KWG Resources (KWGBF)

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Excerpts from kwg management analysis and discussions:

In testing chromite ore from the Black Horse occurrence, it was discovered that its reduction to metallics was possible with the use of natural gas under controlled circumstances. A patent has been applied for in advance of further testing to commercialize this direct reduction method of refining chromite into metallic chrome. The method holds significant promise of enabling the chromite of the Black Horse occurrence to earn a considerable share of the market for chrome inputs amongst 5



stainless steel makers, due to the much lower refining cost of the method when compared to refining chromite to charge ferro chrome in electric arc furnaces.


The management of KWG is increasingly encouraged in its view that the Company’s assets will prove to be catalytic in the development of mining in the Ring of Fire. It is our opinion that the chromite deposits of the Ring of Fire may have a combined life equal to an amortization period appropriate for the cost of an infrastructure asset such as a railroad; perhaps 100 years or more. When that term is combined with the present historic low cost of the capital required to construct such an undertaking, the unit cost for projected usage can be quite modest when compared to all available alternatives. The test work done to date on reduction of the Black Horse chromite to metallized form using natural gas, encourages us to posit that an opportunity to create a substantial and globally significant export industry in this key industrial commodity appears achievable. Existing transportation networks can be extended in such a way as to insure the environmental and economic sustainability of such an enterprise for the multi-generational production capacity of the resource that is now indicated.





KWG’s railway infrastructure project has been well timed and the need for a railway in the Ring of Fire seems highly economic. Meetings with government and First Nations officials are ongoing to determine a mutually beneficial result. As well, KWG continues to explore the available funding mechanisms that can be employed to continue development of the railroad link to the Ring of Fire.