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Company Information for ATW Gold Corp.
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 TSX.V; ATW
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Company Statement
Acquiring and consolidating gold producing assets in
Australia's most prolific gold districts
- Acquired two near-term gold production assets: combined JORC resources in excess of 1,300,000 oz/Au Eq
- Raised in excess of $25,000,000
- Initiated a 30,000 meter drill program
- Hired key operations personnel for mine start-up
- ATW is on target to produce in excess of 100,000 oz/Au per annum within 18 months
Current Operations
Burnakura Gold Mine
Located in the West Yilgarn goldfields of Western Australia, the Burnakura Gold Mine consists of 58.8 square km of mining leases and prospecting licenses, a fully permitted 160,000 tonne per annum (450 tpd) CIL gold plant, rolling stock, underground equipment, workshops, office space and a 90 man camp. The project covers 12km of prospective strike length along a major auriferous shear zone and mesothermal gold system. Historic production on the project focused on lower grade surface oxides, which had been historically mined from 15 open pits stretching along the entire 12 km of strike length.
Management believes significant potential exists to expand the low grade surface and high grade underground resources on the property. ATW's current focus is to streamline production facilities at Burnakura, with a goal of pouring the company’s first gold in mid 2008.
Gullewa Gold Mine
The Gullewa Gold Mine is located 450 km north of Perth, 160 km east of Geraldton and 300km south west of ATW’s 100% owned Burnakura Gold Mine in the Yilgarn goldfields of Western Australia.
The Gullewa Project includes a total of 756 km2 of mineral tenements that cover the prospective central and southern portions of the Gullewa Greenstone Belt and include the Gullewa Mining Centre, the Deflector Deposit, the Prince George Mine, the Michaelangelo and Monarch Prospects.
Mining infrastructure assets of the Gullewa Project include a turn-key gold operation with a Carbon-In-Leach plant capable of up to 300,000 tpa (tonne per annum) gold production, a licensed tailings disposal facility, a 50-person camp, offices, workshops, bore fields and haulage roads.
Geographical Spread
Western Australia
Board of Directors and Key Management
| Brent Butler |
| President, Chief Executive Officer and Director |
| Mr. Butler has over 20 years of geological experience worldwide. Mr. Butler was formerly Managing Director and Company Secretary of Kinross Gold Australia PTY Ltd. He worked for Kinross for eight years from 1998 to April of 2006. Mr. Butler has been involved in several gold discoveries (with Hunter Resources and Sons of Gwalia) in West Australia. In the last few years he has been involved in project generation for Kinross in Africa and South America. In particular, Mr Butler was instrumental into the re-start of exploration at the Refugio mine in Chile at the time closed due to low gold price. This led to the addition of substantial ounces and reopening of the Refugio mine. |
| Andrew W. Bowering |
| Chief Financial Officer and Director |
| Mr. Bowering is a corporate administrator with 17 years experience in the financing and management of exploration, development and start-up companies. Has held senior executive positions and directorships in numerous public companies involved in mineral exploration in Canada, the United States, Mexico and China. Mr. Bowering has directly raised over $40 million for mineral exploration and development. He has led several large acquisition programs in Northwest British Columbia, Alberta and Central Mexico. |
| In addition to mineral exploration activities, Mr. Bowering was a founder and principle of two publicly traded consumer product companies that operated worldwide. He has an in-depth knowledge of securities markets, regulatory affairs and investor/public relations. In addition to his involvement with ATW, Mr. Bowering is the President, CEO and Director of Pinnacle Mines Ltd. |
| David Stone |
| Director |
| Dr. Stone has 30 years of engineering and financial consulting experience to underground and surface metal mines worldwide. He has managed and led multidisciplinary project teams through pre-feasibility and feasibility level evaluations of development stage projects, and has contributed to the engineering, design and construction of several mines. |
| Robert W. Schafer |
| Director |
| Mr. Schafer has over 26 years in the mining industry and has worked on virtually all continents and has several deposits credited to his discovery record. Joined Hunter Dickinson Inc. in 2005 as Vice President, Business Development. Hunter Dickinson Inc., a private company that provides management, financial and technical services to a group of Toronto Stock Exchange listed companies that are involved with exploration and mining globally covering a spectrum of commodities. Prior to joining Hunter Dickinson, Mr. Schafer was Regional Exploration Manager with BHP Minerals. Mr. Schafer was employed as President and Chief Executive Officer of Coniagas Resources Ltd. from 2002 to 2004 and President and Chief Executive Officer of Castlerock Resources Inc. from 2002 to 2004. Prior to that, he was VP Exploration at Kinross Gold Corporation from 1996 to 2001. |
| Graham L. Harris |
| Director |
| Mr. Harris has over 18 years of experience in the finance industry. Former Senior Vice President and Director at Canaccord Capital Corp. from 1999 to 2004. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President and Director of Yorkton Securities. While being employed by two of Canada’s top brokerage houses, Mr. Harris was consistently a Top 10 producer nation wide. Mr. Harris was an integral part of managing the Vancouver branches of both firms. He also served as Yorkton's representative to the Investment Dealers Association of Canada. Mr. Harris has raised over $50 million for public and private companies in both the resource and high tech segments of capital markets. |
| Luke A. Norman |
| Director, VP Corporate Development |
| He started his career in New Zealand as a trainee Stock Broker at the age of 16. Soon after moving to Canada in 1999 he began working as a consultant for early Stage Public Companies, focusing primarily in the precious metals exploration and development sectors. From 2002 to 2005 he was employed by Canaccord Capital. During that time, he completed his licensing requirements but was not registered as a Licensed Investment Adviser. While with Canaccord Capital, his focus was financing start-ups and advanced stage exploration companies in concert with European Institutions. Mr. Norman has been instrumental in raising over $60 million for a number of start-up and publicly traded companies. |
Company AddressSuite 2007 – 1177 West Hastings Street
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Additional Address/Key ContactToll Free: 1-877-662-8184 (US & Canada ) |
CapitalIssued/Outstanding Common Shares: 55,963,256
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Broker/Analyst Reports
15/05/08 - The Grandich Letter
02/05/08 - Jay Taylor
01/04/08 - Gold Newsletter
01/03/08 - ResourceOpportunities
Major Shareholders
| Sprott Asset Management |
| Tocqueville Asset Management |
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06/11/08 - ATW Continues to Expand New Zone at Burnakura29/10/08 - ATW Calls for Tenders on Underground Mining at Burnakura Production Set for March 2009
22/10/08 - Name Change To ATW Gold Corp.
07/10/08 - Visible Gold Encountered In High Grade Intersection At ATW’s Burnakura Gold Mine
18/09/08 - ATW Venture Corp.: Company Awaits Further Assays
26/08/08 - Gravity Survey Results - Gullewa Mine Project