit beyond the redrawn pit perimeter.

   - Further explore the vast Nieves Silver Property in search of the source of it extensive mineralization.

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