Deep Sands, Utah, U.S.A.

Utah Rare Earth Project

Introduction
Great Western Minerals Group Ltd. (GWMG) holds a 25% interest in the rare earth minerals located on a vast area of heavy mineral-rich sands in Utah, USA. GWMG has the right to earn up to 100% of the rare earths on the property by completing the exploration work necessary to generate a Preliminary Economic Assessment Report, determining a fair value for the property and entering into a definitive purchase arrangement.

Location
The project area covers 171 sq km (66 sq mi) and is centered approximately 142 km (85 mi) to the northwest of Delta, Utah, and 15 km (9 mi) south of the ranch settlement of Callao. The town of Delta is 182 km (110 mi) and a 2.5 hour drive southwest from Salt Lake City International Airport, via Interstate Highway 80 (west) and State Highways #6 and #36 (south).

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Geology and Mineralization
The property covers the major part of the Lake Bonneville paleo-beaches. The Lake Bonneville basin, of which the Great Salt lake basin is a post Pleistocene remnant, is part of the US Basin and Range geological province which occupies most of the States of California, Nevada and Utah. The general region of Lake Bonneville has been an inland sea for as much as 15 million years. During most of this time Bonneville Basin has been occupied by inland lakes of various sizes, at times reaching one thousand feet deep and covering 20,000 square miles. The detrital deposits on the property relate directly to three of the highest recorded lake levels. During the 130,000 to 10,000 year period of pronounced glaciations and inter-glacial flooding, erosion of the Deep Creek granitic highlands, west and adjacent to the paleo-shorelines, provided detrital feed for the paleo-beaches of Bonneville Lake basin. Granite grit, containing magnetite and associated heavy minerals, including rare earth-bearing minerals, became feed for the beaches. This erosional debris was distributed, worked and re-worked as the shorelines advanced and receded.

Exploration and Development
Iron and rare earth mineralization have been known to exist on the property for at least 20 years, but there has been very little systematic exploration carried out. GWMG personnel as well as independent consultant E.D. Black carried out limited random sampling of the surface material and obtained assay results ranging from 0.14% Total rare Earth Oxide (TREO) to 0.80% TREO from samples at various locations within an area of 85 sq km (33 sq mi).

Potential
In his independent report E.D. Black states: " --- the tonnage potential of these deposits could be huge. As an example, the Upper Bench , which averages approximately two miles wide by ten miles long (within the Property) ---includes an area of approximately 12,800 acres (20 Sections each 640 acres) --- this area alone, taken to an average depth of 100 feet, could contain in the order of 223,000,000 tons of material per Section, or a gross of about 4.5 billion tons of material. If we include the Middle and Lower Benches, which appear to be 150 feet thick, and possibly equally as extensive, the potential resource could reach 15 billion tons (15BT)." Based on the early sampling, this could represent between 20 million tonnes and 109 million tonnes of TREO. With current world consumption at 110,000 tonnes, the resource could meet this level of demand for up to 1,000 years.