The World Beater property is underlain by a succession of metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks where mineralization is found above a thickened metarhyolite formation (schistose gneiss of the World Beater Complex). The upper portion of the rhyolite is sericitized and silicified. The overlying submarine exhalite and tuff (chert and phyllite of the Radcliff Schist) and its accompanying massive sulfide mineralization and footwall mineralized hydrothermal alteration are characteristic of the volcanic-associated massive sulfide gold class of deposit (Poulsen and Hannington, 1995). More specifically, the deposit type is that in which gold is a primary commodity and base metals are of lesser economic importance. These deposits are gold deposits in a strict economic sense.

Gold mineralization found on the World Beater project to date is, for the most part, stratabound and primarily occurs within exhalative tuff units (phyllite and schist) of\ the Radcliff Schist. Thickness of the exhalative tuff may reflect paleotopography related to the primary topography of the rhyolite dome(s) (Comba, 1994).

The recognition of a distinct suite of bismuth and tellurium-bearing minerals (Schurer & Fuchs, 1993a) both in mineralized exhalite and in areas of mineralized hydrothermal alteration suggests that portions of the exhalite mineralization formed in proximity to underlying footwall structurally controlled mineralization (Marcoux et al., 1996; Poulsen and Hannington, 1995) ........

The Company’s business plan is to selectively mine “high grade” portions of an indicated resource at the Radcliff, with run-of-mine grade calibrated sub-sampling of mined material at the run-of-mine sub-sampling plant located at the 5510-level portal. Sampled material is submitted to an off-site laboratory.

CMC owns the Bishop mill facility, which has a current capacity of 50 tons per day; a proposed Plan of Operations under review by the BLM would increase the capacity to 100 tons per day. CMC intends to process ore from the World Beater property at the Bishop mill.

There have been five metallurgical “scoping studies,” there have only been a total of 24 wholeore leaching tests and a combined total of 10 flotation and gravity concentration tests. A comprehensive test program is now required to confirm the metallurgical response on a wider range of sample grades and mineralization types and to establish design criteria for a processing plant.

Metallurgical samples were derived from both core and RC cuttings. RC cuttings have undergone pulverization and, in some cases, put into slurry during sample transport from the bottom of the hole. Material changes to the samples may have occurred during these processes that could have affected metallurgical characteristics. It is ........