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WARTHOG RESOURCES (T) LTD

& NGWENA LIMITED


NACHINGWEA PROJECT

DECEMBER 2011 QUARTERLY REPORT


PL 6635/2010
(NACHINGWEA NW)

Nachingwea NW PL6635/2010
December Quarterly Report 2011
WARTHOG RESOURCES (T) LTD
& NGWENA LIMITED

NACHINGWEA PROJECT

NACHINGWEA NW PL 6635/2010

DECEMBER 2011 QUARTERLY REPORT

Introduction

Ngwena Limited (“Ngwena”) has been carrying out an extensive on-going nickel-
copper sulphide exploration program on its prospecting licenses comprising the
Nachingwea Project in SE Tanzania since 2007. Ngwena is a Tanzanian joint
venture corporation owned 75% by Continental Nickel Limited (“CNI”) of Canada and
25% by IMX Resources NL (formerly Goldstream Mining) of Australia.

The Nachingwea Project is comprised of forty (40) granted Prospecting Licenses


(PLs) as of December 31, 2011. A further nineteen (19) PLs are currently under
application. PL 6635/2010 (Nachingwea NW) is an integral part of the Nachingwea
Property holding.

During the period, January through December 2011, work on the license consisted of
an airborne geophysical survey, data compilation & interpretation and reporting.

Ngwena Limited has spent ~ $17.5 million USD on exploration on the Nachingwea
Project during the period January 2007 to December 2011. Results have been
encouraging in the Ntaka Hill area, but full evaluation of the entire project area will
require considerably more time and expenditures. Land tenure is critical to successful
and comprehensive exploration efforts.

License Details

Nachingwea NW PL6635/2010 was granted on September 21st 2010 and covers an


area of 168.26 km2. The PL was granted to Warthog Resources (T) Ltd and is in the
process of being transferred to Ngwena Limited.

Location

The Nachingwea Nickel-Copper Project is located in southeastern Tanzania and is


centered 100 km north of the Mozambique border, approximately 180 km west of the
coastal port city of Mtwara and 400 km south of Dar es Salaam. The property holding
straddles portions of Nachingwea, Liwali, and Lindi Districts in Lindi Region and the
Masasi District in Mtwara Region.

Ntaka Hill is situated 47 km NW of Nachingwea District town and 12km NW of Mnero


village. All exploration is carried out from a semi-permanent tented camp established
on Ntaka Hill, 1km west of Nditi Village. All work activities for the Nachingwea Project

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are supported from the Ntaka Hill Base Camp. Satellite camps and local
accommodation in towns and villages are also utilized as necessary.

The Nachingwea NW license is centered 28km west of Ntaka Camp, 60 km


Northwest of Nachingwea District town and encompasses an area of 168.26 km 2
(Figure 1). Access to the license is through Nachingwea-Liwale dirty road passing
through the north-eastern corner of the license. The license is drained by two river
tributaries which drain their water into the Mbwemkuru River several kilometers in the
southeast of the license.

Figure 1: Nachingwea NW PL 6635/2010 location map. Black lines are roads/tracks,


fine blue lines are creeks, red lines are license boundaries and green lines are
National/District Game/Forest reserves. Ntaka Camp and local villages are also
shown for reference.

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Project Exploration History and Current Exploration Objective

The project area has been sporadically explored since the 1950’s for base and
precious metals and PGE’s. Current exploration work being conducted is focused on
discovering economic nickel-copper mineralization similar to the recent discoveries
currently being evaluated in the Ntaka Hill area.

Work to date on the Nachingwea Project has consisted of interpretation of historical


geochemical and geophysical datasets, regional airborne EM and magnetic surveys
(2007 & 2008), soil and stream sampling programs (2008-2010), regional geology
traverses and ground checking of EM and geochemical anomalies. In addition
ground geophysical surveys and diamond drilling (2008-2010) have been carried out
on selected licenses, particularly in the Ntaka Hill area.

A large regional radiometric and magnetic survey was also completed in 2010 over
the entire Nachingwea Project in order to accelerate the definition of exploration
targets.

The current exploration objective on the Nachingwea NW license is to identify


prospective geological areas that can be further evaluated using geological,
geochemical and geophysical methods. The prospective areas are typically identified
by interpretation of airborne geophysical surveys and existing geochemical data. The
selected areas are then field checked by a geologist and additional geochemical
and/or ground geophysical data may be obtained with the objective of defining a drill
target.

Geological Setting

The Nachingwea Project lies within the late Proterozoic Mozambique Belt of
southeastern Tanzania. The Mozambique Belt ("MB") comprises a dominantly north-
south trending domain of highly deformed and metamorphosed rocks which formed
during oblique collision of east and west Gondwana and are part of the Pan African
Orogenic System. The MB includes lithologies that have been affected by both the
Usagaran (1.8-2.0 Ga) and the Pan-African (650-580 Ma) orogenic events.

The first stages of the MB formation occurred at 1,000-700 Ma. This initial stage was
marked by large-scale magmatic intrusive activity, which may include the ultramafic-
mafic intrusions observed on the Nachingwea property. This was followed with two
collisional phases recorded at 640-620 Ma and 580-530 Ma, which are largely
responsible for the regionally observed complexly deformed tight fold structures
dominant across the project area. Peak metamorphic conditions to granulite facies
are dated at 640 Ma.

In the general Nachingwea Project area, MB lithologies consist of a mixed


assemblage of mafic to felsic granulites, gneisses and migmatites (interpreted to
represent volcanic protoliths) interlayered with amphibolites and metasedimentary
rocks, including quartzites, banded magnetic quartzites, pelites, graphitic schists and
marbles. These lithologies are cross-cut by poorly documented mafic to ultramafic
intrusions of unknown age and include the Ntaka ultramafic intrusion which hosts
considerable nickel-copper-cobalt sulfide mineralisation. All units are complexly
deformed and metamorphosed to amphibolite and granulite facies and occur in
blocks bounded by major NW, EW and NE fault zones.

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As outcrop is non-existent to rare across most of the licenses little detail is known of
the local geology on the licenses. The majority of information to date has been
gathered from mapping and drilling predominantly at Ntaka Hill. However regional
geological traverses, grid mapping and drilling are started to add to the geological
database.

Summary of Work – PL 6635/2010, 2011 Exploration Program

Regional exploration program was in progress during the December quarter and was
based out of the Ntaka Hill camp. Work completed in the December Quarter
included data compilation and interpretation. Table 1 summarizes the total
exploration work completed on the license in 2010. Details and results of the 2010
exploration program are given below.

Table 1
Summary of Work Completed in 2011, PL 6635/2010 (Nachingwea NW)

Work Type Production


Structural Data Analysis by SRK The entire PL

Structural Data Analysis (by SRK)


An external review of historical geochemical data for the Nachingwea Project was
completed by Richard Carver. The study comprised 4,661 soil samples and 1,461
stream sediment samples collect by BHP, IMX and CNI between 2005 and 2009 and
included samples collected on this license.

No significant anomalies were identified on the Nachingwea NW license by this


study.

Expenditures

Expenditures for Nachingwea NW PL 6635/2010 for the September and December


Quarters 2010 are USD $46,092.

See attached Table.

Christopher Airo and Stanslaus William


Ngwena Limited

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