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| |  The Taurus project is a large-tonnage, low-grade gold deposit. It is a former producer and has been explored for approximately 25 years. It is an advanced-stage exploration target that hosts a National Instrument 43-101 compliant inferred resource of 1.04 million ounces of gold. This resource, which was confirmed in a June 2007 technical report, consists of 32.4 million tonnes at an average gold grade of 1.0 g/t using a cut-off grade of 0.5 g/t. The project comprises wholly-owned and optioned mineral claims and the wholly-owned Taurus II property, which has been drilled over the last two years. This drilling expanded the mineralization with grade intercepts in a range similar to the known resource of 1.0 g/t gold. A former high-grade, small underground gold mine, the Taurus deposit was actively operated in the early 1950s and again in the early 1980s. The high-grade areas were eventually abandoned and attention turned to a large low-grade mineralized zone, where approximately 370 holes have been drilled. Hawthorne plans to expand the resource with additional drilling and an airborne geophysical survey. The land package consists of a contiguous 56,300-hectare package on the Cassiar Gold Belt Michael Redfearn, the Company's Vice President Operations and a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed and approves the disclosure contained in this webpage.  Click to enlarge Claim Map 43-101 Technical Report The company has prepared a NI 43-101 report regarding the Taurus Property and can be viewed here in PDF format . | |
