The Project is situated along the northern boundary of the Carajás-Iricoumé Block of the Eastern Amazonian Craton which contains the west-northwest trending Três Palmeiras Greenstone Belt. It comprises Upper Proterozoic metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks.

The volcanic, sedimentary and syntectonic rocks of the Project have been affected by a wide spread hydrothermal alteration events. Surficial alteration is present in an extensive layer of red saprolite, which covers the entire property, including topographic highs and lows.

Primary gold mineralization is associated with altered diorite within a 300 m wide alteration zone, which straddles the contact zone between the intrusive and the metasedimentary rock. Gold occurs in a stack of mineralized zones ranging in size from strike trends over 1 km long, depths from surface to approximately 400 m with true thicknesses up to 50 m. The dip of the mineralized zones is generally moderate to steep (50o to 85o ) to the south.

Mineralization in the Ouro Verde area extends for approximately 1,100 m along an approximate north west to south-east strike and extends to a vertical depth of 540 m below surface. Mineralization in the Grota Seca area extends for approximately 2,900 m along a west to north westerly trend and extends to a vertical depth of 400 m below surface.

The open pit mine includes two separate pits - Ouro Verde and Grota Seca. They are designed to be mined with proven technology and equipment.

The saprolite overlain on the deposits requires no drilling and blasting. This saprolite has more of a sandy texture than clay. Mining of this material will be with the front end loaders initially. As the shovels are erected, they will be tasked with mining the lower portion of the saprolite near the weathered contact where underfoot conditions will be more stable.

Suspended dump bodies have been included in the specification and costing of the haulage trucks. The suspended dump bodies are designed to reduce carry back of the saprolite material and also increased life from increased abrasion resistance with their rubber beds hauling the rock, both waste and ore.

The rock beneath the saprolite will be drilled with 200 mm down the hole (DTH) drills with a 10 m bench. Benches will be prepared with the track dozers and rubber tired dozer. The drill will then drill on the pattern size as specified by engineering for either waste or ore. That determination will be made based on the results of the grade control drilling completed with the RC drills. The grade control drilling will be in ahead of the bench mining to allow up to 18 months of advance information on the contacts.

The process plant is designed with a Phase 1 capacity of 3.5 Mt/a and a Phase 2 expansion capacity to 7 Mt/a in year 3. The process plant will recover gold with a conventional and robust flow sheet utilizing crushing, grinding, gravity recovery with intensive leach, cyanidation of slurry in carbon, AARL recovery, electrowinning, carbon regeneration and cyanide detoxification. An overall expected gold recovery of 91% during Phase 1 and 93% during Phase 2 has been established (for an overall LOM gold recovery of 93%) and is well supported by the test work.