The Great Canadian
Exploration Company Inc
Corporate Strategy
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To acquire high potential mineral and
oil & gas properties |
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To enhance shareholder and property
value by conducting exploration programs |
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Share risk through joint venture
partners |
Current Projects
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Gold: |
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Widow Point, Nova Scotia |
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TAGISH 025 Gold Silver Project, BC |
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BASE METALS: |
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Haskins Mountain, BC molybdenum, silver, lead, zinc, tin,
bismuth |
Current Projects
"Gold"
Widow Point, Nova Scotia
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The company has an option to gain a
100% interest on the Widow Point gold deposit in Nova Scotia |
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The deposit is shale-hosted, similar to
the world famous Bendigo-Ballrat district of Australia, which has produced
over 10 million oz’s of gold |
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Grades up to 15 oz/t Gold |
Widow Point Gold
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A wide spaced drill program carried out
in the mid 1980’s hit a multitude of high grade gold intersections |
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In-fill and step out drilling of 1800m
is planned for 2005 |
Gold
TAGISH 025 Gold Silver
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High Degree of Cross Faulting |
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Well Folded Strata |
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Multi-phase Felsic Plutons |
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Au, Ag, As, Sb and Te Association |
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Bonanza Style Epithermial Gold-Silver |
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Sediment Hosted Gold |
Slide 10
Diamonds
DIAMONDS Wild Hay,
Alberta
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The company has acquired an option on
the diamond property near Hinton, Alberta |
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It adjoins a property where 26 diamonds
have been discovered |
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The company plans to explore this
ground in the near future |
Haskins Mountain
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Molybdenum, silver, lead and zinc |
Resources of Haskins
Mountain
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Inferred resources of 726,000 tons 5%
zinc, 2% lead and 1 oz silver per ton |
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Drill Indicated resource of 13,482,000
tons of molybdenum grading 0.09% |
Molybdenum
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Over the last two years, molybdenum has
climbed from $3.50 per pound to over $34 per pound |
Financing Plans
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Our maximum offering is $325,000 |
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Our offering memorandum is offering two
types of investments |
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“A” and “B” units |
“A” Units
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500 000 “A” units at a price of 20¢ per
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“A” units consist of one non-flow through share at 20¢ and one
warrant at 40¢ per share exercised by the earlier of 2 years after the date
of issue or 1 year after the date the corporation becomes a reporting issuer |
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minimum investment for “A” units is
$300 (1 500 shares) |
“B” units
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500 000 “B” units at a price of 45¢ per
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“B” units consist of one flow through share (25¢), one non-flow
through share (20¢) and one warrant at 40¢ per share exercised by the earlier
of 2 years after the date of issue or 1 year after the date the corporation
becomes a reporting issuer |
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minimum investment for “B” units is $2
250 (10 000 shares) |
Why Flow Through Shares?
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What are they? |
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A little bit of math |
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What advantages do they offer? |
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What are the disadvantages? |
What Are Flow Through
Shares?
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Special shares issued by oil and gas
and mining exploration companies |
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Tax shelter with special tax incentives |
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A way for the federal government to
encourage resource exploration and development on properties in Canada |
Some of the Math
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Canadian exploration expenses are fully
deductible from your income |
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Capital gains are taxed at 50% of your
marginal tax rate |
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If you’re in the 50% tax bracket, your
marginal tax rate on these proceeds would be 50% x 50% = 25% |
Tax Scenarios
(assuming
50% tax bracket)
Advantages of Flow
Through Shares
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Taxes – immediate deduction and long
term deferral |
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Share prices are linked to commodity
prices, and may hedge against inflation |
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When the stocks do well, there is a
very high return |
How will you benefit from
investing in flow through shares?
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If you pay $10,000 or more in income
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By diversifying your portfolio with
exposure to the junior mining sector |
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Flow through dollars raised are put
into the ground, not into administrative costs |
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Offers a substantial reduction in the
actual cost of shares purchased |
Disadvantages of Flow
Through Shares
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Stock prices of all companies, not just
juniors, are very volatile anyway because of the ups and downs of energy and
mineral prices |
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These shares are generally issued at a
higher price than the company’s regular shares, this reflects the tax
benefits |
Mining’s importance to
Canada
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4.3% - Percentage of G.D.P. contributed
by mining |
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350,000 - People employed in mining and
mineral processing |
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15.2% - Percentage of total exports
provided by minerals and mineral processing |
Canadian Mining
A part of our daily lives
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80% - Percentage of mineral and metal
production exported |
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2nd – World rank of Canada
in exploration investments |
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115 – Number of Canadian communities
for which mining is the major source of economic activity |
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19% - Percentage of stocks traded on
the TSE that are issued by mining companies |
Where is Gold Headed?
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We are in the early stage of one of the
great market Runs, fortunes are going to be made on this one. |
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“Mass fear caused by an event such as a
terrorist attack could drive the gold price over $1,000/oz.” |
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“The big money will be made by people
who invest in mid-tier and small-capitalization gold stocks.” |
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- Jim Dines, gold analyst, publisher of The Dines Letter, and
often called the original gold bug. |
“We are heading into the
largest secular gold bull market in history. Now is the time to take advantage
of the opportunities offered by the Junior Companies in this sector.”
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- Ian Gordon, one of the largest
individual financiers of junior mining exploration in North America |