Update aus dem Investor package dec '09 (gwmg homepage, corporate
overview):
Properties and Projects:
The Steenkampskraal Rare Earth Mine. In January 2009, GWMG
entered into an option agreement with Rare Earth
Extraction Co. Ltd. (“Rareco”) of Stellenbosch, South Africa, to
refurbish, re-commission, and operate the currently
abandoned Steenkampskraal underground mine in the Western Cape,
South Africa. The Company has paid out its
options commitments and is negotiating the supply agreements and
considering alternatives to increase its
involvement in this project.
Should this project proceed as
anticipated, this could be the first rare earth mine in
production outside of China.
This 474 hectare property is located approximately 70 km north of
the town of Vanrhynsdorp, population 4,000, in the
Western Cape Province of South Africa and is approximately 350 km
north and west of Cape Town. Infrastructure is
excellent, with access to the site by paved and gravel roads and
close proximity to rail and sea-port; the governments
are pro-development, and there is technical expertise available as
well as a trainable work force.
The main rare earth-bearing mineral is
monazite and is
hosted by an igneous intrusive dyke system. From previous
work, the mineral deposit was determined to be tabular in shape
with a known strike length of 400m and has been
traced down dip for 250m. Thickness ranges from 0.3m to 4.0m and
the average in-situ grade is 16.74% total rare
earth oxide (“TREO”), making it one of the highest grade rare earth
deposits known to exist. The deposit also
contains
significant amounts of copper, gold and phosphate
which could be recovered as by-products. Very little
exploration work has been done on the property and the deposit
remains open along strike and at depth.
Hoidas Lake is GWMG’s initial REE project, located 50km,
northeast of Uranium City in Northern Saskatchewan.
This is an advanced property with a proven resource which is being
further developed. In November 2009, GWMG
announced that the overall resource estimate increased by 123% to
2,560,835 tonnes from the previous value of
1,150,000 tonnes. This includes an increase of over 1200% in the
Measured category to 963,808 tonnes from the
previous estimate of 80,000 tonnes, and an increase of 49% in the
Indicated category to 1,597, 027 tonnes from the
previous estimate of 1,070,000 tonnes
A Metallurgy Study
continues to optimize previously defined processes, and
examine new potential alternatives to the extraction of rare earths
from the Hoidas Lake mineralization.
The Preliminary Economic Assessment Report (PEAR) is being
developed and will be updated, based on results
from metallurgical testing and the 2008 winter exploration drilling
program. Completion of the current stage of the
PEAR leading to a Hoidas Lake Feasibility Study is dependent upon
the successful completion of metallurgical
testing and optimization of defined processes. Permitting efforts
would be initiated once the final feasibility study is
completed and a decision to proceed with the project is
made.
The Deep Sands project is a 168 km2 (65 mi2), Iron and
REE-enriched mineral sand in west central Utah. The
project area is 190 km (120 miles) SW of Salt Lake City and about
135 km (85 miles) NW of Delta Utah.
Two drilling
programs have been completed and an evaluation of the data compiled
is expected to be completed by year end,
with the intention developing a NI 43-101 resource report.
The Douglas River Property consists of two claims (totalling 803
hectares) approximately 21 km south of the former
Cluff Lake Uranium mine and approximately and 420 km NW of La Ronge
SK. Historic trench sampling yielded rare
earth element grades of up to 10% yttrium with accompanying high
grades of heavy rare earths (“HREE”) including
Dysprosium with grades up to 0.89%. Dysprosium is the most sought
after REE by the Japanese magnet
manufacturers. The planned exploration program includes geological
mapping, trenching, soil and lithogeochemistry
in order to identify drill targets.

Also wenigstens ein NI 43-101 zu Deep Sands darf noch vor dem
Winterschlaf erwartet werden .