Local Artisanal Mining in Kenya

Artisanal Mining Creating shareholder value through targeted exploration August, 2012

TSX: SPT SPL 214 – Our primary Target

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TSX: SPT This is one of the properties on license SPL 214. approximately 150 people work everyday for gold

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Location 1 SPL 214, Kamwango

TSX: SPT This operation is not simply focused on surface soils. This quarts vein here has been dug approximately 7 metres from surface

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TSX: SPT Quartz veins. This picture was taken about 7 meters below the surface ground

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TSX: SPT You can see some quartz stone collected for processing in the background

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TSX: SPT This is a closer view of the same quartz stones

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TSX: SPT Another section of the same pit.

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Notice the picture of this old shaft. It is the same shaft seen on the inset picture. The end slide picture was taken about a year prior to the current scene below. They have been very busy digging out this pit. All their work was done by hand.

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TSX: SPT Prior to going to the crusher, they break the large quartz down to a smaller size, by hand

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This is one about 15 drums at his location that are filled with quarts stones (on the left) and ball bearings that, when turned by motor, crush the quarts to a fine material. Then they use gravity and water to extract gold

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TSX: SPT Again, one of many preparation/crusher operations on this property

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TSX: SPT After processing the ore, this is how they use water to extract the gold

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TSX: SPT Notice they are only using a burlap bag to catch the gold/heavy fragments. Their process is quite unsophisticated.

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Same operation. In this area, they wash the heavy material out of the burlap bag into a pan. They continue using traditional panning methods to leave only the heaviest material in the pan.

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TSX: SPT Panning to retrieve gold

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The end process, many locals add mercury in the pan with the heaviest of materials. Gold is absorbed into the mercury, In the end they burn off the mercury to extract more gold. Very toxic and dangerous.

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One of the shafts at Komito referred to the letter to shareholders August 11, 2012. This is the second pump being lowered into this particular shaft. Gas pumps are obviously very dangerous, but the artisanal miners operate below the water table (approximately 18 metres in the area)

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TSX: SPT Timber being lowered into another shaft at Komito

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Contact Information

Jim Megann President and CEO

(902) 442-7192 1969 Upper Water Street, Suite 2001

Halifax, NS, Canada, B3J 3R7 [email protected]

www.stockportexploration.com 20

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