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Company Information for Moydow Mines Int'l Inc

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Company Statement

Moydow Mines is an international exploration company with primary interests in precious and industrial minerals and diamonds. Exploration activities are focused principally in Africa.

In 2004, Moydow sold its interest in the Ntotoroso Property for US$40 million to Newmont Mining Corporation. Moydow retains a 2% royalty on any production in excess of 1.2 million ounces of gold from the Ntotoroso Poperty, which now forms part of the Ahafo Mine of Newmont Ghana Gold Limited.

In October 2004 Moydow signed an option agreement with Gondwana Investments Limited to allow Moydow to earn an interest in the Port Loko Bauxite concession in Sierra Leone. Moydow now hold a 50% interest in the project and a full engineering and processing review is currently underway.
The Dala Diamond Project located in the Lunda Sul province of north-eastern Angola, a JV between Endiama, Cimader and Moydow, is at an advanced stage with drilling scheduled to commence in early 2008. The licence is bordered both to the west and east by the BHP/Petra Diamonds' Alto Cuilo and Muriege diamond properties, respectively, and is 40 kilometres south of the Catoca Mine, the world's fourth largest producing kimberlite diamond mine.

These latter opportunities, are in line with Company strategy to capitalise on its long experience in Africa to grow shareholder value.

The Company's outstanding Common Shares are listed on The Toronto Stock Exchange [TSE] and the Alternative Investment Market [AIM] of The London Stock Exchange under the symbol "MOY".  


Current Operations

Hwidem 
The Hwidem project is a 25sq km gold exploration licence in the Brong Ahafo region of Ghana. 

The project is situated immediately east of the Ntotoroso property which Moydow sold to Newmont for US$40 million last year. It is bordered to the South and North by two large prospecting licences which are owned by Goldfields.

The geology on the project area is almost identical to that of the Ntotoroso deposit which Moydow discovered and in particular is in the same suite of rocks which held the Zone E deposit.

Work to Date - Work on the property has included geophysics, soil geochemistry, geological mapping and rock sampling. The results of these studies have confirmed a geological and mineralisation scenario identical to that at Ntotoroso.

Future Plans - Because of the proximity of multi-million ounce deposits, Hwidem has been assigned a top priority in the 2005 Exploration budget. Remapping of the project as well as a second pass of geophysics will be done to compliment the planned drilling. It is anticipated that results will start to come through in the next several months. The prospect will initially be drilled with short RAB holes to test the bedrock and deep drilling will be used to follow up any anomalous values.

Although work has been limited in the past year, an aggressive exploration campaign is planned for the next several months.

Dala, Angola
Background - In March 2005, Moydow announced that it had signed an agreement to conduct exploration for diamonds in Angola.

Moydow, together with its strategic partner Concord Minerals LLC, a Nevada company, agreed terms with Endiama, the Angolan state diamond mining company and Cimader EP, a local Angolan company, to explore for diamonds on the Dala diamond concession which is located immediately south of the town of Saurimo and is bordered to the east and west by the Muriege and the Alto Cuilo/Luangue diamond concessions respectively.

- Under the terms of the agreement, Moydow and Concord have a combined 33% interest in the concession, with the remaining percentage owned by Endiama and Cimader. Moydow and Concord will be responsible for conducting exploration and any development on the property.

- The Dala concession comprises some 3000 square kilometres of ground in the well known diamond producing region of Saurimo in north eastern Angola. Alluvial diamonds have already been identified on the concession and evidence of kimberlites on the licence was reported by a Diamang and Condiama survey of the area in the 1970s.

In January 2006, Moydow announced that it had signed an agreement with the Angolan state diamond company, Endiama, to explore for kimberlitic or primary diamonds on the Dala Licence.

Under the terms of the agreement, Moydow and its strategic partner, Concord Minerals LLC will hold a combined 40% interest in the kimberlite licence. Endiama will have a 51% interest and the balance will be held by the local Angolan partner.

Exploration Program - Moydow personnel established a base camp centrally on the licence in 2005 and recently completed an airborne geophysics survey over the property. This survey was done by the Council for Geoscience (formerly the Geological Survey of South Africa) and identified about 70 targets on the property which warrant follow-up work.
Following completion of the airborne work, a ground geophysical survey comprising magnetics and gravity was initiated in mid January 2006.

An extensive ground magnetic survey was carried out in 2006-07 to evaluate the airborne geophysical targets. This has isolated an initial 21 priority targets for the drill program.

The company continues to evaluate the alluvial potential of the concession and a washing plant has been operational since January 2008.

Moydow has mobilized a drill rig to Angola for a drilling campaign on the Dala project. A contract for 5,000 metres has been signed with an option to drill an additional 5,000 metres. The programme envisages core drilling to an average depth of 120 metres using both HQ and NQ size core. These large core sizes will yield a sample sufficient enough to assess the diamond potential.

Kanyankaw
The Kanyankaw Project is located in south central Ghana approximately 50 kilometres north of the seaport of Takoradi and comprises an area of 91 square kilometres.

The licence area is underlain chiefly by Upper Birimian greenstones and intruded by small stocks and dykes of hornblende granodiorite. Slicing through the rock pile is a series of NNE-trending fractures with associated minor splays. Where these major lineaments cross slightly more elevated terrain their trace is coincident with a trail of sericitically altered, granodiorite dykes which show patchy gold-bearing, quartz stockworks.

Past drilling on the property tested several geochemical anomalies and returned mineralized intersections from a number of drill holes, the most significant being from a hole in the southwest part of the license area which averaged 1.5 g/t gold over 40 meters.

Current and Future Plans - Recent work completed on the property has generated several new targets which warrant further testing. Although exploration in the last few years has been limited due to the company’s focus on Ntotoroso as well as the fact that due to the increase in the gold price there has been a significant increase in the number of illegal artisanal miners. (At one stage there were in excess of 6,000 artisinal miners working the area).

In Mid 2004 a drilling campaign was conducted on the licence and returned grades and intersections which warrant further testing. 28 holes were drilled, for a combined total of 1,938 metres. The best intersection returned 0.96 grammes per tonne over 21 metres. A follow up drill programme is being undertaken in the early part of the summer of 2005.

Port Loko, Sierra Leone
In October 2004 Moydow signed an option agreement with Gondwana Investments Limited to allow Moydow to earn an interest in the Port Loko Bauxite concession in Sierra Leone. Since the completion of a pre-feasibility study on the project by CAM llc of Denver. Moydow now hold a 50% interest in the project and a full engineering and processing review is currently underway.

The Port Loko bauxite concession comprises a large tract of land of over 650 square kilometres in the North East of Sierra Leone. Exploration on the property in the past has outlined a resource of some 100 Mt of bauxite, with an average grade of 47% Al2O3, mainly as gibbsite.

Current Status of the Project - The Port Loko bauxite concession has been extensively explored in the past and feasibility studies have been prepared at that time. The previous work, together with the study by CAM llc of Denver forms an excellent basis for the present exploration and technical review program.

From studies of the previous work and the recent pre-fesibility it appears that there is a higher grade core at the centre of the deposit. Moydow's initial goal was the confirmation here of the earlier results for an area with approximately 25 million tonnes with an average grade of at least 48% bauxite.

Since 2005, Moydow has executed an exploration program which has included the re-cutting of Sieromco and Jupiter grid lines, cleaning (122) and deepening and sampling (76) of Sieromco and Jupiter pits, drilling and sampling of 423 hollow-stem auger holes (total 3,497m), differential GPS surveys, and sample processing at the Rogberi Exploration camp.

There are several production scenarios which the Port Loko project lends itself to. The presence of the higher grade core, together with its proximity to the railway, presents the opportunity for selective mining and shipping of the ore to an out of country refining facility. This scenario is along the same lines as is currently being employed by Sierra Minerals Limited at their Mokanjii deposit.

The recent recovery in the aluminium price, however, means that there also exists the potential to develop a much larger mining operation, which would seek to develop the entire resource base at Port Loko and process the ore into alumina at a refinery based in Sierra Leone. With this latter scenario in mind, Moydow and its partners Gondwana have recently commenced discussions with third parties and the Government of Sierra Leone to evaluate the economics of a refinery and associated facilities to be based in-country.


Geographical Spread

Ghana, Sierra Leone and Angola


Board of Directors and Key Management

Noel P. KiernanChairman
Brian P. Kiernan President & Chief Executive Officer of Moydow
Michael E. Power Vice-President & Secretary
J. Joseph (Joe) Breen Director and Chief Operating Officer of Moydow
Mr. Richard Linnell Non-executive Director
Mr. Albert Gourley Non-executive Director
Rosemary (Roma) G. O'Mongain Chief Financial Officer

Company Address

74 Haddington Road
Dublin 4, Ireland

Telephone:(353) 1 667 7611
Facsimile:(353) 1 667 7622
Email:info[at]moydow.com
Website:http://www.moydow.com

Additional Address/Key Contact

Toronto Office
Suite 1220,20 Toronto Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M5C 2B8
Tel: (416) 703 3751
Fax: (416) 367 3638

Capital

28,964,382 shares outstanding

Annual General Meeting

June

Year End

31 December

Nominated Brokers

Davy Stockbrokers

Nominated Advisors

Davy Stockbrokers

Related News

25/11/09 - Shareholders In Moydow Mines Get A Surprise Present For Christmas
11/09/08 - Moydow’s Kimberlite Count In Angola Notches Up To Four, And There May Be More To Come
15/07/08 - Moydow Mines Cuts A Deal On Its Bauxite To Fund Diamond Exploration In Angola

Most Recent Statement

01/04/09 - Directorate Change
17/11/08 - 3rd Quarter Results
09/09/08 - Moydow Discovers Fourth Kimberlite at Dala Diamond Project
02/09/08 - Two New Kimberlitic Bodies at Dala Diamond Project
14/07/08 - Moydow sells Port Loko Bauxite for cash and deferred consideration
04/04/08 - Financial Statements

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