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 | |   Operational Updates The Senior Vice President's Blog Update: July 27, 2010 Once again it brings me great pleasure to update you on the Company's activities in Tanzania, especially our Kigosi Gold Project. I want to thank you all for the many positive comments I have received concerning this blog and assure you it will be updated in a timely fashion as our work activities progress. In the past month great progress has been made on several of our projects. But for now, the focus is on Kigosi and I will keep to the subject at hand. Highlights of the past month include the following:
I have also received various queries regarding the plant technology and set-up we have at Kigosi and I believe this blog is the correct way to address these questions. The plant is a gravity separation unit which allows us to utilize the specific gravity of gold to facilitate the concentration of the precious metal. The plant is modular style, meaning that crushers, concentrators and shaking tables can easily be added or taken out of the gold recovery stream if we so wish. This provides us with more choices and mobility for bulk sampling. During the coming months we will be conducting various tests on the gravels and the process plant to ensure that optimum gold recovery is achieved and that the reporting structure is in place to keep you, the investor, up to date. It should be noted that this is an "exploration plant" and we are now entering the final stages of the exploration phase for the surface gravels at Kigosi. Below are a couple of photos of our progress during the past month: Our new Tipper:  Drilling for water. (I just had to try the centre of camp but to no avail!). Nonetheless, we found water not too far away.  A section of the plant  One of test phases of the plant: In this case the conveyor system which is used to feed surface gravels into the plant.  We have also inserted a nugget trap in case any large particles of gold (nuggets) occur within the gravels. The following photos show some of the gold recovered so far:  Gold recovered from the nugget trap!  Respectfully yours, Riaan van der Westhuizen Senior Vice President The Senior Vice President's Blog Update: June 14, 2010 Dear All I want to start today's blog by thanking you all for the positive responses I received with the posting of my first blog. It is a great opportunity for me to get to know this close knit family. I realize this second blog has been much anticipated for over a week now, but due to the exciting and extremely busy time we have enjoyed here at our exploration office in Mwanza and at the Kigosi Project site, I finally have the opportunity to write to you. Part of our goal and our social responsibility is the education and upbringing of the people of Tanzania. One of our focus areas is the future geologists of Tanzania. We believe that they hold the key to unlocking the future development of this wonderful country and we therefore take the time, and pride, in the fact that we currently have seven geology students from The Madini Institute of Dodoma. These students will be undergoing rigorous practical and theoretical training in most aspects of geology and geophysics over the coming six months before they return to further their studies in Dodoma. This is a yearly occurrence and we believe we make a major difference in the future of these students. Below is Mr. John Biteme (blue jacket), one of our geologists, training the students in the art of logging drill core: 
There are currently many aspects involved in the preparation of the bulk sampling exploration program. Now that everything has finally arrived on site, Kigosi has turned into a beehive of activity. We have started and are almost completed with the fencing of our camp site: 
We also unpacked, and started with the assembly of the exploration plant: 
Water is one of the key parts in gravity separation (please see our press release on the gold recovery test done for the Kigosi gravels) and care has been taken in the preparation of the dams supplying water to the plant. 
And in my free time I decided to help with the preparation of the plants: 
And I also had to make sure the back hoe loader is working efficiently: 
Currently the plant is being assembled. The plant is a 20 t/h ROM mobile gravity separation plant, specifically designed to facilitate exploration and therefore mobile enough to move between various locations and projects: 
After assembly and during the weeks to come, tests will be done to optimize the plant for recovery before the exploration program will start. I will update the blog with every step we take to ensure all of you can share in these exciting times. Respectfully yours, Riaan van der Westhuizen Senior Vice President The Senior Vice President's Blog
Dear Tanzanian Royalty friends and family, I would like to introduce you to this new blog by first thanking everyone for all the support and interest we as a company have enjoyed over the past months and years. I genuinely believe your company is on the brink of major step forward. For this reason I would like to share with you all of what is happening from an operational standpoint here in Tanzania. By using a visual presentation and accompanying narrative, I hope to show you on a step-by-step basis important developments as they occur. I will also include updates on work being done by our field crews, projects as they develop, news about our drilling activities, and sometimes even descriptions of less predictable events as they occur in the field. There are various reasons for starting this blog. But one of the main drivers came to light at the Annual General Meeting of 2010. For the first time, I had the pleasure of meeting you - our investors and friends. For the first time I had to address you as an official corporate entity of this company; and for the first time I had an opportunity to meet you face-to-face, to hear your concerns, to answer your questions and to give you an opportunity to see what we are doing in this great country of Tanzania. As our illustrious Chairman and CEO, Jim Sinclair, said to me before my presentation: "Don't worry Riaan, these are our friends, our family." Something else I realized during the AGM was that sometimes we are a world apart here in Tanzania. We do things differently because of culture, climate and conditions. By writing this blog, I hope to bring us closer as a family and at the same time it can serve as a preparation for those who will join us in September on the investment trip. I hope to be able to update you every fortnight. Over time, I would also like to introduce you to our wonderful staff and share with you various community projects some of us as individuals have undertaken to improve the lives of the less fortunate people here in Tanzania. I want to thank all of you once again for the interest shown in TRE, for presenting me with this great opportunity in sharing our lives here in Tanzania, and for the trust you as an investor put in the hands of our Tanzanian staff. Please feel free to contact me at any time at: riaan@tancan.net. Replies might be slow at times and I will try to answer questions of general interest through this blog. Respectfully Yours, Riaan van der Westhuizen Senior Vice President TRE Tanzanian Royalty Exploration Site Blog By: Riaan van der Westhuizen Date: 21 May, 2010 As most of you are probably aware, there have been some minor delays with respect to the installation of the first stage of our pilot test plant at Kigosi. Some of the delays involved manufacturing issues, shipping delays (luckily we did not have to pass by Somalia), importation into Tanzania including customs clearance, and trucking issues. However, the main cause of this delay was because our main access road turned from this: 
Into this: 
Here's one of our company vehicles attempting to navigate its way through a stretch of almost impassable roadway. 
Despite the exceptionally bad rainy season nothing can stop our team or lower their spirits. So with the help of our field crews, road repairs and upgrading have continued unabated. 
And our newly acquired bulk sampling ancillary equipment includes the JCB 4CX backhoe loader below: 
In addition, we have acquired this JCB JS200 Excavator which will give us added flexibility in the mining of Kigosi's surface gravels: 
All the roadwork and upgrading will facilitate the transport of the remaining equipment to the Kigosi site in vehicles such as this: 
Over the next month, we will be erecting a security fence at the camp. In addition, we will build our mobile container holding area and set up the bulk sampling plant. More updates to come in the near future. Respectfully Yours, Riaan van der Westhuizen Senior Vice President | |
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