Excalibur Resources – VMS project in Ontario, Historic property in BC

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Excalibur Resources – VMS project in Ontario, Historic property in BC

Overview:

Excalibur Resources Ltd. is focused on two properties – the Sturgeon Lake Project, and the Silver King Mine. Their Sturgeon Lake Project is a 91 square kilometer VMS project in Ontario, Canada with minimal historic drilling. An electromagnetic VTEM survey of this property has revealed 100 km of conductive and magnetic anomalies that are characteristic of polymetallic VMS deposits. The Sturgeon Lake property also includes 12 km of a banded iron formation, which is being explored for gold and copper. Excalibur’s Silver King property in British Columbia, Canada has a long history of mining back to the 1880s. A drilling program in 2009 discovered three new veins, with results up to 657 g/t silver and 3.6% copper over 1.68 meters.

Chief Properties:

Sturgeon Lake

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Situated north of Ignace, Ontario, Canada, the Sturgeon Lake project is located in a well established mining region known for Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide (VMS) ore deposits and gold deposits. Noranda operated six VMS deposit mines 10 to 15 km to the west, and the St. Anthony Gold Mine was located 20 km to the north. VMS deposits are known as abundant sources of gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc ores. The property, which covers 91 square kilometers, was part of a provincial government geophysical survey in the early 1990s that revealed zones of multiple sub-parallel and stacked sulphide-bearing conductors. However, past drilling on the property has been virtually non-existent. Excalibur believes this is due to minimal outcrop exposure and limited technology.

In November 2009 the Company engaged Geotech Ltd. of Aurora, Ontario, to conduct a high-resolution Versatile Time-Domain Electromagnetics (VTEM) survey of the property. The survey found a series of strong laterally extensive conductors comparable to VMS deposits with strong conductive and magnetic responses. 29 potential targets were indicated, 10 of which will be selected for drilling. The Company’s exploration program for 2010 includes 5000 meters of drilling on the most promising targets.

The Company is presently using sophisticated geochemistry on soil samples, such as the Soil Gas Hydrocarbon (SGH) technique, to identify the best drill targets. Initial SGH results have indicated the high probability of a VMS deposit.

In June 2010, the company staked a former mining lease of approximately 2 square kilometers north of the central part of its existing Sturgeon Lake property in northwestern Ontario. This claim contains an iron formation that will be explored for its gold and copper potential.

Silver King

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The Silver King Mine is located about 7km south of Nelson, British Columbia. The former silver-copper mine has a long history dating back to 1880s. The region, called the Nelson gold-silver camp, has numerous skarn and vein deposits of gold, silver, copper, and an occurrence of copper-molybdenum.

The main Silver King Vein, one of several quartz filled shears on the property has been responsible for nearly all the tonnage mined to-date. No National Instrument 43-101 compliant technical reports have been completed on the Silver King Property. A number of historical resource estimates have previously been documented for the property by four independent observers between 1952 and 1983.

These reserve/resource calculations are presented in the table below *

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* MineQuest Exploration Associates Ltd, Robert Longe, P.Eng. May 1998.

In the fall of 2009 the Company carried out a drill program of 25 holes for a total of 2137m. The result was the discovery of a new vein called the Queen vein. Assay results from this program were similar to the high-grade ore mined in the past:

3.95m of 439 g/t silver, 0.7 g/t gold, 3.2% copper, 0.36% zinc, and 0.10% lead
1.68m of 657 g/t silver, 3.6% copper, 0.19% zinc and 0.03% lead

In December 2007, Excalibur optioned five additional claims in the area, totaling 75.7 hectares called the Cariboo property.

Excalibur’s 2010 exploration program for the Silver King Mine includes trenching the Cariboo property to identify mineralization at surface, as well as conducting a magnetic and resistivity survey to identify high resistivity alteration halos that surround the low resistivity mineralization in order to define drill targets, followed by a drill program. The Company also plans to conduct 2600m of additional drilling at Silver King to extend the high grade veins.

Management:

Dr. James D. Kendall – President & CEO
Dr. Kendall attended Queen’s University where he completed a Masters of Mining Engineering that included studies in mineral exploration, mineral economics and geostatistics. Dr. Kendall also holds Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University, as well as a Bachelors degree in Engineering Physics from McMaster University. Dr. Kendall held a management position at Barrick Gold where he worked on innovative mining and mineral exploration technologies.

Tim Gallagher – Director, Chairman & Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Gallagher is a graduate in commerce from McMaster University, and holds a Master of Business Administration from York University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He has been Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Antamena Capital Corp. since incorporation in March 2007. He has been a director or senior officer of a number of public and private companies including Inflection Capital Inc., Water Capital Inc., Eminence Capital Inc. and Biorem Inc. Previously he was in institutional sales for Loewen Ondaatje McCutcheon and Union Bank of Switzerland (Canada). Mr. Gallagher has assisted a number of companies implement their growth plans primarily through the TSX Venture Exchange Capital Pool Program since 1997.

Dianne Szigety – Director, Corporate Secretary

Ms. Szigety has over 20 years experience in the securities industry and since 1994 has offered regulatory filing solutions and legal assistant consulting services to both public and private companies. Previously, Ms. Szigety was a senior legal assistant in the corporate securities department of Campney & Murphy, Barristers & Solicitors, in Vancouver, BC. Ms. Szigety is a director and/or officer of several publicly-listed and private companies.

Andrew Thomson – Director

Mr. Thomson is an entrepreneur who has been active in mineral exploration since 1993. Currently Mr. Thomson is the President of Soltoro Ltd., a TSX-V listed exploration mining company focused on discovering bulk tonnage copper, gold and silver deposits in Mexico, and a Director of Gossan Resources, a TSX-V listed company engaged in the exploration and development of a broadly diversified portfolio of properties in Manitoba.

David J. Libby – Director
Mr. Libby is a Mining Engineer and is currently a Senior Associate and Consultant with Behre Dolbear & Company Ltd., Toronto, Ontario. Mr. Libby served as Executive Vice-President, Mining and Vice-President Mining Operations-Chile with Aur Resources Inc. from 1994 until retirement in 2007. Mr Libby is a graduate of the Camborne School of Mines and a registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario.

Andrew Robertson – Director

Mr. Robertson currently serves as a Vice President at Inflection Capital Inc. Prior to this position his career spanned 25 years in the debt financial markets with roles that included Senior Vice-President at GE Capital Solutions, Director, Private Debt Investments at Canada Life Assurance Company and Director, Loan Syndications at RBC Capital Markets. Mr. Robertson received a B.Comm (Hon) degree from Carleton University and an MBA from the University of Toronto.

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