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GWR GROUP LIMITED Management Reports 2009

Dec 8, 2009

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9 December 2009

About the Company

Golden West Resources is an emerging Iron ore producer in the Midwest region of Western Australia.

To date the company has a combined Hematite Resource Estimate of 141Mt @ 59% Fe making it the second largest DSO resource in the Midwest Iron Ore province.

Golden West Resources also has gold and uranium projects in its portfolio.

Corporate Summary

ASX: GWR Issued Capital: 143 Mil Issued Options: 28 Mil

Board and Officers

David Sanders Non-Executive Chairman John Lester

Managing Director Mick Wilson Executive Director

Wang Jun Non-Executive Director

Anthony Begovich CFO/Company Secretary

Enquiries

John Lester Managing Director

Tel: +61 (0)8 9201 9202 Email: [email protected]

Richard Taylor Riley Mathewson Public Relations

Tel: +61 (0)8 9381 2144 Mob: +61 (0)451 471 006

Gold production at Wiluna West

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Highlights

  • Golden West Resources Limited (GWR) is investigating the viability of short term gold production at the Wiluna West Project in calendar year 2010 based on previously delineated resources.
  • Nine gold deposits have been delineated at the Wiluna West Project with a global Mineral Resource estimate of 788,000 tonnes @ 3.5g/t Au (87,000 oz) in Indicated and Measured categories (see Table 1).
  • The previously defined gold deposits are all situated within granted Mining Leases and represent low exploration risk.
  • GWR has commenced a series of evaluation programs designed to confirm and extend known mineralisation. The programs include resource modelling, conceptual mining studies and drilling programs. This work will be focussed on deposits that occur near surface with average grades exceeding 3g/t Au, with the view to optimising one or several open-pits to initiate gold mining operations.
  • The Wiluna West Project is located within economic trucking distance of three potential toll milling facilities.
  • Selected significant Au intercepts from some of the deposits currently being evaluated are summarised in Table 2 and include:
  • JRC121 6m @ 48.1g/t Au, from 6m including 1m at 258g/t Au
  • JRC188 4m @ 8.5g/t Au, from 10m including 1m @ 26.6g/t Au
  • WWRC020 14m @ 8.9g/t Au from 26m including 1m @ 69.1g/t Au

Short term production

GWR announced in July 2009 its strategic intention to seek shareholder approval for the demerger of the noniron ore assets. To ensure that shareholder value is maximised during this process, GWR is looking at a range of alternatives in relation to the gold resources, including moving toward production. .

The Wiluna West gold deposits are within granted Mining Leases and within economic trucking distance of three potential toll milling facilities.

Gold resource - background

In December 2004, GWR listed on the ASX as a gold explorer. However, in mid 2005 the excellent potential of the Wiluna West hematite deposits was recognised and since then exploration has focussed on the development of these iron assets.

As previously announced, the project area possesses a global gold Mineral Resource estimate of 788,000 tonnes @ 3.5g/t Au for a contained 87,000 ounces (Table 1). There is a significant opportunity to increase this as many of the targets identified in the GWR 2004 Prospectus remain untested. The Wiluna West project area contains two regional scale structures, the Joyners Shear Zone and Brilliant Shear Zone, both of which host gold mineralisation. Three types of gold deposits have been identified within these shear zones; namely quartz reef, quartz stockwork and BIF.

Previous geochemical soil sampling shows that an extensive gold in soil anomaly of 10km length and 500m width is semi coincident with the Joyners Shear Zone. The size of the anomaly supports the possibility that a number of additional mineralised structures are present.

Prospect Resource type Style Tonnage Au Grade (g/t) Au Ounces
Iron Monarch Indicated BIF 140,000 3.0 13,500
Iron Duke Indicated BIF 143,000 2.6 12,000
Hawk Indicated BIF 42,000 2.5 3,400
Iron King Indicated BIF 163,000 3.3 17,300
Eagle East Indicated BIF 102,000 3.7 12,000
Goldfinch Indicated BIF 72,000 3.0 6,900
Bronzewing Indicated Qtz 30,000 5.5 5,300
Bottom Camp Measured Qtz 21,000 7.6 5,100
Indicated Qtz 16,000 5.5 2,800
Brilliant North Indicated Qtz 59,000 4.6 8,700
TOTAL 788,000 3.5 87,000

Table 1 SUMMARY OF GOLD RESOURCES - WILUNA WEST PROJECT

Table 2 SELECTED PREVIOUS SIGNIFICANT GOLD INTERCEPTS IRON KING TO EAGLE PROSPECTS

HOLE# PROSPECT MGA Zone 50 FROM TO INTERCEPT Au
NORTH EAST AZI/DIP (M) (M) (M) (G/T)
JRC188 IRON MONARCH 7033605 793486 090/-60 10 14 4 8.52
INCL 12 13 1 26.6
JRC121 IRON MONARCH 7033550 793479 090/-60 6 12 6 48.1
INCL 11 12 1 258.3
JRC153 IRON MONARCH 7033542 793459 090/-60 38 41 3 20.8
INCL 38 39 1 54.3
JRC182 IRON MONARCH 7033536 793473 090/-60 13 17 4 10.7
INCL 15 16 1 27.5
JRC135 IRON MONARCH 7033476 793470 090/-60 3 5 2 15.3
INCL 3 4 1 29.4
JF082 IRON DUKE 7034351 793573 092/-60 4 6 2 12.8
JF053 IRON DUKE 7034332 793564 092/-60 17 22 5 8.9
INCL 19 20 1 20.5
JF103 IRON DUKE 7034314 793538 092/-60 51 53 2 7.7
INCL 52 53 1 14.4
JF239 IRON KING 7032643 793376 092/-60 30 32 2 5.6
INCL 30 31 1 10.4
JF243 IRON KING 7032564 793366 092/-60 36 38 2 13.6
INCL 37 38 1 17.3
JF232 IRON KING 7032407 793371 092/-60 34 36 2 6.6
INCL 35 36 1 11.0
JF168 IRON KING 7032321 793422 090/-60 10 11 1 17.7
WWRC0020 EAGLE 7037506 793988 090/-60 26 40 14 8.9
INCL 33 34 1 69.1
WWRC0076 EAGLE 7037482 793986 090/-60 29 33 4 10.5
INCL 29 30 1 24.3
WWRC0068 EAGLE 7037400 794011 270/-60 29 35 6 10.6
INCL 31 32 1 20.6
INCL 33 34 1 24.9
WWRC0069 EAGLE 7037361 794000 090/-60 15 20 5 10.9
INCL 18 19 1 38.9
JF031 EAGLE 7037302 793908 092/-60 21 24 3 16.0
INCL 22 23 1 32.4

Note: 1g/t Au lower cut and no upper cut applied, with a maximum of 2m of internal dilution

Status and planned work program

The previously defined gold deposits represent low exploration risk and are situated within granted Mining Leases. Detailed flora and fauna surveys have already been undertaken as part of the Wiluna West Iron project as well as considerable aboriginal heritage investigations.

The present work programs are focussed on deposits that occur near surface with average grades exceeding 3g/t Au. Each deposit will be critically reviewed to select the deposits for further evaluation with the aim of optimising one or several open-pits to commence gold mining operations. Geological consultants CSA Global have recently been engaged to undertake resource modelling and pit optimisation studies of the Iron Monarch deposit. Validation and re-interpretation of the other deposits is in progress.

Regionally, the entire prospective corridor has recently been soil sampled on a 200m by 50m spacing and Datum Surveys has been engaged to convert all historical gold grids to the MGA Zone 50 grid system currently used by Golden West Resources.

Toll milling facilities

The Wiluna West Project is located within trucking distance of three potential toll milling facilities and preliminary discussions with two of these facilities have recently been initiated. Once the work program described above has been completed it is planned to engage in further discussions with these potential milling facilities. Previous metallurgical studies undertaken suggest that the ore is free milling and represents no significant challenges.

Competent person's statement

The information in this report which relates to Exploration Results, Mineral Resources or Ore Reserves is based on information compiled by Mr Allen Maynard, who is a Member of the Australian Institute of Geosciences ("AIG"), a Corporate Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy ("AusIMM") and independent consultant to the Company. Mr Maynard is the principal of Al Maynard & Associates Pty Ltd and has over 30 years of exploration and mining experience in a variety of mineral deposit styles. Mr Maynard has sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity which he is undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2004 Edition of the "Australasian Code for reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves". Mr Maynard consents to inclusion in the report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.