FOLLOW-UP NO. 4 / MARCH 4,
2009
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WEST TIMMINS MINING INC.: RETURN ON
CAD 10,000 INVESTMENT
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Purchase
Date
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No. of Shares
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Purchase Price
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Cost (CAD)
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Price Today
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Value Today
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November 7,
2006
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25'000
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0.40
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10'000.00
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Total
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25'000
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0.40
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10'000.00
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0.41
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10'250.00
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Profit
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250.00
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Profit
(in %)
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3%
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SHARES
OUTSTANDING / FULLY DILUTED
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MARKET
CAP
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119,836,528
/ 134,691,144
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CAD 51.5
Million
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52
WEEK LOW / HIGH
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TSX
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CAD 0.13
to 0.86
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92,500
(200-day)
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RECOMMENDATION
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RISK
RATING
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BUY
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HIGHEST
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LARGEST LAND HOLDER IN WEST
TIMMINS AND EXPLORATION IN THE SIERRA MADRE, MEXICO
Business Summary
West Timmins Mining Inc is a
publicly traded gold exploration company focused on district scale discovery
and development opportunities in two of the world's great gold camps: the
Timmins Gold Camp in northern Ontario and the Sierra Madre Gold Belt in
Mexico.
The world's great gold
deposits are clustered into a few select camps where gold production is
measured in the tens of millions of ounces. These rare stretches of the
earth's crust are among the most sought after prizes in the global
exploration business. WTM has built major land positions in two of these
world class districts and has recently announced important new discoveries in
each.
Recent discoveries on both
fronts highlight WTM's potential. In Timmins, Ontario the recent high-grade
Rusk gold discovery on our Thunder Creek joint venture shares a number of
similarities with the nearby 1.3 million ounce Timmins West deposit which is
currently undergoing development. In Mexico new discoveries on the
high-grade Lluvia de Oro gold-silver, Universo gold and Montana de Oro
Projects highlight the exciting potential of the Sierra Madre Belt which has
emerged as one of the fastest growing gold camps on the planet.
The Projects in North
America
The West Timmins Project
Founded by prospecting
discoveries in the early 1900's the gold mineralization in the Timmins Camp
is home to over 35 current and former producers typically developed around
moderate to steeply plunging high-grade quartz vein systems which have been
mined to depths of up to 2,500 metres.
Historically mining has
focussed on high-grade (7-10 g/t gold), underground deposits located along or
in close proximity to major fault systems which run to tens of kilometers
through the entire Timmins District. More recently large open pits have been
developed along these major fault systems and around the former underground
producers. The large Pamour open pit project, which has resulted in the moving
of a portion of the Trans-Canada highway in Timmins, is developed along a
gold-bearing fault/shear system and averages slighlty under 2.0 g/t gold.
Goldcorp operates the Dome,
Hoyle Pond and Pamour mines in Timmins and is undertaking a re-evaluation of
the historic Hollinger/McIntyre system which has produced over 32 million
ounces of gold since being placed into production in 1910.
The West Timmins District is
the western extension of the Timmins Camp and has increasingly become the
focus of exploration and discovery activities in the Camp.
"Geologically, the area
has long been considered favourable for the finding of gold deposits, as it
lies directly along the strike of formations exposed in the Porcupine fields,
in which the famous Hollinger and McIntyre mines are located." - J. E.
Hawley, 1926 describing the geology of the West Timmins Camp.
80 years after Hawley's
prophetic statement the West Timmins District is emerging as the new
discovery frontier in Timmins. Commencing with the discovery of the Company's
Golden River Trend in 1996 there have been a series of significant gold
discoveries in the West Timmins District.
Most recently the discovery of
the million plus ounce Timmins West Deposit and the discovery of the
high-grade Rusk Zone on the Company's Thunder Creek Joint Venture have
focused considerable investor and industry attention on the West Timmins
District. WTM has also recently intersected a new gold zone on it's 100%
owned Hwy 144 Property located along the same trend as the Timmins West and
Rusk gold zones.
Spanning over 114 square
kilometres, hosting an existing 400,000 ounce inferred gold resource (4.0 mT
@ 3.00 g/t) and including over 30 known occurrences of gold mineralization
WTM's West Timmins Gold Project makes WTM the dominant land-holder and a
major player in the development of the West Timmins Gold District.
Mexico
The Company's flagship project
in Mexico, the Montaña de Oro Project, is located at the junction of
the states of Sonora, Sinaloa and Chihuahua in northwestern Mexico.
Encompassing over 600 square kilometres at the heart of the Three State
Precious and Base Metal District, Montaña is located within 50 kilometres of
three newly developed mining projects, two active resource definition stage
deposits, two recent takeovers and one additional gold-silver project nearing
commercial production.
The Three States District
hosts a variety of styles of economic mineralization including Goldcorp's
lowest cost gold producer at El Sauzal (high-sulphidation epithermal gold),
Pan American Silver's Alamo Dorado deposit (high sulphidation epithermal
silver), Frontera Copper's Piedras Verde (oxide copper), Coeur D'Alene mines
Palmarejo Project (low sulphidation epithermal) and Tyler Resource Bahuerachi
Cu deposit (copper skarn).
The core of the Montaña de Oro
Project (roughly 100 square kilometres) was formerly part of the National
Mineral Reserve of Mexico. Initially placed into the National Reserve on the
basis of its gold exploration and development potential the Montaña de Oro
Project covers the headwaters (source area) to the largest placer gold
deposits in northern Mexico. The government of Mexico began auctioning the
National Mineral Reserve blocks to mineral exploration interests in 2003. The
Company was the successful bidder and acquired the right to purchase a 100%
interest, subject only to a 1% royalty payable to the government of Mexico,
in late 2004.
Based on the success of the
Company's initial exploration efforts, the Montaña de Oro project has been
expanded to cover over 600 square kilometres. The Project now hosts 17 zones
of gold (+/- silver) mineralization and 4 zones of base metal/polymetallic
mineralization while much of the current property position has yet to see
even initial prospecting and mapping.
La Dura Project
The recent discovery of the
polymetallic La Dura system and a number of gold-silver vein systems
highlight the discovery potential of the Montaña de Oro project and make it
the primary focus of WTM's exploration activities in Mexico.
The Lluvia de Oro Project,
acquired in 2007, covers one of the highest grade historic mining districts
in Mexico. The Lluvia de Oro deposit produced between 1898 and 1915 and again
in the early 1950's and produced approximately 100,000 tonnes at an average
production grade of 95 g/t gold and 865 g/t silver.
The Lluvia de Oro District was
placed into the national mineral reserve of Mexico in the early 1980's and
was acquired by the Company, directly from the Mexican government, in early
2007.
Lluvia de Oro is located in
the Three States Mining District of Chihuahua, Mexico 30 kilometres east of
the Company's Montaña de Oro Property and 20 kilometres west of Goldcorp's El
Sauzal gold mine.
Highlights and Advantages:
- Historic
production grades of 95.0 g/t gold and 865 g/t silver
- District in
National Mineral Reserve of Mexico since the early 1980s and excluded
from exploration
- Accessible
underground workings provide good access for future exploration
- Work by the
Mexican geological survey is reported to have returned intervals of 35
metres grading 4.0 g/t gold and 29 g/t silver and 20 metres grading 5.6
g/t gold and 51 g/t silver from trench samples assayed by an independent
assay lab.
- Road
accessible project which is close enough to share logistical support
with the Montaña de Oro project
Developing Projects
In addition to our core and
active projects in Canada and Mexico West Timmins Mining controls a number of
other exploration projects throughout North America.
Recent News: WTM Discovers
Large New Gold System on Hwy 144 Property, Timmins, Ontario
West Timmins Mining Inc.
announced the discovery of a new gold mineralized system on its 100% owned
Hwy 144 Property in Timmins, Ontario. Drilling has intersected a new, 16.10
metre wide zone of gold mineralization grading 1.11 g/t gold in hole Hwy
08-05.
This new gold discovery is
located along the same trend which hosts the Company's high grade Rusk Gold
Zone and the 1.3 million ounce Timmins West gold deposit.
The new discovery, intersected
at a vertical depth of only 28 metres, is hosted by a porphyritic syenite
intrusion, similar to the one which hosts the high-grade gold mineralization
recently intersected at a depth of 550 metres in the Rusk Zone (11.20 g/t
gold over 10.40 metres; NR08-33) Initial shallow drill testing of the Rusk
Gold Zone returned similar grades and thicknesses (0.82 g/t gold over 25.8
metres; hole TC03-06) to those reported here from the Hwy 144 Property.
The new 144 Syenite discovery
is located proximal to the same sediment-ultramafic contact along which the
Timmins West gold deposit and the Company's high-grade Rusk Gold Zone, 1800
metres to the northwest, are centred. Anomalous gold mineralization was also
intersected in hole Hwy 08-03, collared 450 metres to the northwest of hole
-05, again in association with a porphyritic syenite intrusion. Nine
additional drill holes have now been completed in the vicinity of the new
discovery and are in the process of being logged, sampled and assayed.
"We are very encouraged
by the width of this newly discovered gold system, it's location along the
key sediment-ultramafic contact and the obvious comparisons to the nearby
Rusk Gold Zone and Timmins West deposit," said Darin Wagner, President
and CEO of West Timmins Mining Inc. "These results indicate that the
syenite body related to the recent high-grade results at Rusk, and the new
discovery on our 100% owned Hwy 144 Property, may be much more extensive than
initially thought opening up a great deal of additional exploration potential
in the West Timmins District."
Fundamental Considerations
West Timmins Mining is the
largest land holder in the West Timmins Gold Camp, where the holdings
surround the newest million plus ounce gold discovery in the 70 million ounce
Timmins Gold Camp in Ontario, Canada.
West Timmins is exploring
aggressively on a number of gold occurrences in this area looking to expand
the high-grade mineralization.
West Timmins is also active in
the Sierra Madre Gold Belt, where West Timmins has a number of large projects
under exploration, including the head waters of the largest placer gold
district in Mexico.
Technical Considerations
THE TIMELESS PRECIOUS METAL FUND
& THE SIERRA MADRE GOLD
& SILVER VENTURE FUND are a shareholders in the company and will
benefit from any increase in the company's share price.
Disclosure: The author has
not been paid to write this article, nor has he received any other inducement
to do so.
Disclaimer: The author's
objective in writing this article is to invoke an interest on the part of
potential investors in this stock to the point where they are encouraged to
conduct their own further diligent research. Neither the information nor the
opinions expressed should be construed as a solicitation to buy or sell this
stock.
Investors are recommended
to obtain the advice of a qualified investment advisor before entering into
any transactions in the stock or use their own brain.
In our opinion, the best
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PRECIOUS METAL FUND or THE SIERRA MADRE GOLD & SILVER VENTURE FUND
instead of shares of only a small number of companies.