Yellowhead Mining Inc. – Focused on Harper Creek Copper-Gold-Silver Advanced Exploration Project

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Yellowhead Mining Inc. – Focused on Harper Creek Copper-Gold-Silver Advanced Exploration Project

Overview

Yellowhead Mining Inc. (TSXV:YMI) is an exploration company focused on developing its 100% owned Harper Creek copper-gold-silver advanced exploration project. The project is located in south-central British Columbia, approximately 150 kilometres by highway north of Kamloops. In March 2011, the Company received a new resource estimate for the project and announced the results of the Preliminary Economic Assessment Study performed by Wardrop, a Tetra Tech Company.

Investment Highlights

  • Harper Creek offers exceptional potential as one of the largest copper pre-development projects in Canada
  • NI 43-101 Preliminary Economic Assessment completed March 2011
  • Detailed Feasibility Study commenced April 2011, expected March 2012
  • Measured and Indicated resource of 532 million tonnes grading 0.31% copper, .032g/t gold and 1.08 g/t silver
  • Inferred resource of 117.2 million tonnes grading 0.29% copper, .032 g/t gold and 1.32 g/t silver, containing 3.6 billion pounds and 0.7 billion pounds of copper respectively, at a 0.2% copper cut-offEstimated total production: 2.857 billion pounds copper, 256,000 oz. gold and 4.876 million oz. silver in concentrate
  • Potential mine life 22 years at a milling rate of 70,000 tonnes/day

Key Property

Harper Creek Project – South-Central British Columbia, Canada

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The Harper Creek Project is located approximately 90 km north-north-east of the city of Kamloops in south-central B.C. The Company now holds mineral tenures with an area of 42,636 ha (775 ha subject to a 3% NSR capped at $2.5 million adjusted for inflation and 618 ha, not in the current resource, subject to a 2.5% NSR).

Property History

The project has a history dating back to the mid 1960s when Noranda Exploration and US Steel first discovered the deposit. The two companies conducted exploration separately until 1971, when they formed a joint venture to explore their claims, which lasted until 1981. Drilling on the main deposit totaled 24,007 m in 147 holes. In 1996, American Comstock drilled 2,847 m in 8 holes. Yellowhead has acquired and digitized the data from the prior programs and recovered partial or complete drill core from 128 historical holes on site.

Yellowhead Mining was formed in 2005. In 2005 and 2006, five claim groups were acquired or optioned by Yellowhead Mining on the historical drilling area and contiguous parts of the Eagle Bay Assemblage, the mineralogical group, which includes the Harper Creek deposit.

Infrastructure Adjacent to Project

Aerial View, Harper Creek Deposit

Project Summary

The Harper Creek Project is an extensive volcanogenic sulphide system, consisting of a mineralized envelope greater than 2 km along strike, over 2 km down dip in a 1 km thickness of volcano-sedimentary stratigraphy, and open along strike, down dip and at depth. The deposit is open to the north and along strike.

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During late 2005 and early 2006, the company re-logged and re-analysed historical drill core recovered from the site, and produced a NI 43-101 data compilation report. Between 2006 and 2008 the Company completed several drilling programs on the project site. In 2010, the Company received a new NI 43-101-compliant Indicated resource estimate of 4.0 billion lb contained copper and  0.5 billion lb Cu Inferred (August 2010, Technical Report by Scott Wilson Roscoe Postle Associates Inc.). It is estimated that the project would have a greater than 20-mine life at 70,00 tpd producing up to 182 million lb Cu per year (figures represent Yellowhead estimates and are non-NI 43-101 compliant).

Since the acquisition, Yellowhead has commenced a 4,000 m drilling program aimed at expanding the current open pit.

In March 2011 the company announced the results of a new Preliminary Economic Assessment, preformed by Wardrop, a Tetra Tech Company.

Resources at Varying Cutoff Grades

Cut-off Grade   [% Cu] Resource Tonnage [kt] Cu Grade [%Cu] Au Grade* [g/t] Ag Grade* [g/t]
Measured
0.10 146,402.4 0.24 0.029 1.04
0.20 89,992.9 0.30 0.033 1.18
0.30 38,632.4 0.38 0.039 1.37
0.40 12,391.7 0.47 0.046 1.55
0.50 3,701.7 0.56 0.055 1.66
Indicated
0.10 847,302.0 0.23 0.026 0.91
0.20 442,071.1 0.31 0.032 1.06
0.30 190,133.7 0.39 0.040 1.22
0.40 72,464.5 0.49 0.051 1.36
0.50 25,128.2 0.58 0.065 1.54
Measured and Indicated
0.10 993,704.4 0.23 0.026 0.93
0.20 532,064.0 0.31 0.032 1.08
0.30 228,766.1 0.39 0.040 1.24
0.40 84,856.2 0.48 0.050 1.39
0.50 28,829.9 0.58 0.063 1.55
Inferred*
0.10 231,239.0 0.22 0.027 1.09
0.20 117,236.9 0.29 0.032 1.32
0.30 47,036.7 0.38 0.037 1.49
0.40 14,116.7 0.46 0.043 1.65
0.50 3,316.1 0.56 0.051 1.81

*Inferred gold and silver grades cannot be correlated to the copper resource tonnage and shall not be used to calculate precious metal mineral content

Yellowhead’s management notes that the deposit is also open to the south, east and at depth. In addition,  there are specific geophysical anomalies and mineralized outcrops occurring about 1.0 km to the south and 3.0 km to the east of the current pit limit. These are drill targets that will be followed up on in the next phase of drilling.

Airborne Geophysics Priority Targets - click to zoom

Schematic - Aearial View - click to zoom

Management

Ian Smith, Mining Engineer- President & CEO -  Mr. Smith a mining engineering graduate of the University of Queensland, Australia, has over 40 years experience in corporate, operations, and project management and consulting within the international base, precious metals and coal industries. He is a director of several public companies and is President & CEO of Santa Fe Metals Corp. More recently he was President & CEO of bcMetals Corp. that had engineered the Red Chris copper/gold porphyry project for development in northwest BC prior to being acquired by Imperial Metals Corp. His involvement with other large scale copper operations at a senior management level include the Bougainville Copper and La Caridad mines in Papua New Guinea and Mexico respectively and the Zambian Copperbelt. Mr. Smith was President and founding partner of one of North America’s most successful mining industry consulting companies until purchased by Canadian interests in 1995.

Ronald L. Handford, P.Eng., BASc, MBA, Executive Vice President - Mr. Hanford has over 30 years of international experience in development and finance relating to resource and technology sectors. He has been an officer and director of several private and public companies since 1996. Prior to that he was an investment officer with the International Finance Corporation and a resource industry banker with Barclays Bank.

Saurabh Handa, BSc, CA – Chief Financial Officer -Past Corporate Controller for SouthGobi Resources Ltd., Prior to that Senior Staff Accountant at Deloitte and Touche LLP working in its audit and valuation practices primarily on international mining companies

Alastair Tiver, P.Eng – Vice President, Operations - 24+ years international experience in operating roles ranging from exploration stage to large scale operating mines in a variety of commodities – most recently Chief Engineer of Copper Mountain Mining Corp.

Charlene Higgins, MSc, PhD – Vice President –Environmental, Community & First Nations Relations -14+ years as a senior negotiator and policy advisor working with Aboriginal communities and organizations. Expertise in the areas of consultation, sustainable use and management of natural resources, multi-stakeholder engagement.


Board of Directors

T. Gregory Hawkins, P.Geo., MSc., Chairman of the Board. - Mr. Hawkins has been involved in the Mining Exploration and Investment industry since 1969. He has been variously responsible for the identification and/or delineation of 10 mineral deposits in Canada, USA, Chile, Ghana, Mali and Zaire (DRC). In acting as Founding Project Consultant and/or Founding Director of seven public and private Exploration/Development ventures he has participated in or been responsible for the definition of at least one resource/reserve in every case with four cases resulting in production in the USA, Chile, Ghana and Mali. In 1990 he started CME, an international full service consultancy and contracting firm, which grew to include Spectral International Geophysics, Eagle Drilling and ATS Inc.

Ian Smith, President & CEO

Christopher O. Naas, P.Geo., BSc - Geologist and computer applications specialist with 20+ years experience in the mineral exploration field; President, CME Consultants Inc.

R. Stuart (Tookie) Angus, LLB - An independent senior business advisor with 25 years+ of  experience in international exploration, development and mining ventures. Former Head of Global Mining, Fasken Martineau
DuMoulin LLP and Managing Director, Endeavour Financial Corporation.

David J.H. Dickens, FCA -40+ years of experience as a Chartered Accountant and trust company office and director. He has worked in London, UK, Channel Islands and Dubai.

Andy Graetz, BSc, Exec. MBA -Mining engineer with 25+ years of international mining experience having worked in the USA, Canada, Philippines, Kazakhstan and South Africa in Senior mine
operational, corporate development, feasibility study and CFO/finance/administration roles.

Morgan Li- Mining engineer, Chief Operating Officer, Anthill Resources

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