Tarsis Resources CEO Clip Interview:

Business Model

Tarsis is a project generator and early stage explorer, working to find and develop economic zinc deposits. We aim to identify and advance exciting projects by joint venturing with enthusiastic partners and through our own early stage exploration programs.

Shareholders stand to benefit from initial exploration successes when the value of a property is first highlighted. Typically this stage captures the greatest gains in value.

People

Tarsis has an exceptional team of people, working hard to identify and develop quality mineral deposits. With proven experience in both finding and developing mineral deposits, the Tarsis team is well positioned for success.

Properties

The company owns seven exciting properties, six in Canada and one in Mexico. Each of these properties presents a compelling opportunity for success through discovery and development.

Three of our properties in the Yukon are prospective for VMS (volcanogenic massive sulphide) style deposits, while another has a historical resource.

Tarsis holds seven exciting properties in the Yukon, Canada.

Five of the properties are extremely well located, being close to the Alaska Highway, just north of the British Columbia border. Positioned between Teslin and Watson Lake, the MOR, Cabin Lake, Caribou Creek, Tim and Meister properties, these properties are amongst the most easily accessible in the Yukon.

Prospector Mountain is located near Carmacks in central Yukon, close to the operating Minto Copper mine.

Further north, the Company's Goz Creek property is located 180 kilometers northeast of Mayo.

MOR Property, Yukon, Canada
The MOR Property consists of 290 mineral claims (approx 6,000 hectares) located 35 km east of Teslin, Yukon, Canada. The property is just 1.5 km north of the paved, all weather Alaska Highway. A planned hydro-electric generating station is sited 3 km southwest of the property (source: Yukon Energy). The port of Skagway lies 295 km southwest of the property by road.

Tarsis believes the geology is conducive to VMS (volcanogenic massive sulphide) style deposits. The stratigraphy is believed to be part of the Yukon-Tanana-Terrane, having similarities to the Finlayson Lake District which hosts several significant VMS deposits including Wolverine and Kud Ze Kayah.

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Cabin Lake, Yukon, Canada
The Cabin Lake property consists of 93 mineral claims located 180 km west of Watson Lake, Yukon.

Exploration activities from 1997 to 2000 included geological mapping, soil geochemical surveying, geophysical surveying and limited trenching.

Caribou Creek, Yukon, Canada
The Caribou Creek property consists of 48 mineral claims located 180 km west of Watson Lake, Yukon.

Exploration activities from 1997 to 2000 included geological mapping, soil geochemical surveying geophysical surveying and limited trenching.

Tim/Wolf, Yukon, Canada
The Tim/Wolf property consists of 289 mineral claims located 72 km west of Watson Lake, Yukon and 12 km northeast of the Silvertip deposit. The property is accessible by road year-round.

The Tim/Wolf property claims cover an area of anomalous silver-lead-zinc in soil geochemistry that is coincident with an IP geophysical anomaly. Trenching in 1988 uncovered silver, lead, zinc bearing iron and manganese oxides over widths of up to 30 m over a strike length of 1 km.

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Meister, Yukon, Canada
The Meister property consists of 7 mineral claims located 90 km west of Watson Lake, Yukon.

A total of 27 diamond drill holes in the mid 1980's encountered significant silver-lead-zinc values of 3.79% zinc and 41.8 g/t silver over 29 m.

Further drilling is required in order to define the limits of the mineralization.

Prospector Mountain, Yukon, Canada
The Prospector Mountain property consists of 239 mineral claims (4,996 hectares), located 90 kilometres northwest of Carmacks, Yukon.

Other significant properties in the area include Sherwood Copper’s operating Minto copper mine, 30 kilometres to the north-east and Western Copper’s Carmacks project, currently in the permitting phase for mine operation, 55 kilometres to the south-east. In addition, Northern Freegold Resources is now undertaking a 25,000 metre diamond drill program on its Freegold Mountain property, located 15 kilometres to the south-east.

The property lies within the Dawson Range portion of the Tintina Gold Belt and covers an area of hydrothermal alteration and mineralization indicative of both a porphyry copper-gold and epithermal gold-silver mineralizing environment. Copper-gold mineralized and K-silicate altered Cretaceous intrusive rocks outcrop on the project as well as banded quartz veins that have returned high silver and gold values from samples taken in historic work programs.

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Goz Creek, Yukon, Canada
The Goz Creek property consists of 90 mineral claims located 180 km northeast of Mayo, Yukon.

The property covers an area of Lower Cambrian carbonate rocks that host Mississippi Valley Type (MVT) mineralization. Diamond drilling in the 1970s defined a historic, non NI 43-101 resource of:
Tons - 2,893,000
Zinc (%) - 11.25
Zinc (lbs) - 650,925,000

The exploration potential to expand the known mineralization is considered favourable.

The Corporation does not consider the historical estimates as current mineral resources. A qualified person has not done sufficient work to classify the historical estimate as current mineral resources. The historical estimate should, therefore, not be relied upon.

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Erika Epithermal Au-Ag Project, Guerrero, Mexico

The Erika property consists of two contiguous claims covering approximately 16,000 hectares, located in Guerrero State, Mexico.

The property is accessed by road via Federal Highway 95, which crosses the eastern boundary of the claims. Acapulco is 150 km south and Iguala is 47 km north of Erika.

The claims are centred on the village of Coacoyula de Alvarez (pop. 3,100) and numerous small roads and trails provide access throughout the property.

LocationThe Mezcala gold skarn district is located approximately 15 km to the south of Coacoyula and hosted more than 10 million ounces of gold in eight major camps. The principal gold skarn deposits are: El Limon/Guajes, Bermejal, Los Filos and Nukay. 

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Marc G. Blythe, P.Eng. - President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Mr. Blythe, age 39, has a Master of Business Administration from La Trobe University in Melbourne and a Bachelor of Mining Engineering degree from the Western Australian School of Mines.  Mr. Blythe is currently and has been since September 2006, Vice President, Mining of Almaden Minerals Ltd. He was Corporate Senior Mining Engineer for Placer Dome Inc. based in Vancouver from 2004 until 2006, where he completed internal and external mine evaluation, including advising on potential acquisitions and mining technology implementation.

Whilst working for Auriongold (which was acquired by Placer Dome), Mr. Blythe led the successful completion of a Bankable Feasibility Study on the Raleigh Mine, Kalgoorlie, Australia, which is now in production and owned by Barrick Gold. Mr. Blythe developed a novel mining method which was successfully adopted and the mine has exceeded production forecasts estimated in the Feasibility Study. The mine produces in excess of 100,000 ounces of gold annually.

Prior to this, Mr. Blythe completed the internal Feasibility Study for the Bullant Mine, Kalgoorlie, Australia. Previous studies had indicated that the mine was sub-economic. The mine which was initially scheduled to last just 18 months, has been in continuous production since 2002 and now has a projected mine life of approximately two years. The mine is owned by Barrick Gold and produces approximately 50,000 ounces of gold annually.

Mr. Blythe holds a Western Australian First Class Mine Manager's Certificate of Competency and has managed mines for both Placer Dome and WMC Resources (formerly Western Mining Corporation).

Mark T. Brown - Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Brown, age 39, received a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from the University of British Columbia in 1990 and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia. He is currently President of Pacific Opportunity Capital Ltd., a private company which provides financial solutions, equity and management services to small and medium size entrepreneurial enterprises. Prior to joining Pacific Opportunity Capital Ltd., Mr. Brown was the controller of three companies, including Eldorado Gold Corporation, Miramar Mining Corporation, and Northern Orion Exploration Ltd. Eldorado Gold Corporation is currently listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the American Stock and Options Exchange and Miramar Mining Corporation is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Between 1990 and 1994, Mr. Brown worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Richard A. Graham, P.Geol. - Director
Mr. Graham, age 44, is a Professional Geologist, registered with the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta and has approximately 16 years of geological experience. Mr. Graham has worked in Canada for Cameco Corporation, Echo Bay Mines Incorporated, Placer Dome Incorporated, and overseas with the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Chase Resources Ltd. and Billiton Plc. He was a geological researcher and reporter for Hollinger Inc. (the Northern Miner) from September 1999 to January 2004. Since February 2004, Mr. Graham has been and is currently Manager, Corporate Development for QMC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quest. He is currently a director and officer of various other public companies.

Gerald G. Carlson, P.Eng. - Director
Gerry Carlson has been involved in mineral exploration and exploration company management for over 30 years. Prior to forming Copper Ridge in 1999, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of La Teko Resources Ltd., a position he held until the acquisition of La Teko by Kinross in February, 1999.

Prior to that, he was President of ConSil Corp. (June 1995 to November 1996) and Vice-President, Exploration, for Dentonia Resources Ltd. (February 1994 to May 1995). Both positions included management of exploration activities in Mexico and the Northwest Territories. Mr. Carlson's educational background includes a B.A.Sc. from University of Toronto in Geological Engineering and graduate studies in Economic Geology including a M.Sc. from Michigan Technological University and Ph.D. from Dartmouth College.

He is also Chairman of IMA Exploration Inc., President of Golden Aria Corp. and serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Nevada Star Resource Corp., Dentonia Resources Ltd., Almaden Minerals Ltd. and Janina Resources Limited. Mr. Carlson is the President of the Society of Economic Geologists Canada Foundation, a past President of the British Columbia and Yukon Chamber of Mines and, in 2003, was awarded the CIM's J.C. Sproule Award in recognition of his contributions to mineral exploration in Canada's north.

Craig Lindsay, CFA - Director
Craig Lindsay has in excess of 16 years experience in corporate finance, investment banking and business development in both North America and Asia.  He is involved in a number of junior resource companies and is the President and CEO of Magnum Uranium.  Mr. Lindsay has a Bachelor of Commerce from UBC (1989), a Master of Business Administration from Dalhousie University (1993) and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

J. Duane Poliquin, P.Eng. - Consultant and Advisor
Duane Poliquin graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a degree in Geological Engineering in 1962, became a registered professional engineer in 1966, and ever since has been continuously active in mining exploration around the world. Duane started out with a large Canadian mining company and was soon involved in a major copper-zinc discovery. This was followed by work with several of the worlds largest base metal and gold companies in some of the most important mining areas of the world.

In 1971 Duane initiated a public company called Westley Mines Ltd. In 1972, believing gold would rise, Duane identified the Santa Fe property in Nevada as a potential bulk tonnage target and started Westley Mine Ltd. to explore it with an intial public offering in 1974. The property was placed in production as a heap leach operation by Corona Mines Ltd. which became part of Homestake Mines Ltd., and then Barrick.

Other successful ventures were then discovery of an extension to the Nevada Sheelite Mine - which was placed into production that continued until a sharp drop in tungsten prices in the mid 1980's - and the identification, assembly, and intial development of the Apex germanium-gallium mine - a specialty metals deposit in Utah that contained over one million tons of mineralized material with a gross value of over $1,000 per ton. The property was vended to Musto Exploration Ltd., who placed the property into production in the late 1980's.

Duane also indentified the La Trinidad gold deposit in Sinaloa state, Mexico, a high grade heap leachable gold deposit vended by Almaden Minerals Ltd. to Eldorado Gold Coporation, who placed it into production. Duane founded Almaden Resources Corporation in 1981 and has been actively working on gold and copper projects in Mexico and a diamond project in the NorthWest Territories. Mr. Poliquin is currently the Chairman and a director of Almaden Minerals Ltd.

Marke Wong, Director of Environment and Community Affairs
Marke has over 20 years of mining environment, permitting and First Nations consultation experience in Canada and around the world including Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and North America. His experience in Canada includes Golden Bear Mine (Wheaton River), QR Gold Mine (Kinross), Brewery Creek (Viceroy), Kapuskasing Phophate Mine (Agrium), Podolsky Project (FNX), and the Meadowbank Gold Project (Cumberland/Agnico Eagle).

His international experience includes permitting for the Boroo Gold Mine (Centerra) in Mongolia, Kisladag (Eldorado) in Turkey and the Nui Phao Project (Tiberon) in Vietnam. Marke’s work on the Nui Phao Project was featured as a case study for Corporate Social Responsibility by the PDAC in 2007. He is a co-author of the International Finance Corporation’s new Environmental Health and Safety Guidelines for the Mining Sector.

Marke has a B.Sc. (Biology) from the University of Victoria. He served as a supervisor and sessional lecturer with the Hanoi University of Mining and Geology. Prior to joining Tarsis Marke held senior national and international positions with Golder Associates Ltd. and Knight Piesold Ltd.

Information current as at 7 September, 2009.